INDENTURE Dated as of June 5, 2019 Among ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION THE GUARANTORS NAMED ON THE SIGNATURE PAGES HERETO and COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY, N.A. U.S. Trustee COMPUTERSHARE TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA Canadian Trustee and Collateral Agent 9.500%...
Execution Version
Dated
as of June 5, 2019
Among
ELDORADO
GOLD CORPORATION
THE
GUARANTORS NAMED ON THE SIGNATURE PAGES HERETO
and
COMPUTERSHARE
TRUST COMPANY, N.A.
U.S.
Trustee
COMPUTERSHARE
TRUST COMPANY OF CANADA
Canadian
Trustee and Collateral Agent
9.500%
SENIOR SECURED SECOND LIEN NOTES DUE 2024
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
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DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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Section 1.01
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Definitions
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Section 1.02
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Other Definitions
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Section 1.03
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Rules of Construction
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32
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Section 1.04
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Acts of Holders
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33
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Section 1.05
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Québec Matters
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34
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ARTICLE 2
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THE NOTES
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Section 2.01
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Form and Dating; Terms
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35
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Section 2.02
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Execution and Authentication
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36
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Section 2.03
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Registrar and Paying Agent
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36
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Section 2.04
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Paying Agent to Hold Money in Trust
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Section 2.05
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Holder Lists
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Section 2.06
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Transfer and Exchange
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Section 2.07
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Replacement Notes
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38
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Section 2.08
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Outstanding Notes
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Section 2.09
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Treasury Notes
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39
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Section 2.10
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Temporary Notes
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39
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Section 2.11
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Cancellation
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Section 2.12
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Defaulted Interest
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40
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Section 2.13
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Additional Amounts
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40
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Section 2.14
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CUSIP and ISIN Numbers
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42
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Section 2.15
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Computation of Interest
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42
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ARTICLE 3
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REDEMPTION
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Section 3.01
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Notices to U.S. Trustee
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Section 3.02
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Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or Purchased
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Section 3.03
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Notice of Redemption
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Section 3.04
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Effect of Notice of Redemption
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Section 3.05
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Deposit of Redemption or Purchase Price
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Section 3.06
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Notes Redeemed or Purchased in Part
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Section 3.07
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Optional Redemption
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Section 3.08
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Mandatory Redemption; Open Market Purchases
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45
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Section 3.09
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Tax Redemption
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Section 3.10
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Offers to Repurchase by Application of Excess Proceeds
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ARTICLE 4
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COVENANTS
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Section 4.01
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Payment of Notes
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Section 4.02
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Maintenance of Office or Agency
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Section 4.03
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Reports and Other Information
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49
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Section 4.04
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Compliance Certificate
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50
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Section 4.05
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Taxes
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50
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Section 4.06
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Stay, Extension and Usury Laws
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50
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Section 4.07
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Limitation on Restricted Payments
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50
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Section 4.08
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Limitation on Restrictions on Distribution From Restricted
Subsidiaries
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55
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Section 4.09
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Limitation on Indebtedness
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57
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Section 4.10
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Asset Dispositions
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61
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Section 4.11
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Transactions with Affiliates
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Section 4.12
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Limitation on Liens
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Section 4.13
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Corporate Existence
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66
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Section 4.14
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Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of Control
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Section 4.15
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Future Guarantors
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68
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Section 4.16
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Limitation on Capital Expenditures
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Section 4.17
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Effectiveness of Covenants
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Section 4.18
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Post-Closing Obligations.
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ARTICLE 5
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SUCCESSORS
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Section 5.01
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Merger, Amalgamation, Arrangement, Consolidation or Sale of All or
Substantially All Assets
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Section 5.02
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Successor Entity Substituted
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ARTICLE 6
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DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
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Section 6.01
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Events of Default
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Section 6.02
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Acceleration
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Section 6.03
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Other Remedies
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77
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Section 6.04
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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Section 6.05
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Control by Majority
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77
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Section 6.06
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Limitation on Suits
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78
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Section 6.07
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Rights of Holders to Receive Payment
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78
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Section 6.08
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Collection Suit by U.S. Trustee
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Section 6.09
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Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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Section 6.10
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Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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Section 6.11
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Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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Section 6.12
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Trustees May File Proofs of Claim
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Section 6.13
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Priorities
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Section 6.14
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Undertaking for Costs
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Section 6.15
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Possession of Notes Not Required
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ARTICLE 7
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TRUSTEES
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Section 7.01
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Duties of U.S. Trustee
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Section 7.02
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Rights of U.S. Trustee
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Section 7.03
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Individual Rights of the U.S. Trustee
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Section 7.04
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U.S. Trustee’s Disclaimer
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Section 7.05
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Notice of Defaults
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Section 7.06
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[Reserved]
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84
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Section 7.07
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Compensation and Indemnity
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84
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Section 7.08
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Replacement of Trustees
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85
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Section 7.09
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Successor Trustees by Merger
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85
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Section 7.10
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Eligibility; Disqualification
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86
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Section 7.11
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No Liability for Co-Trustee
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Section 7.12
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Limitation on Trustees’ Liability
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ARTICLE 8
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LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
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Section 8.01
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Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance
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Section 8.02
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Legal Defeasance and Discharge
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Section 8.03
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Covenant Defeasance
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Section 8.04
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Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance
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Section 8.05
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Deposited Money and Government Securities to Be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions
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Section 8.06
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Repayment to the Company
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Section 8.07
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Reinstatement
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ARTICLE 9
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AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
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Section 9.01
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Without Consent of Holders
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Section 9.02
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With Consent of Holders
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Section 9.03
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[Reserved]
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Section 9.04
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Revocation and Effect of Consents
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Section 9.05
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Notation on or Exchange of Notes
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Section 9.06
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Trustees and Collateral Agent to Sign Amendments, etc
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Section 9.07
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Payment for Consent
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ARTICLE 10
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GUARANTEES
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Section 10.01
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Guarantee
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Section 10.02
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Limitation on Guarantor Liability
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Section 10.03
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Execution and Delivery
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Section 10.04
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Subrogation
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Section 10.05
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Benefits Acknowledged
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Section 10.06
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Release of Note Guarantees
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ARTICLE 11
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SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
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Section 11.01
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Satisfaction and Discharge
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Section 11.02
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Application of Trust Money
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ARTICLE 12
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COLLATERAL
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Section 12.01
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Collateral Documents
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Section 12.02
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Release of Collateral
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Section 12.03
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Suits to Protect the Collateral
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Section 12.04
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Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the
Collateral Documents
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100
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Section 12.05
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Purchaser Protected
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Section 12.06
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Powers Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee
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101
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Section 12.07
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Release Upon Termination of the Company’s
Obligations
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101
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Section 12.08
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Collateral Agent
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101
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Section 12.09
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Designations
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106
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Section 12.10
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No Impairment of the Security Interests
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107
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Section 12.11
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Insurance
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Section 12.12
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Québec Collateral
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Section 12.13
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Parallel Debt
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Section 12.14
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Co-Collateral Agent
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Section 12.15
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Limitation of Liability of the Collateral Agent
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ARTICLE 13
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 13.01
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[Reserved]
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Section 13.02
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Notices
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Section 13.03
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Communication by Holders with Other Holders
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Section 13.04
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Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
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Section 13.05
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Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion
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Section 13.06
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Rules by U.S. Trustee and Agents
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Section 13.07
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No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees, Members,
Partners and Shareholders
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Section 13.08
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Governing Law
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Section 13.09
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Waiver of Jury Trial
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112
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Section 13.10
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No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements
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Section 13.11
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Successors
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112
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Section 13.12
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Severability
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112
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Section 13.13
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Counterpart Originals
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Section 13.14
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Table of Contents, Headings, etc
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Section 13.15
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U.S.A. PATRIOT Act
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Section 13.16
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Payments Due on Non-Business Days
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Section 13.17
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Submission to Jurisdiction
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113
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Section 13.18
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Waiver of Immunity
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113
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Section 13.19
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Conversion of Currency
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Appendix
A Provisions Relating to Initial Notes and Additional
Notes
Exhibit
A
Form
of Note
Exhibit
B
Form
of Supplemental Indenture to Be Delivered by Subsequent
Guarantors
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INDENTURE, dated as
of June 5, 2019, among Eldorado Gold Corporation, a corporation
governed by the Canada Business Corporations Act (the
“Company”), the Guarantors
(as defined herein) listed on the signature pages hereto and
Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association
duly organized and existing under the laws of the United States of
America, as the U.S. Trustee, and Computershare Trust Company of
Canada, a trust company established under the laws of Canada, as
the Canadian Trustee and Collateral Agent.
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the
Company has duly authorized the creation of and issue of
$300,000,000 aggregate principal amount of 9.500% Senior Secured
Second Lien Notes due 2024 (the “Initial Notes”);
and
WHEREAS, the
Company and each of the Guarantors party hereto have duly
authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture.
NOW,
THEREFORE, the Company, the Guarantors party hereto and the
Trustees agree as follows for the benefit of each other and for the
equal and ratable benefit of the Holders.
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section
1.01 Definitions.
“Acquired Indebtedness”
means, with respect to any specified Person, Indebtedness (1) of
any Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or (2)
assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such
Person, in each case whether or not Incurred by such Person in
connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such
Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or such
acquisition, including any Indebtedness secured by a Lien
encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person. Acquired
Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been Incurred, with respect to
clause (1) of the preceding sentence, on the date such Person
becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and, with respect to
clause (2) of the preceding sentence, on the date of consummation
of such acquisition of assets.
“Additional Assets”
means:
(1) any
property, plant, equipment or other asset (excluding working
capital or current assets) to be used by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries in a Similar Business;
(2) the
Capital Stock of a Person that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company as a result of the acquisition of such Capital Stock by
the Company or its Restricted Subsidiary; or
(3) Capital
Stock constituting a minority interest in any Person that at such
time is a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
provided, however, that, in the case of
clauses (2) and (3) above, such Restricted Subsidiary is primarily
engaged in a Similar Business.
“Additional Notes” means
Notes (other than the Initial Notes) issued from time to time under
this Indenture in accordance with Section 2.01 and Section 4.09, as part of the
same series as the Initial Notes whether or not they bear the same
CUSIP number.
“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” (including, with
correlative meanings, the terms “controlling,”
“controlled
by” and “under common control
with”) when used with respect to any Person means
possession, directly or indirectly, of 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.
“Agent” means any
Collateral Agent, Transfer Agent, Registrar or Paying
Agent.
“Applicable Premium”
means, with respect to a Note on any date of redemption, the
greater of (as determined and calculated by the
Company):
(1) 1.0%
of the principal amount of such Note, and
(2) the
excess, if any, of (a) the present value as of such date of
redemption of (i) the redemption price of such Note on December 1,
2021 (such redemption price being set forth in Section 3.07),
plus (ii) all
required interest payments due on such Note through December 1,
2021 (excluding accrued but unpaid interest to the date of
redemption), computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury
Rate as of such date of redemption plus 50 basis points, over (b)
the then-outstanding principal amount of such Note.
“Asset Disposition” means
any direct or indirect sale, lease (other than an operating lease
entered into in the ordinary course of business), transfer,
issuance or other disposition (including a Delaware LLC Division),
or a series of related sales, leases, transfers, issuances or
dispositions (including a Delaware LLC Division) that are part of a
common plan, of shares of Capital Stock of a Subsidiary (other than
directors’ qualifying shares and shares issued to foreign
nationals as required by law), property or other assets (each
referred to for the purposes of this definition as a
“disposition”) by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, including any disposition by means of a merger,
amalgamation, consolidation, arrangement or similar
transaction.
Notwithstanding the
preceding, the following items shall not be deemed to be Asset
Dispositions:
(1) a
disposition of assets by a Company’s Restricted Subsidiary to
the Company or by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
(2) a
disposition of Cash Equivalents;
(3) a
disposition of inventory or other assets in the ordinary course of
business or the disposition of an account receivable in connection
with the collection or compromise thereof in the ordinary course of
business;
(4) a
disposition of obsolete, damaged or worn out property or equipment
or property or equipment that are no longer used or useful in the
conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(5) the
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the
Company in a manner permitted pursuant to Section 5.01 or any
disposition that constitutes a Change of Control pursuant to this
Indenture;
(6) an
issuance of Capital Stock by a Company’s Restricted
Subsidiary to the Company or to a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company;
(7) any
Permitted Investment or Restricted Payment in compliance with
Section 4.07
and any disposition thereof;
(8) dispositions
of assets in a single transaction or a series of related
transactions with an aggregate Fair Market Value of less than $50.0
million;
(9) the
creation of a Permitted Lien and dispositions in connection with
Permitted Liens;
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(10) the
issuance by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of Disqualified
Stock or Preferred Stock that is permitted by Section 4.09;
(11) the
licensing or sublicensing of intellectual property or other general
intangibles and licenses, leases or subleases of other property in
the ordinary course of business which do not materially interfere
with the business of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(12) foreclosure
on, or condemnation of, assets, including transfers of Capital
Stock and other assets to government entities;
(13) any
sale of Capital Stock in, or Indebtedness or other securities of,
an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(14) the
unwinding of any Hedging Obligations;
(15) the
surrender or waiver of contract rights or the settlement, release
or surrender of contract, tort or other claims;
(16) any
exchange of assets for assets (including a combination of assets
(which assets may include Capital Stock or any securities
convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, Capital
Stock, but which assets may not include any Indebtedness) and Cash
Equivalents) related to a Similar Business of comparable or greater
market value or usefulness to the business of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, which in the event of an
exchange of assets with a Fair Market Value in excess of (a) $25.0
million shall be evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate and
(b) $50.0 million shall be set forth in a resolution approved by at
least a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the
Company; provided
that the Company shall apply any Cash Equivalents received in any
such exchange of assets as described in Section 4.10(b);
(17) dispositions
to the extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell
arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth in joint
venture arrangements and similar binding agreements;
(18) the
abandonment, farm-out, lease, assignment, sub-lease, license or
sub-license of any real or personal property in the ordinary course
of business;
(19) with
respect to dispositions of metals (other than gold) pursuant to a
royalty or metals streaming agreement, off-take agreements or
similar transaction, payments made to the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary directly in respect of minerals or mineral credits
delivered to the counterparty of such agreement pursuant to the
terms of such agreement (excluding any front-end payments or
deposits payable thereunder); and
(20) dispositions
of Capital Stock of Hellas Gold SA and/or Eldorado Gold (Greece)
B.V. in exchange for binding commitments to make capital
expenditures on or related to the assets of Hellas Gold
SA.
“Average Life” means, as
of the date of determination, with respect to any Indebtedness,
Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, the quotient obtained by
dividing (1) the sum of the products of the numbers of years from
the date of determination to the dates of each successive scheduled
principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar
payment with respect to such Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock
multiplied by the amount of such payment by (2) the sum of all such
payments.
“beneficial ownership” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5
under the Exchange Act, and “beneficial owner” has a
corresponding meaning.
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“Board of Directors”
means:
(1) with
respect to a corporation, the Board of Directors of the corporation
or (other than for purposes of determining Change of Control) a
committee of the Board of Directors;
(2) with
respect to a partnership, the Board of Directors of the general
partner of the partnership; and
(3) with
respect to any other Person, the board or committee of such Person
serving a similar function.
“Business Day” means each
day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which banking
institutions in New York, New York, Vancouver, British Columbia, or
where the Corporate Trust Office of either the U.S. Trustee or
Canadian Trustee is located are authorized or required by law to
close.
“Canadian
Guarantors” means Integra Gold Corp., Integra Gold
(Québec) Inc. and each other Restricted Subsidiary organized
under the laws of Canada or any province thereof that is or becomes
a borrower or a guarantor under the Senior Credit
Facility.
“Canadian Personal Property
Collateral” means substantially all of the present and
after acquired property and assets (including, without limitation,
tangible and intangible personal property such as, among other
assets, intellectual property, investment property, accounts
receivable, inventory, equipment and contract rights) of each of
the Company and the Canadian Guarantors.
“Canadian Securities
Legislation” means all applicable securities laws in
each of the provinces and territories of Canada, including, without
limitation, the Province of British Columbia, and the respective
regulations and rules under such laws together with applicable
published rules, policy statements, blanket orders, instruments,
rulings and notices of the regulatory authorities in such provinces
or territories.
“Canadian Security
Agreement” means the general security agreement, dated
as of the Issue Date, among the Company, the Canadian Guarantors
and the Collateral Agent, as may be amended, restated, amended and
restated, supplemented, re-affirmed or otherwise modified from time
to time.
“Canadian Trustee” means
Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as the Canadian trustee,
until a successor replaces it in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means the successor
serving hereunder.
“Capital
Expenditures”
shall mean, with respect to any Person, all expenditures by such
Person that, in accordance with IFRS, have been or should be
reflected as purchases, additions, repairs or replacements to
property, plant or equipment or similar items on the balance sheet
of such Person (whether paid in cash or other consideration,
financed by the incurrence of Indebtedness or accrued as a
liability); provided that Capital Expenditures shall
not include any portion of such expenditures financed with
Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section
4.09(b)(21).
“Capital Stock” of any
Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase,
warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including
any Preferred Stock and limited liability or partnership interests
(whether general or limited), but excluding any debt securities
convertible or exchangeable into such equity.
“Capitalized Lease
Obligations” means an obligation that would have been
required to be classified and accounted for as a capitalized lease
for financial reporting purposes in accordance with IFRS as in
effect on December 31, 2018. The amount of Indebtedness represented
by such obligation will be the capitalized amount of such
obligation at the time any determination thereof is to be made as
determined in accordance with IFRS, and the Stated Maturity thereof
will be the date of the last payment of rent or any other amount
due under such lease prior to the first date such lease may be
terminated without penalty.
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“Cash Equivalents”
means:
(1) Canadian
dollars, U.S. dollars, Euros or, in the case of any foreign
Subsidiary, such other local currencies held by it from time to
time in the ordinary course of business;
(2) securities
issued or directly and fully Guaranteed or insured by the Canadian
or U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality of Canada or
the United States (provided that the full faith
and credit of Canada or the United States, as applicable, is
pledged in support thereof), having maturities of not more than one
year from the date of acquisition;
(3) marketable
general obligations issued by any province in Canada or state of
the United States or any political subdivision of any such province
or state or any public instrumentality thereof maturing within one
year from the date of acquisition and, at the time of acquisition,
having a credit rating of “A” or better from either
S&P or Xxxxx’x, or carrying an equivalent rating by a
nationally recognized Rating Agency, if both of the two named
Rating Agencies cease publishing ratings of
investments;
(4) certificates
of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits, overnight bank
deposits or bankers’ acceptances having maturities of not
more than one year from the date of acquisition thereof issued by
any commercial bank the long-term debt of which is rated at the
time of acquisition thereof at least “A-” or the
equivalent thereof by S&P, or “A3” or the
equivalent thereof by Xxxxx’x, or carrying an equivalent
rating by a nationally recognized Rating Agency, if both of the two
named Rating Agencies cease publishing ratings of investments, and
having combined capital and surplus in excess of $500.0
million;
(5) repurchase
obligations for underlying securities of the types described in
clauses (2), (3) and (4) above entered into with any bank meeting
the qualifications specified in clause (4) above;
(6) commercial
paper rated at the time of acquisition thereof at least
“A-2” or the equivalent thereof by S&P or
“P-2” or the equivalent thereof by Xxxxx’x, or
carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized Rating
Agency, if both of the two named Rating Agencies cease publishing
ratings of investments, and in any case maturing within one year
after the date of acquisition thereof;
(7) interests
in any investment company which invests 95% or more of its assets
in instruments of the type specified in clauses (1) through (6)
above or a money market fund having a credit rating of
“AA” or better from either S&P or Xxxxx’x or
carrying an equivalent rating by a nationally recognized Rating
Agency, if both of the two named Rating Agencies cease publishing
ratings of investments; and
(8) in
the case of Investments by any Restricted Subsidiary that is a
Foreign Subsidiary, (x) such local currencies in those countries in
which such Foreign Subsidiary transacts business from time to time
in the ordinary course of business and (y) Investments similar to
those described in the foregoing clauses (1) through (7) in
countries in which such Foreign Subsidiary operates for short-term
cash management purposes or required by governmental
entities.
“Cash Management
Agreements” means any agreement providing for
treasury, depository, purchasing card or cash management services,
including in connection with any automated clearing house transfer
of funds or any similar transaction.
“CBCA” means the Canada
Business Corporations Act.
“Change of Control”
means:
(1) any
“person” or “group” of related persons (as
such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange
Act) becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and
13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that such person or group
shall be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all
shares that any such person or group has the right to acquire,
whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the
passage of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the
total voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company (or its
successor by merger, consolidation, amalgamation, arrangement or
purchase of all or substantially all of its assets);
or
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(2) the
merger, consolidation, amalgamation or arrangement of the Company
with or into another Person or the merger, consolidation,
amalgamation or arrangement of another Person with or into the
Company or the merger, consolidation, amalgamation or arrangement
of any Person with or into a Subsidiary of the Company, unless the
holders of a majority of the aggregate voting power of the Voting
Stock of the Company, immediately prior to such transaction, hold
securities of the surviving or transferee Person that represent,
immediately after such transaction, at least a majority of the
aggregate voting power of the Voting Stock of the surviving or
transferee Person; or
(3) the
sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition
(other than by way of merger, consolidation, amalgamation or
arrangement), in one or a series of related transactions, of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries taken as a whole to any “person” (as such
term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act);
or
(4) the
adoption by the shareholders of the Company of a plan or proposal
for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company.
“Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral” means all the
assets and properties (whether real, personal or otherwise) with
respect to which any security interests or Liens have been granted
(or purported to be granted) in favor of the Collateral Agent
pursuant to any Collateral Document.
“Collateral Agent” means
Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as the collateral agent
under this Indenture, until a successor collateral agent replaces
it in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture
and thereafter means the successor serving hereunder.
“Collateral Documents”
means, collectively, the Canadian Security Agreement, the Dutch
Pledge Agreements, the Turkish Pledge Agreement, the Deed of
Hypothec, any security agreements, hypothecs, intellectual property
security agreements, mortgages, collateral assignments, security
agreement supplements, pledge agreements, bonds or any similar
agreements, guarantees and each of the other agreements,
instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien
or guarantee in favor of the Collateral Agent for its benefit and
the benefit of the Trustees and the Holders of the Notes, in all or
any portion of the Collateral, as amended, extended, renewed,
restated, refunded, replaced, refinanced, supplemented, modified or
otherwise changed from time to time.
“Commodity Agreement”
means any commodity futures contract, commodity swap, commodity
option or other similar agreement or arrangement entered into by
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries designed to
protect the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries against
fluctuations in the price of commodities actually produced or used
in the ordinary course of business of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Common Stock” means with
respect to any Person, any and all shares, interest or other
participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and
whether voting or nonvoting) of such Person’s common stock,
whether or not outstanding on the Issue Date, and includes, without
limitation, all series and classes of such common
stock.
“Company” has the meaning
set forth in the recitals hereto or any successor obligor to its
obligations under this Indenture and the Notes pursuant to
Article
5.
“Consolidated
Coverage Ratio” means as of any date of determination,
with respect to any Person, the ratio of (x) the aggregate amount
of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person for the period of the most
recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of
such determination for which financial statements are internally
available to (y) Consolidated Interest Expense for such four fiscal
quarters; provided,
however,
that:
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(1) if
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries:
(a) has
Incurred any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness that constitutes
ordinary working capital borrowings) since the beginning of such
period that remains outstanding on such date of determination or if
the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the
Consolidated Coverage Ratio includes an Incurrence of Indebtedness
(other than Indebtedness that constitutes ordinary working capital
borrowings), Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense
for such period will be calculated after giving effect on a
pro forma basis to such
Indebtedness as if such Indebtedness had been Incurred on the first
day of such period (except that in making such computation, the
amount of Indebtedness under any revolving Debt Facility
outstanding on the date of such calculation will be deemed to
be:
(i)
the average daily
balance of such Indebtedness during such four fiscal quarters or
such shorter period for which such facility was outstanding;
or
(ii)
if such facility
was created after the end of such four fiscal quarters, the average
daily balance of such Indebtedness during the period from the date
of creation of such facility to the date of such calculation), and
the discharge of any other Indebtedness repaid, repurchased,
redeemed, retired, defeased or otherwise discharged with the
proceeds of such new Indebtedness as if such repayment, redemption,
retirement, defeasance or other discharge had occurred on the first
day of such period; or
(b) has
repaid, repurchased, redeemed, retired, defeased or otherwise
discharged any Indebtedness since the beginning of the period that
is no longer outstanding on such date of determination or if the
transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated
Coverage Ratio includes a repayment, redemption, retirement,
defeasance or other discharge of Indebtedness (in each case, other
than Indebtedness Incurred under any revolving Debt Facility unless
such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and the related
commitment terminated and not replaced), Consolidated EBITDA and
Consolidated Interest Expense for such period will be calculated
after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such repayment,
redemption, retirement, defeasance or other discharge of such
Indebtedness, including with the proceeds of such new Indebtedness,
as if such repayment, redemption, retirement, defeasance or other
discharge had occurred on the first day of such
period;
(2) if
since the beginning of such period, the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries will have made any Asset Disposition or
disposed of or discontinued (as defined under IFRS) any company,
division, operating unit, segment, business, group of related
assets or line of business or if the transaction giving rise to the
need to calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio is such an Asset
Disposition:
(a) the
Consolidated EBITDA for such period will be reduced by an amount
equal to the Consolidated EBITDA (if positive) directly
attributable to the assets that are the subject of such disposition
or discontinuation for such period or increased by an amount equal
to the Consolidated EBITDA (if negative) directly attributable
thereto for such period; and
(b) Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period will be reduced by an amount equal
to the Consolidated Interest Expense directly attributable to any
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
repaid, repurchased, redeemed, retired, defeased or otherwise
discharged (to the extent the related commitment is permanently
reduced) with respect to the Company and its continuing Restricted
Subsidiaries in connection with such transaction for such period
(or, if the Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company is sold or in the case of discontinued operations, the
Consolidated Interest Expense for such period directly attributable
to the Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary or discontinued
operations to the extent the Company and its continuing Restricted
Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such Indebtedness after such
sale);
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(3) if
since the beginning of such period the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (by merger, consolidation, amalgamation,
arrangement or otherwise) will have made an Investment in any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (or any Person that becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or is merged with or into the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) or an acquisition of
assets, including any acquisition of assets occurring in connection
with a transaction causing a calculation to be made hereunder,
which constitutes all or substantially all of a company, division,
operating unit, segment, business, group of related assets or line
of business, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest Expense
for such period will be calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (including the
Incurrence of any Indebtedness) as if such Investment or
acquisition occurred on the first day of such period;
and
(4) if
since the beginning of such period any Person (that subsequently
became a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or was merged with or
into the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries since the
beginning of such period) will have Incurred any Indebtedness or
repaid, redeemed, retired, defeased or discharged any Indebtedness,
made any disposition or any Investment or acquisition of assets
that would have required an adjustment pursuant to clauses (1), (2)
or (3) above if made by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiary
during such period, Consolidated EBITDA and Consolidated Interest
Expense for such period will be calculated after giving
pro forma effect thereto as
if such transaction occurred on the first day of such
period.
For
purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any
calculation under this definition, the pro forma calculations will be
determined in good faith by a responsible financial or accounting
officer of the Company. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate
of interest and is being given pro
forma effect, the interest expense on such Indebtedness will
be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date of determination
had been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into
account any Interest Rate Agreement applicable to such Indebtedness
if such Interest Rate Agreement has a remaining term in excess of
12 months). If any Indebtedness that is being given pro forma effect bears an interest rate
at the option of the Company, the interest rate shall be calculated
by applying such optional rate chosen by the Company.
“Consolidated EBITDA” for
any period means, with respect to any Person, the Consolidated Net
Income of such Person for such period:
(1) increased
(without duplication) by the following items to the extent deducted
in calculating such Consolidated Net Income:
(a) Consolidated
Interest Expense; plus
(b) Consolidated
Income Taxes; plus
(c) consolidated
amortization, depletion and depreciation expense; plus
(d) consolidated
impairment charges; plus
(e) other
non-cash charges reducing Consolidated Net Income, including any
write-offs or write-downs (excluding any such non-cash charge to
the extent it represents an accrual of or reserve for cash charges
in any future period or amortization of a prepaid cash expense that
was capitalized at the time of payment); plus
(f) any
expenses or charges related to any Equity Offering, Permitted
Investment, merger, amalgamation, consolidation, arrangement,
acquisition, disposition, recapitalization or the Incurrence of
Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred by this Indenture (including
a refinancing thereof) (whether or not successful), including (i)
fees, expenses or charges related to the offering of the Notes and
(ii) any amendment or other modification of the Notes; plus
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(g) any
restructuring charges, integration costs or costs associated with
establishing new facilities (which, for the avoidance of doubt,
shall include retention, severance, relocation, workforce
reduction, contract termination, systems establishment costs and
facilities consolidation costs) certified by the chief financial
officer of the Company and deducted (and not added back) in
computing Consolidated Net Income; provided that the aggregate
amount of all charges, expenses and costs added back under this
clause (g) shall not exceed $20.0 million in any consecutive
four-quarter period; plus
(h) accretion
of asset retirement obligations, net of cash payments for such
asset retirement obligations;
(2) decreased
(without duplication) by non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net
Income of such Person for such period (excluding the accrual of
revenue in the ordinary course of business and any items which
represent the reversal of any accrual of, or reserve for,
anticipated cash charges that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any
prior period); and
(3) increased
or decreased (without duplication) to eliminate the following items
to the extent reflected in Consolidated Net Income:
(a) any
net gain or loss resulting in such period from currency translation
gains or losses; and
(b) effects
of adjustments (including the effects of such adjustments pushed
down to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries) in any line
item in such Person’s consolidated financial statements
resulting from the application of purchase accounting in relation
to any completed acquisition.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, clauses (1)(b) through (h) above relating to amounts of
a Restricted Subsidiary of a Person will be added to Consolidated
Net Income to compute Consolidated EBITDA of such Person only to
the extent (and in the same proportion) that the net income (loss)
of such Restricted Subsidiary was included in calculating the
Consolidated Net Income of such Person and, to the extent the
amounts set forth in clauses (1)(b) through (h) above are in excess
of those necessary to offset a net loss of such Restricted
Subsidiary or if such Restricted Subsidiary has net income for such
period included in Consolidated Net Income, only if a corresponding
amount would be permitted at the date of determination to be
dividended to the Company by such Restricted Subsidiary without
prior approval (that has not been obtained), pursuant to the terms
of its charter and all agreements, instruments, judgments, decrees,
orders, statutes, rules and governmental regulations applicable to
that Restricted Subsidiary or its shareholders.
“Consolidated Income
Taxes” means, with respect to any Person for any
period, taxes imposed upon such Person, or other payments required
to be made by such Person, by any governmental authority which
taxes or other payments are calculated by reference to the income
or profits or capital of such Person or such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries (to the extent such income or profits were
included in computing Consolidated Net Income for such period),
including, without limitation, federal, provincial and state
franchise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes
regardless of whether such taxes or payments are required to be
remitted to any governmental authority.
“Consolidated Interest
Expense” means, with respect to any Person, for any
period, the total interest expense of such Person and its
consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries, net of any interest income
received by such Person and its consolidated Restricted
Subsidiaries, whether paid or accrued, plus, to the extent not
included in such interest expense:
(1) interest
expense attributable to Capitalized Lease Obligations;
(2) amortization
of debt discount (including the amortization of original issue
discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than
par) and debt issuance cost; provided, however, that any amortization
of bond premium will be credited to reduce Consolidated Interest
Expense unless such amortization of bond premium has otherwise
reduced Consolidated Interest Expense;
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(3) non-cash
interest expense, but any non-cash interest income or expense
attributable to the movement in the xxxx-to-market valuation of
Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments shall be
excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Interest
Expense;
(4) commissions,
discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters
of credit and bankers’ acceptance financing;
(5) the
interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is
Guaranteed by such Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries or
secured by a Lien on assets of such Person or one of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(6) costs
associated with entering into Hedging Obligations (including
amortization of fees) related to Indebtedness;
(7) interest
expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries that was
capitalized during such period;
(8) the
product of (a) all dividends paid or payable, in cash, Cash
Equivalents or Indebtedness or accrued during such period on any
series of Disqualified Stock of such Person or on Preferred Stock
of its Non-Guarantors payable to a party other than the Company or
a Restricted Subsidiary, times (b) a fraction, the numerator of
which is one and the denominator of which is one minus the then
current combined Canadian and U.S. federal, state, provincial,
municipal and local statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as
a decimal, in each case on a consolidated basis and in accordance
with IFRS;
(9) Receivables
Fees; and
(10) the
cash contributions to any employee stock ownership plan or similar
trust to the extent such contributions are intended to be used by
such plan or trust to pay interest or fees to any Person (other
than the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries) in connection
with Indebtedness Incurred by such plan or trust.
For the
purpose of calculating the Consolidated Coverage Ratio, the
calculation of Consolidated Interest Expense shall include all
interest expense (including any amounts described in clauses (1)
through (10) above) relating to any Indebtedness of such Person or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries described in the final paragraph
of the definition of “Indebtedness.”
For
purposes of the foregoing, total interest expense will be
determined (i) after giving effect to any net payments made or
received by such Person and its Subsidiaries with respect to
Interest Rate Agreements and (ii) exclusive of amounts classified
as other comprehensive income in the balance sheet of such Person.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, without
duplication of clause (9) above, commissions, discounts, yield and
other fees and charges Incurred in connection with any transaction
pursuant to which such Person or its Restricted Subsidiaries may
sell, convey or otherwise transfer or grant a security interest in
any accounts receivable or related assets shall be included in
Consolidated Interest Expense.
“Consolidated Net Income”
means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Company and its
consolidated Restricted Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with IFRS; provided, however, that there will not be
included in such Consolidated Net Income:
(1) any
net income (loss) of any Person if such Person is not a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or that is accounted for by the equity
method of accounting, except that, subject to the limitations
contained in clauses (3) through (12) below, the Company’s
equity in the net income of any such Person for such period will be
included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount
of cash actually distributed by such Person during such period to
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a dividend or
other distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend or other
distribution to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, to the
limitations contained in clause (2) below);
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(2) solely
for the purpose of determining the amount available for Restricted
Payments under clause (D)(i) of Section 4.07(a) any net
income (but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company
(other than a Guarantor) if such Restricted Subsidiary is subject
to prior government approval or other restrictions due to the
operation of its charter or any agreement, instrument, judgment,
decree, order, statute, rule or government regulation (which have
not been waived), directly or indirectly, on the payment of
dividends or the making of distributions by such Restricted
Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to the Company, except
that:
(a) subject
to the limitations contained in clauses (3) through (12) below, the
Company’s equity in the net income of any such Restricted
Subsidiary for such period will be included in such Consolidated
Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash actually distributed
by such Restricted Subsidiary during such period to the Company or
another Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as a dividend or other
distribution (subject, in the case of a dividend to another
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, to the limitation contained
in this clause) to the extent not already included therein;
and
(b) the
Company’s equity in a net loss of any such Restricted
Subsidiary for such period will be included in determining such
Consolidated Net Income;
(3) any
gain or loss (less all fees and expenses relating thereto) realized
upon sales or other dispositions of any assets of the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary, other than in the ordinary course of
business, as determined in good faith by Senior
Management;
(4) any
income or loss from the early extinguishment of Indebtedness or
Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments;
(5) any
extraordinary or non-recurring gain or loss;
(6) any
unrealized net gain or loss resulting in such period from Hedging
Obligations or other derivative instruments;
(7) any
net income or loss included in the consolidated statement of
operations with respect to noncontrolling interests;
(8) the
cumulative effect of a change in accounting
principles;
(9) any
non-cash goodwill or asset impairment charge in accordance with
IFRS;
(10) any
non-cash compensation expense recorded from grants of stock
appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock or
other rights to officers, directors or employees;
(11) any
net unrealized gain or loss (after any offset) resulting in such
period from currency translation gains or losses related to
currency remeasurements of Indebtedness (including any unrealized
net loss or gain resulting from hedge agreements for currency
exchange risk); and
(12) to
the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so
long as the Company has made a determination that there exists
reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by
the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (a) not
denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 90 days and (b)
in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence
(with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so
reimbursed within 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or
casualty events or business interruption; provided that (x) if net income
is increased as a result of any amounts received from an insurer in
respect of such a liability, casualty event or business
interruption and the right to be so reimbursed was used in a prior
period to increase Consolidated Net Income pursuant to this clause
(12), such amounts received shall be excluded from Consolidated Net
Income and (y) to the extent the actual reimbursement received is
less than the expected reimbursement amount excluded in a prior
period pursuant to this clause (12), Consolidated Net Income shall
be reduced by the difference in the period in which such lower
actual reimbursement amounts are received or in which a final
judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction is made that the
Company is entitled to no reimbursement.
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Notwithstanding the
foregoing, for the purpose of Section 4.07 only (other
than Section 4.07(a)(4)(D)(iv)),
there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net Income any income
arising from any sale or other disposition of Restricted
Investments or Similar Business Investments made by the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries, any repurchases and redemptions of
Restricted Investments or Similar Business Investments from the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, any repayments of loans
and advances which constitute Restricted Investments or Similar
Business Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, any sale of the stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary
or any distribution or dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in
each case only to the extent such amounts increase the amount of
Restricted Payments permitted under Section 4.07(a)(4)(C)(iv).
“Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee” means, as applicable, (i) the office of the
U.S. Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the U.S.
Trustee is principally administered, which at the date of this
Indenture is located at 0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust; or (ii) the office of
the Canadian Trustee at which the corporate trust business of the
Canadian Trustee is principally administered, which at the date of
this Indenture is located at 000 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx,
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0.
“Covered
Jurisdiction” means each of the United States and
Canada and the provinces therein.
“Currency Agreement”
means, in respect of a Person, any foreign exchange contract,
currency swap agreement, futures contract, option contract or other
similar agreement as to which such Person is a party or a
beneficiary.
“Custodian” means
Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association,
as custodian with respect to the Notes in global form, or any
successor entity thereto.
“Debt Facility” means one
or more debt facilities (including, without limitation, the Senior
Credit Facility) or commercial paper facilities with banks or other
institutional lenders providing for revolving credit loans, term
loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of
receivables to such lenders or to special purpose entities formed
to borrow from such lenders against such receivables) or letters of
credit or issuances of debt securities evidenced by notes,
debentures, bonds, indentures or similar instruments, in each case
as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or
refinanced (including by means of sales of debt securities to
institutional investors) in whole or in part from time to time (and
whether or not with the original administrative agent, lenders or
trustees or another administrative agent or agents, other lenders
or trustees and whether provided under any credit or other
agreement or indenture).
“Debt Facility Documents”
means the collective reference to any Debt Facility, any notes
issued pursuant thereto and the guarantees thereof, and the
collateral documents relating thereto, as amended, supplemented,
restated, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, repaid,
refinanced or otherwise modified, in whole or in part, from time to
time.
“Deed of Hypothec” means
those certain deeds of hypothec, dated on or about the Issue Date,
or such date as provided in Section 4.18, among the Canadian
Guarantors, as grantors, and the Collateral Agent in its own
capacity and as hypothecary representative (fondé de pouvoir) for the Canadian
Trustee and the Holders of the Notes, as such deeds may be amended,
restated, amended and restated, supplemented, re-affirmed or
otherwise modified from time to time.
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“Default” means any event
that is, or after notice or passage of time or both would be, an
Event of Default.
“Definitive Note” means a
certificated Initial Note or Additional Note (bearing the
Restricted Notes Legend if the transfer of such Note is restricted
by applicable law) that does not include the Global Notes
Legend.
“Delaware
LLC” means any limited liability company organized or
formed under the laws of the State of Delaware.
“Delaware LLC Division”
means the statutory division of any Delaware LLC into two or more
Delaware LLCs pursuant to Section 18-217 of the Delaware Limited
Liability Company Act.
“Depositary” means, with
respect to the Notes issuable or issued in whole or in part in
global form, the Person specified in Section 2.03 as the
Depositary with respect to the Notes and any and all successors
thereto appointed as Depositary hereunder and having become such
pursuant to the applicable provision of this
Indenture.
“Designated Non-Cash
Consideration” means the Fair Market Value of non-cash
consideration received by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Disposition that is
designated as “Designated Non-Cash Consideration”
pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate, setting forth the basis
of such valuation, less the amount of cash or Cash
Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale,
redemption or payment of, on or with respect to such Designated
Non-Cash Consideration.
“Discharge of Senior Lender
Claims” means, except to the extent otherwise provided
in the Intercreditor Agreement, the payment in full in cash (except
for contingent indemnities and cost and reimbursement obligations
to the extent no claim has been made) of (a) all Obligations in
respect of all outstanding First Priority Obligations and, with
respect to letters of credit or letter of credit guaranties
outstanding thereunder, delivery of cash collateral or backstop
letters of credit in respect thereof in compliance with the Senior
Credit Facility, in each case after or concurrently with the
termination of all commitments to extend credit thereunder and (b)
any other First Priority Obligations that are due and payable or
otherwise accrued and owing at or prior to the time such principal
and interest are paid; provided that the Discharge of Senior Lender
Claims shall not be deemed to have occurred if such payments are
made with the proceeds of other First Priority Obligations that
constitute an exchange or replacement for or a refinancing of such
Obligations or First Priority Obligations.
“Disqualified Stock”
means, with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock of such Person
that by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is
convertible or for which it is exchangeable) or upon the happening
of any event:
(1) matures
or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a sinking fund obligation
or otherwise;
(2) is
convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or Disqualified
Stock (excluding Capital Stock which is convertible or exchangeable
solely at the option of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries
(it being understood that upon such conversion or exchange it shall
be an Incurrence of such Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock));
or
(3) is
redeemable at the option of the holder of the Capital Stock in
whole or in part,
in each
case on or prior to the date 91 days after the earlier of the final
maturity date of the Notes or the date the Notes are no longer
outstanding; provided, however, that only the portion
of Capital Stock which so matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is
so convertible or exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of
the holder thereof prior to such date will be deemed to be
Disqualified Stock; provided, further, that any Capital Stock
that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely because the holders
thereof have the right to require the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries to repurchase such Capital Stock upon the occurrence
of a Change of Control or Asset Disposition (each defined in a
substantially identical manner to the corresponding definitions in
this Indenture) shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if the
terms of such Capital Stock (and all such securities into which it
is convertible or exchangeable or for which it is redeemable)
provide that the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as
applicable, are not required to repurchase or redeem any such
Capital Stock (and all such securities into which it is convertible
or exchangeable or for which it is redeemable) pursuant to such
provision prior to compliance by the Company with Section 4.10 and
Section 4.14
and such repurchase or redemption complies with Section 4.07.
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“DTC” means The Depository
Trust Company.
“Dutch Pledge Agreements”
means (i) the pledge agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among
Eldorado Gold (Netherlands) B.V., as pledgor, SG resources B.V., as
the company, and the Collateral Agent and (ii) the pledge
agreement, dated as of the Issue Date, among Eldorado Gold
(Netherlands) B.V., as pledgor, Eldorado Gold (Greece) B.V., as the
company, and the Collateral Agent, in each case as may be amended,
restated, amended and restated, supplemented, re-affirmed or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Dutch Subsidiary” means
each of SG Resources B.V. and Eldorado Gold (Greece) B.V. as
company under the applicable Dutch Pledge Agreement.
“Equity Offering” means a
public offering or private placement for cash by the Company of its
Common Stock, or options, warrants or rights with respect to its
Common Stock, other than (1) any issuances pursuant to employee
benefit plans or otherwise in compensation to officers, directors
or employees, (2) an issuance to any Subsidiary or (3) any offering
of Common Stock issued in connection with a transaction that
constitutes a Change of Control.
“Exchange Act” means the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and
regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
“Fair Market Value” means,
with respect to any asset or liability, the fair market value of
such asset or liability as determined by Senior Management of the
Company in good faith; provided that if the fair
market value exceeds $50.0 million, such determination shall be
made by the Board of Directors of the Company or an authorized
committee thereof in good faith (including as to the value of all
non-cash assets and liabilities).
“Farm-Out Agreement” means
an agreement whereby the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary has
granted a Person an option to pay all or a share of the exploiting,
exploring, gathering or other expenses of exploration, development,
processing, gathering or production of gold, copper, zinc or other
base or metals (which agreement may be subject to a maximum payment
obligation, after which expenses are shared in accordance with the
working or participation interests therein or in accordance with
the agreement of the parties) or perform such exploiting, exploring
or gathering in exchange for an option to acquire an ownership
interest from the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary in the related
property.
“First Lien Agent” means
individually and/or collectively, (i) HSBC Bank Canada, in its
capacity as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent under the
Senior Credit Facility, together with its successors in such
capacity and (ii) any Person elected, designated or appointed as
the administrative agent, trustee, collateral agent or similar
representative with respect to documents evidencing any First
Priority Obligations.
“First Priority Designated
Agent” has the meaning given to such term in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
“First Priority
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness constituting First
Priority Obligations.
“First Priority Liens”
means all Liens that secure the First Priority
Obligations.
“First Priority
Obligations” means (i) any and all amounts payable
under or in respect of the Senior Credit Facility and the other
Debt Facility Documents as amended, restated, supplemented, waived,
replaced, restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise
modified from time to time (including after termination of the
Senior Credit Facility), including principal, premium (if any),
interest (including interest accruing on or after the filing of any
petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the
Company whether or not a claim for Post-Petition Interest is
allowed in such proceedings), fees, charges, expenses,
reimbursement obligations, guarantees and all other amounts payable
thereunder or in respect of, in each case, to the extent secured by
a Permitted Lien incurred or deemed incurred to secure Indebtedness
constituting First Priority Indebtedness pursuant to clauses (1) or
(29) of the definition of “Permitted Liens,” and (ii)
all other Obligations of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries in respect of Hedging Obligations or Obligations in
respect of cash management services in each case owing to a Person
that is a holder of Indebtedness described in clause (i) above or
an Affiliate of such holder at the time of entry into such Hedging
Obligations or Obligations in respect of cash management services;
provided that, to the extent not already party thereto, the holders
of such First Priority Obligations or their duly appointed trustee,
agent or other authorized representative shall execute a joinder to
the Intercreditor Agreement.
