Exhibit 4.02
CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT
CALCULATION AGENCY AGREEMENT, dated as of November 13, 2002
(the "Agreement"), between Xxxxxx Brothers Holdings Inc. (the "Company") and
Xxxxxx Brothers Inc., as Calculation Agent.
WHEREAS, the Company has authorized the issuance of up to
$5,750,000 aggregate principal amount of Nasdaq-100 Index(R) RANGERS Plus(R),
Risk AdjustiNG Equity Range Securities PlusSM Notes Due November 13, 2003 (the
"Securities")*;
WHEREAS, the Securities will be issued under an Indenture,
dated as of September 1, 1987, between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as
Trustee (the "Trustee"), as supplemented and amended by supplemental indentures
dated as of November 25, 1987, November 27, 1990, September 13, 1991, October 4,
1993, October 1, 1995, and June 26, 1997, and incorporating Standard Multiple
Series Indenture Provisions dated July 30, 1987, as amended November 16, 1987
(collectively, the "Indenture"); and
WHEREAS, the Company requests the Calculation Agent to perform
certain services described herein in connection with the Securities;
NOW THEREFORE, the Company and the Calculation Agent agree as
follows:
1. Appointment of Agent. The Company hereby appoints
Xxxxxx Brothers Inc. as Calculation Agent and Xxxxxx Brothers Inc. hereby
accepts such appointment as the Company's agent for the purpose of
performing the services hereinafter described upon the terms and subject to the
conditions hereinafter mentioned.
2. Calculations and Information Provided. In response to a
request made by the Trustee for a determination of the Maturity Payment Amount
due at Stated Maturity of the Securities, the Calculation Agent shall determine
such Maturity Payment Amount and notify the Trustee of its determination. The
Calculation Agent shall also be responsible for (a) the determination of the
Successor Index if publication of the Index is discontinued, (b) adjustments to
the Closing Level and (c) the determination of whether a Market Disruption Event
has occurred. The Calculation Agent shall notify the Trustee of any such
adjustment or any such Successor Index, or if a Market Disruption Event has
occurred. Annex A hereto sets forth the procedures the Calculation Agent will
* The Nasdaq-100(R), Nasdaq-100 Index(R), and Nasdaq(R) are trade or
servicemarks of The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. (which with its
affiliates are the "Nasdaq Corporations") and are licensed for use by
the Company. The Securities have not been passed on by the Nasdaq
Corporations as to their legality or suitability. The Securities are
not issued, endorsed, sold, or promoted by the Nasdaq Corporations. THE
NASDAQ CORPORATIONS MAKE NO WARRANTIES AND BEAR NO LIABILITY WITH
RESPECT TO THE SECURITIES.
RANGERS Plus is a trademark and Risk AdjustiNG Equity Range Securities
Plus is a servicemark of Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
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use to determine the information described in this Section 2.
3. Calculations. Any calculation or determination
by the Calculation Agent pursuant hereto shall (in the absence of manifest
error) be final and binding. Any calculation made by the Calculation
Agent hereunder shall, at the Trustee's request, be made available at the
Corporate Trust Office.
4. Fees and Expenses. The Calculation Agent shall be
entitled to reasonable compensation for all services rendered by it as agreed
to between the Calculation Agent and the Company.
5. Terms and Conditions. The Calculation Agent
accepts its obligations herein set out upon the terms and conditions hereof,
including the following, to all of which the Company agrees:
(a) in acting under this Agreement, the Calculation Agent is
acting solely as an independent expert of the Company and does not
assume any obligation toward, or any relationship of agency or trust
for or with, any of the holders of the Securities;
(b) unless otherwise specifically provided herein, any order,
certificate, notice, request, direction or other communication from the
Company or the Trustee made or given under any provision of this
Agreement shall be sufficient if signed by any person who the
Calculation Agent reasonably believes to be a duly authorized officer
or attorney-in-fact of the Company or the Trustee, as the case may be;
(c) the Calculation Agent shall be obliged to perform
only such duties as are set out specifically herein and any duties
necessarily incidental thereto;
(d) the Calculation Agent, whether acting for itself or in any
other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the
same rights as it would have had if it were not acting hereunder as
Calculation Agent; and
(e) the Calculation Agent shall incur no liability hereunder
except for loss sustained by reason of its gross negligence or wilful
misconduct.
