EXHIBIT 4.4
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AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
CSBI CAPITAL TRUST I
DATED AS OF JULY 15, 1997
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AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (the "Guarantee"), dated
as of July 15, 1997, is executed and delivered by Commerce Security Bancorp,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Guarantor"), and Wilmington Trust Company, a
Delaware banking corporation, as trustee (the "Guarantee Trustee"), for the
benefit of the Holders (as defined herein) of the Securities (as defined herein)
of CSBI Capital Trust I, a Delaware statutory business trust (the "Trust").
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Declaration (as defined herein), the Trust
has issued, and may in the future issue additional, capital securities,
having a liquidation amount of $1,000 per capital security, designated the 11
3/4% Subordinated Capital Income Securities, Series A (the "Capital
Securities") and common securities, having a liquidation amount of $1,000 per
common security, designated the Common Securities (the "Common Securities,"
and together with the Capital Securities, the "Securities");
WHEREAS, as incentive for the original Holders to purchase the
Securities, the Guarantor executed a Capital Securities Guarantee Agreement,
dated as of June 6, 1997 (the "Original Guarantee"), in which the Guarantor
irrevocably and unconditionally agreed, to the extent set forth in the
Original Guarantee, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the Guarantee
Payments (as defined therein) and to make certain other payments on the terms
and conditions set forth therein; and
WHEREAS, with the consent of the existing Holders (such consent
having duly been given), the Guarantor desires to amend and restate each and
every term and provision of the Original Guarantee.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the purchase by Xxxxxx Brothers
Inc. of Securities, which purchase the Guarantor hereby agrees shall benefit
the Guarantor, the Guarantor executes and delivers this Guarantee for the
benefit of the Holders.
ARTICLE 1.
INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS. In this Guarantee,
unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) capitalized terms used in this Guarantee but not defined in the
preamble above have the respective meanings assigned to them in this
Section 1.1;
(b) a term defined anywhere in this Guarantee has the same meaning
throughout;
(c) all references to "the Guarantee" or "this Guarantee" are to this
Guarantee as modified, supplemented or amended from time to time;
(d) all references in this Guarantee to Articles and Sections are to
Articles and Sections of this Guarantee, unless otherwise specified;
(e) a term defined in the Trust Indenture Act has the same meaning
when used in this Guarantee, unless otherwise defined in this Guarantee or
unless the context otherwise requires; and
(f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa and
a reference to the masculine includes, as applicable, the feminine.
"Affiliate" has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule thereunder.
"Business Day" has the meaning given to such term in the Indenture.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Guarantee Trustee
at which the corporate trust business of the Guarantee Trustee shall at any
particular time, be principally administered, which office at the date of
execution of this Guarantee is located at Wilmington Trust Company, Xxxxxx
Square North, 0000 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Services.
"Covered Person" means any Holder or beneficial owner of Securities.
"Debentures" means the series of junior subordinated debentures
issued or to be issued, in one or more issuances, by the Guarantor,
designated the 11 3/4% Junior Subordinated Debentures due 2027, held by the
Property Trustee (as defined in the Declaration) of the Trust.
"Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust,
dated as of July 15, 1997, as amended, modified or supplemented from time to
time, among the trustees of the Trust named therein, the Guarantor, as
sponsor, and the holders from time to time of undivided beneficial ownership
interests in the assets of the Trust.
"Guarantee Event of Default" means a default by the Guarantor on
any of its payment or other obligations under this Guarantee.
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"Guarantee Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, until a
successor Guarantee Trustee has been appointed and has accepted such
appointment pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee and thereafter means each
such Successor Guarantee Trustee.
"Guarantee Payments" means the following payments or distributions,
without duplication, with respect to the Securities, to the extent not paid
or made by the Trust: (i) any accrued and unpaid Distributions (as defined in
the Declaration) that are required to be paid on such Securities to the
extent the Trust shall have sufficient funds available therefor at the time,
(ii) the redemption price with respect to any Securities called for
redemption by the Trust, to the extent the Trust shall have sufficient funds
available therefor at the time, and (iii) upon a voluntary or involuntary
dissolution, winding-up or termination of the Trust (other than in connection
with the distribution of Debentures to the Holders in exchange for Securities
as provided in the Declaration), the lesser of (a) the aggregate liquidation
amount and all accrued and unpaid Distributions on the Securities to the date
of payment, to the extent the Trust shall have sufficient funds available
therefor at the time, and (b) the amount of assets of the Trust remaining
available for distribution to Holders (in either case, the "Liquidation
Distribution"). If a Trust Enforcement Event (as defined in the Declaration)
has occurred and is continuing, the rights of holders of the Common
Securities to receive Guarantee Payments under this Guarantee are
subordinated to the rights of Holders of the Capital Securities to receive
payments hereunder.