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“Foreign Subsidiary” means
a Restricted Subsidiary not organized or existing under the laws of
the United States of America or any state or territory or the
District of Columbia thereof or under the federal laws of Canada or
any province thereof and any direct or indirect Subsidiary of such
Restricted Subsidiary.
“Future Second Priority
Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the Company
and/or the Guarantors that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral
ranking equally and ratably with the Notes as permitted by the
Indenture; provided that (i) the trustee, agent or other authorized
representative for the holders of such Indebtedness (other than in
the case of any Additional Notes) shall execute a joinder or
amendment to the Canadian Security Agreement and any applicable
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement, as
applicable, and (ii) the Company shall designate such Indebtedness
as Future Second Priority Indebtedness.
“Government Securities”
means securities that are (1) direct obligations of Canada or the
United States for the timely payment of which its full faith and
credit is pledged or (2) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of Canada
or the United States the timely payment of which is unconditionally
Guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of Canada or the
United States, as the case may be, which, in either case, are not
callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and
shall also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank (as
defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act), as custodian
with respect to any such Government Securities or a specific
payment of principal of or interest on any such Government
Securities held by such custodian for the account of the holder of
such depositary receipt; provided that (except as
required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depositary
receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the
Government Securities or the specific payment of principal of or
interest on the Government Securities evidenced by such depositary
receipt.
“Guarantee” means any
obligation, contingent or otherwise, of any Person directly or
indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other Person and
any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of
such Person:
(1) to
purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or
payment of) such Indebtedness of such other Person (whether arising
by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to
keep-well, to purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to
take-or-pay, or to maintain financial statement conditions or
otherwise); or
(2) entered
into for purposes of assuring in any other manner the obligee of
such Indebtedness of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee
against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term
“Guarantee” will not include (i) endorsements for
collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business or (ii)
Liens permitted by clause (25) of the definition of
“Permitted Liens.”
“Guarantor” means each of
the Secured Guarantors, the Unsecured Guarantors and any other
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that provides a Note Guarantee
after the Issue Date in accordance with this Indenture (or any
successor obligor to any such Guarantor’s obligations under
its respective Note Guarantee pursuant to Article 5); provided that upon release or
discharge of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company from its Note
Guarantee in accordance with this Indenture, such Restricted
Subsidiary shall cease to be a Guarantor.
“Guarantor Subordinated
Obligation” means, with respect to a Guarantor, any
Indebtedness of such Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Issue
Date or thereafter Incurred) that is expressly subordinated in
right of payment to the obligations of such Guarantor under its
Note Guarantee pursuant to a written agreement.
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“Hedging Obligations” of
any Person means the obligations of such Person pursuant to any
Interest Rate Agreement, Currency Agreement or Commodity
Agreement.
“Holder” means a Person in
whose name a Note is registered on the Registrar’s
books.
“IFRS” means the
international financial reporting standards as issued by the
International Accounting Standards Board and as adopted by the
Canadian Accounting Standards Board as in effect from time to time.
All ratios and computations based on IFRS contained in this
Indenture shall be computed in conformity with IFRS.
“Incur” means issue,
create, assume, Guarantee, incur or otherwise become liable for;
provided,
however, that any
Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (whether by
merger, consolidation, amalgamation or arrangement, acquisition or
otherwise) will be deemed to be Incurred by such Restricted
Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company; and the terms “Incurred” and
“Incurrence” have meanings
correlative to the foregoing.
“Indebtedness” means, with
respect to any Person on any date of determination (without
duplication):
(1) the
principal of and premium (if any) in respect of indebtedness of
such Person for borrowed money;
(2) the
principal of and premium (if any) in respect of obligations of such
Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar
instruments;
(3) the
principal component of all obligations of such Person in respect of
letters of credit, letters of guarantee, bankers’ acceptances
or other similar instruments (including reimbursement obligations
with respect thereto except to the extent such reimbursement
obligation relates to a trade payable and such obligation is
satisfied within 30 days of being drawn);
(4) the
principal component of all obligations of such Person to pay the
deferred and unpaid purchase price of property (including earn-out
obligations) that are recorded as liabilities under IFRS, and which
purchase price is due after the date of placing such property in
service or taking delivery and title thereto, except (i) any such
balance that constitutes a trade payable or similar obligation to a
trade creditor, in each case accrued in the ordinary course of
business and (ii) any earn-out obligation until the amount of such
obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person
in accordance with IFRS;
(5) Capitalized
Lease Obligations of such Person;
(6) the
principal component or liquidation preference of all obligations of
such Person with respect to the redemption, repayment or other
repurchase of any Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any
Non-Guarantor, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case,
any accrued dividends);
(7) the
principal component of all Indebtedness of other Persons secured by
a Lien on any asset of such Person, whether or not such
Indebtedness is assumed by such Person (other than Liens permitted
by clause (25) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”);
provided,
however, that the
amount of such Indebtedness will be the lesser of (a) the Fair
Market Value of such asset at such date of determination and (b)
the amount of such Indebtedness of such other Persons;
(8) the
principal component of Indebtedness of other Persons to the extent
Guaranteed by such Person (whether or not such items would appear
on the balance sheet of the guarantor or obligor);
(9) to
the extent not otherwise included in this definition, obligations
of such Person under Hedging Obligations (the amount of any such
obligations to be equal at any time to the termination value of
such agreement or arrangement giving rise to such Obligation that
would be payable by such Person at such time); and
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(10) to
the extent not otherwise included in this definition, the amount of
obligations outstanding under the legal documents entered into as
part of a securitization transaction or series of securitization
transactions that would be characterized as principal if such
transaction were structured as a secured lending transaction rather
than as a purchase outstanding relating to a securitization
transaction or series of securitization transactions.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing: (i) money borrowed and set aside at the time of the
Incurrence of any Indebtedness in order to pre-fund the payment of
interest on such Indebtedness shall not be deemed to be
“Indebtedness”; provided that such money is
held to secure the payment of such interest; (ii) obligations in
respect of a Farm-Out Agreement shall not be deemed to be
“Indebtedness”; (iii) obligations in respect of royalty
or metals stream or similar transactions shall not be deemed to be
“Indebtedness”; (iv) in connection with the purchase by
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any business,
the term “Indebtedness” will exclude indemnification or
post-closing payment adjustments or earn-out or similar obligations
to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment
is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment
depends on the performance of such business after the closing;
provided,
however, that at
the time of closing, the amount of any such payment is not
determinable or not reflected as a liability on the balance sheet
of the Company (excluding any notes thereto) and, to the extent
such payment thereafter becomes fixed and determined, the amount is
paid within 30 days thereafter; (v) trade payables and other
accrued liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business
shall not be deemed to be “Indebtedness”; and (vi)
“Indebtedness” shall be calculated without giving
effect to any increase or decrease in Indebtedness for any purpose
under this Indenture as a result of accounting for any embedded
derivatives created by the terms of such Indebtedness. For the
avoidance of doubt, reclamation obligations are not and will not be
deemed to be Indebtedness.
In
addition, “Indebtedness” of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries shall include (without duplication)
Indebtedness described in the first paragraph of this definition
that would not appear as a liability on the balance sheet of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries if:
(1) such
Indebtedness is the obligation of a partnership or joint venture
that is not a Subsidiary of the Company (a “Joint
Venture”);
(2) the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a general partner
of the Joint Venture (a “General Partner”);
and
(3) there
is recourse, by contract or operation of law, with respect to the
payment of such Indebtedness to property or assets of the Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than Liens permitted
by clause (25) of the definition of “Permitted Liens”);
and then such Indebtedness shall be included in an amount not to
exceed:
(a) the
lesser of (i) the net assets of the General Partner and (ii) the
amount of such obligations to the extent that there is recourse, by
contract or operation of law, to the property or assets of the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; or
(b) if
less than the amount determined pursuant to clause (a) immediately
above, the actual amount of such Indebtedness that is recourse to
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, if the
Indebtedness is evidenced by a writing and is for a determinable
amount.
“Indenture” means this
Indenture dated as of June 5, 2019, among the Company, the
Guarantors and Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a national
banking association, as the U.S. Trustee, and Computershare Trust
Company of Canada, as Canadian Trustee and Collateral Agent, as
amended or supplemented from time to time.
“Independent Financial
Advisor” means an accounting, appraisal, investment
banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in Similar Businesses
of nationally recognized standing in Canada or the United States
that is, in the good faith judgment of the Company, qualified to
perform the task for which it has been engaged.
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“Initial Notes” has the
meaning set forth in the recitals hereto and includes any Notes
issued in replacement thereof.
“Initial Purchasers” means
BofA Securities, Inc., BMO Capital Markets Corp., BNP Paribas
Securities Corp., HSBC Securities (USA) Inc. and National Bank of
Canada Financial Inc.
“Insolvency Laws” shall
mean the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act (Canada), the Companies
Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada), the Winding-Up Act (Canada),
each as amended, and any other applicable federal or provincial
Canadian or foreign law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, liquidation, dissolution, arrangement, winding-up,
or the composition or readjustment of debts.
“Intercreditor Agreement”
means the intercreditor agreement among HSBC Bank Canada, as
collateral agent under the Senior Credit Facility and the
Collateral Agent, as it may be amended from time to time in
accordance with this Indenture.
“interest” with respect to
the Notes means interest with respect thereto.
“Interest Payment Date”
means June 1 and December 1 of each year until the stated maturity
of the Notes commencing on December 1, 2019.
“Interest Rate Agreement”
means, with respect to any Person, any interest rate protection
agreement, interest rate future agreement, interest rate option
agreement, interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement, interest rate collar agreement, interest rate hedge
agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement as to which
such Person is party or a beneficiary.
“Investment” means, with
respect to any Person, all investments by such Person in other
Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of any direct or
indirect advance, loan (other than advances or extensions of credit
to customers, suppliers or vendors in the ordinary course of
business) or other extensions of credit (including by way of
Guarantee or similar arrangement, but excluding any debt or
extension of credit represented by a bank deposit (other than a
time deposit)) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer
of cash or other property to others or any payment for property or
services for the account or use of others), or any purchase or
acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other similar
instruments issued by, such Person and all other items that are or
would be classified as investments on a balance sheet prepared in
accordance with IFRS; provided that none of the
following will be deemed to be an Investment:
(1) Hedging
Obligations entered into in the ordinary course of business and in
compliance with this Indenture;
(2) endorsements
of negotiable instruments and documents in the ordinary course of
business; and
(3) an
acquisition of assets, Capital Stock or other securities by the
Company or a Subsidiary for consideration to the extent such
consideration consists of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified
Stock) of the Company.
For
purposes of Section 4.07,
(1) “Investment”
will include the portion (proportionate to the Company’s
equity interest in a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is
to be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary) of the Fair Market
Value of the net assets of such Restricted Subsidiary at the time
that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted
Subsidiary; provided, however, that upon a
redesignation of such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company, the Company will be deemed to continue to have a permanent
“Investment” in an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount
(if positive) equal to (a) the Company’s aggregate
“Investment” in such Subsidiary as of the time of such
redesignation less (b) the portion (proportionate to the
Company’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair
Market Value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at the time that
such Subsidiary is so redesignated a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company;
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(2) any
property transferred to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary will be
valued at its Fair Market Value at the time of such transfer;
and
(3) if
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries sells or
otherwise disposes of any Voting Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company such that, after giving effect to any such sale or
disposition, such entity is no longer a Subsidiary of the Company,
the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment on the date
of any such sale or disposition equal to the Fair Market Value of
the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary not sold or disposed
of.
“Investment Grade Rating”
means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by
Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, or any
equivalent rating by any Rating Agency, in each case, with a stable
or better outlook.
“Issue Date” means June 5,
2019.
“Leverage Ratio” means, as
of any date of determination with respect to any Person, the ratio
of (1) Indebtedness of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries
as of such date of calculation (determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with IFRS) to (2) Consolidated EBITDA of such Person
for the period of the most recent four consecutive fiscal quarters
ending prior to the date of such determination for which financial
statements prepared on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS
are available. In the event that the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs or redeems any Indebtedness
subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Leverage
Ratio is being calculated but prior to the event for which the
calculation of the Leverage Ratio is made, then the Leverage Ratio
shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or
redemption of Indebtedness as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of the applicable four fiscal quarter period. The
Leverage Ratio shall be calculated in a manner consistent with the
definition of “Consolidated Coverage Ratio,” including
any pro forma adjustments to Consolidated EBITDA as set forth
therein (including for acquisitions).
“Lien” means, with respect
to any asset, any mortgage, hypothec, lien (statutory or
otherwise), pledge, hypothecation, deed of trust, deemed trust,
charge, security interest, preference, priority or encumbrance of
any kind in respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded,
registered, published or otherwise perfected or rendered opposable
to third parties under applicable law, including any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature
thereof, any option or other agreement to sell or give a security
interest in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing
statement under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent
statutes) of any jurisdiction; provided that in no event shall
an operating lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.
“Limited Guarantee” means
a Guarantee by a Person organized other than in the United States
and Canada, the amount of which is limited in order to comply with
or pursuant to applicable requirements of law in the jurisdiction
of organization of the applicable Person with respect to the
enforceability of such Guarantee.
“Xxxxx’x” means
Xxxxx’x Investor Service, Inc., or any successor thereto that
is a Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating
Organization.
“Nationally Recognized Statistical
Rating Organization” means a nationally recognized
statistical rating organization within the meaning of Rule 436
under the Securities Act.
“Net Available Cash” from
an Asset Disposition means cash payments received (including any
cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal
pursuant to a note or installment receivable or otherwise and net
cash proceeds from the sale or other disposition of any securities
or other assets received as consideration, but only as and when
received, but excluding any other consideration received in the
form of assumption by the acquiring Person of Indebtedness or other
obligations relating to the properties or assets that are the
subject of such Asset Disposition or received in any other non-cash
form) therefrom, in each case net of:
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(1) all
legal, accounting, investment banking, title and recording tax
expenses, commissions and other fees and expenses Incurred, and all
Canadian and U.S. federal, state, provincial, municipal and local
taxes, and all foreign taxes, required to be paid or accrued as a
liability under IFRS (after taking into account any available tax
credits or deductions and any tax sharing agreements), as a
consequence of such Asset Disposition;
(2) all
payments made on any Indebtedness that is secured by any assets
subject to such Asset Disposition, in accordance with the terms of
any Lien upon such assets, or which must by its terms, or in order
to obtain a necessary consent to such Asset Disposition, or by
applicable law be repaid out of the proceeds from such Asset
Disposition;
(3) all
distributions and other payments required to be made to minority
interest holders in Subsidiaries or joint ventures as a result of
such Asset Disposition; and
(4) the
deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided by the seller as a
reserve, in accordance with IFRS, against any liabilities
associated with the assets disposed of in such Asset Disposition
and retained by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
after such Asset Disposition.
“Net Cash Proceeds” with
respect to any issuance or sale of Capital Stock, means the cash
proceeds of such issuance or sale, net of attorneys’ fees,
accountants’ fees, underwriters’ or placement
agents’ fees, listing fees, discounts or commissions and
brokerage, consultant and other fees and charges actually incurred
in connection with such issuance or sale and net of taxes paid or
payable as a result of such issuance or sale (after taking into
account any available tax credit or deductions and any tax sharing
arrangements).
“Non-Guarantor” means any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that is not a
Guarantor.
“Non-Recourse Debt” means
Indebtedness of a Person:
(1) as
to which neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
(a) provides any Guarantee or credit support of any kind (including
any undertaking, Guarantee, indemnity, agreement or instrument that
would constitute Indebtedness), other than Indebtedness secured by
Liens permitted by clause (25) of the definition of
“Permitted Liens,” or (b) is directly or indirectly
liable (as a guarantor or otherwise), other than as a result of
Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted by clause (25) of the
definition of “Permitted Liens”;
(2) no
default with respect to which would permit (upon notice, lapse of
time or both) any holder of any other Indebtedness of the Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than Indebtedness
secured by Liens permitted by clause (25) of the definition of
“Permitted Liens,” to declare a default under such
other Indebtedness or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated
or payable prior to its Stated Maturity; and
(3) the
explicit terms of which provide there is no recourse against any of
the assets of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, other
than in respect of Liens permitted by clause (25) of the definition
of “Permitted Liens.”
“Note Guarantee” means,
individually, any Guarantee of payment of the Notes and the
Company’s other Obligations under this Indenture or the
Turkish Guarantee by a Guarantor pursuant to the terms of this
Indenture and any supplemental indenture hereto, and, collectively,
all such Guarantees.
“Notes” means the Initial
Notes and any note authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture. For all purposes of this Indenture, the term
“Notes” shall also include any Additional Notes that
may be issued under a supplemental indenture and notes to be issued
or authenticated upon transfer, replacement or exchange of
Notes.
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“Notes Documents” means
the Notes (including Additional Notes), the Note Guarantee, the
Collateral Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and this
Indenture.
“Notes Secured Parties”
means the Trustees, the Collateral Agent and the Holders of the
Notes.
“Obligations” means any
principal, interest (including any Post-Petition Interest accruing
subsequent to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy,
reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in
the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such
Post-Petition Interest is an allowed claim under applicable
Insolvency Law, Canadian or U.S. federal or state law or under any
foreign law), other monetary obligations, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements (including reimbursement
obligations with respect to letters of credit and banker’s
acceptances), damages and other liabilities, and Guarantees of
payment of such principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities,
payable under the documentation governing any
Indebtedness.
“Offer to Purchase” means
an Asset Disposition Offer or a Change of Control
Offer.
“Offering Memorandum”
means the offering memorandum related to this offering of Notes
dated May 21, 2019.
“Officer” means the
Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President,
the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer, any
Executive Vice President, any Vice President, the Treasurer or the
Secretary of the Company or, in the event that the Company is a
partnership or a limited liability company that has no such
officers, a person duly authorized under applicable law by the
general partner, managers, members or a similar body to act on
behalf of the Company. Officer of any Guarantor has a correlative
meaning.
“Officer’s
Certificate” means a certificate signed by an Officer
of the Company or Guarantor, as the case may be, in accordance with
Sections 13.04 and 13.05 hereto and any other certifications as may
be specified herein, as applicable.
“Opinion of Counsel” means
a written opinion from legal counsel who is licensed to practice in
the applicable jurisdiction in accordance with Sections 13.04 and
13.05 hereto and any other opinions as may be specified herein, as
applicable. The counsel may be an employee of, or counsel to, the
Company or either of the Trustees.
“Parent” means, with
respect to any Person, any other Person of which such Person is a
direct or indirect Subsidiary.
“Permitted Investment”
means an Investment by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries in:
(1) the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
(2) any
Investment by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in
a Person that is engaged in a Similar Business if as a result of
such Investment:
(a) such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
or
(b) such
Person, in one transaction or a series of related transactions, is
merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys
substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
and, in
each case, any Investment held by such Person; provided that such Investment
was not acquired by such Person in contemplation of such
acquisition, merger, consolidation, amalgamation, arrangement or
transfer;
(3) cash
and Cash Equivalents;
(4) (a)
endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of
business and (b) receivables owing to the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries created or acquired in the ordinary course
of business and payable or dischargeable in accordance with
customary trade terms; provided, however, that such trade terms
may include such concessionary trade terms as the Company or any
such Restricted Subsidiary deems reasonable under the
circumstances;
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(5) payroll,
travel, commission, entertainment, relocation and similar advances
to cover matters that are expected at the time of such advances
ultimately to be treated as expenses for accounting purposes and
that are made in the ordinary course of business;
(6) loans
or advances to employees, Officers or directors of the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business in an aggregate amount not in excess of $2.0 million at
any one time outstanding;
(7) any
Investment acquired by the Company or any of any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries:
(a) in
exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by
the Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with or
as a result of a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or
recapitalization of the issuer of such other Investment or accounts
receivable or in satisfaction of judgments or otherwise in
resolution or compromise of litigation, arbitration or disputes;
or
(b) as
a result of a foreclosure by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries with respect to any secured Investment or other
transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment in
default;
(8) Investments
made as a result of the receipt of non-cash consideration from an
Asset Disposition that was made pursuant to and in compliance with
Section 4.10
or as a result of any other disposition of assets not constituting
an Asset Disposition;
(9) Investments
in existence on the Issue Date or made pursuant to contractual
obligations described in the Offering Memorandum that are in
existence on the Issue Date, or an Investment consisting of any
extension, modification or renewal of any such Investment or such
contractual obligation existing on the Issue Date; provided that the amount of any
such Investment may be increased in such extension, modification or
renewal only (a) as required by the terms of such Investment or (b)
as otherwise permitted under this Indenture;
(10) Currency
Agreements, Interest Rate Agreements, Commodity Agreements and
related Hedging Obligations, which transactions or obligations are
Incurred in compliance with Section 4.09;
(11) Guarantees
issued in accordance with Section 4.09;
(12) Investments
made in connection with the funding of contributions under any
non-qualified retirement plan or similar employee compensation plan
in an amount not to exceed the amount of compensation expense
recognized by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in
connection with such plans;
(13) Investments
consisting of the licensing or contribution of intellectual
property pursuant to joint marketing arrangements with other
Persons;
(14) Similar
Business Investments;
(15) advances
to or prepayments for asset purchases made pursuant to clause (2)
of this definition, including advances and prepayments prior to the
closing of any such acquisition;
(16) other
Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
together with all other Investments pursuant to this clause (16),
in an aggregate amount at the time of such Investment not to exceed
the greater of (x) $75.0 million and (y) 1.5% of Total Assets, at
any one time outstanding (in each case, with the Fair Market Value
of such Investment being measured at the time made and without
giving effect to subsequent changes in value); provided that in no event shall any
Investment be made in any Unrestricted Subsidiary in reliance upon
this clause (16); and
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(17) repurchases
of or other Investments in the Notes.
“Permitted Liens” means,
with respect to any Person:
(1) Liens
securing Indebtedness and other obligations permitted to be
Incurred under clause (1) of Section 4.09(b) which may
at the option of the Company take the form of First Priority
Indebtedness or Future Second Priority Indebtedness, and including
interest, fees and other related Hedging Obligations and related
banking services or cash management obligations and Liens on assets
of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company securing Guarantees of
such Indebtedness and such other obligations of the
Company;
(2) pledges
or deposits by such Person under workers’ compensation laws,
unemployment insurance laws, pension laws or similar legislation,
or good faith deposits in connection with bids, tenders, contracts
(other than for the payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which
such Person is a party, or deposits to secure public or statutory
obligations of such Person or deposits of cash or United States or
Canadian government bonds to secure surety or appeal bonds to which
such Person is a party, or deposits as security for contested taxes
or import or customs duties or for the payment of rent, in each
case Incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(3) Liens
imposed by law, including carriers’, warehousemen’s,
mechanics’, materialmen’s and repairmen’s Liens,
Incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(4) Liens
for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges not yet
subject to penalties for non-payment or that are being contested in
good faith by appropriate proceedings provided appropriate reserves
required pursuant to IFRS have been made in respect
thereof;
(5) Liens
in favor of issuers of surety or performance bonds or letters of
credit or bankers’ acceptances or similar obligations issued
pursuant to the request of and for the account of such Person in
the ordinary course of its business;
(6) minor
survey exceptions, encumbrances, ground leases, easements or
reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, rights of way,
sewers, electric lines, telegraph and telephone lines and other
similar purposes, or zoning, building codes or other restrictions
(including, without limitation, minor defects or irregularities in
title and similar encumbrances) as to the use of real properties or
Liens incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or
to the ownership of its properties that do not in the aggregate
materially adversely affect the value of said properties or
materially impair their use in the operation of the business of
such Person;
(7) Liens
securing Hedging Obligations that are not Incurred for speculative
purposes (including the Hedging Obligations to the lenders and
their respective affiliates under the Senior Credit
Facility);
(8) leases,
licenses, subleases and sublicenses of assets (including, without
limitation, real property and intellectual property rights) that do
not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business
of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(9) judgment
Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default;
(10) Liens
for the purpose of securing the payment of all or a part of the
purchase price of, or Capitalized Lease Obligations, mortgage
financings, purchase money obligations or other payments Incurred
to finance assets or property, plant or equipment (other than
Capital Stock or other Investments) acquired, constructed,
improved, leased, repaired or replaced in the ordinary course of
business; provided
that:
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(a) the
aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens is
otherwise permitted to be Incurred under this Indenture and does
not exceed the cost of the assets or property so acquired,
constructed or improved; and
(b) such
Liens are created within 365 days of construction, acquisition or
improvement of such assets or property and do not encumber any
other assets or property of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries other than such assets or property and assets affixed
or appurtenant thereto;
(11) Liens
arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law provisions
relating to Liens in favor of trustees and escrow agents,
banker’s Liens, margin Liens, rights of set-off or similar
rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds
maintained with a depository institution; provided that:
(a) such
deposit account is not a dedicated cash collateral account and is
not subject to restrictions against access by the Company in excess
of those set forth by regulations promulgated by the U.S. Federal
Reserve Board; and
(b) such
deposit account is not intended by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to provide collateral to the depository
institution;
(12) Liens
arising from Uniform Commercial Code or the Personal Property
Security Act (British
Columbia) (or similar statutes in other jurisdictions) financing
statement filings regarding operating leases entered into by the
Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary
course of business;
(13) Liens
existing on the Issue Date (other than Liens permitted under clause
(1) of this definition);
(14)
Liens on property or shares of stock of a Person at the time such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided, however, that such Liens are
not created, Incurred or assumed in connection with, or in
contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company; provided, further, however, that any such Lien may
not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any of its
other Restricted Subsidiaries;
(15) Liens
on property at the time the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company acquired the property, including any acquisition by
means of a merger, amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation with
or into the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
provided,
however, that such
Liens are not created, Incurred or assumed in connection with, or
in contemplation of, such acquisition; provided, further, however, that such Liens may
not extend to any other property owned by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries;
(16) Liens
securing Indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company owing to the Company or another
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
(17) Liens
securing the Notes and the Note Guarantees;
(18) Liens
securing Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance (as defined
in “Refinancing Indebtedness”), as a whole or in part,
Indebtedness that was previously so secured pursuant to clauses
(10), (13), (14), (15), (17) and this clause (18) of this
definition; provided that any such Lien is
limited to all or part of the same property or assets (plus improvements, accessions,
proceeds or dividends or distributions in respect thereof) that
secured (or, under the written arrangements under which the
original Lien arose, could secure) the Indebtedness being
refinanced or is in respect of property that is the security for a
Permitted Lien hereunder;
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(19) any
interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease
Obligation or operating lease;
(20) Liens
in favor of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(21) Liens
under industrial revenue, municipal or similar bonds;
(22) (a)
Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business not securing
Indebtedness for borrowed money and not in the aggregate materially
detracting from the value of the properties of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries or the use of such properties in the
operation of their business and (b) Liens arising out of
conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar
arrangements for the sale of goods entered into in the ordinary
course of business;
(23) Liens
on specific items of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any
Person securing such Person’s obligations in respect of
bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of
such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such
inventory or other goods;
(24) deposits
made in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to
insurance carriers;
(25) Liens
on the Capital Stock or assets of an Unrestricted
Subsidiary;
(26) Liens
on assets pursuant to merger, amalgamation or arrangement
agreements, stock or asset purchase agreements and similar
agreements in respect of the disposition of such
assets;
(27) Liens
securing Cash Management Agreements and related Obligations entered
into in the ordinary course of business;
(28) Liens
securing Indebtedness (other than Subordinated Obligations and
Guarantor Subordinated Obligations), which may at the option of the
Company take the form of Future Second Priority Indebtedness, but
in no event shall be secured by Liens ranking senior to the Notes
with respect to any of the Collateral, in an aggregate principal
amount outstanding at any one time not to exceed the sum of (i)
$50.0 million and (ii) $50.0 million; provided that the amount under clause (ii)
shall only be available if at the time of Incurrence and after
giving effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness on such date,
the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Company would not exceed 2.5 to
1.0 on a pro forma
basis;
(29) Liens
securing Indebtedness (other than Subordinated Obligations and
Guarantor Subordinated Obligations), which may at the option of the
Company take the form of First Priority Indebtedness or Future
Second Priority Indebtedness; provided that at the time of
Incurrence and after giving effect to the Incurrence of such
Indebtedness and the application of the proceeds therefrom on such
date, on a pro forma basis the Secured Leverage Ratio of the
Company would not exceed 2.0 to 1.0;
(30) Liens
on the assets of Non-Guarantors securing Indebtedness of any
Non-Guarantor;
(31) Liens
granted in connection with royalty or metals stream, off-take
arrangements or similar transactions that are customary in the
mining business (as determined in good faith by the
Company);
(32) the
right reserved to or vested in any municipality or governmental or
other public authority by the terms of any lease, license,
franchise, grant or permit acquired or by any statutory provision
to terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit or
to require annual or other periodic payments as a condition of the
continuance thereof;
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(33) all
reservations in the original grant of mineral rights in any lands
and premises or any interests therein and all statutory exceptions,
qualifications and reservations in respect of title;
(34) Liens
on deposit accounts or other funds consisting solely of loan
proceeds for Project Finance Debt maintained with the depository
institution making such loan;
(35) rights
reserved to or vested in governmental authorities by law, statutory
Liens incurred or pledges or deposits made in favor of a
governmental authority to secure the performance of obligations of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under any environmental
laws to which any assets of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary is subject; and
(36) Liens
securing Project Finance Debt; provided that the property over
which any such Lien is granted consists solely of assets or
revenues of the project for which the Project Finance Debt was
incurred.
“Person” means any
individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization, government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof or any other entity.
“Post-Petition Interest”
means any interest or entitlement to fees or expenses or other
charges that accrue after the commencement of any bankruptcy or
insolvency proceeding, whether or not allowed or allowable as a
claim in any such bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
“PPSA” means the Personal
Property Security Act (or similar legislation) in an applicable
province or territory.
“Preferred Stock,” as
applied to the Capital Stock of any corporation, means Capital
Stock of any class or classes (however designated) that is
preferred as to the payment of dividends upon liquidation,
dissolution or winding up.
“Project Finance Debt”
means any Indebtedness incurred to finance or refinance the
construction, development and/or operation of assets at the
Skouries or Perama Hill projects in Greece.
“Québec Collateral”
means substantially all of the property and assets (including,
without limitation, tangible and intangible personal property such
as, among other assets, intellectual property, investment property,
accounts receivable, inventory, equipment and contract rights and
including all real estate (immovable property) and mining rights)
of each of the Canadian Guarantors.
“Rating Agency” means each
of S&P and Xxxxx’x or, if S&P or Xxxxx’x or
both shall not make a rating on the Notes publicly available, a
nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the
case may be, selected by the Company (as certified by a resolution
of the Board of Directors) which shall be substituted for S&P
or Xxxxx’x or both, as the case may be.
“Receivable” means a right
to receive payment arising from a sale or lease of goods or the
performance of services by a Person pursuant to an arrangement with
another Person pursuant to which such other Person is obligated to
pay for goods or services under terms that permit the purchase of
such goods and services on credit and shall include, in any event,
any items of property that would be classified as an
“account,” “chattel paper,” “payment
intangible” or “instrument” under the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York and any
“supporting obligations” as so defined.
“Receivables Fees” means
any fees or interest paid to purchasers or lenders providing the
financing in connection with a securitization transaction,
factoring agreement or other similar agreement, including any such
amounts paid by discounting the face amount of Receivables or
participations therein transferred in connection with a
securitization transaction, factoring agreement or other similar
arrangement, regardless of whether any such transaction is
structured as on-balance sheet or off-balance sheet or through a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or an Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
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“Record Date” for the
interest payable on any applicable Interest Payment Date means May
15 or November 15 (whether or not a Business Day) preceding such
Interest Payment Date.
“Refinancing Indebtedness”
means Indebtedness that is Incurred to refund, refinance, replace,
exchange, renew, repay or extend (including pursuant to any
defeasance or discharge mechanism) (collectively,
“refinance,”
“refinances” and
“refinanced” shall each
have a correlative meaning) any Indebtedness including Indebtedness
that refinances Refinancing Indebtedness; provided, however, that:
(1) (a)
if the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced is
earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Notes, the Refinancing
Indebtedness has a Stated Maturity no earlier than the Stated
Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced or (b) if the Stated
Maturity of the Indebtedness being refinanced is later than the
Stated Maturity of the Notes, the Refinancing Indebtedness has a
Stated Maturity at least 91 days later than the Stated Maturity of
the Notes;
(2) the
Refinancing Indebtedness has an Average Life at the time such
Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred that is equal to or greater
than the Average Life of the Indebtedness being
refinanced;
(3) such
Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred in an aggregate principal
amount (or if issued with original issue discount, an aggregate
issue price) that is equal to or less than the sum of the aggregate
principal amount (or if issued with original issue discount, the
aggregate accreted value) then outstanding of the Indebtedness
being refinanced (plus, without duplication, any
additional Indebtedness Incurred to pay interest or premiums,
defeasance costs and fees and expenses Incurred in connection
therewith);
(4) to
the extent such Refinancing Indebtedness is Secured Indebtedness,
the Liens securing such Refinancing Indebtedness shall have a Lien
priority equal to or junior to the Liens securing the Indebtedness
being refunded, refinanced, replaced, redeemed, repurchased or
retired;
(5) if
the Indebtedness being refinanced is subordinated in right of
payment to the Notes or the Note Guarantees, such Refinancing
Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or
the Note Guarantees on terms at least as favorable to the Holders
as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness
being refinanced; and
(6) Refinancing
Indebtedness shall not include Indebtedness of a Non-Guarantor that
refinances Indebtedness of the Company or a Guarantor.
“Responsible Officer”
means with respect to either the Trustee or the Collateral Agent,
any officer assigned to the corporate trust office of such Trustee
or Collateral Agent, or any other officer of such Trustee or
Collateral Agent, customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and having direct
responsibility for the administration of the Indenture, Collateral
Documents or Intercreditor Agreement, 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.
“Restricted
Investment” means any Investment other than a
Permitted Investment.
“Restricted Subsidiary” of
a Person means any Subsidiary of such Person (or if no such Person
is specified, the Company) that is not an Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
“S&P” means S&P
Global Ratings, a business unit of Standard & Poor’s
Financial Services LLC, or any successor thereto that is a
Nationally Recognized Statistical Rating Organization.
“SEC” means the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Second Priority
Indebtedness” means Indebtedness constituting Second
Priority Obligations.
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“Second Priority Liens”
means all Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent on Collateral
securing the Second Priority Obligations.
“Second Priority
Obligations” means all Obligations of the Company and
the Guarantors under the Notes, the Indenture and the Collateral
Documents and all Obligations in respect of the Future Second
Priority Indebtedness.
“Secured Guarantors” means
Eldorado Gold (Netherlands) B.V., SG Resources B.V., Integra Gold
Corp. and Integra Gold (Québec) Inc. and each Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company formed or acquired after the Issue Date
that is a borrower or guarantor under the Senior Credit Facility
that provides a Note Guarantee pursuant to the terms of the
Indenture on a secured basis; provided that upon release or
discharge of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company from its Note
Guarantee in accordance with the Indenture, such Restricted
Subsidiary shall cease to be a Secured Guarantor.
“Secured Indebtedness”
means any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries secured by a Lien on assets of the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, excluding Capital Stock or Indebtedness of
an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any right, title or interests
relating thereto, including any rights under any relevant
shareholder, voting trust, joint venture or other agreement or
instrument.
“Secured Leverage Ratio”
means, as of any date of determination with respect to any Person,
the ratio of (1) Secured Indebtedness of such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date of calculation (determined
on a consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS) to (2)
Consolidated EBITDA of such Person for the period of the most
recent four consecutive fiscal quarters ending prior to the date of
such determination for which financial statements prepared on a
consolidated basis in accordance with IFRS are available;
provided,
however, that
solely for purposes of the calculation of the Secured Leverage
Ratio, in connection with the incurrence of any Lien pursuant to
clause (29) of the definition of “Permitted Liens,” the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries must treat the maximum
amount of Indebtedness that is permitted to be incurred pursuant to
Section 4.09(b)(1) at the
time of such calculation as being Incurred and outstanding at such
time. In the event that the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries Incurs or redeems any Secured Indebtedness subsequent
to the commencement of the period for which the Secured Leverage
Ratio is being calculated but prior to the event for which the
calculation of the Secured Leverage Ratio is made, then the Secured
Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or
redemption of Indebtedness as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of the applicable four fiscal quarter period. The Secured
Leverage Ratio shall be calculated in a manner consistent with the
definition of “Consolidated Coverage Ratio,” including
any pro forma adjustments
to Consolidated EBITDA as set forth therein (including for
acquisitions).
“Securities Act” means the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules and regulations
of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
“Senior Credit Facility”
means the Third Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of
May 13, 2019 among the Company, as borrower, the guarantors parties
thereto, HSBC Bank Canada, as Administrative Agent, and the other
parties thereto from time to time, as the same may be amended,
restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced or refinanced in
whole or in part from time to time (including replacing the
borrowers or increasing the amount loaned thereunder; provided that such additional
Indebtedness is Incurred in accordance with the covenant described
under Section 4.09).
“Senior Management” means
the chief executive officer and the chief financial officer of the
Company.
“Significant Subsidiary”
means any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company that would be a
“Significant Subsidiary” of the Company within the
meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by the SEC,
determined as of the date of the latest audited consolidated
financial statements of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
“Similar Business” means
any business conducted or proposed to be conducted by the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries on the Issue Date or any other
business that is similar, reasonably related, incidental or
ancillary thereto; provided that in no event shall
an Unrestricted Subsidiary constitute a Similar Business for
purposes of this definition.
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“Similar Business
Investments” means Investments made in (1) the
ordinary course of, or of a nature that are customary in, the
mining business as a means of exploiting, exploring for, acquiring,
developing, processing, gathering, producing, transporting or
marketing gold, copper, zinc or other base or precious metals used,
useful or created in the mining business, including through
agreements, acquisitions, transactions, interests or arrangements
which permit one to share (or have the effect of sharing) risks or
costs, comply with regulatory requirements regarding ownership or
satisfy other customary objectives in the mining business, and in
any event including, without limitation, Investments made in
connection with or in the form of (i) direct or indirect ownership
interests in mining properties, gathering or upgrading systems or
facilities and (ii) operating agreements, development agreements,
area of mutual interest agreements, pooling agreements, service
contracts, joint venture agreements, partnership or limited
liability company agreements (whether general or limited), or other
similar or customary agreements, transactions, properties,
interests or arrangements, and Investments and expenditures in
connection therewith or pursuant thereto; and (2) Persons engaged
in a Similar Business; provided that in no event shall
any Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary constitute a Similar
Business Investment for purposes of this definition.
“Stated Maturity” means,
with respect to any security, the date specified in the agreement
governing or certificate relating to such Indebtedness as the fixed
date on which the final payment of principal of such security is
due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption
provision, but not including any contingent obligations to repay,
redeem or repurchase any such principal prior to the date
originally scheduled for the payment thereof.
“Subordinated Obligation”
means any Indebtedness of the Company (whether outstanding on the
Issue Date or thereafter Incurred) that is subordinated or junior
in right of payment to the Notes pursuant to a written
agreement.
“Subsidiary” of any Person
means (1) any corporation, association or other business entity
(other than a partnership, joint venture, limited liability company
or similar entity) of which more than 50% of the total ordinary
voting power of shares of Capital Stock entitled (without regard to
the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of
directors, managers or trustees thereof (or Persons performing
similar functions) or (2) any partnership, joint venture limited
liability company or similar entity of which more than 50% of the
capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting
interests or general or limited partnership interests, as
applicable, is, in the case of clauses (1) and (2), at the time
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by (a) such Person,
(b) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or (c)
one or more Subsidiaries of such Person. Unless otherwise specified
herein, each reference to a Subsidiary will refer to a Subsidiary
of the Company.
“Total Assets” means the
total consolidated assets of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis determined in accordance with
IFRS, as shown on the most recent consolidated balance sheet of the
Company; provided
that, for purposes of calculating “Total Assets” for
purposes of testing the covenants under this Indenture in
connection with any transaction, the total consolidated assets of
the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be adjusted to
reflect any acquisitions and dispositions of assets that have
occurred during the period from the date of the applicable balance
sheet through the applicable date of determination.
“Treasury Rate” means the
weekly average (for the most recently completed week for which such
information is available as of the date that is two Business Days
prior to the redemption date) of the yield to maturity at the time
of computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant
maturity (as compiled and published in the Federal Reserve
Statistical Release H.15 with respect to each applicable day during
such week (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published,
any publicly available source or similar market data)) most nearly
equal to the period from the redemption date to December 1, 2021;
provided,
however, that if
the period from the redemption date to December 1, 2021 is not
equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security
for which a yield is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by
linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a
year) from the yields of United States Treasury securities for
which such yields are given, except that if the period from the
redemption date to December 1, 2021 is less than one year, the
weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury
securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one year will be
used.
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“Trustees” means the U.S.
Trustee and the Canadian Trustee.
“Tüprag” means
Tüprag Metal Madencilik San ve Tic A.Ş.
“Turkish Guarantee” means
that certain Turkish-law governed guarantee, dated as of June 5,
2019, between Tüprag in favor of the Collateral
Agent.
“Turkish Pledge Agreement”
means the share pledge agreement, dated as of the Issue Date,
between SG Resources B.V., as pledgor, establishing a second
ranking pledge over its ownership of the Capital Stock of
Tüprag, and the Collateral Agent, as pledgee, as may be
amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, re-affirmed
or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Uniform Commercial Code”
or “UCC” means the New York
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to
time.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary”
means:
(1) any
Subsidiary of the Company which at the time of determination shall
be designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors
of the Company in the manner provided below; and
(2) any
Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
The
Board of Directors of the Company may designate any Subsidiary of
the Company (including any newly acquired or newly formed
Subsidiary or a Person becoming a Subsidiary through merger,
consolidation, amalgamation, arrangement or Investment therein) to
be an Unrestricted Subsidiary only if:
(1) such
Subsidiary or any of its Subsidiaries does not own any Capital
Stock or Indebtedness of or have any Investment in, or own or hold
any Lien on any property of, any other Subsidiary of the Company
that is not a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated or
otherwise an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(2) such
designation and the Investment of the Company in such Subsidiary
complies with Section 4.07;
(3) such
Subsidiary, either alone or in the aggregate with all other
Unrestricted Subsidiaries, does not operate, directly or
indirectly, all or substantially all of the business of the Company
and its Subsidiaries; and
(4) on
the date such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary,
such Subsidiary is not a party to any agreement, contract,
arrangement or understanding with the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries that would not be permitted under
Section 4.11.
Any
such designation by the Board of Directors of the Company shall be
evidenced to the Trustees by filing with each of the Trustees a
resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company giving effect
to such designation and an Officer’s Certificate certifying
that such designation complies with the foregoing conditions. If,
at any time, any Unrestricted Subsidiary would fail to meet the
foregoing requirements as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, it shall
thereafter cease to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary for purposes of
this Indenture, and any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be
deemed to be Incurred as of such date.
The
Board of Directors of the Company may designate any Unrestricted
Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company;
provided that
immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would
occur as a consequence thereof and the Company could Incur at least
$1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.09(a) on a
pro forma basis taking into
account such designation.
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“Unsecured Guarantors”
means Tüprag, Eldorado Gold (Greece) B.V. and each Restricted
Subsidiary formed or acquired after the Issue Date that is a
borrower or guarantor under the Senior Credit Facility that
provides a Note Guarantee pursuant to the terms of the Indenture on
an unsecured basis; provided that upon release or discharge of any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company from its Note Guarantee in
accordance with the Indenture, such Restricted Subsidiary shall
cease to be an Unsecured Guarantor.
“U.S. Trustee” means
Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association,
as the U.S. trustee, until a successor replaces it in accordance
with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and thereafter
means the successor serving hereunder.
“Voting Stock” of a Person
means all classes of Capital Stock of such Person then outstanding
and normally entitled to vote in the election of directors,
managers or trustees, as applicable, of such Person.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary”
means a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, all of the Capital
Stock of which (other than directors’ qualifying shares) is
owned by the Company or another Wholly Owned
Subsidiary.
Term
|
Defined in Section
|
“2020
CapEx Amount”
|
4.16
|
“Acceptable
Commitment”
|
4.10(b)
|
“Additional
Amounts”
|
2.13(b)
|
“Additional
Hypothec”
|
4.18(a)
|
“Additional
Québec Properties”
|
4.18(a)
|
“Agent
Members”
|
2.1(c)
of Appendix A
|
“Affiliate
Transaction”
|
4.11(a)
|
“Applicable
Procedures”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Asset
Disposition Offer”
|
4.10(c)
|
“Asset
Disposition Offer Amount”
|
3.10(b)
|
“Asset
Disposition Purchase Date”
|
3.10(b)
|
“Authentication
Order”
|
2.02(c)
|
“Canadian
Restricted Legend”
|
2.3(d)
of Appendix A
|
“CapEx
Cap”
|
4.16
|
“Change
of Control Offer”
|
4.14(a)
|
“Change
of Control Payment”
|
4.14(a)
|
“Change
of Control Payment Date”
|
4.14(a)
|
“Clearstream”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Covenant
Defeasance”
|
8.03
|
“Definitive
Notes Legend”
|
2.3(d)
of Appendix A
|
“Euroclear”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Event
of Default”
|
6.01(a)
|
“Excess
Proceeds”
|
4.10(c)(1)
|
“Expiration
Date”
|
1.04(j)
|
“Global
Note”
|
2.1(b)
of Appendix A
|
“Global
Notes Legend”
|
2.3(d)
of Appendix A
|
“Hypothecary
Representative”
|
12.12
|
“Indemnified
Tax”
|
2.13(b)
|
“Judgment
Currency”
|
13.19
|
“Legal
Defeasance”
|
8.02(a)
|
“MD&A”
|
4.03(a)
|
“Note
Register”
|
2.03(a)
|
“Original
Hypothec”
|
4.18(a)(2)
|
“Original
Obligations”
|
12.13
|
“Parallel
Debt Obligations”
|
12.13
|
“Paying
Agent”
|
2.03(a)
|
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“payment
default”
|
6.01(a)
|
“Payor”
|
2.13(b)
|
“PRRIMR”
|
4.18(c)
|
“QIB”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Registrar”
|
2.03(a)
|
“Regulation
S”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Regulation
S Global Note”
|
2.1(b)
of Appendix A
|
“Regulation
S Notes”
|
2.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Reinstatement
Date”
|
4.17(b)
|
“Relevant
Taxing Jurisdiction”
|
2.13(a)
|
“Restricted
Payment”
|
4.07(a)
|
“Restricted
Notes Legend”
|
2.3(d)
of Appendix A
|
“RRRSRD”
|
4.18(c)
|
“Rule
144”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Rule
144A”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Rule
144A Global Note”
|
2.1(b)
of Appendix A
|
“Rule
144A Notes”
|
2.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
“Successor
Company”
|
5.01(a)
|
“Successor
Guarantor”
|
5.01(c)
|
“Suspended
Covenants”
|
4.17(a)
|
“Suspension
Period”
|
4.17(b)
|
“Taxes”
|
2.13(a)
|
“Transfer
Agent”
|
2.03(a)
|
“U.S.
person”
|
1.1(a)
of Appendix A
|
Section
1.03 Rules of
Construction.
