JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE between RAMCO-GERSHENSON PROPERTIES, L.P. and THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee Dated as of November 15, 2007
Exhibit
99.2
between
RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES, L.P.
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Trustee
as Trustee
Dated as of November 15, 2007
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION |
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SECTION 1.1 Definitions |
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SECTION 1.2 Compliance Certificate and Opinions |
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SECTION 1.3 Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee |
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SECTION 1.4 Acts of Holders |
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SECTION 1.5 Notices, Etc |
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SECTION 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver |
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SECTION 1.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents |
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SECTION 1.8 Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 1.9 Separability Clause |
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SECTION 1.10 Benefits of Indenture |
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SECTION 1.11 Governing Law |
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SECTION 1.12 Submission to Jurisdiction |
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SECTION 1.13 Non-Business Days |
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ARTICLE II SECURITY FORMS |
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SECTION 2.1 Form of Security |
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SECTION 2.2 Restricted Legend |
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SECTION 2.3 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication |
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SECTION 2.4 Temporary Securities |
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SECTION 2.5 Definitive Securities |
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ARTICLE III THE SECURITIES |
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SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest |
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SECTION 3.2 Denominations |
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SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating |
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SECTION 3.4 Global Securities |
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SECTION 3.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally |
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SECTION 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities |
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SECTION 3.7 Persons Deemed Owners |
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SECTION 3.8 Cancellation |
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SECTION 3.9 Reserved |
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SECTION 3.10 Reserved |
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SECTION 3.11 Agreed Tax Treatment |
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SECTION 3.12 CUSIP Numbers |
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ARTICLE IV SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE |
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SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture |
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SECTION 4.2 Application of Trust Money |
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ARTICLE V REMEDIES32 |
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SECTION 5.1 Events of Default |
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SECTION 5.2 |
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SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee |
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SECTION 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim |
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SECTION 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities |
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SECTION 5.6 Application of Money Collected |
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SECTION 5.7 Limitation on Suits |
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SECTION 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest |
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SECTION 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies |
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SECTION 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative |
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SECTION 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver |
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SECTION 5.12 Control by Holders |
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SECTION 5.13 Waiver of Past Defaults |
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SECTION 5.14 Undertaking for Costs |
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SECTION 5.15 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws |
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ARTICLE VI THE TRUSTEE |
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SECTION 6.1 Corporate Trustee Required |
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SECTION 6.2 Certain Duties and Responsibilities |
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SECTION 6.3 Notice of Defaults |
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SECTION 6.4 Certain Rights of Trustee |
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SECTION 6.5 May Hold Securities |
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SECTION 6.6 Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnity |
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SECTION 6.7 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor |
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SECTION 6.8 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor |
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SECTION 6.9 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business |
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SECTION 6.10 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities |
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SECTION 6.11 Appointment of Authenticating Agent |
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ARTICLE VII HOLDER’S LISTS AND REPORTS BY COMPANY |
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SECTION 7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders |
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SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders |
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SECTION 7.3 Reports by Company |
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ARTICLE VIII CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE |
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SECTION 8.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms |
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SECTION 8.2 Successor Company Substituted |
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ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES |
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SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders |
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SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders |
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SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures |
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SECTION 9.4 Effect of Supplemental Indentures |
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SECTION 9.5 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures |
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ARTICLE X COVENANTS |
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SECTION 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest |
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SECTION 10.2 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust |
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SECTION 10.3 Statement as to Compliance |
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SECTION 10.4 Calculation Agent |
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SECTION 10.5 Reserved |
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SECTION 10.6 Additional Covenants |
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SECTION 10.7 Waiver of Covenants |
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SECTION 10.8 Treatment of Securities |
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SECTION 10.9 Intentionally Omitted |
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SECTION 10.10 Delivery of Information |
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SECTION 10.11 Inspection of Books and Records |
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ARTICLE XI REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES |
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SECTION 11.1 Optional Redemption and Mandatory Redemption |
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SECTION 11.2 Tax Event Redemption |
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SECTION 11.3 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee |
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SECTION 11.4 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed |
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SECTION 11.5 Notice of Redemption |
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SECTION 11.6 Deposit of Redemption Price |
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SECTION 11.7 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption |
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ARTICLE XII SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES |
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SECTION 12.1 Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt |
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SECTION 12.2 No Payment When Senior Debt in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc |
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SECTION 12.3 Payment Permitted If No Default |
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SECTION 12.4 Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt |
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SECTION 12.5 Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights |
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SECTION 12.6 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination |
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SECTION 12.7 No Waiver of Subordination Provisions |
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SECTION 12.8 Notice to Trustee |
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SECTION 12.9 Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent |
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SECTION 12.10 Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt |
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SECTION 12.11 Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee ‘s Rights |
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SECTION 12.12 Article Applicable to Paying Agents |
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SECTION 12.13 Approval of Holders of Senior Debt to Amendments to Certain Sections |
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JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of November 15, 2007, between RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES,
L.P., a Delaware limited partnership (the “Company”), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association, as Trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee”).
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Indenture to
provide for the issuance of its unsecured junior subordinated notes (the “Securities) and to
provide the terms and conditions upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and
delivered; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of the Company, in
accordance with its terms, have been done.
Now, THEREFORE, this Indenture Witnesseth:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all
Holders of the Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.1 Definitions
For all purposes of this Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the
context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article I have the meanings assigned to them in this Article
I;
(b) the words “include”, “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation”;
(c) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in
accordance with GAAP;
(d) unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to an “Article” or a “Section” refers
to an Article or a Section, as the case may be, of this indenture;
(e) the words “hereby”, “herein”, “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import
refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision;
(f) a reference to the singular includes the plural and vice versa; and
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(g) the masculine, feminine or neuter genders used herein shall include the masculine,
feminine and neuter genders.
“Act” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
“Additional Interest” means the interest, if any, that shall accrue on any amounts payable on
the Securities, the payment of which has not been made on the applicable Interest Payment Date and
which shall accrue at the rate per annum specified or determined as specified in such Security, in
each case to the extent legally enforceable.
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the
purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person, means the
power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and
“controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Applicable Depositary Procedures” means, with respect to any transfer or transaction
involving a Global Security or beneficial interest therein, the rules and procedures of the
Depositary for such Security, in each case to the extent applicable to such transaction and as in
effect from time to time.
“Authenticating Agent” means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant to Section
6.11 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the Securities.
“Board of Trustees” means the board of trustees of Parent or any duly authorized committee of
that board.
“Board Resolution” means a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of Parent to have been duly adopted by the Board of Trustees and to be in full force and
effect on the date of such certification.
“Business Day” means any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking
institutions in the City of New York are authorized or required by law or executive order to remain
closed or (iii) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee is closed for business.
“Calculation Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 10.4.
“Change of Control” means (i) any person (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of
the Exchange Act), including a “group” as defined in Section 1 3(d)(3) of the Exchange Act (but
excluding a director or other fiduciary holding securities under an employee benefit plan of
Parent), becoming the beneficial owner of Equity Interests of Parent having at least fifty percent
(50%) of the total number of votes that may be cast for the election of directors or trustees, as
the case may be, of Parent; (ii) the merger or other business combination of Parent, sale of all or
substantially all of Parent’s assets or combination of the foregoing transactions (a
“Transaction”), other than a Transaction immediately following which the shareholders of Parent
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immediately prior to the Transaction continue to have a majority of the voting power in the
resulting entity (excluding for this purpose any shareholder owning directly or indirectly
more than ten percent (10%) of the shares of the other company involved in the Transaction); or
(iii) the persons who were trustees of Parent on the date hereof (the “Incumbent Trustees”) shall
cease to constitute at least a majority of the Board or a majority of the board of directors or
trustees of any successor to Parent; provided, that, any trustee who was not a trustee as of the
date hereof shall be deemed to be an Incumbent Trustee if such trustee was elected to the Board by,
or on the recommendation of or with the approval of, at least two-thirds of the trustees who then
qualified as incumbent Trustees either actually or by prior operation of this provision, unless
such election, recommendation or approval was the result of an actual or threatened election
contest of the type contemplated by Regulation 14a-I I promulgated under the Exchange Act or any
successor provision.
“Change of Control Election” has the meaning specified in Section 10.6(d).
“Change of Control Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 10.6(d).
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Commission” has the meaning specified in Section 7.3(c).
“Company” means the Person named as the “Company “ in the first paragraph of this Indenture
until a successor Person shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this
Indenture, and thereafter “Company “ shall mean such successor Person.
“Company Request” and “Company Order” mean, respectively, the written request or order signed
in the name of the Company by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Vice Chairman of the Board of
Trustees, Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President of Parent, as general partner of
the Company, and by the Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of Parent, as general partner of the Company, and delivered to the
Trustee. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a Company Order for the purposes of authentication and
delivery of the Securities pursuant to Section 3.3(a) shall require the signature of only one of
the above referenced officers of Parent, as general partner of the Company.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal office of the Trustee at which at any particular
time its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date of this Indenture
is located at 000 Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 00000 Attn: Global Corporate Trust —
Ramco-Xxxxxxxxxx Properties, L.P. Initially, all notices and correspondence shall be addressed to
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, telephone number (000) 000-0000.
“Debt” means, with respect to any Person, whether recourse is to all or a portion of the
assets of such Person, whether currently existing or hereafter incurred and whether or not
contingent and without duplication, (i) every obligation of such Person for money borrowed; (ii)
every obligation of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments,
including obligations incurred in connection with the acquisition of property, assets or
businesses; (iii) every reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to letters of
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credit,
bankers’ acceptances or similar facilities issued for the account of such Person; (iv) every
obligation of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or
services (but excluding trade accounts payable or other accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary
course of business); (v) every capital lease obligation of such Person; (vi) all indebtedness of
such Person, whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred, for
claims in respect of derivative products, including interest rate, foreign exchange rate and
commodity forward contracts, options and swaps and similar arrangements; (vii) every obligation of
the type referred to in clauses (i) through (vi) of another Person and all dividends of another
Person the payment of which, in either case, such Person has guaranteed or is responsible or liable
for, directly or indirectly, as obligor or otherwise; and (viii) any renewals, extensions,
refundings, amendments or modifications of any obligation of the type referred to in clauses (i)
through (vii).
“Defaulted Interest” has the meaning specified in Section 3.1(c).
“Depositary” means an organization registered as a clearing agency under the Exchange Act that
is designated as Depositary by the Company or any successor thereto. DTC will be the initial
Depositary.
“Depositary Participant” means a broker, dealer, bank, other financial institution or other
Person for whom from time to time a Depositary effects book-entry transfers and pledges of
securities deposited with the Depositary.
“Dollar” or “$” means the currency of the United States of America that, as at the time of
payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
“DTC” means The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation, or any successor thereto.
“XXXXX” has the meaning specified in Section 7.3(c).
“Electing Securities” means the Outstanding Securities corresponding to the Securities held by
a holder of Securities making a Change of Control Election.
“Equity Interests” means (a) the partnership interests (general or limited) in a partnership,
(b) the membership interests in a limited liability company and (c) the shares or stock interests
(both common stock and preferred stock) in a corporation.
“Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or any statute successor thereto, in
each case as amended from time to time.
“Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.4(h).
“Fixed Rate Period” shall have the meaning in the form of Security set forth in Section
2.1.
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“GAAP” means United States generally accepted accounting principles, consistently applied,
from time to time in effect.
“Global Security” means a Security that evidences all or part of the Securities, the ownership
and transfers of which shall be made through book entries by a Depositary.
