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AMENDED AND RESTATED TRUST AGREEMENT
among
FIRST EMPIRE STATE CORPORATION
(as Depositor)
and
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY
(as Property Trustee)
and
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE),
(as Delaware Trustee)
Dated as of June ____, 1997
FIRST EMPIRE CAPITAL TRUST II
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FIRST EMPIRE CAPITAL TRUST II
Certain Sections of this Trust Agreement relating, to
Sections 310 through 318 of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939:
Trust Indenture Trust Agreement Act Section
Section
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Section 310(a)(1).................. 8.7
(a)(2).................. 8.7
(a)(3).................. 8.9
(a)(4).................. 2.7(a)(ii)
(b)..................... 8.8, 10.10(b)
Section 311(a)..................... 8.13, 10.10(b)
(b)..................... 8.13, 10.10(b)
Section 312(a)..................... 10.10(b)
(b)..................... 10.10(b), (f)
(c)..................... 5.7
Section 313(a)..................... 8.15(a)
(a)(4).................. 10.10(c)
(b)..................... 8.15(c), 10.10(c)
(c)..................... 10.8, 10.10(c)
(d)..................... 10.10(c)
Section 314(a)..................... 8.16, 10.10(d)
(b)..................... Not Applicable
(c)(1).................. 8.17, 10.10(d), (e)
(c)(2).................. 8.17, 10.10(d), (e)
(c)(3).................. 8.17, 10.10(d), (e)
(e)..................... 8.17, 10.10(e)
Section 315(a)..................... 8.1(d)
(b)..................... 8.2
(c)..................... 8.1(c)
(d)..................... 8.1(d)
(e)..................... Not Applicable
Section 316(a)..................... Not Applicable
(a)(1)(A)............... Not Applicable
(a)(1)(B)............... Not Applicable
(a)(2).................. Not Applicable
(b)..................... 5.13
(c)..................... 6.7
Section 317(a)(1).................. Not Applicable
(a)(2).................. 8.14
(b)..................... 5.10
Section 318(a)..................... 10.10(a)
Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be a part of the Trust Agreement.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1. Definitions............................ 2
ARTICLE II. CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name................................... 14
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee;
Principal Place of Business.......... 14
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property,
Organizational Expenses.............. 15
SECTION 2.4. Issuance of Preferred Securities....... 15
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities;
Subscription and Purchase of Junior
Subordinated Debentures.............. 16
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust................... 16
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain
Transactions......................... 17
SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust........................ 21
SECTION 2.9. Title to Trust Property................ 21
ARTICLE III. PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account........................ 21
ARTICLE IV. DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.......................... 21
SECTION 4.2. Redemption............................. 23
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities..... 25
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures..................... 26
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports................ 27
SECTION 4.6. Payment of Taxes, Duties, Etc.
of the Issuer Trust.................. 27
SECTION 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant
to Direct Actions.................... 27
SECTION 4.8. Liability of the Holder of Common
Securities........................... 28
ARTICLE V. TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership...................... 28
SECTION 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates...... 28
SECTION 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust
Securities Certificates.............. 29
SECTION 5.4. Global Preferred Security.............. 29
SECTION 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange
Generally; Certain Transfers and
Exchanges; Preferred Securities
Certificates......................... 31
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SECTION 5.6. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen
Trust Securities Certificates........ 32
SECTION 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders................. 33
SECTION 5.8. Access to List of Holders'
Names and Addresses.................... 33
SECTION 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency........ 33
SECTION 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent............ 34
SECTION 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities
by Depositor......................... 34
SECTION 5.12. Notices to Clearing Agency............. 35
SECTION 5.13. Rights of Holders...................... 35
ARTICLE VI. ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Holder's Voting
Rights.............................. 38
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings..................... 39
SECTION 6.3. Meetings of Holders.................... 39
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights.......................... 40
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, etc........................... 40
SECTION 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent....... 40
SECTION 6.7 Record Date for Voting and Other
Purposes............................. 40
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Holders........................ 41
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.................. 42
ARTICLE VII. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties
of the Property Trustee and
the Delaware Trustee................. 42
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of
Depositor............................ 44
ARTICLE VIII. THE ISSUER TRUSTEES; THE ADMINISTRATORS
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.... 44
SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices........................ 48
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee..... 48
SECTION 8.4. Not Responsible for Recitals
or Issuance of Securities............ 50
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities.................... 50
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.......... 50
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required;
Eligibility of Trustees and
Administrators....................... 52
SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests.................. 52
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee....... 53
SECTION 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor......................... 54
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor.............................. 56
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SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business............... 56
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Depositor or Issuer Trust.... 57
SECTION 8.14. Trustee May File Proofs of Claims...... 57
SECTION 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee............ 58
SECTION 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee........ 58
SECTION 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions
Precedent............................ 59
SECTION 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees.............. 59
SECTION 8.19. Delegation of Power.................... 59
SECTION 8.20. Appointment of Administrators.......... 60
ARTICLE IX. DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date....... 60
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination...................... 61
SECTION 9.3. Dissolution............................ 61
SECTION 9.4. Liquidation............................ 62
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations
or Replacements of the Issuer Trust.. 63
ARTICLE X. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders........ 65
SECTION 10.2. Amendment.............................. 65
SECTION 10.3. Separability........................... 66
SECTION 10.4. Governing Law.......................... 67
SECTION 10.5. Payments Due on Non-Business Day....... 67
SECTION 10.6. Successors............................. 67
SECTION 10.7. Headings............................... 67
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands........... 67
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.............. 68
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with
Trust Indenture Act.................. 69
SECTION 10.11. Acceptance of Terms of Trust Agreement,
Guarantee and Indenture.............. 70
Exhibit A Certificate of Trust
Exhibit B Form of Certificate Depositary Agreement
Exhibit C Form of Common Securities Certificate
Exhibit D Form of Preferred Securities Certificate
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AGREEMENT
Amended and Restated Trust Agreement, dated as of June ____, 1997, among
First Empire State Corporation, a New York corporation (including any successors
or assigns, the "Depositor"), (ii) Bankers Trust Company, a New York 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"), and (iii) Bankers Trust (Delaware), a Delaware banking corporation,
as Delaware trustee (the "Delaware Trustee") (the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee are referred to collectively herein as the "Issuer Trustees")
and (iv) the several Holders, as hereinafter defined.
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Depositor, the Property Trustee, and the Delaware Trustee
have heretofore duly declared and established a business trust pursuant to the
Delaware Business Trust Act by the entering into a certain Trust Agreement,
dated as of May 30, 1997 (the "Original Trust Agreement"), and by the execution
and filing by the Delaware Trustee with the Secretary of State of the State of
Delaware of the Certificate of Trust, filed on May 30, 1997 (the "Certificate of
Trust"), attached as Exhibit A; and
WHEREAS, the Depositor and the Delaware Trustee 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 by
the Issuer Trust to the Depositor, (ii) the issuance and sale of the Preferred
Securities by the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Underwriting Agreement, (iii) the
acquisition by the Issuer Trust from the Depositor of all of the right, title
and interest in the Junior Subordinated Debentures, and (iv) the appointment of
the Administrators.
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 Holders, hereby amends and restates the
Original Trust Agreement in its entirety and agrees, intending to be legally
bound, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1. 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 have the meanings assigned to them
in this Article 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) The words "include," "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be
followed by the phrase "without limitation";
(d) All accounting terms used but not defined herein have the meanings
assigned to them in accordance with United States generally accepted accounting
principles as in effect at the time of computation;
(e) 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;
(f) 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; and
(g) all references to the date the Preferred Securities were originally
issued shall refer to the date the Preferred Securities were originally issued.
"Act" has the meaning specified in Section 6.8.
"Additional Amount" means, with respect to Trust Securities of a given
Liquidation Amount and/or a given period, the amount of Additional Interest (as
defined in the Indenture) paid by the Depositor on a Like Amount of Debentures
for such period.
"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 10.6 of the
Indenture.
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"Administrators" means each Person appointed in accordance with Section
8.20 solely in such Person's capacity as Administrator of the Issuer Trust
heretofore formed and continued hereunder and not in such Person's individual
capacity, or any successor Administrator appointed as herein provided; with the
initial Administrators being Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx and Xxxxxxx X. XxXxxx.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"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 judging such Person a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly
filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjudication or
composition of or in respect of such Person under any applicable federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing
a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of such Person or of any substantial part of its property or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such
decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(b) the institution by such Person of proceedings to be adjudicated a
bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the institution of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer
or consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable federal or
State bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or the
consent by it to the filing of any such petition or to the appointment of a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or similar official) of
such Person or of any
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substantial part of its property or the making by it of an assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a
bankrupt, or the taking of corporate action by such Person in furtherance of any
such action.
"Bankruptcy Laws" has the meaning specified in Section 10.9.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Depositor or the
Executive Committee of the board of directors of the Depositor (or any other
committee of the board of directors of the Depositor performing similar
functions) or a committee designated by the board of directors of the Depositor
(or any such committee), comprised of two or more members of the board of
directors of the Depositor or officers of the Depositor, or both.
"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 Issuer Trustees.
"Business Day" means a day other than (a) a Saturday or Sunday, (b) a day
on which banking institutions in the City of New York, New York or in the
Borough of Boyertown, Pennsylvania are authorized or required by law or
executive order to remain closed or (c) a day on which the Property Trustee's
Corporate Trust Office or the Delaware Trustee's Corporate Trust Office or the
Corporate Trust Office of the Debenture Trustee is closed for business.
"Capital Treatment Event" means, in respect of any Issuer Trust, the
reasonable determination by the Depositor that, as a result of the occurrence of
any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in, the
laws (or any rules or regulations thereunder) of the United States or any
political subdivision thereof or therein, or as a result of any official or
administrative pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or
applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or
such pronouncement, action or decision is announced on or after the date of the
issuance of the Preferred Securities of such Issuer Trust, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the Depositor will not be entitled to treat an amount
equal to the Liquidation Amount of such Preferred Securities as "Tier 1 Capital"
(or the then equivalent thereof)
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for purposes of the risk-based capital adequacy guidelines of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as then in effect and applicable to the
Depositor, provided, however, that it shall not be deemed to be a Capital
Treatment Event if the Company is not entitled to treat the aggregate amount of
the Liquidation Amount of such Preferred Securities as "Tier 1 Capital" due to
the restriction imposed by the Federal Reserve that no more than 25% of Tier 1
Capital can consist of perpetual preferred stock.
"Certificate Depositary Agreement" means the agreement among the Issuer
Trust, the Depositor and the Depository Trust Company ("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" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Trust Agreement.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "clearing agency"
pursuant to Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. DTC
shall be the initial Clearing Agency.
"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time a Clearing
Agency effects book-entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with the
Clearing Agency.
"Closing Date" means the Time of Delivery for the Preferred Securities,
which date is also the date of execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the
execution of this instrument such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Common Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing ownership
of Common Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C.
"Common Security" means an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the Issuer Trust, having a Liquidation Amount of $25 and having the rights
provided therefor in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive
Distributions and a Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
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"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Property
Trustee located in the City of New York, New York, which at the time of the
execution of this Trust Agreement is located at Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx,
Xxx Xxxx 00000; Attention: Corporate Trust and Agency Group - Corporate Market
Services.
"Debenture Event of Default" means an "Event of Default" as defined in the
Indenture.
"Debenture Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Debentures to be
redeemed under the Indenture, the date fixed for redemption of such Debentures
under the Indenture.
"Debenture Trustee" means Bankers Trust Company, a New York banking
corporation and any successor.
"Delaware Business Trust Act" means Chapter 38 of Title 12 of the Delaware
Code, 12 Del. C. 3801, et seq., as it may be amended from time to time.
"Delaware Trustee" means the corporation identified as the "Delaware
Trustee" in the preamble to this Trust Agreement solely in its capacity as
Delaware Trustee of the Issuer Trust continued hereunder and not in its
individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Depositary" means the Depository Trust Company or any successor thereto.
"Depositor" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this Trust
Agreement.
"Distribution Date" has the meaning specified in Section 4.1(a).
"Distributions" means amounts payable in respect of the Trust Securities
as provided in Section 4.1.
"DTC" means the Depository Trust Company.
"Early Termination Event" has the meaning specified in Section 9.2.
"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
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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 Issuer Trust in the payment of any Distribution when it
becomes due and payable, and continuation of such default for a period of 30
days; or
(c) default by the Issuer Trust in the payment of any Redemption Price of
any Trust Security when it becomes due and payable; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, in any material respect, of any
covenant or warranty of the Issuer 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 Issuer Trustees and the Depositor 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 any Bankruptcy Event with respect to the Property
Trustee or all or substantially all of its property if a successor Property
Trustee has not been appointed within a period of 90 days thereof.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 9.1.
"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 5.4.
"Guarantee Agreement" means the Guarantee Agreement executed and delivered
by the Depositor and Bankers Trust Company, as 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.
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"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Trust Security or Trust Securities
is registered in the Securities Register; any such Person shall be deemed to be
a beneficial owner within the meaning of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
"Indenture" means the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of June
____, 1997, between the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee (as amended or
supplemented from time to time) relating to the issuance of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures.
"Investment Company Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an
Opinion of Counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result
of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a written change
(including any announced prospective change) in interpretation or application of
law or regulation by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or
regulatory authority, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Issuer
Trust is or will be considered an "investment company" that is required to be
registered under the Investment Company Act, which change or prospective change
becomes effective or would become effective, as the case may be, on or after the
date of the issuance of the Preferred Securities.