Unless
the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term defined in
Section 1.01
or 1.02 has the
meaning assigned to it therein;
(2) an accounting term
not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in accordance
with IFRS;
(3) “or” is
not exclusive;
(4) words in the
singular include the plural, and words in the plural include the
singular;
(5) unless the context
otherwise requires, any reference to an “Appendix,”
“Article,” “Section,” “clause,”
“Schedule” or “Exhibit” refers to an
Appendix, Article, Section, clause, Schedule or Exhibit, as the
case may be, of this Indenture;
(6) the words
“herein,” “hereof” and other words of
similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not any
particular Article, Section, clause or other
subdivision;
(7) the words
“including,” “includes” and other words of
similar import shall be deemed to be followed by “without
limitation”;
(8) references to
sections of, or rules under, the Securities Act or the Exchange Act
shall be deemed to include substitute, replacement or successor
sections or rules adopted by the SEC from time to
time;
(9) unless otherwise
provided, references to agreements and other instruments shall be
deemed to include all amendments and other modifications to such
agreements or instruments, but only to the extent such amendments
and other modifications are not prohibited by the terms of this
Indenture;
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(10) in
the event that a transaction meets the criteria of more than one
category of permitted transactions or listed exceptions, the
Company may classify such transaction as it, in its sole
discretion, determines; and
(11) $
or dollars means U.S. Dollars unless otherwise expressly
provided.
Section
1.04 Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders
may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by
an agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise
expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such
instrument or instruments or record or both are delivered to the
applicable Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to
the Company and the Guarantors. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent, or the
holding by any Person of a Note, shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 7.01) conclusive
in favor of the Trustees, the Company and the Guarantors, if made
in the manner provided in this Section 1.04.
(b) The fact and date
of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing
may be proved (1) by the affidavit of a witness of such execution
or by the certificate of any 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 or (2) in any other manner deemed
reasonably sufficient by the applicable Trustee. Where such
execution is by or on behalf of any legal entity other than an
individual, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute
proof of the authority of the Person executing the same. The
authority of the Person executing the same may also be proved in
any other manner deemed reasonably sufficient by the
Trustees.
(c) The ownership of
Notes shall be proved by the Note Register.
(d) Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action by the Holder of any Note shall bind every future Holder of
the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the
registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof, in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by
either of the Trustees, the Company or the Guarantors in reliance
thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such
Note.
(e) The Company may set
a record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders
entitled to make, give or take any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided in this
Indenture to be made, or to vote on any action authorized or
permitted to be taken by Holders; provided that the Company may
not set a record date for, and the provisions of this paragraph
shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any
notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in clause (f)
below. If any record date is set pursuant to this clause (e), the
Holders on such record date, and only such Holders, shall be
entitled to make, give or take such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action (including
revocation of any action), whether or not such Holders remain
Holders after such record date; provided that no such action
shall be effective hereunder unless made, given or taken on or
prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Notes, or each affected Holder, as applicable,
on such record date. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense, shall cause
notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Trustees in writing
and to each Holder in the manner set forth in Section 12.02.
(f) The U.S. Trustee
may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the
Holders entitled to join in the giving or making of (1) any notice
of default under Section 6.01(a), (2) any
declaration of acceleration referred to in Section 6.02, (3) any
direction referred to in Section 6.05 or (4) any
request to pursue a remedy referred to in Section 6.06(2). If any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders on such
record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to join in
such notice, declaration, request or direction, whether or not such
Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such action
shall be effective hereunder unless made, given or taken on or
prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Notes or each affected Holder, as applicable,
on such record date. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant
to this paragraph, the U.S. Trustee, at the Company’s
expense, shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed
action by Holders and the applicable Expiration Date to be given to
the Company and to each Holder in the manner set forth in
Section 12.02.
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(g) Without limiting
the foregoing, a Holder entitled to take any action hereunder with
regard to any particular Note may do so with regard to all or any
part of the principal amount of such Note 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 principal
amount. Any notice given or action taken by a Holder or its agents
with regard to different parts of such principal amount pursuant to
this paragraph shall have the same effect as if given or taken by
separate Holders of each such different part.
(h) Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, a Holder, including a Depositary
that is the Holder of a Global Note, may make, give or take, by a
proxy or proxies duly appointed in writing, any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
under this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders, and a
Depositary that is the Holder of a Global Note may provide its
proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of interests in any such
Global Note through such Depositary’s standing instructions
and customary practices.
(i) The Company may fix
a record date for the purpose of determining the Persons who are
beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note held by a
Depositary entitled under the procedures of such Depositary, if
any, to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in
writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action under this Indenture to be made,
given or taken by Holders; provided that if such a record
date is fixed, only the beneficial owners of interests in such
Global Note on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or
proxies shall be entitled to make, give or take such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, whether or not such beneficial owners remain beneficial
owners of interests in such Global Note after such record date. No
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action shall be effective hereunder unless made,
given or taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration
Date.
(j) With respect to any
record date set pursuant to this Section 1.04, the party
hereto that sets such record date may designate any day as the
“Expiration
Date” and from time to time may change the Expiration
Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no such change
shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration
Date is given to the other party hereto in writing, and to each
Holder of Notes in the manner set forth in Section 12.02, on or prior
to both the existing and the new Expiration Date. If an Expiration
Date is not designated with respect to any record date set pursuant
to this Section 1.04, the party
hereto which set such record date shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 30th day after such record date as the Expiration
Date with respect thereto, subject to its right to change the
Expiration Date as provided in this clause (j).
Section
1.05 Québec
Matters.
For
purposes of any assets, liabilities or entities located in the
Province of Québec and for all other purposes pursuant to
which the interpretation or construction of this Indenture may be
subject to the laws of the Province of Québec or a court or
tribunal exercising jurisdiction in the Province of Québec,
(a) “personal property” shall include “movable
property”, (b) “real property” or “real
estate” shall include “immovable property”, (c)
“tangible property” shall include “corporeal
property”, (d) “intangible property” shall
include “incorporeal property”, (e) “security
interest”, “mortgage” and “lien”
shall include a “hypothec”, “right of
retention”, “prior claim” , “reservation of
ownership” and a resolutory clause, (f) all references to
filing, perfection, priority, remedies, registering or recording
under the Uniform Commercial Code or a Personal Property Security
Act shall include publication under the Civil Code of Québec,
(g) all references to “perfection” of or
“perfected” liens or security interest shall include a
reference to an “opposable” or “set up”
hypothec as against third parties, (h) any “right of
offset”, “right of setoff” or similar expression
shall include a “right of compensation”,
(i) “goods” shall include “corporeal movable
property” other than chattel paper, documents of title,
instruments, money and securities, (j) an “agent”
shall include a “mandatary”,
(k) “construction liens” or “mechanics,
materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like
Liens” shall include “legal hypothecs” and
“legal hypothecs in favour of persons having taken part in
the construction or renovation of an immovable”,
(l) “joint and several” shall include
“solidary”, (m) “gross negligence or wilful
misconduct” shall be deemed to be “intentional or gross
fault”, (n) “beneficial ownership” shall include
“ownership on behalf of another as mandatary”,
(o) “easement” shall include
“servitude”, (p) “priority” shall
include “rank” or “prior claim”, as
applicable (q) “survey” shall include
“certificate of location and plan”,
(r) “state” shall include “province”,
(s) “fee simple title” shall include
“absolute ownership” and “ownership”
(including ownership under a right of superficies), (t)
“accounts” shall include “claims”, (u)
“legal title” shall include “holding title on
behalf of an owner as mandatory or xxxxx-nom”, (v)
“ground lease” shall include “emphyteusis”
or a “lease with a right of superficies, as applicable, (w)
“leasehold interest” shall include a “valid
lease”, (x) “lease” shall include a
“leasing contract” and (y) “guarantee” and
“guarantor” shall include “suretyship” and
“surety”, respectively. The parties hereto confirm that
it is their wish that this Indenture and any other document
executed in connection with the transactions contemplated herein be
drawn up in the English language only and that all other documents
contemplated thereunder or relating thereto, including notices, may
also be drawn up in the English language only. Les parties aux présentes confirment que
c’est leur volonté que cette convention et les documents
y afférents soient rédigés en langue anglaise
seulement et que tous les documents, y compris tous avis,
envisagés par cette convention et les autres documents peuvent
être rédigés en langue anglaise
seulement.
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ARTICLE
2
THE
NOTES
Section
2.01 Form and Dating;
Terms.
(a) The Notes and the
U.S. Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall each be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which is
hereby incorporated in and expressly made a part of this Indenture.
The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by
law, rules or agreements with national securities exchanges to
which the Company or any Guarantor is subject, if any, or general
usage (provided
that any such notation, legend or endorsement is in a form
acceptable to the Company but which notation, legend or endorsement
does not affect the rights, duties or obligations of either of the
Trustees). Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The Notes shall be in denominations of $2,000 and integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
(b) The aggregate
principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture is unlimited.
The
terms and provisions contained in the Notes shall constitute, and
are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture, and the
Company, the Guarantors and the Trustees, by their execution and
delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and
provisions and to be bound thereby. However, to the extent any
provision of any Note conflicts with the express provisions of this
Indenture, the provisions of this Indenture shall govern and be
controlling.
The
Notes shall be subject to repurchase by the Company pursuant to an
Asset Disposition Offer as provided in Section 4.10 or a Change
of Control Offer as provided in Section 4.14, and
otherwise as not prohibited by this Indenture. The Notes shall not
be redeemable other than as provided in Article 3.
Additional Notes
ranking pari passu with the
Initial Notes may be created and issued from time to time by the
Company without notice to or consent of the Holders and shall be
consolidated with and form a single class with the Initial Notes
and shall have the same terms as to status, redemption or otherwise
(other than issue date, issue price and, if applicable, the first
interest payment date and the initial interest accrual date) as the
Initial Notes; provided that the
Company’s ability to issue Additional Notes shall be subject
to the Company’s compliance with Section 4.09 and
Section 4.12.
Any Additional Notes shall be issued under and pursuant to an
indenture supplemental to this Indenture and in accordance with
Section 2.02.
In
authenticating and delivering the Initial Notes, Additional Notes
and any other Notes issued pursuant to this Indenture, the U.S.
Trustee shall receive and shall be fully protected in conclusively
relying upon, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel and
Officer’s Certificate required by Section 12.04, an Opinion
of Counsel (i) as to the due authorization, execution, delivery,
validity and enforceability of such Notes, (ii) stating that the
execution and delivery by the Company of such Notes does not
violate applicable law and (iii) such other matters as the U.S.
Trustee shall reasonably request.
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Section
2.02 Execution and
Authentication.
(a) At least one
Officer shall execute the Notes on behalf of the Company by manual
or facsimile signature. If an Officer whose signature is on a Note
no longer holds that office at the time a Note is authenticated,
the Note shall nevertheless be valid.
(b) A Note shall not be
entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose until authenticated substantially in the
form of Exhibit A
attached hereto by the manual signature of an authorized signatory
of the U.S. Trustee. The signature shall be conclusive evidence
that the Note has been duly authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
(c) On the Issue Date,
the U.S. Trustee shall, upon receipt of a written order of the
Company signed by an Officer (an “Authentication Order”)
and together with an Opinion of Counsel and Officer’s
Certificate reasonably acceptable to the U.S. Trustee, authenticate
and deliver the Initial Notes. The U.S. Trustee shall be fully
protected and shall incur no liability for failing to take any
action with respect to the delivery of any Notes unless and until
it has received such Authentication Order, Opinion of Counsel and
Officer’s Certificate. In addition, at any time and from time
to time, the U.S. Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Authentication
Order, authenticate and deliver any Global Notes, any Definitive
Notes, any Additional Notes, any replacement Notes to be issued
pursuant to Section 2.07, any
temporary Notes pursuant to Section 2.10 or any Notes
issuable following a redemption or repurchase by the Company
pursuant to the terms of this Indenture in an aggregate principal
amount specified in such Authentication Order for such Notes issued
hereunder.
(d) The U.S. Trustee
may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company to
authenticate Notes. An authenticating agent may authenticate Notes
whenever the U.S. Trustee may do so. Each reference in this
Indenture to authentication by the U.S. Trustee includes
authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same
rights as an Agent to deal with Holders or an Affiliate of the
Company. An authenticating agent shall have the right to decline to
authenticate and deliver any Notes if (a) the authenticating agent,
being advised by counsel, determines, in its reasonable discretion,
that such action may not be taken lawfully, or (b) the
authenticating agent in good faith by its board of trustees,
executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or
Responsible Officers shall determine, in its reasonable discretion,
that such action would expose the authenticating agent to personal
liability to Holders of any then outstanding Notes.
Section
2.03 Registrar and Paying
Agent.
(a) The Company shall
maintain an office or agency where Notes may be presented for
registration (the “Registrar”) of transfer or for
exchange (“Transfer
Agent”) and at least one office or agency where Notes
may be presented for payment (“Paying Agent”). The
Company shall keep a register of the Notes and of their transfer
and exchange (“Note
Register”). The Company may appoint one or more
co-registrars, co-transfer agents and one or more additional paying
agents. The term “Transfer Agent” includes any
co-transfer agent, the term “Registrar” includes any
co-registrar, and the term “Paying Agent” includes any
additional paying agent. The Company may change any Registrar,
Transfer Agent or Paying Agent without prior notice to any Holder;
provided,
however, that no
such removal shall become effective until acceptance of an
appointment by a successor as evidenced by an appropriate agreement
entered into by the Company and such successor Registrar, Transfer
Agent or Paying Agent, as the case may be, and delivered to the
Trustees and the passage of any waiting or notice periods required
by the Depositary’s procedures. The Company shall enter into
an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar, Transfer Agent
or Paying Agent not a party to this Indenture. The agreement shall
implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such
Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustees in writing of the name
and address of any Agent not a party to this Indenture. If the
Company fails to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar,
Transfer Agent or Paying Agent, the U.S. Trustee shall act as such
and shall be entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant
to Section 7.07. The Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent
(except for purposes of Article 8) or Registrar.
(b) The Company
initially appoints DTC to act as Depositary with respect to the
Global Notes. The Company initially appoints the U.S. Trustee to
act as Registrar, Transfer Agent and Paying Agent for the Notes,
for which Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a national banking
association, shall be Custodian.
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Section
2.04 Paying Agent to Hold Money in
Trust.
The
Company shall, by no later than 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on
each due date for the payment of principal, premium, if any, and
interest on any of the Notes, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum
sufficient to pay such amount, such sum to be held in trust for the
Holders entitled to the same, and (unless such Paying Agent is the
U.S. Trustee) the Company shall promptly notify the U.S. Trustee in
writing of its action or failure so to act. The Company shall
require each Paying Agent other than the U.S. Trustee to agree in
writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit
of Holders or the U.S. Trustee all money held by such Paying Agent
for the payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the
Notes and shall notify the U.S. Trustee in writing of any default
by the Company in making any such payment. While any such default
continues, the U.S. Trustee may require a Paying Agent to pay all
money held by it to the U.S. Trustee. The Company at any time may
require a Paying Agent to pay all money held by it to the U.S.
Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed by the Paying Agent.
Upon payment over to the U.S. Trustee, a Paying Agent shall have no
further liability for the money. If the Company or a Subsidiary
acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate and hold in a separate
trust fund for the benefit of the Holders all money held by it as
Paying Agent.
Section
2.05 Holder Lists.
The
Registrar shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and
addresses of all Holders. If the U.S. Trustee is not the Registrar,
the Company shall furnish to the U.S. Trustee in writing at least
five Business Days before each Interest Payment Date and at such
other times as the U.S. Trustee may reasonably request in writing,
a list in such form and as of such date as the U.S. Trustee may
reasonably require of the names and addresses of the
Holders.
Section
2.06 Transfer and
Exchange.
(a) The Notes shall be
issued in registered form and shall be transferable only upon the
surrender of a Note for registration of transfer and in compliance
with Appendix A.
(b) To permit
registrations of transfers and exchanges in compliance with
Appendix A, the Company shall execute and the U.S. Trustee shall
authenticate Global Notes and Definitive Notes upon receipt of an
Authentication Order in accordance with Section 2.02 or at the
Registrar’s request.
(c) No service charge
shall be made to a holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note
or to a Holder of a Definitive Note for any registration of
transfer or exchange (other than pursuant to Section 2.07), but the
Holders shall be required to pay any transfer tax or similar
governmental charge payable in connection therewith (other than any
such transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable upon
exchange or transfer pursuant to Sections 2.10, 3.06, 3.10, 4.10, 4.14 and 9.05). In addition, the
Company, the U.S. Trustee, the Transfer Agent and the Registrar may
request such other evidence as may be reasonably requested by them
documenting the identity and/or signatures of the transferor and
the transferees.
(d) All Global Notes
and Definitive Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or
exchange of Global Notes or Definitive Notes shall be the valid
obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled
to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Global Notes or
Definitive Notes surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange. Any holder of a beneficial interest in a Global Note
shall, by acceptance of such beneficial interest, agree that
transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Note may be
effected only through a book-entry system maintained by the Holder
of such Global Note (or its agent), that ownership of a beneficial
interest in such Global Note shall be required to be reflected in a
book entry and that transfers are subject to compliance with
applicable law.
(e) Neither the
Company, the U.S. Trustee, the Transfer Agent nor the Registrar
shall be required (1) to issue, to register the transfer of or to
exchange any Note during a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption
pursuant to Section 3.03 and ending at
the mailing of such notice of redemption, (2) to register the
transfer of or to exchange any Note so selected for redemption in
whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of any Note being
redeemed in part or (3) to register the transfer of or to exchange
any Note between a Record Date and the next succeeding Interest
Payment Date.
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(f) Prior to due
presentment for the registration of a transfer of any Note, each of
the Trustees, any Agent or the Company may deem and treat the
Person in whose name any Note is registered as the absolute owner
of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal,
premium, if any, and (subject to the Record Date provisions of the
Notes) interest on such Notes and for all other purposes, and none
of either of the Trustees, any Agent or the Company shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
(g) Upon surrender for
registration of transfer of any Note at the office or agency of the
Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02 in compliance
with Appendix A, the Company shall execute, and the U.S. Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver upon receipt of an Authentication
Order, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one
or more replacement Notes of any authorized denomination or
denominations of a like aggregate principal amount so long as the
requirements of this Indenture are met.
(h) At the option of
the Holder, Notes may be exchanged for other Notes of any
authorized denomination or denominations of a like aggregate
principal amount upon surrender of the Notes to be exchanged at the
office or agency of the Company designated pursuant to Section 4.02 so long as
the requirements of this Indenture are met. Whenever any Global
Notes or Definitive Notes are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the U.S. Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver, the replacement Global Notes or Definitive Notes, as
applicable, to which the Holder making the exchange is entitled in
accordance with the provisions of Appendix A so long as the
requirements of this Indenture are met.
(i) All certifications,
certificates and Opinions of Counsel required to be submitted to
the U.S. Trustee, Transfer Agent and Registrar pursuant to this
Section 2.06
and Appendix A to effect a registration of transfer or exchange may
be submitted by mail or by facsimile or electronic transmission
capable of producing a printed copy.
Section
2.07 Replacement Notes.
(a) If a mutilated Note
is surrendered to the Registrar or if a Holder claims that its Note
has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken and the Company, U.S.
Trustee and Registrar receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
ownership and loss, destruction or theft of such Note, the Company
shall issue and the U.S. Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication
Order, shall authenticate a replacement Note if the U.S.
Trustee’s reasonable requirements are otherwise met. An
indemnity bond must be provided by the Holder that is sufficient in
the judgment of the U.S. Trustee and the Company to protect the
Company, the U.S. Trustee, the Canadian Trustee, any Agent and any
authenticating agent from any loss that any of them may suffer if a
Note is replaced. The Company may charge the Holder for the
expenses of the Company and the U.S. Trustee (including reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel) in replacing a Note. Every
replacement Note is a contractual obligation of the Company and
shall be entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally
and proportionately with all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.07, in case any
mutilated, lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Note has become or
is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Note, pay such Note. Upon the
issuance of any replacement Note under this Section 2.07, the Company
or U.S. Trustee may require the payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in
relation thereto and any other expenses (including the reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel and the U.S. Trustee) connected
therewith.
(b) The provisions of
this Section 2.07 are exclusive
and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken Notes.
Section
2.08 Outstanding Notes.
(a) The Notes
outstanding at any time are all the Notes that have been
authenticated by the U.S. Trustee except for those canceled by it,
those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the
interest in a Global Note effected by the U.S. Trustee in
accordance with the provisions hereof, those paid pursuant to
Section 2.07,
those described in this Section 2.08 as not
outstanding and, solely to the extent provided for in Article 8, Notes that are
subject to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance as provided in
Article 8. Except
as set forth in Section 2.09, a Note does
not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company holds the Note; provided that Notes held by the
Company or a Subsidiary will not be deemed to be outstanding for
purposes of Section 3.07(b).
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(b) If a Note is
replaced or paid pursuant to Section 2.07, it ceases to
be outstanding unless the U.S. Trustee receives proof satisfactory
to it that the replaced Note is held by a protected purchaser, as
such term is defined in Section 8-303 of the Uniform Commercial
Code in effect in the State of New York.
(c) If the principal
amount of any Note is considered paid under Section 4.01, it ceases to
be outstanding and interest on it ceases to accrue from and after
the date of such payment.
(d) If a Paying Agent
(other than the Company, a Subsidiary or any Affiliate thereof)
holds, on the maturity date, any redemption date or any date of
purchase pursuant to an Offer to Purchase, money sufficient to pay
Notes payable or to be redeemed or purchased on that date, then on
and after that date such Notes shall be deemed to be no longer
outstanding and shall cease to accrue interest.
Section
2.09 Treasury Notes.
In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount
of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver or consent, Notes
beneficially owned by the Company, or by any Affiliate of the
Company, shall be considered as though not outstanding, except that
for the purposes of determining whether the U.S. Trustee shall be
protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only
Notes that a Responsible Officer of the U.S. Trustee actually knows
are so owned shall be so disregarded. Notes so owned that have been
pledged in good faith shall not be disregarded if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the U.S. Trustee the
pledgee’s right to deliver any such direction, waiver or
consent with respect to the Notes and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any obligor under the Notes or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor.
Section
2.10 Temporary Notes.
Until
Definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare
and the U.S. Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order,
shall authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes shall be
substantially in the form of Definitive Notes but may have
variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary
Notes and as shall be reasonably acceptable to the U.S. Trustee.
Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the U.S.
Trustee shall, upon receipt of an Authentication Order,
authenticate Definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes upon
surrender of such temporary Notes at the office or agency of the
Company, without charge to the Holder. Until so exchanged, the
Holders and beneficial owners, as the case may be, of temporary
Notes shall be entitled to all of the benefits accorded to Holders,
or beneficial owners, respectively, of Notes under this
Indenture.
Section
2.11 Cancellation.
The
Company at any time may deliver Notes to the U.S. Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and Paying Agent shall forward to the
U.S. Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for registration of
transfer, exchange or payment. The U.S. Trustee or, at the
direction of the Company, and no one else shall cancel all Notes
surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment,
replacement or cancellation and shall dispose of canceled Notes in
accordance with its customary procedures (subject to the record
retention requirement of the Exchange Act). Certification of the
disposal of all canceled Notes shall, upon the written request of
the Company, be delivered to the Company. The U.S. Trustee shall
retain all canceled Notes in accordance with its standard
procedures (subject to the record retention requirements of the
Exchange Act), and copies of the canceled Notes shall be provided
to the Company upon the Company’s written request. The
Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid
or that have been delivered to the U.S. Trustee for cancellation.
If the Company acquires any of the Notes, such acquisition shall
not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of Indebtedness
represented by such Notes unless or until the same are delivered to
the U.S. Trustee for cancellation. The U.S. Trustee shall not
authenticate Notes in place of canceled Notes other than pursuant
to the terms of this Indenture.
Section
2.12 Defaulted
Interest.
(a) If the Company
defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it shall pay the
defaulted interest in any lawful manner plus, to the extent lawful,
interest payable on the defaulted interest, to the Persons who are
Holders on a subsequent special record date, in each case at the
rate provided in the Notes and in Section 4.01. The Company
shall notify the Trustees in writing of the amount of defaulted
interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the
proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit
with the U.S. Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate
amount proposed to be paid in respect of such defaulted interest or
shall make arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the U.S. Trustee
for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such defaulted interest as provided in this
Section 2.12.
The Company shall fix or cause to be fixed each such special record
date and payment date; provided that no such special
record date shall be less than 10 days prior to the related payment
date for such defaulted interest. At least 15 days before the
special record date, the Company (or, upon the written request of
the Company, the U.S. Trustee in the name and at the expense of the
Company) shall send, or cause to be sent, to each Holder a notice
that states the special record date, the related payment date and
the amount of such interest to be paid.
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(b) Subject to the
foregoing provisions of this Section 2.12 and for
greater certainty, each Note delivered under this Indenture upon
registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any
other Note shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid,
and to accrue interest, which were carried by such other
Note.
Section
2.13 Additional
Amounts.
(a) All payments made
by or on behalf of the Company under or with respect to the Notes,
or by or on behalf of any Guarantor under or with respect to any
Note Guarantee, shall be made free and clear of and without
withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or future
tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental charge
(including penalties, interest and other liabilities related
thereto) (hereinafter referred to as “Taxes”) imposed or levied
by or on behalf of the government of Canada, any province or
territory of Canada or any political subdivision or any authority
or agency therein or thereof having power to tax, or any
jurisdiction in which the Company or any Guarantor is, at any time,
organized, carrying on business, or otherwise resident for tax
purposes or any jurisdiction from or through which any payment by
such parties is made (each, a “Relevant Taxing
Jurisdiction”), unless such Person is required to
withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by the interpretation or
administration thereof.
(b) If the Company, any
Guarantor (each such person, a “Payor”) or any applicable
withholding agent is required to withhold or deduct any amount for
or on account of Taxes imposed by a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction
from any payment made under or with respect to the Notes or a Note
Guarantee, the applicable Payor shall pay such additional amounts
(“Additional
Amounts”) as may be necessary so that the net amount
received by a beneficial owner of Notes (including Additional
Amounts) after such withholding or deduction (including any
withholding or deduction on any Additional Amounts) will not be
less than the amount such beneficial owner of Notes would have
received if such Taxes had not been withheld or deducted;
provided,
however, that the
foregoing obligations to pay Additional Amounts shall not apply to
(1) any Canadian withholding Taxes imposed on a payment to a Holder
or beneficial owner of Notes with which the applicable Payor does
not deal at arm’s length (within the meaning of the
Income Tax Act (Canada))
(the “Tax
Act”) at the time of the payment; (2) any Canadian
withholding Taxes imposed on a payment to a Holder or beneficial
owner of Notes by reason of such Holder or beneficial owner of
Notes being a “specified non-resident shareholder” of
the Company (as defined in subsection 18(5) of the Tax Act) or by
reason of such Holder or beneficial owner of Notes not dealing at
arm’s length with a “specified shareholder” of
the Company (as defined in subsection 18(5) of the Tax Act); (3)
any Taxes that would not have been so imposed but for the existence
of any present or former connection between the relevant Holder or
beneficial owner of Notes and the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction
including, for greater certainty and without limitation, such
Holder or beneficial owner being or having been a citizen, resident
or national thereof, or being or having been engaged in a trade or
business therein or maintaining a permanent establishment or other
physical presence in or otherwise having some connection with the
Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction (other than a connection arising from
the acquisition, ownership, holding or disposition of a Note or a
beneficial interest therein or the enforcement of rights under or
the receipt of any payment in respect of a Note or a Note
Guarantee); (4) any estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or
similar tax, assessment or governmental charge; (5) any deduction
or withholding of Taxes on a payment if the payment could have been
made without such deduction or withholding if the beneficial owner
of the payment had presented the Note for payment within 30 days
after the date on which such payment is first made available to
such beneficial owner (except to the extent that the Holder or
beneficial owner would have been entitled to Additional Amounts had
the Note been presented on the last day of such 30-day period); (6)
any Taxes that are imposed by reason of the Holder’s or
beneficial owner’s failure, after a request by the Company or
a Guarantor, to comply with any certification, documentation,
information or other evidentiary requirement concerning such
Holder’s or beneficial owner’s nationality, residence,
identity or connection with the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction if (i)
compliance is required by law, regulation, administrative practice
or an applicable treaty as a precondition to exemption from, or a
reduction in the rate of deduction or withholding of, such Taxes to
which such Holder or beneficial owner is entitled, (ii) in the case
of Relevant Taxing Jurisdictions other than Canada, such compliance
is not materially more onerous, in form, in procedure or in
substance of information disclosed, to such Holder or beneficial
owner than the information or other reporting requirements under
United States federal tax law, regulation and administrative
practice (such as Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8 or W-9) and
(iii) such Holder or beneficial owner is legally eligible to
provide such certification or documentation; or (7) any Taxes that
are the result of any combination of any of the above clauses (any
Taxes imposed by a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction that are not
excluded pursuant to any of the above clauses are referred to as
“Indemnified
Taxes”).
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(c) The applicable
Payor, if it is the applicable withholding agent, shall make any
required withholding or deduction and remit the full amount
deducted or withheld to the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction in
accordance with applicable law. Upon request, the Company shall
provide the U.S. Trustee on behalf of Holders and beneficial owners
of the Notes (and the U.S. Trustee shall forthwith provide Holders
and beneficial owners of the Notes) with official receipts or other
documentation evidencing the payment of the Taxes with respect to
which Additional Amounts are paid.
(d) If a Payor is or
will become obligated to pay Additional Amounts under or with
respect to any payment made on the Notes or a Note Guarantee, at
least 30 days prior to the date of such payment, such Payor shall
deliver to the Trustees and the Paying Agent (if different) an
Officer’s Certificate stating the fact that Additional
Amounts will be payable and the amount so payable and such other
information necessary to enable the Paying Agent to pay Additional
Amounts to Holders or beneficial owners of Notes on the relevant
payment date.
(e) Whenever in this
Indenture there is mentioned in any context: (1) the payment of
principal; (2) redemption prices or purchase prices in connection
with a redemption or purchase of Notes; (3) interest; or (4) any
other amount payable on or with respect to any of the Notes or any
Note Guarantee, such reference shall be deemed to include payment
of Additional Amounts as described under this Section 2.13 to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be
payable in respect thereof.
(f) The Company and the
Guarantors shall indemnify and hold harmless the Trustees, the
Agents and each Holder or beneficial owner the Notes for the amount
of any Indemnified Tax (including, for greater certainty, taxes
payable pursuant to Regulation 803 of the Income Tax Regulations (Canada)) levied
or imposed and paid by the Trustees, the Agents, Holder or
beneficial owner as a result of payments made under or with respect
to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, and with respect to any
reimbursements under this clause 2.13(f).
(g) The Company shall
pay any present or future stamp, court, issue, registration or
documentary Taxes or any other excise, property or similar Taxes
that arise in any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction from the execution,
delivery, enforcement or registration of the Notes, the Note
Guarantees, this Indenture or any other document or instrument in
relation thereof, or the receipt of any payments with respect to
the Notes or any Note Guarantees and the Company and the Guarantors
shall indemnify the Trustees, the Agents, the Holders and
beneficial owners of Notes for any such amounts (including
penalties, interest and other liabilities related thereto) paid by
such Holders or beneficial owners.
(h) The obligations
described in this Section 2.13 will survive
any termination, defeasance or discharge of this Indenture and any
transfer by a Holder or beneficial owner of its Notes, and will
apply, mutatis mutandis, to any successor Person to the Company or
any Guarantor and to any jurisdiction in which any successor Person
to the Company or any Guarantor is, at any time, organized,
carrying on business, or otherwise resident for tax purposes or any
jurisdiction from or through which payment is made.
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Section
2.14 CUSIP and ISIN
Numbers.
The
Company in issuing the Notes may use CUSIP or ISIN numbers (if then
generally in use) and if it does, the U.S. Trustee shall use CUSIP
or ISIN numbers in notices of redemption or exchange or in Offers
to Purchase 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 Notes or as contained in any
notice of redemption or exchange or in Offers to Purchase and that
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed on the Notes, and any such redemption or exchange or Offer
to Purchase shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of
such numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the U.S. Trustee in
writing of any change in the CUSIP or ISIN numbers.
Section
2.15 Computation of
Interest.
(a) Interest shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day
months.
(b) For purposes of the
Interest Act (Canada), whenever any interest or fee under the Notes
or this Indenture is calculated using a rate based on a number of
days less than a full year, such rate determined pursuant to such
calculation, when expressed as an annual rate, is equivalent to (x)
the applicable rate, (y) multiplied by the actual number of days in
the calendar year in which the period for which such interest or
fee is payable (or compounded) ends, and (z) divided by the number
of days based on which such rate is calculated. The principle of
deemed reinvestment of interest does not apply to any interest
calculation under the Notes or this Indenture. The rates of
interest stipulated in the Notes and this Indenture are intended to
be nominal rates and not effective rates or yields.
(c) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, the Trustees shall not have any
duty or obligation to calculate any interest, defaulted interest or
premium on or with respect to the Notes.
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION
Section
3.01 Notices to U.S.
Trustee.
If the
Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to Section 3.07 or
Section 3.09,
it shall furnish to the U.S. Trustee, at least five Business Days
before notice of redemption is required to be sent or caused to be
sent to Holders pursuant to Section 3.03 (unless a
shorter notice shall be agreed to by the U.S. Trustee in writing)
but not more than 65 days before a redemption date, an
Officer’s Certificate setting forth (1) the paragraph or
subparagraph of such Article or Section of this Indenture pursuant
to which the redemption shall occur, (2) the redemption date, (3)
the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed and (4) the
redemption price, if then ascertainable.
Section
3.02 Selection of Notes to Be Redeemed or
Purchased.
(a) If less than all of
the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to Section 3.07 or purchased
in an Asset Disposition Offer at any time, the U.S. Trustee shall
select the Notes to be redeemed or purchased (1) by lot or
otherwise in accordance with the procedures of DTC or the
applicable Depositary or (2) if the Notes are not in global form,
then on a pro rata basis,
by lot or by such other method as the U.S. Trustee in its sole
discretion shall deem fair and appropriate. In the event of partial
redemption or purchase by lot, the particular Notes to be redeemed
or purchased shall be selected, unless otherwise provided herein,
not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the redemption date
by the U.S. Trustee from the then outstanding Notes not previously
called for redemption or purchase.
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(b) The U.S. Trustee
shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes selected
for redemption or purchase. Notes and portions of Notes selected
shall be in amounts of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in
excess thereof; no Notes of $2,000 or less shall be redeemed in
part, except that if all of the Notes of a Holder are to be
redeemed or purchased, the entire outstanding amount of Notes held
by such Holder, even if not $2,000 or a multiple of $1,000 in
excess thereof, shall be redeemed or purchased. Except as provided
in the preceding sentence, provisions of this Indenture that apply
to Notes called for redemption or purchase also apply to portions
of Notes called for redemption or purchase.
(c) After the
redemption date, upon surrender of a Note to be redeemed in part
only, a new Note or Notes in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the original Note, representing the same
Indebtedness to the extent not redeemed, shall be issued in the
name of the Holder of the Notes upon cancellation of the original
Note (or appropriate book entries shall be made to reflect such
partial redemption).
Section
3.03 Notice of
Redemption.
(a) Subject to
Section 3.10
and, except in connection with Article 11, the Company shall
send, or cause to be sent (in the case of Notes held in book-entry
form, by electronic transmission) notices of redemption of Notes at
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the redemption date
to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed (with a copy to the
U.S. Trustee) pursuant to this Article 3 at such
Holder’s registered address or otherwise in accordance with
the procedures of the Depositary.
(b) The notice shall
identify the Notes to be redeemed (including CUSIP and ISIN number,
if applicable) and shall state:
(1) the redemption
date;
(2) the redemption
price, including the portion thereof representing any accrued and
unpaid interest; provided that in connection
with a redemption under Section 3.07(a), the
notice need not set forth the redemption price but only the manner
of calculation thereof;
(3) if any Note is to
be redeemed in part only, the portion of the principal amount of
that Note that is to be redeemed;
(4) the name and
address of the Paying Agent and the U.S. Trustee;
(5) that Notes called
for redemption must be surrendered to the Paying Agent to collect
the redemption price;
(6) that, unless the
Company defaults in making such redemption payment or the Paying
Agent is prohibited from making such payment pursuant to the terms
of this Indenture, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases
to accrue on and after the redemption date;
(7) the paragraph or
subparagraph of the Notes or Section of this Indenture pursuant to
which the Notes called for redemption are being
redeemed;
(8) that no
representation is made as to the correctness or accuracy of the
CUSIP or ISIN number, if any, listed in such notice or printed on
the Notes; and
(9) if applicable, any
condition to such redemption.
(c) At the
Company’s request, the U.S. Trustee shall give the notice of
redemption in the Company’s name and at the Company’s
expense; provided
that the Company shall have delivered to the U.S. Trustee, at least
five Business Days before notice of redemption is required to be
sent or caused to be sent to Holders pursuant to this Section 3.03 (unless a
shorter notice shall be agreed to by the U.S. Trustee), an
Officer’s Certificate authorizing and directing the U.S.
Trustee to give such notice and attaching a form of the notice
which shall contain the information to be stated in such notice as
provided in Section 3.03(b).
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Section
3.04 Effect of Notice of
Redemption.
Once
notice of redemption is sent in accordance with Section 3.03, Notes called
for redemption become irrevocably due and payable on the redemption
date at the redemption price (except as provided for in
Section 3.07(g)).
The notice, if sent in a manner herein provided, shall be
conclusively presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder
receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice or
any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for
redemption in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Note. Subject to
Section 3.05,
on and after the redemption date, interest ceases to accrue on
Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption.
Section
3.05 Deposit of Redemption or Purchase
Price.
(a) By no later than
10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the redemption or purchase date,
the Company shall deposit with the U.S. Trustee or with the Paying
Agent money sufficient to pay the redemption or purchase price of
and accrued and unpaid interest on all Notes to be redeemed or
purchased on that date. The U.S. Trustee or the Paying Agent, as
applicable, shall promptly distribute to each Holder whose Notes
are to be redeemed or repurchased the applicable redemption or
purchase price thereof and accrued and unpaid interest thereon. The
U.S. Trustee or the Paying Agent, as applicable, shall promptly
return to the Company any money deposited with the U.S. Trustee or
the Paying Agent by the Company in excess of the amounts necessary
to pay the redemption or purchase price of, and accrued and unpaid
interest on, all Notes to be redeemed or purchased.
(b) If the Company
complies with the provisions of Section 3.05(a), on and
after the redemption or purchase date, interest shall cease to
accrue on the Notes or the portions of Notes called for redemption
or purchase. If a Note is redeemed or purchased on or after a
Record Date but on or prior to the related Interest Payment Date,
then any accrued and unpaid interest to the redemption or purchase
date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note was
registered at the close of business on such Record Date, and no
additional interest shall be payable to Holders whose Notes shall
be subject to redemption by the Company. If any Note called for
redemption or purchase shall not be so paid upon surrender for
redemption or purchase because of the failure of the Company to
comply with Section 3.05(a), interest
shall be paid on the unpaid principal, from the redemption or
purchase date until such principal is paid.
Section
3.06 Notes Redeemed or Purchased in
Part.
Upon
surrender of a Note that is redeemed or purchased in part, the
Company shall issue and, upon receipt of an Authentication Order
and in accordance with Section 2.02, the U.S. Trustee shall
promptly authenticate and mail to the Holder (or cause to be
transferred by book entry) at the expense of the Company a new Note
equal in principal amount to the unredeemed or unpurchased portion
of the Note surrendered representing the same Indebtedness to the
extent not redeemed or purchased; provided that each new Note
shall be in a principal amount of $2,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof.
Section
3.07 Optional
Redemption.
(a) At any time prior
to December 1, 2021, the Company may redeem the Notes, in whole or
in part, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ prior
written notice sent to each Holder or otherwise in accordance with
the procedures of the Depositary at a redemption price equal to
100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes plus the Applicable Premium,
plus accrued and
unpaid interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the
right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive
interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to
such redemption date). Promptly after the determination thereof,
the Company shall give the U.S. Trustee notice of the redemption
price provided for in this Section 3.07(a), and the
U.S. Trustee shall not be responsible for such
calculation.
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(b) Prior to December
1, 2021, the Company may on any one or more occasions redeem up to
35% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes
(calculated after giving effect to any issuance of Additional
Notes) with the Net Cash Proceeds of one or more Equity Offerings
at a redemption price equal to 109.500% of the aggregate principal
amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the applicable redemption date (subject to the
right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive
interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to
such redemption date); provided that (1) at least 65%
of the original aggregate principal amount of the Notes (calculated
after giving effect to any issuance of Additional Notes) remains
outstanding after each such redemption; and (2) such redemption
occurs within 120 days after the closing of such Equity
Offering.
(c) In the event that
Holders of not less than 90% of the aggregate principal amount of
the outstanding Notes accept a Change of Control Offer pursuant to
Section 4.14,
and the Company purchases all of the Notes held by such Holders,
within 90 days of such purchase, the Company shall have the right,
upon not less than 30 days’ nor more than 60 days’
prior notice, to redeem all of the Notes that remain outstanding
following such purchase at a redemption price equal to the Change
of Control Payment plus, to the extent not
included in the Change of Control Payment, accrued and unpaid
interest on the Notes to the date of redemption (subject to the
right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive
interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to
such redemption date).
(d) Except pursuant to
clause (a), (b) or (c) of this Section 3.07 or
Section 3.09,
the Notes shall not be redeemable at the Company’s option
prior to December 1, 2021.
(e(e)
On and after December 1, 2021, the Company may redeem the Notes, in
whole or in part on one or more occasions, upon not less than 30
nor more than 60 days’ notice, at the redemption prices
(expressed as a percentage of principal amount of the Notes to be
redeemed) set forth below, plus accrued and unpaid
interest on the Notes, if any, to the applicable redemption date
(subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant Record
Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling on
or prior to such redemption date), if redeemed during the 12-month
period beginning on December 1 of each of the years indicated
below:
Year
|
Percentage
|
2021
|
107.125%
|
2022
and thereafter
|
100.000%
|
(f) Any redemption
pursuant to this Section 3.07 shall be made
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.01 through
3.06.
(g) Any redemption
notice in connection with this Section 3.07 may, at the
Company’s discretion, be subject to one or more conditions
precedent, including completion of an Equity Offering or other
corporate transaction.
(h) If the optional
redemption date is on or after a Record Date and on or before the
related Interest Payment Date, the accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, will be paid on the relevant Interest Payment Date to the
Person in whose name the Note is registered at the close of
business on such Record Date, and such interest will not be
includable in the redemption price paid to Holders.
Section
3.08 Mandatory Redemption; Open Market
Purchases.
The
Company will not be required to make mandatory redemption or
sinking fund payments with respect to the Notes. The Company, any
Subsidiary or their respective Affiliates may acquire Notes by
means other than a redemption, whether by tender offer, open market
purchases, negotiated transactions or otherwise, in accordance with
applicable securities laws and regulations, including, without
limitation, Canadian Securities Legislation, so long as such
acquisition does not otherwise violate the terms of this
Indenture.
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Section
3.09 Tax Redemption.
(a) If (i) the Company
becomes, or will become, obligated to pay, on the next date on
which any amount may be payable with respect to the Notes, any
Additional Amounts as a result of a change in, or amendment to, the
laws, regulations or rulings of any Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction,
or any change in official position regarding the application or
interpretation of such laws, regulations or rulings (including a
holding by a court of competent jurisdiction), which is publicly
announced and becomes effective after the date of the Offering
Memorandum (or if the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction became a
Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction on a later date, after such later
date) and (ii) the payment of such Additional Amounts cannot (as
certified in an Officer’s Certificate to the Trustees) be
avoided by the use of reasonable measures available to the Company,
then the Company may, at its option, redeem the Notes then
outstanding, in whole but not in part, upon not less than 30 nor
more than 60 days’ notice (such notice to be provided not
more than 90 days before the next date on which it would be
obligated to pay Additional Amounts), at a redemption price equal
to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the redemption date (subject to the right of
Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest
due on an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the
redemption date).
(b) Notice of the
Company’s intent to redeem the Notes pursuant to this
Section 3.09
shall not be effective until such time as it delivers to the U.S.
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that the Company is or will
become obligated to pay Additional Amounts because of an amendment
to or change in law or regulation or position as described in this
Section 3.09.
(c) Any redemption
pursuant to this Section 3.09 shall be made
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.01, 3.03, 3.04 and 3.05. Any notice to redeem the
Notes pursuant to this Section 3.09 shall not be
given earlier than 90 days prior to the earliest date on which the
Company would be obligated to pay Additional Amounts in respect of
the Notes.
Section
3.10 Offers to Repurchase by Application of
Excess Proceeds.
(a) In the event that,
pursuant to Section 4.10, the Company
is required or opts to commence an Asset Disposition Offer, the
Company will follow the procedures specified below.