“Government Obligation” means (a) any security that is (i) a direct obligation of the United
States of America of which the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged or
(ii) an obligation of a Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America or the payment of which is unconditionally
guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either
case (i) or (ii), is not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and (b) any
depositary receipt issued by a bank (as defined in Section 3(a)(2) of the Securities Act) as
custodian with respect to any Government Obligation that is specified in clause (a) above and held
by such bank for the account of the holder of such depositary receipt, or with respect to any
specific payment of principal of or interest on any Government Obligation that is so specified and
held, 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 Obligation or the specific payment of principal or
interest evidenced by such depositary receipt.
“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the Securities Register.
“Indenture” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be
amended or supplemented by one or more amendments or indentures supplemental hereto entered into
pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
“Interest Payment Date” means January 30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each year,
commencing on January 30, 2008, during the term of this Indenture.
“Investment Company Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940 or any successor statute
thereto, in each case as amended from time to time.
“KeyBank” shall mean KeyBank National Association.
“LIBOR” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“LIBOR Business Day” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“LIBOR Determination Date” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“Mandatory Redemption Price” has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(b).
“Maturity” means, when used with respect to any Security, the date on which the principal of
such Security or any installment of principal becomes due and payable as therein or herein
provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or
otherwise.
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“Notice of Default” means a written notice of the kind specified in Section 5.1(c).
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, a Vice
Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President or a Vice President of Parent, as
general partner of the Company, and by the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of Parent, as general partner of the Company
and delivered to the Trustee.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion of counsel, who may be counsel for or an employee
of the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
“Optional Redemption Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.1.
“Original Issue Date” means the date of original issuance of each Security.
“Outstanding” means, when used in reference to any Securities, as of the date of
determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the necessary amount has been
theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such
Securities; provided, that, if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption
has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the
Trustee has been made; and
(iii) Securities that have been paid or in substitution for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented that any such Securities
are held by Holders in whose hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal obligations
of the Company;
provided, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver
hereunder, Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any
Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding unless the Company shall hold all Outstanding Securities, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities that a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that have been pledged
in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other
obligor.
“Parent” shall mean Ramco-Xxxxxxxxxx Properties Trust, a Maryland real estate investment
trust.
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“Paying Agent” means the Trustee or any Person (other than the Company or any Affiliate of the
Company) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or any premium or interest on, or other
amounts in respect of, any Securities on behalf of the Company.
“Person” means a legal person, including any individual, corporation, estate, partnership,
joint venture, association, joint stock company, company, limited liability company, trust,
unincorporated association, or government, or any agency or political subdivision thereof, or any
other entity of whatever nature.
“Place of Payment” means, with respect to the Securities, the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee.
“Predecessor Security” of any particular Security means every previous Security evidencing all
or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such particular Security. For the purposes of
this definition, any security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in lieu of a mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
“Proceeding” has the meaning specified in Section 12.2(b).
“Purchase Agreement” means the Purchase Agreement or Purchase Agreements (whether one or more)
executed and delivered contemporaneously with this Indenture by the Company and the purchaser(s)
named therein, as the same may be amended from time to time.
“Redemption Date” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, the date fixed
for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Redemption Price” means, when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed, in whole or
in part, the Special Redemption Price or the Optional Redemption Price, as applicable, at which
such Security or portion thereof is to be redeemed as fixed by or pursuant to this Indenture.
“Reference Banks” has the meaning specified in Schedule A.
“Regular Record Date” for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date with respect to
the Securities means the date that is fifteen (15) days preceding such Interest Payment Date
(whether or not a Business Day).
“Rights Plan” means a plan of Parent providing for the issuance by Parent to all holders of
its Equity Interests of rights entitling the holders thereof to subscribe for or purchase Equity
Interests or any class or series of Equity Interests in Parent which rights (i) are deemed to be
transferred with such Equity Interests and (ii) are also issued in respect of future issuances of
such Equity Interests, in each case until the occurrence of a specified event or events.
“Securities” or “Security” means any debt securities or debt security, as the ease may be,
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
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“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933 or any successor statute thereto, in each
case as amended from time to time.
“Securities Register” and “Securities Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in
Section 3.5.
“Senior Debt” means the principal of and any premium and interest on (including interest
accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the
Company, whether or not such claim for post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding) all
Debt of the Company, and without limiting the foregoing, all “Obligations” as defined in that
certain Unsecured Master Loan Agreement, dated as of December 13, 2005, among the Company, Parent,
KeyBank, individually and as Agent, and the other parties thereto, as the same may be modified,
amended, restated, consolidated, increased, extended, renewed or refunded from time to time,
whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred, unless it is
provided in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to which the same is
outstanding, that such obligations are not superior in right of payment to the Securities issued
under this Indenture; provided, that Senior Debt shall not be deemed to include any (i) debt or
(ii) other debt securities (and guarantees, if any, in respect of such debt securities) issued to
any trust (or a trustee of any such trust), partnership or other entity affiliated with the Company
that is a financing vehicle of the Company (a “financing entity”) in connection with the issuance
by such financing entity of equity securities or other securities, in each case of (i) or (ii)
pursuant to an instrument that ranks pari passu with or junior in right of payment to this
Indenture.
“Special Record Date” for the payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date fixed by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 3.1(c)(i).
“Special Redemption Price” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.2.
“Stated Maturity” means January 30, 2038.
“Subsidiary” of a Person means (a) any corporation more than 50% of the outstanding securities
having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by such Person and/or by one or more of its Subsidiaries or (b) any partnership,
limited liability company, association, joint venture or similar business organization more than
50% of the ownership interests having ordinary voting power of which shall at the time be owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person and/or by one or more of its Subsidiaries.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” shall mean a
Subsidiary of the Company.
“Taberna” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.3(b).
“Tax Event” means the receipt by the Company of an Opinion of Counsel experienced in such
matters to the effect that, as a result of (a) any amendment to or change (including any announced
prospective change) in the laws or any regulations thereunder of the United States or any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein or (b) any judicial decision or any official
administrative pronouncement (including any private letter ruling, technical advice
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memorandum or field service advice) or regulatory procedure, including any notice or
announcement of intent to adopt any such pronouncement or procedure (an “Administrative Action”),
regardless of whether such judicial decision or Administrative Action is issued to or in connection
with a proceeding involving the Company and whether or not subject to review or appeal, which
amendment, change, judicial decision or Administrative Action is enacted, promulgated or announced,
in each case, on or after the date of issuance of the Securities, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Securities is not, or within ninety
(90) days of the date of such opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part,
for United States federal income tax purposes.
“Trustee” means the Person named as the “Trustee “ in the first paragraph of this instrument,
solely in its capacity as such and not in its individual capacity, until a successor Trustee shall
have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and, thereafter, “Trustee
” shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder.
“Trust Indenture Act” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended and as in effect on
the date as of this Indenture.
SECTION 1.2 Compliance Certificate and Opinions.
(a) Upon any application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under any
provision of this Indenture, the Company shall, if requested by the Trustee, furnish to the Trustee
an Officers’ Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with
which constitutes a condition precedent), if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that in the opinion of
such counsel all such conditions precedent (including covenants compliance with which constitutes a
condition precedent), if any, have been complied with.
(b) Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this indenture (other than the certificate provided pursuant to Section 10.3)
shall include:
(i) a statement by each individual signing such certificate or opinion that such
individual has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(ii) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation
upon which the statements or opinions of such individual contained in such certificate or
opinion are based;
(iii) a statement that, in the opinion of such individual, 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
(iv) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of such individual, such condition or
covenant has been complied with.
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SECTION 1.3 Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee.
(a) In any case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by, or
covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only
one document, but one such Person may certify or give an opinion with respect to some matters and
one or more other such Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an
opinion as to such matters in one or several documents.
(b) Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company may be based, insofar as it
relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless
such officer knows, or after reasonable inquiry should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to matters upon which his or her certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of
the general partner of the Company stating that the information with respect to such factual
matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such counsel knows, or after reasonable inquiry
should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are
erroneous.
(c) Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests,
consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
(d) Whenever, subsequent to the receipt by the Trustee of any Board Resolution, Officers’
Certificate, Opinion of Counsel or other document or instrument, a clerical, typographical or other
inadvertent or unintentional error or omission shall be discovered therein, a new document or
instrument may be substituted therefor in corrected form with the same force and effect as if
originally received in the corrected form and, irrespective of the date or dates of the actual
execution and/or delivery thereof, such substitute document or instrument shall be deemed to have
been executed and/or delivered as of the date or dates required with respect to the document or
instrument for which it is substituted. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, any
Securities issued under the authority of such defective document or instrument shall nevertheless
be the valid obligations of the Company entitled to the benefits of this Indenture equally and
ratably with all other Outstanding Securities.
SECTION 1.4 Acts of Holders.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action
provided by this Indenture to be given to 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 thereof duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments (including any appointment of an
agent) is or are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are
herein sometimes referred to as the “Act” of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments.
Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
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appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and conclusive
in favor of the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section
1.4.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be
proved by the affidavit of a witness of such execution or by 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 or her the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a Person acting in other than his or her individual capacity, such certificate or
affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his or her authority. The fact and date of the
execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing
the same, may also be proved in any other manner that the Trustee deems sufficient and in
accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Securities Register.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action by
the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of
every Security issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu
thereof in respect of anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee or the Company in
reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
(e) Without limiting the foregoing, a Holder entitled to take any action hereunder with regard
to any particular Security may do so with regard to all or any part of the principal amount of such
Security or by one or more duly appointed agents each of which may do so pursuant to such
appointment with regard to all or any part of such principal amount.
(f) Except as set forth in paragraph (g) of this Section 1.4, the Company may set any
day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled
to give, make or take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided or permitted by this Indenture to be given, made or taken by Holders of
Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding
Securities on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant
action, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided, that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date (as
defined in Section 1.4(h)) by Holders of the requisite principal amount of Outstanding
Securities on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Company
from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall automatically and with
no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect). 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 Trustee
in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
(g) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the purpose of determining the Holders of
Outstanding Securities entitled to join in the giving or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii)
any declaration of acceleration or rescission or annulment thereof referred to in Section
5.2, (iii) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.7(b) or (iv)
any
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direction referred to in Section 5.12. If any record date is set pursuant to this
paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities 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 taken on or prior to the applicable Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities on such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to prevent the Trustee from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date has
previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be canceled and of no effect). Promptly after any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the 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 in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6.
(h) With respect to any record date set pursuant to paragraph (f) or (g) of this Section
1.4, 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 Securities in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date. If an Expiration Date is not
designated with respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section 1.4, the party
hereto that set such record date shall be deemed to have initially designated the ninetieth (90th)
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 paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no
Expiration Date shall be later than the one hundred eightieth (180th) day after the applicable
record date.
SECTION 1.5 Notices, Etc.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver, Act of Holders, or
other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or
filed with:
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
if made, given, furnished or filed in writing to or with and received by the Trustee at its
Corporate Trust Office, or
(b) the Company by the Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder
if in writing and mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at 00000
Xxxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000, Attn: Chief Financial Officer, or at
any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company, with a copy to
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx & Xxxx LLP, 00000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 000, Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: Xxxx Xxxxxxx, Esq., Facsimile: (000) 000-0000.
(c) KeyBank by the Trustee or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if in
writing and mailed, certified mail, return receipt requested, first class, postage prepaid, to
KeyBank addressed to it at c/o Key Corp Capital — Institutional Real Estate, 0000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx,
Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Xx. Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xx. Relationship
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Manager, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by KeyBank,
with a copy to XxXxxxx Long & Xxxxxxxx, 000 Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx, Esq., or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the
Trustee.
SECTION 1.6 Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first
class, postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event to the address of such Holder as it
appears in the Securities Register, not later than the latest date (if any), and not earlier than
the earliest date (if any), prescribed for the giving of such notice. If, by reason of the
suspension of or irregularities in regular mail service or for any other reason, it shall be
impossible or impracticable to mail notice of any event to Holders when said notice is required to
be given pursuant to any provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such notice. In
any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any
defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders. 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 Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the
validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
SECTION 1.7 Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.