"Issuer Trust" means First Empire Capital Trust II.
"Issuer Trustees" means, collectively, the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee.
"Junior Subordinated Debentures" means the aggregate principal amount of
the Depositor's ____% junior subordinated deferrable interest debentures due
June ____, 2027, which date may be shortened once at any time by the Company to
any date not earlier than June ____, 2002, issued pursuant to 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 that portion of the
principal amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures to be contemporaneously
redeemed in accordance with the Indenture, allocated to the Common Securities
and to the Preferred Securities based upon the relative
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Liquidation Amounts of such classes and (b) with respect to a distribution of
Junior Subordinated Debentures to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with
a dissolution or liquidation of the Issuer Trust, Junior Subordinated Debentures
having a principal amount equal to the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities of the Holder to whom such Junior Subordinated Debentures are
distributed.
"Liquidation Amount" means the stated amount of $25 per Trust Security.
"Liquidation Date" means the date on which Junior Subordinated Debentures
are to be distributed to Holders of Trust Securities in connection with a
dissolution and liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4.
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning specified in Section 9.4(d).
"Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities" or "Majority
in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities" means, except as provided by the
Trust Indenture Act, Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may
be, representing more than 50% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of all then
Outstanding Preferred Securities or Common Securities, as the case may be.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board and Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the
Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or
an Assistant Secretary, of the Depositor, and delivered to the party provided
herein. Any Officers' Certificate delivered with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Trust Agreement shall include:
(a) a statement by each officer signing the Officers' Certificate that
such officer 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 such officer in rendering the Officers' Certificate;
(c) a statement that 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
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(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 a written opinion of counsel, who may be
counsel for or an employee of the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor.
"Original Trust Agreement" has the meaning specified in the preamble to
this Trust Agreement.
"Outstanding," with respect to Trust Securities, means, as of the date of
determination, all Trust Securities theretofore executed and delivered under
this Trust Agreement, except:
(a) Trust Securities theretofore canceled by the Property Trustee or
delivered to the Property Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Trust 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
Trust Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Trust Agreement; and
(c) Trust Securities which have been paid or in exchange for or in lieu of
which other Trust Securities have been executed and delivered pursuant to
Sections 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and 5.13; 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
Issuer Trustee, any Administrator or any Affiliate of the Depositor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that (a) in determining
whether any Issuer Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Preferred
Securities that such Issuer Trustee or such Administrator, as the case may be,
knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded and (b) the foregoing shall not
apply at any time when all of the outstanding Preferred Securities are owned by
the Depositor, one or more of the Issuer Trustees, one or more of the
Administrators 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 Administrators 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.
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"Owner" means each Person who is the beneficial owner of Global Preferred
Securities 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 5.10 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 Property Trustee in its
trust department for the benefit of the Holders in which all amounts paid in
respect of the Junior Subordinated Debentures will be held and from which the
Property Trustee, through the Paying Agent, shall make payments to the Holders
in accordance with Sections 4.1 and 4.2.
"Person" means a legal person, including any individual, corporation,
estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, company,
limited liability company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or
any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever
nature.
"Preferred Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Preferred Securities, substantially in the form attached as Exhibit
D.
"Preferred Security" means an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $100,000,000
of the Issuer Trust's _____% preferred securities, constituting a preferred
undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the Issuer Trust, having a
Liquidation Amount of $25 per security, and having the rights provided therefor
in this Trust Agreement, including the right to receive Distributions and a
Liquidation Distribution as provided herein.
"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 Issuer Trust formed and continued hereunder and not in its
individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor property trustee appointed as herein provided.
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Trust Security to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Trust
Agreement; provided that each Junior Subordinated Debenture Redemption Date and
the stated maturity of the Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be a Redemption
Date for a Like
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Amount of Trust Securities, including but not limited to any date of redemption
pursuant to the occurrence of any Special Event.
"Redemption Price" means with respect to a redemption of any Trust
Security, the Liquidation Amount of such Trust Security, together with
accumulated but unpaid Distributions to but excluding the date fixed for
redemption, plus the related amount of the premium, if any, paid by the
Depositor upon the concurrent redemption of a Like Amount of Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
"Relevant Trustee" has the meaning specified in Section 8.10.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Property Trustee means
any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any managing
director, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer,
assistant secretary or any other officer of the Property Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and having direct responsibility for the administration of the
Indenture, and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to
whom such matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with the particular subject.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any
successor statute thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the respective
meanings specified in Section 5.5.
"Special Event" means any Tax Event, Capital Treatment Event or Investment
Company Event.
"Successor Preferred Securities" of any particular Preferred Securities
Certificate means every Preferred Securities Certificate issued after, and
evidencing all or a portion of the same beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust
as that evidenced by, such particular Preferred Securities Certificate; and, for
the purposes of this definition, any Preferred Securities Certificate executed
and delivered under Section 5.6 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Preferred Securities Certificate shall be deemed to
evidence the same beneficial interest in the Issuer Trust as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Preferred Securities Certificate.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Issuer Trust of an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of any amendment to,
or change (including any
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announced prospective change) in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of
the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein, or as a result of any official or administrative pronouncement or
action or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or regulations,
which amendment or change is effective or which pronouncement, action or
decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of the Preferred
Securities, there is more than an insubstantial risk that (i) the Issuer Trust
is, or will be within 90 days of the delivery of such Opinion of Counsel,
subject to United States Federal income tax with respect to income received or
accrued on the Junior Subordinated Debentures, (ii) interest payable by the
Depositor on the Junior Subordinated Debentures is not, or within 90 days of the
delivery of such Opinion of Counsel will not be, deductible by the Depositor, in
whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes, or (iii) the
Issuer Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the delivery of such Opinion of
Counsel, subject to more than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or
other governmental changes.
"Time of Delivery" means 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, with respect to
the Preferred Securities or Common Securities, on the third Business Day
following the date of execution of the Underwriting Agreement, or such other
time not later than ten Business Days after such date as shall be agreed upon by
the Underwriters, the Issuer Trust and the Company.
"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 (i) all Exhibits hereto, and (ii) for all purposes
of this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement any such modification, amendment or
supplement, the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are deemed to be a
part of and govern this Amended and Restated Trust Agreement and any
modification, amendment or supplement, respectively.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or any
successor statute, in each case as amended from time to time.
"Trust Property" means (a) the Junior Subordinated 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
trusts of this Trust Agreement.
"Trust Securities Certificate" means any one of the Common Securities
Certificates or the Preferred Securities Certificates.
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"Trust Security" means any one of the Common Securities or the Preferred
Securities.
"Underwriter" has the meaning specified in the Underwriting Agreement.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement, dated as of
June ____, 1997, among the Issuer Trust, the Depositor and the Underwriter, as
the same may be amended from time to time.
ARTICLE II
CONTINUATION OF THE ISSUER TRUST
SECTION 2.1. Name.
The Issuer Trust continued hereby shall be known as "First Empire Capital
Trust II", as such name may be modified from time to time by the Administrators
following written notice to the Holders of Trust Securities and the other Issuer
Trustees, in which name the Administrators and the Issuer Trustees may engage in
the transactions contemplated hereby, make and execute contracts and other
instruments on behalf of the Issuer Trust and xxx and be sued.
SECTION 2.2. Office of the Delaware Trustee; Principal Place of Business.
The address of the Delaware Trustee in the State of Delaware is Bankers
Trust (Delaware), 0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx, or such other address in the State of Delaware as the
Delaware Trustee may designate by written notice to the Holders and the
Depositor. The principal executive office of the Issuer Trust is in care of
First Empire Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxx X&X Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
SECTION 2.3. Initial Contribution of Trust Property, Organizational
Expenses.
The Property Trustee acknowledges receipt in trust from the Depositor in
connection with this Trust Agreement of the sum of $10, which constitutes the
initial Trust Property. The Depositor shall pay all organizational expenses of
the Issuer Trust as they arise or shall, upon request of any Issuer Trustee,
promptly reimburse such Issuer Trustee for any such expenses paid by such
reasonable Issuer Trustee. The Depositor shall make no claim upon the Trust
Property for the payment of such expenses.
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SECTION 2.4. Issuance of the Preferred Securities.
On June ____, 1997, the Depositor, both on its own behalf and on behalf of
the Issuer Trust pursuant to the Original Trust Agreement, executed and
delivered the Underwriting Agreement. Contemporaneously with the execution and
delivery of this Trust Agreement, an Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer
Trust, shall manually execute in accordance with Section 5.3 and the Property
Trustee shall authenticate in accordance with Section 5.3 and deliver to the
Underwriter, Preferred Securities Certificates, registered in the names
requested by the Underwriter, in an aggregate amount of 4,000,000 Preferred
Securities having an aggregate Liquidation Amount of $100,000,000, against
receipt of the aggregate purchase price of such Preferred Securities of
$100,000,000, by the Property Trustee.
SECTION 2.5. Issuance of the Common Securities; Subscription and Purchase
of Junior Subordinated Debentures.
Contemporaneously with the execution and delivery of this Trust Agreement,
an Administrator, on behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall execute or cause to be
executed in accordance with Section 5.2 and the Property Trustee shall deliver
to the Depositor Common Securities Certificates, registered in the name of the
Depositor, in an aggregate amount of 123,712 Common Securities having an
aggregate Liquidation Amount of $3,092,800 against receipt of the aggregate
purchase price of such Common Securities of $3,092,800 by the Property Trustee.
Contemporaneously with the executions, and deliveries of Common Securities
Certificates and any Preferred Securities Certificates, an Administrator, on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, shall subscribe for and purchase from the Depositor
corresponding amounts of Junior Subordinated Debentures, registered in the name
of the Property Trustee and having an aggregate principal amount equal to
$103,092,800; and, in satisfaction of the purchase price for such Junior
Subordinated Debentures, the Property Trustee, on behalf of the Issuer Trust,
shall deliver to the Depositor the sum of $103,092,800 and receive on behalf of
the Issuer Trust the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
SECTION 2.6. Declaration of Trust.
The exclusive purposes and functions of the Issuer Trust are to (a) issue
and sell Trust Securities and use the proceeds from such sale to acquire the
Junior Subordinated Debentures, and (b) engage in only those other activities
necessary or incidental thereto. The Depositor hereby appoints the Issuer
Trustees as trustees of the Issuer Trust, to have all the rights, powers and
duties to the extent set forth herein, and the Issuer Trustees hereby accept
such appointment. The Property Trustee hereby declares that it will hold the
Trust Property in trust upon and
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subject to the conditions set forth herein for the benefit of the Issuer Trust
and the Holders. The Depositor hereby appoints the Administrators, with such
Administrators having all rights, powers and duties set forth herein with
respect to accomplishing the purposes of the Issuer Trust, and the
Administrators hereby accept such appointment, provided, however, that it is the
intent of the parties hereto that such Administrators shall not be trustees or
fiduciaries with respect to the Issuer Trust and this Agreement shall be
construed in a manner consistent with such intent. The Property Trustee shall
have the right and power to perform those duties assigned to the Administrators.
The Delaware Trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any powers, nor shall the
Delaware Trustee have any of the duties and responsibilities, of the Property
Trustee or the Administrators set forth herein. The Delaware Trustee shall be
one of the trustees of the Issuer Trust for the sole and limited purpose of
fulfilling the requirements of Section 3807 of the Delaware Business Trust Act
and for taking such actions as are required to be taken by a Delaware trustee
under the Delaware Business Trust Act.
SECTION 2.7. Authorization to Enter into Certain Transactions.
(a) The Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall conduct the affairs
of the Issuer Trust in accordance with the terms of this Trust Agreement.
Subject to the limitations set forth in paragraph (b) of this Section and in
accordance with the following provisions (i), (ii) and (iii), the Issuer
Trustees and the Administrators shall act as follows:
(i) Each Administrator shall:
(A) comply with the Underwriting Agreement regarding the issuance
and sale of the Trust Securities;
(B) assist in compliance with the Securities Act, applicable state
securities or blue sky laws, and the Trust Indenture Act;
(C) assist in the listing of the Preferred Securities upon such
securities exchange or exchanges or upon the Nasdaq National Market as
shall be determined by the Depositor, with the registration of the
Preferred Securities under the Exchange Act, if required, and the
preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other
documents pursuant to the foregoing;
(D) execute and deliver an application for a taxpayer identification
number for the Issuer Trust; and
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(E) assist with the preparation of a registration statement and a
prospectus in relation to the Preferred Securities, including any
amendments thereto and the taking of any action necessary or desirable to
sell the Preferred Securities in a transaction or series of transactions
subject to the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
(F) take any action incidental to the foregoing as necessary or
advisable to give effect to the terms of this Trust Agreement.
