AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. AND THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Purchase Contract Agent
Exhibit 4.2
AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC.
AND
THE
BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Purchase Contract Agent
Dated as of February 12, 2004
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Transfer of Collateral upon Occurrence of Termination Event. |
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Interest and Other Payments; Rights to Payments Preserved; Interest Rate Reset; Notice. |
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Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Contract Adjustment Payments and to Purchase Common Stock. |
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Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business. |
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Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property Except Under Certain Conditions. |
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PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT, dated as of February 12, 2004, between Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a company duly organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware (the “Company”), and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, acting as purchase contract agent for the Holders of Securities from time to time (the “Agent” or “Purchase Contract Agent”).
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the Certificates evidencing the Securities.
All things necessary to make the Purchase Contracts, when the Certificates are executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Agent, as provided in this Agreement, the valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, and to constitute this Agreement a valid agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular; and nouns and pronouns of the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter genders;
(b) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States;
(c) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(d) the following terms have the meanings given to them in this Section 1.1(d).
“Act” when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
“Affiliate” has the same meaning as given to that term in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or any successor rule thereunder.
“Agent” or “Purchase Contract Agent” means the Person named as the “Agent” or “Purchase Contract Agent” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor Agent or Purchase Contract Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter “Agent” or “Purchase Contract Agent” shall mean such Person.
“Agreement” means this instrument as originally executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
“Applicable Benchmark Treasury” on a particular determination date shall mean direct obligations of the United States (which may be obligations traded on a when-issued basis only) having a maturity comparable to the remaining term to maturity of the Senior Notes, after giving effect to any extension of the maturity date of the Senior Notes on the Reset Date, as applicable, as agreed upon by the Company and the Reset Agent. The yield for the Applicable Benchmark Treasury will be the bid side yield displayed at 10:00 A.M., New York City time, on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Reset Date in the Telerate system (or if the Telerate system is (a) no longer available on such Business Day or (b) in the opinion of the Reset Agent (after consultation with the Company) no longer an appropriate system from which to obtain such yield, such other nationally recognized quotation system as, in the opinion of the Reset Agent (after consultation with the Company), is appropriate). If such yield is not so displayed, the yield for the Applicable Benchmark Treasury shall be, as calculated by the Reset Agent, the yield to maturity for the Applicable Benchmark Treasury, expressed as a bond equivalent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and applied on a daily basis, and computed by taking the arithmetic mean of the secondary market bid rates, as of 10:30 A.M., New York City time, on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Reset Date of three leading United States government securities dealers selected by the Reset Agent (after consultation with the Company) (which may include the Reset Agent or an affiliate thereof).
“Applicable Market Value” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Applicable Ownership Interest” means, with respect to an Income PRIDES and the Treasury Securities in the Treasury Portfolio, (A) an undivided beneficial ownership interest in a $1,000 principal or interest amount of a principal or interest strip in a Treasury Security included in such Treasury Portfolio which matures on or prior to February 17, 2008 and (B) for the originally scheduled quarterly interest payment date on the Senior Notes that would have occurred after a Successful Initial Remarketing or a Successful Final Remarketing, or after the Tax Event Redemption Date and on or before the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in the case of a Tax Event Redemption, an undivided beneficial ownership interest in a $1,000 face amount of such Treasury Security which is a principal or interest strip maturing on such interest payment date.
“Applicable Principal Amount” means (i) on any date prior to the Reset Date or, if there is a Failed Final Remarketing, prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes that are components of Income PRIDES on such date or (ii) on any date on or after the Reset Date or, if there is a Failed Final Remarketing, on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes outstanding on such date.
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“Authorized Newspaper” means a daily newspaper, in the English language, customarily published on each day that is a Business Day in The City of New York, whether or not published on days that are legal holidays, and of general circulation in The City of New York. The Authorized Newspaper for the purposes of the Remarketing Announcement Date, is currently anticipated to be The Wall Street Journal (NYC edition).
“Authorized Officer” means the Chairman of the Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the General Counsel, the Secretary or any Vice President, or other officer of the Company performing similar functions and authorized to act in respect of matters relating to this Agreement.
“Bankruptcy Code” means title 11 of the United States Code, or any other law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform system of bankruptcy laws.
“Board of Directors” means the board of directors of the Company or a duly authorized committee of that board.
“Board Resolution” means one or more resolutions of the Board of Directors, a copy of which has been certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification and delivered to the Agent.
“Business Day” means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or obligated by any law or executive order to be closed.
“Cash Merger” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.12(a).
“Cash Settlement” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(a)(i).
“Certificate” means an Income PRIDES Certificate or a Growth PRIDES Certificate.
“Closing Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 of the Pledge Agreement.
“Collateral Agent” means The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as Collateral Agent under the Pledge Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Pledge Agreement, and thereafter “Collateral Agent” shall mean the Person who is then the Collateral Agent thereunder.
“Collateral Substitution” has the meaning specified in Section 3.11.
“Common Stock” means the common stock, par value US$0.01, of the Company.
“Company” means the Person named as the “Company” in the first paragraph of this instrument until a successor shall have become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this Agreement, and thereafter “Company” shall mean such successor.
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“Contract Adjustment Payments” means the amounts payable by the Company in respect of each Purchase Contract issued in connection with the Income PRIDES and the Growth PRIDES, which amounts shall be equal to 2.525% per annum of the Stated Amount; computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the principal corporate trust office of the Agent at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration (Fax No. 000-000-0000).
“Coupon Rate” means the percentage rate per annum at which each Senior Note will bear interest.
“Current Market Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(10).