6. Resignation; Removal; Successor. (a) The Calculation Agent
may at any time resign by giving written notice to the Company of such intention
on its part, specifying the date on which its desired resignation shall become
effective, subject to the appointment of a successor Calculation Agent and
acceptance of such appointment by such successor Calculation Agent, as
hereinafter provided. The Calculation Agent hereunder may be removed at any time
by the filing with it of an instrument in writing signed by or on behalf of the
Company and specifying such removal and the date when it shall become effective.
Such resignation or removal shall take effect upon the appointment by the
Company, as hereinafter provided, of a successor Calculation Agent and the
acceptance of such appointment by such successor Calculation Agent. In the event
a successor Calculation Agent has not been appointed and has not accepted its
duties within 90 days of the Calculation Agent's notice of resignation, the
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Calculation Agent may apply to any court of competent jurisdiction for the
designation of a successor Calculation Agent.
(b) In case at any time the Calculation Agent shall resign, or
shall be removed, or shall become incapable of acting, or shall be adjudged
bankrupt or insolvent, or make an assignment for the benefit of its creditors or
consent to the appointment of a receiver or custodian of all or any substantial
part of its property, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay or meet its
debts as they mature, or if a receiver or custodian of it or all or any
substantial part of its property shall be appointed, or if any public officer
shall have taken charge or control of the Calculation Agent or of its property
or affairs, for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, a
successor Calculation Agent shall be appointed by the Company by an instrument
in writing, filed with the successor Calculation Agent. Upon the appointment as
aforesaid of a successor Calculation Agent and acceptance by the latter of such
appointment, the Calculation Agent so superseded shall cease to be Calculation
Agent hereunder.
(c) Any successor Calculation Agent appointed hereunder shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to its predecessor, to the Company and to the
Trustee an instrument accepting such appointment hereunder and agreeing to be
bound by the terms hereof, and thereupon such successor Calculation Agent,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
authority, rights, powers, trusts, immunities, duties and obligations of such
predecessor with like effect as if originally named as Calculation Agent
hereunder, and such predecessor, upon payment of its charges and disbursements
then unpaid, shall thereupon become obligated to transfer, deliver and pay over,
and such successor Calculation Agent shall be entitled to receive, all moneys,
securities and other property on deposit with or held by such predecessor, as
Calculation Agent hereunder.
(d) Any corporation into which the Calculation Agent hereunder
may be merged or converted or any corporation with which the Calculation Agent
may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger, conversion or
consolidation to which the Calculation Agent shall be a party, or any
corporation to which the Calculation Agent shall sell or otherwise transfer all
or substantially all of the assets and business of the Calculation Agent shall
be the successor Calculation Agent under this Agreement without the execution or
filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto.
7. Certain Definitions. Terms not otherwise defined
herein or in Annex A hereto are used herein as defined in the Indenture or the
Securities.
8. Indemnification. The Company will indemnify the Calculation
Agent against any losses or liability which it may incur or sustain in
connection with its appointment or the exercise of its powers and duties
hereunder except such as may result from the gross negligence or wilful
misconduct of the Calculation Agent or any of its agents or employees. The
Calculation Agent shall incur no liability and shall be indemnified and held
harmless by the Company for or in respect of any action taken or suffered to be
taken in good faith by the Calculation Agent in reliance upon written
instructions from the Company.
9. Notices. Any notice required to be given hereunder shall be
delivered in person, sent (unless otherwise specified in this Agreement) by
letter, telex or facsimile transmission or communicated by telephone (confirmed
in a writing dispatched within two Business Days), (a) in the case of the
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Company, to it at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (facsimile: (646)
000-0000) (telephone: (000) 000-0000), Attention: Treasurer, with a copy to 000
Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (facsimile: (000) 000-0000) (telephone:
(000) 000-0000), Attention: Corporate Secretary, (b) in the case of the
Calculation Agent, to it at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
(facsimile: (000) 000-0000) (telephone: (000) 000-0000), Attention: Equity
Derivatives Trading and (c) in the case of the Trustee, to it at 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, 0xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000 (facsimile: (000) 000-0000)
(telephone: (000) 000-0000), Attention: Corporate Trust Department or, in any
case, to any other address or number of which the party receiving notice shall
have notified the party giving such notice in writing. Any notice hereunder
given by telex, facsimile or letter shall be deemed to be served when in the
ordinary course of transmission or post, as the case may be, it would be
received.