(ii) The Property Trustee shall have the power and authority to act on
behalf of the Issuer Trust with respect to the following matters:
(A) the establishment of the Payment Account;
(B) the receipt of the Junior Subordinated Debentures;
(C) the receipt and collection of interest, principal and any other
payments made in respect of the Junior Subordinated Debentures in the
Payment Account;
(D) the distribution of amounts owed to the Holders in respect of
the Trust Securities;
(E) the exercise of all of the rights, powers and privileges of a
holder of the Junior Subordinated Debentures;
(F) the sending of notices of default and other information
regarding the Trust Securities and the Junior Subordinated Debentures to
the Holders 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 Issuer Trust and the preparation,
execution and filing of the certificate of cancellation with the Secretary
of State of the State of Delaware; and
(I) after an Event of Default (other than under paragraph (b), (c)
or (d) of the definition of such term if such Event of Default is by or
with respect to the Property Trustee), comply with the provisions of this
Trust
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Agreement and take any action to give effect to the terms of this Trust
Agreement and protect and conserve the Trust Property for the benefit of
the Holders (without consideration of the effect of any such action on any
particular Holder); provided, however, that nothing in this Section
2.7(a)(ii) shall require the Property Trustee to take any action that is
not otherwise required in this Trust Agreement.
(b) So long as this Trust Agreement remains in effect, the Issuer Trust
(or the Issuer Trustees or Administrators acting on behalf of the Issuer Trust)
shall not undertake any business, activities or transaction except as expressly
provided herein or contemplated hereby. In particular, neither the Issuer
Trustees nor the Administrators shall (i) acquire any investments or engage in
any activities not authorized by this Trust Agreement, (ii) sell, assign,
transfer, exchange, mortgage, pledge, set-off or otherwise dispose of any of the
Trust Property or interests therein, including to Holders, except as expressly
provided herein, (iii) take any action that would reasonably be expected to
cause the Issuer Trust to become taxable as a corporation 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 Property Trustee 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 Issuer Trust or the
Holders in their capacity as Holders.
(c) In connection with the issue and sale of the Preferred Securities, the
Depositor shall have the right and responsibility to assist the Issuer Trust
with respect to, or effect on behalf of the Issuer 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 by the Issuer Trust of, and the execution and
delivery of, a registration statement, and a prospectus in relation to the
Preferred Securities, including any amendments thereto and the taking of
any action necessary or desirable to sell the Preferred Securities in a
transaction or a series of transactions subject to the registration
requirements of the Securities Act;
(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 the determination of
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any and all such acts, other than actions that must be taken by or on
behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the advice to the Issuer Trustees of
actions they must take on behalf of the Issuer Trust, and the preparation
for execution and filing of any documents to be executed and filed by the
Issuer Trust or on behalf of the Issuer Trust, as the Depositor deems
necessary or advisable in order to comply with the applicable laws of any
such States in connection with the sale of the Preferred Securities;
(iii) the negotiation of the terms of, and the execution and
delivery of, the Underwriting Agreement providing for the sale of the
Preferred Securities;
(iv) the taking of any other actions necessary or desirable to carry
out any of the foregoing activities; and
(v) compliance with the listing requirements of the Preferred
Securities upon such securities exchange or exchanges, or upon the Nasdaq
National Market, as shall be determined by the Depositor, the registration
of the Preferred Securities under the Exchange Act, if required, and the
preparation and filing of all periodic and other reports and other
documents pursuant to the foregoing.
(d) Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Administrators
and the Property Trustee are authorized and directed to conduct the affairs of
the Issuer Trust and to operate the Issuer Trust so that the Issuer Trust will
not be deemed to be an "investment company" required to be registered under the
Investment Company Act, and will not be taxable as a corporation for the United
States Federal income tax purposes and so that the Junior Subordinated
Debentures will be treated as indebtedness of the Depositor for United States
income tax purposes. In this connection, the Property Trustee and the Holders of
Common Securities are authorized to take any action, not inconsistent with
applicable law, the Certificate of Trust or this Trust Agreement, that the
Property Trustee and Holders of Common Securities determine in their discretion
to be necessary or desirable for such purposes, as long as such action does not
adversely affect in any material respect the interests of the holders of the
Outstanding Preferred Securities. In no event shall the Administrators or the
Issuer Trustees be liable to the Issuer Trust or the Holders for any failure to
comply with this section that results from a change in law or regulations or in
the interpretation thereof.
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SECTION 2.8. Assets of Trust.
The assets of the Issuer Trust shall consist solely of the Trust Property.
SECTION 2.9. 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 Issuer Trust and the Holders in
accordance with this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE III
PAYMENT ACCOUNT
SECTION 3.1. Payment Account.
(a) On or prior to the Closing Date, the Property Trustee shall establish
the Payment Account. The Property Trustee and its agents shall have exclusive
control and sole right of withdrawal with respect to the Payment Account for the
purpose of making deposits in 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 Holders 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 Junior Subordinated Debentures.
Amounts held in the Payment Account shall not be invested by the Property
Trustee pending distribution thereof.
ARTICLE IV
DISTRIBUTIONS; REDEMPTION
SECTION 4.1. Distributions.
(a) The Trust Securities represent undivided beneficial interests in the
Trust Property, and Distributions (including Distributions of Additional
Amounts) will be made on the Trust Securities at the rate and on the dates that
payments of interest (including payments of Additional Interest, as defined in
the
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Indenture) are made on the Junior Subordinated Debentures. Accordingly:
(i) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be cumulative and
will accumulate whether or not there are funds of the Issuer Trust
available for the payment of Distributions. Distributions shall accumulate
from June ____, 1997, and, except in the event (and to the extent) that
the Depositor exercises its right to defer the payment of interest on the
Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, shall be payable quarterly in
arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each year,
commencing on June 30, 1997. 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 (without any interest or other payment in respect of any
such delay), with the same force and effect as if made on the date on
which such payment was originally payable (each date on which
distributions are payable in accordance with this Section 4.1(a), a
"Distribution Date").
(ii) The Trust Securities shall be entitled to Distributions payable
at a rate of _____% per annum of the Liquidation Amount of the Trust
Securities. The amount of Distributions payable for any period less than a
full Distribution period shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months and the actual number of days elapsed in a partial
month in a period. Distributions payable for each full Distribution period
will be computed by dividing the rate per annum by four. The amount of
Distributions payable for any period shall include any Additional Amounts
in respect of such period.
(iii) So long as no Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Depositor has the right under the Indenture to defer the
payment of interest on the Junior Subordinated Debentures at any time and
from time to time for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive quarterly
periods (an "Extension Period"), provided that no Extension Period may
extend beyond June 30, 2027. As a consequence of any such deferral,
quarterly Distributions on the Trust Securities by the Trust will also be
deferred (and the amount of Distributions to which Holders of the Trust
Securities are entitled will accumulate additional Distributions thereon
at the rate per annum of _____% per annum, compounded quarterly) from the
relevant payment date for such Distributions, computed on the basis of a
360-day
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year of twelve 30-day months and the actual days elapsed in a partial
month in such period. Additional Distributions payable for each full
Distribution period will be computed by dividing the rate per annum by
four (4). The term "Distributions" as used in Section 4.1 shall include
any such additional Distributions provided pursuant to this Section
4.1(a)(iii).
(iv) Distributions on the Trust Securities shall be made by the
Property Trustee from the Payment Account and shall be payable on each
Distribution Date only to the extent that the Issuer Trust has funds then
on hand and available in the Payment Account for the payment of such
Distributions.
(b) 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 at the close of business on the relevant
record date, which shall be at the close of business on the 15th day of March,
June, September or December (whether or not a Business Day).
SECTION 4.2. Redemption.
(a) On each Junior Subordinated Debenture Redemption Date and on the
stated maturity of the Junior Subordinated Debentures, the Issuer Trust will be
required to redeem a Like Amount of Trust Securities at the Redemption Price.
(b) Notice of redemption shall be given by the Property Trustee by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Trust Securities to be redeemed,
at such Holder's address appearing in the Security Register. All notices of
redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price, or if the Redemption Price cannot be
calculated prior to the time the notice is required to be sent, the
estimate of the Redemption Price provided pursuant to the Indenture
together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual
Redemption Price will be calculated on the third Business Day prior to the
Redemption Date (and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be
sent of the actual Redemption Price on the date, or as soon as practicable
thereafter, that notice of such actual Redemption Price is received
pursuant to the Indenture);
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(iii) the CUSIP number or CUSIP numbers of the Preferred Securities
affected;
(iv) if less than all the Outstanding Trust Securities are to be
redeemed, the identification and the total Liquidation Amount of the
particular Trust Securities to be redeemed;
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Trust Security to be redeemed and that
Distributions thereon will cease to accumulate on and after said date,
except as provided in Section 4.2(d) below; and
(vi) the place or places where Trust Securities are to be
surrendered for the payment of the Redemption Price.
The Issuer Trust in issuing the Trust Securities shall use "CUSIP"
numbers, and the Property Trustee shall indicate the "CUSIP" numbers of the
Trust Securities in notices of redemption and related materials 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 Trust
Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption and related material.
(c) The Trust Securities redeemed on each Redemption Date shall be
redeemed at the Redemption Price with the applicable proceeds from the
contemporaneous redemption of Junior Subordinated 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 Issuer Trust has 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 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the Redemption
Date, subject to Section 4.2(c), the Property Trustee will, with respect to
Preferred Securities held in global form, irrevocably deposit with the Clearing
Agency for such Preferred Securities, to the extent available therefor, funds
sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give such Clearing
Agency irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption Price to the
Holders of the Preferred Securities. With respect to Preferred Securities that
are not held in global form, the Property Trustee, subject to Section 4.2(c),
will irrevocably deposit with the Paying Agent, to the extent available
therefor, funds sufficient to pay the applicable Redemption Price and will give
the Paying Agent irrevocable instructions and authority to pay the Redemption
Price to the
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Holder of the Preferred Securities 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 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
Holders holding Trust Securities so called for redemption will cease, except the
right of such Holders to receive the Redemption Price and any Distribution
payable in respect of the Trust Securities on or prior to the Redemption Date,
but without interest, and such Securities will cease to be Outstanding. In the
event that any date on which any applicable Redemption Price is payable is not a
Business Day, then payment of the applicable Redemption Price payable on such
date will 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 will 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 Issuer Trust or by the Depositor
pursuant to the Guarantee Agreement, Distributions on such Trust Securities will
continue to accumulate, as set forth in Section 4.1, from the Redemption Date
originally established by the Issuer Trust for such Trust Securities to the date
such applicable Redemption Price is actually paid, in which case the actual
payment date will be the date fixed for redemption for purposes of calculating
the applicable Redemption Price.
(e) Subject to Section 4.3(a), if less than all the Outstanding Trust
Securities are to be redeemed on a Redemption Date, then 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 in such a manner as
the Property Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate.
SECTION 4.3. Subordination of Common Securities.
(a) Payment of Distributions (including Additional Amounts, if applicable)
on, the Redemption Price of, and the Liquidation Distribution in respect of, the
Trust Securities, as applicable, shall be made, subject to Section 4.2(e), pro
rata among the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities based on the
Liquidation Amount of such Trust Securities; provided, however, that if on any
Distribution Date or Redemption Date any Event of Default resulting from a
Debenture Event of Default in
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Section 5.1(1) or 5.1(2) of the Indenture shall have occurred and be continuing,
no payment of any Distribution (including any Additional Amounts) on, Redemption
Price of, or Liquidation Distribution in respect 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 any Additional Amounts) on all
Outstanding Preferred Securities for all Distribution periods terminating on or
prior thereto, or, in the case of payment of the Redemption Price, the full
amount of such Redemption Price on all Outstanding Preferred Securities then
called for redemption, or in the case of payment of the Liquidation Distribution
the full amount of such Liquidation Distribution on all Outstanding Preferred
Securities, 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 any Additional Amounts) on, or the
Redemption Price of, Preferred Securities then due and payable. The existence of
an Event of Default does not entitle the Holders of Preferred Securities to
accelerate the maturity thereof.
(b) In the case of the occurrence of any Event of Default resulting from
any Debenture Event of Default, the Holder of the Common Securities shall have
no right to act with respect to any such Event of Default under this Trust
Agreement until the effects of all such Events of Default with respect to the
Preferred Securities have been cured, waived or otherwise eliminated. Until all
such Events of Default under this Trust Agreement with respect to the Preferred
Securities 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 on behalf of the Holder of the Common Securities, and only the Holders
of the Preferred Securities will have the right to direct the Property Trustee
to act on their behalf.
SECTION 4.4. Payment Procedures.
Payments of Distributions (including any Additional Amounts) 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 the 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 of Distributions to Holders of $1,000,000 or more in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of Preferred Securities may be made by wire transfer of
immediately available funds upon written request of such Holder of Preferred
Securities to the Securities Registrar not later than 15 calendar
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days prior to the date on which the Distribution is payable. Payments in respect
of the Common Securities shall be made in such manner as shall be mutually
agreed between the Property Trustee and the Holder of the Common Securities.
SECTION 4.5. Tax Returns and Reports.
The Administrators 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
Issuer Trust. In this regard, the Administrators shall (a) prepare and file (or
cause to be prepared and filed) all Internal Revenue Service forms required to
be filed in respect of the Issuer Trust in each taxable year of the Issuer Trust
and (b) prepare and furnish (or cause to be prepared and furnished) to each
Holder all Internal Revenue Service forms required to be provided by the Issuer
Trust. The Administrators shall provide the Depositor and the Property Trustee
with a copy of all such returns and reports promptly after such filing or
furnishing. The Issuer Trustees shall comply with United States Federal
withholding and backup withholding tax laws and information reporting
requirements with respect to any payments to Holders under the Trust Securities.
On or before December 15 of each year during which any Preferred
Securities are outstanding, the Administrators shall furnish to the Paying Agent
such information as may be reasonably requested by the Property Trustee in order
that the Property Trustee may prepare the information which it is required to
report for such year on Internal Revenue Service Forms 1096 and 1099 pursuant to
Section 6049 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. Such information
shall include the amount of original issue discount includible in income for
each outstanding Preferred Security during such year, if any.