“Early Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
“Early Settlement Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
“Early Settlement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
“Early Settlement Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(b).
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Expiration Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.4(e).
“Expiration Time” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(7).
“Failed Final Remarketing” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b).
“Failed Initial Remarketing” has the meaning specified in Section 5.3.
“Final Remarketing” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b).
“Final Remarketing Date” means the third Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
“Growth PRIDES” means the collective rights and obligations of a holder of a Growth PRIDES Certificate in respect of an undivided beneficial interest in a Treasury Security, subject in each case to the Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
“Growth PRIDES Certificate” means a certificate evidencing the rights and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Growth PRIDES specified on such certificate.
“Growth PRIDES Register” and “Growth PRIDES Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
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“Holder,” when used with respect to a Security, means the Person in whose name the Security evidenced by an Income PRIDES Certificate and/or a Growth PRIDES Certificate is registered in the related Income PRIDES Register and/or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be.
“Income PRIDES” means the collective rights and obligations of a Holder of an Income PRIDES Certificate in respect of a Senior Note, subject to the Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
“Income PRIDES Certificate” means a certificate evidencing the rights and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Income PRIDES specified on such certificate.
“Income PRIDES Register” and “Income PRIDES Registrar” have the respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
“Indenture” means the Indenture, dated as of December 21, 2001, between the Company and Wachovia Bank, National Association (as successor to First Union National Bank), as trustee, as amended by a Replacement Trustee Agreement, by and between The Bank of New York and the Company, as supplemented by a second supplemental indenture, to be dated February 12, 2004 between The Bank of New York, as trustee, and the Company, establishing the Senior Notes.
“Initial Remarketing” has the meaning specified in Section 5.3.
“Initial Remarketing Date(s)” means, unless there has been a successful remarketing of the Senior Notes prior to such date, one or more Business Days selected by the Company as a date on which the Remarketing Agent shall remarket the Senior Notes, provided that no more than five Remarketing Dates shall occur between August 12, 2007 and the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
“Interest Payment Date” with respect to the Senior Notes, has the meaning set forth in the Indenture.
“Issuer Order” or “Issuer Request” means a written order or request signed in the name of the Company by an Authorized Officer and delivered to the Agent.
“Merger Early Settlement” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.12(a).
“Merger Early Settlement Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.12(a).
“NYSE” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer and delivered to the Agent.
“Opinion of Counsel” means an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company or an Affiliate of the Company.
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“Outstanding Securities,” with respect to any Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, means, as of the date of determination, all Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced by Certificates theretofore authenticated, executed and delivered under this Agreement, except:
(i) if a Termination Event has occurred, (A) Growth PRIDES and (B) Income PRIDES for which the Stated Amount of the related Senior Note has been theretofore deposited with the Agent in trust for the Holders of such Income PRIDES
(ii) Income PRIDES and Growth PRIDES evidenced by Certificates theretofore cancelled by the Agent or delivered to the Agent for cancellation or deemed cancelled pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement; and
(iii) Income PRIDES and Growth PRIDES evidenced by Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of which other Certificates have been authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and delivered pursuant to this Agreement, other than any such Certificate in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Agent proof satisfactory to it that such Certificate is held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced by such Certificate are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite number of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding Securities, except that, in determining whether the Agent shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES which a Responsible Officer of the Agent actually knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding Securities if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Agent the pledgee’s right so to act with respect to such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES and that the pledgee is not the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
“Payment Date” means each February 17, May 17, August 17 and November 17, commencing May 17, 2004.
“Permitted Investments” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1 of the Pledge Agreement.
“Person” means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Pledge” means the pledge under the Pledge Agreement of the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and of the Treasury Securities, in each case constituting a part of the Securities.
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“Pledge Agreement” means the Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Agent, on its own behalf and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders from time to time of the Securities.
“Predecessor Certificate” means a Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate or a Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate.
“Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate” of any particular Growth PRIDES Certificate means every previous Growth PRIDES Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder under the Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Growth PRIDES Certificate authenticated and delivered under Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Growth PRIDES Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Growth PRIDES Certificate.
“Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate” of any particular Income PRIDES Certificate means every previous Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder under the Income PRIDES evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Income PRIDES Certificate authenticated and delivered under Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Income PRIDES Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Income PRIDES Certificate.
“Primary Treasury Dealer” means a primary U.S. government securities dealer in New York City.
“Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1 of the Pledge Agreement.
“Purchase Contract” when used with respect to any Security, means the contract forming a part of such Security and obligating the Company (A) to sell and the Holder of such Security to purchase Common Stock equal to the applicable Settlement Rate, and (B) to pay the Holder Contract Adjustment Payments on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article V hereof.
“Purchase Contract Settlement Date” means February 17, 2008.
“Purchase Contract Settlement Fund” has the meaning specified in Section 5.5.
“Purchase Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Purchased Shares” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(7).
“Quotation Agent” means (i) Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Government Securities, Inc. or its successor, provided, however, that, if the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury Dealer, and (ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Company.
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“Record Date” for the distribution payable in respect of the Senior Notes or the Applicable Ownership Percentage of the Treasury Portfolio and Contract Adjustment Payments payable on any Payment Date means a day selected by the Company which shall be at least one Business Day but no more than 60 Business Days prior to such Payment Date.
“Redemption Amount” means (i) in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring prior to the Reset Date or, if there is a Failed Initial Remarketing, prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, for each Senior Note, the product of the principal amount of such Senior Note and a fraction whose numerator is the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price and whose denominator is the aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes that are components of Income PRIDES, and (ii) in the case of a Tax Event Redemption occurring on or after the Reset Date or, if there is a Failed Initial Remarketing, on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, for each Senior Note, the product of the principal amount of such Senior Note and a fraction whose numerator is the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price and whose denominator is the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes outstanding on the Tax Event Redemption Date.