"Holder" shall mean any holder of Securities, as registered on the
books and records of the Trust; provided, however, that, in determining
whether the Holders of the requisite percentage of Capital Securities have
given any request, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, "Holder" shall not
include the Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Guarantor or any other obligor
on the Capital Securities; and provided further, that in determining whether
the Holders of the requisite liquidation amount of Capital Securities have
voted on any matter provided for in this Guarantee, then for the purpose of
such determination only (and not for any other purpose hereunder), if the
Capital Securities remain in the form of one or more Global Certificates (as
defined in the Declaration), the term "Holders" shall mean the holder of the
Global Certificate acting at the direction of the beneficial holders of the
securities.
"Indemnified Person" means the Guarantee Trustee, any Affiliate of
the Guarantee Trustee, and any officers, directors, shareholders, members,
partners, employees, representatives, nominees, custodians or agents of the
Guarantee Trustee.
"Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of July 15, 1997, among
the Guarantor and Wilmington Trust Company, as trustee, and any indenture
supplemental thereto pursuant to which the Debentures are to be issued to the
Property Trustee (as defined in the Declaration) of the Trust.
"Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities" means, except as
provided in the terms of the Securities or by the Trust Indenture Act,
Holder(s) of outstanding Securities, voting separately as a class, who are
the record holders of more than 50% of the aggregate liquidation amount
(including the stated amount that would be paid on redemption, liquidation or
otherwise,
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plus accrued and unpaid Distributions to the date upon which the voting
percentages are determined) of all outstanding Securities. In determining
whether the Holders of the requisite amount of Securities have voted,
Securities which are owned by the Guarantor or any Affiliate of the Guarantor
shall be disregarded for the purpose of any such determination.
"Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed on behalf of such Person by two Authorized Officers (as
defined in the Declaration) of such Person. Any Officers' Certificate
delivered with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided
for in this Guarantee shall include:
(a) a statement that each officer signing the Officers' Certificate
has read the covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(b) a statement that each such officer has made such examination or
investigation as, in such officer's opinion, is necessary to enable such
officer on behalf of such Person to express an informed opinion as to
whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(c) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such officer
acting on behalf of such Person, such condition or covenant has been
complied with.
"Outstanding" has the meaning given to such term in the Indenture.
"Person" means a legal person, including any individual, corporation,
estate, partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company, limited
liability company, trust, unincorporated association, or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof, or any other entity of whatever nature.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Guarantee Trustee,
any officer within the Corporate Trust Office of the Guarantee Trustee,
including any vice president, any assistant vice president, the secretary, any
assistant secretary, the treasurer, any assistant treasurer or other officer of
the Corporate Trust Office of the Guarantee Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and
also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other
officer to whom such matter is referred because of that officer's knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Successor Guarantee Trustee" means a successor Guarantee Trustee
possessing the qualifications to act as Guarantee Trustee under Section 4.1.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as
amended from time to time, or any successor legislation.
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ARTICLE 2
TRUST INDENTURE ACT
SECTION 2.1 TRUST INDENTURE ACT; APPLICATION. (a) This Guarantee is
subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act that are required to be
part of this Guarantee and shall, to the extent applicable, be governed by such
provisions.
(b) If and to the extent that any provision of this Guarantee limits,
qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317,
inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 2.2 LISTS OF HOLDERS OF SECURITIES. (a) The Guarantor
shall provide the Guarantee Trustee with a list, in such form as the
Guarantee Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the
Holders of the Securities ("List of Holders"), (i) quarterly, not later than
the Business Day immediately following each record date for distributions on
the Securities as fixed under the Declaration, and current as of such record
date, and (ii) at such other times as the Guarantee Trustee may request in
writing, within 30 days of receipt by the Guarantor of a written request from
the Guarantee Trustee for a List of Holders as of a date no more than 15 days
before such List of Holders is given to the Guarantee Trustee; excluding from
any such list names and addresses received by the Guarantee Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar (as defined in the Indenture). The Guarantee
Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
all information contained in Lists of Holders given to it, provided that it
may destroy any List of Holders previously given to it on receipt of a new
List of Holders.