10. Governing Law. This Agreement shall be governed
by and continued in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
11. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in
any number of counterparts, each of which when so executed shall be deemed to
be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one and
the same agreement.
12. Benefit of Agreement. This Agreement is solely for
the benefit of the parties hereto and their successors and assigns, and no
other person shall acquire or have any rights under or by virtue hereof.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Calculation Agency Agreement has been
entered into as of the day and year first above written.
XXXXXX BROTHERS HOLDINGS INC.
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
XXXXXX BROTHERS INC.,
as Calculation Agent
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxx
Title: Vice President
ANNEX A
1. The Index.
The Index is the Nasdaq-100 Index(R), as calculated by Nasdaq (the "Index").
2. Determination of the Maturity Payment Amount.
The Calculation Agent shall determine the amount payable at
Stated Maturity for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities (the "Maturity
Payment Amount").
The Maturity Payment Amount shall be the following:
If the Ending Index Level of the Index is greater than 2156.16, the
lesser of:
(a) $1,282; and
(b) the sum of (i) $81 and
(ii) $1,000 x ( Ending Index Level -0.12)
1925.14
If the Ending Index Level of the Index is less than or equal
to 2156.16, the lesser of:
(a) $1,081; and
(b) the sum of (i) $81
(ii) $1,000 x Ending Index Level
1636.37
3. Discontinuance of the Index.
(a) If Nasdaq discontinues publication of the Index and Nasdaq or another entity
publishes a successor or substitute index (the "Successor Index") that the
Calculation Agent determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, to
be comparable to the discontinued Index, then the Calculation Agent shall
calculate the Maturity Payment Amount pursuant to Section 2 hereof by reference
to the index level of such Successor Index at the Close of Trading on the NYSE,
AMEX, Nasdaq or the relevant exchange or market for the Successor Index on the
Calculation Date.
(b) Upon any selection by the Calculation Agent of a Successor Index, the
Company shall promptly give notice to the holders of the Securities.
(c) If Nasdaq discontinues publication of the Index prior to, and such
discontinuance is continuing on, the Calculation Date and the Calculation Agent
determines that no Successor Index is available at such time, then, on such
date, the Calculation Agent shall determine the index to be used in computing
the Maturity Payment Amount. The Maturity Payment Amount shall be computed by
the Calculation Agent in accordance with the formula for and method of
calculating the Index last in effect prior to such discontinuance, using the
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Closing Level (or, if trading in the relevant securities has been materially
suspended or materially limited, its good faith estimate of the Closing Level
that would have prevailed but for such suspension or limitation) at the close of
the principal trading session on such date of each security most recently
comprising the Index on the primary organized U.S. exchange or trading system.
4. Alteration of Method of Calculation.
If at any time the method of calculating the Index or a
Successor Index, or the Closing Level thereof, is changed in a material respect,
or if the Index or a Successor Index is in any other way modified so that such
Index does not, in the opinion of the Calculation Agent, fairly represent the
value of the Index or such Successor Index had such changes or modifications not
been made, then, from and after such time, the Calculation Agent will, at the
Close of Trading in New York City on the Calculation Date, make such
calculations and adjustments as, in the good faith judgment of the Calculation
Agent, may be necessary in order to arrive at a level of a stock index
comparable to the Index or such Successor Index, as the case may be, as if such
changes or modifications had not been made, and calculate the Maturity Payment
Amount with reference to the Index or such Successor Index, as adjusted.
Accordingly, if the method of calculating the Index or a Successor Index is
modified so that the level of such index is a fraction of what it would have
been if it had not been modified (for example, due to a split in the index),
then the Calculation Agent shall adjust such index in order to arrive at a level
of the Index or such Successor Index as if it had not been modified (for
example, if such split had not occurred).
5. Definitions.
Set forth below are the terms used in the Agreement and in
this Annex A.
"Agreement" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble
to this Agreement.
"AMEX" shall mean the American Stock Exchange LLC.
"Business Day", notwithstanding any provision in the
Indenture, shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which
the NYSE, Nasdaq or AMEX is not open for trading or banking institutions or
trust companies in the City of New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to close.
"Calculation Agent" shall mean the person that has entered
into an agreement with the Company providing for, among other things, the
determination of the Maturity Payment Amount, which term shall, unless the
context otherwise requires, include its successors and assigns. The initial
Calculation Agent shall be Xxxxxx Brothers Inc.