(b) No later than five
Business Days after the termination of the Asset Disposition Offer
(the “Asset
Disposition Purchase Date”), the Company shall apply
all Excess Proceeds to the purchase of the aggregate principal
amount of Notes and, if applicable, Second Priority Indebtedness,
on a pro rata basis in
accordance with Section 4.10 (the
“Asset Disposition
Offer Amount”), or if less than the Asset Disposition
Offer Amount of Notes and, if applicable, Second Priority
Indebtedness has been so validly tendered and not validly
withdrawn, all Notes and Second Priority Indebtedness validly
tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Asset
Disposition Offer.
(c) If the Asset
Disposition Purchase Date is on or after a Record Date and on or
before the related Interest Payment Date, the accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, will be paid (to the Asset Disposition Purchase
Date) to the Person in whose name a Note is registered at the close
of business on such Record Date, and no additional interest will be
payable to Holders whose Notes are tendered pursuant to the Asset
Disposition Offer.
(d) Upon the
commencement of an Asset Disposition Offer, the Company shall send
a notice (or, in the case of Global Notes, otherwise communicate in
accordance with the procedures of the Depositary) to each of the
Holders, with a copy to the U.S. Trustee. The notice shall contain
all instructions and materials necessary to enable such Holders to
tender Notes pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer. The Asset
Disposition Offer shall be made to all Holders and, to the extent
required by the terms of the outstanding Second Priority
Indebtedness, all holders of such Second Priority Indebtedness. The
notice, which shall govern the terms of the Asset Disposition
Offer, shall state:
(1) that the Asset
Disposition Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 3.10 and
Section 4.10
and the length of time the Asset Disposition Offer shall remain
open;
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(2) the Asset
Disposition Offer Amount, the purchase price, including the portion
thereof representing any accrued and unpaid interest, and the Asset
Disposition Purchase Date;
(3) that any Note not
properly tendered or accepted for payment shall continue to accrue
interest;
(4) that, unless the
Company defaults in making such payment, any Note accepted for
payment pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer will cease to
accrue interest on and after the Asset Disposition Purchase
Date;
(5) that Holders
electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to an Asset Disposition
Offer may elect to have Notes purchased in integral multiples of
$1,000 only;
(6) that Holders
electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to an Asset Disposition
Offer shall be required to (i) surrender such Note, with the form
entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the
reverse of such Note completed, or (ii) transfer such Note by
book-entry transfer, in either case, to the Company, the
Depositary, if applicable, or the Paying Agent at the address
specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third
Business Day preceding the Asset Disposition Purchase
Date;
(7) that Holders shall
be entitled to withdraw their tendered Notes and their election to
require the Company to purchase such Notes if the Company, the
Depositary or the Paying Agent, as the case may be, receives at the
address specified in the notice, not later than the expiration of
the Asset Disposition Offer, a facsimile transmission or letter
setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the
Notes the Holder tendered for purchase and a statement that such
Holder is withdrawing its tendered Notes and its election to have
such Note purchased;
(8) that, if the
aggregate principal amount of Notes and Second Priority
Indebtedness surrendered by the holders thereof exceeds the Asset
Disposition Offer Amount, then the Notes to be repurchased shall be
selected, if the Notes are in global form, by lot or otherwise in
accordance with the procedures of DTC or, if the Notes are not in
global form, on a pro rata
basis, by lot or by such other method as the U.S. Trustee in its
sole discretion shall deem to be fair and appropriate, and the
Company shall select Second Priority Indebtedness to be purchased
on a pro rata basis on the basis of the
aggregate accreted value or principal amount of tendered Notes and
Second Priority Indebtedness, although no Note having a principal
amount of $2,000 shall be purchased in part; and
(9) that
Holders whose Notes were purchased only in part shall be
issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased
portion of the Notes surrendered (or transferred by book-entry
transfer) representing the same Indebtedness to the extent not
repurchased.
The
notice, if sent in a manner herein provided, shall be conclusively
presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives
such notice. If (A) the notice is sent in a manner herein provided
and (B) any Holder fails to receive such notice or a Holder
receives such notice but it is defective, such Holder’s
failure to receive such notice or such defect shall not affect the
validity of the proceedings for the purchase of the Notes as to all
other Holders that properly received such notice without
defect.
(e) On or before the
Asset Disposition Purchase Date, the Company shall, to the extent
lawful, accept for payment, by lot or on a pro rata basis, as applicable, the
Asset Disposition Offer Amount of Notes and other Second Priority
Indebtedness validly tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to
the Asset Disposition Offer, or if less than the Asset Disposition
Offer Amount has been validly tendered and not validly withdrawn,
all Notes and other Second Priority Indebtedness validly tendered
and not validly withdrawn pursuant to the Asset Disposition Offer,
in the case of the Notes in denominations of $2,000 and integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof; provided that if, following
repurchase of a portion of a Note, the remaining principal amount
of such Note outstanding immediately after such repurchase would be
less than $2,000, then the portion of such Note so repurchased
shall be reduced so that the remaining principal amount of such
Note outstanding immediately after such repurchase is $2,000. The
Company shall deliver, or cause to be delivered, to the U.S.
Trustee the Notes so accepted and to the Trustees an
Officer’s Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount
of Notes or portions thereof so accepted and that such Notes or
portions thereof were accepted for payment by the Company in
accordance with the terms of this Section 3.10.
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(f) The Company shall
promptly, but in no event later than five Business Days after
termination of the Asset Disposition Offer, mail or deliver to the
Paying Agent to remit to each tendering Holder or holder or lender
of other Second Priority Indebtedness, as the case may be, an
amount equal to the purchase price of the Notes or other Second
Priority Indebtedness so validly tendered and not validly withdrawn
by such Holder or holder or lender, as the case may be, and
accepted by the Company for purchase, and, if less than all of the
Notes tendered are purchased pursuant to the Asset Disposition
Offer, the Company shall promptly issue a new Note, and the U.S.
Trustee, upon delivery of an Authentication Order from the Company,
shall authenticate and mail or deliver (or cause to be transferred
by book-entry) such new Note to such Holder in a principal amount
equal to any unpurchased portion of the Note surrendered;
provided that each
such new Note will be in a principal amount of $2,000 or an
integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. Any Note not so
accepted will be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the
Holder thereof. The Company will publicly announce the results of
the Asset Disposition Offer on the Asset Disposition Purchase
Date.
(g) Other than as
specifically provided in this Section 3.10 or
Section 4.10,
any purchase pursuant to this Section 3.10 shall be made
pursuant to the applicable provisions of Sections 3.01 through
3.06.
ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
Section
4.01 Payment of Notes.
(a) The Company shall
duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal, premium,
if any, and interest on the Notes on the dates and in the manner
provided in the Notes. Principal, premium, if any, and interest
shall be considered paid on the date due if the U.S. Trustee or the
Paying Agent, as applicable, holds as of 10:00 a.m. (New York City
time) on the due date money deposited by the Company in immediately
available funds and designated for and sufficient to pay the
principal, premium, if any, and interest then due; provided that if the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is acting as Paying Agent, it
shall, on or before each due date, segregate and hold in a separate
trust fund for the benefit of the Holders a sum of money sufficient
to pay such amounts until paid to such Holders or otherwise
disposed of as provided in this Indenture.
(b) The Company shall
pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding
under any Insolvency Law) on overdue principal and premium, if any,
at the rate equal to the then applicable interest rate on the Notes
to the extent lawful; it shall pay interest (including
post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Insolvency Law)
on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace period) at the same rate to the extent
lawful.
Section
4.02 Maintenance of Office or
Agency.
The
Company shall maintain an office or agency (which may be an office
of either of the Trustees or an affiliate of either of the
Trustees, Registrar or co-registrar) where Notes may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or for exchange. The Company shall
give prompt written notice to the Trustees of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time
the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or
agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustees with the address
thereof, such presentations and surrenders may be made or served at
the Corporate Trust Office of the U.S. Trustee.
The
Company may also from time to time designate additional offices or
agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or
all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such
designations. The Company shall give prompt written notice to each
of the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any
change in the location of any such other office or
agency.
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The
Company hereby designates the Corporate Trust Office of the U.S.
Trustee as one such office or agency of the Company in accordance
with Section 2.03.
Section
4.03 Reports and Other
Information.
(a) For so long as any
Notes are outstanding, whether or not required by the SEC or
Canadian Securities Legislation, the Company shall furnish without
cost to each Holder and deliver to each of the
Trustees:
(1) on or prior to the
later of (A) 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the
Company or (B) the date on which the Company is required to file
(after giving effect to any available extension) such information
pursuant to Canadian Securities Legislation, all annual financial
information that the Company would be required to file as a
reporting issuer under Canadian Securities Legislation, including
annual “Management’s Discussion & Analysis”
(“MD&A”) and audited
financial statements;
(2) on or prior to the
later of (A) 45 days after the end of each of the first three
fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Company or (B) the date
on which the Company is required to file (after giving effect to
any available extension) such information pursuant to Canadian
Securities Legislation, all quarterly financial information that
the Company would be required to file as a reporting issuer under
Canadian Securities Legislation, including a quarterly MD&A and
unaudited quarterly financial statements; and
(3) on or prior to the
tenth Business Day following the events giving rise to the
requirements for the Company to file a material change report
pursuant to Canadian Securities Legislation, such material change
report.
(b) With respect to the
reports referred to in clauses (1), (2) and (3) of Section 4.03(a), the
Company shall (A) file such reports electronically on the Canadian
Securities Administrators’ SEDAR website (or any successor
system); (B) file such reports electronically on the SEC’s
Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System (or any
successor system); or (C) post such reports on a public website
maintained by the Company which, in the case of (A), (B) or (C),
shall satisfy the Company’s obligations to furnish such
materials to the Holders and deliver such materials to the
Trustees.
(c) The Company shall
use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) schedule and
participate in quarterly conference calls (which can be the same as
the calls for equity holders) to discuss its results of operations
and (ii) provide S&P and Xxxxx’x with information on a
periodic basis as S&P or Xxxxx’x, as the case may be,
shall reasonably request.
(d) The Company will
provide to any Holder, securities analysts and prospective
investors upon request the information required to be delivered by
Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act, so long as the Notes are
not freely transferable under the Securities Act.
(e) In the event that
any Parent of the Company is or becomes a Guarantor of the Notes,
the Company may satisfy its obligations under this Section 4.03 with respect
to financial information relating to the Company by furnishing
financial information relating to such Parent; provided that, the same is
accompanied by consolidating information that explains in
reasonable detail the differences between the information relating
to such Parent and any of its Subsidiaries other than the Company
and its Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the information relating
to the Company, the Guarantors and the other Subsidiaries of the
Company on a stand-alone basis, on the other hand.
(f) Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, the Company will not be deemed to
have failed to comply with any of its obligations hereunder for the
purposes of Section 6.01(a)(4) until
120 days after the date any report in this Section 4.03 is due to be
furnished to the Holders and the Trustees in accordance with
Section 4.03(a).
(g) If the Company has
designated any of its Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries and
such Unrestricted Subsidiaries hold more than in the aggregate 5.0%
of the Total Assets of the Company or contribute more than 5.0% of
the total revenue of the Company and its Subsidiaries, then the
annual, quarterly and other financial information required by
clauses (1), (2) and (3) of Section 4.03(a) shall
include footnote disclosure that explains in reasonable detail the
differences between the information relating to the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and the information
relating to the Unrestricted Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on
the other hand, in accordance with and to the extent required by
IFRS.
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(h) Delivery of
reports, information and documents to the Trustees is for
informational purposes only and their respective receipt of such
reports shall not constitute constructive notice of any information
contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein, including the Company’s, any Guarantor’s or
any other Person’s compliance with any of its covenants under
the Indenture or the Notes (as to which the Trustees are entitled
to rely exclusively on Officer’s Certificates).
(i) Neither of the
Trustees shall be obligated to monitor or confirm, on a continuing
basis or otherwise, the Company’s, any Guarantor’s or
any other Person’s compliance with the covenants described
herein or with respect to any reports or other documents filed
under this Indenture.
Section
4.04 Compliance
Certificate.
(a) The Company shall
deliver to each of the Trustees (with a copy to the Collateral
Agent), within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year ending
after the Issue Date, an Officer’s Certificate stating that a
review of the activities of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made under
the supervision of the signing Officer with a view to determining
whether the Company and each Guarantor have kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled their obligations under this Indenture, and
further stating, as to such Officer signing such certificate, that
to the best of his or her knowledge, based on such review, the
Company and each Guarantor have kept, observed, performed and
fulfilled its obligations under this Indenture and, if a Default
shall have occurred during the preceding fiscal year, describe all
such Defaults of which he or she may have knowledge and what action
the Company and each Guarantor are taking or propose to take with
respect thereto.
(b) When any Default
has occurred and is continuing under this Indenture, the Company
shall promptly (which shall be no more than 30 Business Days
following the date on which the Company becomes aware of such
Default) send to each of the Trustees (with a copy to the
Collateral Agent) an Officer’s Certificate specifying such
event, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes
to take with respect thereto.
Section
4.05 Taxes.
The
Company shall pay, and shall cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to pay, prior to delinquency, all material taxes,
assessments and governmental levies except such as are contested in
good faith and by appropriate negotiations or proceedings or where
the failure to effect such payment is not adverse in any material
respect to the Holders.
Section
4.06 Stay, Extension and Usury
Laws.
The
Company and each Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) that it shall not at any time insist upon, plead,
or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage
of, any stay, extension or usury law wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, that may prohibit or forgive the
Company or any Guarantor from paying all or a portion of the
principal, premium or interest on the Notes as contemplated herein;
and the Company and each Guarantor (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of
any such law, and covenants that it shall not, by resort to any
such law, hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein
granted to the Trustees, but shall suffer and permit the execution
of every such power as though no such law has been
enacted.
Section
4.07 Limitation on Restricted
Payments.
(a) The Company shall
not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
directly or indirectly, to:
(1) declare or pay any
dividend or make any distribution (whether made in cash, securities
or other property) on or in respect of its or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries’ Capital Stock (including any payment in
connection with any merger, amalgamation, arrangement or
consolidation involving the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries) other than:
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(A) dividends or
distributions payable solely in Capital Stock of the Company (other
than Disqualified Stock); and
(B) dividends or
distributions by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, so long
as, in the case of any dividend or distribution payable on or in
respect of any Capital Stock issued by a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries holding such Capital Stock
receives at least its pro
rata share of such dividend or distribution;
(2) purchase, redeem,
retire or otherwise acquire for value, including in connection with
any merger, amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation, any Capital
Stock of the Company held by Persons other than the Company or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than in exchange for Capital
Stock of the Company (other than Disqualified Stock));
(3) make any principal
payment on, or purchase, repurchase, redeem, defease or otherwise
acquire or retire for value, prior to any scheduled repayment,
scheduled sinking fund payment or scheduled maturity, any
Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations,
other than:
(A) Indebtedness
permitted under clause (5) of Section 4.09(b);
or
(B) the purchase,
repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement of Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated
Obligations purchased in anticipation of satisfying a sinking fund
obligation, principal installment or final maturity, in each case
due within one year of the date of purchase, repurchase,
redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or retirement;
or
(4) make any Restricted
Investment (all such payments and other actions referred to in
clauses (1) through (4) (other than any exception thereto) shall be
referred to as a “Restricted Payment”),
unless, at the time of and after giving effect to such Restricted
Payment:
(A) no Default or Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing (or would result
therefrom);
(B) immediately after
giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, the Company could
Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness under Section 4.09(a);
(C) immediately after
giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma basis, the
Leverage Ratio of the Company would not exceed 2.00 to 1.00;
and
(D) the aggregate
amount of such Restricted Payment and all other Restricted Payments
declared or made subsequent to the Issue Date (without duplication
and excluding Restricted Payments made pursuant to clauses (1),
(2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12) and (14) of
Section 4.07(b)) would not
exceed the sum of (without duplication):
(i) 50% of Consolidated
Net Income for the period (treated as one accounting period) from
April 1, 2019 to the end of the most recent fiscal quarter ending
prior to the date of such Restricted Payment for which internal
financial statements are available (or, in case such Consolidated
Net Income is a deficit, minus 100% of such deficit); plus
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(ii) 100%
of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds, or Fair Market Value of assets,
received by the Company from the issue or sale of its Capital Stock
(other than Disqualified Stock) or other capital contributions
subsequent to the Issue Date or the Net Cash Proceeds from the
conversion or exchange of convertible or exchangeable Disqualified
Stock of the Company that has been converted into or exchanged for
Capital Stock of the Company, other than Net Cash Proceeds, or Fair
Market Value of assets received, by the Company from an issuance or
sale of such Capital Stock to a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company or to an employee stock ownership plan, option plan or
similar trust to the extent such sale to an employee stock
ownership plan or similar trust is financed by loans from or
Guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
unless such loans have been repaid with cash on or prior to the
date of determination; plus
(iii) the
amount by which Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries is reduced on the Company’s
consolidated balance sheet upon the conversion or exchange (other
than debt held by a Subsidiary of the Company) subsequent to the
Issue Date of any Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries converted or exchanged for Capital Stock
(other than Disqualified Stock) of the Company (less the amount of
any cash, or the Fair Market Value of any other property (excluding
such Capital Stock), distributed by the Company upon such
conversion or exchange); plus
(iv) an
amount equal to:
(x) 100%
of the aggregate amount received in cash and the Fair Market Value
of marketable securities or other property received by means of
repurchases or redemptions of Restricted Investments or Similar
Business Investments, proceeds realized upon the sale of such
Restricted Investment or Similar Business Investments other than to
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, repayments of loans or
advances or other transfers of assets (including by way of dividend
or distribution) by any Person to the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (other than for reimbursement of tax
payments), including dividends received from Unrestricted
Subsidiaries, which amount in each case under this clause (x) was
included in the calculation of the amount of Restricted Payments
available (including Similar Business Investments);
(y) the
Fair Market Value of the Investment in an Unrestricted Subsidiary
that is being redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company or the merger, amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation
of an Unrestricted Subsidiary with and into the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries (valued in each case as provided in the
definition of “Investment”) not to exceed the amount of
Investments previously made by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries in such Unrestricted Subsidiary, which amount in each
case under this clause (y) was included in the calculation of the
amount of Restricted Payments; or
(z) upon
the release of any Guarantee that constituted a Restricted
Investment when it was granted, the amount of the Restricted
Investment made upon the granting of such Guarantee; less
(v)
any
Investment that is a Similar Business Investment made pursuant to
clause (14) of the definition of “Permitted Investment”
in Section 1.01.
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(b) Section 4.07(a) shall not
prohibit:
(1) any purchase,
repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement of Capital Stock, Disqualified Stock or Subordinated
Obligations of the Company or Guarantor Subordinated Obligations of
any Guarantor made by exchange for, or out of the proceeds of the
substantially concurrent sale of, Capital Stock of the Company
(other than Disqualified Stock and other than Capital Stock issued
or sold to a Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or
similar trust to the extent such sale to an employee stock
ownership plan or similar trust is financed by loans from or
Guaranteed by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
unless such loans have been repaid with cash on or prior to the
date of determination); provided, however, that the Net Cash
Proceeds from such sale of Capital Stock will be excluded from
Section 4.07(a)(4)(D)(ii);
(2) any purchase,
repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement of Subordinated Obligations of the Company or Guarantor
Subordinated Obligations of any Guarantor made by exchange for, or
out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent sale of,
Subordinated Obligations of the Company or any purchase,
repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement of Guarantor Subordinated Obligations of any Guarantor
made by exchange for or out of the proceeds of the substantially
concurrent sale of Guarantor Subordinated Obligations of a
Guarantor, so long as such refinancing Subordinated Obligations or
Guarantor Subordinated Obligations are permitted to be Incurred
pursuant to Section 4.09 and
constitute Refinancing Indebtedness;
(3) any purchase,
repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement of Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries at the stated maturity thereof or made by
exchange for or out of the proceeds of the substantially concurrent
sale of Disqualified Stock of the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, so long as such refinancing
Disqualified Stock is permitted to be Incurred pursuant to
Section 4.09
and constitutes Refinancing Indebtedness;
(4) the purchase,
repurchase, redemption, defeasance or other acquisition or
retirement for value of any Subordinated Obligation (A) at a
purchase price not greater than 101% of the principal amount of
such Subordinated Obligation in the event of a Change of Control in
accordance with provisions similar to Section 4.14 or (B) at a
purchase price not greater than 100% of the principal amount
thereof in accordance with provisions similar to Section 4.10; provided that, prior to or
simultaneously with such purchase, repurchase, redemption,
defeasance or other acquisition or retirement, the Company has made
the Change of Control Offer or Asset Disposition Offer, as
applicable, as provided in such covenant with respect to the Notes
and has completed the repurchase or redemption of all Notes validly
tendered for payment in connection with such Change of Control
Offer or Asset Disposition Offer;
(5) any purchase or
redemption of Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor Subordinated
Obligations from Net Available Cash to the extent permitted under
Section 4.10;
(6) (a) dividends paid
within 60 days after the date of declaration if at such date of
declaration such dividend would have complied with this
Section 4.07
and (b) the redemption of Subordinated Obligations or Guarantor
Subordinated Obligations within 60 days after the date on which
notice of such redemption was given, if at the date of the giving
of such notice of redemption, such redemption would have complied
with this Section 4.07;
(7) the purchase,
redemption or other acquisition, cancellation or retirement for
value of Capital Stock of the Company (a) held by any existing or
former employees, directors or management of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company or their assigns, estates or heirs or (b)
in connection with the Company’s normal course issuer-bid
purchases to satisfy obligations to any existing or former
employee, director or management of the Company or any Subsidiary
of the Company or their assigns, estates or heirs, in each case,
pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any
other management or employee benefit plan or arrangement;
provided that
immediately after giving effect to such transaction on a pro forma
basis, the Leverage Ratio of the Company would not exceed 2.00 to
1.00; provided,
further that such
redemptions or repurchases pursuant to this clause (7) will not
exceed $10.0 million in the aggregate during any calendar year
(with any unused amounts in any calendar year being carried over to
succeeding calendar years, not to exceed $20.0 million in any
calendar year), although such amount in any calendar year may be
increased by an amount not to exceed::
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(A) the Net Cash
Proceeds from the sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified
Stock) of the Company to existing or former employees, directors or
members of management of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries
that occurs after the Issue Date, to the extent the Net Cash
Proceeds from the sale of such Capital Stock have not otherwise
been applied to the payment of Restricted Payments (provided that the Net Cash
Proceeds from such sales or contributions shall be excluded from
Section 4.07(a)(4)(D)(ii));
plus
(B) the cash proceeds
of key man life insurance policies received by the Company or its
Restricted Subsidiaries after the Issue Date; less
(C) the amount of any
Restricted Payments previously made with the Net Cash Proceeds
described in clauses (A) and (B) of this clause (7);
(8) the declaration and
payment of dividends to holders of any class or series of
Disqualified Stock of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company or Preferred Stock of a Non-Guarantor issued in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture to the extent such dividends are
included in the definition of “Consolidated Interest
Expense”;
(9) repurchases of
Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of stock options,
warrants, other rights to purchase Capital Stock or other
convertible securities or similar securities if such Capital Stock
represents a portion of the exercise price thereof (or withholding
of Capital Stock to pay related withholding taxes with regard to
the exercise of such stock options or the vesting of any such
restricted stock, restricted stock units, deferred stock units or
any similar securities);
(10) payments
in lieu of the issuance of fractional shares of Capital Stock in
connection with any transaction otherwise permitted under this
Section 4.07;
(11) payments
or distributions to holders of the Capital Stock of the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to appraisal or
dissenter rights required under applicable law or pursuant to a
court order in connection with any merger, amalgamation,
arrangement, consolidation or sale, assignment, conveyance,
transfer, lease or other disposition of assets;
(12) the
payment of any dividend on Capital Stock of a Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary to the holders
of such Capital Stock on a pro
rata basis;
(13) payments
or distributions of Capital Stock or assets of an Unrestricted
Subsidiary;
(14) other
Restricted Payments in an aggregate amount, when taken together
with all other Restricted Payments made pursuant to this clause
(14) during such fiscal year (as reduced by the Fair Market Value
returned from any such Restricted Payments that constituted
Restricted Investments) not to exceed $10.0 million in any fiscal
year of the Company; or
(15) the
declaration and payment of dividends on the Company’s Common
Stock; provided
that (a) the total amount of dividends declared pursuant to this
clause (15) does not exceed $5.0 million in the aggregate in the
fiscal year in which such dividend is declared, (b) immediately
after giving effect to such transactions on a pro forma basis, the
Leverage Ratio of the Company shall not exceed 2.0 to 1.0 and (c)
no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would
occur as a consequence thereof;
provided, however, that at the time of
and after giving effect to, any Restricted Payment permitted under
clauses (5), (7), (8) and (14) of this Section 4.07(b), no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
or would occur as a consequence thereof.
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(c) The amount of all
Restricted Payments (other than cash) shall be the Fair Market
Value on the date of such Restricted Payment of the assets or
securities proposed to be transferred or issued by the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be, pursuant to
such Restricted Payment. The amount of all Restricted Payments paid
in cash shall be its face amount. For purposes of determining
compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction on
Restricted Payments, the U.S. dollar-equivalent of a Restricted
Payment denominated in a foreign currency shall be calculated based
on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date the
Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, first
commits to such Restricted Payment.
(d) As of the Issue
Date, all of the Company’s Subsidiaries will be Restricted
Subsidiaries. The Company will not permit any Unrestricted
Subsidiary to become a Restricted Subsidiary except pursuant to the
last sentence of the definition of “Unrestricted
Subsidiary.” For purposes of designating any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, all
outstanding Investments by the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries (except to the extent repaid) in the Subsidiary so
designated shall be deemed to be Investments in an amount
determined as set forth in the definition of
“Investment.” Such designation shall be permitted only
if an Investment in such amount would be permitted at such time,
whether pursuant to this Section 4.07 or pursuant
to the definition of “Permitted Investment” in
Section 1.01,
and if such Subsidiary otherwise meets the definition of an
“Unrestricted Subsidiary.” Unrestricted Subsidiaries
shall not be subject to any of the restrictive covenants set forth
in this Indenture.
Section
4.08 Limitation on Restrictions on
Distribution From Restricted Subsidiaries.
(a) The Company shall
not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or permit to
exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or consensual
restriction on the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company to:
(1) pay dividends or
make any other distributions on its Capital Stock to the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, or with respect to any other
interest or participation in, or measured by, its profits, or pay
any Indebtedness or other obligations owed to the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries (it being understood that the priority
of any Preferred Stock in receiving dividends or liquidating
distributions prior to dividends or liquidating distributions being
paid on Common Stock shall not be deemed a restriction on the
ability to make distributions on Capital Stock and the
subordination of loans or advances made to the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries to other Indebtedness Incurred by the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be deemed a
restriction on the ability to pay any Indebtedness or other
Obligations);
(2) make any loans or
advances to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (it
being understood that the subordination of loans or advances made
to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to other
Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries shall not be deemed a restriction on the ability to
make loans or advances); or
(3) sell, lease or
transfer any of its property or assets to the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (it being understood that such transfers
shall not include any type of transfer described in clause (1) or
(2) above).
(b) The preceding
provisions shall not prohibit encumbrances or restrictions existing
under or by reason of:
(1) this Indenture, the
Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement;
(2) any agreement or
instrument existing on the Issue Date (except for this Indenture,
the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement);
(3) (A) any agreement
or other instrument of a Person acquired by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries in existence at the time of such
acquisition (but not created in contemplation thereof) or (B) any
agreement or other instrument with respect to a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company that was previously an Unrestricted
Subsidiary pursuant to or by reason of an agreement that such
Subsidiary is a party to or entered into before the date on which
such Subsidiary became a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (but
not created in contemplation thereof), in the case of (A) and (B)
above, which encumbrance or restriction is not applicable to any
Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other than the
Person and its Subsidiaries, or the property or assets of the
Person and its Subsidiaries, so acquired or so designated, as
applicable (including after-acquired property);
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(4) any amendment,
restatement, modification, renewal, supplement, refunding,
replacement or refinancing of an agreement or instrument referred
to in clauses (1), (2) or (3) of this Section 4.08(b); provided, however, that such amendments,
restatements, modifications, renewals, supplements, refundings,
replacements or refinancings are, in the good faith judgment of
Senior Management, not materially more restrictive, when taken as a
whole, than the encumbrances and restrictions contained in the
agreements referred to in clauses (1), (2) or (3) of this
Section 4.08(b) on the
Issue Date, the acquisition date or the date such Restricted
Subsidiary became a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or was
merged into a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, whichever is
applicable;
(5) (A) customary
non-assignment or subletting provisions in leases governing
leasehold interests to the extent such provisions restrict the
transfer of the lease or the property leased thereunder,
(B) security agreements or mortgages securing Indebtedness of
a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the extent such
encumbrance or restriction restricts the transfer of the property
subject to such security agreements or mortgages and (C) in the
case of clause (3) of Section 4.08(a),
encumbrances or restrictions under Farm-Out
Agreements;
(6) in the case of
clause (3) of Section 4.08(a), Liens
permitted to be Incurred under Section 4.12 that limit
the right of the debtor to dispose of the assets securing such
Indebtedness;
(7) purchase money
obligations and Capitalized Lease Obligations permitted under this
Indenture, in each case, that impose encumbrances or restrictions
of the nature described in clause (3) of Section 4.08(a) on the
property so acquired;
(8) contracts for the
sale of assets, including customary restrictions with respect to a
Subsidiary of the Company pursuant to an agreement that has been
entered into for the sale or disposition of all or a portion of the
Capital Stock or assets of such Subsidiary;
(9) restrictions on
cash, Cash Equivalents or other deposits or net worth imposed by
customers, suppliers or landlords under contracts entered into in
the ordinary course of business;
(10) any
customary provisions in joint venture, partnership and limited
liability company agreements relating to joint ventures that are
not Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company and other similar
agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
business;
(11) any
customary provisions in leases, subleases or licenses (including
licenses of intellectual property) and other agreements entered
into by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of business;
(12) encumbrances
or restrictions arising or existing by reason of applicable law or
any applicable rule, regulation or order;
(13) (A)
other Indebtedness Incurred or Preferred Stock issued by a
Guarantor in accordance with Section 4.09 that, in the
good faith judgment of Senior Management, are not materially more
restrictive, taken as a whole, than those applicable to the Company
in this Indenture on the Issue Date (which results in encumbrances
or restrictions at a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company level
comparable to those applicable to the Company in the Indenture) or
(B) other Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred or Preferred Stock
permitted to be issued, in each case, subsequent to the Issue Date
pursuant to Section 4.09; provided that with respect to
clause (B), such encumbrances or restrictions shall not materially
affect the Company’s ability to make anticipated principal
and interest payments on the Notes (in the good faith judgment of
Senior Management);
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(14) any
agreement with a governmental entity providing for developmental
financing;
(15) customary
non-assignment and non-transfer provisions of any contract, license
(including licenses of intellectual property) or lease entered into
in the ordinary course of business;
(16) contractual
encumbrances or restrictions pursuant to the Senior Credit Facility
and related documentation and other agreements or instruments in
effect at or entered into on the Issue Date;
(17) customary
encumbrances or restrictions pursuant to any royalty or metals
streaming agreement, off-take agreements or similar transaction
that are customary in the mining business;
(18) restrictions
and conditions imposed under any Project Finance Debt if such
restrictions or conditions apply only to the property or assets
securing such Indebtedness; and
(19) in
the case of clause (3) of Section 4.08(a),
agreements relating to Hedging Obligations permitted under clause
(7) of Section 4.09(b).
Section
4.09 Limitation on
Indebtedness.
(a) The Company shall
not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, Incur any Indebtedness (including Acquired
Indebtedness); provided, however, that the Company and
the Guarantors may Incur Indebtedness if on the date thereof and
after giving effect thereto on a pro forma basis the Consolidated
Coverage Ratio for the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is
at least 2.00 to 1.00.
(b) Section 4.09(a) shall not
prohibit the Incurrence of the following Indebtedness:
(1) Indebtedness
of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary Incurred under a Debt
Facility and the issuance and creation of letters of credit and
bankers’ acceptances thereunder (with undrawn trade letters
of credit and reimbursement obligations relating to trade letters
of credit or letters of guarantee
satisfied within 30 days of being drawn being excluded, and
bankers’ acceptances being deemed to have a principal amount
equal to the face amount thereof) in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $500.0 million at any one time outstanding;
provided that
the amount available under this clause (1) shall be permanently
reduced on a dollar-for-dollar basis by the repayment of any
principal amount at any time of the term loans that are outstanding
under the Senior Credit Facility on the Issue Date other than by
any repayment with the proceeds of Refinancing Indebtedness
(provided that any
repayment of any principal amount of any such Refinancing
Indebtedness shall likewise permanently reduce the amount available
under this clause (1) on a dollar-for-dollar basis); provided, further that Non-Guarantors may not Incur
Indebtedness under a Debt Facility in excess of $175.0 million at
any one time outstanding pursuant to this clause (1);
(2) Indebtedness
represented by the Notes (including any Note Guarantee) (other than
any Additional Notes);
(3) Indebtedness of the
Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in existence on the
Issue Date (other than Indebtedness described in clauses (1), (2),
(4), (5), (7), (9), (10) and (11) of this Section 4.09(b));
(4) Guarantees by (a)
the Company or Guarantors of Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred
by the Company or a Guarantor in accordance with the provisions of
this Indenture; provided that in the event such
Indebtedness that is being Guaranteed is a Subordinated Obligation
or a Guarantor Subordinated Obligation, then the related Guarantee
shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the Note
Guarantee, as the case may be, and (b) Non-Guarantors of
Indebtedness Incurred by Non-Guarantors in accordance with the
provisions of this Indenture;
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(5) Indebtedness of the
Company owing to and held by any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or
Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company owing to and
held by the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company; provided,
however,
(A) if the Company is
the obligor on Indebtedness owing to a Non-Guarantor, such
Indebtedness is expressly subordinated in right of payment in full
in cash of all Obligations with respect to the Notes;
(B) if a Guarantor is
the obligor on Indebtedness owing to a Non-Guarantor, such
Indebtedness is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the
Note Guarantee of such Guarantor;
(C) (i) any
subsequent issuance or transfer of Capital Stock or any other event
which results in any such Indebtedness being beneficially held by a
Person other than the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
(other than Permitted Liens until such collateral has been
foreclosed upon); and
(ii) any
sale or other transfer (other than Permitted Liens until such
collateral has been foreclosed upon) of any such Indebtedness to a
Person other than the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries,
shall
be deemed, in each case under this clause (5)(C), to constitute an
Incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be;
(6) Indebtedness
of (a) any Person Incurred and outstanding on the date on which
such Person became a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company
(including being designated as a Restricted Subsidiary) or was
acquired by, or merged into or amalgamated, arranged or
consolidated with, the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries or (b) such Persons or the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries Incurred (x) to provide all or any portion
of the funds utilized to consummate the transaction or series of
related transactions pursuant to which such Person became a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (including being designated as
a Restricted Subsidiary) or was otherwise acquired by, or merged
into or amalgamated, arranged or consolidated with the Company or (y) otherwise in
connection with, or in contemplation of, such acquisition, merger,
amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation; provided,
however,
in each case set forth in clause (a) or (b), that at the time such
Person is acquired, merged, amalgamated, arranged or consolidated
or such Indebtedness was Incurred, either:
(A) the Company would
have been able to Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant
to Section 4.09(a) after
giving effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness pursuant to
this clause (6); or
(B) the Consolidated
Coverage Ratio of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries would
have been higher than such ratio immediately prior to such
acquisition, merger, amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation and
such ratio would have been at least 1.50 to 1.00, in each case
after giving effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness pursuant
to this clause (6);
(7) Indebtedness under
Hedging Obligations (excluding Hedging Obligations entered into for
speculative purposes) (including the Hedging Obligations to the
lenders and their respective affiliates under the Senior Credit
Facility outstanding on the Issue Date);
(8) Indebtedness
(including Capitalized Lease Obligations) of the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurred to finance the purchase,
design, lease, construction repair, replacement or improvement of
any property (real or personal), plant or equipment used or to be
used in a Similar Business through the direct purchase of such
design, lease, construction, repair, replacement or improvement of
any property, plant or equipment, and any Indebtedness of the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that serves to refund
or refinance any Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to this clause (8),
in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken
together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness
Incurred pursuant to this clause (8) and then outstanding, shall
not exceed the greater of (A) $50.0 million and (B) 1.0% of Total
Assets, at the time of such Incurrence;
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(9) Indebtedness
Incurred by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in
respect of (A) workers’ compensation claims, health,
disability or other employee benefits; (B) self-insurance
obligations or property, casualty, liability or other insurance;
and (C) statutory, appeal, completion, export, import, customs,
revenue, performance, bid, surety, reclamation, remediation and
similar bonds and completion Guarantees (not for borrowed money)
provided in the ordinary course of business;
(10) Indebtedness
arising from agreements of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase
price, earn-out or similar obligations, in each case, Incurred or
assumed in connection with the disposition of any business or
assets of the Company or any business, assets or Capital Stock of
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, other than Guarantees of
Indebtedness Incurred by any Person acquiring all or any portion of
such business, assets or a Subsidiary for the purpose of financing
such acquisition; provided that:
(A) the maximum
aggregate liability in respect of all such Indebtedness shall at no
time exceed the gross proceeds, including non-cash proceeds (the
Fair Market Value of such non-cash proceeds being measured at the
time received and without giving effect to subsequent changes in
value) actually received by the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in connection with such disposition; and
(B) such Indebtedness
is not reflected as indebtedness on the balance sheet of the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (contingent
obligations referred to in a footnote to financial statements and
not otherwise reflected on the balance sheet will not be deemed to
be reflected on such balance sheet for purposes of this clause
(10));
(11) Indebtedness
arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution
of a check, draft or similar instrument (except in the case of
daylight overdrafts) drawn against insufficient funds in the
ordinary course of business; provided, however, that such Indebtedness
is extinguished within five Business Days of
Incurrence;
(12) Indebtedness
in the form of letters of credit or letters of guarantee and
reimbursement obligations relating to letters of credit or letters
of guarantee that are satisfied within 30 days of being
drawn;
(13) the
Incurrence or issuance by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries of Refinancing Indebtedness that serves (or will
serve) to refinance (as defined in “Refinancing
Indebtedness”) any Indebtedness Incurred as permitted under
Section 4.09(a) and
clauses (2), (3), (6), this clause (13) and clause (22) of this
Section 4.09(b), or any
Indebtedness issued to so refund or refinance such
Indebtedness;
(14) Indebtedness
of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of
the financing of insurance premiums incurred in the ordinary course
of business;
(15) Indebtedness
of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries consisting of
take-or-pay obligations contained in supply arrangements incurred
in the ordinary course of business;
(16) Indebtedness
of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect
to Guarantees of Indebtedness of joint ventures, in an aggregate
amount under this clause (16) not to exceed the greater of (A)
$50.0 million and (B) 1.0% of Total Assets, at any time
outstanding;
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(17) Non-Recourse
Debt;
(18) Indebtedness
of the Company, to the extent the net proceeds thereof are promptly
(A) used to purchase Notes tendered in connection with a Change of
Control Offer or (B) deposited to defease or discharge the Notes
pursuant to Article
8 or to satisfy and discharge the Notes pursuant to
Article
11;
(19) Indebtedness
of the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of
Cash Management Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
business;
(20) Indebtedness
Incurred by Foreign Subsidiaries not to exceed $75.0 million at any
one time outstanding and Guarantees thereof by the Company or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(21) Project
Finance Debt in an aggregate principal amount at any one time
outstanding not to exceed the sum of (i) $100.0 million plus (ii)
$100.0 million; provided that the amount under clause (ii)
shall only be available if at the time of Incurrence and after
giving effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness on such date,
the Secured Leverage Ratio of the Company would not exceed 2.5 to
1.0 on a pro forma basis;
and
(22) in
addition to the items referred to in clauses (1) through (21)
above, Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
in an aggregate outstanding principal amount which, when taken
together with the principal amount of all other Indebtedness
Incurred pursuant to this clause (22) (including any amounts that
are subsequently refinanced under clause (13)) and then outstanding, shall not exceed the
greater of (A) $100.0 million and (B) 2.0% of Total Assets, at the
time of such Incurrence.
(c) For purposes of
determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount
of any particular Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to and in
compliance with, this Section 4.09:
(1) in the event that
Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the types of
Indebtedness described in Section 4.09(b) or can be
Incurred pursuant to Section 4.09(a), the
Company, in its sole discretion, shall classify such item of
Indebtedness on the date of Incurrence and may later reclassify
such item of Indebtedness in any manner that complies with
Section 4.09(a) or
Section 4.09(b) and only
be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness
under Section 4.09(a) or any of
the clauses under Section 4.09(b);
provided that all
Indebtedness outstanding under the Senior Credit Facility on the
Issue Date will be treated as incurred on the Issue Date under
clause (1) of Section 4.09(b);
(2) Guarantees of, or
obligations in respect of letters of credit or letters of guarantee
relating to, Indebtedness that is otherwise included in the
determination of a particular amount of Indebtedness shall not be
included;
(3) if obligations in
respect of letters of credit or letters of guarantee are Incurred
pursuant to a Debt Facility and are being treated as Incurred
pursuant to clause (1) of Section 4.09(b) and the
letters of credit or letters of guarantee relate to other
Indebtedness, then such other Indebtedness shall not be
included;
(4) the principal
amount of any Disqualified Stock of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries, or Preferred Stock of a Non-Guarantor,
shall be equal to the greater of the maximum mandatory redemption
or repurchase price (not including, in either case, any redemption
or repurchase premium) or the liquidation preference
thereof;
(5) Indebtedness
permitted by this Section 4.09 need not be permitted solely by
reference to one provision permitting such Indebtedness but may be
permitted (and classified) in part by one such provision and in
part by one or more other provisions of this Section 4.09 permitting
such Indebtedness;
(6) the principal
amount of any Indebtedness outstanding in connection with a
securitization transaction or series of securitization transactions
is the amount of obligations outstanding under the legal documents
entered into as part of such transaction that would be
characterized as principal if such transaction were structured as a
secured lending transaction rather than as a purchase relating to
such transaction; and
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(7) the amount of
Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal
amount thereof shall be equal to the amount of the liability in
respect thereof determined in accordance with IFRS.
(d) Accrual
of interest, accrual of dividends, the accretion of accreted value,
the amortization of debt discount, the payment of interest in the
form of additional Indebtedness and the payment of dividends in the
form of additional shares of Preferred Stock or Disqualified Stock
shall not be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for
purposes of this Section 4.09. The amount
of any Indebtedness outstanding as of any date shall be (i) the
accreted value thereof in the case of any Indebtedness issued with
original issue discount or the aggregate principal amount
outstanding in the case of Indebtedness issued with interest
payable in kind and (ii) the principal amount or liquidation
preference thereof, together with any
interest thereon that is more than 30 days past due, in the case of
any other Indebtedness.
(e) In addition, the
Company will not permit any of its Unrestricted Subsidiaries to
Incur any Indebtedness or issue any shares of Disqualified Stock,
other than Non-Recourse Debt (other than Indebtedness Incurred
under clause (16) of Section 4.09(b)). If at
any time an Unrestricted Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company, any Indebtedness of such Subsidiary shall be deemed
to be Incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company as of such
date (and, if such Indebtedness is not permitted to be Incurred as
of such date under this Section 4.09, the Company
shall be in Default of this Section 4.09).
(f) For purposes of
determining compliance with any U.S. dollar-denominated restriction
on the Incurrence of Indebtedness, the U.S. dollar-equivalent
principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency
shall be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in
effect on the date such Indebtedness was Incurred, in the case of
term Indebtedness, or first committed, in the case of revolving
credit Indebtedness; provided that if such
Indebtedness is Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness
denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause
the applicable U.S. dollar-denominated restriction to be exceeded
if calculated at the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on
the date of such refinancing, such U.S. dollar-denominated
restriction shall be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as
the principal amount of such Refinancing Indebtedness does not
exceed the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this covenant, the maximum
amount of Indebtedness that the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries may Incur pursuant to this covenant shall not be
deemed to be exceeded solely as a result of fluctuations in the
exchange rate of currencies. The principal amount of any
Indebtedness Incurred to refinance other Indebtedness, if Incurred
in a different currency from the Indebtedness being refinanced,
shall be calculated based on the currency exchange rate applicable
to the currencies in which such Refinancing Indebtedness is
denominated that is in effect on the date of such
refinancing.
Section
4.10 Asset
Dispositions.
(a) The Company shall
not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to
consummate an Asset Disposition unless:
(1) the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration
at least equal to the Fair Market Value (such Fair Market Value to
be determined on the date of contractually agreeing to such Asset
Disposition) of the shares and assets subject to such Asset
Disposition; and
(2) at least 75% of the
consideration from such Asset Disposition received by the Company
or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, is in the form
of cash or Cash Equivalents.
For the
purposes of clause (2) above and for no other purpose, the
following will be deemed to be cash:
(i) any
liabilities (as shown on the Company’s or such Restricted
Subsidiary’s most recent balance sheet) of the Company or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than liabilities that are by
their terms subordinated to the Notes or the Note Guarantees) that
are assumed by the transferee of any such assets and from which the
Company and all such Restricted Subsidiaries have been validly
released by all creditors in writing;
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(ii) any
Designated Non-Cash Consideration received by the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Asset Disposition having an
aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other
Designated Non-Cash Consideration received pursuant to this clause
(ii) that is at that time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of
(x) $75.0 million and (y) 1.5% of Total Assets at the time of the
receipt of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration (with the Fair
Market Value of each item of Designated Non-Cash Consideration
being measured at the time received and without giving effect to
subsequent changes in value);
(iii) any
securities, notes or other obligations or assets received by the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from the transferee
that are converted by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary
into cash or Cash Equivalents (to the extent of the cash or Cash
Equivalents received) within 180 days following the closing of such
Asset Disposition; and
(iv)
Additional Assets.