(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall comply with its obligations under
Sections 311(a), 311(b) and 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.3 REPORTS BY GUARANTEE TRUSTEE. Within 60 days after
July 15 of each year (commencing with the year of the issuance of the
Securities), the Guarantee Trustee shall provide to the Holders of the
Securities such reports as are required by Section 313 of the Trust Indenture
Act (if any) in the form and in the manner provided by Section 313 of the
Trust Indenture Act. The Guarantee Trustee shall also comply with the
requirements of Section 313(d) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.4 PERIODIC REPORTS TO GUARANTEE TRUSTEE. The Guarantor
shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such documents, reports and
information as required by Section 314 (if any) of the Trust Indenture Act
and the compliance certificate required by Section 314 of the Trust Indenture
Act in the form, in the manner and at the times required by Section 314 of
the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.5 EVIDENCE OF COMPLIANCE WITH CONDITIONS PRECEDENT. The
Guarantor shall provide to the Guarantee Trustee such evidence of compliance
with any conditions precedent,
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if any, provided for in this Guarantee that relate to any of the matters set
forth in Section 314(c) of the Trust Indenture Act. Any certificate or
opinion required to be given by an officer pursuant to Section 314(c)(1) may
be given in the form of an Officers' Certificate.
SECTION 2.6 GUARANTEE EVENT OF DEFAULT; WAIVER. The Holders of a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities may, by vote or written
consent, on behalf of the Holders of all of the Securities, waive any past
Guarantee Event of Default and its consequences. Upon such waiver, any such
Guarantee Event of Default shall cease to exist, and any Guarantee Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Guarantee, but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent
or other default or Guarantee Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 2.7 GUARANTEE EVENT OF DEFAULT; NOTICE. (a) The
Guarantee Trustee shall, within 90 days after the occurrence of a Guarantee
Event of Default actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee
Trustee, transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, to the Holders of the
Securities, notices of all such Guarantee Events of Default, unless such
defaults have been cured before the giving of such notice; provided, that the
Guarantee Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice if and so
long as a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Holders of the Securities.
(b) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be deemed to have knowledge of
any Guarantee Event of Default unless the Guarantee Trustee shall have
received written notice thereof or a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee
Trustee charged with the administration of the Declaration shall have
obtained actual knowledge thereof.
SECTION 2.8 CONFLICTING INTERESTS. The Declaration shall be
deemed to be specifically described in this Guarantee for the purposes of
clause (i) of the first provision contained in Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.9 DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION. The disclosure of
information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of the Securities in
accordance with Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act, regardless of the
source from which such information was derived, shall not be deemed to be a
violation of any existing law, or any law hereafter enacted which does not
specifically refer to Section 312 of the Trust Indenture Act, nor shall the
Guarantee Trustee be held accountable by reason of mailing any material
pursuant to a request made under Section 312(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 2.10 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM. Upon the
occurrence of a Guarantee Event of Default, the Guarantee Trustee is hereby
authorized to (a) recover judgment, in its own name and as trustee of an
express trust, against the Guarantor for the whole amount of any Guarantee
Payments remaining unpaid and (b) file such proofs of claim and other papers
or documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have its claims and
those of the Holders of
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the Securities allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the Guarantor,
its creditors or its property.
ARTICLE 3
POWERS, DUTIES AND RIGHTS OF
GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
SECTION 3.1 POWERS AND DUTIES OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE.
(a) This Guarantee shall be held by the Guarantee Trustee on
behalf of the Trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities, and the
Guarantee Trustee shall not transfer this Guarantee to any Person except a
Holder of Securities exercising his or her rights pursuant to Section 5.4(b)
or to a Successor Guarantee Trustee on acceptance by such Successor Guarantee
Trustee. The right, title and interest of the Guarantee Trustee in and to
this Guarantee shall automatically vest in any Successor Guarantee Trustee,
and such vesting and succession of title shall be effective whether or not
conveyancing documents have been executed and delivered pursuant to the
appointment of such Successor Guarantee Trustee.