The Article and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction of this Indenture.
SECTION 1.8 Successors and Assigns.
This Indenture shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of any successor to the
Company and the Trustee, including any successor by operation of law. Except in connection with a
transaction involving the Company that is permitted under Article VIII and pursuant to which the
assignee agrees in writing to perform the Company’s obligations hereunder, the Company shall not
assign its obligations hereunder.
SECTION 1.9 Separability Clause.
If any provision in this Indenture or in the Securities 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, and there shall be deemed substituted for the provision at
issue a valid, legal and enforceable provision as similar as possible to the provision at issue.
SECTION 1.10 Benefits of Indenture.
Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person,
other than the parties hereto and their successors and assigns, the holders of Senior Debt
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and the Holders of the Securities any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim
under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.11 Governing Law.
This Indenture and the rights and obligations of each of the Holders, the Company and the
Trustee shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of
New York without reference to its conflict of laws provisions (other than section 5-1401 of the
General Obligations Law).
SECTION 1.12 Submission to Jurisdiction.
ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING BY OR AGAINST ANY PARTY HERETO OR WITH RESPECT TO OR ARISING
OUT OF THIS INDENTURE MAY BE BROUGHT IN OR REMOVED TO THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, IN AND
FOR THE COUNTY OF NEW YORK, OR OF THE ‘UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW
YORK (IN EACH CASE SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN). BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS
INDENTURE, EACH PARTY ACCEPTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS (AND COURTS OF APPEALS THEREFROM) FOR
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS INDENTURE.
SECTION 1.13 Non-Business Days.
If any Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be
a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Securities)
payment of interest, premium, if any, or principal or other amounts in respect of such Security
shall not be made on such date, but shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no
interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed for the period from and
after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, until
such next succeeding Business Day) except that, if such Business Day falls in the next succeeding
calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case
with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at the
Stated Maturity.
ARTICLE II
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.1 Form of Security.
Any Security issued hereunder shall be in substantially the following form:
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CUSIP NO.
92549Y AA8
92549Y AA8
Ramco-Xxxxxxxxxx Properties, L.P.
Junior Subordinated Note due 2038
No. | $28,125,000 |
Ramco-Xxxxxxxxxx Properties, L.P., a limited partnership organized and existing under the laws
of Delaware (hereinafter called the “Company,” which term includes any successor Person under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to Cede & Co., or
registered assigns, the principal sum of Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand
Dollars ($28,125,000) or such other principal amount represented hereby as may be set forth in the
records of the Securities Registrar hereinafter referred to in accordance with the Indenture on
January 30, 2038. The Company further promises to pay interest on said principal sum from November
15, 2007, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for, quarterly in arrears on January 30, April 30, July 30 and October 30 of each year,
commencing January 30, 2008, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next succeeding
Business Day (and no interest shall accrue in respect of the amounts whose payment is so delayed
for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date until such next succeeding Business Day),
except that, if such Business Day falls in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be
made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case, with the same force and effect as if
made on the Interest Payment Date, at a fixed rate equal to 7.87% per annum through the interest
payment date in January 2013 (“Fixed Rate Period") and thereafter at a variable rate equal to LIBOR
plus 3.30% per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for or made available for
payment; provided, further, that any overdue principal or premium, if any, and any overdue
installment of interest shall bear Additional Interest at a fixed rate equal to 7.87% per annum
during the Fixed Rate Period and thereafter at a variable rate equal to LIBOR plus 3.30% per annum
(to the extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), compounded
quarterly, from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or made available for payment,
and such interest shall be payable on demand.
During the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of interest payable shall be computed on the basis of
a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the amount payable for any partial period shall be
computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Upon
expiration of the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of interest payable for any interest payment period
will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days elapsed in the
relevant interest period. The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date shall, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the
Regular Record Date for such interest installment. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly
provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular Record Date and may
either be paid to the Person in whose name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for
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the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be
given to Holders of Securities not less than ten (10) days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required
by such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.
During an Event of Default, (i) neither Parent nor the Company shall declare or pay any
dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with
respect to, any of Parent’s or the Company’s Equity Interests, (ii) Parent shall not vote in favor
of or permit or otherwise allow the Company to declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or
redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to or otherwise retire, any
shares of the Company’s Equity Interests entitling the holders thereof to a stated rate of return
(for the avoidance of doubt, whether such Equity Interests are perpetual or otherwise), or (iii)
neither Parent nor the Company shall make any payment of principal of or any interest or premium,
if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank pari passu
in all respects with or junior in interest to this Security.
Payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on this Security shall be made 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. Payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest due at the
Maturity of this Security shall be made at the Place of Payment upon surrender of such Securities
to the Paying Agent, and payments of interest shall be made, subject to such surrender where
applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a banking institution in the
United States as may be designated in writing to the Paying Agent at least ten (10) Business Days
prior to the date for payment by the Person entitled thereto unless proper written transfer
instructions have not been received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall
be made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear in the Security
Register.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent provided in the Indenture,
subordinate and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and
this Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect thereto. Each
Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and shall be bound by such
provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his or her behalf to take such actions as may
be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination so provided and (c) appoints the
Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his or
her acceptance hereof, waives all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions
contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or
hereafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Trustee by manual
signature, this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose.
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]
This Security is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (the
“Securities") issued under the Junior Subordinated Indenture, dated as of November 15, 2007 (the
“Indenture”), between the Company and The Bank of New York Trust Company, National Association, as
Trustee (in such capacity, the “Trustee,” which term includes any successor trustee under the
Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for
a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Company, the Trustee, the holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities and of the
terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered.
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the Indenture shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture.
The Company may, on any Interest Payment Date, at its option, upon not less than thirty (30)
days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice to the Holders of the Securities (unless a
shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee) on or after January 30, 2013 and
subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of the Indenture, redeem this Security in whole
at any time or in part from time to time at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%)
of the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued
interest, including any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption
Date.
In addition, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tax Event, the Company may,
at its option, upon not less than thirty (30) days’ nor more than sixty (60) days’ written notice
to the Holders of the Securities (unless a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), redeem this Security, in whole but not in part, subject to the terms and conditions of
Article XI of the Indenture at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred seven and one half
percent (107.5%) of the principal amount hereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with
accrued interest, including any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the
Redemption Date.
Further, the Company shall, upon receipt of a Change of Control Election, redeem the
Securities in whole on a date no more than thirty (30) days after receipt of the Change of Control
Election, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount
thereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued and unpaid interest, including
any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a new Security or Securities for the
unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation
hereof. If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than sixty (60) days prior to the Redemption Date by the
Trustee from the Outstanding Securities not previously called for redemption, by such method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of a
portion of the principal amount of any Security.
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The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the Company and the
Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental indenture or indentures for the purpose of
modifying in any manner the rights and obligations of the Company and of the Holders of the
Securities, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting Holders of specified
percentages in principal amount of the Securities, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities, to
waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain past defaults
under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this
Security and of any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor
or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Security or of the Indenture
shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay
the principal of and any premium, if any, and interest, including any Additional Interest (to the
extent legally enforceable), on this Security at the times, place and rate, and in the coin or
currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth, the
transfer of this Security is restricted to transfers to (i) the Company, (ii) to a person whom the
seller reasonably believes is a “Qualified Institutional Buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act"), (iii) outside the United States in an
offshore transaction in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act, (iv) pursuant to an
effective registration statement under the Securities Act or (v) pursuant to another exemption from
registration under the Securities Act, in each case to a “Qualified Purchaser” {as such term is
defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended), and is registrable in the Securities
Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency of
the Company maintained for such purpose, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar and duly executed by,
the Holder hereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more
new Securities, of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons in minimum denominations
of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof. As provided in the Indenture and
subject to certain limitations therein set forth, Securities are exchangeable for a like aggregate
principal amount of Securities and of like tenor of a different authorized denomination, as
requested by the Holder surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge
payable in connection therewith.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name this Security is registered as the owner hereof for all purposes, whether or
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not this Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
The Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a beneficial interest herein, the
Holder of, and any Person that acquires a beneficial interest in, this Security agree that, for
United States federal, state and local tax purposes, it is intended that this Security constitute
indebtedness.
This Security shall be construed and enforced in accordance with and governed by the laws of
the State of New York, without reference to its conflict of laws provisions (other than section
5-1401 of the General Obligations Law).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed on this day of
, 20_.
RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES, L.P. |
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By: | ||||
Name: | ||||
Title: | ||||
SECTION 2.2 Restricted Legend.
(a) Any Security issued hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER
REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY (“DTC”) OR
A NOMINEE OF DTC. THIS SECURITY IS EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN DTC OR ITS NOMINEE ONLY IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES
DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER
OF THIS SECURITY AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO A NOMINEE OF DTC OR BY A NOMINEE OF DTC TO DTC
OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF DTC) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES.
UNLESS THIS SECURITY IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC TO THE
ISSUER OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY
SECURITY ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS
REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO
CEDE & CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
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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.
THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE WERE ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A
TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED
(THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND SUCH SECURITIES, AND ANY INTEREST THEREIN, MAY NOT BE
OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN
APPLICABLE EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF ANY SECURITIES IS HEREBY NOTIFIED
THAT THE SELLER OF THE SECURITIES MAY BE RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE
PROVISIONS OF SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT.
THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AGREES FOR THE BENEFIT
OF THE COMPANY THAT (A) SUCH SECURITIES MAY BE OFFERED, RESOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED ONLY (I) TO THE COMPANY, (II) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A “QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER” (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A OF THE
SECURITIES ACT), (III) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN
ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (IV) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, OR (V) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER
EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, IN EACH CASE TO A “QUALIFIED
PURCHASER” (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2(a)(5)) OF THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940, AS
AMENDED), AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF ANY SECURITIES FROM IT OF
THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS REFERRED TO IN (A) ABOVE.
THE SECURITIES WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN BLOCKS HAVING AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOT LESS THAN $100,000. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF SECURITIES, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, IN
A BLOCK HAVING AN AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF LESS THAN $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF
$1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT
WHATSOEVER. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, ANY SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE
SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF SUCH SECURITIES FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT OF PRINCIPAL OF OR INTEREST ON SUCH SECURITIES, OR
ANY INTEREST THEREIN, AND SUCH
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PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN SUCH
SECURITIES.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY, OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR
THEREOF ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I
OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED (“ERISA”), OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE “CODE”) (EACH A
“PLAN”), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE “PLAN ASSETS” BY REASON OF ANY
PLAN’S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY, AND NO PERSON INVESTING “PLAN ASSETS” OF ANY PLAN
MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER
OF THE SECURITIES OR ANY INTEREST THEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING THEREOF THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE
MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS
APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN
OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN
OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE.”
(b) The above legends shall not be removed from any Security unless there is delivered to the
Company satisfactory evidence, which may include an Opinion of Counsel, as may be reasonably
required to ensure that any future transfers thereof may be made without restriction under or
violation of the provisions of the Securities Act and other applicable law. Upon provision of such
satisfactory evidence, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Trustee, and the Trustee shall
deliver, upon receipt of a Company Order directing it to do so, a Security that does not bear the
legend.
SECTION 2.3 Form of Trustee’s Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
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SECTION 2.4 Temporary Securities.
(a) Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute, and upon
Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities that are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any denomination, substantially
of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are issued and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the officers executing
such Securities may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
(b) If temporary Securities are issued, the Company will cause definitive Securities to be
prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary
Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon surrender of the temporary
Securities at the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor one or more definitive
Securities of any authorized denominations having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity
and having the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary
Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
definitive Securities.
SECTION 2.5 Definitive Securities.