(b) Within 365 days
from the later of the date of such Asset Disposition or the receipt
of such Net Available Cash, the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, shall apply, at its option,
directly or indirectly, an amount equal to 100% of the Net
Available Cash from such Asset Disposition:
(2) to permanently
reduce (and permanently reduce commitments with respect thereto)
the Notes or other Second Priority Indebtedness of the Company or
any Secured Guarantor, in each case other than Indebtedness owed to
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that if the Company or
any Guarantor shall so reduce Second Priority Obligations other
than the Notes, the Company will (x) ratably reduce Obligations
under the Notes as provided under Section 3.07, through
open-market purchases (to the extent such purchases are at or above
100.0% of the principal amount thereof) or (y) make an offer (in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 3.10 and this
Section 4.10
for an Asset Disposition Offer) to all Holders to purchase their
Notes at a purchase price equal to 100.0% of the principal amount
thereof, plus
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on the principal amount of
Notes that would otherwise be redeemed or purchased under subclause
(x) above;
(3) to invest in
Additional Assets or make capital expenditures in or that are used
or useful in a Similar Business; provided that any Net Available
Cash from an Asset Disposition of Collateral shall only be invested
in other Collateral or in other businesses, properties or assets
that become Collateral;
(4) if the assets or
property disposed of in the Asset Disposition were not Collateral,
to permanently reduce obligations under Indebtedness of a
Non-Guarantor, Indebtedness that is secured by the assets of any
Unsecured Guarantor or Project Finance Debt (and correspondingly
reduce commitments with respect thereto); provided that Indebtedness owed
to the Company or another Restricted Subsidiary may be repaid
pursuant to this clause (4) only if the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary further applies any such amounts received to permanently
reduce (and correspondingly reduce commitments with respect to) any
of the foregoing types of Indebtedness contained in this clause (4)
other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or another Restricted
Subsidiary; or
(5) in any combination
of applications described in clauses (1), (2), (3) or (4)
above;
provided that pending the final
application of any such Net Available Cash in accordance with
clause (1), (2), (3) (4) or (5) above, the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries may temporarily reduce Indebtedness or
otherwise invest such Net Available Cash in any manner not
prohibited by this Indenture; provided, further, that in the case of
clause (3) above, a binding commitment to invest in Additional
Assets or to make such capital expenditures shall be treated as a
permitted application of an amount of Net Available Cash from the
date of such commitment so long as the Company or such other
Restricted Subsidiary enters into such commitment with the good
faith expectation that such amount of Net Available Cash shall be
applied to satisfy such commitment within 180 days of such
commitment (an “Acceptable Commitment”),
it being understood that if an Acceptable Commitment is later
canceled or terminated for any reason before such amount of Net
Available Cash is applied, then such amount of Net Available Cash
shall constitute Excess Proceeds.
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(c)(i)
Any
amount of Net Available Cash from Asset Dispositions that is not
applied or invested as provided in Section 4.10(b) shall be
deemed to constitute “Excess Proceeds.” On the
366th day after an Asset Disposition, or later in accordance with
clause (b) above, or earlier at the Company’s option, if the
aggregate amount of Excess Proceeds exceeds $25.0 million, the
Company shall make an offer (“Asset Disposition Offer”)
to all Holders and, to the extent required by the terms of other
outstanding Second Priority Indebtedness, to all holders of such
Second Priority Indebtedness, to purchase the maximum aggregate
principal amount of Notes and any such other Second Priority
Indebtedness, on a pro rata
basis, that may be purchased out of the Excess Proceeds, at an
offer price in cash in an amount equal to 100% of the principal
amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right of
Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive interest
due on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to such Asset
Disposition Purchase Date), in accordance with the procedures set
forth in Section 3.10 and the
agreements governing the Second Priority Indebtedness, as
applicable, in each case in denominations of $2,000 and integral
multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof. The Company shall commence
an Asset Disposition Offer with respect to Excess Proceeds by
mailing (or otherwise communicating in accordance with the
procedures of DTC) the notice required by Section 3.10, with a copy
to the Trustees.
(2) To the extent that
the aggregate amount of Notes and other Second Priority
Indebtedness validly tendered and not validly withdrawn pursuant to
an Asset Disposition Offer is less than the Excess Proceeds, the
Company may use any remaining Excess Proceeds for general corporate
purposes, subject to other covenants contained in this Indenture.
If the aggregate principal amount of Notes surrendered by Holders
thereof and other Second Priority Indebtedness surrendered by
holders or lenders, collectively, exceeds the amount of Excess
Proceeds, the Notes to be repurchased shall be selected by lot or
by such other method as the U.S. Trustee in its sole discretion
shall deem to be fair and appropriate. Upon completion of such
Asset Disposition Offer, regardless of the amount of Excess
Proceeds used to purchase Notes or other Second Priority
Indebtedness pursuant to such Asset Disposition Offer, the amount
of Excess Proceeds shall be reset at zero.
(d) In connection with
any Asset Disposition Offer, the Company shall comply with all
applicable securities laws and regulations, including, without
limitation, Canadian Securities Legislation and the requirements of
Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange Act. To the extent that the
provisions of any applicable securities laws or regulations
conflict with the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall
comply with the applicable securities laws and regulations and will
not be deemed to have breached its obligations under in this
Indenture by virtue of any conflict.
Section
..11 Transactions with
Affiliates.
(a) The Company shall
not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to,
directly or indirectly, enter into or conduct any transaction
(including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or
asset or the rendering of any service) with any Affiliate of the
Company (an “Affiliate Transaction”)
involving aggregate consideration in excess of $5.0
million, unless:
(1) the terms of such
Affiliate Transaction are not materially less favorable to the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, than
those that could have been obtained by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary in a comparable transaction at the time of
such transaction in arms’ length dealings with a Person that
is not an Affiliate; and
(2) in the event such
Affiliate Transaction involves an aggregate consideration in excess
of $10.0 million, the terms of such transaction have been approved
by a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of the
Company and by a majority of the members of such Board of Directors
having no personal stake in such transaction, if any (and such
majority or majorities, as the case may be, determines that such
Affiliate Transaction satisfies the criteria in clause (1)
above);
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(b) Section 4.11(a) shall not
apply to:
(1) any transaction
between the Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or
between any Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company;
(2) any Guarantees
issued by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company for
the benefit of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries,
as the case may be, in accordance with Section 4.09;
(3) Restricted Payment
permitted to be made pursuant to Section 4.07 and any
Permitted Investments;
(4) any issuance of
securities or other payments, awards or grants in cash, securities
or otherwise pursuant to, or as the funding of, employment
agreements and severance and other compensation arrangements,
options to purchase Capital Stock of the Company, restricted stock
plans, long-term incentive plans, stock appreciation rights plans,
participation plans or similar employee benefits plans and/or
indemnity provided on behalf of Officers, directors and employees
approved by the Board of Directors of the Company;
(5) the payment of
reasonable and customary fees and reimbursements or employee
benefits paid to, and indemnity provided on behalf of, directors,
officers, employees or consultants of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries;
(6) loans or advances
(or cancellations of loans or advances) to employees, officers or
directors of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in
the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount not in
excess of $2.0 million at one time outstanding;
(7) any agreement as in
effect as of the Issue Date, as these agreements may be amended,
modified, supplemented, extended or renewed from time to time, so
long as any such amendment, modification, supplement, extension or
renewal is not more disadvantageous to the Holders in any material
respect in the good faith judgment of Senior Management or the
Board of Directors of the Company, when taken as a whole, than the
terms of the agreements in effect on the Issue Date;
(8) any agreement
between any Person and an Affiliate of such Person existing at the
time such Person is acquired by, or merged into or amalgamated,
arranged or consolidated with the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries; provided that such agreement
was not entered into in contemplation of such acquisition, merger,
amalgamation, arrangement or consolidation, and any amendment
thereto (so long as any such amendment is not disadvantageous in
any material respect to the Holders in the good faith judgment of
Senior Management or the Board of Directors of the Company, when
taken as a whole, as compared to the applicable agreement as in
effect on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation,
arrangement or consolidation);
(9) transactions with
customers, clients, suppliers, joint venture partners or purchasers
or sellers of goods or services or any management services or
support agreements, in each case in the ordinary course of the
business of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and
otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture;
provided that in
the reasonable determination of the members of the Board of
Directors or Senior Management of the Company, such transactions or
agreements are on terms that are not materially less favorable,
when taken as a whole, to the Company or the relevant Restricted
Subsidiary than those that could have been obtained at the time of
such transactions or agreements in a comparable transaction or
agreement by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary with an
unrelated Person;
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(10) any
issuance or sale of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock)
to Affiliates of the Company and any agreement that grants
registration and other customary rights in connection therewith or
otherwise to the direct or indirect securityholders of the Company
(and the performance of such agreements);
(11) any
transaction with a Person that is an Affiliate of the Company
solely because the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
owns any equity interest in or otherwise controls such Person;
provided that no
Affiliate of the Company, other than the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries, shall have a beneficial interest or
otherwise participate in such Person other than through such
Affiliate’s ownership of the Company;
(12) transactions
between the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and any
Person that is an Affiliate solely because one or more of its
directors is also a director of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries; provided that such director
abstains from voting as a director of the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, on any matter involving
such other Person;
(13) any
merger, amalgamation, arrangement, consolidation or other
reorganization (including any pursuant to a transfer of assets) of
the Company with an Affiliate solely for the purpose and with the
sole effect of forming a holding company or reincorporating the
Company in a new jurisdiction;
(14) the
entering into of a tax sharing agreement, or payments pursuant
thereto, between the Company and one or more Subsidiaries, on the
one hand, and any other Person with which the Company and such
Subsidiaries are required or permitted to file a consolidated tax
return or with which the Company and such Subsidiaries are part of
a consolidated group for tax purposes, on the other
hand;
(15) any
employment, deferred compensation, consulting, non-competition,
confidentiality or similar agreement entered into by the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with its employees or directors
in the ordinary course of business and payments and other benefits
(including bonus, retirement, severance, health, stock option and
other benefit plans) pursuant thereto;
(16) pledges
of Capital Stock or Indebtedness of Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
and
(17) transactions
in which the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries delivers
to U.S. Trustee a letter from an Independent Financial Advisor
stating that such transaction is fair to the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary from a financial point of view or stating
that the terms are not materially less favorable, when taken as a
whole, than those that might reasonably have been obtained by the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in a comparable transaction
at such time on an arms’ length basis from a Person that is
not an Affiliate.
Section
4.12 Limitation on
Liens.
The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, Incur, assume or
suffer to exist any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of
its property or assets (including Capital Stock of Subsidiaries),
whether owned on the Issue Date or acquired after that
date.
For
purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.12, (i) a Lien
securing an item of Indebtedness need not be permitted solely by
reference to one category of Permitted Liens but may be permitted
in part under any combination thereof and (ii) in the event that a
Lien securing an item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof)
meets the criteria of one or more of the categories of Permitted
Liens, the Company shall, in its sole discretion, classify or
reclassify, or later divide, classify or reclassify, such Lien
securing such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) in any
manner that complies with this Section 4.12 and will only
be required to include the amount and type of such Lien in one
category of Permitted Liens and such Lien securing such item of
Indebtedness will be treated as being Incurred or existing pursuant
to only one of such categories.
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With
respect to any Lien securing Indebtedness that was permitted to
secure such Indebtedness at the time of the Incurrence of such
Indebtedness, such Lien shall also be permitted to secure any
Increased Amount of such Indebtedness. The “Increased
Amount” of any Indebtedness means any increase in the amount
of such Indebtedness in connection with any accrual of interest,
the accretion of accreted value, the amortization of original issue
discount, the payment of interest in the form of additional
Indebtedness with the same terms or in the form of common shares of
the Company, the payment of dividends on Preferred Stock in the
form of additional shares of Preferred Stock of the same class,
accretion of original issue discount or liquidation preference and
increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a
result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies or
increases in the value of property securing
Indebtedness.
Section
4.13 Corporate
Existence.
Subject
to Article 5,
Section 4.10
and Section 4.14, the Company
shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and
keep in full force and effect (1) its corporate existence and the
corporate, partnership, limited liability company or other
existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, in accordance
with the respective organizational documents (as the same may be
amended from time to time) of the
Company or any such Restricted Subsidiary and (2) the rights
(charter and statutory), licenses and franchises of the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided
that the Company shall not be required
to preserve any such right, license or franchise, or the corporate,
partnership, limited liability company or other existence of any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries, if the Company in good faith shall
determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in
the conduct of the business of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Section
4.14 Offer to Repurchase Upon Change of
Control.
(a) If a Change of
Control occurs, unless the Company has given notice to redeem all
of the outstanding Notes pursuant to Section 3.03 and
Section 3.07
or 3.09, the
Company shall, within 30 days following any Change of Control, make
an offer to purchase all of the outstanding Notes (a
“Change of Control
Offer”) at a purchase price in cash equal to 101% of
the principal amount of such outstanding Notes plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the date of purchase (the “Change of Control
Payment”) (subject to the right of Holders of record
on the relevant Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest
Payment Date falling on or prior to the Change of Control Payment
Date). The Company shall mail a notice of such Change of Control
Offer to each Holder or otherwise give notice in accordance with
the applicable procedures of DTC, with a copy to each of the
Trustees, stating:
(1) that a Change of
Control Offer is being made pursuant to this Section 4.14 and that all
Notes properly tendered pursuant to such Change of Control Offer
will be accepted for purchase by the Company at a purchase price in
cash equal to 101% of the principal amount of such Notes
plus accrued and
unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the
right of Holders of record on the relevant Record Date to receive
interest due on an Interest Payment Date falling on or prior to the
Change of Control Payment Date);
(2) the purchase date
(which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days from
the date such notice is mailed) (the “Change of Control Payment
Date”);
(3) that Notes must be
tendered in integral multiples of $1,000, and any Note not properly
tendered will remain outstanding and continue to accrue
interest;
(4) that, unless the
Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Payment,
any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control
Offer will cease to accrue interest on and after the Change of
Control Payment Date;
(5) that Holders
electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Change of Control
Offer shall be required to (i) surrender such Note, with the form
entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the
reverse of such Note completed, or (ii) transfer such Note by
book-entry transfer, in either case, to the Company, the
Depositary, if applicable, or a Paying Agent at the address
specified in the notice prior to the close of business on the third
Business Day preceding the Change of Control Payment
Date;
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(6) that Holders shall
be entitled to withdraw their tendered Notes and their election to
require the Company to purchase such Notes; provided that if the Company,
the Depositary, the U.S. Trustee or the Paying Agent, as the case
may be, receives at the address specified in the notice, not later
than the close of business on the expiration of the Change of
Control Offer, a facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the
name of the Holder of the Notes, the principal amount of Notes
tendered for purchase, and a statement that such Holder is
withdrawing its tendered Notes and its election to have such Notes
purchased;
(7) that if a Holder is
tendering less than all of its Notes, such Holder will be issued
new Notes equal in principal amount to the unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered (the unpurchased portion of the Notes must be
equal to $2,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000 in excess
thereof); and
(8) any other
instructions, as determined by the Company consistent with this
Section 4.14,
that a Holder must follow.
The
notice, if sent in a manner herein provided, shall be conclusively
presumed to have been given, whether or not the Holder receives
such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice or any defect
in the notice to the Holder of any Note designated for redemption
in whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Note. Subject to
Section 3.05,
on and after the redemption date, interest ceases to accrue on
Notes or portions of Notes called for redemption.
(b) On the Change of
Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent
lawful:
(1) accept for payment
all Notes or portions of Notes (of $2,000 or integral multiples of
$1,000 in excess thereof) validly tendered and not validly
withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;
(2) deposit with the
Paying Agent an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment in
respect of all Notes or portions of Notes so accepted for payment;
and
(3) deliver or cause to
be delivered to the U.S. Trustee for cancellation the Notes so
accepted for payment together with an Officer’s Certificate
stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or portions of
Notes being purchased by the Company in accordance with the terms
of this Section 4.14.
(c) The Paying Agent
shall promptly remit to each Holder of Notes so accepted for
payment the Change of Control Payment for such Notes, and the U.S.
Trustee, upon receipt of an authentication order from the Company
shall promptly authenticate and mail or deliver (or cause to be
transferred by book entry) to each such Holder a new Note equal in
principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Notes
surrendered, if any; provided that each such new
Note shall be in a principal amount of $2,000 or integral multiples
of $1,000 in excess thereof.
(d) If the Change of
Control Payment Date is on or after the relevant Record Date and on
or before the related Interest Payment Date, the accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, shall be paid on such Interest Payment Date to
the Person in whose name the Note is registered at the close of
business on such Record Date, and no additional interest shall be
payable to Holders whose Notes are tendered pursuant to the Change
of Control Offer.
(e) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, a Change of Control Offer may be
made in advance of a Change of Control, and conditioned upon the
occurrence of such Change of Control, if a definitive agreement is
in place for the Change of Control at the time of making the Change
of Control Offer.
(f) The
Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer
upon a Change of Control if a third party makes an offer to
purchase all of the outstanding Notes in the manner, at the times
and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this
Section 4.14
applicable to a Change of Control
Offer and such third party purchases all Notes validly tendered and
not validly withdrawn pursuant to such offer to
purchase.
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(g) In connection with
any Change of Control Offer, the Company shall comply with all
applicable securities laws and regulations, including, Canadian
Securities Legislation and the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the
Exchange Act. To the extent that the provisions of any applicable
securities laws or regulations conflict with provisions of this
Indenture, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities
laws and regulations and will not be deemed to have breached its
obligations under this Indenture by virtue of any
conflict.
(h) Other than as
specifically provided in this Section 4.14, any purchase
pursuant to this Section 4.14 shall be made
pursuant to the provisions of Sections 3.02, 3.05 and 3.06.
Section
4.15 Future Guarantors.
(a) The Company shall
cause each of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that is not a Guarantor
and that becomes a borrower or guarantor under one or more Debt
Facilities (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Senior
Credit Facility) or that incurs or Guarantees any other
Indebtedness (in each case other than with respect to Debt
Facilities or other Indebtedness Incurred under the proviso to
clause (1) or clause (5), (17), (20) or (21) of 4.09(b)), under
which in excess of $50.0 million aggregate principal amount is
outstanding at any given time, to execute and deliver to the
Trustees a supplemental indenture to this Indenture, the form of
which is attached as Exhibit B hereto, pursuant to which such
Restricted Subsidiary shall, subject to Section 4.15(b) and
(e), irrevocably
and unconditionally Guarantee, on a joint and several basis, the
full and prompt payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest in respect of the Notes on the same basis of such
Subsidiary’s Guarantee of the Senior Credit Facility or such
other Debt Facility (subject, in the case of any senior secured
Guarantee, to the liens priority described in the Intercreditor
Agreement) a senior basis and all other obligations under this
Indenture; provided, however, that a Restricted
Subsidiary shall not be required to Guarantee the Notes (i) if such
Restricted Subsidiary is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary and the
Board of Directors of such Restricted Subsidiary determines in good
faith that such Guarantee would be inconsistent with applicable law
or (ii) if such Restricted Subsidiary is prohibited from
guaranteeing any Indebtedness pursuant to the terms of any Acquired
Indebtedness for so long as such Acquired Indebtedness remains
outstanding and such Restricted Subsidiary does not Incur any
Indebtedness other than Acquired Indebtedness.
(b) The obligations of
each Guarantor shall be limited to the maximum amount as will,
after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities
of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from
or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect
of the obligations of such other Guarantor under its Note Guarantee
or pursuant to its contribution obligations under this Indenture,
result in the obligations of such Guarantor under its Note
Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent
transfer under applicable law, including under Canadian federal or
provincial law or U.S. federal or state law, or a preference,
conveyance, transfer at under value or other challengeable or
voidable transaction under Canadian federal or provincial laws or
any other applicable laws.
(c) Each Person that
becomes a Secured Guarantor after the Issue Date shall also become
a party to the applicable Collateral Documents and shall as
promptly as practicable execute and deliver such security
instruments, financing statements, mortgages, deeds of trust,
additional deeds of hypothec and other related real estate
deliverables (in substantially the same form as those executed and
delivered with respect to the Collateral on the Issue Date or on
the date first delivered in the case of Collateral that this
Indenture provides may be delivered after the Issue Date (to the
extent, and substantially in the form, delivered on the Issue Date
or the date first delivered, as applicable (but no greater scope))
as may be necessary to vest in the Collateral Agent a perfected and
opposable Second Priority Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) in
properties and assets that constitute Collateral, as security for
such Secured Guarantor’s Note Guarantee and as may be
necessary to have such property or asset added to the Collateral as
required under the Collateral Documents and this Indenture, and
thereupon all provisions of this Indenture relating to the
Collateral shall be deemed to relate to such properties and assets
to the same extent and with the same force and effect.
(d) Each Note Guarantee
shall be released in accordance with Section 10.06.
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(e) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, any Note
Guarantee provided pursuant to this Section 4.15 by a
Restricted Subsidiary that is organized in a jurisdiction located
outside of the United States or Canada may be a Limited Guarantee
if the Board of Directors or Senior Management, in consultation
with local counsel, makes a reasonable determination that such
limitations are required due to legal requirements within such
jurisdiction.
Section
4.16 Limitation on Capital
Expenditures.
Beginning with the
fiscal year of the Company ending December 31, 2021, the Company
will not make, or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to
make, any Capital Expenditures other than (i) Capital Expenditures
funded with the proceeds of Asset Dispositions (for purposes of
this Section 4.16,
to be defined as an “Asset Disposition” under Section
1.01 but without giving effect to any exceptions to or exclusions
from such definition pursuant to the second paragraph of such
definition) in accordance with Section 4.10(b)(3) hereof, (ii)
Capital Expenditures funded with the proceeds of Equity Offerings
and (iii) Capital Expenditures that would not cause the aggregate
of all Capital Expenditures made by the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries pursuant to this clause (iii) (which shall not, for
the avoidance of doubt, include any Capital Expenditures funded
pursuant to clauses (i) or (ii)) in any fiscal year of the Company
to exceed an aggregate amount (“CapEx Cap”) equal to $100.0 million;
provided that
if the Capital Expenditures of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for the fiscal year of the Company ending December 31,
2020 (the “2020
CapEx Amount”) are less than $135.0 million,
then the CapEx Cap for the fiscal year of the Company ending
December 31, 2021 shall be increased by the amount of such
difference between $135.0 million and 2020 CapEx Amount
(provided that in no event shall the amount
of such increase exceed $20.0 million); provided, further that, notwithstanding the
foregoing, the CapEx Cap shall not apply to any fiscal year during
which the Leverage Ratio of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries is less than or equal to 2.00 to 1.00 on the last day
of such fiscal year.
Section
4.17 Effectiveness of
Covenants.
(a) Following the first
day:
(1) the Notes have an
Investment Grade Rating from both of the Rating Agencies;
and
(2) no Default or Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing under this
Indenture,
the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not be subject to
Sections 3.10,
4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11, 4.15, 4.16 and 5.01(a)(4) (collectively, the
“Suspended
Covenants”).
(b) If at any time the
credit rating on the Notes is downgraded from an Investment Grade
Rating by any Rating Agency, then the Suspended Covenants shall
thereafter be reinstated as if such covenants had never been
suspended (the “Reinstatement Date”) and
be applicable pursuant to the terms of this Indenture (including in
connection with performing any calculation or assessment to
determine compliance with the terms of this Indenture), unless and
until the Notes subsequently attain an Investment Grade Rating and
no Default or Event of Default is in existence (in which event the
Suspended Covenants shall no longer be in effect for such time that
the Notes maintain an Investment Grade Rating); provided, however, that no Default, Event
of Default or breach of any kind shall be deemed to exist under
this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees with respect to
the Suspended Covenants based on, and none of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries shall bear any liability for, any actions taken or
events occurring during the Suspension Period (as defined below),
regardless of whether such actions or events would have been
permitted if the applicable Suspended Covenants remained in effect
during such period. The period of time between the date of
suspension of the covenants and the Reinstatement Date is referred
to as the “Suspension
Period.”
(c) On the
Reinstatement Date, all Indebtedness Incurred during the Suspension
Period shall be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date,
so that it is classified under clause (3) of Section 4.09(b). Calculations
made after the Reinstatement Date of the amount available to be
made as Restricted Payments under Section 4.07 shall be made as
though Section 4.07
had been in effect since the Issue Date and prior to, but not
during, the Suspension Period. Accordingly, Restricted Payments
made during the Suspension Period shall reduce the amount available
to be made as Restricted Payments under Section 4.07(a). For purposes
of Section 4.10, on
the Reinstatement Date, utilized Excess Proceeds will be reset to
zero. For purposes of Section 4.16, any Capital
Expenditures that were made during the Suspension Period in excess
of what would have otherwise been permitted if such covenant were
in effect during the Suspension Period shall be disregarded for
purposes of determining compliance with Section 4.16, including any
such excess Capital Expenditures made during the fiscal year in
which the Reinstatement Date occurs.
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(d) During any period
when the Suspended Covenants are suspended, the Board of Directors
of the Company may not designate any of the Company’s
Subsidiaries as Unrestricted Subsidiaries pursuant to this
Indenture.
(e) The Company shall
provide a Responsible Officer of each of the Trustees and the
Holders with prompt written notice of any suspension of the
Suspended Covenants or the subsequent reinstatement of such
Suspended Covenants.
Section
4.18 Post-Closing
Obligations.
The
Company hereby covenants in favor of the Collateral Agent, for the
benefit of the Holders of the Notes, to deliver the following to
the Collateral Agent within 90 days from the Issue Date (or, in
each case, after the Company’s use of commercially reasonable
efforts to deliver to the Collateral Agent within such 90-day
period, such later date as either (i) agreed by the First Lien
Agent for the delivery of the corresponding instrument, document or
opinion under the Senior Credit Facility or (ii) may otherwise be
necessary to ensure delivery after the use of commercially
reasonable efforts), in each case in form and content satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent:
(a) to
deliver to the Collateral Agent a valid and enforceable second
ranking Deed of Hypothec in favor of the Collateral Agent, as
hypothecary representative, over all Additional Québec
Properties (as such term is defined below), opposable to third
parties and free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted Liens
(the “Additional
Hypothec”), provided, without limitation to the
generality of the foregoing, that:
(1) the
description of each Additional Québec Property that is a
mining right shall include a current cadastral description or
technical description, complying with the requirements of Articles
3036 and 3037 of the Civil Code of Québec, describing the
place where such mining right is currently exercised in accordance
with Article 3040 of the Civil Code of Québec, prepared or
certified, as appropriate, by a qualified professional (a notary or
a surveyor), so that a land file can be properly opened in respect
of such mining right and that the relevant correspondences may be
entered in the land register in accordance with Article 3040 of the
Civil Code of Québec;
(2) in
the event that the preparation of the cadastral or technical
descriptions or the title work described in (1) above reveal that
corrections need to be made to the description of the mining
rights, to existing land files in respect of such mining rights or
other immovable properties described in Schedule A to the Deed of
Hypothec executed by the Canadian Guarantors on or about the Issue
Date (the “Original
Hypothec”) (other than the Additional Québec
Properties), the Company and the Canadian Guarantors shall attend
to such corrections and the granting of an additional new Deed of
Hypothec as may be necessary to create a valid and enforceable
hypothec on such mining right or immovable properties, opposable to
third parties and free and clear of any Liens other than Permitted
Liens; and
(3) the
Company shall provide evidence of the opening of the land files,
corrections and registrations made in furtherance of the foregoing.
For greater certainty however, the Company shall not be required to
provide a copy of each individual index of immovable which may be
comprised within the cadastral description of each mining
right.
“Additional
Québec Properties” means the mining concessions
CM 264PTA, CM 314PTA, CM 375, CM 380 and all mining claims
described on Schedule A of the Original Hypothec.
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(b) to
deliver to the Collateral Agent a favorable legal opinion of Fasken
Xxxxxxxxx XxXxxxxx LLP in respect of the Additional Hypothec,
substantially in the form of the opinion delivered in respect of
the Original Hypothec on the Issue Date and updated as
required.
(c) to
deliver to the Collateral Agent a favorable mining title opinion of
Fasken Xxxxxxxxx DuMoulin LLP, substantially in the form of the
draft opinion delivered on Issue Date, confirming that Integra Gold
(Québec) Inc. is the registered owner at the Public register
of real and immovable mining rights (the “PRRIMR”) of the mining
concession CM375, free and clear of Liens other than Permitted
Liens, and that a land file for the CM375 was opened at the
applicable Register of real rights of State resource development
(the “RRRSRD”). This opinion
shall relate the full review of the undischarged documents
registered at the PRRIMR (including those indexed at the PRRIMR but
which need to be ordered for review) and the RRRSRD, but not at the
Index of Immovables nor at the Register of public service networks
and immovable situated in a territory without a cadastral survey.
This opinion shall also contain a note regarding the opening of new
lot(s) at the Index of Immovables or land file(s) at the Register
of public service networks and immovable situated in a territory
without a cadastral survey for the territory covered by such mining
concession, and otherwise be in form and content similar to the
opinion issued to the Collateral Agent in regard to BM
1048.
(d) to
deliver to the Collateral Agent a favorable mining title opinion of
Fasken Xxxxxxxxx XxXxxxxx LLP in respect of the mining rights of
the Canadian Guarantors other than the BM 1048 and CM375,
substantially in the form of the mining title opinion delivered in
respect of CM375 pursuant to subsection (c) above, but provided
that such opinion shall also relate the review of the undischarged
documents registered at the PRRIMR and the RRRSRD, but not at the
Index of Immovables nor at the Register of public service networks
and immovable situated in a territory without a cadastral
survey.
(e) to
correct if possible the correspondence of the lots on the Land File
84-A-3155 and Land File 84-A-3157 to reflect the description of the
place of exercise of such rights as described in the deed
registered under number 21 201 083 or, if possible,
provide confirmation from counsel or the registrar that the
correspondence is complete.
To the
extent a corresponding document is required under the Senior Credit
Facility as in effect on the Issue Date to be delivered to the
First Lien Agent, then, notwithstanding anything in this Section
4.18 to the contrary, the Company will not be required to deliver
any instrument, document or opinion enumerated in clauses (a)
through (e) above if such corresponding instrument, document or
opinion has not been and is no longer required to be delivered to
the First Lien Agent.
ARTICLE
5
SUCCESSORS
Section
5.01 Merger, Amalgamation, Arrangement,
Consolidation or Sale of All or Substantially All
Assets.
(a) The Company shall
not merge with or into, or amalgamate or consolidate with, or wind
up into or undergo an arrangement with (whether or not the Company
is the surviving corporation), or sell, assign, convey, transfer,
lease or otherwise dispose (including, in each case, by means of a
Delaware LLC Division) of all or substantially all of its
properties and assets, in one or more related transactions, to any
Person unless:
(1) the continuing,
resulting, surviving or transferee Person (the “Successor Company”) is a
Person (other than an individual) organized and existing under the
laws of Canada, any province or territory thereof, or of the United
States, any state or territory thereof or the District of
Columbia;
(2) the Successor
Company (if other than the Company) expressly assumes all of the
obligations of the Company under the
Notes, the Collateral Documents and this Indenture pursuant to a
supplemental indenture or other documents or instruments in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustees;
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(3) immediately after
giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness
that becomes an obligation of the Successor Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having
been Incurred by the Successor Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(4) immediately after
giving pro forma effect to
such transaction and any related financing transactions, as if such
transactions had occurred at the beginning of the applicable
four-quarter period,
(A) the Successor
Company would be able to Incur at least $1.00 of additional
Indebtedness pursuant to Section 4.09(a),
or
(B) the Consolidated
Coverage Ratio for the Successor Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries would be greater than such ratio for the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries immediately prior to such transaction
and would be at least 1.50 to 1.00;
(5) if the Company is
not the surviving corporation, each Guarantor (unless it is the
other party to the transactions above, in which case clause (1) of
Section 5.01(b)
shall apply) shall have by supplemental indenture confirmed that
its Note Guarantee shall apply to such Successor Company’s
obligations under this Indenture and the Notes;
(6) to the extent any
property or assets of the Successor Company, or the Person that is
merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Successor
Company, are property or assets of the type that would constitute
Collateral under the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Successor Company will take such action as may be
reasonably necessary or required to cause such property and assets
to be made subject to a Lien securing the Notes pursuant to this
Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement
in the manner and to the extent required by this Indenture, any of
the Collateral Documents or Intercreditor Agreement and shall take
all reasonably necessary action so that such Lien is perfected,
rendered opposable to third parties, preserved and protected to the
extent required by this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement;
(7) the Collateral
owned by or sold, assigned, conveyed, leased, transferred or
otherwise disposed of to the Successor Company shall (a) continue
to constitute Collateral under this Indenture and the Collateral
Documents, (b) be subject to the Lien in favor of the Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Trustees and the Holders of the Notes
and (c) not be subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens or
other Liens as permitted under Section 4.12;
(8) the Successor
Company shall become a party to the Intercreditor Agreement by
joinder or supplement; and
(9) the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustees an Officer’s Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, amalgamation, arrangement, winding up or disposition, and
such supplemental indenture, if any, complies with this
Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding
clauses (3) and (4) of Section 5.01(a):
(1) any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate with, amalgamate with,
undergo an arrangement with, merge with or into or transfer all or
part of its properties and assets (including by means of a Delaware
LLC Division) to the Company so long as no Capital Stock of the
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company is distributed to any Person
other than the Company; and
(2) the Company may
consolidate with, amalgamate with, undergo an arrangement with,
merge with or into (including by means of a Delaware LLC Division)
an Affiliate of the Company solely for the purpose of
reincorporating or continuing the Company in or to another province
or territory of Canada or in or to a state or territory of the
United States or the District of Columbia.
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(c) Subject to
Section 10.06,
no Guarantor shall, and the Company shall not permit any Guarantor
to, merge with or into, or amalgamate or consolidate with, or wind
up into or undergo an arrangement with (whether or not such
Guarantor is the surviving corporation), or sell, assign, convey,
transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of
its properties and assets (including, in each case, by means of a
Delaware LLC Division), in one or more related transactions, to any
Person (other than to the Company or another Guarantor)
unless:
(1)
(A) if such
entity remains a Guarantor, the continuing, resulting, surviving or
transferee Person (the
“Successor
Guarantor”) is a Person
(other than an individual) organized and existing under the same
laws as the Guarantor was organized immediately prior to such
transaction, the laws of Canada, any province or territory thereof,
or of the United States, any state or territory thereof or the
District of Columbia or the Netherlands;
(B) if such entity
remains a Guarantor, the Successor Guarantor, if other than such
Guarantor, expressly assumes all the obligations of such Guarantor
under this Indenture, the Notes, its Note Guarantee and, if
applicable, the Collateral Documents pursuant to a supplemental
indenture or other documents or instruments in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustees;
(C) immediately after
giving effect to such transaction (and treating any Indebtedness
that becomes an obligation of the Successor Guarantor or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having
been Incurred by the Successor Guarantor or such Restricted
Subsidiary at the time of such transaction), no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(D) to the extent any
property or assets of the Successor Guarantor, or the Person that
is merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into the Successor
Company, are property or assets of the type that would constitute
Collateral under the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Successor Guarantor will take such action as may be
reasonably necessary or required to cause such property and assets
to be made subject to a Lien securing the Notes pursuant to the
Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement
in the manner and to the extent required by the Indenture, any of
the Collateral Documents or Intercreditor Agreement and shall take
all reasonably necessary action so that such Lien is perfected,
preserved and protected to the extent required by the Indenture,
the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement;
(E) the Collateral
owned by or sold, assigned, conveyed, leased, transferred or
otherwise disposed of to the Successor Guarantor shall (a) continue
to constitute Collateral under the Indenture and the Collateral
Documents, (b) be subject to the Lien in favor of the Collateral
Agent for the benefit of the Trustees and the Holders of the Notes
and (c) not be subject to any Lien other than Permitted Liens or
other Liens as permitted under Section 4.12;
(F) the Successor
Guarantor that is a Secured Guarantor shall become a party to the
Intercreditor Agreement by joinder or supplement thereto;
and
(G) the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustees an Officer’s Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
amalgamation, arrangement, merger, winding up or disposition and
such supplemental indenture (if any) comply with this Indenture;
or
(2) such transaction
does not violate Section
4.10.
(d) Notwithstanding the
foregoing, any Guarantor may (i) merge or amalgamate or undergo an
arrangement with or into or transfer all or part of its properties
and assets to (including by means of a Delaware LLC Division) any
other Guarantor or the Company or (ii) merge or amalgamate or
undergo an arrangement with (including by means of a Delaware LLC
Division) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company for the purpose of
reincorporating the Guarantor in the same jurisdiction as the
Guarantor was organized immediately prior to such transaction, in a
province or territory of Canada, a state or territory of the United
States or the District of Columbia, the Netherlands or, solely in
the case of an Unsecured Guarantor, Turkey, so long as the amount
of Indebtedness of such Guarantor and its Subsidiaries is not
increased thereby.
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(e) For
purposes of this Section
5.01, the sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or
other disposition of all or substantially all of the properties and
assets of one or more Subsidiaries of
the Company, which properties and assets, if held by the Company
instead of such Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially
all of the properties and assets of the Company on a consolidated
basis, shall be deemed to be the disposition of all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the
Company.
Section
5.02 Successor Entity
Substituted.
Upon
any consolidation, merger, amalgamation, or winding up, in each
case including by way of an arrangement, or any sale, assignment,
transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition (including in each
case, by means of a Delaware LLC Division) of all or substantially
all of the assets of the Company or a Guarantor in accordance with
Section 5.01, the
successor Person formed by such consolidation or into or with which
the Company or a Guarantor, as applicable, is merged with or into,
or amalgamated or consolidated with or wound up into, or undergoes
an arrangement with, or to which such sale, assignment, transfer,
lease, conveyance or other disposition is made shall succeed to,
and be substituted for (so that from and after the date of such
consolidation, merger, winding up, sale, assignment, lease,
transfer, conveyance or other disposition, the provisions of this
Indenture referring to the Company or such Guarantor, as
applicable, shall refer instead to the successor entity and not to
the Company or such Guarantor, as applicable), and may exercise
every right and power of the Company or such Guarantor, as
applicable, under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees
and, if applicable, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement with the same effect as if such successor Person had been
named as the Company or such Guarantor, as applicable, herein;
provided that, in
the case of a lease of all or substantially all its assets, the
Company shall not be released from the obligation to pay the
principal of and interest on the Notes, and a Guarantor shall not
be released from its obligations under its Note
Guarantee.
ARTICLE 6
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section
6.01 Events of Default.
(a) Each of the
following is an “Event of
Default”:
(1) default in any
payment of interest on any Note when due, continued for 30
days;
(2) default in the
payment of principal of or premium, if any, on any Note when due at
its Stated Maturity, upon optional redemption, upon required
repurchase, upon declaration or otherwise;
(3) failure by the
Company or any Guarantor to comply with its obligations under
Section 5.01;
(4) failure by the
Company or any Guarantor to comply with any other covenant or
agreement in the Notes, the Indenture, the Collateral Documents or
the Note Guarantees (other than a failure that is the subject of
clauses (1), (2) or (3) of this Section 6.01(a); provided, that such failure
shall not constitute an Event of Default until the U.S. Trustee
(acting at the direction of the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes) or the Holders of
25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes notify the
Company of the default and the Company or Guarantor does not cure
such default within 60 days after receipt of such
notice.
(5) default
under any mortgage, hypothec, indenture or instrument under which
there is issued or by which there is secured or evidenced any
Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is Guaranteed by
the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries), other than Indebtedness owed to the Company or its
Restricted Subsidiary, whether such Indebtedness or Guarantee now
exists, or is created after the Issue Date, which
default:
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(A) is caused by a
failure to pay principal on such Indebtedness at its stated
maturity or due date (after giving effect to any applicable grace
period provided in such Indebtedness) (“payment default”);
or
(B) results in the
acceleration of such Indebtedness prior to its maturity (the
“cross acceleration
provision”);
and, in
each case, the principal amount of any such Indebtedness, together
with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness under
which there has been a payment default or the maturity of which has
been so accelerated and remains unpaid, aggregates $50.0 million or
more (or its foreign currency equivalent);
(6) failure by the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary or any group of Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together, would constitute
a Significant Subsidiary to pay final judgments aggregating in
excess of $50.0 million (or its foreign currency equivalent) (net
of any amounts that are covered by enforceable insurance policies
issued by solvent insurance companies), which judgments are not
paid, discharged or stayed for a period of 60 days or more after
such judgment becomes final and non-appealable;
(7) the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries of
the Company that, taken together, would constitute a Significant
Subsidiary, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Insolvency
Law:
(A) commences
proceedings to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent;
(B) consents to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or
the filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking an
arrangement of debt, reorganization, dissolution, winding up or
relief under applicable Insolvency Law;
(C) consents to the
appointment of a custodian, receiver, interim receiver, receiver
and manager, liquidator, assignee, trustees, sequestrator or other
similar official of it or for all or substantially all of its
property;
(D) makes a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or
(E) admits in writing
in a judicial, regulatory, or administrative proceeding or filing
its inability to pay its debts as they become due;
(8) a court of
competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under any
Insolvency Law that:
(A) is for relief
against the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any group of
Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a
Significant Subsidiary, in a proceeding in which the Company, any
such Significant Subsidiary or any group of Restricted Subsidiaries
that, taken together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, is
to be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent;
(B) appoints a
custodian, receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager,
liquidator, assignee, trustees, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any group of
Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a
Significant Subsidiary, or for all or substantially all of the
property of the Company, any Significant Subsidiary or any group of
Restricted Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a
Significant Subsidiary; or
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(C) orders the
liquidation, dissolution, readjustment of debt, reorganization or
winding up of the Company, or any Significant Subsidiary or any
group of Subsidiaries that, taken together, would constitute a
Significant Subsidiary;
and the
order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60 consecutive
days;
(9) any Note Guarantee
of a Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that, taken
together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, ceases to be
in full force and effect (except as contemplated by the terms of
this Indenture) or is declared null and void in a final and
non-appealable judicial proceeding or any Guarantor that is a
Significant Subsidiary or any group of Guarantors that, taken
together, would constitute a Significant Subsidiary, denies or
disaffirms its obligations under this Indenture or its Note
Guarantee;
(10) (x)
any material provision of any Collateral Document or the
Intercreditor Agreement, at any time, (a) ceases to be in full
force and effect for any reason other than in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the
Intercreditor Agreement or (b) is declared invalid or unenforceable
by a court of competent jurisdiction, (y) the Company or any
Secured Guarantor contests in writing the validity or
enforceability of any provision of any Collateral Document or the
Intercreditor Agreement or (z) the Company or any Secured Guarantor
denies in writing that it has any further liability under the
Indenture or any Collateral Document or the Intercreditor Agreement
or gives written notice to revoke or rescind any Collateral
Document or the perfected and opposable Second Priority Lien
created thereby with respect to the Notes, other than in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement; or
(11) any
Collateral Document covering a material portion of the Collateral
for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) ceases to
create a valid, perfected and opposable Second Priority Lien on and
security interest in or hypothec in any material Collateral covered
thereby, subject to Permitted Liens, except to the extent that any
such perfection, opposability or priority is not required pursuant
to the Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement or results from the failure of the Collateral Agent to
maintain possession of certificates actually delivered to it
representing securities pledged under the Collateral Documents or
the Collateral Document has been amended or the Collateral has
otherwise been released in accordance with the Indenture, the
Collateral Document or the Intercreditor Agreement.
(b) In the event of a
declaration of acceleration of the Notes because an Event of
Default described in Section 6.01(a)(5) has
occurred and is continuing, and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by a Trustee as
hereinafter provided in this Article 6, the declaration of
acceleration of the Notes shall be automatically annulled
if:
(1) the default
triggering such Event of Default pursuant to Section 6.01(a)(5) shall
be remedied or cured by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries or waived by the holders of the relevant Indebtedness
within 20 days after the declaration of acceleration with respect
thereto; and
(2) (A) the annulment
of the acceleration of the Notes would not conflict with any
judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and (B) all
existing Events of Default, except nonpayment of principal,
premium, if any, or interest on the Notes that became due solely
because of the acceleration of the Notes, have been cured or
waived.
Section
6.02 Acceleration.
(a) If an Event of
Default (other than an Event of Default specified in clause (7) or
(8) of Section 6.01(a) with
respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing, the U.S. Trustee
(acting at the direction of the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes) by written notice
to the Company, specifying the Event of Default, or the Holders of
at least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes by
written notice to the Company and a Responsible Officer of the U.S.
Trustee, may, and the U.S. Trustee at the written request of such
Holders shall, declare the principal of, premium, if any, and
accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all the Notes to be due and
payable immediately. Upon such a declaration, such principal,
premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, shall be
due and payable immediately.
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(b) If an Event of
Default specified in clause (7) or (8) of Section 6.01(a) with
respect to the Company occurs and is continuing, the principal of,
premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest, if any, on all
the Notes shall become and be immediately due and payable without
any declaration or other act on the part of either Trustee or any
Holders.
Section
6.03 Other Remedies.
If an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the U.S. Trustee may
pursue any available remedy to collect the payment of principal,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes or to enforce the
performance of any provision of the Notes or this
Indenture.
The
U.S. Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess
any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding.
A delay or omission by the U.S. Trustee or any Holder of a Note in
exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event of Default
shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or
acquiescence in the Event of Default. All remedies are cumulative
to the extent permitted by law.
Upon
the occurrence of an Event of Default and subject to the terms of
the Intercreditor Agreement and the Collateral Documents, all
Collateral shall be available to be utilized by the U.S. Trustee
and Collateral Agent in accordance with this Article 6 and Article
12. The rights of the Trustees under Article 7 shall be applicable
with respect thereto.
Section
6.04 Waiver of Past
Defaults.
The
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes by written notice to the Trustees may on behalf of all
Holders waive any past or existing Default and rescind any
acceleration with respect to the Notes and its consequences
hereunder (including any related payment default that resulted from
such acceleration), except a continuing Default in the payment of
the principal, premium, if any, or interest on any Note held by a
non-consenting Holder (including in connection with an Asset
Disposition Offer or a Change of Control Offer); provided that, in the case of
the rescission of any acceleration with respect to the Notes, (1)
the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree of a
court of competent jurisdiction and (2) all outstanding amounts
owing to the Trustees have been paid.
Upon
any such waiver, such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event
of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured for
every purpose of this Indenture, but no such waiver shall extend to
any subsequent or other Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
Section
6.05 Control by
Majority.
The
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes
may direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for exercising any remedy available to the U.S. Trustee or of
exercising any trust or power conferred on the U.S. Trustee or the
Collateral Agent. However, each Trustee and the Collateral Agent,
as the case may be, may refuse to follow any direction that
conflicts with law or this Indenture, the Notes, the Collateral
Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Note Guarantee, or
that it determines in good faith is unduly prejudicial to the
rights of any other Holder or that would involve that Trustee or
the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, in personal liability or
expense for which such Trustee has not been offered an indemnity
satisfactory to them.