(b) If a Guarantee Event of Default actually known to a
Responsible Officer of the Guarantee Trustee has occurred and is continuing,
the Guarantee Trustee shall enforce this Guarantee for the benefit of the
Holders of the Securities.
(c) The Guarantee Trustee, before the occurrence of any Guarantee
Event of Default and after the curing of all Guarantee Events of Default that
may have occurred, shall undertake to perform only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Guarantee, and no implied covenants shall be
read into this Guarantee against the Guarantee Trustee. In case a Guarantee
Event of Default has occurred (that has not been cured or waived pursuant to
Section 2.6) and is actually known to a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee
Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers
vested in it by this Guarantee, and use the same degree of care and skill in
its exercise thereof, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his or her own affairs.
(d) No provision of this Guarantee shall be construed to relieve
the Guarantee Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(i) prior to the occurrence of any Guarantee Event of Default
and after the curing or waiving of all such Guarantee Events of
Default that may have occurred:
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(A) the duties and obligations of the Guarantee Trustee
shall be determined solely by the express provisions of this
Guarantee, and the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable except
for the performance of such duties and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Guarantee, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Guarantee
against the Guarantee Trustee; and
(B) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Guarantee Trustee, the Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely,
as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the
opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or opinions
furnished to the Guarantee Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Guarantee; but in the case of any such
certificates or opinions that by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Guarantee Trustee,
the Guarantee Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same
to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Guarantee;
(ii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable for any error of
judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Guarantee
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Guarantee Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon which such judgment
was made;
(iii) the Guarantee Trustee shall not be liable with respect to
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the direction of the Holders of not less than a
Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Guarantee Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Guarantee Trustee under this Guarantee; and
(iv) no provision of this Guarantee shall require the Guarantee
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the
exercise of any of its rights or powers, if the Guarantee Trustee
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that the repayment of such
funds or liability is not reasonably assured to it under the terms of
this Guarantee or indemnify, reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantee
Trustee, against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
SECTION 3.2 CERTAIN RIGHTS OF GUARANTEE TRUSTEE. (a) Subject to the
provisions of Section 3.1:
(i) The Guarantee Trustee may conclusively rely, and shall be
fully protected in acting or refraining from acting upon, any
resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, direction, consent, order,
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bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper
or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent
or presented by the proper party or parties;
(ii) Any direction or act of the Guarantor contemplated by this
Guarantee shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate;
(iii) Whenever, in the administration of this Guarantee, the
Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or
established before taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder,
the Guarantee Trustee (unless other evidence is herein specifically
prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, request and
conclusively rely upon an Officers' Certificate which, upon receipt of
such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Guarantor;
(iv) The Guarantee Trustee shall have no duty to see to any
recording, filing or registration or any instrument (or any
rerecording, refiling or registration thereof);
(v) The Guarantee Trustee may consult with counsel, and the
advice or opinion of such counsel with respect to legal matters shall
be full and complete authorization and protection in respect of any
action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with such advice or opinion. Such counsel may be counsel
to the Guarantor or any of its Affiliates and may include any of its
employees. The Guarantee Trustee shall have the right at any time to
seek instructions concerning the administration of this Guarantee from
any court of competent jurisdiction;
(vi) The Guarantee Trustee shall be under no obligation to
exercise any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Guarantee at
the request or direction of any Holder, unless such Holder shall have
provided to the Guarantee Trustee such security and indemnity,
reasonably satisfactory to the Guarantee Trustee, against the costs,
expenses (including attorneys' fees and expenses and the expenses of
the Guarantee Trustee's agents, nominees or custodians) and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in complying with such
request or direction, including such reasonable advances as may be
requested by the Guarantee Trustee; provided, that nothing contained
in this Section 3.2(a)(vi) shall be taken to relieve the Guarantee
Trustee, upon the occurrence of a Guarantee Event of Default, of its
obligation to exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this
Guarantee;
(vii) The Guarantee Trustee shall not be bound to make any
investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of
indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Guarantee Trustee, in
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its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into
such facts or matters as it may see fit;
(viii) The Guarantee Trustee may execute any of the trusts or
powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by
or through agents, nominees, custodians or attorneys, and the
Guarantee Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due
care by it hereunder;
(ix) Any action taken by the Guarantee Trustee or its agents
hereunder shall bind the Holders of the Securities, and the signature
of the Guarantee Trustee or its agents alone shall be sufficient and
effective to perform any such action. No third party shall be
required to inquire as to the authority of the Guarantee Trustee to so
act or as to its compliance with any of the terms and provisions of
this Guarantee, both of which shall be conclusively evidenced by the
Guarantee Trustee's or its agent's taking such action; and
(x) Whenever in the administration of this Guarantee the
Guarantee Trustee shall deem it desirable to receive instructions with
respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action
hereunder, the Guarantee Trustee (i) may request instructions from the
Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities, (ii)
may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or taking such other
action until such instructions are received, and (iii) shall be
protected in conclusively relying on or acting in accordance with such
instructions.