The Securities issued on the Original Issue Date shall be in definitive form. The definitive
Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved, or produced by any combination of these
methods, if required by any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel
engraved border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner permitted by the
rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, all as determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest
(a) The unpaid principal amount of the Securities shall bear interest at a fixed rate equal to
7.87% per annum through the interest payment date in January 2013 and thereafter at a variable rate
of LIBOR plus 3.30% per annum until paid or duly provided for, such interest to accrue from the
Original Issue Date or from the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid
or duly provided for, and any overdue principal, premium, if any, and any overdue installment of
interest shall bear Additional Interest at the rate equal to a fixed rate equal to 7.87% per annum
through the interest payment date in January 2013 and thereafter at a variable rate of LIBOR plus
3.30% per annum compounded quarterly from the dates such amounts are due until they are paid or
funds for the payment thereof are made available for payment.
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(b) Interest and Additional Interest on any Security that is payable, and is punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that
Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the
Regular Record Date for such interest, except that interest and any Additional Interest payable on
the Stated Maturity (or any date of principal repayment upon early maturity) of the principal of a
Security or on a Redemption Date shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid. The initial
payment of interest on any Security that is issued between a Regular Record Date and the related
Interest Payment Date shall be payable as provided in such Security.
(c) Any interest on any Security that is due and payable, but is not timely paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities (herein called “Defaulted Interest")
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by
virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its
election in each case, as provided in paragraph (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to the Persons in
whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at
the close of business on a special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest (a
“Special Record Date"), which shall be fixed in the following manner. At least thirty (30)
days prior to the date of the proposed payment, the Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Security and the
date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of
such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the 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. Thereupon the
Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which
shall be not more than fifteen (15) days and not less than ten (10) days prior to the date
of the proposed payment and not less than ten (10) days after the receipt by the Trustee of
the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to
be mailed, first class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a Security at the address of such
Holder as it appears in the Securities Register not less than ten (10) days prior to such
Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the
Special Record Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to
the Persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered on such Special Record Date; or
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any other lawful manner
not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange or automated quotation
system on which the Securities may be listed, traded or quoted and, upon such notice as may
be required by such exchange or automated quotation system (or by the Trustee if the
Securities are not listed), if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the
proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
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(d) Payments of interest on the Securities shall include interest accrued to but excluding the
respective Interest Payment Dates. During the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of interest payable
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and the amount payable for
any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year
of twelve 30-day months. Upon expiration of the Fixed Rate Period, the amount of interest payable
for any interest payment period will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual
number of days elapsed in the relevant interest period.
(e) Payment of principal of premium, if any, and interest on the Securities shall be made 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. Payments of principal, premium, if any, and interest due at
the Maturity of such Securities shall be made at the Place of Payment upon surrender of such
Securities to the Paying Agent and payments of interest shall be made subject to such surrender
where applicable, by wire transfer at such place and to such account at a banking institution in
the United States as may be designated in writing to the Paying Agent at least ten (10) Business
Days prior to the date for payment by the Person entitled thereto unless proper written transfer
instructions have not been received by the relevant record date, in which case such payments shall
be made by check mailed to the address of such Person as such address shall appear in the Security
Register.
(f) The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the holders of the Securities have certain
rights to direct the Company to modify the Interest Payment Dates and corresponding Redemption Date
and Stated Maturity of the Securities or a portion of the Securities pursuant to the Purchase
Agreement, which right shall be exercisable by such holders no more than two times during the
period in which any of the Securities are outstanding.. In the event any such modifications are
made to the Securities or a portion of the Securities, appropriate changes to the form of Security
set forth in Article II hereof shall be made prior to the issuance and authentication of
new or replacement Securities. Any such modification of the Interest Payment Date and corresponding
Redemption Date and Stated Maturity with respect to any Securities or tranche of Securities shall
not require or be subject to the consent of the Trustee. No such modification of the Redemption
Date or Stated Maturity of the Securities shall result in a Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of
the Securities that is earlier than January 30, 2013.
(g) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.1, each Security delivered
under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall
carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other
Security.
SECTION 3.2 Denominations.
The Securities shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable in minimum
denominations of $100,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess thereof.
SECTION 3.3 Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
(a) At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Securities in an aggregate principal amount (including all
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then Outstanding Securities) not in excess of Twenty-Eight Million One Hundred Twenty-Five
Thousand Dollars ($28,125,000) executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together
with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the Trustee in
accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such Securities. In authenticating
such Securities, and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to
such Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying
upon:
(i) a copy of any Board Resolution relating thereto; and
(ii) an Opinion of Counsel stating that: (1) such Securities, when authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute, and the Indenture
constitutes, valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, each enforceable in
accordance with its terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer,
reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general applicability relating to or
affecting creditors’ rights and to general equity principles; (2) the Securities have been
duly authorized and executed by the Company and have been delivered to the Trustee for
authentication in accordance with this Indenture; (3) the Securities are not required to be
registered under the Securities Act; and (4) the Indenture is not required to be qualified
under the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by the Chairman of the Board,
Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, President or one of the Vice Presidents of
Parent, as general partner of the Company. The signature of any of these officers on the Securities
may be manual or facsimile. Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of Parent shall bind Parent, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and
delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
(c) No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be valid or
obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on such Security a certificate of authentication
substantially in the form provided for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of
one of its authorized signatories, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the Company shall deliver such
Security to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in Section 3.8, for all purposes of this
Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder
and shall never be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
(d) Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
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SECTION 3.4 Global Securities.
(a) Upon the election of the Holder after the Original Issue Date, which election need not be
in writing, the Securities owned by such Holder shall be issued in the form of one or more Global
Securities registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee. Each Global Security issued
under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated by the Company
for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof
or custodian therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all
purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no Global Security may be exchanged
in whole or in part for registered Securities, and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in
part may be registered in the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security
or a nominee thereof, unless (i) such Depositary advises the Trustee and the Company in writing
that such Depositary is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its responsibilities as
Depositary with respect to such Global Security, and no qualified successor is appointed by the
Company within ninety (90) days of receipt by the Company of such notice, (ii) such Depositary
ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act and no successor is appointed by
the Company within ninety (90) days after obtaining knowledge of such event, (iii) the Company
executes and delivers to the Trustee a Company Order stating that the Company elects to terminate
the book-entry system through the Depositary or (iv) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in clause (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv) above,
the Trustee shall notify the Depositary and instruct the Depositary to notify all owners of
beneficial interests in such Global Security of the occurrence of such event and of the
availability of Securities to such owners of beneficial interests requesting the same. The Trustee
may conclusively rely, and be protected in relying, upon the written identification of the owners
of beneficial interests furnished by the Depositary, and shall not be liable for any delay
resulting from a delay by the Depositary. Upon the issuance of such Securities and the registration
in the Securities Register of such Securities in the names of the Holders of the beneficial
interests therein, the Trustees shall recognize such holders of beneficial interests as Holders.
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities or canceled in part, or if
another Security is to be exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global
Security, then either (i) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or cancellation
as provided in this Article III or (ii) the principal amount thereof shall be reduced or
increased by an amount equal to (x) the portion thereof to be so exchanged or canceled, or (y) the
principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial interest therein, as
the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made on the records of the Securities
Registrar, whereupon the Trustee, in accordance with the Applicable Depositary Procedures, shall
instruct the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its
records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security by the Depositary, accompanied
by registration instructions, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver any Securities issuable in exchange for such Global Security (or any portion thereof) in
accordance with the instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be liable for any delay
in delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully protected in
relying on, such instructions.
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(d) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in
exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion thereof shall be authenticated and
delivered in the form of, and shall be, a Global Security, unless such Security is registered in
the name of a Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof.
(e) Reserved.
(f) The Depositary or its nominee, as the registered owner of a Global Security, shall be the
Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under this Indenture and the Securities, and owners
of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable
Depositary Procedures. Accordingly, any such owner’s beneficial interest in a Global Security shall
be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through, records
maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Depositary Participants. The Securities
Registrar and the Trustee shall be entitled to deal with the Depositary for all purposes of this
Indenture relating to a Global Security (including the payment of principal and interest thereon
and the giving of instructions or directions by owners of beneficial interests therein and the
giving of notices) as the sole Holder of the Security and shall have no obligations to the owners
of beneficial interests therein. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall have any
liability in respect of any transfers effected by the Depositary.
(g) The rights of owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security shall be exercised only
through the Depositary and shall be limited to those established by law and agreements between such
owners and the Depositary and/or its Depositary Participants.
(h) No holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its behalf by a
Depositary shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Security, and
such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee as the owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None of the Company, the
Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee will have any responsibility or liability for
any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership interests
of a Global Security or maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such
beneficial ownership interests. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written
certification, proxy or other authorization furnished by a Depositary or impair, as between a
Depositary and such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary practices governing
the exercise of the rights of the Depositary (or its nominee) as Holder of any Security.
SECTION 3.5 Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally.
(a) The Trustee shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
“Securities Register”) in which the registrar and transfer agent with respect to the Securities
(the “Securities Registrar”), subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, shall
provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers and exchanges of Securities. The
Trustee shall at all times also be the Securities Registrar. The provisions of Article VI shall
apply to the Trustee in its role as Securities Registrar.
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(b) Subject to compliance with Section 2.2(b), upon surrender for registration of transfer of
any Security at the offices or agencies of the Company designated for that purpose the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated
transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of any authorized denominations of like tenor
and aggregate principal amount.
(c) At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for other Securities of any
authorized denominations, of like tenor and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Securities to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for
exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities
that the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
(d) All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities shall be the valid
obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
(e) Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange shall (if so required by
the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer
in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar, duly executed by the Holder
thereof or such Holder’s attorney duly authorized in writing.
(f) No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer or exchange of Securities,
but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer or exchange of Securities.
(g) Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required pursuant to the provisions of this
Section 3.5: (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange any Security during a
period beginning at the opening of business fifteen (15) days before the day of selection for
redemption of Securities pursuant to Article XI and ending at the close of business on the
day of mailing of the notice of redemption or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any
Security so selected for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any such Security
to be redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(h) The Company shall designate an office or offices or agency or agencies where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange. The Company initially designates the
Corporate Trust Office as its office and agency for such purposes. The Company shall give prompt
written notice to the Trustee and to the Holders of any change in the location of any such office
or agency.
(i) The Securities may only be transferred to (i) the Company, (ii) to a person whom the
seller reasonably believes is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A of the
Securities Act), (iii) outside the United States in an offshore transaction in accordance with
Regulation S under the Securities Act, (iv) pursuant to an effective registration statement under
the Securities Act or (v) pursuant to another exemption form registration under the Securities Act,
in each case to a “Qualified Purchaser” as such term is defined in Section 2(a)(51) of the
Investment Company Act.
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(j) Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall be responsible for ascertaining
whether any transfer hereunder complies with the registration provisions of or any exemptions from
the Securities Act, applicable state securities laws or the applicable laws of any other
jurisdiction, ERISA, the Code, or the Investment Company Act; provided, that if a certificate is
specifically required by the express terms of this Section 3.5 to be delivered to the Trustee or
the Securities Registrar by a Holder or transferee of a Security, the Trustee and the Securities
Registrar shall be under a duty to receive and examine the same to determine whether or not the
certificate substantially conforms on its face to the requirements of this Indenture and shall
promptly notify the party delivering the same if such certificate does not comply with such terms.
SECTION 3.6 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.
(a) If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together with such security or
indemnity as may be required by the Trustee to save the Company and the Trustee harmless, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a new
Security of like tenor and aggregate principal amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
(b) If there shall be delivered to the Trustee (1) evidence to its satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required
by it to save each of the Company and the Trustee harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company
shall execute and upon its written request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of
any such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of like tenor and aggregate principal
amount as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously
outstanding.