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Section
6.06 Limitation on
Suits.
(a) Subject
to Section 6.07, no Holder of
a Note may pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or the
Notes (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement) or for the
appointment of a receiver or a Trustee, or for any other remedy
hereunder, unless:
(1) such Holder has
previously given the Trustees written notice that an Event of
Default is continuing;
(2) the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes have
requested the U.S. Trustee in writing to pursue the remedy in its
own name as Trustee under this Indenture;
(3) such Holders have
offered the Trustees security or indemnity satisfactory to each of
the Trustees against any loss, liability, costs or
expense;
(4) the U.S. Trustee
has not complied with such request within 60 days after the receipt
thereof and the offer of security or indemnity; and
(5) the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes have not
given the U.S. Trustee a direction that, in the opinion of the U.S.
Trustee, is inconsistent with such request within such 60-day
period.
A
Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of
another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over another
Holder, it being understood that neither of the Trustees has an
affirmative duty to ascertain whether or not any actions or
forbearances by a Holder are unduly prejudicial to other
Holders.
(c) A Holder may not
use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of another Holder or to
obtain a preference or priority over another Holder, it being
understood that neither of the Trustees has an affirmative duty to
ascertain whether or not any actions or forbearances by a Holder
are unduly prejudicial to other Holders. The provisions of
subsection (a) of this Section 6.06 are conditions precedent to the
exercise by any Holder of any remedy hereunder and under the
Collateral Documents. The exercise of such rights is further
subject to the provisions of Error!
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and Error! Reference source not
found.6.11.
Section
6.07 Rights of Holders to Receive
Payment.
Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture, the right of any Holder to
receive payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on its
Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed or provided
for in such Note (including in connection with an Asset Disposition
Offer or a Change of Control Offer), or to bring suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates,
shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such
Holder.
Section
6.08 Collection Suit by U.S.
Trustee.
If an
Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(a)(1) or
(2) occurs and is
continuing, the U.S. Trustee may recover judgment in its own name
and as trustee of an express trust against the Company and any
other obligor on the Notes for the whole amount of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest remaining unpaid on the Notes,
together with interest on overdue principal and, to the extent
lawful, interest and such further amount as shall be sufficient to
cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the U.S. Trustee and its agents and counsel.
Section
6.09 Restoration of Rights and
Remedies.
If
either of the Trustees or any Holder has instituted any proceeding
to enforce any right or remedy under this Indenture and such
proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or
has been determined adversely to such Trustee or to such Holder,
then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such
proceedings, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustees and the
Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to their
former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies
of the Trustees and the Holders shall continue as though no such
proceeding has been instituted.
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Section
6.10 Rights and Remedies
Cumulative.
Except
as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in Section 2.07, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustees or to the
Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy,
and every right and remedy are, to the extent permitted by law,
cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy
given hereunder or under any
Collateral Document, or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or
remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or
remedy.
Section
6.11 Delay or Omission Not
Waiver.
No
delay or omission of either of the Trustees or of any Holder to
exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event of Default
shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and
remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to a
Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and
as often as may be deemed expedient, by such Trustee or by the
Holders, as the case may be.
Section
6.12 Trustees May File Proofs of
Claim.
The
U.S. Trustee may file proofs of claim and other papers or documents
as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustees (including any claim for the reasonable compensation,
expenses, disbursements and advances of each of the Trustees, their
respective agents and counsel) and the Holders of the Notes allowed
in any judicial proceedings relative to the Company (or any other
obligor upon the Notes, including the Guarantors), its creditors or
its property and is entitled and empowered to participate as a
member in any official committee of creditors appointed in such
matter and to collect, receive and distribute any money or other
property payable or deliverable on any such claims. Any custodian
in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder
to make such payments to the Trustees, and in the event that the
Trustees shall consent to the making of such payments directly to
the Holders, to pay to the Trustees any amount due to each of them
for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustees and their respective agents and counsel,
and any other amounts due to the Trustees under Section 7.07. To the
extent that the payment of any such compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustees, their respective agents
and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustees under
Section 7.07
out of the estate in any such proceeding, shall be denied for any
reason, payment of the same shall be secured by a Lien on, and
shall be paid out of, any and all distributions, dividends, money,
securities and other properties that the Holders may be entitled to
receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under any plan
of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise. Nothing herein
contained shall be deemed to authorize either Trustee to authorize
or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan
of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting
the Notes or the rights of any Holder, or to authorize either
Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any such
proceeding.
Section
6.13 Priorities.
Subject
to the Intercreditor Agreement, if either Trustee collects any
money or property pursuant to this Article 6, it shall pay out the
money in the following order:
(1) to each of the
Trustees, the Collateral Agent and their respective agents and
attorneys for amounts due under Section 7.07, including
payment of all reasonable compensation, expenses and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the it and the costs and
expenses of collection;
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(2) to Holders for
amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal, premium, if any,
and interest ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for
principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively;
and
(3) to the Company or
to such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct,
including a Guarantor, if applicable.
The
U.S. Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any payment
to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.13. Promptly
after any record date is set pursuant to this Section 6.13, the U.S.
Trustee shall cause notice of such record date and payment date to
be given to the Company and to each Holder in the manner set forth
in Section 12.02.
Section
6.14 Undertaking for
Costs.
In any
suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture or in any suit against either Trustee for any action
taken, suffered or omitted by it as a Trustee, a court in its
discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in such
suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court
in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in
the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section 6.14 does not
apply to a suit by either Trustee a suit by a Holder pursuant to
Section 6.07,
or a suit by Holders of more than 10% in aggregate principal amount
of the then outstanding Notes.
Section
6.15 Possession of Notes Not
Required.
All
rights under this Indenture and the Notes may be enforced by the
U.S. Trustee without possession of any Notes or the production of
them at trial or other proceedings. Any proceedings instituted by
the U.S. Trustee may be brought in its name for itself or as
representative of the Holders without the necessity of joining
Holders as parties, and any recovery resulting from such
proceedings shall, subject to Section 6.13, be for the ratable
benefit of the Holders.
ARTICLE 7
TRUSTEES
Section
7.01 Duties of U.S.
Trustee.
(a) If an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the U.S. Trustee shall
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and
use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise as a prudent
person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct
of such person’s own affairs.
(b) Except during the
continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) the U.S. Trustee
undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and the U.S. Trustee shall
not be liable except for the performance of such duties, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the U.S. Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of
bad faith or willful misconduct on its part, the U.S. Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon resolutions,
statements, instruments, notices, directions, certificates and/or
opinions furnished to the U.S. Trustee and conforming on their face
to the requirements of this Indenture. However, in the case of any
such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the U.S. Trustee, the U.S.
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform on their face to the requirements of
this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of
mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein). The U.S.
Trustee may (but shall in no way be obligated to) make further
inquiry or investigation into such facts or materials as it sees
fit.
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(c) The U.S. Trustee
may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action,
its own negligent failure to act, or bad faith or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(1) this Subsection (c)
shall not be construed to limit the effect of Subsection (b) of
this Section 7.01;
(2) the U.S. Trustee
shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by
a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the U.S.
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
and
(3) the U.S. Trustee
shall not be liable with respect to any action taken, suffered or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders of the Holders of at least 25% in the
principal amount of the outstanding Notes relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the U.S. Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred upon the U.S. Trustee under this Indenture or believed by
it to be authorized or permitted by this Indenture.
(d) Subject to this
Article 7, if an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, neither Trustee nor the
Collateral Agent shall be under any obligation to exercise any of
its rights or powers under this Indenture, the Notes, the Notes
Guarantees and the Collateral Documents at the request or direction
of any of the Holders unless the Holders have offered to each of
the Trustees and the Collateral Agent indemnity or security
satisfactory to them against any loss, liability or
expense.
(e) The U.S. Trustee
shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except
as the U.S. Trustee may agree in writing with the
Company.
(f) Money held in trust
by the U.S. Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except
to the extent required by law and except for money held in trust
under Article
8.
(g) No provision of
this Indenture shall require the U.S. Trustee to expend or risk its
own funds or otherwise incur financial liability in the performance
of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds to believe
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(h) Every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting
the liability of or affording protection to the U.S. Trustee shall
be subject to the provisions of Article 7 and with respect to the Canadian Trustee, if applicable,
Sections 91, 92 and 93 of the CBCA.
Section
7.02 Rights of U.S.
Trustee.
(a) The U.S. Trustee
may conclusively rely on any document, resolution, statement,
notice, direction, certificate and/or opinion believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper
Person.
(b) Before
the U.S. Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may require an
Officer’s Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel or both. The
U.S. Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith in conclusive reliance on the Officer’s
Certificate or Opinion of Counsel and
shall fully warrant to the U.S. Trustee for any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture in
accordance with such Officer’s Certificate or Opinion of
Counsel. Any request, direction, order or demand of the Company
under this Indenture shall be sufficiently evidenced by an
Officer’s Certificate (unless other evidence thereof is
specifically prescribed). Any resolution of the Board of Directors
of the Company may be sufficiently evidenced by a copy thereof
certified by an Officer.
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(c) The U.S. Trustee
may act through attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible
for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed with due
care.
(d) The U.S. Trustee
shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in
good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights
or powers; provided, however, that the U.S.
Trustee’s conduct does not constitute bad faith, willful
misconduct or negligence.
(e) The
U.S. Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the
advice or opinion of counsel with respect to legal matters relating
to this Indenture and the Notes, including any Opinion of Counsel,
shall be full and complete authorization and protection from
liability in respect to any action
taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it hereunder in good
faith and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel,
including any Opinion of Counsel.
(f) The U.S. Trustee
shall not be required to give any bond or surety in respect of the
performance of its powers and duties hereunder.
(g) The U.S. Trustee
shall not be bound to ascertain or inquire as to the performance or
observance of any covenants, conditions, or agreements on the part
of the Company, but the U.S. Trustee may require of the Company
full information and advice as to the performance of the covenants,
conditions and agreements contained herein.
(h) The permissive
rights of the U.S. Trustee to do things enumerated in this
Indenture shall not be construed as a duty and, with respect to
such permissive rights, the U.S. Trustee shall not be answerable
for other than its negligence, bad faith or willful
misconduct;
(i) Except for an Event
of Default under Sections 6.01(a)(1) or
(2) hereof, the
U.S. Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice or be charged with
knowledge of any Default or Event of Default unless a Responsible
Officer of the U.S. Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or shall
have received from the Company or the Holders of not less than 25%
in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding written
notice thereof at the Corporate Trust Office of the U.S. Trustee,
and such notice references the Notes and this Indenture. In the
absence of any such notice or actual knowledge, and except for a
default under Sections
6.01(1) or (2) hereof, the U.S. Trustee
may conclusively assume that no Default or Event of Default
exists.
(j) Subject to, if
applicable, Sections 91, 92 and 93 of the CBCA, the rights,
privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the U.S.
Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be
indemnified, pursuant to this Indenture are extended to, and shall
be enforceable by, the U.S. Trustee in each of its capacities
hereunder, to the Canadian Trustee, the Agents and to each other
agent, custodian and Person employed to act hereunder; provided however, that (i) an Agent
shall only be liable to extent of its gross negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith and (ii) in and during an Event of Default,
only the U.S. Trustee, and not any Agent or the Canadian Trustee,
shall be subject to the prudent person standard.
(k) In no event shall
the U.S. Trustee be responsible or liable for any failure or delay
in the performance of its obligations hereunder arising out of or
caused by, directly or indirectly, forces beyond its control,
including, without limitation, strikes, work stoppages, accidents,
acts of war or terrorism, civil or military disturbances, nuclear
or natural catastrophes or acts of God, and interruptions, loss or
malfunctions of utilities, communications or computer (software and
hardware) services, it being understood that the U.S. Trustee shall
use commercially reasonable efforts which are consistent with
accepted practices in the banking industry to resume performance as
soon as practicable under the circumstances.
(l) In no event shall
the U.S. Trustee be responsible or liable for special, indirect,
punitive, incidental or consequential loss or damage of any kind
whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit)
irrespective of whether the U.S. Trustee has been advised of the
likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of
action.
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(m) Except as otherwise
provided herein, the Canadian Trustee, if undertaking duties and
obligations as the U.S. Trustee, hereunder, shall be subject to the
same standards and requirements applicable to the U.S. Trustee
hereunder.
(n) Any request or
direction of the Company or other Person mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate or
certificate of an Officer of such other Person and any resolution
of the Board of Directors of the Company or of such other Person
may be sufficiently evidenced by a board resolution certified by
the secretary or assistant secretary (or similar officer) of such
Person.
(o) The U.S. Trustee
shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or
powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of the percentage of Holders specified herein unless such
Holders shall have furnished to (or caused to be furnished to) the
U.S. Trustee security or indemnity satisfactory to it against the
costs, expenses and liabilities, including attorneys’ fees
and expenses, that might be incurred by the U.S. Trustee therein or
thereby.
(p) Nothing in this
Indenture shall require the U.S. Trustee to expend or risk their
own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(q) No provision of
this Indenture shall be deemed to impose any duty or obligation on
the U.S. Trustee to take or omit to take any action, or suffer any
action to be taken or omitted, in the performance of their duties
or obligations under this Indenture, or to exercise any right or
power thereunder, to the extent that taking or omitting to take
such action or suffering such action to be taken or omitted would
violate applicable law binding upon them.
(r) The U.S. Trustee
may request that the Company deliver an Officer’s Certificate
setting forth the name of the individuals and/or titles of officers
authorized at such time to take specific actions pursuant to this
Indenture, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any
Person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including
any Person specified as so authorized in any such Officer’s
Certificate previously delivered and not superseded, and may be
updated and delivered to the U.S. Trustee at any time by the
Company in its discretion.
(s) To help fight the
funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, the U.S.
Trustee will obtain, verify, and record information that identifies
individuals or entities that establish a relationship or open an
account with the U.S. Trustee. The U.S. Trustee will ask for the
name, address, tax identification number and other information that
will allow the U.S. Trustee to identify the individual or entity
who is establishing the relationship or opening the account. The
U.S. Trustee may also ask for formation documents such as articles
of incorporation, an offering memorandum, or other identifying
documents to be provided.
Section
7.03 Individual Rights of the U.S.
Trustee.
The
U.S. Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or
pledgee
of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates
with the same rights it would have if it were not U.S. Trustee. Any
Paying Agent, Registrar or any other agent of the U.S. Trustee may
do the same with like rights.
Section
7.04 U.S. Trustee’s
Disclaimer.
The
U.S. Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no
representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or
the Notes, it shall not be accountable for the Company’s use
of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible for
any statement of the Company or any other Person in this Indenture or in any document
issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes
other than the U.S. Trustee’s certificate of
authentication.
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Section
7.05 Notice of
Defaults.
Subject
to Section 7.02(i),
if a Default occurs and is continuing and is actually known to a
Responsible Officer of a Trustee, that Trustee shall send to the
other Trustee and each Holder a notice of the Default within 30
days. Except in the case of a Default specified in clauses (1) or
(2) of Section
6.01(a), a Trustee may withhold from the Holders notice of
any continuing Default if that Trustee reasonably believes and
determines in good faith that withholding the notice is in the best
interests of the Holders and so informs the Company and the
Guarantors in writing. Except in the case of a Default in the
payment of principal of, or premium, if any, or interest on, any
Note that is to be paid by the U.S. Trustee, as Paying Agent, the
Trustees shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, unless a Responsible
Officer of the U.S. Trustee shall have received written notice from
the Company or a Holder describing such Default or Event of
Default, and stating that such notice is a notice of
default.
Section
7.06 [Reserved].
Section
7.07 Compensation and
Indemnity.
(a) The Company and the
Guarantors, jointly and severally, shall pay to each of the
Trustees from time to time such compensation for its services as
shall be agreed to in writing from time to time by the Company, the
Guarantors and the Trustees. Neither of the Trustees’
compensation shall be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse each of
the Trustees upon request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses
incurred or made by it, including costs of collection, in addition
to the compensation for its services. Such expenses shall include
the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements and
advances of each of the Trustees’ agents, counsel,
accountants and experts. The Company and the Guarantors, jointly
and severally, shall indemnify each of the Trustees, their agents,
representatives, officers, directors, employees and attorneys
against any and all loss, liability, damage, claim (whether
asserted by the Company, a Guarantor, a Holder or any other person)
or expense (including reasonable compensation and expenses and
disbursements of each of the Trustees’ counsel) arising out
of or in connection with the administration of this trust and the
performance of its duties, or in connection with the enforcement of
any rights hereunder (including the indemnification obligations
hereunder), or arising out of or in connection with the exercise or
performance of any of its rights or powers hereunder. Each Trustee
shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may
seek indemnity. Failure by a Trustee to so notify the Company shall
not relieve the Company of its obligations hereunder. The Company
shall defend the claim and each of the Trustees shall provide
reasonable cooperation in such defense. Each of the Trustees may
have separate counsel of its selection and the Company shall pay
the fees and expenses of such counsel reasonably acceptable to the
Company; provided,
however, that the
Company shall not be required to pay such fees and expenses if the
Company assumes such defense unless (i) counsel appointed by the
Company is not reasonably acceptable to each Trustee or (ii) there
is a conflict of interest between the Company and either of the
Trustees in connection with such defense as determined by such
Trustee in consultation with counsel or if there are additional or
separate defenses available to such Trustee that are not available
to the Company or the other Trustee and the Company is unable to
assert any such defense on the such Trustee’s behalf. The
Company shall not enter into settlement without the prior written
consent of each Trustee (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss,
liability, damage, claim or expense incurred by either Trustee
through its own willful misconduct, bad faith or negligence and
with respect to the Canadian Trustee, if applicable, where
precluded by Section 93 of the CBCA.
(b) To secure the
Company’s payment obligations of the Company and the
Guarantors in this Section 7.07, subject to
the Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustees shall have a Lien prior
to the Notes on all money or property held or collected by the
Trustees, in its capacity as Trustees, other than money or property
held in trust to pay principal of and interest, if any, on
particular Notes.
(c) The
Company’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section 7.07 shall survive
the resignation or removal of either of the Trustees and the
discharge of this Indenture. When either of the Trustees incurs
expenses after the occurrence of a Default specified in
Section 6.01(a)(7)
or (8) with
respect to the Company, the expenses
are intended to constitute expenses of administration under the
Insolvency Laws.
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Section
7.08 Replacement of
Trustees.
(a) The
Trustees may resign at any time by giving 30 days’ prior
written notice of such resignation to the Company and be discharged
from the trust hereby created by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Notes may remove a Trustee by
so notifying such Trustee and the Company by giving 30 days’
prior written notice. The Company shall remove a Trustee
if:
(1) such Trustee is no
longer eligible under Section 7.10 or otherwise
required by applicable law;
(2) such Trustee is
adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or an order for relief is
entered with respect to such Trustee under any Insolvency
Law;
(3) a receiver or
public officer takes charge of such Trustee or its property;
or
(4) such Trustee
otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
(b) If a Trustee
resigns or has been removed by the Holders, Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may appoint a
successor Trustee. Otherwise, if a Trustee resigns or is removed,
or if a vacancy exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, the
Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year
after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority
in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may
remove the successor Trustee to replace it with another successor
Trustee appointed by the Company. The U.S. Trustee can only be
replaced with a U.S. trustee and the Canadian Trustee can only be
replaced with a Canadian trustee.
(c) A successor Trustee
shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the
retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the
successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of
the Trustee under this Indenture. The successor Trustee shall send
a notice of its succession to Holders, and include in the notice
its name and address of its corporate trust office. The retiring
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee
to the successor Trustee, subject to the Lien provided for in
Section 7.07.
(d) If a successor
Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the retiring
Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or
the Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the Notes may
petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee
fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder
of Notes may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee
with respect to the Notes.
(f) Notwithstanding the
replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.08, the
Company’s obligations under Section 7.07 shall
continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.
Section
7.09 Successor Trustees by
Merger.
(a) If
either the Canadian Trustee or U.S. Trustee consolidates with,
merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially all its
corporate trust business or assets to, another Person, the
resulting, surviving or transferee
Person without any further act shall, if such resulting, surviving
or transferee Person is otherwise eligible under this Indenture, be
the successor Canadian Trustee or U.S. Trustee, as
applicable.
(b) In case at the time
such successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation
to either the Canadian Trustee or U.S. Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any of the Notes shall have been
authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Canadian
Trustee or U.S. Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication
of any applicable predecessor Trustee, and deliver such Notes so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not
have been authenticated, any successor to the Canadian Trustee or
U.S. Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to the
Trustees; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the
full force which the Notes provide or this Indenture provides that
the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
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Section
7.10 Eligibility;
Disqualification.
There
shall at all times be at least one Trustee hereunder that is a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States or of any state thereof that is authorized under such
laws to exercise corporate trustee power and that is subject to
supervision or examination by federal or state authorities and at
least one Trustee that is a body corporate incorporated under the
laws of Canada or a province of Canada and is authorized to carry
on business of a trust company. Such U.S. Trustee together with its
affiliates shall at all times have a combined capital surplus of at
least $15.0 million as set forth in its most recent annual report
of condition.
Section
7.11 No Liability for
Co-Trustee.
No
Trustee appointed hereunder shall be personally liable or
responsible by reason of any act or omission of any other Trustee
hereunder.
Section
7.12 Limitation on Trustees’
Liability.
Except
as provided in this Article 7, in accepting the
trusts hereby created, the entities acting as Trustees are acting
solely as Trustees hereunder and not in their individual capacity
and, except as provided in this Article 7, all Persons having
any claim against either of the Trustees by reason of the
transactions contemplated by this Indenture or any Note shall look
only to the Company for payment or satisfaction
thereof.
ARTICLE 8
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
Section
8.01 Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance.
The
Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have either
Section 8.02
or Section 8.03 applied to
all outstanding Notes and Note Guarantees upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article 8.
Section
8.02 Legal Defeasance and
Discharge.
(a) Upon
the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option
applicable to this Section 8.02, the Company
and the Guarantors shall, subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 8.04, be deemed to
have been discharged from their obligations with respect to all
outstanding Notes and Note Guarantees
on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(“Legal
Defeasance”). For this
purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the
outstanding Notes (including the Note Guarantees), which shall
thereafter be deemed to be “outstanding” only for the
purposes of Section 8.05
and the other Sections of this
Indenture referred to in clauses (1) and (2) below, and to have
satisfied all of its other obligations under such Notes (including
the Note Guarantees) and this Indenture, including that of the
Guarantors (and the Trustees, on demand of and at the expense of
the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), except for the following provisions which shall survive
until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder:
(1) the rights of
Holders to receive payments in respect of the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes when such payments are
due, solely out of the trust created pursuant to this Indenture
referred to in Section
8.05;
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(2) the Company’s
obligations with respect to the Notes concerning issuing temporary
Notes, registration of such Notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Notes and the maintenance of an office or agency for payment
and money for Note payments held in trust;
(3) the rights, powers,
trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustees, and the
Company’s obligations in connection therewith;
and
(4) this Section 8.02.
(b) Following the
Company’s exercise of its Legal Defeasance option, payment of
the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default. If
the Company exercises its Legal Defeasance option, the Note
Guarantees, and the Liens pertaining to such Note Guarantees, if
applicable, in effect at such time shall terminate and be
released.
(c) Subject to
compliance with this Article 8, the Company may
exercise its option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding
the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.03.
Section
8.03 Covenant
Defeasance.
Upon
the Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option
applicable to this Section
8.03, the Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries and the
Guarantors shall, subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in Section 8.04, be released from their obligations under the
covenants contained in Sections 3.10, 4.03, 4.04, 4.05, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.10, 4.11, 4.12, 4.14, 4.15, 4.16, 4.17 and 9.07 and clause (4) of
Section 5.01(a)
with respect to the outstanding Notes, and the Guarantors shall be
deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect
to all Note Guarantees, and the Liens pertaining to such Note
Guarantees, if applicable, will terminate and be released on and
after the date the conditions set forth in Section 8.04 are satisfied
(“Covenant
Defeasance”), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed
not “outstanding” for the purposes of any direction,
waiver, consent or declaration or act of Holders (and the
consequences of any thereof) in connection with such covenants, but
shall continue to be deemed “outstanding” for all other
purposes hereunder (it being understood that such Notes shall not
be deemed outstanding for accounting purposes). For this purpose,
Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to this Indenture and
the outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and
shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or
limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such
covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any
other provision herein or in any other document, and such omission
to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default
under Section 6.01,
but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and
such Notes shall be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the
Company’s exercise under Section 8.01 of the option
applicable to this Section 8.03, subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions set forth in Section 8.04, Sections 6.01(a)(3) (solely
with respect to the failure of the Company to comply with
Section
5.01(a)(4)), 6.01(a)(4) (solely with respect
to covenants that are released as a
result of such Covenant Defeasance), 6.01(a)(5),
6.01(a)(6),
6.01(a)(7),
(solely with respect to Significant Subsidiaries or a group of
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company that, taken together would
constitute a Significant Subsidiary), 6.01(a)(8)
(solely with respect to Significant
Subsidiaries or a group of Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company
that, taken together would constitute a Significant
Subsidiary), 6.01(a)(9),
6.01(a)(10)
and 6.01(a)(11)
in each case, shall not constitute
Events of Default.
Section
8.04 Conditions to Legal or Covenant
Defeasance.
(a) The following shall
be the conditions to the exercise of either the Legal Defeasance
option under Section 8.02 or the
Covenant Defeasance option under Section 8.03 with respect
to the Notes:
(1) the Company must
irrevocably deposit with the U.S. Trustee, in trust, for the
benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S.
dollar-denominated Government Securities, or a combination thereof,
in amounts as shall be sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants without
consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay the principal
of, and premium, if any, and interest due on the outstanding Notes
on the Stated Maturity or on the applicable redemption date, as the
case may be, and the Company must specify whether the Notes are
being defeased to maturity or to a particular redemption
date;
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(2) in the case of
Legal Defeasance, the Company has delivered to the Trustees an
Opinion of Counsel confirming that (A) the Company has received
from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service
a ruling, or (B) since the Issue Date, there has been a change in
the applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to the
effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall
confirm that the Holders and beneficial owners of Notes shall not
recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax purposes
as a result of such Legal Defeasance and shall be subject to U.S.
federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at
the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance
had not occurred;
(3) in the case of
Covenant Defeasance, the Company has delivered to the Trustees an
Opinion of Counsel confirming that, subject to customary
assumptions and exclusions, the Holders and beneficial owners of
Notes shall not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and
shall be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in
the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case
if such Covenant Defeasance had not occurred;
(4) in the case of
Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, the Company must deliver
to the Trustees an Opinion of Counsel qualified to practice in
Canada (such counsel acceptable to each of the Trustees, acting
reasonably) or a ruling from the Canada Revenue Agency to the
effect that Holders and beneficial owners of the outstanding Notes
shall not recognize income, gain or loss for Canadian federal,
provincial or territorial income tax or other tax purposes as a
result of such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as
applicable, and shall only be subject to Canadian federal,
provincial or territorial income tax and other taxes on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have
been the case had such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance, as
applicable, not occurred;
(5) such Legal
Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under any material agreement
or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party or by which the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is
bound;
(6) no Default or Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such
deposit (other than a Default or an Event of Default resulting from
the borrowing of funds to be applied to make such deposit and any
similar and simultaneous deposit relating to other Indebtedness
and, in each case, the granting of Liens in connection
therewith);
(7) the Company has
delivered to the Trustees an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that,
as of the date of such opinion and subject to customary assumptions
and exclusions, including that no intervening bankruptcy of the
Company between the date of deposit and the 91st day following the
deposit and assuming that no Holder is an “insider” of
the Company under applicable bankruptcy law, after the 91st day
following the deposit, the trust funds shall not be subject to the
effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or
similar laws affecting creditors’ rights
generally;
(8) the Company has
delivered to the Trustees an Officer’s Certificate stating
that the deposit was not made by the Company with the intent of
defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding creditors of the
Company, any Guarantor or others;
(9) the Company has
delivered to the Trustees an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel may be subject to
customary assumptions and exclusions), each stating that all
conditions precedent relating to the Legal Defeasance or the
Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, have been complied with;
and
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(10) the
Company has delivered irrevocable instructions to the U.S. Trustee
to apply the deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at
maturity or the redemption date, as the case may be (which
instructions may be contained in the Officer’s Certificate
referred to in clause (8) above).
Section
8.05 Deposited Money and Government
Securities to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous
Provisions.
(a) Subject to
Section 8.06,
all money and Government Securities (including the proceeds
thereof) (which the U.S. Trustee shall not be obligated to
reinvest) deposited with the U.S. Trustee pursuant to Section 8.04 in respect of
the outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by the
U.S. Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and
this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (including the Company or a Guarantor acting as Paying
Agent) as the U.S. Trustee may determine, to the Holders of all
sums due and to become due thereon in respect of principal,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes, but such money need not
be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by
law.
(b) The Company shall
pay and indemnify the Trustees against any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against the cash or Government Securities
deposited pursuant to Section 8.04 or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any
such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of
the Holders.
(c) Anything in this
Article 8 to the
contrary notwithstanding, the U.S. Trustee shall deliver or pay to
the Company from time to time upon the request of the Company any
money or Government Securities held by it as provided in
Section 8.04
which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustees (which may be the opinion
delivered under Section 8.04(a)), are in
excess of the amount thereof that would then be required to be
deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance.
Section
8.06 Repayment to the
Company.
Subject
to any applicable abandoned property law, any money deposited with
the U.S. Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by the Company,
in trust for the payment of the principal, premium, if any, or
interest on any Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after
such principal, premium, if any, or interest has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company on its request or (if then
held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the
Holder of such Note shall thereafter look only to the Company for
payment thereof, and all liability of the U.S. Trustee, the
Canadian Trustee, or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as Trustees thereof, shall
thereupon cease.
Section
8.07 Reinstatement.
If the
U.S. Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. dollars or
Government Securities in accordance with Section 8.02 or
Section 8.03,
as the case may be, by reason of any order or judgment of any court
or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise
prohibiting such application, then the Company’s and the
Guarantors’ obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and
the Note Guarantees shall be revived and reinstated as though no
deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.02 or
Section 8.03
until such time as the U.S. Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to
apply all such money in accordance with Section 8.02 or
Section 8.03,
as the case may be; provided that, if the Company
makes any payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on any
Note following the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company
shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders to receive such
payment from the money held by the U.S. Trustee or Paying
Agent.
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ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENT, SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER
Section
9.01 Without Consent of
Holders.
(a) Notwithstanding
Section 9.02,
without the consent of any Holder, the Company, the Guarantors and
the Trustees and the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, may
amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees,
the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement
to:
(1) cure any ambiguity,
omission, defect or inconsistency;
(2) issue Additional
Notes in compliance with Section 4.09;
(3) provide for the
assumption by a successor of the obligations of the Company or any
Guarantor under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement in accordance
with Section 5.01;
(4) provide for or
facilitate the issuance of uncertificated Notes in addition to or
in place of certificated Notes; provided that the
uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of
Section 163(f) of the Code;
(5) to comply with the
rules of any applicable Depositary;
(6) (i)
add Guarantors with respect to the Notes, (ii) release a Guarantor
from its obligations under its Note Guarantee or this Indenture in
accordance with the applicable provisions of this Indenture or
(iii) modify a Note Guarantee of a Guarantor organized in
jurisdictions other than the United States and Canada to be a
Limited Guarantee if the Board of Directors or Senior Management, in consultation
with local counsel, makes a reasonable determination that such
limitations are required due to the legal requirements within such
jurisdiction;
(7) make, complete or
confirm any grant of Collateral permitted or required by the
Indenture or any of the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement, or any release of Collateral pursuant to the terms of
the Indenture or any of the Collateral Documents or the
Intercreditor Agreement;
(8) add covenants of
the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries or Events of Default for
the benefit of Holders or to make changes that would provide
additional rights to the Holders, or to surrender any right or
power conferred upon the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary;
(9) make any change
that does not materially adversely affect the legal rights under
this Indenture of any Holder;
(10) evidence
and provide for the acceptance of an appointment under this
Indenture of a successor Trustee or Collateral Agent; provided that such successor
Trustee or Collateral Agent is otherwise qualified and eligible to
act as such under the terms of this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement, as
applicable;
(11) conform
the text of this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees, the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement to any
provision of the “Description of Notes” section of the
Offering Memorandum to the extent that such provision in such
“Description of Notes” section was intended to be a
verbatim recitation of a provision of this Indenture, the Notes,
the Note Guarantees, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement, as set forth in an Officer’s
Certificate;
(12) make
any amendment to the provisions of this Indenture relating to the
transfer and legending of Notes as permitted by this Indenture,
including, without limitation, to facilitate the issuance and
administration of the Notes or, if Incurred in compliance with this
Indenture, Additional Notes; provided, however, that (A) compliance
with this Indenture as so amended would not result in Notes being
transferred in violation of the Securities Act or any applicable
securities laws and regulations and (B) such amendment does not
materially and adversely affect the rights of Holders to transfer
Notes;
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(13) to
secure additional extensions of credit and add additional secured
creditors holding other Second Priority Indebtedness so long as
such Second Priority Indebtedness is permitted by the provisions of
the Indenture or any other then-existing Second Priority
Indebtedness; or
(14) to
add additional assets as Collateral.
(b) Upon the request of
the Company, and upon receipt by the Trustees and the Collateral
Agent of the documents described in Section 12.04, the Trustees and
the Collateral Agent shall join with the Company and the applicable
Guarantors in the execution of any amendment or supplement to this
Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees (other than the
Turkish Guarantee), and the Collateral Agent and, if applicable,
the Trustees (including by means of an acknowledgment), shall join
with the Company and the applicable Guarantors in the execution of
any amendment or supplement to the Turkish Guarantee, the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement, as
applicable, and to make any further appropriate agreements and
stipulations that may be therein contained, but the Trustees and
the Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to enter into any
amended or supplemental indenture that affects its own rights,
duties, protections, indemnities or immunities under this Indenture
or otherwise.
(c) After an amendment,
supplement or waiver under this Section 9.01 becomes effective,
the Company shall send to the Holders of Notes affected thereby a
written notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or
waiver. Any failure of the Company to send such notice, or any
defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the
validity of any such amendment, supplement or waiver.
Section
9.02 With Consent of
Holders.
(a) Except
as provided in Section
9.01 and this Section 9.02, the Company, the
applicable Guarantors, the Trustees and the Collateral Agent may
amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes and any Note
Guarantee (other than the Turkish Guarantee) and the Company, the
applicable Guarantors and the Collateral Agent and, if applicable,
the Trustees (including by means of an acknowledgment), may amend
or supplement the Turkish Guarantee, the Collateral Documents and
the Intercreditor Agreement with the consent of the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Notes (including Additional
Notes, if any) then outstanding voting as a single class
(including, without limitation, consents obtained in connection
with a purchase of or tender offer or exchange offer for, Notes),
and, subject to Section
6.04 and Section
6.07, any existing or past Default or Event of Default
(other than a Default or Event of Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on the Notes, except a payment default resulting
from an acceleration that has been rescinded) or compliance with
any provision of this Indenture, the Notes or the Note Guarantees
may be waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding Notes (including
Additional Notes, if any) voting as a single class (including
consents obtained in connection with the purchase of, or tender
offer or exchange offer for, Notes). Section 2.08
and Section 2.09
shall determine which Notes are
considered to be “outstanding” for the purposes of
this Section
9.02.
(b) Upon the request of
the Company, and upon the filing with the Trustees and the
Collateral Agent of evidence satisfactory to the Trustees and the
Collateral Agent of the consent of the Holders as aforesaid, and
upon receipt by the Trustees of the documents described in
Section 7.02 and
Section 12.04, the
Trustees and the Collateral Agent shall join with the Company and
the applicable Guarantors in the execution of any amendment or
supplement to this Indenture, the Notes and the Note Guarantees
(other than the Turkish Guarantee), and the Collateral Agent and,
if applicable, the Trustees (including by means of an
acknowledgment), shall join with the Company and the applicable
Guarantors in the execution of any amendment or supplement to the
Turkish Guarantee, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement, as applicable, and to make any further appropriate
agreements or stipulations that may be therein contained, but the
Trustees and the Collateral Agent shall not be obligated to enter
into any amended or supplemental indenture that affects its own
rights, protections, indemnities duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
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(c) It shall not be
necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section 9.02 to approve the
particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or waiver. It
shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance
thereof.
(d) After an amendment,
supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02 becomes effective,
the Company shall send to the Holders of Notes affected thereby a
notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any
failure of the Company to send such notice, or any defect therein,
shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such amendment, supplement or waiver.
(e) Without the consent
of each affected Holder, no amendment, supplement or waiver under
this Section 9.02
may:
(1) reduce the
principal amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an
amendment, supplement or waiver;
(2) reduce the stated
rate of interest or extend the stated time for payment of interest
on any Note;
(3) reduce the
principal of or extend the Stated Maturity of any
Note;
(4) waive a Default or
Event of Default in the payment of principal of, premium, if any,
or interest on the Notes (except a rescission of acceleration of
the Notes by the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes with respect to a
default other than a payment default and a waiver of the payment
default that resulted from such acceleration);
(5) reduce the premium
payable upon the redemption or repurchase of any Note or change the
time at which any Note may be redeemed or repurchased as described
in Section
3.07;
(6) make any Note
payable in money other than that stated in the Note;
(7) impair the right of
any Holder to receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on such Holder’s Notes on or after the due dates
therefor or to institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on
or with respect to such Holder’s Notes;
(8) make any change in
the amendment or waiver provisions which require each
Holder’s consent; or
(9) modify the Note
Guarantees in any manner materially adverse to the
Holders.
(f) In addition,
without the consent of the Holders of at least 662⁄3% in aggregate
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding (including, without
limitation, consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or
tender offer or exchange offer for, such Notes), no amendment,
supplement or waiver may (1) have the effect of releasing all or
substantially all of the Collateral from the Liens of the
Collateral Documents (except as permitted by the terms of the
Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement)
or changing or altering the priority of the security interests or
the hypothecs of the Holders of the Notes in the Collateral under
the Intercreditor Agreement, (2) make any change in the Collateral
Documents, the Intercreditor Agreement or the provisions in this
Indenture dealing with the application of proceeds of the
Collateral that would adversely affect the Holders of the Notes or
(3) modify the Collateral Documents or the provisions of this
Indenture dealing with Collateral in any manner adverse to the
Holders of the Notes in any material respect other than in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement.
(g) A consent to any
amendment, supplement or waiver of this Indenture, the Notes, any
Note Guarantee, the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement by any Holder given in connection with a tender of such
Holder’s Notes shall not be rendered invalid by such
tender.
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Section
9.03 [Reserved].
Section
9.04 Revocation and Effect of
Consents.
(a) Until an amendment,
supplement or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder
of a Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every
subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the
same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation
of the consent is not made on any Note. However, any such Holder of
a Note or subsequent Holder of a Note may revoke the consent as to
its Note if the Trustees and the Collateral Agent receive written
notice of revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or
amendment becomes effective. An amendment, supplement or waiver
that is effective in accordance with this Indenture thereafter
binds every Holder.
(b) The Company may,
but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date pursuant to
Section 1.04 for
the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any
amendment, supplement or waiver.
Section
9.05 Notation on or Exchange of
Notes.
(a) The Trustees may
place an appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or
waiver on any Note thereafter authenticated. The Company in
exchange for all Notes may issue and the Trustees shall, upon
receipt of an Authentication Order, authenticate new Notes that
reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver.
(b) Failure to make the
appropriate notation or issue a new Note shall not affect the
validity and effect of such amendment, supplement or
waiver.
Section
9.06 Trustees and Collateral Agent to Sign
Amendments, etc.
Each of
the Trustees, and as applicable, the Collateral Agent shall sign
any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this
Article 9 if the
amendment, supplement or waiver does not adversely affect the
rights, duties, liabilities or immunities of such Trustee or the
Collateral Agent, as applicable. In executing any amendment,
supplement or waiver, the Trustees and the Collateral Agent shall
receive and shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon,
in addition to the documents required by Section 13.04, an
Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that
the execution of such amended or supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture, the Collateral Documents
or the Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable, and that such
amendment, supplement or waiver is the legal, valid and binding
obligation of the Company and any Guarantor party thereto,
enforceable against them in accordance with its terms, subject to
customary exceptions, and complies with the provisions
hereof.
Section
9.07 Payment for
Consent.
The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, pay or cause to be paid
any cash consideration to or for the benefit of any Holder for any
consent, waiver or amendment of any of the terms or provisions of
this Indenture or the Notes unless such consideration is offered to be paid and is paid to
all Holders that consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame
set forth in the solicitation documents relating to such consent,
waiver or amendment; provided
that this Section 9.07
shall not be breached if consents,
waivers or amendments are sought in connection with an exchange
offer for all of the Notes where participation in such exchange
offer is limited to holders who are either “qualified
institutional buyers,” within the meaning of Rule 144A (as
defined in Appendix A), or non-U.S. Persons, within the meaning of
Regulation S (as defined in Appendix A), and/or “accredited
investors,” within the meaning of Canadian Securities
Legislation.
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ARTICLE 10
GUARANTEES
Section
10.01 Guarantee.
(a) Subject to this
Article 10, each of
the Guarantors party hereto hereby, jointly and severally,
irrevocably and unconditionally guarantees, with respect to each
Secured Guarantor, on a senior secured basis and, with respect to
each Unsecured Guarantor, on a senior unsecured basis, to each
Holder authenticated and delivered by the U.S. Trustee and to the
Trustees and Collateral Agent and their respective successors and
assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this
Indenture, the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or
thereunder, that: (1) the principal, premium, if any, and interest
on the Notes shall be promptly paid in full when due, whether at
Stated Maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and
interest on the overdue principal and interest on the Notes, if
any, if lawful, and all other Obligations of the Company to the
Holders, the Trustees or the Collateral Agent hereunder or under
the Notes shall be promptly paid in full or performed, all in
accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and (2) in case of
any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of
such other obligations, that same shall be promptly paid in full
when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension
or renewal, whether at Stated Maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise. Failing payment by the Company when due of any amount so
guaranteed or any performance so guaranteed for whatever reason,
the Guarantors shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay the
same immediately. Each Guarantor party hereto agrees that this is a
guarantee of payment and not a guarantee of
collection.
(b) The Guarantors
party hereto hereby agree that their obligations hereunder shall be
unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or
enforceability of the Notes or this Indenture, the absence of any
action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder
with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of
any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or
any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or
equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each Guarantor party
hereto hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment,
filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or
bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first
against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and
covenants that this Note Guarantee shall not be discharged until
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes and
all other amounts payable by the Company under this Indenture have
been paid in full, or pursuant to Section 10.06.
(c) Each of the
Guarantors party hereto also agrees, jointly and severally, to pay
any and all costs and expenses (including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustees, the
Collateral Agent or any Holder in enforcing any rights under this
Section
10.01.
(d) If any Holder, the
Trustees or the Collateral Agent is required by any court or
otherwise to return to the Company, Guarantors or any custodian,
Trustees, Collateral Agent, liquidator or other similar official
acting in relation to the Company or the Guarantors, any amount
paid either to the Trustees, the Collateral Agent or such Holder,
this Note Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be
reinstated in full force and effect.
(e) Each Guarantor
party hereto agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of
subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any
obligations guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all
obligations guaranteed hereby. Each Guarantor party hereto further
agrees that, as between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the
Holders. the Trustees and the Collateral Agent, on the other hand,
(1) the maturity of the Obligations Guaranteed hereby may be
accelerated as provided in Article 6 for the purposes of
this Note Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other
prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the
Obligations Guaranteed hereby, and (2) in the event of any
declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in
Article 6, such
obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become
due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of this Note
Guarantee. The Guarantors party hereto shall have the right to seek
contribution from any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise
of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the
Note Guarantees.
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(f) Each Note Guarantee
shall remain in full force and effect and continue to be effective
should any petition be filed by or against the Company for
liquidation or reorganization, should the Company become insolvent
or make an assignment for the benefit of creditors or should a
receiver or trustee be appointed for all or any significant part of
the Company’s assets, and shall, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the
case may be, if at any time payment and performance of the Notes
are, pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or
must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on the Notes
or the Note Guarantees, whether as a “voidable
preference,” “fraudulent transfer” or otherwise,
all as though such payment or performance had not been made. In the
event that any payment or any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced,
restored or returned, the Notes shall, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such
amount paid and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or
returned.
(g) In case any
provision of any Note Guarantee 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.
(h) Each payment to be
made by a Guarantor party hereto in respect of its Note Guarantee
shall be made without set-off, counterclaim, reduction or
diminution of any kind or nature.
Section
10.02 Limitation on Guarantor
Liability.
Each
Guarantor party hereto and, by its acceptance of Notes, each
Holder, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such
parties that the Note Guarantee of such Guarantor not constitute a
fraudulent conveyance or a fraudulent transfer for purposes of
Insolvency Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform
Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal, Canadian,
provincial or state law to the extent applicable to any Note
Guarantee. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the Trustees, the
Holders and the Guarantors party hereto hereby irrevocably agree
that the obligations of each Guarantor party hereto shall be
limited to the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to such
maximum amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities of
such Guarantor that are relevant under such laws and after giving
effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution from
or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect
of the obligations of such other Guarantor under this Article 10, result in the
obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee not
constituting a fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer under
applicable law. Each Guarantor party hereto that makes a payment
under its Note Guarantee shall be entitled upon payment in full of
all Guaranteed Obligations under this Indenture to a contribution
from each other Guarantor in an amount equal to such other
Guarantor’s pro rata
portion of such payment based on the respective net assets of all
the Guarantors at the time of such payment determined in accordance
with IFRS. The obligations of each Guarantor are subject to the
limitations set forth in clause (d) of Section 4.15.
Section
10.03 Execution and
Delivery.
(a) To evidence its
Note Guarantee set forth in Section 10.01, each Guarantor
party hereto hereby agrees that this Indenture shall be executed on
behalf of such Guarantor by an Officer, director, general manager
or person holding an equivalent title.