SECTION 4.6. Payment of Taxes; Duties, Etc. of the Issuer Trust.
Upon receipt under the Junior Subordinated Debentures of Additional Sums,
the Property Trustee shall promptly pay any taxes, duties or governmental
charges of whatsoever nature (other than withholding taxes) imposed on the
Issuer Trust by the United States or any other taxing authority.
SECTION 4.7. Payments under Indenture or Pursuant to Direct Actions.
Any amount payable hereunder to any Holder of Preferred Securities shall
be reduced by the amount of any corresponding
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payment such Holder has directly received pursuant to Section 5.8 of the
Indenture or Section 5.13 of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 4.8. Liability of the Holder of Common Securities.
The Holder of Common Securities shall be liable for the debts and
obligations of the Issuer Trust as set forth in Section 6.7 of the Indenture
regarding allocation of expenses.
ARTICLE V
TRUST SECURITIES CERTIFICATES
SECTION 5.1. Initial Ownership.
Upon the formation of the Issuer Trust and the contribution by the
Depositor pursuant to Section 2.3 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 Issuer Trust.
SECTION 5.2. The Trust Securities Certificates.
(a) The Trust Securities Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the
Issuer Trust by manual or facsimile signature of at least one Administrator
except as provided in Section 5.3. Trust Securities Certificates bearing the
manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were, at the time when such
signatures shall have been affixed, authorized to sign on behalf of the Issuer
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 Holder, and shall be entitled to the rights and subject to the
obligations of a Holder hereunder, upon due registration of such Trust
Securities Certificate in such transferee's name pursuant to Section 5.5.
(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 with or on behalf of the
Depositary and registered in the name of the 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
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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 5.3. Execution and Delivery of Trust Securities Certificates.
At the Time of Delivery, the Administrators shall cause Trust Securities
Certificates, in an aggregate Liquidation Amount as provided in Sections 2.4 and
2.5, to be executed on behalf of the Issuer Trust and delivered to the Property
Trustee and upon such delivery the Property Trustee shall authenticate such
Trust Securities Certificates and deliver such Trust Securities Certificates
upon the written order of the Trust, executed by the Administrators thereof,
without further corporate action by the Trust, in authorized denominations.
SECTION 5.4. Global Preferred Security.
(a) Any Global Preferred Security issued under this Trust Agreement shall
be registered in the name of the nominee of the Clearing Agency and delivered to
such custodian therefor, and such Global Preferred Security shall constitute a
single Preferred Security for all purposes of this Trust Agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust Agreement, a Global
Preferred Security may not be exchanged in whole or in part for Preferred
Securities registered, and no transfer of the Global Preferred Security in whole
or in part may be registered, in the name of any Person other than the Clearing
Agency for such Global Preferred Security, or its nominee thereof unless (i)
such Clearing Agency advises the Property Trustee in writing that such Clearing
Agency is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities
as Clearing Agency with respect to such Global Preferred Security, and the
Depositor is unable to locate a qualified successor, (ii) the Issuer Trust at
its option advises the Depositary in writing that it elects to terminate the
book-entry system through the Clearing Agency, or (iii) there shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event of Default.
(c) If a Preferred Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a
beneficial interest in 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 Liquidation Amount thereof shall be
reduced or increased by an amount equal to the portion thereof to be so
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exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the Liquidation Amount of such other
Preferred Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as the
case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the
Security 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 any such
surrender or adjustment of a Global Preferred Security by the Clearing Agency,
accompanied by registration instructions, the Property Trustee shall, subject to
Section 5.4(b) and as otherwise provided in this Article V, authenticate and
deliver any Preferred Securities issuable in exchange for such Global Preferred
Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the instructions of the
Clearing Agency. The Property Trustee shall not be liable for any delay in
delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully
protected in relying on, such instructions.
(d) Every Preferred Security authenticated 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 authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a
Global Preferred Security, unless such Global 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 the registered owner of a
Global Preferred Security, shall be considered the Holder of the Preferred
Securities represented by such Global Preferred Security for all purposes under
this Trust Agreement and the Preferred Securities, and owners of beneficial
interests in such Global Preferred Security shall hold such interests pursuant
to the Applicable Procedures and, except as otherwise provided herein, shall not
be entitled to receive physical delivery of any such Preferred Securities in
definitive form and shall not be considered the Holders thereof under this Trust
Agreement. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest in the Global
Preferred Security shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest
shall be effected only through, records maintained by the Clearing Agency or its
nominee. Neither the Property Trustee, the Securities Registrar nor the
Depositor shall have any liability in respect of any transfers effected by the
Clearing Agency.
(f) The rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global Preferred
Security shall be exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be
limited to those established by law and agreements between such owners and the
Clearing Agency.
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SECTION 5.5. Registration of Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain
Transfers and Exchanges; Preferred Securities Certificates.
(a) The Property Trustee shall keep or cause to be kept at its Corporate
Trust Office a register or registers for the purpose of registering Preferred
Securities Certificates and transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities
Certificates in which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the
Preferred Securities (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 Section
5.11 in the case of Common Securities Certificates) and registration of
transfers and exchanges of Preferred Securities Certificates as herein provided.
Such register is herein sometimes referred to as the "Securities Register." The
Property Trustee is hereby appointed "Securities Registrar" for the purpose of
registering Preferred Securities and transfers of Preferred Securities as herein
provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Preferred Security at
the offices or agencies of the Property Trustee designated for that purpose, the
Depositor shall execute, and authenticate and deliver, in the name of the
designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Preferred Securities of
the same series of any authorized denominations of like tenor and aggregate
principal amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this Trust
Agreement.
At the option of the Holder, Preferred Securities may be exchanged for
other Preferred Securities of any authorized denominations, of like tenor and
aggregate Liquidation Amount and bearing such legends as may be required by this
Trust Agreement, upon surrender of the Preferred Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any securities are so surrendered for exchange,
the Property Trustee shall execute and authenticate and deliver the Preferred
Securities that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Preferred Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Preferred
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Issuer Trust, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Trust Agreement, as the
Preferred Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Every Preferred Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange
shall (if so required by the Property Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Property
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Trustee and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or
such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange
of Preferred Securities, but the Property Trustee may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
connection with any transfer or exchange of Preferred Securities.
Neither the Issuer Trust nor the Property Trustee shall be required,
pursuant to the provisions of this Section, (i) to issue, register the transfer
of or exchange any Preferred Security during a period beginning at the opening
of business 15 days before the day of selection for redemption of Preferred
Securities pursuant to Article IV and ending at the close of business on the day
of mailing of the notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or
exchange any Preferred Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part,
except, in the case of any such Preferred Security to be redeemed in part, any
portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(b) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Trust Securities may only be
transferred, in whole or in part, in accordance with the terms and conditions
set forth in this Trust Agreement. Any transfer or purported transfer of any
Trust Security not made in accordance with this Trust Agreement shall be null
and void.
(i) Non Global Security to Non Global Security. 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 form of another Trust Security
that is not a Global Security as provided in Section 5.5(a).
(ii) Free Transferability. Subject to this Section 5.5, Preferred
Securities shall be freely transferable.
(iii) Exchanges Between Global Preferred Security and Non-Global
Preferred Security. A beneficial interest in a Global Preferred Security
may be exchanged for a Preferred Security that is not a Global Preferred
Security as provided in Section 5.4.
SECTION 5.6. 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
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Administrators 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
Administrators, or any one of them, on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall execute
and make available for delivery, and the Property Trustee shall authenticate, 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, the Administrators 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 shall constitute
conclusive evidence of an undivided beneficial interest in the assets of the
Issuer Trust corresponding to that evidenced by the lost, stolen or destroyed
Trust Certificate, as if originally issued, whether or not the lost, stolen or
destroyed Trust Securities Certificate shall be found at any time.
SECTION 5.7. Persons Deemed Holders.
The Issuer Trustees, the Securities Registrar or the Depositor shall treat
the Person 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 none of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators, the
Securities Registrar nor the Depositor shall be bound by any notice to the
contrary.
SECTION 5.8. Access to List of Holders' Names and Addresses.
Each Holder and each Owner shall be deemed to have agreed not to hold the
Depositor, the Property Trustee, or the Administrators accountable by reason of
the disclosure of its name and address, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived.
SECTION 5.9. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Property Trustee shall designate, with the consent of the
Administrators, 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 Issuer Trustees in respect of the Trust Securities
Certificates may be served. The Property Trustee initially designates its
Corporate Trust Office at Four Albany Street, New
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York, NY 10006, Attention: Corporate Trust and Agency Group Corporate Market
Services, as its corporate trust office for such purposes. The Property Trustee
shall give prompt written notice to the Depositor, the Administrators and to the
Holders of any change in the location of the Securities Register or any such
office or agency.
SECTION 5.10. Appointment of Paying Agent.
The Paying Agent shall make Distributions to Holders from the Payment
Account and shall report the amounts of such Distributions to the Property
Trustee and the Administrators. Any Paying Agent shall have the revocable power
to withdraw funds from the Payment Account solely for the purpose of making the
Distributions referred to above. The Property Trustee may revoke such power and
remove any Paying Agent in its sole discretion. The Paying Agent shall initially
be the Property Trustee. Any Person acting as Paying Agent shall be permitted to
resign as Paying Agent upon 30 days' written notice to the Administrators, 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 (which shall be a
bank or trust company) that is reasonably acceptable to the Administrators to
act as Paying Agent. Such successor Paying Agent or any additional Paying Agent
appointed by the Administrators shall execute and deliver to the Issuer Trustees
an instrument in which such successor Paying Agent or additional Paying Agent
shall agree with the Issuer Trustees that as Paying Agent, such successor Paying
Agent or additional Paying Agent will hold all sums, if any, held by it for
payment to the Holders in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled thereto
until such sums shall be paid to such Holders. The Paying Agent shall return all
funds unclaimed for two years 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 8.1, 8.3 and 8.6 herein shall
apply to the Bank also in its role as Paying Agent, for so long as the Bank
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 chosen by the Property Trustee unless
the context requires otherwise.
SECTION 5.11. Ownership of Common Securities by Depositor.
At each Time of Delivery, the Depositor shall acquire and retain
beneficial and record ownership of the Common Securities except (i) in
connection with a consolidation or merger of the Depositor into another
corporation or any conveyance, transfer or lease by the Depositor of its
properties and assets substantially
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as an entirety to any Person, pursuant to Section 8.1 of the Indenture, or (ii)
a transfer to an Affiliate of the Depositor in compliance with applicable law
(including the Securities Act and applicable state securities and blue sky
laws). To the fullest extent permitted by law, any attempted transfer of the
Common Securities shall be void. The Administrators 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 THE
DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND
SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT."
SECTION 5.12. 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 Preferred Securities are
represented by a Global Preferred Securities Certificate, the Administrators and
the Issuer 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 5.13. Rights of Holders.
(a) The legal title to the Trust Property is vested exclusively in the
Property Trustee (in its capacity as such) in accordance with Section 2.9, and
the Holders shall not have any right or title therein other than the undivided
beneficial ownership interest in the assets of the Issuer 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 Issuer 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 and when issued and delivered to
Holders against payment of the purchase price therefor will be fully paid and
nonassessable by the Issuer 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.
(b) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, if, upon a
Debenture Event of Default, the Debenture Trustee fails or the holders of not
less than 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Junior Subordinated
Debentures fail to declare the principal of all of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures to be immediately due and payable, the Holders of at least 25% in
Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities then Outstanding
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shall have such right to make such declaration by a notice in writing to the
Property Trustee, the Depositor and the Debenture Trustee.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to the
Junior Subordinated Debentures has been made and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Debenture Trustee as provided
in the Indenture, the Holders of a majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities, by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Depositor
and the Debenture Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(i) the Depositor has paid or deposited with the Debenture Trustee a
sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures,
(B) any accrued Additional Interest on all of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures,
(C) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Junior
Subordinated Debentures which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration and interest and Additional Interest
thereon at the rate borne by the Junior Subordinated Debentures, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Debenture Trustee under
the Indenture and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Debenture Trustee and the Property
Trustee, their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Junior Subordinated
Debentures, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Junior
Subordinated Debentures which has become due solely by such acceleration,
have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13 of the Indenture.
If the Property Trustee fails to annul any such declaration and waive such
default, the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities shall also have the right to rescind and annul such
declaration and its consequences by written notice to the Depositor, the
Property Trustee and the Debenture Trustee, subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Clause (i) and (ii) of this Section 5.13.
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The Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities may, on behalf of the Holders of all the Preferred Securities, waive
any past default under the Indenture, except a default in the payment of
principal or interest (unless such default has been cured and a sum sufficient
to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by
acceleration has been deposited with the Debenture Trustee) or a default in
respect of a covenant or provision which under the Indenture cannot be modified
or amended without the consent of the holder of each outstanding Junior
Subordinated Debentures. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default
or impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Property Trustee of written notice declaring such an
acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, by Holders of the Preferred
Securities all or part of which is represented by Global Preferred Securities, a
record date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding
Preferred Securities entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be
at the close of business on the day the Property Trustee receives such notice.
The Holders on such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such
Persons, shall be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders
remain Holders after such record date; provided, that, unless such declaration
of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have
become effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such
notice prior to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice of
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be canceled and of
no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy
of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written
notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as
the case may be, that is identical to a written notice which has been canceled
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record
date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.13(b).