“Redemption Price” means the redemption price per Senior Note equal to the Redemption Amount plus any accrued and unpaid interest on such Senior Note to the date of redemption.
“Reference Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Register” means the Income PRIDES Register and the Growth PRIDES Register.
“Registrar” means the Income PRIDES Registrar and the Growth PRIDES Registrar.
“Remarketing Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 5.3.
“Remarketing Agreement” means the Remarketing Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, the Remarketing Agent and the Agent.
“Remarketing Announcement Date” means the seventh Business Day immediately preceding each proposed Reset Date.
“Remarketing Date” means each of the Initial Remarketing Date and the Final Remarketing Date.
“Remarketing Fee” means 25 basis points (0.25%) of the aggregate principal amount of the remarketed Senior Notes if the maturity date of the remarketed Senior Notes is on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, or, if the maturity date of the Senior Notes is extended on the Reset Date to after February 17, 2010, such other amount as agreed between the Company and the Remarketing Agent.
“Reorganization Event” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(b).
“Reset Agent” means a nationally recognized investment banking firm chosen by the Company to determine the Reset Rate.
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“Reset Date” means the third Business Day immediately following the Initial Remarketing Date on which the Senior Notes are successfully remarketed or the Final Remarketing Date if the Senior Notes are successfully remarketed on such date.
“Reset Rate” means the Coupon Rate to be in effect for the Senior Notes on and after the Reset Date and determined as provided in Section 4.1.
“Reset Spread” means (a) in the case of the Reset Rate to be determined on an Initial Remarketing Date, a spread amount to be determined by the Reset Agent on the applicable Remarketing Announcement Date as the appropriate spread so that the Reset Rate will be the interest rate that the Senior Notes should bear in order for the Applicable Principal Amount of Senior Notes to have an approximate aggregate market value of 100.25% of the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price on an Initial Remarketing Date and (b) in the case of the Reset Rate to be determined on the Final Remarketing Date, a spread amount determined by the Reset Agent on the applicable Remarketing Announcement Date as the appropriate spread so that the Reset Rate will be the interest rate that the Senior Notes should bear in order for the Senior Notes to have an approximate aggregate market value of 100.25% of their principal amount on the Final Remarketing Date.
“Responsible Officer,” when used with respect to the Agent, means any officer of the Agent assigned by the Agent to administer its corporate trust matters.
“Security” means an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES.
“Senior Indebtedness” means indebtedness of any kind of the Company (including the Senior Notes) unless the instrument under which such indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that it is in parity or subordinate in right of payment to the Contract Adjustment Payments.
“Senior Notes” means the series of senior notes of the Company designated 4.125% Senior Notes initially due 2010, to be issued under the Indenture as of the date hereof.
“Settlement Rate” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Significant Corporate Action” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(8).
“Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13.
“Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement Date” has the meaning specified in Section 5.13.
“Stated Amount” means $1,000, which is equal to the stated amount of an Income PRIDES and the stated amount of a Growth PRIDES, as the case may be.
“Successful Initial Remarketing” has the meaning specified in Section 5.3.
“Successful Final Remarketing” has the meaning specified in Section 5.4(b).
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“Tax Event” means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of nationally recognized tax counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Senior Notes on the next Payment Date would not be deductible, in whole or in part, by the Company for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of (a) any amendment to, change in, or announced proposed change in, the laws, or any regulations thereunder, of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein affecting taxation, (b) any amendment to or change in an official interpretation or application of any such law or regulations by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority or (c) any official interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a position with respect to any such laws or regulations that differs from the generally accepted position on the date hereof, which amendment, change, or proposed change is effective or which interpretation or pronouncement is announced on or after the date hereof.
“Tax Event Redemption” means, if a Tax Event shall occur and be continuing, the redemption of the Senior Notes, at the option of the Company, in whole but not in part, on not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days’ written notice.
“Tax Event Redemption Date” means the date upon which a Tax Event Redemption is to occur.
“Tax Event Redemption Principal Amount” means either (i) if the Tax Event Redemption Date occurs prior to the Reset Date or, in the event of failed remarketing, prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes which are components of Income PRIDES on the Tax Event Redemption Date or (ii) if the Tax Event Redemption Date occurs on or after the Reset Date or, in the event of a failed remarketing, on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes outstanding on such Tax Event Redemption Date.
“Tender or Exchange Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(7).
“Termination Date” means the date, if any, on which a Termination Event occurs.
“Termination Event” means the occurrence of any of the following events: (i) at any time on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a judgment, decree or court order shall have been entered granting relief under the Bankruptcy Code, adjudicating the Company to be insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization or liquidation of the Company under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar applicable Federal or state law, and, unless such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or (ii) a judgment, decree or court order for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of its property, or for the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered, and, unless such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, such judgment, decree or order shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or (iii) at any time on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the Company shall file a petition for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, or shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a petition or
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answer or consent seeking reorganization or liquidation under the Bankruptcy Code or any other similar applicable Federal or state law, or shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or of its property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due.
“Threshold Appreciation Price” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or any successor statute.