(c) If any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become or is about to become
due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such
Security.
(d) Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section 3.6, the Company 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 fees and expenses of the Trustee)
connected therewith.
(e) Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section 3.6 in lieu of any mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation
of the Company, whether or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any
time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities duly issued hereunder.
(f) The provisions of this Section 3.6 are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent
lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
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SECTION 3.7 Persons Deemed Owners.
The Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall treat the Person in
whose name any Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving
payment of principal of and any interest on such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever,
and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected
by notice to the contrary.
SECTION 3.8 Cancellation.
All Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered
to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and
Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be promptly canceled by
it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation any Securities previously
authenticated and delivered hereunder that the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever,
and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section
3.8, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities shall be retained or
disposed of by the Trustee in accordance with its customary practices and the Trustee shall deliver
to the Company a certificate of such disposition.
SECTION 3.9 Reserved.
SECTION 3.10 Reserved.
SECTION 3.11 Agreed Tax Treatment.
Each Security issued hereunder shall provide that the Company and, by its acceptance or
acquisition of a Security or a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that
acquires a direct or indirect beneficial interest in, such Security, intend and agree to treat such
Security as indebtedness of the Company for United States Federal, state and local tax purposes.
The provisions of this Indenture shall be interpreted to further this intention and agreement of
the parties.
SECTION 3.12 CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Securities may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use), and,
if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption and other similar or related
materials as a convenience to Holders; provided, that any such notice or other materials may state
that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the
Securities or as contained in any notice of redemption or other materials and that reliance may be
placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption
shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
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ARTICLE IV
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture.
This Indenture shall, upon Company Request, cease to be of further effect (except as to any
surviving rights of registration of transfer or exchange of Securities herein expressly provided
for and as otherwise provided in this Section 4.1) and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense
of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this
Indenture, when
(a) either
(i) all Securities theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A) Securities
that have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and that have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 3.6 and (B) Securities for whose payment money has theretofore
been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid
to the Company or discharged from such trust as provided in Section 10.2) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
(A) have become due and payable, or
(B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within one year of the
date of deposit, or
(C) are to be called for redemption within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in
the name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of subclause (ii)(A), (B) or (C) above, has deposited
or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for such purpose
(x) an amount in the currency or currencies in which the Securities are payable, (y)
Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest
in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than the
due date of any payment, money in an amount or (z) a combination thereof, in each
case sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal and any premium
and interest (including any Additional Interest) to the date of such deposit (in the
case of Securities that have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity (or
any date of principal repayment upon early maturity) or Redemption Date, as the case
may be;
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(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company;
and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligations of the Company to
the Trustee under Section 6.6, the obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent
under Section 6.11 and, if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
subclause (a)(ii) of this Section 4.1, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and
Section 10.2(d) shall survive.
SECTION 4.2 Application of Trust Money.
Subject to the provisions of Section 10.2(d), all money deposited with the Trustee pursuant to
Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of
the Securities and this Indenture, to the payment in accordance with Section 3.1, either directly
or through any Paying Agent as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the
principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) for the payment of which
such money or obligations have been deposited with or received by the Trustee. Moneys held by the
Trustee under this Section 4.2 shall not be subject to the claims of holders of Senior Debt under
Article XII.
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.1 Events of Default.
“Event of Default” means, wherever used herein with respect to the Securities, any one of the
following events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary
or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of
any court or any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security, including any Additional
Interest in respect thereof, when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a
period of thirty (30) days; or
(b) default in the payment of the principal of or any premium on any Security at its Maturity;
or
(c) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this
Indenture or the Purchase Agreement and continuance of such default or breach for a period of
thirty (30) days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
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Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least
twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities a written
notice specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a “Notice of Default” hereunder;
(d) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of a decree or order adjudging
the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company under any
applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or
appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or ordering the winding up or
liquidation of its affairs, and the continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such
other decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days;
(e) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent,
or the consent by the Company to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against
it, or the filing by the Company of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or
relief under any applicable Federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other
similar law, or the consent by it to the filing of such petition or to the appointment of or taking
possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or other similar
official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay
its debts generally as they become due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the taking of corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
SECTION 5.2 Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.
(a) If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee
or the Holders of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities may declare the principal amount of all the Securities to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and
upon any such declaration the principal amount of and the accrued interest (including any
Additional Interest) on all the Securities shall become immediately due and payable.
(b) At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Securities has been
made and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee
as hereinafter provided in this Article V, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind
and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest on all Securities,
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(B) any accrued Additional Interest on all Securities,
(C) the principal of and any premium on any Securities that have become due
otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and interest (including any
Additional Interest) thereon at the rate borne by the Securities, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, the Property
Trustee and their agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to Securities, other than the nonpayment of the
principal of Securities that has become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 5.13;
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 5.3 Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee.
(a) The Company covenants that if:
(i) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Security when such interest becomes due and payable and such
default continues for a period of thirty (30) days, or
(ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of and any premium on any Security
at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the
Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for
principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) and, in addition
thereto, all amounts owing the Trustee under Section 6.6.
(b) If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the Trustee, in its
own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection
of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and
may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, wherever situated.
(c) If an Event of Default with respect to any Securities occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders of such Securities by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein, or
to enforce any other proper remedy.
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SECTION 5.4 Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
In case of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, composition or similar judicial proceeding relative to the Company (or any other
obligor upon the Securities), its property or its creditors, the Trustee shall be entitled and
empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to take any and all actions authorized
hereunder in order to have claims of the Holders and the Trustee allowed in any such proceeding. In
particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or other property
payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and any custodian, receiver,
assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial
proceeding is hereby authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the
event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
first pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts owing the Trustee, any
predecessor Trustee and other Persons under Section 6.6.
SECTION 5.5 Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be prosecuted and
enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof
in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be
brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall, subject
to Article XII and after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee,
any predecessor Trustee and other Persons under Section 6.6, be for the ratable benefit of the
Holders of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 5.6 Application of Money Collected.
Any money or property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to the Securities
pursuant to this Article V shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by
the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money or property on account of principal or
any premium or interest (including any Additional Interest), upon presentation of the Securities
and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully
paid:
FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee, any predecessor Trustee and other
Persons under Section 6.6;
SECOND: To the payment of all Senior Debt of the Company if and to the extent required by
Article XII;
THIRD: Subject to Article XII, to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
the Securities for principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without
preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Securities for
principal and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest), respectively; and
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FOURTH: The balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled thereto.
SECTION 5.7 Limitation on Suits.
Subject to Section 5.8, no Holder of any Securities shall have any right to institute
any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or for the appointment of a
custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) or for
any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(a) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a continuing Event of
Default with respect to the Securities;
(b) the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of
such Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(c) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(d) the Trustee after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity has failed to
institute any such proceeding for sixty (60) days; and
(e) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given to the Trustee during
such sixty (60) day period by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have any right in any
manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any provision of this Indenture to affect,
disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders of Securities, or to obtain or to seek to
obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any right under this
Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders.
SECTION 5.8 Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal, Premium, if any, and
Interest.
Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have
the right, which is absolute and unconditional, (i) subject to Article XII, to receive payment of
the principal of and any premium on such Security at its Maturity and payment of interest
(including any Additional Interest) on such Security when due and payable and (ii) to institute
suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the
consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.9 Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If the Trustee 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
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has been determined adversely to the Trustee or Holder, then and in every such case the
Company, the Trustee, and such Holders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and thereafter all rights
and remedies of the Trustee and such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
SECTION 5.10 Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 3.6(f), no right or remedy herein conferred
upon or reserved to the Trustee or the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other right or
remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in
addition to every other right and remedy given hereunder 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 5.11 Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or any Holder of any Securities 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 V or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and
as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.12 Control by Holders.
The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities shall have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee;
provided, that:
(a) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or with this Indenture,
(b) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is not
inconsistent with such direction, and
(c) subject to the provisions of Section 6.2, the Trustee shall have the right to decline to
follow such direction if a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee shall, in good faith,
reasonably determine that the proceeding so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders
not joining in any such direction or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
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(a) The Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities may waive any past Event of Default hereunder and its consequences except an Event of
Default:
(i) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Outstanding Security (unless such Event of Default has been
cured and the Company has paid to or deposited with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all
installments of interest (including any Additional Interest) due and past due and all
principal of and any premium on all Securities due otherwise than by acceleration), or
(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof that under Article IX cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of each Holder of any Outstanding Security.
(b) Any such waiver shall be deemed to be on behalf of the Holders of all the Outstanding
Securities.
(c) Upon any such waiver, such Event of 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 Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 5.14 Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his or her acceptance
thereof shall be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit
for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee
for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of
an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, against any party litigant in
such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such
party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.14 shall not apply to any suit instituted by
the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate
more than ten percent (10%) in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, or to any
suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or any premium
on the Security after the Stated Maturity or any interest (including any Additional Interest) on
any Security after it is due and payable.
SECTION 5.15 Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any time
insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any
usury, stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and the Company (to the extent that it
may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants
that it will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee,
but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
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ARTICLE VI
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Corporate Trustee Required.
There shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities. The Trustee
shall be a corporation or national banking association organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States or of any state thereof, authorized to exercise corporate trust powers, having
a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or state authority and having an office within the United States. If such entity publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of such supervising
or examining authority, then, for the purposes of this Section 6.1, the combined capital
and surplus of such entity shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in
its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Trustee shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section 6.1, it shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article VI.
SECTION 6.2 Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
Except during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be
read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to
the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this
Indenture; provided, that in the case of any such certificates or opinions that by any
provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they substantially conform
on their face to the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) If an Event of Default known to the Trustee has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall, prior to the receipt of directions, if any, from the Holders of at least a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, exercise such of 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.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any 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 for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it. Whether or not therein expressly so
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provided, every provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section
6.2. To the extent that, at law or in equity, the Trustee has duties and liabilities relating
to the Holders, the Trustee shall not be liable to any Holder for the Trustee’s good faith reliance
on the provisions of this Indenture. The provisions of this Indenture, to the extent that they
restrict the duties and liabilities of the Trustee otherwise existing at law or in equity, are
agreed by the Company and the Holders to replace such other duties and liabilities of the Trustee.
(d) No provisions of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee from liability
with respect to matters that are within the authority of the Trustee under this Indenture for its
own negligent action, negligent failure to act or willful misconduct, except that:
(i) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error or judgment made in good faith by an
authorized officer of the Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent
in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or omitted to be
taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction of the Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities; and
(iii) the Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money received by it
hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company and money held by the
Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law.
SECTION 6.3 Notice of Defaults.
Within ninety (90) days after the occurrence of any default actually known to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall give the Holders notice of such default unless such default shall have been cured or
waived; provided, that except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal of or any
premium or interest on any Securities, the Trustee shall be fully protected in withholding the
notice if and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of
directors and/or Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that withholding the
notice is in the interest of holders of Securities; and provided, further, that in the case of any
default of the character specified in Section 5.1(c), no such notice to Holders shall be
given until at least thirty (30) days after the occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this
Section 6.3, the term “default” means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time
or both would become, an Event of Default.