(c) For so long as any Preferred Securities remain Outstanding, to the
fullest extent permitted by law and subject to the terms of this Trust Agreement
and the Indenture, upon a Debenture Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(1)
or 5.1(2) of the Indenture, any Holder of Preferred Securities shall have the
right to institute a proceeding directly against the Depositor, pursuant to
Section 5.8 of the Indenture, for enforcement of payment to such Holder of the
principal amount of or interest on Junior Subordinated Debentures having an
aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities of such Holder (a "Direct Action"). Except
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as set forth in Sections 5.13(b) and 5.13 (c), the Holders of Preferred
Securities shall have no right to exercise directly any right or remedy
available to the holders of, or in respect of, the Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
ARTICLE VI
ACTS OF HOLDERS; MEETINGS; VOTING
SECTION 6.1. Limitations on Holder's Voting Rights.
(a) Except as provided in this Trust Agreement 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 Issuer 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 Holders from time
to time as members of an association.
(b) So long as any Junior Subordinated Debentures are held by the Property
Trustee on behalf of the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee 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
Property Trustee with respect to such Junior Subordinated Debentures, (ii) waive
any past default that may be waived under Section 5.13 of the Indenture, (iii)
exercise any right to rescind or annul a declaration that the principal of all
the Junior Subordinated Debentures shall be due and payable or (iv) consent to
any amendment, modification or termination of the Indenture or the Junior
Subordinated 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 the Preferred Securities, provided, however, that where a
consent under the Indenture would require the consent of each Holder of Junior
Subordinated Debentures affected thereby, no such consent shall be given by the
Property Trustee without the prior written consent of each Holder of Preferred
Securities. The Property Trustee shall not revoke any action previously
authorized or approved by a vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities, except
by a subsequent vote of the Holders of Preferred Securities. The Property
Trustee shall notify all Holders of the Preferred Securities of any notice of
default received with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures. In addition
to obtaining the foregoing approvals of the Holders of the Preferred Securities,
prior to taking any of the foregoing actions, the Issuer Trustees shall, at the
expense of the Depositor, obtain an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such
matters to the effect that such action
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will not cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a corporation for United States
Federal income tax purposes.
(c) If any proposed amendment to the Trust Agreement provides for, or the
Issuer Trust otherwise proposes to effect, (i) any action that would adversely
affect in any material respect the interests, powers, preferences or special
rights of the Preferred Securities, whether by way of amendment to the Trust
Agreement or otherwise, or (ii) the dissolution of the Issuer Trust, other than
pursuant to the terms of this Trust Agreement, then the Holders of Outstanding
Trust Securities as a class will 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
Preferred Securities. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, no amendment to this Trust Agreement may be made if, as a result of
such amendment, it would cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable as a corporation
for United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 6.2. Notice of Meetings.
Notice of all meetings of the Holders, stating the time, place and purpose
of the meeting, shall be given by the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 10.8
to each Holder 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 6.3. Meetings of Holders.
No annual meeting of Holders is required to be held. The Property Trustee,
however, shall call a meeting of Holders to vote on any matter upon the written
request of the Holders of record of 25% of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of
the Preferred Securities and the Administrators or the Property Trustee may, at
any time in their discretion, call a meeting of Holders of Preferred Securities
to vote on any matters as to which Holders are entitled to vote.
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, present in person or represented by proxy, shall constitute a quorum
at any meeting of Holders of the Preferred Securities.
If a quorum is present at a meeting, an affirmative vote by the Holders of
record present, in person or by proxy, holding Preferred Securities representing
at least a Majority in
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Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities held by the Holders present,
either in person or by proxy, at such meeting shall constitute the action of the
Holders of Preferred Securities, unless this Trust Agreement requires a greater
number of affirmative votes.
SECTION 6.4. Voting Rights.
Holders shall be entitled to one vote for each $25 of Liquidation Amount
represented by their Outstanding Trust Securities in respect of any matter as to
which such Holders are entitled to vote.
SECTION 6.5. Proxies, etc.
At any meeting of Holders, any Holder 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 Property Trustee, or with such other officer or
agent of the Issuer Trust as the Property Trustee may direct, for verification
prior to the time at which such vote shall be taken. Pursuant to a resolution of
the Property Trustee, proxies may be solicited in the name of the Property
Trustee or one or more officers of the Property Trustee. Only Holders of record
shall be entitled to vote. When Trust Securities are held jointly by several
persons, any one of them may vote at any meeting in person or by proxy in
respect of such Trust Securities, but if more than one of them shall be present
at such meeting in person or by proxy, and such joint owners or their proxies so
present disagree as to any vote to be cast, such vote shall not be received in
respect of such Trust Securities. A proxy purporting to be executed by or on
behalf of a Holder 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 6.6. Holder Action by Written Consent.
Any action which may be taken by Holders at a meeting may be taken without
a meeting if Holders holding at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of all
Trust Securities entitled to vote in respect of such action (or such larger
proportion thereof as shall be required by any other provision of this Trust
Agreement) shall consent to the action in writing.
SECTION 6.7. Record Date for Voting and Other Purposes.
For the purposes of determining the Holders 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
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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 Administrators
or Property Trustee may from time to time fix a date, not more than 90 days
prior to the date of any meeting of Holders or the payment of a distribution or
other action, as the case may be, as a record date for the determination of the
identity of the Holders of record for such purposes.
SECTION 6.8. Acts of Holders.
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 Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders 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 the Property Trustee. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied
therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of
the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any
such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient
for any purpose of this Trust Agreement and (subject to Section 8.1) conclusive
in favor of the Issuer Trustees, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
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 Issuer Trustee or Administrator receiving the same deems
sufficient.
The ownership of Trust Securities shall be proved by the Securities
Register.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act of the Holder of any Trust Security shall bind every future Holder of
the same Trust Security and the Holder 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
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Issuer Trustees, the Administrators or the Issuer Trust in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Trust Security.
Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder 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.
If any dispute shall arise among the Holders, the Administrators or the
Issuer Trustees with respect to the authenticity, validity or binding nature of
any request, demand, authorization, direction, consent, waiver or other Act of
such Holder or Issuer Trustee under this Article VI, then the determination of
such matter by the Property Trustee shall be conclusive with respect to such
matter.
A Holder may institute a legal proceeding directly against the Depositor
under the Guarantee Agreement to enforce its rights under the Guarantee
Agreement without first instituting a legal proceeding against the Guarantee
Trustee (as defined in the Guarantee Agreement), the Issuer Trust, any Issuer
Trustee, any Administrator or any person or entity.
SECTION 6.9. Inspection of Records.
Upon reasonable notice to the Administrators and the Property Trustee, the
records of the Issuer Trust shall be open to inspection by Holders during normal
business hours for any purpose reasonably related to such Holder's interest as a
Holder.
ARTICLE VII
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
SECTION 7.1. Representations and Warranties of the Property Trustee and
the Delaware Trustee.
The Property Trustee and the Delaware Trustee, each severally on behalf of
and as to itself, hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Depositor and the Holders that:
(a) The Property Trustee is a banking corporation with trust powers, duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of New York,
with trust power and
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authority to execute and deliver, and to carry out and perform its obligations
under the terms of this Trust Agreement.
(b) The execution, delivery and performance by the Property Trustee of
this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action
on the part of the Property Trustee; and this Trust Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by the Property Trustee, and constitutes a legal, valid
and binding obligation of the Property Trustee, enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
moratorium, insolvency, and other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally and to general principles of equity and the discretion of the court
(regardless of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).
(c) The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement by the
Property Trustee does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the
certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Property Trustee.
(d) At the Time of Delivery, the Property Trustee has not knowingly
created any liens or encumbrances on the Trust Securities.
(e) No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or
notice to, any New York State or federal banking authority is required for the
execution, delivery or performance by the Property Trustee, of this Trust
Agreement.
(f) The Delaware Trustee is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with trust power and authority
to execute and deliver, and to carry out and perform its obligations under the
terms of, the Trust Agreement.
(g) The execution, delivery and performance by the Delaware Trustee of
this Trust Agreement has been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action
on the part of the Delaware Trustee; and this Trust Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by the Delaware Trustee, and constitutes a legal, valid
and binding obligation of the Delaware Trustee, enforceable against it in
accordance with its terms, subject to applicable bankruptcy, reorganization,
moratorium, insolvency, and other similar laws affecting creditors' right
generally and to general principles of equity and the discretion of the court
(regardless of whether the enforcement of such remedies is considered in a
proceeding in equity or at law).
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(h) The execution, delivery and performance of this Trust Agreement by the
Delaware Trustee does not conflict with or constitute a breach of the
certificate of incorporation or by-laws of the Delaware Trustee.
(i) No consent, approval or authorization of, or registration with or
notice to any state or Federal banking authority is required for the execution,
delivery or performance by the Delaware Trustee, of this Trust Agreement.
(j) The Delaware Trustee is an entity which has its principal place of
business in the State of Delaware.
SECTION 7.2. Representations and Warranties of Depositor.
The Depositor hereby represents and warrants for the benefit of the
Holders that:
(a) the Trust Securities Certificates issued at the Time of Delivery on
behalf of the Issuer Trust have been duly authorized and will have been duly and
validly executed, and, subject to payment therefor, issued and delivered by the
Issuer Trustees pursuant to the terms and provisions of, and in accordance with
the requirements of, this Trust Agreement, and the Holders will be, as of each
such date, entitled to the benefits of this Trust Agreement; and
(b) there are no taxes, fees or other governmental charges payable by the
Issuer Trust (or the Issuer Trustees on behalf of the Issuer Trust) under the
laws of the State of Delaware or any political subdivision thereof in connection
with the execution, delivery and performance by either the Property Trustee or
the Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, of this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE VIII
THE ISSUER TRUSTEES; THE ADMINISTRATORS
SECTION 8.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) The duties and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees and the
Administrators 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 Issuer Trustees or the
Administrators 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
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repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it or them. 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 Issuer Trustees or the
Administrators shall be subject to the provisions of this Section. Nothing in
this Trust Agreement shall be construed to release an Administrator from
liability for his or its own negligent action, his or its own negligent failure
to act, or his or its own willful misconduct. To the extent that, at law or in
equity, an Issuer Trustee or Administrator has duties and liabilities relating
to the Issuer Trust or to the Holders, such Issuer Trustee or Administrator
shall not be liable to the Issuer Trust or to any Holder for such Issuer
Trustee's or Administrator'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 Issuer Trustees and Administrators
otherwise existing at law or in equity, are agreed by the Depositor and the
Holders to replace his or such other duties and liabilities of the Issuer
Trustees and Administrators.
(b) All payments made by the Property Trustee or a Paying Agent in respect
of the Trust Securities shall be made only from the revenue and proceeds from
the Trust Property and only to the extent that there shall be sufficient revenue
or proceeds from the Trust Property to enable the Property Trustee or a Paying
Agent to make payments in accordance with the terms hereof. Each Holder, by his
or its acceptance of a Trust Security, agrees that he or it will look solely to
the revenue and proceeds from the Trust Property to the extent legally available
for distribution to it or him as herein provided and that neither the Issuer
Trustees nor the Administrators are personally liable to it or him for any
amount distributable in respect of any Trust Security or for any other liability
in respect of any Trust Security. This Section 8.1(b) does not limit the
liability of the Issuer Trustees expressly set forth elsewhere in this Trust
Agreement or, in the case of the Property Trustee, in the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) The Property Trustee, before the occurrence of any Event of Default
and after the curing of all Events of Default that may have occurred, shall
undertake to perform only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Trust Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and no implied covenants
shall be read into this Trust Agreement against the Property Trustee. If an
Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to
Section 5.13 of the Indenture), the Property Trustee shall enforce this Trust
Agreement for the benefit of the Holders and shall exercise such of the rights
and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement, and use the same degree of care
and skill in its exercise thereof, as a prudent
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person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or
her own affairs.
(d) No provision of this Trust Agreement shall be construed to relieve the
Property Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default and after the
curing or waiving of all such Events of Default that may have occurred:
(A) the duties and obligations of the Property Trustee shall
be determined solely by the express provisions of this Trust
Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10), and the Property
Trustee shall not be liable except for the performance of such
duties and obligations as are specifically set forth in this Trust
Agreement (including pursuant to Section 10.10); and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Property
Trustee, the Property Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth
of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon any certificates or opinions furnished to the Property
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Trust Agreement;
but in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provision hereof or of the Trust Indenture Act are specifically
required to be furnished to the Property Trustee, the Property
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Trust
Agreement;
(ii) 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;
(iii) 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 at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount
of the Preferred 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
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conferred upon the Property Trustee under this Trust Agreement;
(iv) the Property Trustee's sole duty with respect to the custody,
safe keeping and physical preservation of the Junior Subordinated
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;
(v) the Property Trustee shall not be liable for any interest on any
money received by it except as it may otherwise agree with the Depositor;
and money held by the Property Trustee need not be segregated from other
funds held by it except in relation to the Payment Account maintained by
the Property Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1 and except to the extent
otherwise required by law;
(vi) the Property Trustee shall not be responsible for monitoring
the compliance by the Administrators or the Depositor with their
respective duties under this Trust Agreement, nor shall the Property
Trustee be liable for the default or misconduct of any other Issuer
Trustee, the Administrators or the Depositor; and
(vii) no provision of this Trust Agreement shall require the
Property Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur
personal financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Property Trustee shall
have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such funds or
liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of this Trust
Agreement or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
(e) The Administrators shall not be responsible for monitoring the
compliance by the Issuer Trustee or the Depositor with their respective duties
under this Trust Agreement, nor shall either Administrator be liable for the
default or misconduct of any other Administrator, the Issuer Trustees or the
Depositor.