“Trading Day” has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
“Treasury Portfolio” means a portfolio of zero-coupon U.S. Treasury securities consisting of (i) principal or interest strips of U.S. Treasury securities that mature on or prior to February 15, 2008 in an aggregate amount equal to the Applicable Principal Amount and (ii) with respect to the originally scheduled Interest Payment Dates on the Senior Notes that occur after a Successful Initial Remarketing or a Successful Final Remarketing, or with respect to each originally scheduled Interest Payment Dates on the Senior Notes that occur after the Tax Event Redemption Date and on or before February 17, 2008, in the case of a Tax Event Redemption, interest or principal strips of U.S. Treasury securities that mature on or prior to that Interest Payment Date in an aggregate amount equal to the aggregate interest payment that would be due on the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes if the Coupon Rate was not reset pursuant to a Successful Initial Remarketing or a Successful Final Remarketing.
“Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price” means the lowest aggregate price quoted by a primary U.S. government securities dealer in New York City to the Quotation Agent on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Tax Event Redemption Date for the purchase of the Treasury Portfolio for settlement on the Tax Event Redemption Date.
“Treasury Security” means a zero-coupon U.S. Treasury security with a principal amount at maturity equal to $1,000 and maturing on February 15, 2008 (or, if the maturity date of the Senior Notes is extended to a later date, on such later maturity date).
“Vice President” means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or words added before or after the title “vice president.”
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Agreement, upon any application or request by the Company to the Agent to take any action under any provision of this Agreement, the Company shall furnish to the Agent an Officer’s Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Agreement relating to the proposed action have been complied with and, if requested by the Agent, an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision of this Agreement relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
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Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Agreement shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he or she has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable such individual to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Agent.
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.
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 in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his 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 Company stating that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other instruments under this Agreement, they may, but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Agreement to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or by agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered to the
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Agent 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 appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Agreement and (subject to Section 7.1) conclusive in favor of the Agent and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument or writing may be proved in any manner which the Agent deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Income PRIDES Register or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Certificate shall bind every future Holder of the same Certificate and the Holder of every Certificate issued upon the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Certificate.
(e) 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 Agreement to be given, made or taken by Holders of Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Holders of the Outstanding Securities, whether Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, on such record date, and no other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action with respect to the Income PRIDES or the Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, 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 number 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 cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities on the date such action is taken. 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 Agent in writing and to each Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the Company may designate any date 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 Agent 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, the Company shall be deemed to have initially designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration
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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 180th day after the applicable record date.
Section 1.5. Notices.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Agreement to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(1) the Agent by any Holder or by the Company shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Agent at The Bank of New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration (Fax No. 000-000-0000), or at any other address previously furnished in writing by the Agent to the Holders and the Company; or
(2) the Company by the Agent or by any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company at Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., 000 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000, Attention: Chief Financial Officer, or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Agent by the Company; or
(3) the Collateral Agent by the Agent, the Company or any Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, addressed to the Collateral Agent at The Bank of New York, 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0X, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration (Fax No. 000-000-0000), or at any other address previously furnished in writing by the Collateral Agent to the Agent, the Company and the Holders.
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Agreement 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, at its address as it appears in the applicable Register, not later than the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the 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 Agreement 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 Agent, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such notification as shall be
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made with the approval of the Agent shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
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 hereof.
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Agreement by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.9. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Agreement or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and, to the extent provided hereby, the Holders, any benefits or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Agreement. The Holders from time to time shall be beneficiaries of this Agreement and shall be bound by all of the terms and conditions hereof and of the Securities evidenced by their Certificates by their acceptance of delivery of such Certificates.
Section 1.11. Governing Law.
This Agreement and the Securities shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Payment Date shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Income PRIDES Certificates or the Growth PRIDES Certificates) payment of the Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, shall not be made on such date, but such payments shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Payment Date, and no interest shall accrue or be payable by the Company or any Holder for the period from and after any such Payment Date, except that, if such next succeeding Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such Payment Date.
In any case where any Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the Income PRIDES Certificates or the Growth PRIDES Certificates), the Purchase Contracts shall not be performed on such date,
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but the Purchase Contracts shall be performed on the immediately following Business Day with the same force and effect as if performed on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
Section 1.13. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts by the parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and delivered, shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument.
Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement.
A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times during normal business hours at the Corporate Trust Office for inspection by any Holder.
ARTICLE II
CERTIFICATE FORMS
Section 2.1. Forms of Certificates Generally.
The Income PRIDES Certificates (including the form of Purchase Contract forming part of the Income PRIDES evidenced thereby) shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, with such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Income PRIDES are listed or any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company executing such Income PRIDES Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Income PRIDES Certificates.
The definitive Income PRIDES Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such Income PRIDES Certificates, consistent with the provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
The Growth PRIDES Certificates (including the form of Purchase Contracts forming part of the Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby) shall be in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto, with such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Growth PRIDES may be listed or any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company executing such Growth PRIDES Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Growth PRIDES Certificates.
The definitive Growth PRIDES Certificates shall be printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing such Growth PRIDES Certificates, consistent with the provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
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Section 2.2. Form of Agent’s Certificate of Authentication.
The form of the Agent’s certificate of authentication of the Income PRIDES shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Income PRIDES Certificates set forth as Exhibit A hereto.
The form of the Agent’s certificate of authentication of the Growth PRIDES shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Growth PRIDES Certificates set forth as Exhibit B hereto.
ARTICLE III
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1. Title and Terms; Denominations.
The aggregate number of Income PRIDES evidenced by Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder will initially be 250,000, except for Certificates authenticated, executed and delivered upon registration of transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Certificates pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.8, 3.11, 3.12, 5.9 or 8.5. Growth PRIDES will be issued only in the manner described in Section 3.13 hereof. The Company may from time to time authorize and issue additional PRIDES that will constitute a single series with the PRIDES referred to in the prior sentence without the consent of the Holders thereof.
The Certificates shall be issuable only in registered form and only in denominations of a single Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 3.2. Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the Certificates.