(b) Each Guarantor
party hereto hereby agrees that its Note Guarantee set forth in
Section 10.01 shall
remain in full force and effect notwithstanding the absence of the
endorsement of any notation of such Note Guarantee on the
Notes.
(c) If the person whose
signature is on this Indenture no longer holds that office at the
time the U.S. Trustee authenticates any Note, the Note Guarantees
shall be valid nevertheless.
(d) The delivery of any
Note by the U.S. Trustee, after the authentication thereof
hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Note Guarantee set
forth in this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors party
hereto.
(e) If required by
Section 4.15,
the Company shall cause any newly created or acquired Restricted
Subsidiary to comply with the provisions of Section 4.15 and this
Article 10, to the
extent applicable.
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Section
10.04 Subrogation.
Each
Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of Holders against the
Company in respect of any amounts paid by any Guarantor pursuant to
the provisions of Section 10.01;
provided that, if
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, no Guarantor
shall be entitled to enforce or receive any payments arising out
of, or based upon, such right of subrogation until all amounts then
due and payable by the Company under this Indenture or the Notes
shall have been paid in full.
Section
10.05 Benefits
Acknowledged.
Each
Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and indirect
benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this
Indenture and that the guarantee and waivers made by it pursuant to
its Note Guarantee are knowingly made in contemplation of such
benefits.
Section
10.06 Release of Note
Guarantees.
(a) A Note Guarantee by
a Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released and
discharged, and no further action by such Guarantor, the Company,
the Trustees or the Collateral Agent shall be required for the
release of such Guarantor’s Note Guarantee,
upon:
(1)
(A) any
sale, assignment, transfer, conveyance, exchange or other
disposition (by merger, amalgamation, arrangement, consolidation,
winding up or otherwise) of (i) all or substantially all of the
assets of such Guarantor or (ii) the Capital Stock of such
Guarantor, in each case, after which the applicable Guarantor is no
longer a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, which sale,
assignment, transfer, conveyance, exchange or other disposition in
each case does not violate the provisions described in Section 4.10 and
Article 5 (it being
understood that only such portion of the Net Available Cash as is
required to be applied on or before the date of such release in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture needs to be applied in
accordance therewith at such time);
(B) the Guarantor
ceasing to be a borrower or guarantor under all Debt Facilities
(including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Senior Credit Facility)
and being released or discharged from all obligations thereunder
(including all pledges, security interests and hypothecs granted in
connection therewith) and such Guarantor being released or
discharged from any other Indebtedness in excess of $50.0 million
aggregate principal amount (in each case other than Indebtedness
Incurred under the proviso to clause (1) or under clause (5), (17),
(20) or (21) of Section 4.09(b)),
including the Indebtedness or Guarantee that resulted in the
obligation of such Guarantor to Guarantee the Notes, if such
Guarantor would not then otherwise be required to Guarantee the
Notes pursuant to this Indenture (and treating any Note Guarantees
of such Guarantor that remain outstanding as Incurred at least 30
days prior to such release or discharge), except a discharge or
release by or as a result of payment under such Guarantee;
provided that if
such Person has Incurred any Indebtedness in reliance on its status
as a Guarantor under Section 4.09, such
Guarantor’s obligations under such Indebtedness, as the case
may be, so Incurred are satisfied in full and discharged or are
otherwise permitted to be Incurred by a Restricted Subsidiary
(other than a Guarantor) under Section 4.09;
(C) the proper
designation of any Guarantor as an Unrestricted
Subsidiary;
(D) the Company’s
exercise of its Legal Defeasance option or Covenant Defeasance
option in accordance with Article 8 or the
Company’s obligations under this Indenture being discharged
in accordance with the terms of Article 11 of this Indenture;
or
(E) the Guarantor
ceasing to be a Subsidiary as a result of any foreclosure of any
pledge or security interest in favor of First Priority Obligations
or other exercise of remedies in respect thereof, subject to, in
each case, the application of the proceeds of such foreclosure or
exercise of remedies in the manner described in the Intercreditor
Agreement; and
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(2) such Guarantor
delivering to the Trustees an Officer’s Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to such transaction and/or
release have been complied with.
(b) At the written
request of the Company, the Trustees shall execute and deliver any
documents reasonably required in order to evidence such release,
discharge and termination in respect of the applicable Note
Guarantee.
ARTICLE
11
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
Section
11.01 Satisfaction and
Discharge.
(a) This Indenture, the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement shall be
discharged and will cease to be of further effect , and any
Collateral then securing the Notes shall be released (except as to
surviving rights of transfer or exchange of Notes and certain
rights of the Trustees, as expressly provided for in this
Indenture) as to all outstanding Notes when:
(1) either:
(A) all
Notes that have been authenticated, except lost, stolen or
destroyed Notes that have been replaced or paid and Notes for which
payment money has been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to
the Company, have been delivered to the U.S. Trustee for
cancellation; or
(B) all
Notes not theretofore delivered to the U.S. Trustee for
cancellation have become due and payable by reason of the giving of
a notice of redemption or otherwise,
will become due and payable within one year or may be called for
redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
U.S. Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the U.S.
Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company, and the
Company and/or any Guarantor has irrevocably deposited or caused to
be deposited with the U.S. Trustee, as trust funds in trust solely
for the benefit of the Holders, cash in U.S. dollars, U.S.
dollar-denominated Government Securities, or a combination thereof,
in such amounts as will be sufficient, in the opinion of a
nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants,
without consideration of any reinvestment of interest, to pay and
discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not theretofore
delivered to the U.S. Trustee for cancellation for principal,
premium, if any, and accrued interest to the date of maturity or
redemption;
(2) no Default or Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of the
deposit or will occur as a result of the deposit (other than a
Default or an Event of Default resulting from borrowing of funds to
be applied to such deposit and the grant of any Lien securing such
borrowing) and the deposit will not result in a breach or violation
of, or constitute a default under, any material agreement or
instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company or any
Guarantor is a party or by which the Company or any Guarantor is
bound;
(3) the Company and/or
any Guarantor has paid or caused to be paid all sums payable by it
under this Indenture; and
(4) the Company has
delivered irrevocable instructions to the U.S. Trustee to apply the
deposited money toward the payment of the Notes at maturity or the
redemption date, as the case may be.
(b) In addition, the
Company must deliver an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel (which Opinion of Counsel may be subject to customary
assumptions and exclusions) to the Trustees, in each case stating
that all conditions precedent to satisfaction and discharge have
been satisfied. Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of
this Indenture, if money shall have been deposited with the U.S.
Trustee pursuant to Section 11.01(a)(2),, the
provisions of Section
11.02 and Section
8.06 shall survive.
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Section
11.02 Application of Trust
Money.
(a) Subject to the
provisions of Section
8.06, all money deposited with the U.S. Trustee pursuant to
Section 11.01 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Notes and this Indenture, to
the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary acting as Paying Agent) as
the U.S. Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of
the principal, premium, if any, and interest for whose payment such
money has been deposited with the U.S. Trustee, but such money need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by
law.
(b) If
the U.S. Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any money or
Government Securities in accordance with Section 11.01 by reason of any
legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court
or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise
prohibiting such application, the Company’s and any
Guarantor’s obligations under this Indenture, the Notes and
the Note Guarantees shall be revived and reinstated as though no
deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 11.01 until such time
as the U.S. Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such
money in accordance with Section 11.02(a);
provided that if
the Company has made any payment of principal, premium, if any,
or interest on any Notes following the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated
to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment
from the cash held in U.S. dollars or U.S. dollar-denominated
Government Securities held by the U.S. Trustee or Paying Agent, as
the case may be.
ARTICLE 12
COLLATERAL
Section
12.01 Collateral
Documents. The due and
punctual payment of the principal of, premium and interest
(including Additional Amounts, if any) on the Notes when and as the
same shall be due and payable, whether on an interest payment date,
at maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise,
and interest on the overdue principal of, premium and interest on
the Notes and performance of all other Obligations of the Company
and the Secured Guarantors to the Holders or the Trustees under
this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees of the Secured
Guarantors, and the Collateral Documents, according to the terms
hereunder or thereunder, shall be secured as provided in the
Collateral Documents, which define the terms of the Second Priority
Liens that secure the Second Priority Obligations, subject to the
terms of the Intercreditor Agreement. The Trustees and the Company
hereby acknowledge and agree that the Collateral Agent holds the
Collateral in trust for the benefit of the Holders and the Trustees
and pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement, except as otherwise provided in any
Collateral Document. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, consents and
agrees to the terms of the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement (in each case, including the provisions
providing for the possession, use, release and foreclosure of
Collateral) as the same may be in effect or may be amended from
time to time in accordance with their terms, and authorizes and
directs the Collateral Agent and the Canadian Trustee, as
applicable to enter into (and for the U.S. Trustee to acknowledge,
as applicable) the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement and to perform its obligations and exercise its rights
thereunder in accordance therewith. The Company shall deliver to
the Collateral Agent copies of all documents required to be filed
pursuant to the Collateral Documents, and will do or cause to be
done all such acts and things as may be reasonably required by the
next sentence of this Section 12.01, to assure
and confirm to the Collateral Agent the security interest in the
Collateral contemplated hereby, by the Collateral Documents or any
part thereof, as from time to time constituted, so as to render the
same available for the security and benefit of this Indenture, the
Notes, and the Note Guarantees of the Secured Guarantors, according
to the intent and purposes herein expressed. The Company shall, and
shall cause the Secured Guarantors to, take any and all actions and
make all filings (including the filing of UCC or PPSA financing
statements, continuation statements and amendments thereto (or
analogous procedures under the applicable laws in the relevant
Covered Jurisdiction)) required to cause the Collateral Documents
to create and maintain, as security for the Obligations of the
Company and the Secured Guarantors to the Notes Secured Parties
under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees and the
Collateral Documents, a valid and enforceable perfected Lien and
security interest in and on all of the Collateral (subject to the
terms of the Intercreditor Agreement and the Collateral Documents),
in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Holders and
the Trustees subject to no First Priority Liens or Second Priority
Liens other than Permitted Liens. In the event the Company or any
Secured Guarantor takes any action to grant or perfect a Lien in
favor of the First Lien Agent in any assets, the Company shall, or
shall cause such Secured Guarantor to, also take such action to
grant or perfect a Lien (subject to the Intercreditor Agreement) in
favor of the Collateral Agent to secure the Obligations of the
Company and the Secured Guarantors to the Notes Secured Parties
under this Indenture, the Notes, the Note Guarantees and the
Collateral Documents, without request of the Collateral Agent. If
property that is intended to be Collateral is acquired by the
Company or a Secured Guarantor (including property of a Person that
becomes a new Secured Guarantor) that is not automatically subject
to a perfected security interest or opposable hypothec under the
Collateral Documents, then the Company or such Secured Guarantor
will provide a Second Priority Lien over such property (or, in the
case of a new Secured Guarantor, such of its property) in favor of
the Collateral Agent.
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Section
12.02 Release
of Collateral.
(a) Subject to
Sections 12.02(b)
and (c), the Second
Priority Liens securing the Notes will be automatically released,
and the Trustees (subject to their receipt of an Officer’s
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as provided below) shall execute
documents evidencing such release, or instruct the Collateral Agent
to execute, as applicable, the same at the Company’s sole
cost and expense, under one or more of the following
circumstances:
(1) in whole
upon:
(A) payment in full of
the principal of, together with accrued and unpaid interest
(including Additional Amounts, if any) on, the Notes and all other
Obligations under this Indenture, the Note Guarantees and the
Collateral Documents that are due and payable at or prior to the
time such principal, together with accrued and unpaid interest, are
paid;
(B) satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture as set forth under Article 11; or
(C) a Legal Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance as set forth under Article 8;
(2) in whole or in
part, with the consent of the requisite Holders of the Notes in
accordance with Article
9 of this Indenture;
(3) in part, as to any
asset constituting Collateral:
(A) that is sold,
transferred or otherwise disposed of:
(i) by the Company or
any Secured Guarantor to any Person that is not the Company or a
Secured Guarantor (or, in the case of any Canadian Personal
Property Collateral or of the Québec Collateral, to any Person
that is not a Canadian Guarantor) in a transaction permitted by the
Indenture and the Collateral Documents,
(ii) if
all other Liens on that asset securing the First Priority
Obligations then secured by that asset are released other than in
connection with the payment in full of the First Priority
Obligations, or
(iii) in
connection with the taking of an enforcement action by the First
Priority Designated Agent in respect of the First Priority
Obligations in accordance with the Intercreditor
Agreement,
(B) that is held by a
Secured Guarantor that ceases to be a Guarantor, or
(C) that is otherwise
released in accordance with this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement;
provided that, on the date of Discharge
of Senior Lender Claims, the Second Priority Liens on the
Collateral will not be released, except to the extent that such
Collateral or any portion thereof was disposed of in compliance
with the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement in order to repay
First Priority Obligations secured by such Collateral; provided, further that, in no event shall
the Second Priority Liens on the Collateral have priority over any
First Priority Liens, whether arising prior to or after the date of
incurrence of such First Priority Liens.
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(b) With respect to any
release of Collateral, upon receipt of an Officer’s
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that all
conditions precedent under this Indenture and the Collateral
Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement, as applicable, to such
release have been met, that such release is authorized or permitted
by the terms of the Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the
Intercreditor Agreement, and that the Trustees and Collateral Agent
are authorized and directed to execute and deliver the documents
provided by the Company in connection with such release, and any
necessary or proper instruments of termination, satisfaction,
discharge or release prepared by the Company. Neither the Trustees
nor the Collateral Agent shall be liable for any such release
undertaken in reliance upon any such Officer’s Certificate,
Opinion of Counsel or direction and notwithstanding any term hereof
or in any Collateral Document or in the Intercreditor Agreement to
the contrary, the Trustees and the Collateral Agent shall not be
under any obligation to release any such Second Priority Lien and
security interest, or execute and deliver any such instrument of
release, satisfaction, discharge or termination, unless and until
it receives such Officer’s Certificate, Opinion of Counsel
and direction.
(c) At any time when a
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the
maturity of the Notes has been accelerated (whether by declaration
or otherwise) and the Trustees have delivered notice of
acceleration to the Collateral Agent, no release of Collateral
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture or the Collateral
Documents shall be effective as against the Holders, except as
otherwise provided in the Intercreditor Agreement or pursuant to
Section 12.02(a)(3)(A)(iii).
Section
12.03 Suits
to Protect the Collateral.
Subject
to the provisions of Article 7 hereof and the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustees,
without the consent of the Holders, on behalf of the Holders, may
or may direct the Collateral Agent to take all actions the Trustees
may determine in order to:
(a) enforce any of the
terms of the Collateral Documents; and
(b) collect and receive
any and all amounts payable in respect of the Obligations
hereunder.
Subject
to the provisions of the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Trustees and the Collateral Agent shall have power
to institute and to maintain such suits and proceedings as the
Trustees may determine to prevent any impairment of the Collateral
by any acts which may be unlawful or in violation of any of the
Collateral Documents or this Indenture, and such suits and
proceedings as the Trustees may determine to preserve or protect
their interests and the interests of the Holders in the Collateral.
Nothing in this Section 12.03 shall be
considered to impose any such duty or obligation to act on the part
of the Trustees or the Collateral Agent.
Section
12.04 Authorization
of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee Under the Collateral
Documents.
Subject
to the Intercreditor Agreement, the Trustees are authorized to
receive any funds for the benefit of the Holders distributed under
the Collateral Documents, and to make further distributions of such
funds to the Holders according to the provisions of this
Indenture.
Section
12.05 Purchaser
Protected.
In no
event shall any purchaser in good faith of any property purported
to be released hereunder be bound to ascertain the authority of the
Collateral Agent or the Trustees to execute the release or to
inquire as to the satisfaction of any conditions required by the
provisions hereof for the exercise of such authority or to see to
the application of any consideration given by such purchaser or
other transferee; nor shall any purchaser or other transferee of
any property or rights permitted by this Article 12 to be sold be under
any obligation to ascertain or inquire into the authority of the
Company or the applicable Secured Guarantor to make any such sale
or other transfer.
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Section
12.06 Powers
Exercisable by Receiver or Trustee.
In case
the Collateral shall be in the possession of a receiver or trustee,
lawfully appointed, the powers conferred in this Article 12 upon the Company or
a Secured Guarantor with respect to the release, sale or other
disposition of such property may be exercised by such receiver or
trustee, and an instrument signed by such receiver or trustee shall
be deemed the equivalent of any similar instrument of the Company
or a Secured Guarantor or of any Officer or Officers thereof
required by the provisions of this Article 12; and if the Trustees
or Collateral Agent shall be in the possession of the Collateral
under any provision of this Indenture, then such powers may be
exercised by the Trustees or Collateral Agent.
Section
12.07 Release
Upon Termination of the Company’s
Obligations.
In the
event that the Company delivers to the Trustees and Collateral
Agent an Officer’s Certificate certifying that (i) payment in
full of the principal of, together with accrued and unpaid interest
on, the Notes and all other Obligations under this Indenture, the
Notes, the Note Guarantees and the Collateral Documents that are
due and payable at or prior to the time such principal, together
with accrued and unpaid interest, are paid or (ii) the Company
shall have exercised its Legal Defeasance option or its Covenant
Defeasance option, in each case in compliance with the provisions
of Article 8, and
an Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent to the
execution and delivery of notice hereinafter described by the
Trustees and the release of the security interests of the
Collateral Agent have been satisfied, the Trustees shall deliver to
the Company and the Collateral Agent a notice, in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, stating that the Trustees, on
behalf of the Holders, disclaim and give up any and all rights they
have in or to the Collateral (other than with respect to funds held
by the Trustees pursuant to Article 8), and any rights they
have under the Collateral Documents, and upon receipt by the
Collateral Agent of such notice, the Collateral Agent shall be
deemed not to hold a Lien in the Collateral on behalf of the
Trustees and shall do or cause to be done (at the expense of the
Company) all acts reasonably requested by the Company to release
and discharge such Lien as soon as is reasonably
practicable.
Section
12.08 Collateral
Agent.
(a) Each of the
Holders, by acceptance of the Notes, and the Company hereby
designates and appoints the Canadian Trustee as the Collateral
Agent and as its agent under this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and each of the Holders
by acceptance of the Notes hereby irrevocably authorizes the
Collateral Agent to take such action on its behalf under the
provisions of this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement and to exercise such powers and perform
such duties as are expressly delegated to the Collateral Agent by
the terms of this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement, and consents and agrees to the terms of
the Intercreditor Agreement and each Collateral Document, as the
same may be in effect or may be amended, restated, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with their
respective terms. The Collateral Agent agrees to act as such on the
express conditions contained in this Section 12.08. The
provisions of this Section 12.08 are solely
for the benefit of the Collateral Agent and none of the Trustees,
any of the Holders, the Company nor any of the Secured Guarantors
shall have any rights as a third party beneficiary of any of the
provisions contained herein other than as expressly provided in
Section 12.03.
Each Holder agrees that any action taken by the Collateral Agent in
accordance with the provision of this Indenture, the Intercreditor
Agreement and the Collateral Documents, and the exercise by the
Collateral Agent of any rights or remedies set forth herein and
therein shall be authorized and binding upon all Holders.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere
in this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement, the duties of the Collateral Agent shall be ministerial
and administrative in nature, and the Collateral Agent shall not
have any duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set
forth herein and in the other Notes Documents to which the
Collateral Agent is a party, nor shall the Collateral Agent have or
be deemed to have any trust or other fiduciary relationship with
the Trustees, any Holder, the Company or any Secured Guarantor, and
no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties,
obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Indenture, the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement or otherwise
exist against the Collateral Agent. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent”
in this Indenture with reference to the Collateral Agent is not
intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express)
obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable law.
Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and
is intended to create or reflect only an administrative
relationship between independent contracting parties.
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(b) The Collateral
Agent may perform any of its duties under this Indenture, the
Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement by or through
receivers, agents, employees, attorneys-in-fact or with respect to
any specified Person, such Person’s Affiliates, and the
respective officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors and
attorneys-in-fact of such Person and its Affiliates, (a
“Related
Person”) and shall be entitled to advice of counsel
concerning all matters pertaining to such duties, and shall be
entitled to act upon, and shall be fully protected in taking action
in reliance upon any advice or opinion given by legal counsel. The
Collateral Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or
willful misconduct of any receiver, agent, employee,
attorney-in-fact or Related Person that it selects as long as such
selection was made in good faith.
(c) None of the
Collateral Agent or any of its respective Related Persons shall (i)
be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of
them under or in connection with this Indenture or the transactions
contemplated hereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful
misconduct) or under or in connection with any Collateral Document
or the Intercreditor Agreement or the transactions contemplated
thereby (except for its own gross negligence or willful
misconduct), or (ii) be responsible in any manner to either of the
Trustees or any Holder for any recital, statement, representation,
warranty, covenant or agreement made by the Company or any Secured
Guarantor or Affiliate of any Secured Guarantor, or any Officer or
Related Person thereof, contained in this Indenture, or any other
Notes Documents, or in any certificate, report, statement or other
document referred to or provided for in, or received by the
Collateral Agent under or in connection with, this Indenture, the
Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement, or the
validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency
of this Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement, or for any failure of the Company or any Secured
Guarantor or any other party to this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement to perform its obligations
hereunder or thereunder. None of the Collateral Agent or any of its
respective Related Persons shall be under any obligation to the
Trustees or any Holder to ascertain or to inquire as to the
observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or
conditions of, this Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the
Intercreditor Agreement or to inspect the properties, books, or
records of the Company, any Secured Guarantor or any Secured
Guarantor’s Affiliates.
(d) The Collateral
Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in
relying, upon any writing, resolution, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, certification,
telephone message, statement, or other communication, document or
conversation (including those by telephone or e-mail) believed by
it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent, or made
by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of
legal counsel (including, without limitation, counsel to the
Company or any Secured Guarantor), independent accountants and
other experts and advisors selected by the Collateral Agent. The
Collateral Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, debenture, or other paper or document. Except
as required by the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Agent
shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action
under this Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the Intercreditor
Agreement unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence
of the Trustees or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes as it determines and, if it so requests, it
shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Holders
against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by
it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action.
Except as required by the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral
Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in
refraining from acting, under this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement in accordance with a
request, direction, instruction or consent of the Trustees or the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the then
outstanding Notes and such request and any action taken or failure
to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all of the
Holders.
(e) The Collateral
Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the
occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, unless a Responsible
Officer of the Collateral Agent shall have received written notice
from the Trustees or the Company referring to this Indenture,
describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such
notice is a “notice of default” and the Trustees have
provided the Collateral Agent a copy of such notice. Subject to the
provisions of the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement, the Collateral Agent shall take such action with respect
to such Default or Event of Default as may be requested by the
Trustees in accordance with Article 7 or the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes (subject to
this Section 12.08).
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(f) The Collateral
Agent may resign at any time by giving thirty days’ written
notice to the Trustees and the Company, such resignation to be
effective upon the acceptance of a successor agent to its
appointment as Collateral Agent. If the Collateral Agent resigns
under this Indenture, the Company shall appoint a successor
collateral agent. If no successor collateral agent is appointed
prior to the intended effective date of the resignation of the
Collateral Agent (as stated in the notice of resignation), the
Collateral Agent, or the Company (so long as there is not a
continuing Event of Default), may appoint, after consulting with
the Trustees, subject to the consent of the Company (which shall
not be unreasonably withheld and which shall not be required during
a continuing Event of Default), a successor collateral agent. If no
successor collateral agent is appointed and consented to by the
Company pursuant to the preceding sentence within thirty (30) days
after the intended effective date of resignation (as stated in the
notice of resignation) the U.S. Trustee or the Collateral Agent
shall be entitled to petition a court of competent jurisdiction, at
the sole expense of the Company, to appoint a successor. Upon the
acceptance of its appointment as successor collateral agent
hereunder, such successor collateral agent shall succeed to all the
rights, powers and duties of the retiring Collateral Agent, and the
term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor
collateral agent, and the retiring Collateral Agent’s
appointment, powers and duties as the Collateral Agent shall be
terminated. After the retiring Collateral Agent’s resignation
hereunder, the provisions of this Section 12.08 (and
Section 7.07)
shall continue to inure to its benefit and the retiring Collateral
Agent shall not by reason of such resignation be deemed to be
released from liability as to any actions taken or omitted to be
taken by it while it was the Collateral Agent under this
Indenture.
(g) Computershare Trust
Company of Canada shall initially act as Collateral Agent and shall
be authorized to appoint co-Collateral Agents, agents, attorneys,
custodians or nominees as necessary in its sole discretion. Except
as otherwise explicitly provided herein or in the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement, neither the Collateral
Agent nor any of its respective officers, directors, employees or
agents or other Related Persons shall be liable for failure to
demand, collect or realize upon any of the Collateral or for any
delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell or
otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any other
Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to the
Collateral or any part thereof. The Collateral Agent shall be
accountable only for amounts that it actually receives as a result
of the exercise of such powers, and neither the Collateral Agent
nor any of its officers, directors, employees or agents shall be
responsible for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for its
own gross negligence or willful misconduct. The Collateral Agent
shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the
part of any co-Collateral Agent, agent, attorney, custodian or
nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder.
(h) The Collateral
Agent and the Trustees, as applicable, are authorized and directed
by the Company and the Holders (by acceptance of the Notes) to (i)
enter into the Collateral Documents to which it is a party, whether
executed before, on or after the Issue Date, (ii) enter into the
Intercreditor Agreement, (iii) make the representations of the
Holders set forth in the Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor
Agreement, (iv) bind the Holders on the terms as set forth in the
Collateral Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement and (iii)
perform and observe its obligations under the Collateral Documents
and the Intercreditor Agreement.
(i) If at any time or
times the Trustees shall receive (i) by payment, foreclosure,
realization, set-off or otherwise, any proceeds of Collateral or
any payments with respect to the Obligations arising under, or
relating to, this Indenture, except for any such proceeds or
payments received by the Trustees from the Collateral Agent
pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, or (ii) payments from the
Collateral Agent in excess of the amount required to be paid to the
Trustees pursuant to Article 7, the Trustees shall
promptly turn the same over to the Collateral Agent, in kind, and
with such endorsements as may be required to negotiate the same to
the Collateral Agent such proceeds to be applied by the Collateral
Agent pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, the Collateral
Documents and the Intercreditor Agreement.
(j) Should the Trustees
obtain possession of any Collateral, upon request from the Company,
the Trustees shall notify the Collateral Agent thereof and promptly
shall deliver such Collateral to the Collateral Agent or otherwise
deal with such Collateral in accordance with the Collateral
Agent’s instructions.
(k) The Collateral
Agent shall have no obligation whatsoever to the Trustees or any of
the Holders to assure that the Collateral exists or is owned by any
Secured Guarantor or is cared for, protected, or insured or has
been encumbered, or that the Collateral Agent’s Liens have
been properly or sufficiently or lawfully created, perfected,
protected, maintained or enforced or are entitled to any particular
priority, or to determine whether all or the Secured
Guarantor’s property constituting Collateral intended to be
subject to the Lien and security interest of the Collateral
Documents has been properly and completely listed or delivered, as
the case may be, or the genuineness, validity, marketability or
sufficiency thereof or title thereto, or to exercise at all or in
any particular manner or under any duty of care, disclosure, or
fidelity, or to continue exercising, any of the rights,
authorities, and powers granted or available to the Collateral
Agent pursuant to this Indenture, any Collateral Document or the
Intercreditor Agreement other than pursuant to the instructions of
the Trustees or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Notes or as otherwise provided in the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement, it being understood and
agreed that in respect of the Collateral, or any act, omission, or
event related thereto, the Collateral Agent shall have no other
duty or liability whatsoever to the Trustees or any Holder as to
any of the foregoing.
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(l) If the Company or
any Secured Guarantor (i) incurs any obligations in respect of
First Priority Obligations or Future Second Priority Indebtedness
at any time when no Intercreditor Agreement is in effect or at any
time when Indebtedness constituting First Priority Obligations or
Second Priority Obligations, as applicable, entitled to the benefit
(or subject to the terms) of the existing Intercreditor Agreement
is concurrently retired, and (ii) delivers to the Collateral Agent
an Officer’s Certificate so stating and authorizing and
directing the Collateral Agent to enter into an intercreditor
agreement (on substantially the same terms as the Intercreditor
Agreement) in favor of a designated agent or representative for the
holders of the First Priority Obligations or Future Second Priority
Indebtedness so incurred, the Collateral Agent shall (and is hereby
authorized and directed to) enter into such intercreditor agreement
(at the sole expense and cost of the Company, including legal fees
and expenses of the Collateral Agent), bind the Holders on the
terms set forth therein and perform and observe its obligations
thereunder.
(m) No provision of
this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement or any Collateral
Document shall require the Collateral Agent (or either Trustee) to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties hereunder or
thereunder or to take or omit to take any action hereunder or
thereunder or take any action at the request or direction of
Holders (or either Trustee in the case of the Collateral Agent) if
it shall have received indemnity satisfactory to the Collateral
Agent against potential costs and liabilities incurred by the
Collateral Agent relating thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement
or the Collateral Documents, in the event the Collateral Agent is
entitled or required to commence an action to foreclose or
otherwise exercise its remedies to acquire control or possession of
the Collateral, the Collateral Agent shall not be required to
commence any such action or exercise any remedy or to inspect or
conduct any studies of any property under the mortgages or take any
such other action if the Collateral Agent has determined that the
Collateral Agent may incur personal liability as a result of the
presence at, or release on or from, the Collateral or such
property, of any hazardous substances unless the Collateral Agent
has received security or indemnity from the Company or the Holders
in an amount and in a form all satisfactory to the Collateral Agent
in its sole discretion, protecting the Collateral Agent from all
such liability. The Collateral Agent shall at any time be entitled
to cease taking any action described in this paragraph (m) if it no
longer reasonably deems any indemnity, security or undertaking from
the Company or the Holders to be sufficient.
(n) The Collateral
Agent (i) shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be
taken by it in connection with this Indenture, the Intercreditor
Agreement and the Collateral Documents or instrument referred to
herein or therein, except to the extent that any of the foregoing
are found by a final, non-appealable judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from its own gross
negligence or willful misconduct, (ii) shall not be liable for
interest on any money received by it except as the Collateral Agent
may agree in writing with the Company (and money held in trust by
the Collateral Agent need not be segregated from other funds except
to the extent required by law) and (iii) may consult with counsel
of its selection and the advice or opinion of such counsel as to
matters of law shall be full and complete authorization and
protection from liability in respect of any action taken, omitted
or suffered by it in good faith and in accordance with the advice
or opinion of such counsel. The grant of permissive rights or
powers to the Collateral Agent shall not be construed to impose
duties to act.
(o) Neither the
Collateral Agent nor the Trustees shall be liable for delays or
failures in performance resulting from acts beyond its control.
Such acts shall include but not be limited to acts of God, strikes,
lockouts, riots, acts of war, epidemics, governmental regulations
superimposed after the fact, fire, communication line failures,
computer viruses, power failures, earthquakes or other disasters.
Neither the Collateral Agent nor the Trustees shall be liable for
any indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential
damages (included but not limited to lost profits) whatsoever, even
if it has been informed of the likelihood thereof and regardless of
the form of action.
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(p) The Collateral
Agent does not assume any responsibility for any failure or delay
in performance or any breach by the Company or any Secured
Guarantor under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement and the
Collateral Documents. The Collateral Agent shall not be responsible
to the Holders or any other Person for any recitals, statements,
information, representations or warranties contained in any Notes
Documents or in any certificate, report, statement, or other
document referred to or provided for in, or received by the
Collateral Agent under or in connection with, this Indenture, the
Intercreditor Agreement or any Collateral Document; the execution,
validity, genuineness, effectiveness or enforceability of the
Intercreditor Agreement and any Collateral Documents of any other
party thereto; the genuineness, enforceability, collectability,
value, sufficiency, location or existence of any Collateral, or the
validity, effectiveness, enforceability, sufficiency, extent,
perfection or priority of any Lien there-in; the validity,
enforceability or collectability of any Obligations; the assets,
liabilities, financial condition, results of operations, business,
creditworthiness or legal status of any obligor; or for any failure
of any obligor to perform its Obligations under this Indenture, the
Intercreditor Agreement and the Collateral Documents. The
Collateral Agent shall have no obligation to any Holder or any
other Person to ascertain or inquire into the existence of any
Default or Event of Default, the observance or performance by any
obligor of any terms of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement
and the Collateral Documents, or the satisfaction of any conditions
precedent contained in this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement
and any Collateral Documents. The Collateral Agent shall not be
required to initiate or conduct any litigation or collection or
other proceeding under this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement
and the Collateral Documents unless expressly set forth hereunder
or thereunder. The Collateral Agent shall have the right at any
time to seek instructions from the Holders with respect to the
administration of the Notes Documents.
(q) The parties hereto
and the Holders hereby agree and acknowledge that the Collateral
Agent shall not assume, be responsible for or otherwise be
obligated for any liabilities, claims, causes of action, suits,
losses, allegations, requests, demands, penalties, fines,
settlements, damages (including foreseeable and unforeseeable),
judgments, expenses and costs (including but not limited to, any
remediation, corrective action, response, removal or remedial
action, or investigation, operations and maintenance or monitoring
costs, for personal injury or property damages, real or personal)
of any kind whatsoever, pursuant to any environmental law as a
result of this Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement, the
Collateral Documents or any actions taken pursuant hereto or
thereto. Further, the parties hereto and the Holders hereby agree
and acknowledge that in the exercise of its rights under this
Indenture, the Intercreditor Agreement and the Collateral
Documents, the Collateral Agent may hold or obtain indicia of
ownership primarily to protect the security interest of the
Collateral Agent in the Collateral and that any such actions taken
by the Collateral Agent shall not be construed as or otherwise
constitute any participation in the management of such
Collateral.
(r) Upon the receipt by
the Collateral Agent of a written request of the Company signed by
one Officer of the Company (a “Collateral Document
Order”), the Collateral Agent is hereby authorized and
directed to execute and enter into, and shall execute and enter
into, without the further consent of any Holder or the Trustees,
any Collateral Document (in form and substance satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent) to be executed after the Issue Date. Such
Collateral Document Order shall (i) state that it is being
delivered to the Collateral Agent pursuant to, and is a Collateral
Document Order referred to in, this Section 12.08(r), and (ii)
instruct the Collateral Agent to execute and enter into such
Collateral Document. Any such execution of a Collateral Document
shall be at the direction and expense of the Company, upon delivery
to the Collateral Agent of an Officer’s Certificate and
Opinion of Counsel stating that all conditions precedent to the
execution and delivery of the Collateral Document have been
satisfied. The Holders, by their acceptance of the Notes, hereby
authorize and direct the Collateral Agent to execute such
Collateral Documents.
(s) Subject to the
provisions of the applicable Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement, each Holder, by acceptance of the Notes,
agrees that the Collateral Agent shall execute and deliver the
Intercreditor Agreement and the Collateral Documents to which it is
a party (or joinders thereto) and all agreements, documents and
instruments incidental thereto, and act in accordance with the
terms thereof. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral Agent
shall have no discretion under this Indenture, the Intercreditor
Agreement or the Collateral Documents and shall not be required to
make or give any determination, consent, approval, request or
direction without the written direction of the Company, the
Trustees, or the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes or the Trustee, as
applicable.
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(t) After the
occurrence of an Event of Default, the Trustees may direct the
Collateral Agent in connection with any action required or
permitted by this Indenture, the Collateral Documents or the
Intercreditor Agreement.
(u) The Collateral
Agent is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of itself,
the Trustees and the Holders distributed under the Collateral
Documents or the Intercreditor Agreement and to the extent not
prohibited under the Intercreditor Agreement, for turnover to the
U.S. Trustee to make further distributions of such funds to itself,
the Trustees and the Holders in accordance with the provisions of
Section 6.13 hereof
and the other provisions of this Indenture.
(v) Subject to the
terms of this Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement, in each case that the Collateral Agent may
or is required hereunder or under any other Notes Document to take
any action (an “Action”), including
without limitation to make any determination, to give consents, to
exercise rights, powers or remedies, to release or sell Collateral
or otherwise to act hereunder or under any other Notes Document,
the Collateral Agent may seek direction from the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes. The Collateral Agent shall not be liable with respect to any
Action taken or omitted to be taken by it in accordance with the
direction from the Company, the Trustees, or the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the then outstanding
Notes. Subject to the terms of this Indenture, the Intercreditor
Agreement or the Collateral Documents, if the Collateral Agent
shall request direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes with respect to any
Action, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to refrain from such
Action unless and until the Collateral Agent shall have received
direction from the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes, and the Collateral Agent
shall not incur liability to any Person by reason of so
refraining.
(w) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in this Indenture or any other Notes
Document, in no event shall the Collateral Agent nor the Trustees
be responsible for, or have any duty or obligation with respect to,
the recording, filing, registering, perfection, protection or
maintenance of the security interests or Liens intended to be
created by the Collateral Documents (including without limitation
the filing or continuation of any Personal Property Security Act
financing or continuation statements or similar documents or
instruments (or analogous procedures under the applicable laws in
the relevant Covered Jurisdiction)), neither shall the Collateral
Agent nor the Trustees be responsible for, and neither the
Collateral Agent nor the Trustees make any representation
regarding, the validity, effectiveness or priority of any of the
Collateral Documents or the security interests or Liens intended to
be created thereby.
(x) Before the
Collateral Agent acts or refrains from acting in each case at the
request or direction of the Company or the Guarantors, it may
require an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel,
which shall conform to the provisions of Section 13.04. The
Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action it takes or
omits to take in good faith in reliance on such certificate or
opinion.
(y) The Company shall
pay compensation to, reimburse expenses of and indemnify the
Collateral Agent in accordance with Section 7.07.
Section
12.09 Designations.
For
purposes of the provisions hereof and the Intercreditor Agreement
requiring the Company to designate Indebtedness for the purposes of
the term “First Priority Obligations,” “Future
Second Priority Indebtedness” or any other such designations
hereunder or under the Intercreditor Agreement, any such
designation shall be sufficient if such requirements under the
Intercreditor Agreement are satisfied.
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Section
12.10 No Impairment of the Security
Interests.
Except
as otherwise permitted under this Indenture, the Intercreditor
Agreement or the Collateral Documents, neither the Company nor any
of the Guarantors will be permitted to take any action, or
knowingly omit to take any action, which action or omission would
have the result of materially impairing the security interest with
respect to the Collateral for the benefit of the Trustees, the
Collateral Agent and the Holders of the Notes.
Section
12.11 Insurance.
The
Company shall maintain insurance, and cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to maintain insurance, with financially sound and
reputable insurers (naming the Collateral Agent as an additional
insured or loss payee, as applicable), with respect to such of its
properties, against such risks, casualties and contingencies and in
such types and amounts as are customary in the case of Persons
engaged in the same or similar businesses and similarly situated,
it being understood that this Section 12.11 shall not prevent
the use of deductible or excess loss insurance and shall not
prevent (i) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from acting as a
self-insurer or maintaining insurance with another Subsidiary or
Subsidiaries of the Company so long as such action is consistent
with sound business practice or (ii) the Company from obtaining and
owning insurance policies covering activities of its
Subsidiaries.
Section
12.12 Québec
Collateral.
For the
purposes of the grant of security under the laws of the Province of
Québec which may now or in the future be required to be
provided in accordance with Section 12.01 by the Company
and any Guarantors, the Collateral Agent is hereby irrevocably
authorized and appointed by each of the Holders to act as
hypothecary representative (within the meaning of Article 2692 of
the Civil Code of
Québec) for itself and for all present and future
Holders (in such capacity, the “Hypothecary
Representative”) in order to hold any hypothec granted
under the laws of the Province of Québec and to exercise such
rights and duties as are conferred upon the Hypothecary
Representative under the relevant deed of hypothec and applicable
laws (with the power to delegate any such rights or duties). The
execution prior to the date hereof by the Collateral Agent in its
capacity as the Hypothecary Representative of any deed of hypothec
or other security documents made pursuant to the laws of the
Province of Québec, is hereby ratified and confirmed. Any
Person who becomes a Holder or successor Collateral Agent shall be
deemed to have consented to and ratified the foregoing appointment
of the Collateral Agent as the Hypothecary Representative on behalf
of itself and of each of the Holders, including such person and any
affiliate of such person designated above as Holder. For greater
certainty, the Collateral Agent, acting as the Hypothecary
Representative, shall have the same rights, powers, immunities,
indemnities and exclusions from liability as are prescribed in
favor of the Collateral Agent in this Indenture, which shall apply
mutatis mutandis. In the
event of the resignation of the Collateral Agent (which shall
include its resignation as the Hypothecary Representative) and
appointment of a successor Collateral Agent, such successor
Collateral Agent shall also act as the Hypothecary Representative,
as contemplated above.
Section
12.13 Parallel
Debt.
(a) For the purposes of
taking and ensuring the continuing validity of the Turkish Pledge
Agreement and the Turkish Guarantee subject to the applicable laws
of the Republic of Turkey, notwithstanding any contrary provision
in this Indenture:
(1) the Company and
each of the Guarantors hereby agrees and undertakes by way of an
abstract acknowledgement of debt, (such undertakings, the
“Parallel Debt
Obligations”) to pay to the Collateral Agent amounts
equal to all present and future amounts and other Obligations owing
by it to the Collateral Agent for its benefit and the benefit of
the Trustees and the Holders of the Notes under the Notes Documents
(the “Original
Obligations”) as and when the same fall due for
payment under the relevant Notes Documents;
(2) the Collateral
Agent shall have its own independent right to demand and receive
payment of the Parallel Debt Obligations;
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(3) the Parallel Debt
Obligations shall not limit or affect the existence of the Original
Obligations for which each of the Trustees and the Holders of the
Notes shall have an independent right to demand
payment;
(4) notwithstanding
paragraphs (a)(ii) and (iii) above, payment by
the Company of its Parallel Debt Obligations shall to the same
extent decrease and be a good discharge of the corresponding
Original Obligations owing to each of the Trustees and the Holders
of the Notes and payment by the Company of its Original Obligations
to the relevant parties shall to the same extent decrease and be a
good discharge of the Parallel Debt Obligations owing by it to the
Collateral Agent;
(5) the Parallel Debt
Obligations are owed to the Collateral Agent in its own name on
behalf of itself and not as agent or representative of any other
Person nor as trustee and the Parallel Debt Security shall secure
the Parallel Debt Obligations so owing; and
(6) a defect affecting
a Parallel Debt Obligation against the Company will not affect any
Original Obligation and a defect affecting an Original Obligation
against the Company will not affect any Parallel Debt Obligation;
and
(b) the Collateral
Agent undertakes to pay to the Trustees and the Holders of the
Notes any amount collected or received by it in payment or partial
payment of the Parallel Debt Obligations and shall distribute any
amount so received to the Trustees and the Holders of the Notes in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture and the Collateral
Documents as if such amounts had been received in respect of the
Original Obligations.
Section
12.14 Co-Collateral
Agent. If at any time or
times it shall be necessary or prudent in order to conform to any
law of any jurisdiction in which any of the Collateral shall be
located, or the Collateral Agent shall be advised by counsel,
satisfactory to it, that it is reasonably necessary in the interest
of the Holders, or the Company (so long as there is not a
continuing Event of Default), the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of Notes, or the Trustees shall in
writing so request the Collateral Agent, or the Collateral Agent
shall deem it desirable for its own protection in the performance
of its duties hereunder, the Collateral Agent, the Trustees and the
Company shall, at the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent,
execute and deliver all instruments and agreements necessary or
proper to constitute another bank or trust company, or one or more
persons approved by the Collateral Agent, the Company and the
Trustees, either to act as co-Collateral Agent or co-Collateral
Agents of all or any of the Collateral, jointly with the Collateral
Agent originally named herein or any successor or successors, or to
act as separate collateral agent or collateral agents any such
property. In case an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Collateral Agent may act under the foregoing
provisions of this Article 12 without the concurrent consent of the
Holders, and the Holders hereby appoint the Collateral Agent as its
trustee and attorney to act under the foregoing provisions of this
Section 12.14 in
such case. This appointment of any co-Collateral Agent pursuant to
this Section 12.14
shall be subject to the Intercreditor Agreement.
Section
12.15 Limitation of Liability of the
Collateral Agent.
The
Collateral Agent is entering into this Indenture and the Collateral
Documents not in its individual capacity but solely in its capacity
as Collateral Agent under the Note Documents and in entering into
the Note Documents and acting hereunder and thereunder.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any
other Note Document, the Collateral Agent shall be entitled to all
the rights, protections and immunities granted to the Collateral
Agent under this Indenture. The permissive authorizations,
entitlements, powers and rights granted to the Collateral Agent
shall not be construed as duties. Any exercise of discretion on
behalf of the Collateral Agent shall be exercised in accordance
with the terms of the Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein or in any other Note Document, and for the
avoidance of doubt, any obligations of Collateral Agent to
indemnify, compensate or reimburse the any party under the terms of
any Note Documents, shall be (i) an obligation of the Collateral
Agent solely in its capacity as Collateral Agent under the Note
Documents; (ii) limited solely to the funds available to it under
the Note Documents at any point in time; (iii) limited solely to
the scope of the Collateral Agent’s direction to a party to
the Note Documents; and (iv) not applicable in the event of gross
negligence or intentional misconduct of the applicable party to the
Note Documents. The obligation of the Collateral Agent to
indemnify, or reimburse or pay any amounts, under the terms of any
Note Documents shall not be an obligation of Computershare Trust
Company of Canada, in its individual or corporate
capacity.
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In
addition, the Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the
Collateral Agent, its officers, directors, employees and agents,
from and against any and all claims, actions, causes of action,
suits, duties, debts, demands, interests, penalties, expenses
(including, without limitation, legal fees and disbursements on a
solicitor and client basis), charges, damages, losses or
liabilities suffered or incurred (including without limitation, any
claims brought by any Holder or any third-party) against the
Collateral Agent by any principal, partner, manager, shareholder,
employee, delegate or agent of Xxxxxxxx Chance LLP (“Xxxxxxxx
Chance LLP”), arising in connection with the Power of
Attorney granted by Computershare Trust Company of Canada
(“CTCC”) dated June 5, 2019. The Company and each
Holder hereby releases CTCC for any and all claims, actions,
expenses, charges, damages, losses or liabilities such Holder
(registered or beneficiary) may have against CTCC resulting solely
from the actions or inactions of Xxxxxxxx Chance LLP or any of
their principals, partners, managers, shareholders, employees,
delegates or agents prior to, concurrent with or following the
execution of this Indenture, as power of attorney for and on behalf
of CTCC in its capacity as Collateral Agent for the benefit of the
Holders in connection with the issuance of Notes.