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SECTION 8.2. Certain Notices.
Within five Business Days after the occurrence of any Event of Default
actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Property Trustee, the Property
Trustee shall transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section
10.8, notice of such Event of Default to the Holders and the Administrators,
unless such Event of Default shall have been cured or waived.
Within five Business Days after the receipt of notice of the Depositor's
exercise of its right to defer the payment of interest on the Junior
Subordinated Debentures pursuant to the Indenture, the Property Trustee shall
transmit, in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 10.8, notice of
such exercise to the Holders and the Administrators, unless such exercise shall
have been revoked.
In the event the Property Trustee receives notice of the Depositor's
exercise of its right to shorten the stated maturity of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures as provided in Section 3.15 of the Indenture, the Property Trustee
shall give notice of such shortening of the stated maturity to the Holders at
least 30 but not more than 60 days before the effective date thereof.
SECTION 8.3. Certain Rights of Property Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.1:
(a) the Property Trustee may rely and shall be fully 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) any direction or act of the Depositor contemplated by this Trust
Agreement shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate;
(c) the Property Trustee shall have no duty 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;
(d) the Property Trustee may consult with counsel of its own choosing
(which counsel may be counsel to the Depositor or any
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of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) 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;
(e) 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 Holders pursuant to this Trust Agreement, unless such
Holders shall have offered to the Property Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction; provided that,
nothing contained in this Section 8.3(e) shall be taken to relieve the Property
Trustee, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, of its obligation to
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Trust Agreement;
(f) 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 Holders, but the Property
Trustee may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may see fit;
(g) the Property Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder
or perform any of its duties hereunder either directly or by or through its
agents or attorneys, provided that the Property Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed
with due care by it hereunder;
(h) whenever in the administration of this Trust Agreement the Property
Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with respect to
enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action hereunder, the Property
Trustee (i) may request instructions from the Holders (which instructions may
only be given by the Holders of the same proportion in Liquidation Amount of the
Trust Securities as would be entitled to direct the Property Trustee under the
terms of the Trust Securities in respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii)
may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other action
until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be fully protected in
acting in accordance with such instructions; and
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(i) 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 any Issuer Trustee or Administrator 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 any Issuer Trustee or
Administrator shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 8.4. 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 Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trustees
and the Administrators do not assume any responsibility for their correctness.
The Issuer Trustees and the Administrators shall not be accountable for the use
or application by the Depositor of the proceeds of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures.
SECTION 8.5. May Hold Securities.
Except as provided in the definition of the term "Outstanding" in Article
I, the Administrators, any Issuer Trustee or any other agent of any Issuer
Trustee or the Issuer Trust, in its individual or any other capacity, may become
the owner or pledgee of Trust Securities and, subject to Sections 8.8 and 8.13,
may otherwise deal with the Issuer Trust with the same rights it would have if
it were not an Administrator, Issuer Trustee or such other agent.
SECTION 8.6. Compensation; Indemnity; Fees.
The Depositor, as borrower, agrees:
(a) to pay to the Issuer Trustees from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by them hereunder (which compensation
shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(b) to reimburse the Issuer Trustees upon request for all reasonable
expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made
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by the Issuer Trustees in accordance with any provision of this Trust Agreement
(including the reasonable compensation, expenses and disbursements of its agents
and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to their negligence or willful misconduct; and
(c) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify and
hold harmless (i) each Issuer Trustee, (ii) each Administrator, (iii) any
Affiliate of any Issuer Trustee, (iv) any officer, director, shareholder,
employee, representative or agent of any Issuer Trustee, and (v) any employee or
agent of the Issuer Trust, (referred to herein as an "Indemnified Person") from
and against any loss, damage, liability, tax (excluding income taxes, other than
taxes referred to in Sections 4.5 and 4.6 hereunder), penalty, expense or claim
of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by such Indemnified Person arising out
of or in connection with the creation, operation or dissolution of the Issuer
Trust or any act or omission performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in
good faith on behalf of the Issuer Trust and in a manner such Indemnified Person
reasonably believed to be within the scope of authority conferred on such
Indemnified Person by this Trust Agreement, except that no Indemnified Person
shall be entitled to be indemnified in respect of any loss, damage or claim
incurred by such Indemnified Person by reason of negligence or willful
misconduct with respect to such acts or omissions.
The provisions of this Section 8.6 shall survive the termination of this
Trust Agreement.
No Issuer Trustee may claim any lien or charge on any Trust Property as a
result of any amount due pursuant to this Section 8.6.
The Depositor, any Administrator and any Issuer Trustee may engage in or
possess an interest in other business ventures of any nature or description,
independently or with others, similar or dissimilar to the business of the
Issuer Trust, and the Issuer Trust and the Holders of Trust Securities shall
have no rights by virtue of this Trust Agreement in and to such independent
ventures or the income or profits derived therefrom, and the pursuit of any such
venture, even if competitive with the business of the Issuer Trust, shall not be
deemed wrongful or improper. Neither the Depositor, any Administrator, nor any
Issuer Trustee shall be obligated to present any particular investment or other
opportunity to the Issuer Trust even if such opportunity is of a character that,
if presented to the Issuer Trust, could be taken by the Issuer Trust, and the
Depositor, any Administrator or any Issuer Trustee shall have the right to take
for its own account (individually or as a partner or fiduciary) or to recommend
to others any such particular investment or other opportunity. Any
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Issuer Trustee may engage or be interested in any financial or other transaction
with the Depositor or any Affiliate of the Depositor, or may act as depository
for, trustee or agent for, or act on any committee or body of holders of,
securities or other obligations of the Depositor or its Affiliates.
SECTION 8.7. Corporate Property Trustee Required; Eligibility of Trustees
and Administrators.
(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 a
national or state chartered bank and 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, 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, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article. At the time of appointment, the Property Trustee must have securities
rated in one of the three highest rating categories by a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization.
(b) There shall at all times be one or more Administrators hereunder. Each
Administrator 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. An employee, officer or Affiliate of the Depositor may serve as an
Administrator.
(c) There shall at all times be a Delaware Trustee. The Delaware Trustee
shall either be (i) a natural person who is at least 21 years of age and a
resident of the State of Delaware or (ii) a legal entity with its principal
place of business in the State of Delaware and that otherwise meets the
requirements of applicable Delaware law that shall act through one or more
persons authorized to bind such entity.
SECTION 8.8. Conflicting Interests.
(a) If the Property Trustee has or shall acquire a conflicting interest
within the meaning of the Trust Indenture Act, the Property Trustee shall either
eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner provided by,
and subject
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to the provisions of, the Trust Indenture Act and this Trust Agreement.
(b) The Guarantee Agreement and the Indenture shall be deemed to be
sufficiently described in this Trust Agreement for the purposes of clause (i) of
the first proviso contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.9. Co-Trustees and Separate Trustee.
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 Property Trustee shall have power to appoint, and
upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor and the
Administrators shall for such purpose join with the Property Trustee in the
execution, delivery, and performance of all instruments and agreements necessary
or proper to appoint, one or more Persons approved by the Property Trustee
either to act as co-trustee, jointly with the Property Trustee, of all or any
part of such Trust Property, or to the extent required by law to act as separate
trustee of any such property, in either case with such powers as may be provided
in the instrument of appointment, and to vest in such Person or Persons in the
capacity aforesaid, any property, title, right or power deemed necessary or
desirable, subject to the other provisions of this Section. Any co-trustee or
separate trustee appointed pursuant to this Section 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.
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.
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:
(a) The Trust Securities shall be executed by one or more Administrators,
and 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 Property Trustees specified hereunder, shall be
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exercised, solely by the Property Trustee and not by such co-trustee or
separate trustee.
(b) 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 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.
(c) 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,
and, in case a Debenture Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Property Trustee shall have power to accept the resignation of, or remove, any
such co-trustee or separate trustee without the concurrence of the Depositor.
Upon the written request of the Property Trustee, the Depositor shall join with
the Property Trustee in the execution, delivery and performance of all
instruments and agreements necessary or proper to effectuate such resignation or
removal. A successor to any co-trustee or separate trustee so resigned or
removed may be appointed in the manner provided in this Section.
(d) 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.
(e) The Property Trustee shall not be liable by reason of any act of a
co-trustee or separate trustee.
(f) 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 8.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
No resignation or removal of any Issuer Trustee (the "Relevant Trustee")
and no appointment of a successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become
effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11.
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Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, a Relevant Trustee may
resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders. The Relevant
Trustee shall appoint a successor by requesting from at least three Persons
meeting the eligibility requirements its expenses and charges to serve as the
successor Trustee on a form provided by the Administrators, and selecting the
Person who agrees to the lowest expenses and charges, subject to the prior
consent of the Depositor which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. If
the instrument of acceptance by the successor Trustee required by Section 8.11
shall not have been delivered to the Relevant Trustee within 60 days after the
giving of such notice of resignation, the Relevant Trustee may petition, at the
expense of the Issuer Trust, any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Trustee.
The Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be removed at any time by
Act of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities, delivered to the Relevant Trustee (in its individual capacity and on
behalf of the Issuer Trust) (i) for cause or (ii) if a Debenture Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing at any time.
If a resigning Relevant Trustee shall fail to appoint a successor, or if a
Relevant Trustee shall be removed or become incapable of acting as Issuer
Trustee, or if any vacancy shall occur in the office of any Issuer Trustee for
any cause, the Holders of the Preferred Securities, by Act of the Holders of
record of not less than 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Preferred
Securities then Outstanding delivered to such Relevant Trustee, shall promptly
appoint a successor Trustee or Trustees, and such successor Issuer Trustee shall
comply with the applicable requirements of Section 8.11. If no successor Trustee
shall have been so appointed by the Holders of the Preferred Securities and
accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 8.11, any Holder, on
behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, or any other Issuer
Trustee, may petition any court in the State of Delaware for the appointment of
a successor Trustee.
The Property Trustee shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of an a Relevant Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee to
all Holders in the manner provided in Section 10.8 and shall give notice to the
Depositor and to the Administrators. Each notice shall include the name of the
Relevant Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust Office if it is the
Property Trustee.
Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, in the event any Delaware Trustee who is a natural person dies or
becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of the Common Securities, incompetent or
incapacitated, the vacancy
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created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by the Property
Trustee following the procedures regarding expenses and charges set forth above
(with the successor in each case being a Person who satisfies the eligibility
requirement for Administrators or Delaware Trustee, as the case may be, set
forth in Section 8.7).
SECTION 8.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, the retiring
Relevant Trustee and each such successor Trustee with respect to the Trust
Securities shall execute, acknowledge and deliver an amendment hereto wherein
each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which (a) shall contain
such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to,
and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities and the Issuer
Trust, and (b) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Trust
Agreement as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration
of the Issuer Trust by more than one Relevant Trustee, it being understood that
nothing herein or in such amendment shall constitute such Relevant co-trustees
and upon the execution and delivery of such amendment the resignation or removal
of the retiring Relevant Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the Relevant Trustee; but, on request of the Issuer Trust or any successor
Trustee such Relevant Trustee shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such
successor Trustee all Trust Property, all proceeds thereof and money held by
such Relevant Trustee hereunder with respect to the Trust Securities and the
Trust.
Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Issuer Trust shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in the
first or second preceding paragraph, as the case may be.
No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 8.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any Person into which the Property Trustee or the Delaware Trustee may be
merged or converted or with which it may be
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consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which such Relevant Trustee shall be a party, or any Person
succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of such
Relevant Trustee, shall be the successor of such Relevant Trustee hereunder,
provided that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto.
SECTION 8.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Depositor or
Issuer Trust.
If and when the Property Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the
Depositor (or any other obligor upon the Trust Securities), the Property Trustee
shall be subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the
collection of claims against the Depositor (or any such other obligor) as is
required by the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 8.14. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other similar judicial
proceeding relative to the Issuer Trust or any other obligor upon the Trust
Securities or the property of the Issuer Trust or of such other obligor, the
Property Trustee (irrespective of whether any Distributions on the Trust
Securities shall then be due and payable and irrespective of whether the
Property Trustee shall have made any demand on the Issuer Trust for the payment
of any past due Distributions) shall be entitled and empowered, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of any Distributions
owning and unpaid in respect of the Trust Securities and to file such other
papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims
of the Property Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Property Trustee, its agents and
counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian,
receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official
in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such
payments to the Property Trustee and, in the event the Property Trustee shall
consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the
Property Trustee any amount due it for
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the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Property Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Property
Trustee.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Property Trustee
to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan
of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or compensation affecting the Trust
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Property
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 8.15. Reports by Property Trustee.
(a) Not later than January 31 of each year commencing with January 31,
1998, the Property Trustee shall transmit to all Holders in accordance with
Section 10.8, and to the Depositor, a brief report dated as of the immediately
preceding December 31 with respect to:
(i) its eligibility under Section 8.7 or, in lieu thereof, if to the
best of its knowledge it has continued to be eligible under said Section,
a written statement to such effect; and
(ii) any change in the property and funds in its possession as
Property Trustee since the date of its last report and any action taken by
the Property Trustee in the performance of its duties hereunder which it
has not previously reported and which in its opinion materially affects
the Trust Securities.