Each Income PRIDES Certificate shall evidence the number of Income PRIDES specified therein, with each such Income PRIDES representing the ownership by the Holder thereof of a beneficial interest in a Senior Note or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge of such Senior Note or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Holder thereof and the Company under one Purchase Contract. The Agent as attorney-in-fact for, and on behalf of, the Holder of each Income PRIDES shall pledge, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Senior Note or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, forming a part of such Income PRIDES, to the Collateral Agent and grant to the Collateral Agent a security interest in the right, title, and interest of such Holder in such Senior Note or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligation of the Holder under each Purchase Contract to purchase the Common Stock of the Company. Prior to the purchase of Common Stock under each Purchase Contract, the Purchase Contracts shall not entitle the Holders of Income PRIDES Certificates to any of the rights of a holder of Common Stock, including, without limitation, the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or for the election of directors of the Company or for any other matter, or any other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
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Each Growth PRIDES Certificate shall evidence the number of Growth PRIDES specified therein, with each such Growth PRIDES representing the ownership by the Holder thereof of an undivided beneficial ownership interest in a Treasury Security, subject to the Pledge of such Treasury Security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Holder thereof and the Company under one Purchase Contract. The Agent as attorney-in-fact for, and on behalf of, the Holder of each Growth PRIDES shall pledge, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, each Treasury Security forming a part of such Growth PRIDES, to the Collateral Agent and grant to the Collateral Agent a security interest in the right, title, and interest of such Holder in such Treasury Security for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligation of the Holder under one Purchase Contract to purchase the Common Stock of the Company. Prior to the purchase of Common Stock under each Purchase Contract, the Purchase Contracts shall not entitle the Holders of Growth PRIDES Certificates to any of the rights of a holder of Common Stock, including, without limitation, the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or for the election of directors of the Company or for any other matter, or any other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 3.11 and 3.12 hereof, upon the execution and delivery of this Agreement, and at any time and from time to time thereafter, the Company may deliver Certificates executed by the Company to the Agent for authentication, execution on behalf of the Holders and delivery, together with its Issuer Order for authentication of such Certificates, and the Agent in accordance with such Issuer Order shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holders and deliver such Certificates.
The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by any Authorized Officer and delivered to the Agent. The signature of any such officer on the Certificates may be manual or facsimile.
Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were at any time an Authorized Officer shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did not hold such offices at the date of such Certificates.
No Purchase Contract evidenced by a Certificate shall be valid until such Certificate has been executed on behalf of the Holder by the manual signature of an authorized signatory of the Agent, as such Holder’s attorney-in-fact. Such signature by an authorized signatory of the Agent shall be conclusive evidence that the Holder of such Certificate has entered into the Purchase Contracts evidenced by such Certificate.
Each Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein executed by an authorized signatory of the Agent by
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manual signature, and such certificate upon any Certificate shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 3.4. Temporary Certificates.
Pending the preparation of definitive Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holders, and deliver, in lieu of such definitive Certificates, temporary Certificates which are in substantially the forms set forth in Exhibit A and Exhibit B hereto, as the case may be, with such letters, numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES are listed, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the Certificates.
If temporary Certificates are issued, the Company will cause definitive Certificates to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Certificates, the temporary Certificates shall be exchangeable for definitive Certificates upon surrender of the temporary Certificates at the Corporate Trust Office, at the expense of the Company and without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange therefor, one or more definitive Certificates of like tenor and denominations and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, as the temporary Certificate or Certificates so surrendered. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates shall in all respects evidence the same benefits and the same obligations with respect to the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, evidenced thereby as definitive Certificates.
Section 3.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Agent shall keep at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the “Income PRIDES Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of Income PRIDES Certificates and of transfers of Income PRIDES Certificates (the Agent, in such capacity, the “Income PRIDES Registrar”) and a register (the “Growth PRIDES Register”) in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of the Growth PRIDES Certificates and of transfers of Growth PRIDES Certificates (the Agent, in such capacity, the “Growth PRIDES Registrar”).
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the Corporate Trust Office, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the designated transferee or transferees, and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Certificates of any authorized denominations, like tenor, and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be.
At the option of the Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other Certificates, of any authorized denominations and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES,
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as the case may be, upon surrender of the Certificates to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office. Whenever any Certificates are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver the Certificates which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of a Certificate shall evidence the ownership of the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and be entitled to the same benefits and subject to the same obligations, under this Agreement as the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, evidenced by the Certificate surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Agent) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or its attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or exchange of a Certificate, but the Company and the Agent may require payment from the Holder of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any registration of transfer or exchange of Certificates, other than any exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.6 and 8.5 not involving any transfer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder and deliver any Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange on or after the Business Day immediately preceding the earlier of the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or the Termination Date. In lieu of delivery of a new Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above in this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer instructions from such Holder, the Agent shall (i) if the Purchase Contract Settlement Date has occurred, deliver the number of shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a part of the Securities evidenced by such Certificate, (ii) in the case of Income PRIDES, if a Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, transfer the aggregate Stated Amount of the Senior Notes evidenced thereby or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or (iii) in the case of Growth PRIDES, if a Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, transfer the Treasury Securities evidenced thereby, in each case subject to the applicable conditions and in accordance with the applicable provisions of Article V hereof.
Section 3.6. Certificated PRIDES.
The Certificates, on original issuance, will be issued in the form of fully registered definitive Certificates to be delivered to the Holders of such Certificates.
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Section 3.7. Notices to Holders.
Whenever a notice or other communication to the Holders is required to be given under this Agreement, the Company or the Company’s agent shall give such notices and communications to the Holders.