SECTION 6.4 Certain Rights of Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 6.2:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in acting or refraining
from acting in good faith and in accordance with the terms hereof upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
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debenture, note or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been
signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) if (i) in performing its duties under this Indenture the Trustee is required to decide
between alternative courses of action, (ii) in construing any of the provisions of this Indenture
the Trustee finds ambiguous or inconsistent with any other provisions contained herein or (iii) the
Trustee is unsure of the application of any provision of this Indenture, then, except as to any
matter as to which the Holders are entitled to decide under the terms of this Indenture, the
Trustee shall deliver a notice to the Company requesting the Company’s written instruction as to
the course of action to be taken and the Trustee shall take such action, or refrain from taking
such action, as the Trustee shall be instructed in writing to take, or to refrain from taking, by
the Company; provided, that if the Trustee does not receive such instructions from the Company
within ten Business Days after it has delivered such notice or such reasonably shorter period of
time set forth in such notice, the Trustee may, but shall be under no duty to, take such action, or
refrain from taking such action, as the Trustee shall deem advisable and in the best interests of
the Holders, in which event the Trustee shall have no liability except for its own negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct;
(c) any request or direction of the Company shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company
Request or Company Order and any resolution of the Board of Trustees may be sufficiently evidenced
by a Board Resolution;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel (which counsel may be counsel to the Trustee, the
Company or any of its Affiliates, and may include any of its employees) and the advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance
thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers vested in
it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture,
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory
to it against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses) and
liabilities that might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction, including
reasonable advances as may be requested by the Trustee;
(f) the 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, indenture, note or other paper or document, but the Trustee in its discretion
may make such inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or perform any duties
hereunder either directly or by or through agents, attorneys, custodians or nominees and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent,
attorney, custodian or nominee appointed with due care by it hereunder;
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(h) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable to
receive instructions with respect to enforcing any remedy or right or taking any other action with
respect to enforcing any remedy or right hereunder, the Trustees (i) may request instructions from
the Holders (which instructions may only be given by the Holders of the same aggregate principal
amount of Outstanding Securities as would be entitled to direct the Trustee under this Indenture in
respect of such remedy, right or action), (ii) may refrain from enforcing such remedy or right or
taking such action until such instructions are received and (iii) shall be protected in acting in
accordance with such instructions;
(i) except as otherwise expressly provided by this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be under
any obligation to take any action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Indenture;
(j) without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under applicable law, when
the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with any bankruptcy, insolvency or
other proceeding referred to in clauses (d) or (e) of the definition of Event of Default, such
expenses (including legal fees and expenses of its agents and counsel) and the compensation for
such services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any bankruptcy laws or
law relating to creditors rights generally;
(k) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it desirable that
a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the
Trustee (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith
on its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers’ Certificate addressing such matter, which, upon
receipt of such request, shall be promptly delivered by the Company;
(l) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any Event of Default unless either (i)
a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge or (ii) the Trustee shall have
received written notice thereof from the Company or a Holder; and
(m) in the event that the Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent or
Securities Registrar hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee pursuant to this
Article VI shall also be afforded such Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent, or Securities
Registrar.
SECTION 6.5 May Hold Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any Securities Registrar or any other
agent of the Company, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company with the same rights it would have if it were
not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent, Securities Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 6.6 Compensation; Reimbursement; Indemnity.
(a) The Company agrees:
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(i) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for all services
rendered by it hereunder in such amounts as the Company and the Trustee shall agree from
time to time (which compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation of a trustee of an express trust);
(ii) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision
of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements
of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may be
attributable to its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct; and
(iii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to indemnify the Trustee and
its Affiliates, and their officers, directors, shareholders, agents, representatives and
employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss, damage, liability, tax (other
than income, franchise or other taxes imposed on amounts paid pursuant to (i) or (ii)
hereof), penalty, expense or claim of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred without
negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on its part arising out of or in connection with
the acceptance or administration of this trust or the performance of the Trustee’s duties
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or
liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties
hereunder.
(b) To secure the Company’s payment obligations in this Section 6.6, the Company
hereby grants and pledges to the Trustee and the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities
on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, other than money or property held in
trust to pay principal and interest on particular Securities. Such lien shall survive the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(c) The obligations of the Company under this Section 6.6 shall survive the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the earlier resignation or removal of the Trustee.
(d) In no event shall the Trustee be liable for any indirect, special, punitive or
consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited to, lost profits,
even if the Trustee has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the
form of action.
(e) In no event shall the Trustee be liable for any failure or delay in the performance of its
obligations hereunder because of circumstances beyond its control, including, but not limited to,
acts of God, flood, war (whether declared or undeclared), terrorism, fire, riot, embargo,
government action, including any laws, ordinances, regulations, governmental action or the like
which delay, restrict or prohibit the providing of the services contemplated by this Indenture.
SECTION 6.7 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
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(a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article VI shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by
the successor Trustee under Section 6.8.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company.
(c) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may be
removed at any time by the Company by a Board Resolution. If an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Trustee may be removed by Act of the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, delivered to the Trustee and to the
Company.
(d) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy
shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason, at a time when no Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee, and such successor Trustee and the retiring Trustee shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.8. If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any reason, at a time when an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Holders, by Act of the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee, and such successor Trustee and the retiring Trustee shall comply with the
applicable requirements of Section 6.8. If no successor Trustee shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment within sixty (60) days after the
giving of a notice of resignation by the Trustee or the removal of the Trustee in the manner
required by Section 6.8, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months (or, if the Securities have been Outstanding for less than six (6) months, the
entire period of such lesser time) may, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated,
and any resigning Trustee may, at the expense of the Company, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) The Company shall give notice to all Holders in the manner provided in Section 1.6
of each resignation and each removal of the Trustee and each appointment of a successor Trustee.
Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office.
SECTION 6.8 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee, each successor Trustee so
appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall,
upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such
successor Trustee all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly
assign,
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transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring
Trustee hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all
instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Trustee all
rights, powers and trusts referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section 6.8.
(c) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance
such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under this Article VI.
SECTION 6.9 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any Person into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which it may be
consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the
Trustee shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate
trust business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, without the
execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto,
provided, that such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article VI.
In case any Securities shall have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in
office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation or as otherwise provided above in this
Section 6.9 to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and deliver the
Securities so authenticated, and in case any Securities shall not have been authenticated, any
successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor
Trustee or in the name of such successor Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of
authentication shall have the full force which it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this
Indenture that the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.10 Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee’s certificates of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the Trustee nor any
Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representations as to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. Neither
the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent shall be accountable for the use or application by the
Company of the Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.11 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.
(a) The Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to the Securities,
which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities issued upon
original issue and upon exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or
pursuant to Section 3.6, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the authentication and delivery
of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee’s certificate of authentication, such reference shall
be deemed to include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall
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at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of
America, or of any State or Territory thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such
laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than
$50,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or state authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section
6.11 the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If
at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 6.11, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and
with the effect specified in this Section 6.11.
(b) Any Person into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or converted or with which it
may be consolidated, or any Person resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which
such Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all of
the corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent shall be the successor Authenticating Agent
hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise eligible under this Section 6.11,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent.
(c) An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the
Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating
Agent by giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon
receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 6.11, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent eligible under the
provisions of this Section 6.11, which shall be acceptable to the Company, and shall give
notice of such appointment to all Holders. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of
its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its
predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
(d) The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services under this Section 6.11 in such amounts as the Company and
the Authenticating Agent shall agree from time to time.
(e) If an appointment of an Authenticating Agent is made pursuant to this Section
6.11, the Securities may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee’s certificate of
authentication, an alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture.
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Dated: | THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, not in its individual capacity, but solely as Trustee |
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By: | ||||
Authenticating Agent |
By: | ||||
Authorized Signatory | ||||
ARTICLE VII
HOLDER’S LISTS AND REPORTS BY COMPANY
SECTION 7.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semiannually, on or before June 30 and December 31 of each year, a list, in such form as
the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of a date not more
than fifteen (15) days prior to the delivery thereof, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within thirty (30) days after
the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of similar form and content as of a date not
more than fifteen (15) days prior to the time such list is furnished,
in each case to the extent such information is in the possession or control of the Company and has
not otherwise been received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities Registrar.
SECTION 7.2 Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names
and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 7.1 and the names and addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity
as Securities Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under
this Indenture or under the Securities, and the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee,
shall be as provided in the Trust Indenture Act.
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(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same, agrees with the Company and
the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
made pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 7.3 Reports by Company.
(a) The Company shall furnish, or shall cause Parent to furnish, to the Holders and to
prospective purchasers of Securities, upon their request, the information required to be furnished
pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act. The delivery requirement set forth in the
preceding sentence may be satisfied by compliance with Section 7.3(b) hereof.
(b) The Company shall furnish, or shall cause Parent to furnish, to each of (i) the Trustee,
(ii) the Holders and to subsequent holders of Securities, (iii) Taberna Capital Management, LLC
(“Taberna"), 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attn: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx (or
such other address as designated by Taberna) and (iv) any beneficial owner of the Securities
reasonably identified to the Company (which identification may be made either by such beneficial
owner or by Taberna), a duly completed and executed certificate substantially and substantively in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, including the financial statements referenced in
such Exhibit, which certificate and financial statements shall be so furnished by the Company not
later than forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each
fiscal year of the Company and not later than ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of
the Company.
(c) If Parent intends to file its annual and quarterly information with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (the “Commission") in electronic form pursuant to Regulation S-T of the
Commission using the Commission’s Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (“XXXXX”)
system, the Company shall notify the Trustee in the manner prescribed herein of each such annual
and quarterly filing. The Trustee is hereby authorized and directed to access the XXXXX system for
purposes of retrieving the financial information so filed. Compliance with the foregoing shall
constitute delivery by the Company of its financial statements to the Trustee in compliance with
the provisions of Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, if applicable. The Trustee shall have
no duty to search for or obtain any electronic or other filings that Parent makes with the
Commission, regardless of whether such filings are periodic, supplemental or otherwise. Delivery of
reports, information and documents to the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.3(c) shall be solely
for purposes of compliance with this Section 7.3(c) and, if applicable, with Section 314(a)
of the Trust Indenture Act. The Trustee’s receipt of such reports, information and documents shall
not constitute notice to it of the content thereof or any matter determinable from the content
thereof, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder, as to which the
Trustee is entitled to rely upon Officers’ Certificates.
ARTICLE VIII
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 8.1 Company May Consolidate, Etc., Only on Certain Terms. |
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The Company shall not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey, transfer or
lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, and no Person shall
consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(a) if the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another Person or convey, transfer or
lease its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the entity formed by
such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person that acquires by conveyance or
transfer, or that leases, the properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety
shall be an entity organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or any
State or Territory thereof or the District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture
supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of and any premium and interest (including
any Additional Interest) on all the Securities and the performance of every covenant of this
Indenture on the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of Default, and no event
that, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default, shall have
happened and be continuing; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and, if a
supplemental indenture is required in connection with such transaction, any such supplemental
indenture comply with this Article VIII and that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to such transaction have been complied with; and the Trustee may rely upon such
Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that such transaction complies
with this Section 8.1.
SECTION 8.2 Successor Company Substituted.
(a) Upon any consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other Person, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.1 and the execution and delivery to the
Trustee of the supplemental indenture described in Section 8.1(a), the successor entity
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance,
transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had
been named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such conveyance or transfer, following
the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the Company shall be discharged from all
obligations and covenants under the Indenture and the Securities.
(b) Such successor Person may cause to be executed, and may issue either in its own name or in
the name of the Company, any or all of the Securities issuable hereunder that theretofore shall not
have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Securities that
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the
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Company to the Trustee for authentication, and any Securities that such successor Person
thereafter shall cause to be executed and delivered to the Trustee on its behalf. All the
Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this
Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture.
(c) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or lease, such changes in
phraseology and form may be made in the Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate to
reflect such occurrence.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.1 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and
the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and the assumption by any
such successor of the covenants of the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(b) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor
trustee; or
(c) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein that may be defective
or inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make or amend any other provisions with
respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture, which shall not be inconsistent with
the other provisions of this Indenture, provided, that such action pursuant to this clause (c)
shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders; or
(d) to comply with the rules and regulations of any securities exchange or automated quotation
system on which any of the Securities may be listed, traded or quoted; or
(e) to add to the covenants, restrictions or obligations of the Company or to add to the
Events of Default, provided, that such action pursuant to this clause (e) shall not adversely
affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders; or
(f) to modify, eliminate or add to any provisions of the Indenture or the Securities to such
extent as shall be necessary to ensure that the Securities are treated as indebtedness of the
Company for United States Federal income tax purposes, provided, that such action pursuant to this
clause (f) shall not adversely affect in any material respect the interests of any Holders.