(b) In addition the Property Trustee shall transmit to Holders such
reports concerning the Property Trustee and its actions under this Trust
Agreement as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times
and in the manner provided pursuant thereto as set forth in Section 10.10 of
this Trust Agreement.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Property Trustee with the Depositor.
SECTION 8.16. Reports to the Property Trustee.
The Depositor and the Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall
provide to the Property Trustee such documents, reports and information as
required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance
certificate required by Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act in the form,
in the manner and
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at the times required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture Act, as set forth in
Section 10.10 of this Trust Agreement. The Depositor and the Administrators
shall annually file with the Property Trustee a certificate specifying whether
such Person is in compliance with all the terms and covenants applicable to such
Person hereunder.
SECTION 8.17. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
Each of the Depositor and the Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust
shall provide to the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement that relate
to any of the matters set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act as
set forth in Section 10.10 of this Trust Agreement. Any certificate or opinion
required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) of the Trust
Indenture Act shall be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate.
SECTION 8.18. Number of Issuer Trustees.
(a) The number of Issuer Trustees shall be two. The Property Trustee and
the Delaware Trustee may be the same Person.
(b) If an Issuer Trustee ceases to hold office for any reason, a vacancy
shall occur. The vacancy shall be filled with an Issuer Trustee appointed in
accordance with Section 8.10.
(c) The death, resignation, retirement, removal, bankruptcy, incompetence
or incapacity to perform the duties of an Issuer Trustee shall not operate to
annul the Issuer Trust.
SECTION 8.19. Delegation of Power.
(a) Any Administrator 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 2.7(a) or
making any governmental filing; and
(b) The Administrators shall have power to delegate from time to time to
such of their number the doing of such things and the execution of such
instruments either in the name of the Issuer Trust or the names of the
Administrators or otherwise as the Administrators may deem expedient, to the
extent such delegation is not prohibited by applicable law or contrary to the
provisions of this Trust Agreement.
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SECTION 8.20. Appointment of Administrators.
(a) The Administrators (other than the initial Administrators) shall be
appointed by the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common
Securities and all Administrators (including the initial Administrators) may be
removed by the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common
Securities or may resign at any time. Each Administrator shall sign an agreement
agreeing to comply with the terms of this Trust Agreement. If at any time there
is no Administrator, the Property Trustee or any Holder who has been a Holder of
Trust Securities for at least six months may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of one or more Administrators.
(b) Whenever a vacancy in the number of Administrators shall occur, until
such vacancy is filled by the appointment of an Administrator in accordance with
this Section 8.20, the Administrators in office, regardless of their number (and
notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement), shall have all the
powers granted to the Administrators and shall discharge all the duties imposed
upon the Administrators by this Trust Agreement.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, or any other provision of this Trust
Agreement, in the event any Administrator or a Delaware Trustee who is a natural
person dies or becomes, in the opinion of the Holders of a Majority in
Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities, incompetent, or incapacitated, the
vacancy created by such death, incompetence or incapacity may be filled by the
remaining Administrators, if there were at least two of them prior to such
vacancy, and by the Depositor, if there were not two such Administrators
immediately prior to such vacancy (with the successor in each case being a
Person who satisfies the eligibility requirement for Administrators or Delaware
Trustee, as the case may be, set forth in Section 8.7).
(d) Except as otherwise provided in this Trust Agreement, or by applicable
law, any one Administrator may execute any document or otherwise take any action
which the Administrators are authorized to take under this Trust Agreement.
ARTICLE IX
DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION AND MERGER
SECTION 9.1. Dissolution Upon Expiration Date.
Unless earlier dissolved, the Issuer Trust shall automatically dissolve on
June 30, 2028 (the "Expiration Date"),
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following the distribution of the Trust Property in accordance with Section 9.4.
SECTION 9.2. Early Termination.
The first to occur of any of the following events is an "Early Termination
Event":
(a) the occurrence of the appointment of a receiver or other similar
official in any liquidation, insolvency or similar proceeding with respect to
the Depositor or all or substantially all of its property, or a court or other
governmental agency shall enter a decree or order and such decree or order shall
remain unstayed and undischarged for a period of 60 days, unless the Depositor
shall transfer the Common Securities as provided by Section 5.11, in which case
this provision shall refer instead to any such successor Holder of the Common
Securities;
(b) the written direction to the Property Trustee from the Holder of the
Common Securities at any time to dissolve the Issuer Trust and to distribute the
Junior Subordinated Debentures to Holders in exchange for the Preferred
Securities (which direction, subject to Section 9.4(a), is optional and wholly
within the discretion of the Holders of the Common Securities);
(c) the redemption of all of the Preferred Securities in connection with
the redemption of all the Junior Subordinated Debentures; and
(d) the entry of an order for dissolution of the Issuer Trust by a court
of competent jurisdiction.
SECTION 9.3. Termination.
The respective obligations and responsibilities of the Issuer Trustees,
the Administrators and the Issuer Trust created and continued hereby shall
terminate upon the latest to occur of the following: (a) the distribution by the
Property Trustee to Holders of all amounts required to be distributed hereunder
upon the liquidation of the Issuer Trust pursuant to Section 9.4, or upon the
redemption of all of the Trust Securities pursuant to Section 4.2, (b) the
payment of any expenses owed by the Issuer Trust, (c) the discharge of all
administrative duties of the Administrators, including the performance of any
tax reporting obligations with respect to the Issuer Trust or the Holders and
(d) the filing of a certificate of cancellation with the Delaware Secretary of
State pursuant to Section 3810 of the Delaware Business Trust Act.
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SECTION 9.4. Liquidation.
(a) If an Early Termination Event specified in clause (a), (b) or (d) of
Section 9.2 occurs or upon the Expiration Date, the Issuer Trust shall be
liquidated by the Property Trustee as expeditiously as the Property Trustee
determines to be possible by distributing, after satisfaction of liabilities to
creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, to each Holder a
Like Amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures, subject to Section 9.4(d). Notice
of liquidation shall be given by the Property Trustee by first-class mail,
postage prepaid, mailed not later than 15 nor more than 45 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 will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding and any Trust Securities
Certificates not surrendered for exchange will be deemed to represent a Like
Amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures; and
(iii) provide such information with respect to the mechanics by
which Holders may exchange Trust Securities Certificates for Junior Subordinated
Debentures, or if Section 9.4(d) applies receive a Liquidation Distribution, as
the Administrators or the Property Trustee shall deem appropriate.
(b) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, in order to effect the
liquidation of the Issuer Trust and distribution of the Junior Subordinated
Debentures to Holders, the Property Trustee shall establish a record date for
such distribution (which shall be not more than 30 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 Junior Subordinated Debentures in
exchange for the Outstanding Trust Securities Certificates.
(c) Except where Section 9.2(c) or 9.4(d) applies, after the Liquidation
Date, (i) the Trust Securities will no longer be deemed to be Outstanding, (ii)
the Clearing Agency for the Preferred Securities or its nominee, as the
registered holder of the Global Preferred Securities Certificate, shall receive
a registered global certificate or certificates representing the Junior
Subordinated Debentures to be delivered upon such distribution with respect to
Preferred Securities held by the Clearing Agency or its nominee, and, (iii) any
Trust Securities Certificates not held by the Clearing Agency for the Preferred
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Securities or its nominee as specified in clause (ii) above will be deemed to
represent Junior Subordinated Debentures having a principal amount equal to the
stated Liquidation Amount of the Trust Securities represented thereby and
bearing accrued and unpaid interest in an amount equal to the accumulated and
unpaid Distributions on such Trust Securities until such certificates are
presented to the Securities Registrar for transfer or reissuance.
(d) If, notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 9.4, whether
because of an order for dissolution entered by a court of competent jurisdiction
or otherwise, distribution of the Junior Subordinated Debentures is not
practical, or if any Early Termination Event specified in clause (c) of Section
9.2 occurs, the Trust Property shall be liquidated, and the Issuer Trust shall
be dissolved by the Property Trustee in such manner as the Property Trustee
determines. In such event, on the date of the dissolution of the Issuer Trust,
Holders will be entitled to receive out of the assets of the Issuer Trust
available for distribution to Holders, after satisfaction of liabilities to
creditors of the Issuer Trust as provided by applicable law, an amount equal to
the aggregate of Liquidation Amount per Trust Security plus accumulated and
unpaid Distributions thereon to the date of payment (such amount being the
"Liquidation Distribution"). If, upon any such dissolution, the Liquidation
Distribution can be paid only in part because the Issuer 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 Issuer Trust
on the Trust Securities shall be paid on a pro rata basis (based upon
Liquidation Amounts). The Holders of the Common Securities will be entitled to
receive Liquidation Distributions upon any such dissolution 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 as provided in Section 4.3.
SECTION 9.5. Mergers, Consolidations, Amalgamations or Replacements of the
Issuer Trust.
The Issuer 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 entity, except pursuant to this Section
9.5. At the request of the Holders of the Common Securities, and with the
consent of the Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the
Preferred Securities, the Issuer Trust may merge with or into, consolidate,
amalgamate, or 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,
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however, that (i) such successor entity either (a) expressly assumes all of the
obligations of the Issuer 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 (the "Successor Securities") so long
as the Successor Securities have the same priority as the Preferred Securities
with respect to distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and
otherwise, (ii) a trustee of such successor entity possessing the same powers
and duties as the Property Trustee is appointed to hold the Junior Subordinated
Debentures, (iii) 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 if the Preferred Securities were rated by any
nationally recognized statistical rating organization immediately prior to such
merger, consolidation, amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease,
(iv) 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, (v) such successor entity has a purpose substantially
identical to that of the Issuer Trust, (vi) prior to such merger, consolidation,
amalgamation, replacement, conveyance, transfer or lease, the Issuer Trustee has
received an Opinion of Counsel from independent counsel experienced in such
matters 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 Issuer Trust nor such successor entity will be required to register
as an "investment company" under the Investment Company Act and (vii) the
Depositor or any permitted transferee to whom it has transferred the Common
Securities hereunder own 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 Agreement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuer 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 entity or permit any other entity to consolidate, amalgamate, merge with
or into, or replace it if such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, replacement,
conveyance, transfer or lease would cause the Issuer Trust or the successor
entity to be taxable as a corporation for United States Federal income tax
purposes.
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ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 10.1. Limitation of Rights of Holders.
Except as set forth in Section 9.2, the death or incapacity of any person
having an interest, beneficial or otherwise, in Trust Securities shall not
operate to terminate this Trust Agreement, nor entitle the legal representatives
or heirs of such person or any Holder for such person, to claim an accounting,
take any action or bring any proceeding in any court for a partition or
winding-up of the arrangements contemplated hereby, nor otherwise affect the
rights, obligations and liabilities of the parties hereto or any of them. Any
merger or similar agreement shall be executed by the Administrators on behalf of
the Trust.
SECTION 10.2. Amendment.
(a) This Trust Agreement may be amended from time to time by the Property
Trustee and the Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common
Securities, without the consent of any Holder of the Preferred Securities (i) to
cure any ambiguity, correct or supplement any provision herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other provisions
with respect to matters or questions arising under this Trust Agreement,
provided, however, that such amendment shall not adversely affect in any
material respect the interests of any Holder or (ii) to modify, eliminate or add
to any provisions of this Trust Agreement to such extent as shall be necessary
to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be taxable as a corporation for United
States Federal income tax purposes at any time that any Trust Securities are
Outstanding or to ensure that the Issuer Trust will not be required to register
as an investment company under the Investment Company Act.
(b) Except as provided in Section 10.2(c) hereof, any provision of this
Trust Agreement may be amended by the Property Trustee and the Holders of a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Common Securities with (i) the consent of
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Preferred Securities
and (ii) receipt by the Issuer Trustees of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that such amendment or the exercise of any power granted to the Issuer Trustees
in accordance with such amendment will not cause the Issuer Trust to be taxable
as a corporation for United States federal income tax purposes or affect the
Issuer Trust's exemption from status of an "investment company" under the
Investment Company Act.
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(c) In addition to and notwithstanding any other provision in this Trust
Agreement, without the consent of each affected Holder (such consent being
obtained in accordance with Section 6.3 or 6.6 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 Holder to institute suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after such date.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Trust Agreement, no
Issuer Trustee shall enter into or consent to any amendment to this Trust
Agreement which would cause the Issuer Trust to fail or cease to qualify for the
exemption from status as an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act or be taxable as a corporation for United States Federal income tax
purposes.
(e) Notwithstanding anything in this Trust Agreement to the contrary,
without the consent of the Depositor and the Administrators, this Trust
Agreement may not be amended in a manner which imposes any additional obligation
on the Depositor or the Administrators.
(f) In the event that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is made, the
Administrators or the Property Trustee shall promptly provide to the Depositor a
copy of such amendment.
(g) Neither the Property Trustee nor the Delaware Trustee shall be
required to enter into any amendment to this Trust Agreement which affects its
own rights, duties or immunities under this Trust Agreement. The Property
Trustee shall be entitled to receive an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers'
Certificate stating that any amendment to this Trust Agreement is in compliance
with this Trust Agreement.
(h) Any amendments to this Trust Agreement shall become effective when
notice of such amendment is given to the holders of the Trust Securities.
SECTION 10.3. Separability.