"Calculation Date" shall mean November 5, 2003; provided, that
if a Market Disruption Event occurs on such day, then the Calculation Date shall
be the next following Business Day on which no Market Disruption Event occurs.
"Close of Trading" shall mean 4:00 p.m., New York City time.
"Closing Level" shall mean, with respect to any day, the last
reported level of the Index, the Successor Index or any security which is a
component of either such index, as the case may be, at the Close of Trading, as
reported by Nasdaq, the publisher of the Successor Index or the primary exchange
on which any such security then trades, as the case may be.
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"Company" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to
this Agreement.
"Ending Index Level" shall equal the Closing Level on the
Calculation Date.
"Indenture" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble
to this Agreement.
"Index" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1 of this
Annex A.
"Market Disruption Event", on any day, shall mean any of the
following events as determined by the Calculation Agent:
(i) A suspension, absence or material limitation of trading in
20% or more of the underlying securities which then comprise the Index
or any Successor Index, as the case may be, has occurred on that day,
in each case, for more than two hours of trading or during the one-half
hour period preceding the Close of Trading on the primary organized
U.S. exchange or trading system on which such securities are traded or,
in the case of a common stock not listed or quoted in the United
States, on the primary exchange, trading system or market for such
security. Limitations on trading during significant market fluctuations
imposed pursuant to the rules of any primary organized U.S. exchange or
trading system similar to NYSE Rule 80B (or any applicable rule or
regulation enacted or promulgated by the NYSE, any other exchange,
trading system, or market, any other self regulatory organization or
the Securities and Exchange Commission of similar scope or as a
replacement for Rule 80B), may be considered material. Notwithstanding
the first sentence of this paragraph, a Market Disruption Event for a
security traded on a bulletin board means a suspension, absence or
material limitation of trading of such security for more than two hours
or during the one hour period preceding 4:00 p.m., New York City time.
(ii) A suspension, absence or material limitation has occurred
on that day, in each case, for more than two hours of trading or during
the one-half hour period preceding the Close of Trading in options
contracts related to the Index or any Successor Index, as the case may
be, whether by reason of movements in price exceeding levels permitted
by an exchange, trading system or market on which such options
contracts related to the Index, or any Successor Index, are traded or
otherwise.
(iii) Information is unavailable on that date, through a
recognized system of public dissemination of transaction information,
for more than two hours of trading or during the one-half hour period
preceding the Close of Trading, of accurate price, volume or related
information in respect of 20% or more of the underlying stocks which
then comprise the Index or any Successor Index, as the case may be, or
in respect of options contracts related to the Index or any Successor
Index, as the case may be, in each case traded on any major U.S.
exchange or trading system or in the case of securities of a non-U.S.
issuer, traded on the primary non-U.S. exchange, trading system or
market.
For purposes of determining whether a Market Disruption Event has
occurred:
(i) a limitation on the hours or number of days of trading
shall not constitute a Market Disruption Event if it results from an
announced change in the regular business hours of the relevant
exchange, trading system or market;
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(ii) any suspension in trading in an options contract on the
Index or any Successor Index, as the case may be, by a major securities
exchange, trading system or market by reason of (a) a price change
violating limits set by such securities market, (b) an imbalance of
orders relating to those contracts, or (c) a disparity in bid and ask
quotes relating to those contracts, shall constitute a Market
Disruption Event notwithstanding that the suspension or material
limitation is less than two hours;
(iii) a suspension or material limitation on an exchange,
trading system or in a market shall include a suspension or material
limitation of trading by one class of investors provided that the
suspension continues for more than two hours of trading or during the
last one-half hour period preceding the Close of Trading on the
relevant exchange, trading system or market but shall not include any
time when the relevant exchange, trading system or market is closed for
trading as part of that exchange's, trading system's or market's
regularly scheduled business hours; and
(iv) "Trading systems" include bulletin board services.
"Maturity Payment Amount" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2 of this Annex A.
"Nasdaq" shall mean The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc.
"NYSE" shall mean The New York Stock Exchange, Inc.
"Stated Maturity" shall mean November 13, 2003 (or if November
13, 2003 is not a Business Day, on the next Business Day); provided, that if a
Market Disruption Event occurs on the Calculation Date, the Stated Maturity
shall be the fifth Business Day following the date that the Ending Index Level
is determined.
"Successor Index" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3(a) of this Annex A.
"Trustee" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble to
this Agreement.