(b) No provision of this Guarantee shall be deemed to impose any duty
or obligation on the Guarantee Trustee to perform any act or acts or exercise
any right, power, duty or obligation conferred or imposed on it in any
jurisdiction in which it shall be illegal, or in which the Guarantee Trustee
shall be unqualified or incompetent in accordance with applicable law, to
perform any such act or acts or to exercise any such right, power, duty or
obligation. No permissive power or authority available to the Guarantee Trustee
shall be construed to be a duty.
SECTION 3.3 NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF GUARANTEE.
The recitals contained in this Guarantee shall be taken as the statements of the
Guarantor, and the Guarantee Trustee does not assume any responsibility for
their correctness. The Guarantee Trustee makes no representations as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Guarantee.
ARTICLE 4
GUARANTEE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 GUARANTEE TRUSTEE; ELIGIBILITY.
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(a) There shall be at all times a Guarantee Trustee which shall:
(i) not be an Affiliate of the Guarantor; and
(ii) be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America or any State or Territory thereof or
of the District of Columbia, or a corporation or Person permitted by
the Securities and Exchange Commission to act as an institutional
trustee under the Trust Indenture Act, authorized under such laws to
exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus
of at least 50 million U.S. dollars ($50,000,000), and subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, State, Territorial or District
of Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of
the supervising or examining authority referred to above, then, for
the purposes of this Section 4.1(a)(ii), the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital
and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so
published.
(b) If at any time the Guarantee Trustee shall cease to be eligible
so to act under Section 4.1(a), the Guarantee Trustee shall immediately resign
in the manner and with the effect set out in Section 4.2(b).
(c) If the Guarantee Trustee has or shall acquire any "conflicting
interest" within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the
Guarantee Trustee and Guarantor shall in all respects comply with the provisions
of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 4.2 APPOINTMENT, REMOVAL AND RESIGNATION OF GUARANTEE
TRUSTEE.
(a) Subject to Section 4.1(b), the Guarantee Trustee may be appointed
or removed with or without cause at any time by the Guarantor. No resignation
or removal of the Guarantee Trustee and no appointment of a Successor Guarantee
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the Successor Guarantee Trustee by written instrument executed by
the Successor Guarantee Trustee and delivered to the Holders and the Guarantee
Trustee.
(b) Subject to the immediately preceding paragraph, a Guarantee
Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Holders
and the Guarantor.
(c) If no Successor Guarantee Trustee shall have been appointed and
accepted appointment as provided in this Section 4.2 within 30 days after
delivery to the Guarantor of an instrument of removal or resignation, the
removed or resigning Guarantee Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a Successor Guarantee Trustee. Such court
may thereupon, after prescribing such notice, if any, as it may deem proper,
appoint a Successor Guarantee Trustee.
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(d) No Guarantee Trustee shall be liable for the acts or omissions to
act of any Successor Guarantee Trustee.
(e) Upon termination of this Guarantee or removal or resignation of
the Guarantee Trustee pursuant to this Section 4.2, the Guarantor shall pay to
the Guarantee Trustee all amounts owing for fees and reimbursement of expenses
which have accrued to the date of such termination, removal or resignation.
(f) The Guarantor shall promptly notify the Holders of the
resignation, removal or appointment of the Guarantee Trustee.
ARTICLE 5
GUARANTEE
SECTION 5.1 GUARANTEE.
The Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to pay in full to
the Holders, on a subordinated basis, the Guarantee Payments (without
duplication of amounts theretofore paid by the Trust), as and when due,
regardless of any defense, right of set-off or counterclaim that the Trust may
have or assert. The Guarantor's obligation to make a Guarantee Payment may be
satisfied by direct payment of the required amounts by the Guarantor to the
Holders or by causing the Trust to pay such amounts to the Holders.
SECTION 5.2 WAIVER OF NOTICE AND DEMAND.
The Guarantor hereby waives notice of acceptance of this Guarantee and
of any liability to which it applies or may apply, presentment, demand for
payment, any right to require a proceeding first against the Trust or any other
Person before proceeding against the Guarantor, protest, notice of nonpayment,
notice of dishonor, notice of redemption and all other notices and demands.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Guarantor retains all of
its rights under the Indenture to extend the interest payment period on the
Debentures and the Guarantor shall not be obligated hereunder to make any
Guarantee Payments during any Extension Period (as defined in the Indenture)
with respect to the Distributions (as defined in the Declaration) on the
Securities.
SECTION 5.3 OBLIGATIONS NOT AFFECTED.
The obligations, covenants, agreements and duties of the Guarantor
under this Guarantee shall be absolute and unconditional and shall remain in
full force and effect until the entire liquidation amount of all outstanding
Securities shall have been paid and such obligation shall in no way be affected
or impaired by reason of the happening from time to time of any event,
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including without limitation, the following, whether or not with notice to,
or the consent of, the Guarantor:
(a) The release or waiver, by operation of law or otherwise, of the
performance or observance by the Trust of any express or implied agreement,
covenant, term or condition relating to the Securities to be performed or
observed by the Trust;
(b) The extension of time for the payment by the Trust of all or any
portion of the Distributions, Redemption Price (as defined in the
Indenture), Liquidation Distribution or any other sums payable under the
terms of the Securities or the extension of time for the performance of any
other obligation under, arising out of, or in connection with the
Securities (other than an extension of time for payment of Distributions,
Redemption Price, Liquidation Distribution or other sum payable that
results from the extension of any interest payment period on the
Debentures);
(c) Any failure, omission, delay or lack of diligence on the part of
the Property Trustee or the Holders to enforce, assert or exercise any
right, privilege, power or remedy conferred on the Property Trustee or the
Holders pursuant to the terms of the Securities, or any action on the part
of the Trust granting indulgence or extension of any kind;
(d) The voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, sale of
any collateral, receivership, insolvency, bankruptcy, assignment for the
benefit of creditors, reorganization, arrangement, composition or
readjustment of debt of, or other similar proceedings affecting, the Trust
or any of the assets of the Trust;
(e) Any invalidity of, or defect or deficiency in, the Securities;
(f) The settlement or compromise of any obligation guaranteed hereby
or hereby incurred; or
(g) Any other circumstance whatsoever that might otherwise constitute
a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor, it being the
intent of this Section 5.3 that the obligations of the Guarantor hereunder
shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances.
There shall be no obligation of the Guarantee Trustee or the Holders
to give notice to, or obtain consent of, the Guarantor or any other Person with
respect to the happening of any of the foregoing.
No setoff, counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any obligation, or
any defense of any kind or nature that the Guarantor has or may have against any
Holder shall be available hereunder to the Guarantor against such Holder to
reduce the payments to it under this Guarantee.
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SECTION 5.4 RIGHTS OF HOLDERS.
(a) The Holders of a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities
have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Guarantee Trustee in respect of this Guarantee
or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Guarantee Trustee under this
Guarantee.