In case any provision in this Trust Agreement or in the Trust Securities
Certificates shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected
or impaired thereby.
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SECTION 10.4. Governing Law.
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF EACH OF THE
HOLDERS, THE ISSUER TRUST, THE DEPOSITOR, THE ISSUER TRUSTEES AND THE
ADMINISTRATORS 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.
SECTION 10.5. 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 that is a Business Day (except as
otherwise provided in Sections 4.2(d)), with the same force and effect as though
made on the date fixed for such payment, and no Distributions shall accumulate
on such unpaid amount for the period after such date.
SECTION 10.6. Successors.
This Trust Agreement shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit
of any successor to the Depositor, the Issuer Trust, the Administrators and any
Issuer Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in
connection with a consolidation, merger or sale involving the Depositor that is
permitted under Article VIII of the Indenture and pursuant to which the assignee
agrees in writing to perform the Depositor's obligations hereunder, the
Depositor shall not assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 10.7. Headings.
The Article and Section headings are for convenience only and shall not
affect the construction of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.8. Reports, Notices and Demands.
Any report, notice, demand or other communication that by any provision of
this Trust Agreement is required or permitted to be given or served to or upon
any Holder 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 Holder
of Preferred Securities, to such Holder as such Holder's name and address may
appear on the Securities Register; and (b) in the case of the Holder of Common
Securities or the Depositor, to First Empire State Corporation, One M&T Plaza,
Buffalo, New York 14240, Attention: Office of the Secretary, facsimile no.:
(000) 000-0000, or to such other address as may be specified in a written notice
by the Depositor to the Property Trustee. Such
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notice, demand or other communication to or upon a Holder shall be deemed to
have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, upon hand delivery,
mailing or transmission. Such notice, demand or other communication to or upon
the Depositor shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon
actual receipt of the writing by the Depositor.
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
Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, the Delaware Trustee, the Administrators, or
the Issuer Trust shall be given in writing addressed (until another address is
published by the Issuer Trust) as follows: (a) with respect to the Property
Trustee to Bankers Trust Company, Four Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX
00000, Attention: Corporate Trust and Agency Group Corporate Market Services;
(b) with respect to the Delaware Trustee to Bankers Trust (Delaware), 0000
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Xx. Xxxx
Xxxxxxx; and (c) with respect to the Administrators, to them at the address
above for notices to the Depositor, marked "Attention: Secretary". Such notice,
demand or other communication to or upon the Issuer Trust or the Property
Trustee shall be deemed to have been sufficiently given or made only upon actual
receipt of the writing by the Issuer Trust, the Property Trustee, or such
Administrator.
SECTION 10.9. Agreement Not to Petition.
Each of the Issuer Trustees, the Administrators and the Depositor agree
for the benefit of the Holders that, until at least one year and one day after
the Issuer Trust has been dissolved in accordance with Article IX, they shall
not file, or join in the filing of, a petition against the Issuer Trust under
any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law (including,
without limitation, the United States Bankruptcy Code) (collectively,
"Bankruptcy Laws") or otherwise join in the commencement of any proceeding
against the Issuer Trust under any Bankruptcy Law. In the event the Depositor
takes action in violation of this Section 10.9, the Property Trustee agrees, for
the benefit of Holders, that at the expense of the Depositor, it shall file an
answer with the bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of
such petition by the Depositor against the Issuer 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 and such
other defenses, if any, as counsel for the Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust
may assert. If any Issuer Trustee or Administrator takes action in violation of
this Section 10.9, the Depositor agrees, for the benefit of the Holders, that at
the expense of the Depositor, it shall file an answer with the
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bankruptcy court or otherwise properly contest the filing of such petition by
such Person against the Depositor or the commencement of such action and raise
the defense that such Person has agreed in writing not to take such action and
should be estopped and precluded therefrom and such other defenses, if any, as
counsel for the Issuer Trustee or the Issuer Trust may assert. The provisions of
this Section 10.9 shall survive the termination of this Trust Agreement.
SECTION 10.10. Trust Indenture Act; Conflict with Trust Indenture Act.
(a) Trust Indenture Act; Application. (i) This Trust Agreement is subject
to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be a part of
this Trust Agreement and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such
provisions; (ii) if and to the extent that any provision of this Trust Agreement
limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control; (iii)
for purposes of this Trust Agreement, the Property Trustee, to the extent
permitted by applicable law and/or the rules and regulations of the Commission,
shall be the only Issuer Trustee which is a trustee for the purposes of the
Trust Indenture Act; and (iv) the application of the Trust Indenture Act to this
Trust Agreement shall not affect the nature of the Preferred Securities and the
Common Securities as equity securities representing undivided beneficial
interests in the assets of the Issuer Trust.
(b) Lists of Holders of Preferred Securities. (i) Each of the Depositor
and the Administrators on behalf of the Trust shall provide the Property Trustee
with such information as is required under Section 312(a) of the Trust Indenture
Act at the times and in the manner provided in Section 312(a) and (ii) the
Property Trustee shall comply with its obligations under Sections 310(b), 311
and 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Reports by the Property Trustee. Within 60 days after May 15 of each
year, the Property Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the Trust Securities
such reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture Act, if any,
in the form, in the manner and at the times provided by Section 313 of the Trust
Indenture Act. The Property Trustee shall also comply with the requirements of
Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(d) Periodic Reports to Property Trustee. Each of the Depositor and the
Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to the Property
Trustee, the Commission and the Holders of the Trust Securities, as applicable,
such documents, reports and information as required by Section 314(a)(1) -(3)
(if
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any) of the Trust Indenture Act and the compliance certificates required by
Section 314(a)(4) and (c) of the Trust Indenture Act (provided that any
certificate to be provided pursuant to Section 314(a)(4) of the Trust Indenture
Act shall be provided within 120 days of the end of each fiscal year of the
Issuer Trust.
(e) Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent. Each of the
Depositor and the Administrators on behalf of the Issuer Trust shall provide to
the Property Trustee such evidence of compliance with any conditions precedent,
if any, provided for in this Trust Agreement which relate to any of the matters
set forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or
opinion required to be given pursuant to Section 314(c) shall comply with
Section 314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(f) Disclosure of Information. The disclosure of information as to the
names and addresses of the Holders of Trust Securities in accordance with
Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, shall not be deemed to be a violation of any existing
law or any law hereafter enacted which does not specifically refer to Section
312 of the Trust Indenture Act, nor shall the Property Trustee be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under
Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 10.11. 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 HOLDER OR ANY BENEFICIAL OWNER, WITHOUT ANY SIGNATURE OR
FURTHER MANIFESTATION OF ASSENT, SHALL CONSTITUTE THE UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE
BY THE HOLDER AND ALL OTHERS HAVING A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN SUCH TRUST SECURITY
OF ALL THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS TRUST AGREEMENT, THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
AND THE INDENTURE, AND THE AGREEMENT TO THE SUBORDINATION PROVISIONS AND OTHER
TERMS OF THE GUARANTEE AGREEMENT AND THE INDENTURE, AND SHALL CONSTITUTE THE
AGREEMENT OF
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THE ISSUER TRUST, SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS THAT THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF
THIS TRUST AGREEMENT SHALL BE BINDING, OPERATIVE AND EFFECTIVE AS BETWEEN THE
ISSUER TRUST AND SUCH HOLDER AND SUCH OTHERS.
FIRST EMPIRE STATE CORPORATION,
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as Depositor
By:
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Name:
Title:
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Property Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
BANKERS TRUST (DELAWARE),
as Delaware Trustee and not
in its individual capacity
By:
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Name:
Title:
Subscribed to and Accepted by,
as the Initial Administrators:
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Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx
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Xxxxxxx X. XxXxxx
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EXHIBIT A
[INSERT CERTIFICATE OF TRUST FILED WITH DELAWARE]
EXHIBIT B
[INSERT FORM OF CERTIFICATE DEPOSITARY AGREEMENT]
EXHIBIT C
THIS CERTIFICATE IS NOT TRANSFERABLE EXCEPT TO THE
DEPOSITOR OR AN AFFILIATE OF THE DEPOSITOR
IN COMPLIANCE WITH APPLICABLE LAW AND
SECTION 5.11 OF THE TRUST AGREEMENT
Certificate Number Number of Common Securities
C-___
Certificate Evidencing Common Securities
of
First Empire Capital Trust II
_____% Common Securities
(liquidation amount $25 per Common Security)
First Empire Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust formed
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Issuer Trust"), hereby certifies
that First Empire State Corporation (the "Holder") is the registered owner of
_________ (_____) common securities of the Issuer Trust representing undivided
beneficial interests in the Issuer Trust and has designated the _____% Common
Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Common Security) (the "Common
Securities"). Except in accordance with Section 5.11 of the Trust Agreement (as
defined below) the Common Securities are not transferable and any attempted
transfer hereof other than in accordance therewith shall be void. The
designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and
provisions of the Common Securities are set forth in, and this certificate and
the Common Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all respects be
subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated Trust Agreement
of the Issuer Trust, dated as of June ____, 1997, as the same may be amended
from time to time (the "Trust Agreement") among First Empire State Corporation,
as Depositor, Bankers Trust Company, as Property Trustee, Bankers Trust
(Delaware), as Delaware Trustee, and the Holders of Trust Securities, including
the designation of the terms of the Common Securities as set forth therein. The
Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Trust Agreement to the Holder without
charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust at its principal place of
business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
Terms used but not defined herein have the meanings set forth in the
Trust Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrators of the Issuer Trust
has executed this certificate this ___ day of ______________, ____.
FIRST EMPIRE CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
-----------------------------
Name:
Administrator
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Securities Registrar
By:
-----------------------------
Name:
Signatory Officer
EXHIBIT D
[IF THE PREFERRED SECURITIES CERTIFICATE IS TO BE A GLOBAL PREFERRED
SECURITIES CERTIFICATE, INSERT--This Preferred Securities Certificate is a
Global Preferred Securities Certificate within the meaning of the Trust
Agreement hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a Depositary
or a nominee of a Depositary. This Preferred Security Certificate is
exchangeable for Preferred Securities Certificates registered in the name of a
person other than the Depositary or its nominee only in the limited
circumstances described in the Trust Agreement and 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, except in
the limited circumstances described in the Trust Agreement.
Unless this Preferred Security Certificate is presented by an
authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company, a New York
Corporation ("DTC"), to First Empire Capital Trust II or its agent for
registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any Preferred Security
Certificate issued is registered in the name of such nominee as is requested by
an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made to such entity as
is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR
OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch
as the registered owner hereof, has an interest herein.]
CERTIFICATE NUMBER NUMBER OF PREFERRED SECURITIES
P-___
CUSIP NO. ________________________
CERTIFICATE EVIDENCING PREFERRED SECURITIES
OF
FIRST EMPIRE CAPITAL TRUST II
_____% PREFERRED SECURITIES
(LIQUIDATION AMOUNT $25 PER PREFERRED SECURITY)
First Empire Capital Trust II, a statutory business trust formed
under the laws of the State of Delaware (the "Issuer Trust"), hereby certifies
that (the "Holder") is the registered owner of) ( ) preferred securities of the
Trust representing a preferred undivided beneficial interest in the assets of
the
Issuer Trust and has designated the First Empire Capital Trust II _____%
Preferred Securities (liquidation amount $25 per Preferred Security) (the
"Preferred Securities"). The Preferred Securities are transferable on the books
and records of the Issuer Trust, in person or by a duly authorized attorney,
upon surrender of this certificate duly endorsed and in proper form for transfer
as provided in Section 5.5 of the Trust Agreement (as defined below). The
designations, rights, privileges, restrictions, preferences and other terms and
provisions of the Preferred Securities are set forth in, and this certificate
and the Preferred Securities represented hereby are issued and shall in all
respects be subject to the terms and provisions of, the Amended and Restated
Trust Agreement of the Issuer Trust, dated as of June ____, 1997, as the same
may be amended from time to time (the "Trust Agreement"), among First Empire
State Corporation, as Depositor, Bankers Trust Company, as Property Trustee,
Bankers Trust (Delaware), as Delaware Trustee, and the Holders of Trust
Securities, including the designation of the terms of the Preferred Securities
as set forth therein. The Holder is entitled to the benefits of the Guarantee
Agreement entered into by First Empire State Corporation, a New York
corporation, and Bankers Trust Company, as guarantee trustee, dated as of June
____, 1997 (the "Guarantee Agreement"), to the extent provided therein. The
Issuer Trust will furnish a copy of the Issuer Trust Agreement and the Guarantee
Agreement to the Holder without charge upon written request to the Issuer Trust
at its principal place of business or registered office.
Upon receipt of this certificate, the Holder is bound by the Trust
Agreement and is entitled to the benefits thereunder.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, one of the Administrators of the Issuer Trust
has executed this certificate this day of , .
FIRST EMPIRE CAPITAL TRUST II
By:
-----------------------------
Name:
Administrator
COUNTERSIGNED AND REGISTERED:
BANKERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Securities Registrar
By:
-----------------------------
Name:
Authorized Signatory
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfers this
Preferred Security to:
________________________________________________________________________________
(Insert assignee's social security or tax
identification number)
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Insert address and zip code of assignee)
and irrevocably appoints _______________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
agent to transfer this Preferred Security Certificate on the books of the Issuer
Trust. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date: ______________________
Signature: _____________________________________________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears on
the other side of this Preferred Security
Certificate)
The signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution
(banks, stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with
membership in an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to
S.E.C. Rule 17Ad-15.