SECTION 9.2 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
(a) Subject to Section 9.1, with the consent of the Holders of not less than a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities, by Act of said Holders
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the Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the
Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or
of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities under this Indenture; provided,
that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding
Security,
(i) change the Stated Maturity of the principal or any premium of any Security or
change the date of payment of any installment of interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of interest
thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof or change the place of payment
where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or interest thereon is payable, or
restrict or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or
after such date, or
(ii) reduce the percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities,
the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the consent
of whose Holders is required for any waiver of compliance with any provision of this
Indenture or of defaults hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture, or
(iii) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.2, Section 5.13 or
Section 10.7, except to increase any percentage in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any reason, or to
provide that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without
the consent of the Holder of each Security;
(b) It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 9.2 to approve
the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such Act
shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 9.3 Execution of Supplemental Indentures.
In executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental indenture
permitted by this Article IX or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this
Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in conclusively
relying upon, an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and that all conditions
precedent herein provided for relating to such action have been complied with. The Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture that affects the Trustee’s
own rights, duties, indemnities or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise. Copies of the
final form of each supplemental indenture shall be delivered by the Trustee at the expense of the
Company to each Holder, promptly after the execution thereof.
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Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture under this Article IX, this Indenture
shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of
this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 9.5 Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article IX may, and shall if required by the Company, bear a notation in
form approved by the Company as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the
Company shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE X
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.1 Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities that it will
duly and punctually pay the principal of and any premium and interest (including any Additional
Interest) on the Securities in accordance with the terms of the Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 10.2 Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust.
(a) Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it will, prior to 10:00 a.m.,
New York City time, on each due date of the principal of or any premium or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on any Securities, deposit with such Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such
amount, such sum to be held as provided in the Trust Indenture Act and (unless such Paying Agent is
the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure to so act.
(b) The Company will cause each Paying Agent for the Securities other than the Trustee to
execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section 10.2, that such Paying Agent will (i)
comply with the provisions of this Indenture and the Trust Indenture Act applicable to it as a
Paying Agent and (ii) during the continuance of any default by the Company (or any other obligor
upon the Securities) in the making of any payment in respect of the Securities, upon the written
request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums held in trust by such Paying Agent
for payment in respect of the Securities.
(c) The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to
pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be
held by the Trustee upon the same trusts as those upon which such sums were
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held by the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the
Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such money.
(d) Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent for the payment of the principal
of and any premium or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal and any premium or interest has become due and payable
shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or
unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to the Company, or (if then held by the Company)
shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or
unclaimed property law) be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of such Security shall
thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability
of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, that the Trustee or such Paying
Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the expense of the Company cause to
be published once, in a newspaper published in the English language, customarily published on each
Business Day and of general circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, notice
that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less
than thirty (30) days from the date of such publication, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Company.
SECTION 10.3 Statement as to Compliance.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal
year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers’ Certificate covering the preceding
calendar year, stating whether or not to the knowledge of the signers thereof the Company is in
default in the performance or observance of any of the terms, provisions and conditions of this
Indenture (without regard to any period of grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder), and
if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof
of which they may have knowledge.
SECTION 10.4 Calculation Agent.
(a) The Company hereby agrees that for so long as any of the Securities remain Outstanding,
there will at all times be an agent appointed to calculate LIBOR in respect of each Interest
Payment Date in accordance with the terms of Schedule A (the “Calculation Agent"). The
Company has initially appointed the Trustee as Calculation Agent for purposes of determining LIBOR
for each Interest Payment Date. The Calculation Agent may be removed by the Company at any time. If
the Calculation Agent is unable or unwilling to act as such or is removed by the Company, the
Company will promptly appoint as a replacement Calculation Agent the London office of a leading
bank which is engaged in transactions in Eurodollar deposits in the international Eurodollar market
and which does not control or is not controlled by or under common control with the Company or its
Affiliates. The Calculation Agent may not resign its duties without a successor having been duly
appointed.
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(b) The Calculation Agent shall be required to agree that, as soon as possible after 11:00
a.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date (as defined in Schedule A), but in no
event later than 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the Business Day immediately following each LIBOR
Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will calculate the interest rate (the Interest Payment
shall be rounded to the nearest cent, with half a cent being rounded upwards) for the related
Interest Payment Date, and will communicate such rate and amount to the Company, the Trustee, each
Paying Agent and the Depositary. The Calculation Agent will also specify to the Company the
quotations upon which the foregoing rates and amounts are based and, in any event, the Calculation
Agent shall notify the Company before 5:00 p.m. (London time) on each LIBOR Determination Date that
either: (i) it has determined or is in the process of determining the foregoing rates and amounts
or (ii) it has not determined and is not in the process of determining the foregoing rates and
amounts, together with its reasons therefor. The Calculation Agent’s determination of the foregoing
rates and amounts for any Interest Payment Date will (in the absence of manifest error) be final
and binding upon all parties. For the sole purpose of calculating the interest rate for the
Securities, “Business Day” shall be defined as any day on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are
transacted in the London interbank market.
SECTION 10.5 Reserved.
SECTION 10.6 Additional Covenants.
(a) Parent and the Company covenant and agree with each Holder of Securities that if an Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (i) neither Parent nor the Company shall declare
or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation
payment with respect to, any of Parent’s or the Company’s Equity Interests, (ii) Parent shall not
vote in favor of or permit or otherwise allow the Company to declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to or
otherwise retire, any shares of the Company’s Equity Interests entitling the holders thereof to a
stated rate of return (for the avoidance of doubt, whether such Equity Interests are perpetual or
otherwise), or (iii) neither Parent nor the Company shall make any payment of principal of or any
interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company
that rank pari passu in all respects with or junior in interest to the Securities.
(b) Reserved.
(c) Reserved.
(d) The Company shall notify in writing, within ten (10) Business Days after the occurrence
thereof, the Trustee and each Holder of the occurrence of a Change of Control (the “Change of
Control Notice”). If the Company and the Trustee shall have received, within thirty (30) days after
delivering the Holders the Change of Control Notice, written notice from any Holder of its election
to cause the redemption of the Securities as provided in this Section 10.6(d) (the “Change
of Control Election"), then the Company shall redeem the Electing Securities pursuant to
Section 11.1(b).
SECTION 10.7 Waiver of Covenants.
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The Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition
contained in Section 10.6 if, before or after the time for such compliance, the Holders of at least
a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities shall, by Act of such
Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or generally waive compliance with such
covenant or condition, but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the
obligations of the Company in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full force
and effect.
SECTION 10.8 Treatment of Securities.
The Company will treat the Securities as indebtedness, and the amounts, other than payments of
principal, payable in respect of the principal amount of such Securities as interest, for all
United States federal income tax purposes. All payments in respect of the Securities will be made
free and clear of United States withholding tax to any beneficial owner thereof that has provided
an Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 or W-8BEN (or any substitute or successor form) establishing
its exemption from withholding for United States federal income tax purposes, or any other
applicable form establishing a complete exemption from United States withholding tax.
SECTION 10.9 Intentionally Omitted.
SECTION 10.10 Delivery of Information.
For so long as any of the Securities remain Outstanding, the Company shall deliver to Tabema
all information delivered by the Company pursuant to the Company’s senior credit facility (the
“Credit Agreement”) to the lender and the agent under the Credit Agreement and, from time to time,
such other financial data and information in the possession of the Company as Taberna may
reasonably request.
SECTION 10.11 Inspection of Books and Records.
The Company shall permit Taberna to examine the books and records of account of the Company
and its Subsidiaries (and to make copies thereof and extracts therefrom) and to discuss the
affairs, finances and accounts of such Persons with, and to be advised as to the same by, its
officers, all at such reasonable times and intervals during normal business hours as Taberna may
reasonably request, at the expense of Taberna, provided, that should the Company be in default
under this Indenture, all expenses incurred in exercising the rights granted to Taberna under this
Section 10.11 shall be borne by the Company. Taberna shall use good faith efforts to
coordinate such inspections so as to minimize the interference with and disruption to the Company’s
normal business operations.
ARTICLE II
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
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SECTION 11.1 Optional Redemption and Mandatory Redemption.
(a) The Company may, at its option, on any Interest Payment Date, on or after January 30,
2013, redeem the Securities in whole at any time or in part from time to time, at a Redemption
Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the principal amount thereof (or of the redeemed
portion thereof, as applicable), together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued and
unpaid interest, including any Additional Interest, through but excluding the date fixed as the
Redemption Date (the “Optional Redemption Price").
(b) The Company shall, upon receipt of a Change of Control Election, redeem the Electing
Securities in whole on a date no more than thirty (30) days after receipt of the Change of Control
Election, at a Redemption Price equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding principal
amount thereof, together, in the case of any such redemption, with accrued and unpaid interest,
including any Additional Interest, to but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date (the
“Mandatory Redemption Price").
SECTION 11.2 Tax Event Redemption.
Prior to January 30, 2013, upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tax Event, the
Company may, at its option, redeem the Securities, in whole but not in part, at a Redemption Price
equal to one hundred seven and one half percent (107.5%) of the principal amount thereof, together,
in the case of any such redemption, with accrued interest, including any Additional Interest,
through but excluding the date fixed as the Redemption Date (the “Special Redemption Price").
SECTION 11.3 Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Securities, in whole or in part, shall be evidenced
by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company, the
Company shall, not less than forty-five (45) days and not more than seventy-five (75) days prior to
the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the
Trustee in writing of such date and of the principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed and
provide the additional information required to be included in the notice or notices contemplated by
Section 11.5. In the case of any redemption of Securities, in whole or in part, (a) prior
to the expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in this Indenture or the
Securities or (b) pursuant to an election of the Company which is subject to a condition specified
in this Indenture or the Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers’
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
SECTION 11.4 Selection of Securities to be Redeemed.
(a) If less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected and redeemed on a pro rata basis not more than sixty (60) days prior to
the Redemption Date by the Trustee from the Outstanding Securities not previously called for
redemption, provided, that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security shall
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be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination) for such Security.
(b) The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for partial redemption, the principal amount
thereof to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate, in the case of any Security
redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount of such Security
that has been or is to be redeemed.
(c) The provisions of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 11.4 shall not apply with
respect to any redemption affecting only a single Security, whether such Security is to be redeemed
in whole or in part. In the case of any such redemption in part, the unredeemed portion of the
principal amount of the Security shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less
than the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security.
SECTION 11.5 Notice of Redemption.
(a) Notice of redemption shall be given not later than the thirtieth (30th) day, and not
earlier than the sixtieth (60th) day, prior to the Redemption Date to each Holder of Securities to
be redeemed, in whole or in part.
(b) With respect to Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part, each notice of redemption
shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price or, if the Redemption Price cannot be calculated prior to the
time the notice is required to be sent, the estimate of the Redemption Price, as calculated
by the Company, together with a statement that it is an estimate and that the actual
Redemption Price will be calculated on the fifth Business Day prior to the Redemption Date
(and if an estimate is provided, a further notice shall be sent of the actual Redemption
Price on the date that such Redemption Price is calculated);
(iii) if less than all Outstanding Securities are to be redeemed, the identification
(and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the amount of
and particular Securities to be redeemed;
(iv) that on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will become due and payable upon
each such Security or portion thereof, and that any interest (including any Additional
Interest) on such Security or such portion, as the case may be, shall cease to accrue on and
after said date; and
(v) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered for payment of the
Redemption Price.