(b) If the Guarantee Trustee fails to enforce this Guarantee, then
any Holder of Securities may, subject to the subordination provisions of Section
6.2, institute a legal proceeding directly against the Guarantor to enforce the
Guarantee Trustee's rights under this Guarantee, without first instituting a
legal proceeding against the Trust, the Guarantee Trustee or any other person or
entity, if: (i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Guarantee
Trustee of a continuing Guarantee Event of Default, (ii) the Holders of not less
than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall have made
written request to the Guarantee Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of
such Guarantee Event of Default in its own name as Guarantee Trustee hereunder,
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Guarantee Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request, (iv) the Guarantee Trustee for 60 days after its
receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute
any such proceeding, and (v) no direction inconsistent with such written request
has been given to the Guarantee Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; it being
understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of this Guarantee
to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders, or to obtain or
to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders or to enforce
any right under this Guarantee, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 5.4, if
the Guarantor has failed to make a Guarantee Payment, a Holder of Securities
may, subject to the subordination provisions of Section 6.2, directly institute
a proceeding against the Guarantor for enforcement of the Guarantee for such
payment to the Holder of the Securities of the principal of or interest on the
Debentures on or after the respective due dates specified in the Debentures, and
the amount of the payment will be based on the Holder's pro rata share of the
amount due and owing on all of the Securities. The Guarantor hereby waives any
right or remedy to require that any action on this Guarantee be brought first
against the Trust or any other person or entity before proceeding directly
against the Guarantor.
SECTION 5.5 GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT.
This Guarantee creates a guarantee of payment and not of collection.
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SECTION 5.6 SUBROGATION.
The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all (if any) rights of the
Holders of Securities against the Trust in respect of any amounts paid to such
Holders by the Guarantor under this Guarantee; provided, however, that the
Guarantor shall not (except to the extent required by mandatory provisions of
law) be entitled to enforce or exercise any right that it may acquire by way of
subrogation of any indemnity, reimbursement or other agreement, in all cases as
a result of payment under this Guarantee, if at the time of any such payment,
any amounts are due and unpaid under this Guarantee. If any amount shall be
paid to the Guarantor in violation of the preceding sentence, the Guarantor
agrees to hold such amount in trust for the Holders and to pay over such amount
to the Guarantee Trustee for the benefit of the Holders.
SECTION 5.7 INDEPENDENT OBLIGATIONS.
The Guarantor acknowledges that its obligations hereunder are
independent of the obligations of the Trust with respect to the Securities, and
that the Guarantor shall be liable as principal and as debtor hereunder to make
Guarantee Payments pursuant to the terms of this Guarantee notwithstanding the
occurrence of any event referred to in subsections 5.3(a) through 5.3(g),
inclusive, hereof.
ARTICLE 6
LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS; SUBORDINATION
SECTION 6.1 LIMITATION OF TRANSACTIONS.
So long as any Securities remain outstanding, if there shall have
occurred a Guarantee Event of Default or a Trust Enforcement Event, then the
Guarantor shall not, and shall not permit any subsidiary of the Guarantor, to
(i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase,
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, the Guarantor's capital
stock or (ii) make any payment of principal, interest or premium, if any, on or
repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Guarantor that rank pari
passu with or junior to the Debentures or make any guarantee payments with
respect to any guarantee by the Guarantor of the debt securities of any
subsidiary of the Guarantor if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior to
the Debentures (other than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of
shares of capital stock of the Guarantor in connection with any employment
contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of
any one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants or in connection
with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan, (b) as a result
of an exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Guarantor's capital
stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Guarantor) for any class or
series of the Guarantor's capital stock or of any class or series of the
Guarantor's indebtedness for any class or series of the Guarantor's capital
stock, (c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Guarantor's
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or
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exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the adoption
of any stockholder's rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other
property under any stockholder's rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase
of rights pursuant thereto, or (e) any dividend in the form of stock,
warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the stock
issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the same
stock as that on which the dividend is being paid (or pari passu with or
junior to such stock).
SECTION 6.2 RANKING.
This Guarantee will constitute an unsecured obligation of the
Guarantor and will rank subordinate and junior in right of payment to all other
liabilities of the Guarantor, except those liabilities of the Guarantor made
pari passu or subordinate by their express terms.
If a Trust Enforcement Event has occurred and is continuing under the
Declaration, the rights of the holders of the Common Securities to receive
Guarantee Payments hereunder shall be subordinated to the rights of the holders
of the Capital Securities to receive payment of all amounts due and owing
hereunder.
ARTICLE 7
TERMINATION
SECTION 7.1 TERMINATION.
This Guarantee shall terminate upon (i) full payment of the
Redemption Price (as defined in the Declaration) of all Securities, (ii) upon
the distribution of the Debentures to the Holders of all the Securities or
(iii) upon full payment of the amounts payable in accordance with the
Declaration upon liquidation of the Trust. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
this Guarantee will continue to be effective or will be reinstated, as the
case may be, if at any time any Holder of Securities must restore payment of
any sums paid under the Securities or under this Guarantee.