Section 3.8. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Certificates.
If any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Agent, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange therefor, a new Certificate at the cost of the Holder, evidencing the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Agent (i) evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and (ii) such security or indemnity at the cost of the Holder as may be required by them to hold each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Agent that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate, evidencing the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and bearing a Certificate number not contemporaneously outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder, a Certificate on or after the Business Day immediately preceding the earlier of the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or the Termination Date. In lieu of delivery of a new Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions specified above in this Section and receipt of appropriate registration or transfer instructions from such Holder, the Agent shall (i) if the Purchase Contract Settlement Date has occurred, deliver the number of shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a part of the Securities evidenced by such Certificate, or (ii) if a Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, transfer the Senior Notes, or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, evidenced thereby, in each case subject to the applicable conditions and in accordance with the applicable provisions of Article V hereof.
Upon the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the Company and the Agent may require payment from the Holder 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 Agent) connected therewith.
Every new Certificate issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the Company and of the Holder in respect of the Security evidenced thereby, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate (and the Securities evidenced thereby) shall be at any time enforceable by
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anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and be subject to all the obligations of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any and all other Certificates delivered hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 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 Certificates.
Section 3.9. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Certificate for registration of transfer, the Company and the Agent, and any agent of the Company or the Agent, may treat the Person in whose name such Certificate is registered as the owner of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby, for the purpose of receiving interest on the Senior Notes or distributions on the maturing interest strips of the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, receiving payments of Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any interest on the Senior Notes or the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of the Purchase Contracts constituting a part of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company nor the Agent, nor any agent of the Company or the Agent, shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 3.10. Cancellation.
All Certificates surrendered for delivery of Common Stock on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, upon the transfer of Senior Notes or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, after the occurrence of a Termination Event or pursuant to an Early Settlement, or upon the registration of a transfer or exchange of a Security, or a Collateral Substitution or the re-establishment of an Income PRIDES shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Agent, be delivered to the Agent and, if not already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Agent for cancellation any Certificates previously authenticated, executed and delivered hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Certificates so delivered shall, upon Issuer Order, be promptly cancelled by the Agent. No Certificates shall be authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and delivered in lieu of or in exchange for any Certificates cancelled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Agreement. All cancelled Certificates held by the Agent shall be disposed of by the Agent in accordance with its customary practices or upon written request be returned to the Company.
If the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall acquire any Certificate, such acquisition shall not operate as a cancellation of such Certificate unless and until such Certificate is delivered to the Agent cancelled or for cancellation.
Section 3.11. Establishment of Growth PRIDES.
A Holder may separate the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, from the related Purchase Contracts in respect of an Income PRIDES by substituting for such Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable
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Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, Treasury Securities in an aggregate principal amount of such Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable (a “Collateral Substitution”), at any time from and after the date of this Agreement and on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in the case of the Senior Notes and on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in the case of the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, in each case by (a) depositing with the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities having an aggregate principal amount at maturity equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes comprising part of such Income PRIDES or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio comprising part of such Income PRIDES, as the case may be, and (b) transferring the related Income PRIDES to the Agent accompanied by a notice to the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, stating that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount of Treasury Securities to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent instruct the Collateral Agent to release the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES, whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon receipt of the Treasury Securities described in clause (a) above and the instruction described in clause (b) above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent will release to the Agent, on behalf of the Holder, Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, having the appropriate aggregate principal amount in the case of such Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the Pledge, free and clear of the Company’s security interest therein, and upon receipt thereof the Agent shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Income PRIDES;
(ii) transfer the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and deliver a Growth PRIDES Certificate executed by the Company in accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Income PRIDES.
Holders who elect to separate the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the related Purchase Contract and to substitute Treasury Securities for such Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable to the Collateral Agent for its services as Collateral Agent in respect of the substitution, and the Company shall not be responsible for any such fees or expenses.
In the event a Holder making a Collateral Substitution pursuant to this Section 3.11 fails to deliver an Income PRIDES Certificate(s) to the Agent after depositing Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent, the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of
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the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting a part of such Income PRIDES, and any interest on such Senior Note or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Income PRIDES are so transferred or the Income PRIDES Certificate is so delivered, as the case may be, or, with respect to an Income PRIDES Certificate, such Holder provides evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Agent that such Income PRIDES Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
Except as provided in this Section 3.11, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying an Income PRIDES remains in effect, such Income PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder in respect of the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and Purchase Contract comprising such Income PRIDES may be acquired, and may be transferred and exchanged, only as an Income PRIDES.
Section 3.12. Reestablishment of Income PRIDES.
A Holder of a Growth PRIDES may create or recreate Income PRIDES at any time (i) on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, if a Tax Event Redemption or a Successful Initial Remarketing has not occurred, and (ii) on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, if a Tax Event Redemption or a Successful Initial Remarketing has occurred and an Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio has become a component of the Income PRIDES, in each case by (a) depositing with the Collateral Agent Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, having an aggregate principal amount in the case of the Senior Notes, or an appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as defined in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Treasury Securities comprising part of the Growth PRIDES and (b) transferring the related Growth PRIDES to the Agent accompanied by a notice to the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto, stating that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount of Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent instruct the Collateral Agent to release the Treasury Securities underlying such Growth PRIDES, whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon receipt of the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, described in clause (a) above and the instruction described in clause (b) above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent will release to the Agent, on behalf of the Holder, the Treasury Securities having a corresponding aggregate principal amount from the Pledge, free and clear of the Company’s security interest therein, and upon receipt thereof the Agent shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Growth PRIDES;
(ii) transfer the Treasury Securities to the Holder; and
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(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and deliver an Income PRIDES Certificate executed by the Company in accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Growth PRIDES.