ARTICLE 13
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
13.01 [Reserved].
Section
13.02 Notices.
(a) Any notice or
communication to the Company, any Guarantor or a Trustee is duly
given if in writing and (1) delivered in person, (2) mailed by
first-class mail or equivalent (certified or registered, return
receipt requested), postage prepaid, or overnight air courier
guaranteeing next day delivery or (3) sent by facsimile or
electronic transmission with transmission confirmed. In each case,
the notice or communication shall be addressed as
follows:
if
to the Company or any Guarantor:
Eldorado
Gold Corporation
1188
– 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0X0
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
Attention:
Corporate Secretary
with
a copy to:
Xxxxxx
& Whitney LLP
000
Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX
00000
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
Attention: Xxxx
XxXxxxx
Fasken
Xxxxxxxxx DuMoulin LLP
0000-000 Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0X0
Fax:
(000) 000-0000
Attention: Georald
Ingborg
if
to the U.S. Trustee:
Computershare
Trust Company, N.A.
0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000
Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attention:
Corporate Trust
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With
a copy to:
Xxxxxxx
Coie LLP
Attention:
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx
0000
Xxxxxx xx xxx Xxxxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx, XX 00000-0000
if
to the Canadian Trustee or the Collateral Agent:
Computershare
Trust Company of Canada
Computershare
Trust Company of Canada
000
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxx X0X 0X0
Attention:
Manager, Corporate Trust
The
Company, any Guarantor, the Trustees or the Collateral Agent by
like notice, may designate additional or different addresses for
subsequent notices or communications.
(b) All notices and
communications (other than those sent to Holders) shall be deemed
to have been duly given: at the time delivered by hand, if
personally delivered; receipt acknowledged, if sent by electronic
transmission (in PDF format) capable of producing a printed copy;
or five days after mailing, if mailed by certified or registered
mail (or equivalent), return receipt requested, or by nationally
recognized overnight air courier service to the address above in
Section
13.02(a).
(c) Any notice or
communication to a Holder shall be mailed by first-class mail (or
equivalent) (certified or registered, return receipt requested) or
by nationally recognized overnight air courier guaranteeing next
day delivery to its address shown on the Note Register or by such
other delivery system as either of the Trustees or the Collateral
Agent deem acceptable and shall be deemed to be sufficiently given
if so sent within the time prescribed. Failure to send a notice or
communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not affect its
sufficiency with respect to other Holders. Any written notice or
communication that is delivered in person or mailed by first-class
(or equivalent) mail to the designated address will be deemed duly
given, regardless of whether the addressee receives such
notice.
(d) Where this
Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such notice may be
waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be
filed with the Trustees and the Collateral Agent, but such filing
shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
(e) Where this
Indenture provides for notice of any event (including any notice of
redemption) to a Holder of a Global Note (whether by mail or
otherwise), such notice shall be sufficiently given if given to the
Depositary for such Note (or its designee), pursuant to the
applicable procedures of such Depositary, if any, prescribed for
the giving of such notice.
(f) Each of the
Trustees and the Collateral Agent agrees to accept and act upon
notice, instructions or directions pursuant to this Indenture sent
by unsecured facsimile or electronic transmission (in PDF format);
provided,
however, that (1)
the party providing such written notice, instructions or
directions, subsequent to such transmission of written
instructions, shall provide the originally executed instructions or
directions to such Trustee or the Collateral Agent within two
Business Days, (2) such originally executed notice, instructions or
directions shall be signed by an authorized representative of the
party providing such notice, instructions or directions and (3)
receipt of such unsecured facsimile or electronic transmissions is
confirmed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustees or the
Collateral Agent. Neither Trustee nor the Collateral Agent shall be
liable for any losses, costs or expenses arising directly or
indirectly from such Trustee’s or the Collateral
Agent’s reasonable reliance upon and compliance with such
notice, instructions or directions notwithstanding such notice,
instructions or directions conflict or are inconsistent with a
subsequent notice, instructions or directions.
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(g) If the Company
sends a notice or communication to Holders, it shall mail a copy to
each of the Trustees, the Collateral Agent and each Agent at the
same time.
Section
13.03 Communication by Holders with Other
Holders.
Holders
may communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or the Notes.
Section
13.04 Certificate and Opinion as to
Conditions Precedent.
Upon
any request or application by the Company or any Guarantor to the
Trustees or the Collateral Agent to take any action under this
Indenture, the Company or such Guarantor, as the case may be, shall
furnish to the Trustees:
(1) an Officer’s
Certificate in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustees or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, (which shall
include the statements set forth in Section 13.05) stating that, in
the opinion of the signer(s), all conditions precedent and
covenants, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with; and
(2) an Opinion of
Counsel in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustees or the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, (which shall
include the statements set forth in Section 13.05) stating that, in
the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent and
covenants have been complied with.
Section
13.05 Statements Required in Certificate or
Opinion.
Each
certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition
or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than a
certificate provided pursuant to Section 4.04) shall
include:
(1) a statement that
the Person making such certificate or opinion has read such
covenant or condition and the related definitions (and, if
applicable, in respect of the issuance, authentication and delivery
of Notes and the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, such
Person understands the condition);
(2) a brief statement
as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or
opinion are based;
(3) a statement that,
in the opinion of such Person, he or she has made such examination
or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition
has been complied with (and, in the case of an Opinion of Counsel,
may be limited to reliance on an Officer’s Certificate as to
matters of fact); and
(4) a statement as to
whether or not, in the opinion of such Person, such covenant or
condition has been complied with.
Section
13.06 Rules by U.S. Trustee and
Agents.
The
U.S. Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a
meeting of Holders. The Canadian Trustee, Registrar or Paying Agent
may make reasonable rules and set reasonable requirements for their
respective functions.
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Section
13.07 No Personal Liability of Directors,
Officers, Employees, Members, Partners and
Shareholders.
No
past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator,
member, partner or shareholder of the Company or any Guarantor
shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or the
Guarantors under the Notes, the Note Guarantees, this Indenture,
the Intercreditor Agreement, the Collateral Documents or for any
claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of such obligations or
their creation.
Each
Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability.
The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance
of the Notes.
Section
13.08 Governing Law.
THIS
INDENTURE, THE NOTES AND ANY NOTE GUARANTEE (OTHER THAN THE TURKISH
GUARANTEE, WHICH WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF TURKEY) SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section
13.09 Waiver of Jury
Trial.
EACH OF
THE COMPANY, THE GUARANTORS, THE TRUSTEES AND THE COLLATERAL AGENT
HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE, THE NOTES,
THE NOTE GUARANTEES OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
HEREBY.
Section
13.10 No Adverse Interpretation of Other
Agreements.
This
Indenture may not be used to interpret any other indenture, loan or
debt agreement of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries or of
any other Person. Any such indenture, loan or debt agreement may
not be used to interpret this Indenture.
Section
13.11 Successors.
All
agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall
bind its successors. All agreements of either of the Trustees and
the Collateral Agent in this Indenture shall bind its successors
and assigns. All agreements of each Guarantor in this Indenture
shall bind its successors, except as otherwise provided in
Section 10.06.
Section
13.12 Severability.
In case
any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability
of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section
13.13 Counterpart
Originals.
The
parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each
signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together
represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of this
Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or any electronic
transmission capable of producing a printed copy of the executed
counterpart shall constitute effective execution and delivery of
this Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be used in lieu of
the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures of the parties
hereto transmitted by facsimile or .pdf shall be deemed to be their
original signatures for all purposes.
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Section
13.14 Table of Contents, Headings,
etc.
The
Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and headings of the
Articles and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for
convenience of reference only, are not to be considered a part of
this Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the
terms or provisions hereof.
Section
13.15 U.S.A. PATRIOT
Act.
The
parties hereto acknowledge that in accordance with Section 326 of
the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act, the U.S. Trustee is required to obtain,
verify, and record information that identifies each person or legal
entity that establishes a relationship or opens an account with the
U.S. Trustee. The parties to this Indenture agree that they shall
provide each of the U.S. Trustee with such information as it may
request in order for such Trustee to satisfy the requirements of
the U.S.A. PATRIOT Act.
Section
13.16 Payments Due on Non-Business
Days.
In any
case where any Interest Payment Date, redemption date or repurchase
date or the Stated Maturity of the Notes shall not be a Business
Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or
of the Notes) payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on
the Notes need not be made on such date, but may be made on the
next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on the Interest Payment Date, redemption date or repurchase
date, or at the Stated Maturity of the Notes; provided that no interest will
accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
redemption date, repurchase date or Stated Maturity, as the case
may be.
Section
13.17 Submission to
Jurisdiction.
The
Company and each Guarantor not organized in the United States shall
appoint CT Corporation as its agent for service of process in any
suit, action or proceeding with respect to this Indenture, the
Notes and the Note Guarantees and for actions brought under the
U.S. federal or state securities laws brought in any U.S. federal
or state court located in the Borough of Manhattan in the County
and City of New York. The Company and each Guarantor irrevocably
and unconditionally submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the
U.S. federal and state courts sitting in the Borough of Manhattan
in the County and City of New York over any suit, action or
proceeding arising out of or relating to this Indenture, the Notes
or the Note Guarantees and for actions brought under the U.S.
federal or state securities laws. Service of any process on CT
Corporation in any such action (and written notice of such service
to the Company) shall be effective service of process against the
Company or any Guarantor for any suit, action or proceeding brought
in any such court. The Company and each Guarantor irrevocably and
unconditionally waives any objection to the laying of venue of any
such suit, action or proceeding brought in any such court and any
claim that any such suit, action or proceeding has been brought in
an inconvenient forum. A final judgment in any such suit, action or
proceeding brought in any such court shall be conclusive and
binding upon the Company and each Guarantor and may be enforced in
any other courts to whose jurisdiction the Company is or may be
subject, by suit upon judgment. The Company and each Guarantor
further agrees that nothing herein shall affect any Holder’s
right to effect service of process in any other manner permitted by
law or bring a suit action or proceeding (including a proceeding
for enforcement of a judgment) in any other court or jurisdiction
in accordance with applicable law.
Section
13.18 Waiver of
Immunity.
To the
extent that each of the Company and the Guarantors, or any of their
respective properties, assets or revenues may have or may hereafter
become entitled to, or have attributed to each of the Company and
the Guarantors, any right of immunity, on the grounds of
sovereignty or otherwise, from any legal action, suit or
proceeding, from the giving of any relief in any such legal action,
suit or proceeding, from setoff or
counterclaim, from the jurisdiction of any Canadian, New York state
or U.S. federal court, from service of process, from attachment
upon or prior to judgment, from attachment in aid of execution of
judgment, or from execution of judgment, or other legal process or
proceeding for the giving of any relief or for the enforcement of
any judgment, in any such court in which proceedings may at any
time be commenced, with respect to the obligations and liabilities
of each of the Company and the Guarantors or any other matter under
or arising out of or in connection with this Indenture, each of the
Company and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably and unconditionally
waives or will waive such right to the extent permitted by
applicable law, and agrees not to plead or claim, any such immunity
and consent to such relief and enforcement.
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Section
13.19 Conversion of
Currency.
If for
the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is necessary to
convert a sum due under this Indenture to the Holder from U.S.
dollars to another currency, the Company and each Guarantor has
agreed, and each Holder by holding such Note will be deemed to have
agreed, to the fullest extent that the Company, each Guarantor and
they may effectively do so, that the rate of exchange used shall be
that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures such
Holder could purchase U.S. dollars with such other currency in New
York City, New York on the Business Day preceding the day on which
final judgment is given.
The
Company’s and Guarantors’ obligations to any Holder
will, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the
“Judgment
Currency”) other than U.S. dollars, be discharged only
to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by such
Holder or the U.S. Trustee, as the case may be, of any amount in
such Judgment Currency, such Holder may in accordance with normal
banking procedures purchase U.S. dollars with the Judgment
Currency. If the amount of the U.S. dollars so purchased is less
than the amount originally to be paid to such Holder or the U.S.
Trustee in the Judgment Currency (as determined in the manner set
forth in the preceding paragraph), as the case may be, each of the
Company and the Guarantors, jointly and severally, agrees, as a
separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to
indemnify the Holder and the U.S. Trustee, as the case may be,
against any such loss. If the amount of the U.S. dollars so
purchased is more than the amount originally to be paid to such
Holder or the U.S. Trustee, as the case may be, such Holder or the
U.S. Trustee, as the case may be, will pay the Company and the
Guarantors, such excess; provided that such Holder or
the U.S. Trustee, as the case may be, shall not have any obligation
to pay any such excess as long as a Default under the Notes or this
Indenture has occurred and is continuing or if the Company or the
Guarantors shall have failed to pay any Holder or the U.S. Trustee
any amounts then due and payable under such Note or this Indenture,
in which case such excess may be applied by such Holder or the U.S.
Trustee to such Obligations.
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APPENDIX A
PROVISIONS RELATING TO
INITIAL NOTES AND ADDITIONAL NOTES
Section
1.1 Definitions.
(a) Capitalized
Terms.
Capitalized terms
used but not defined in this Appendix A have the meanings given to
them in the Indenture. The following capitalized terms have the
following meanings:
“Applicable Procedures”
means, with respect to any transfer or transaction involving a
Global Note or beneficial interest therein, the rules and
procedures of the Depositary for such Global Note, Euroclear or
Clearstream, in each case to the extent applicable to such
transaction and as in effect from time to time.
“Clearstream” means
Clearstream Banking, Société Anonyme, or any successor
securities clearing agency.
“Euroclear” means
Euroclear Bank SA/NY, as operator of Euroclear systems clearance
system or any successor securities clearing agency.
“QIB” means a
“qualified institutional buyer” as defined in Rule
144A.
“Regulation S” means
Regulation S promulgated under the Securities Act. “Rule
144” means Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A promulgated under the
Securities Act.
“Rule 144” means Rule 144
promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Rule 144A” means Rule
144A promulgated under the Securities Act.
“Transfer Restricted
Notes” means Definitive Notes and any other Notes that
bear or are required to bear the Restricted Notes
Legend.
“U.S. person” means a
“U.S. person” as defined in Regulation S.
(b) Other
Definitions.
Term:
|
Defined
in Section:
|
“Agent
Members”
|
2.1(c)
|
“Canadian
Restricted Legend”
|
2.3(d)
|
“Definitive
Notes Legend”
|
2.3(d)
|
“Global
Note”
|
2.1(b)
|
“Global
Notes Legend”
|
2.3(d)
|
“Regulation
S Global Note”
|
2.1(b)
|
“Regulation
S Notes”
|
2.1(a)
|
“Restricted
Notes Legend”
|
2.3(d)
|
“Rule
144A Global Note”
|
2.1(b)
|
“Rule
144A Notes”
|
2.1(a)
|
Section
2.1 Form
and Dating
(a) The
Initial Notes issued on the date hereof shall be (i) offered and
sold by the Company to the Initial Purchasers and (ii) only resold,
initially only to (1) Persons reasonably believed to be QIBs in
reliance on Rule 144A (“Rule 144A Notes”) and (2)
Persons other than U.S. persons in reliance on Regulation S
(“Regulation S
Notes”) and, in each case, pursuant to applicable
exemptions from prospectus requirements under the Securities Act (British Columbia), and
from prospectus, registration and similar requirements under
applicable securities laws of other applicable jurisdictions. Such
Initial Notes may only thereafter be transferred to, among others,
QIBs, and purchasers in reliance on Regulation S, and in each case,
prior to the date specified in the Canadian Restricted Legend,
pursuant to exemptions from prospectus requirements under Canadian
Securities Legislation, if applicable.
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(b) Global
Notes. Rule 144A Notes shall be issued initially in the form
of one or more permanent global Notes in definitive, fully
registered form, numbered A-1 upward (collectively, the
“Rule 144A Global
Note”) and Regulation S Notes shall be issued
initially in the form of one or more global Notes, numbered S-1
upward (collectively, the “Regulation S Global
Note”), in each case without interest coupons and
bearing the Global Notes Legend and Restricted Notes Legend, which
shall be deposited on behalf of the purchasers of the Notes
represented thereby with the Custodian, and registered in the name
of the Depositary or a nominee of the Depositary, duly executed by
the Company and authenticated by the U.S. Trustee as provided in
the Indenture. The Rule 144A Global Note and the Regulation S
Global Note each referred to herein as a “Global Note” and are
collectively referred to herein as “Global Notes.” Each
Global Note shall represent such of the outstanding Notes as shall
be specified in the “Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in
the Global Note” attached thereto and each shall provide that
it shall represent the aggregate principal amount of Notes from
time to time endorsed thereon and that the aggregate principal
amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby may from time to
time be reduced or increased, as applicable, to reflect exchanges
and redemptions. Any endorsement of a Global Note to reflect the
amount of any increase or decrease in the aggregate principal
amount of outstanding Notes represented thereby shall be made by
the U.S. Trustee or the Custodian, at the direction of the U.S.
Trustee, in accordance with instructions given by the Holder
thereof as required by Section 2.06 of the
Indenture and Section 2.3(c) of this Appendix A.
(c) Book-Entry
Provisions. This Section 2.1(c) shall apply only to a Global
Note deposited with or on behalf of the Depositary.
The
Company shall execute and the U.S. Trustee shall, in accordance
with this Section 2.1(c) and Section 2.2 of this Appendix A, and
pursuant to an Authentication Order of the Company, authenticate
and deliver initially one or more Global Notes that (i) shall be
registered in the name of the Depositary for such Global Note or
Global Notes or the nominee of such Depositary and (ii) shall be
delivered by the U.S. Trustee to such Depositary or pursuant to
such Depositary’s instructions or held by Computershare Trust
Company, N.A., a national banking association, as
Custodian.
Members
of, or participants in, the Depositary (“Agent Members”) shall
have no rights under the Indenture with respect to any Global Note
held on their behalf by the Depositary or by Computershare Trust
Company, N.A., a national banking association, as Custodian, or
under such Global Note, and the Depositary may be treated by the
Company, the Trustees and any agent of the Company or the Trustees
as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes
whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company, the Trustees or any agent of the Company or
the Trustees from giving effect to any written certification, proxy
or other authorization furnished by the Depositary or impair, as
between the Depositary and its Agent Members, the operation of
customary practices of such Depositary governing the exercise of
the rights of a holder of a beneficial interest in any Global
Note.
(d) Definitive
Notes. Except as provided in Section 2.4 of this Appendix A,
owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes shall not be
entitled to receive physical delivery of Definitive Notes and then
only in accordance with Section 2.3.
Section
2.2 Authentication
Order. The U.S. Trustee shall authenticate and make
available for delivery upon receipt of an Authentication Order from
the Company (a) Initial Notes for original issue on the Issue Date
in an aggregate principal amount of $300,000,000 and (b) subject to
the terms of the Indenture, Additional Notes. Such Authentication
Order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated,
the date on which the original issue of Notes is to be
authenticated and whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes or
Additional Notes.
Section
2.3 Transfer
and Exchange.
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(a) Transfer
and Exchange of Definitive Notes for Definitive Notes. When
Definitive Notes are presented to the Registrar with a
request:
(i)
to register
the transfer of such Definitive Notes; or
(ii)
to exchange
such Definitive Notes for an equal principal amount of Definitive
Notes of other authorized denominations,
the
Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as
requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are
met; provided,
however, that the
Definitive Notes surrendered for transfer or exchange:
(1) shall
be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar,
duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized
in writing; and
(2) in
the case of Definitive Notes that are Transfer Restricted Notes,
they are accompanied by the following additional information and
documents, as applicable:
(A) if
such Definitive Notes are being delivered to the Registrar by a
Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without
transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in the
form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note);
or
(B) if
such Definitive Notes are being transferred to the Company, a
certification to that effect (in the form set forth on the reverse
side of the Initial Note); or
(C) if
such Definitive Notes are being transferred pursuant to an
exemption from registration in accordance with (i) Rule 144A, (ii)
Regulation S, (iii) Rule 144 under the Securities Act or (iv) in
reliance upon another exemption from the registration requirements
of the Securities Act, (x) a certification to that effect (in the
form set forth on the reverse side of the Initial Note) and (y) if
the Company or the U.S. Trustee so requests in connection with
transfers described in clauses (ii), (iii) or (iv), an Opinion of
Counsel or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to it as to the
compliance with the restrictions set forth in the applicable legend
set forth in Section 2.3(d)(i) of this Appendix A.
(b) Restrictions
on Transfer of a Definitive Note for a Beneficial Interest in a
Global Note. A Definitive Note may not be exchanged for a
beneficial interest in a Global Note except upon satisfaction of
the requirements set forth below and the requirements set forth in
the Restricted Notes Legend. Upon
receipt by the U.S. Trustee of a Definitive Note, duly endorsed or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar, together
with:
(i)
(A)
certification (in the form set forth on the reverse side of the
Initial Note) that such Definitive Note is being transferred (1) to
a Person who the transferor reasonably believes is a QIB and in
accordance with Rule 144A or (2) outside the United States of
America in an offshore transaction within the meaning of Regulation
S and in compliance with Rule 904 under the Securities Act and (B)
such other certification and Opinion of Counsel as the Company or
the Trustees shall require; and
(ii)
written
instructions directing the U.S. Trustee to make, or to direct the
Custodian to make, an adjustment on its books and records with
respect to such Global Note to reflect an increase in the aggregate
principal amount of the Notes represented by the Global Note, such
instructions to contain information regarding the Depositary
account to be credited with such increase,
the
U.S. Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Note and cause, or direct
the Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing
instructions and procedures existing between the Depositary and the
Custodian, the aggregate principal amount of Notes represented by
the Global Note to be increased by the aggregate principal amount
of the Definitive Note to be exchanged and shall credit or cause to
be credited to the account of the Person specified in such
instructions a beneficial interest in the Global Note equal to the
principal amount of the Definitive Note so canceled. If no Global
Notes are then outstanding, the Company may issue and the U.S.
Trustee shall authenticate, upon receipt of an Authentication Order
of the Company in the form of an Officer’s Certificate, a new
Global Note in the appropriate principal amount.
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(c) Transfer
and Exchange of Global Notes. (i) The transfer and exchange
of Global Notes or beneficial interests therein shall be effected
through the Depositary, in accordance with the Indenture (including
applicable restrictions on transfer set forth herein, if any) and
the procedures of the Depositary therefor. A transferor of a
beneficial interest in a Global Note shall deliver to the Registrar
a written order given in accordance with the Depositary’s
procedures containing information regarding the participant account
of the Depositary to be credited with a beneficial interest in such
Global Note or another Global Note, and such account shall be
credited in accordance with such order with a beneficial interest
in the applicable Global Note, and the account of the Person making
the transfer shall be debited by an amount equal to the beneficial
interest in the Global Note being transferred. Transfers by an
owner of a beneficial interest in a Rule 144A Global Note to a
transferee who takes delivery of such interest through a Regulation
S Global Note, shall be made only upon receipt by the U.S. Trustee
of a certification in the form provided on the reverse side of the
Initial Notes from the transferor and in compliance with the
requirements set forth in the Restricted Notes Legend.
(ii) If
the proposed transfer is a transfer of a beneficial interest in one
Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note, the
Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and an
increase in the principal amount of the Global Note to which such
interest is being transferred in an amount equal to the principal
amount of the interest to be so transferred, and the Registrar
shall reflect on its books and records the date and a corresponding
decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note from which such
interest is being transferred. If the Company or the U.S. Trustee
so requests in connection with transfer of a beneficial interest in
one Global Note to a beneficial interest in another Global Note,
such request for transfer shall be accompanied by an opinion of
counsel or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to it as to the
compliance with the restrictions set
forth in the applicable legend set forth in Section 2.3(d)(i) of
this Appendix A.
(iii) Notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Appendix A, a Global Note may not be
transferred except as a whole and not in part by the Depositary to
a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to
the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the
Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a
nominee of such successor Depositary.
(d) Legends.
(i) Except
as permitted by this Section 2.3(d) of this Appendix A, each Note
certificate evidencing the Global Notes and the Definitive Notes
(and all Notes issued in exchange therefor or in substitution
thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form
(each defined term in the legend being defined as such for purposes
of the legend only) (“Restricted Notes Legend”;
and the third paragraph of which is herein referred to as the
“Canadian Restricted
Legend”):
THE
SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS ORIGINALLY
ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER XXXXXXX 0 XX
XXX XXXXXX XXXXXX SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
“SECURITIES ACT”), AND THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY
MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF
SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH
PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT
THE SELLER MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A THEREUNDER.
THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) SUCH SECURITY MAY BE RESOLD, PLEDGED OR
OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (1)(a) TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER
REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER (AS DEFINED
IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN
ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (b) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A NON-U.S. PERSON
IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 904 OF
REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (c) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144
THEREUNDER (IF APPLICABLE) OR (d) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT
(AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY IF
THE COMPANY SO REQUESTS), (2) TO THE COMPANY OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER
WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY
PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE
RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN CLAUSE (A) ABOVE. NO REPRESENTATION CAN
BE MADE AS TO THE AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE
144 FOR RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.
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UNDER
CANADIAN SECURITIES LAWS, UNLESS PERMITTED UNDER SECURITIES
LEGISLATION, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY MUST NOT TRADE THE
SECURITY BEFORE [INSERT THE DATE THAT IS 4 MONTHS AND A DAY AFTER
THE DISTRIBUTION DATE OF THE NOTES].
Each
Definitive Note shall bear the following additional legend
(“Definitive Notes
Legend”):
IN
CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER WILL DELIVER TO THE
REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
INFORMATION AS SUCH REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT MAY REASONABLY
REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS.
Each
Global Note shall bear the following additional legend
(“Global Notes
Legend”):
UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION
(“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, TO ELDORADO GOLD
CORPORATION OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR
PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO.,
OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF
FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS
THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
TRANSFERS OF THIS
GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN
PART, TO DTC, TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH
SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL
SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO ON THE REVERSE
HEREOF.
(ii) Upon
any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Note that is a
Definitive Note, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to
exchange such Transfer Restricted Note for a Definitive Note that
does not bear the Restricted Notes Legend and the Definitive Notes
Legend and rescind any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer
Restricted Note if the Holder certifies in writing to the Registrar
that its request for such exchange was made in reliance on Rule 144
(such certification to be in the form set forth on the reverse side
of the Initial Notes).
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(iii) Notwithstanding
anything in the Indenture or this Appendix A to the
contrary:
(1) the
Canadian Restricted Legend will appear on any Initial Notes or
Additional Notes that are issued prior to the date specified in the
Canadian Restricted Legend, unless the Canadian Restricted Legend
is no longer required under any applicable Canadian securities
laws;
(2) all
transfers in Notes or beneficial interest therein, prior to the
date specified in the Canadian Restricted Legend must be pursuant
to exemptions from prospectus requirements under Canadian
Securities Legislation, if applicable, and following such date, the
transferors are required to comply with resale restrictions under
Canadian Securities Legislation, if applicable; and
(3) if
the Company or Trustee so require, all transfers must be
accompanied by such certifications, opinions or other evidence
reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee as to the
compliance with applicable Canadian Securities
Legislation.
For
greater certainty, all references to the Restricted Notes Legend
includes the Canadian Restricted Legend.
(e) Cancellation
or Adjustment of Global Note. At such time as all beneficial
interests in a Global Note have either been exchanged for
Definitive Notes, transferred, redeemed, repurchased or canceled,
such Global Note shall be returned by the Depositary to the U.S.
Trustee for cancellation or retained and canceled by the U.S.
Trustee. At any time prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial
interest in a Global Note is exchanged for Definitive Notes,
transferred in exchange for an interest in another Global Note,
redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the principal amount of Notes
represented by such Global Note shall be reduced and an adjustment
shall be made on the books and records of the U.S. Trustee (if it
is then the Custodian for such Global Note) with respect to such
Global Note, by the U.S. Trustee or the Custodian, to reflect such
reduction.
(f) Obligations
with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of
Notes.
(i) Subject
to compliance with the requirements herein, to permit registrations
of transfers and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the U.S.
Trustee, upon receipt of an Authentication Order, shall
authenticate, Definitive Notes and Global Notes at the
Registrar’s request.
(ii) No
service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental
charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such
transfer taxes, assessments or similar governmental charge payable
upon exchanges pursuant to Sections 2.10, 3.06, 3.10, 4.10, 4.14 and 9.05 of the
Indenture).
(iii) Prior
to the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note,
the Company, the Trustees, the Paying Agent or the Registrar may
deem and treat the person in whose name a Note is registered as the
absolute owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of
principal of and interest (other than pursuant to Section 2.12 of the Indenture)
on such Note and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not
such Note is overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustees, the
Paying Agent or the Registrar shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
(iv) All
Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms of
the Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to
the same benefits under the Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon
such transfer or exchange.
(v) The
Company, the Registrar and the U.S. Trustee may request such
evidence as may be reasonably requested by them to determine the
identity and signatures of the transferor and the
transferee.
(g) No
Obligation of the Trustees.
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(i) Neither
the Company nor the Trustees shall have any responsibility,
obligation or liability to any beneficial owner of a Global Note, a
member of, or a participant in the Depositary or any other Person
with respect to the accuracy of the records of the Depositary or
its nominee or of any participant or member thereof, with respect
to any ownership interest in the Notes or with respect to the
delivery to any participant, member, beneficial owner or other
Person (other than the Depositary) of any notice (including any
notice of redemption or repurchase) or the payment of any amount or
any other act or omission of the Depositary, under or with respect
to such Notes. With respect to any Global Note, all notices and
communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be
made to Holders under the Notes shall be given or made only to the
registered Holders (which shall be the Depositary or its nominee in
the case of a Global Note). The rights of beneficial owners in any
Global Note shall be exercised only through the Depositary subject
to the applicable rules and procedures of the Depositary. The
Trustees may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon
information furnished by the Depositary with respect to its
members, participants and any beneficial owners.
(ii) The
Trustees shall have no obligation or duty to monitor, determine or
inquire as to compliance with any restrictions on transfer imposed
under the Indenture or under applicable law with respect to any
transfer of any interest in any Note (including any transfers
between or among Depositary participants, members or beneficial
owners in any Global Note) other than to require delivery of such
certificates and other documentation or evidence as are expressly
required by, and to do so if and when expressly required by, the
terms of the Indenture, and to examine the same to determine
substantial compliance as to form with the express requirements
hereof.
(h) Any
purported transfer of such note, or any interest therein to a
purchaser or transferee that does not comply with the requirements
specified in this Section 2.3 will be of no force and effect and
shall be null and void ab initio.
Section
2.4 Definitive
Notes.
(a) A
Global Note deposited with the Depositary or with Computershare
Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association, as Custodian
pursuant to Section 2.1 of this Appendix A may be transferred to
the beneficial owners thereof in the form of Definitive Notes in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
Global Note, in exchange for such Global Note, if (i) the
Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to
continue as a Depositary for such Global Note or if at any time the
Depositary ceases to be a “clearing agency” registered
under the Exchange Act and, in each case, a successor depositary is
not appointed by the Company within 90 days of such notice or after
the Company becomes aware of such cessation, or (ii) an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has
received a request from the Depositary or (iii) the Company, in its
sole discretion and subject to the procedures of the Depositary,
notifies the Trustees in writing that it elects to cause the
issuance of Definitive Notes under the Indenture. In addition, any
Affiliate of the Company or any Guarantor that is a beneficial
owner of all or part of a Global Note may, upon the written consent
of the Company, have such Affiliate’s beneficial interest
transferred to such Affiliate in the form of a Definitive Note, by
providing a written request to the Company and the U.S. Trustee and
such Opinions of Counsel, certificates or other information as may
be required by the Indenture or the Company or U.S.
Trustee.
(b) Any
Global Note that is transferable to the beneficial owners thereof
pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be surrendered by the Depositary
to the U.S. Trustee, to be so transferred, in whole or from time to
time in part, without charge, and the U.S. Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, upon such transfer of each portion of
such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive
Notes of authorized denominations. Any portion of a Global Note
transferred pursuant to this Section 2.4 shall be executed, authenticated and delivered only in
denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess
thereof and registered in such names as the Depositary shall
direct. Any certificated Initial Note or Additional Note in the
form of a Definitive Note delivered in exchange for an interest in
the Global Note shall bear the Restricted Notes
Legend.
(c) The
registered Holder of a Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise
authorize any Person, including Agent Members and Persons that may
hold interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a
Holder is entitled to take under the Indenture or the
Notes.
(d) In
the event of the occurrence of any of the events specified in
Section 2.4(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) of this Appendix A, the Company
shall promptly make available to the U.S. Trustee a reasonable
supply of Definitive Notes in fully registered form without
interest coupons.
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF FACE OF NOTE]
[Insert
the Restricted Notes Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the
provisions of the Indenture]
[Insert
the Global Notes Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the provisions
of the Indenture]
[Insert
the Definitive Notes Legend, if applicable, pursuant to the
provisions of the Indenture]
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CUSIP
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ISIN [
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[RULE 144A][REGULATION S][GLOBAL] NOTE
9.500% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due 2024
No. [A-__] [S-__] [Up to]2 [$______________]
ELDORADO GOLD CORPORATION
promises
to pay to [CEDE & CO.]3
[____________] or
registered assigns the principal sum [$(____ (_______ (Dollars)],
as revised by the Schedule of Exchanges of Interests in the Global
Note attached hereto]4 [of $(____ (_______
(Dollars)],5 on June 1,
2024.
Interest
Payment Dates: June 1 and December 1, commencing December 1,
2019.
Record
Dates: May 15 and November 15.
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Rule 144A Note
CUSIP:
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Rule 144A Note ISIN
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Regulation S Note
CUSIP:
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Regulation S Note
ISIN:
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Include
in Global Notes.
Include
in Global Notes.
Include
in Global Notes.
Include
in Definitive Notes.
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IN
WITNESS HEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
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CORPORATION
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CERTIFICATE
OF AUTHENTICATION
This is
one of the Notes referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture:
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COMPUTERSHARE TRUST
COMPANY, N.A., as U.S. Trustee
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[Reverse Side of Note]
9.500%
Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due
2024
Capitalized terms
used herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture referred to below unless otherwise
indicated.
1. INTEREST.
Eldorado Gold Corporation, a corporation governed under the laws of
Canada (the “Company”), promises to
pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at 9.500% per
annum from and including June 5, 2019 until but excluding maturity.
The Company shall pay interest semi-annually in arrears on June 15
and December 15 of each year, or if any such day is not a Business
Day, on the next succeeding Business Day (each, an
“Interest Payment
Date”). Interest on the Notes shall accrue from the
most recent date to which interest has been paid or, if no interest
has been paid, from and including the date of original issuance;
provided that the
first Interest Payment Date shall be December 1, 2019. The Company
shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any
proceeding under any Insolvency Law) on overdue principal and
premium, if any, from time to time at the interest rate on the
Notes; it shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in
any proceeding under any Insolvency Law) on overdue installments of
interest (without regard to any applicable grace periods) from time
to time at the interest rate on the Notes. Interest shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day
months.
2. METHOD
OF PAYMENT. The Company shall pay interest on the Notes to the
Persons who are registered holders of Notes at the close of
business on the June 1 or December 1 (whether or not a Business
Day), as the case may be, immediately preceding the related
Interest Payment Date, even if such Notes are canceled after such
Record Date and on or before such Interest Payment Date, except as
provided in Section
2.12 of the Indenture with respect to defaulted interest.
Principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Notes shall be
payable at the office or agency of the Company maintained for such
purpose; provided
that payment by wire transfer of immediately available funds shall
be required with respect to principal, premium, if any, and
interest on all Global Notes and all other Notes the Holders of
which shall have provided wire transfer instructions to the Company
or the Paying Agent at least five Business Days prior to the
applicable payment date. Such payment shall be in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private
debts.
3. PAYING
AGENT AND REGISTRAR. Initially, Computershare Trust Company, N.A.,
the U.S. Trustee under the Indenture, shall act as Paying Agent and
Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent or Registrar
without notice to the Holders. The Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent (except for purposes of
Article 8 of the
Indenture) or Registrar.
4. INDENTURE.
The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of June
5, 2019 (the “Indenture”), among the
Company, the Guarantors party thereto, the Trustees and the
Collateral Agent. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of
notes of the Company designated as its 9.500% Senior Secured Second
Lien Notes due 2024. The Company shall be entitled to issue
Additional Notes pursuant to Section 2.01 and 4.09 of the Indenture. The
Notes and any Additional Notes issued under the Indenture shall be
treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture. The
terms of the Notes include those stated in the Indenture (which for
greater certainty includes the right of exchange of the Notes
provided in Appendix A to the Indenture, which is an express term
of this Note). The Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders
are referred to the Indenture for a statement of such terms. Any
term used in this Note that is defined in the Indenture shall have
the meaning assigned to it in the Indenture. To the extent any
provision of this Note conflicts with the express provisions of the
Indenture, the provisions of the Indenture shall govern and be
controlling.
5. REDEMPTION
AND REPURCHASE. The Notes are subject to optional redemption, and
may be the subject of an Offer to Purchase, as further described in
the Indenture. The Company shall not be required to make mandatory
redemption or sinking fund payments with respect to the
Notes.
6. DENOMINATIONS,
TRANSFER, EXCHANGE. The Notes are in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $2,000 and integral multiples of $1,000
in excess thereof. The transfer of Notes may be registered and
Notes may be exchanged as provided in the Indenture. The Company,
the Registrar and the U.S. Trustee may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements, transfer
documents and evidence as to the signature and identity of a
transferor and transferee of the Notes, and Holders shall be
required to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by
the Indenture. The Company need not exchange or register the
transfer of any Note or portion of a Note selected for redemption,
except for the unredeemed portion of any Note being redeemed in
part.
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7. PERSONS
DEEMED OWNERS. The registered Holder of a Note may be treated as
its owner for all purposes.
8. AMENDMENT,
SUPPLEMENT AND WAIVER. The Indenture, the Note Guarantees or the
Notes may be amended or supplemented as provided in the
Indenture.
9. DEFAULTS
AND REMEDIES. The Events of Default relating to the Notes are
defined in Section 6.01 of the Indenture. Upon the occurrence of an
Event of Default, the rights and obligations of the Company, the
Guarantors, the Trustees and the Holders shall be as set forth in
the applicable provisions of the Indenture.
10. AUTHENTICATION.
This Note shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose until authenticated by
the manual or facsimile signature of the U.S. Trustee.
11. SECURITY.
This Note shall be secured by Second Priority Liens in the
Collateral, subject to Permitted Liens, on the terms and conditions
set forth in the Indenture, the Collateral Documents and the
Intercreditor Agreement. The Collateral Agent holds a Lien on the
Collateral for the benefit of the Trustees and the Holders, in each
case pursuant to the Collateral Documents.
12. GOVERNING
LAW. THIS NOTE WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
13. CUSIP
AND ISIN NUMBERS. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the
Company has caused CUSIP and ISIN numbers to be printed on the
Notes, and the Trustees may use CUSIP and ISIN numbers in notices
of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is
made as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the
Notes or as contained in any notice of redemption and no reliance
may be placed thereon.
14. GUARANTEES.
The payment by the Company of the principal of and interest on the
Notes is fully and unconditionally guaranteed on a joint and
several basis by each of the Guarantors on the terms set forth in
the Indenture.
The
Company shall furnish to any Holder upon written request and
without charge a copy of the Indenture. Requests may be made to the
Company at the following address:
Eldorado
Gold Corporation
1188 – 000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx X0X 0X0
Fax: (000)
000-0000
Attention:
Corporate Secretary
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
To
assign this Note, fill in the form below:
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and irrevocably
appoint
to transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may
substitute another to act for him.
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Signature
Guarantee*:
*
Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program
(or other signature guarantor acceptable to the U.S.
Trustee).
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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED NOTES
This certificate
relates to $ ________ principal amount of Notes held in (check
applicable space) ____ book-entry or _____ definitive form by the
undersigned.
The
undersigned (check one box below):
●
has requested the
U.S. Trustee by written order to deliver in exchange for its
beneficial interest in the Global Note held by the Depositary a
Note or Notes in definitive, registered form of authorized
denominations and an aggregate principal amount equal to its
beneficial interest in such Global Note (or the portion thereof
indicated above) in accordance with the Indenture; or
●
has requested the
U.S. Trustee by written order to exchange or register the transfer
of a Note or Notes.
In
connection with any transfer of any of the Notes evidenced by this
certificate, the undersigned confirms that such Notes are being
transferred in accordance with its terms:
CHECK
ONE BOX BELOW
(1)
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to the Company;
or
(2)
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to the Registrar
for registration in the name of the Holder, without transfer;
or
(3)
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pursuant to an
effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933;
or
(4)
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to a Person that
the undersigned reasonably believes is a “qualified
institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1993, as amended, (“Rule 144A”) under
the Securities Act of 1933) that purchases for its own account or
for the account of a qualified institutional buyer and to whom
notice is given that such transfer is being made in reliance on
Rule 144A, in each case pursuant to and in compliance with Rule
144A; or
(5)
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outside the United
States of America in an “offshore transaction” to a
“non-U.S. person” within the meaning of Regulation S
under the Securities Act of 1933 in compliance with Rule 904 under
the Securities Act of 1933; or
(6)
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pursuant to Rule
144 under the Securities Act of 1933 or another available exemption
from registration under the Securities Act of 1933.
Unless
one of the boxes is checked, the U.S. Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name
of any Person other than the registered Holder thereof;
provided,
however, that if
box (5) or (6) is checked and prior to the date specified in the
Canadian Restricted Legend, if box (3) or (4) is checked, the
Company or the U.S. Trustee may require, prior to registering any
such transfer of the Notes, such legal opinions, certifications and
other information as the Company has reasonably requested to
confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption
from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration
requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and prior to the date
specified in the Canadian Restricted Legend, pursuant to exemptions from prospectus
requirements under Canadian Securities Legislation, if
applicable.
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Your
Signature
Signature
Guarantee:
Date:
Signature must be
guaranteed
by a participant in a recognized
signature
Signature
of Signature
guaranty medallion program or
other
Guarantor
signature guarantor acceptable
to the U.S. Trustee
TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (4) ABOVE IS CHECKED.
The
undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this Note
for its own account or an account with respect to which it
exercises sole investment discretion and that it and any such
account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within the
meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being
made in reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received
such information regarding the Company as the undersigned has
requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request
such information and that it is aware that the transferor is
relying upon the undersigned’s foregoing representations in
order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule
144A.
Dated:
NOTICE:
To be executed by an
executive
officer
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you
want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant
to Section 4.10 or 4.14 of the Indenture, check the appropriate box
below:
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If you
want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.10 or Section 4.14 of the Indenture,
state the amount you elect to have purchased:
$_____________
(integral multiples of $1,000, provided
that the unpurchased portion must be
in a minimum principal amount of $2,000)
Date:
Your
Signature:
(Sign
exactly as your name appears on
the
face of this Note)
Tax Identification
No.:
Signature Guarantee*:
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Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program
(or other signature guarantor acceptable to the U.S.
Trustee).
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF INTERESTS IN THE GLOBAL NOTE*
The
initial outstanding principal amount of this Global Note is
$__________. The following exchanges of a part of this Global Note
for an interest in another Global Note or for a Definitive Note, or
exchanges of a part of another Global or Definitive Note for an
interest in this Global Note, have been made:
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schedule should be included only if the Note is issued in global
form.
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EXHIBIT B
FORM OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
TO BE DELIVERED BY SUBSEQUENT GUARANTORS
Supplemental
Indenture (this “Supplemental Indenture”),
dated as of [__________] [__], 20[ ], among _____________
(the “Guaranteeing
Subsidiary”), a subsidiary of Eldorado Gold
Corporation, a corporation incorporated under the laws of Canada
(the “Company”), and
Computershare Trust Company, N.A., a national banking association,
as the U.S. Trustee and Computershare Trust Company of Canada, as
the Canadian Trustee (together, the “Trustees”) and as
collateral agent (in such capacity, the “Collateral
Agent”).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, each of
the Company and the Guarantors (as defined in the Indenture
referred to below) has heretofore executed and delivered to the
Trustees and the Collateral Agent an indenture (the
“Indenture”), dated as of
June 5, 2019, providing for the issuance of an unlimited aggregate
principal amount of 9.500% Senior Secured Second Lien Notes due
2024 (the “Notes”);
WHEREAS, the
Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the
Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustees a
supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing
Subsidiary shall unconditionally Guarantee all of the
Company’s Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on
the terms and conditions set forth herein and under the Indenture;
and
WHEREAS, pursuant
to Section 9.01 of
the Indenture, the Trustees are authorized to execute and deliver
this Supplemental Indenture.
NOW
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby
acknowledged, the parties mutually covenant and agree for the equal
and ratable benefit of the Holders as follows:
1. Capitalized
Terms. Capitalized terms used herein without definition
shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture.
2. Guarantor.
The Guaranteeing Subsidiary hereby agrees to be a Guarantor under
the Indenture and to be bound by the terms of the Indenture
applicable to Guarantors, including Article 10
thereof.
3. Governing
Law. THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK.
4. Waiver
of Jury Trial. EACH OF THE GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARY AND THE
TRUSTEES HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED
BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY AND ALL RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS SUPPLEMENTAL
INDENTURE, THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES, THE NOTE GUARANTEES OR THE
TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY.
5. Counterparts.
The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental
Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them
together represent the same agreement. The exchange of copies of
this Supplemental Indenture and of signature pages by facsimile or
..pdf transmission shall constitute effective execution and delivery
of this Supplemental Indenture as to the parties hereto and may be
used in lieu of the original Indenture for all purposes. Signatures
of the parties hereto transmitted by facsimile or .pdf shall be
deemed to be their original signatures for all
purposes.
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6. Headings.
The headings of the Sections of this Supplemental Indenture have
been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to be
considered a part of this Supplemental Indenture and shall in no
way modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions
hereof.
7. The
Trustees. Neither of the Trustees nor the Collateral Agent
shall be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of
the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for
or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which
recitals are made solely by the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries and the
Company.
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first above
written.
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