ARTICLE 8
INDEMNIFICATION
SECTION 8.1 EXCULPATION.
(a) No Indemnified Person shall be liable, responsible or
accountable in damages or otherwise to the Guarantor or any Covered Person
for any loss, damage or claim incurred by reason of any act or omission
performed or omitted by such Indemnified Person in good faith in
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accordance with this Guarantee and in a manner that such Indemnified Person
reasonably believed to be within the scope of the authority conferred on such
Indemnified Person by this Guarantee or by law, except that an Indemnified
Person shall be liable for any such loss, damage or claim incurred by reason
of such Indemnified Person's negligence or willful misconduct with respect to
such acts or omissions.
(b) An Indemnified Person shall be fully protected in relying in good
faith upon the records of the Guarantor and upon such information, opinions,
reports or statements presented to the Guarantor by any Person as to matter the
Indemnified Person reasonably believes are within such other Person's
professional or expert competence and who has been selected with reasonable care
by or on behalf of the Guarantor, including information, opinions, reports or
statements as to the value and amount of the assets, liabilities, profits,
losses, or any other facts pertinent to the existence and amount of assets from
which Distributions to Holders of Securities might properly be paid.
SECTION 8.2 INDEMNIFICATION.
The Guarantor agrees to indemnify each Indemnified Person for, and to
hold each Indemnified Person harmless against any loss, liability or expense
incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts
hereunder, including the costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees and
expenses) of defending itself against, or investigating, any claim or liability
in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder. The provisions of this Section 8.2 shall survive the termination of
this Guarantee or the resignation or removal of the Guarantee Trustee.
ARTICLE 9
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 9.1 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS.
All guarantees and agreements contained in this Guarantee shall bind
the successors, assigns, receivers, trustees and representatives of the
Guarantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Holders of the Securities then
outstanding.
SECTION 9.2 AMENDMENTS.
Except with respect to any changes that do not materially adversely
affect the rights of the Holders (in which case no consent of the Holders will
be required), this Guarantee may only be amended with the prior approval of the
Holders of at least a Majority in Liquidation Amount of the Securities. The
provisions of Section 12.2 of the Declaration with respect to meetings of, and
action by written consent of, the Holders of the Securities apply to the giving
of such approval.
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SECTION 9.3 NOTICES.
All notices provided for in this Guarantee shall be in writing, duly
signed by the party giving such notice, and shall be delivered, telecopied or
mailed by registered or certified mail, as follows:
(a) If given to the Guarantee Trustee, at the Guarantee Trustee's
mailing address set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantee
Trustee may give notice of to the Guarantor and the Holders of the
Securities):
Wilmington Trust Company
Xxxxxx Square North
0000 X. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000-0000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
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WITH A COPY TO:
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Xxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Finger
Xxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
XX Xxx 000
Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attn: Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx Damon, Esq.
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
(b) If given to the Guarantor, at the Guarantor's mailing addresses
set forth below (or such other address as the Guarantor may give notice of
to the Guarantee Trustee and the Holders of the Securities):
Commerce Security Bancorp, Inc.
0000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
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WITH A COPY TO:
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Xxxxxx, XxXxxxxxx & Fish, LLP
Xxx Xxxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Esquire
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
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(c) If given to any Holder of Securities, at the address set forth on
the books and records of the Trust.
All such notices shall be deemed to have been given when received in
person, telecopied with receipt confirmed, or mailed by first class mail,
postage prepaid, except that if a notice or other document is refused delivery
or cannot be delivered because of a changed address of which no notice was
given, such notice or other document shall be deemed to have been delivered on
the date of such refusal or inability to deliver.
SECTION 9.4 BENEFIT.
This Guarantee is solely for the benefit of the Holders of the
Securities and, subject to Section 3.1(a), is not separately transferable from
the Securities.
SECTION 9.5 GOVERNING LAW.
THIS GUARANTEE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Guarantee is executed as of the day and year
first above written.
COMMERCE SECURITY BANCORP, INC.,
as Guarantor
By:
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: President and Chief Executive Officer
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Guarantee Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
GUARANTE.