In the event a Holder re-establishing Income PRIDES pursuant to this Section 3.12 fails to deliver a Growth PRIDES Certificate(s) to the Agent after depositing Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, with the Collateral Agent, the Treasury Securities constituting a part of such Growth PRIDES shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Growth PRIDES are so transferred or the Growth PRIDES Certificate is so delivered, as the case may be, or, with respect to a Growth PRIDES Certificate, such Holder provides evidence satisfactory to the Company and the Agent that such Growth PRIDES Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
Except as provided in this Section 3.12, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a Growth PRIDES remains in effect, such Growth PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Growth PRIDES in respect of the Treasury Security and Purchase Contract comprising such Growth PRIDES may be acquired, and may be transferred and exchanged, only as a Growth PRIDES.
Section 3.13. Transfer of Collateral upon Occurrence of Termination Event.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event and the transfer to the Agent of the Senior Notes, the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, as the case may be, underlying the Income PRIDES and the Growth PRIDES pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent shall request transfer instructions with respect to such Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from each Holder by written request mailed to such Holder at its address as it appears in the Income PRIDES Register or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be. Upon delivery of an Income PRIDES Certificate or a Growth PRIDES Certificate to the Agent with such transfer instructions, the Agent shall transfer the Senior Notes, the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, to such Holder by book-entry transfer, or other appropriate procedures, in accordance with such instructions; provided, however, that, to the extent that a Holder of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES would otherwise be entitled to receive less than $1,000 principal amount at maturity of the Treasury Portfolio or the Treasury Securities, the Agent shall dispose of such securities for cash, and transfer the appropriate amount of such cash to such Holder in accordance with such Holder’s instructions. In the event a Holder of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES fails to effect such transfer or delivery, the Senior Notes, the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and any distributions thereon, shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES are transferred or the Income PRIDES Certificate or Growth PRIDES Certificate is surrendered or such Holder provides satisfactory evidence that such Income
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PRIDES Certificate or Growth PRIDES Certificate has been destroyed, lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the Company.
Section 3.14. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Securities may use CUSIP numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Agent shall use CUSIP numbers in notices as a convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of a redemption 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. The Company will promptly notify the Agent of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE IV
THE SENIOR NOTES
Section 4.1. Interest and Other Payments; Rights to Payments Preserved; Interest Rate Reset; Notice.
A payment of interest on the Senior Notes or distribution with respect to the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, which is paid on any Payment Date shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent from the Collateral Agent as provided by the terms of the Pledge Agreement, be paid to the Person in whose name the Income PRIDES Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificates) of which such Senior Note or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, is a part, is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Each Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing Senior Notes delivered under this Agreement upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Income PRIDES Certificate shall carry the rights to accrued and unpaid interest, and other amounts that are to accrue, which were or will be carried by the Senior Notes underlying such other Income PRIDES Certificate.
In the case of any Income PRIDES with respect to which Cash Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date pursuant to prior notice, or with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, or with respect to which a Collateral Substitution is effected, in each case on a date that is after any Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, interest on the Senior Notes or distributions on the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying such Income PRIDES otherwise payable on such Payment Date shall be payable on such Payment Date notwithstanding such Cash Settlement or Early Settlement or Collateral Substitution, and such distributions shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent, be payable to the Person in whose name the Income PRIDES Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificates) was registered at the close of business on the Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case
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of any Income PRIDES with respect to which Cash Settlement or Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or an Early Settlement Date, as the case may be, or with respect to which a Collateral Substitution has been effected, payments of interest on the related Senior Notes or distributions with respect to the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, that would otherwise be payable after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or Early Settlement Date shall not be payable hereunder to the Holder of such Income PRIDES; provided, however, that to the extent that such Holder continues to hold the separated Senior Notes that formerly comprised a part of such Holder’s Income PRIDES, such Holder shall be entitled to receive any payments made on such separated Senior Note.
The Senior Notes shall bear interest at the Reset Rate from the Reset Date. The Reset Rate shall equal the sum of (i) the Reset Spread and (ii) the yield on the Applicable Benchmark Treasury in effect on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Reset Date and shall be determined by the Reset Agent; provided that the Reset Rate will in no event exceed the maximum rate permitted by applicable law. On each Remarketing Announcement Date, the Reset Agent will establish the Reset Spread to be added to the yield on the Applicable Benchmark Treasury expected to be in effect on the Remarketing Date. On the Business Day immediately following the Remarketing Announcement Date, the Company will cause a notice of (a) the Reset Spread and the Applicable Benchmark Treasury, (b) any change in the scheduled Interest Payment Dates and maturity date of the Senior Notes that will become effective on the Reset Date upon a successful remarketing and (c) if applicable, the percentage of the undivided beneficial ownership interest, to be published in an Authorized Newspaper. In the event of a Failed Final Remarketing, the Coupon Rate will not be reset and the Senior Notes will continue to bear interest at the Coupon Rate effective at the time the Senior Notes were initially issued.
Section 4.2. Notice and Voting.
Under and subject to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Senior Notes pledged with the Collateral Agent but only to the extent instructed by the Holders as described below. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which holders of Senior Notes are entitled to vote or upon any solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Senior Notes, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the Holders of Income PRIDES a notice (a) containing such information as is contained in the notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each Holder on the record date set by the Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as the record date for determining the holders of Senior Notes entitled to vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the Senior Notes underlying their Income PRIDES and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon the written request of the Holders of Income PRIDES on such record date, the Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number of Senior Notes as to which any particular voting instructions are received. In the absence of specific instructions from the Holder of an Income PRIDES, the Agent shall abstain from voting the Senior Note constituting a part of such Holder’s Income PRIDES. The Company hereby agrees, if applicable, to solicit Holders of Income PRIDES to timely instruct the Agent in order to enable the Agent to vote such Senior Notes.