(c) Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed, in whole or in part, at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company’s request, by the
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Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company and shall be irrevocable. The notice if
mailed in the manner provided above shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether
or not the Holder receives such notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any
defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as a whole or in part
shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security.
SECTION 11.6 Deposit of Redemption Price.
Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Redemption Date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in Section 11.5, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or
with one or more Paying Agents an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, and
any accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on, all the Securities (or portions
thereof) that are to be redeemed on that date.
SECTION 11.7 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.
(a) If any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.5, the
Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has been given shall become
due and payable on the date and at the place or places stated in such notice at the applicable
Redemption Price, together with accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) to the
Redemption Date. On presentation and surrender of such Securities at a Place of Payment specified
in such notice, the Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the
Company at the applicable Redemption Price, together with accrued interest (including any
Additional Interest) to the Redemption Date.
(b) Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new
Security or Securities, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the same Original Issue Date, Stated
Maturity and terms.
(c) If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender thereof for
redemption, the principal of and any premium on such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from
the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
ARTICLE III
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 12.1 Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its acceptance thereof,
likewise covenants and agrees, that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Indenture, to
the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in this Article XII, the payment of the
principal of and any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) on each and all of
the Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and subject in right of payment to the prior
payment in full of all Senior Debt. Each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or
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hereafter created or incurred, assumed or guaranteed, shall be deemed to have acquired such
Senior Debt in reliance upon the provisions of this Article XII.
SECTION 12.2 No Payment When Senior Debt in Default; Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, Etc. |
(a) In the event and during the continuation of any default by the Company in the payment of
any principal of or any premium or interest on any Senior Debt (following any grace period, if
applicable) when the same becomes due and payable, whether at maturity or at a date fixed for
prepayment or by declaration of acceleration or otherwise, then, upon written notice of such
default to the Company by the holders of such Senior Debt or any trustee or agent therefor, unless
and until such default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist, no direct or
indirect payment (in cash, property, securities, by set-off or otherwise) shall be made or agreed
to be made on account of the principal of or any premium or interest (including any Additional
Interest) on any of the Securities, or in respect of any redemption, repayment, retirement,
purchase or other acquisition of any of the Securities.
(b) In the event of any distribution of the assets of the Company upon any dissolution,
winding-up, liquidation, reorganization, whether voluntary or involuntary, a bankruptcy,
insolvency, liquidation, receivership or other proceeding, including without limitation those
events described in clause (d) or (e) of the definition of Event of Default (each such event, if
any, herein sometimes referred to as a “Proceeding"), all Senior Debt (including any interest
thereon accruing after the commencement of any such Proceeding, whether or not any claim for such
interest is allowed in such Proceeding) shall first be paid in full before any payment or
distribution, whether in cash, securities or other property, shall be made to any Holder of any of
the Securities on account thereof. Any payment or distribution, whether in cash, securities or
other property (other than securities of the Company or any other entity provided for by a plan of
reorganization or readjustment the payment of which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided
in these subordination provisions with respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to
the payment of all Senior Debt at the time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect
thereof under any such plan of reorganization or readjustment), which would otherwise (but for
these subordination provisions) be payable or deliverable in respect of the Securities shall be
paid or delivered directly to the holders of Senior Debt in accordance with the priorities then
existing among such holders until all Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after
the commencement of any Proceeding) shall have been paid in full.
(c) In the event of any Proceeding, after payment in full of all sums owing with respect to
Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities, together with the holders of any obligations of the
Company ranking on a parity with the Securities, shall be entitled to be paid from the remaining
assets of the Company the amounts at the time due and owing on account of unpaid principal of and
any premium and interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities and such other
obligations before any payment or other distribution, whether in cash, property or otherwise, shall
be made on account of any Equity Interests or any obligations of the Company ranking junior to the
Securities and such other obligations.
(d) If, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or distribution of any character on any
security, whether in cash, securities or other property (other than securities of the Company
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or any other entity provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment the payment of
which is subordinate, at least to the extent provided in these subordination provisions with
respect to the indebtedness evidenced by the Securities, to the payment of all Senior Debt at the
time outstanding and to any securities issued in respect thereof under any such plan of
reorganization or readjustment) shall be received by the Trustee or any Holder in contravention of
any of the terms hereof and before all Senior Debt shall have been paid in full, such payment or
distribution or security shall be received and held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid
over or delivered and transferred to, the holders of the Senior Debt (or any agent or trustee
acting on behalf of any of them) at the time outstanding in accordance with the priorities then
existing among such holders for application to the payment of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid, to
the extent necessary to pay all such Senior Debt (including any interest thereon accruing after the
commencement of any Proceeding) in full. In the event of the failure of the Trustee or any Holder
to endorse or assign any such payment, distribution or security, each holder of Senior Debt is
hereby irrevocably authorized to endorse or assign the same.
(e) The Trustee and the Holders, at the expense of the Company, shall take such reasonable
action (including the delivery of this Indenture to an agent for any holders of Senior Debt or
consent to the filing of a financing statement with respect hereto) as may, in the opinion of
counsel designated by the holders of a majority in principal amount of the Senior Debt at the time
outstanding, be necessary or appropriate to assure the effectiveness of the subordination effected
by these provisions.
(f) The provisions of this Section 12.2 shall not impair any rights, interests,
remedies or powers of any secured creditor of the Company in respect of any security interest the
creation of which is not prohibited by the provisions of this Indenture.
(g) The securing of any obligations of the Company, otherwise ranking on a parity with the
Securities or ranking junior to the Securities, shall not be deemed to prevent such obligations
from constituting, respectively, obligations ranking on a parity with the Securities or ranking
junior to the Securities.
SECTION 12.3 Payment Permitted If No Default.
Nothing contained in this Article XII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time, except during the pendency of the conditions
described in paragraph (a) of Section 12.2 or of any Proceeding referred to in Section
12.2 from making payments at any time of principal of and any premium or interest (including
any Additional Interest) on the Securities or (b) the application by the Trustee of any moneys
deposited with it hereunder to the payment of or on account of the principal of and any premium or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities or the retention of such payment by
the Holders, if, at the time of such application by the Trustee, it did not have knowledge (in
accordance with Section 12.8) that such payment would have been prohibited by the
provisions of this Article XII, except as provided in Section 12.8.
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Subject to the payment in full of all amounts due or to become due on all Senior Debt, or the
provision for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of the
payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Debt pursuant to the provisions of
this Article XII (equally and ratably with the holders of all indebtedness of the Company
that by its express terms is subordinated to Senior Debt of the Company to substantially the same
extent as the Securities are subordinated to the Senior Debt and is entitled to like rights of
subrogation by reason of any payments or distributions made to holders of such Senior Debt) to the
rights of the holders of such Senior Debt to receive payments and distributions of cash, property
and securities applicable to the Senior Debt until the principal of and any premium and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities shall be paid in full. For purposes of such
subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of any cash, property
or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee would be entitled except for
the provisions of this Article XII, and no payments made pursuant to the provisions of this
Article XII to the holders of Senior Debt by Holders of the Securities or the Trustee,
shall, as among the Company, its creditors other than holders of Senior Debt, and the Holders of
the Securities, be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the
Senior Debt.
SECTION 12.5 Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article XII are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one hand and the holders of
Senior Debt on the other hand. Nothing contained in this Article XII or elsewhere in this
Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the
Holders of the Securities, the obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to
pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of and any premium and interest (including any
Additional Interest) on the Securities as and when the same shall become due and payable in
accordance with their terms, (b) affect the relative rights against the Company of the Holders of
the Securities and creditors of the Company other than their rights in relation to the holders of
Senior Debt or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, including filing and
voting claims in any Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article XII of
the holders of Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or
deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 12.6 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the Trustee
on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or
effectuate the subordination provided in this Article XII and appoints the Trustee his or
her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
SECTION 12.7 No Waiver of Subordination Provisions.
(a) No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce subordination as
herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
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act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good
faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms, provisions and
covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or
be otherwise charged with.
(b) Without in any way limiting the generality of paragraph (a) of this Section 12.7,
the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from to time, without the consent of or notice to
the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, without incurring responsibility to such Holders of
the Securities and without impairing or releasing the subordination provided in this Article
XII or the obligations hereunder of such Holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior
Debt, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment or
extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt, or otherwise amend or supplement in
any manner Senior Debt or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which Senior
Debt is outstanding, (ii) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property pledged,
mortgaged or otherwise securing Senior Debt, (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the
payment of Senior Debt and (iv) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company
and any other Person.
SECTION 12.8 Notice to Trustee.
(a) The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of
any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in
respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XII or any other
provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of
any facts that would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company or a holder of Senior Debt or from any trustee, agent or representative therefor, which
notice shall be deemed delivered if delivered to the Trustee at 000 Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxx 00000, Attn: Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx, Global Corporate Trust-Ramco-Xxxxxxxxxx Properties, L.P.;
provided, that if the Trustee shall not have received the notice provided for in this Section
12.8 at least two Business Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any monies may
become payable for any purpose (including, the payment of the principal of and any premium on or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security), then, anything herein contained to
the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such
monies and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received and shall not be affected
by any notice to the contrary that may be received by it within two Business Days prior to such
date.
(b) The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on the delivery to it of a written notice by a
Person representing himself or herself to be a holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee, agent,
representative or attorney-in-fact therefor) to establish that such notice has been given by a
holder of Senior Debt (or a trustee, agent, representative or attorney-in-fact therefor). In the
event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with respect to
the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution
pursuant to this Article XII, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to
the reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Debt held by such Person, the
extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and any
other facts
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pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article XII, and if such evidence is
not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 12.9 Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article
XII, the Trustee and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon
any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which such Proceeding is
pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian,
assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the
Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and
other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts
paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article XII.
SECTION 12.10 Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt.
The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not be deemed to owe any
fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt and shall not be liable to any such holders if it
shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company or
to any other Person cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be
entitled by virtue of this Article XII or otherwise.
SECTION 12.11 Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee ‘s Rights.
The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights set forth in this
Article XII with respect to any Senior Debt that may at any time be held by it, to the same
extent as any other holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee
of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 12.12 Article Applicable to Paying Agents.
If at any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by the
Company and be then acting hereunder, the term “Trustee “ as used in this Article XII shall in such
case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed as extending to and including such Paying
Agent within its meaning as fully for all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named
in this Article XII in addition to or in place of the Trustee. For the avoidance of doubt,
the Company shall not be permitted to appoint itself or any Affiliate as a Paying Agent hereunder.
SECTION 12.13 Approval of Holders of Senior Debt to Amendments to Certain Sections.
(a) Notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary, for so long as KeyBank is a
holder of Senior Debt, the provisions of Section 1.10 and this Article XII may not
be amended or revised in a manner adverse to KeyBank without the prior written consent of
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KeyBank, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld. If KeyBank fails to respond to any
request for consent within fifteen (15) days of receipt by KeyBank of such request, KeyBank’s
consent shall be deemed given.
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This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be deemed to be an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of
the day and year first above written.
RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES, L.P. | ||||||||||
By: | RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES TRUST, | |||||||||
its General Partner | ||||||||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx | |||||||||
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxx, Chief Financial Officer | ||||||||||
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, | ||||||||||
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||||||||||
By: | ||||||||||
Name: | ||||||||||
Title: | ||||||||||
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be duly executed as of
the day and year first above written.
RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES, L.P. | ||||||||
BY: | RAMCO-XXXXXXXXXX PROPERTIES TRUST, | |||||||
its General Partner |
By: | ||||||||||||
Name: | ||||||||||||
Title: | ||||||||||||
THE BANK OF NEW YORK TRUST COMPANY, | ||||||||
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee | ||||||||
By: | /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx | |||||||
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Vice President |
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