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Section 4.3. Tax Event Redemption.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Reset Date, or in the event of a Failed Initial Remarketing, prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent will apply, out of the aggregate Redemption Price for the Senior Notes that are components of Income PRIDES, an amount equal to the aggregate Redemption Amount for the Senior Notes that are components of Income PRIDES to purchase on behalf of the Holders of Income PRIDES the Treasury Portfolio and promptly remit the remaining portion of such Redemption Price to the Agent for payment to the Holders of such Income PRIDES. The Treasury Portfolio will be substituted for the pledged Senior Notes, and will be held by the Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement to secure the obligation of each Holder of an Income PRIDES to purchase the Common Stock of the Company under the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Income PRIDES. Following the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Reset Date, or, in the event of a Failed Initial Remarketing, prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the Holders of Income PRIDES and the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Treasury Portfolio as the Holder of Income PRIDES and the Collateral Agent had in respect of the Senior Notes, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge thereof as provided in the Pledge Agreement, and any reference herein or in the Certificates to the Senior Note shall be deemed to be a reference to such Treasury Portfolio and any reference herein or in the Certificates to interest on the Senior Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to corresponding distributions on the Treasury Portfolio. The Company may cause to be made in any Income PRIDES Certificates thereafter to be issued such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) as may be appropriate to reflect the substitution of the Treasury Portfolio for Senior Notes as collateral.
Section 4.4. Consent to Treatment for Tax Purposes.
Each Holder and beneficial owner of the Securities, by its acceptance thereof, covenants and agrees to treat itself as the owner, for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes of (i) the related Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, in the case of the Income PRIDES, or (ii) the Treasury Securities, in the case of the Growth PRIDES. The Company, and by purchasing and accepting the Securities or the Senior Notes, each Holder and beneficial owner of the Securities or a holder or beneficial owner of the Senior Notes, as the case may be, will be deemed to have agreed to treat for all United States federal income tax purposes the Senior Notes as “contingent payment debt instruments” as the term is used in Treasury regulation section 1.1275-4. The Company covenants and agrees and each Holder and beneficial owner of the Income PRIDES, by its acceptance thereof, further covenants and agrees (i) to treat the Senior Notes as indebtedness of the Company for federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes and (ii) to allocate $1,000.00 of the issue price of an Income PRIDES to the Senior Note and $0.00 of the issue price to the Purchase Contract.
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ARTICLE V
THE PURCHASE CONTRACTS
Section 5.1. Purchase of Common Stock.
Each Purchase Contract shall, unless an Early Settlement has occurred in accordance with Section 5.9 hereof, obligate the Holder of the related Security to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount (the “Purchase Price”), a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate unless, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have occurred a Termination Event with respect to the Security of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The “Settlement Rate” is the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or greater than $127.28 (the “Threshold Appreciation Price”), the difference of the two following fractions: (i) the Stated Amount divided by $83.19 (the “Reference Price”) and (ii) $530 divided by the Applicable Market Value, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price, but is greater than the Reference Price, the Stated Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to the Reference Price, 12.0207 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, which is equal to the Stated Amount divided by the Reference Price, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in Section 5.6 (and in each case rounded upward or downward to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share). As provided in Section 5.10, no fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts.
The “Applicable Market Value” means the average of the Closing Price per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
The “Closing Price” of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite transactions for the principal United States national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities exchange, the last closing sale price on and as reported by the NASDAQ Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the Closing Price means the market value of the Common Stock on such date determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company.
A “Trading Day” means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
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Each Holder of an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance thereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase Contract on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact (including the execution of Certificates on behalf of such Holder), agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform its obligations under such Purchase Contracts, and consents to the provisions hereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent as its attorney-in-fact to enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact, and consents to and agrees to be bound by the Pledge of the Senior Notes or the Treasury Securities pursuant to the Pledge Agreement; provided that upon a Termination Event, the rights of the Holder of such Security under the Purchase Contract may be enforced without regard to any other rights or obligations. Each Holder of an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance thereof, further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments in respect of the Stated Amount of the Senior Notes or the Proceeds of the Treasury Securities, the Senior Notes or the Treasury Portfolio, as applicable, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder’s obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such payments.
Upon registration of transfer of a Certificate, the transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant hereto), under the terms of this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts underlying such Certificate and the Pledge Agreement and the transferor shall be released from the obligations under this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts underlying the Certificates so transferred and the Pledge Agreement. The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Certificate, by its acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph.
The Agent shall have no responsibility whatsoever for calculating or determining any amounts under this Section or elsewhere in this Agreement, and shall have no liability whatsoever for any errors with respect to such calculations or amounts.
Section 5.2. Contract Adjustment Payments.
The Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of each Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name a Certificate (or one or more predecessor Certificates) is registered on the Register at the close of business on the Record Date next preceding such Payment Date. The Contract Adjustment Payments will be payable at the Corporate Trust Office or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such Person’s address as it appears on the Income PRIDES Register or Growth PRIDES Register or by wire transfer to an account appropriately designated in writing by the Person entitled to payment.
Payments of the Contract Adjustment Payments shall be made net of any amounts that the Company or the Agent, in their sole discretion, reasonably determine should be withheld therefrom and paid to any taxing authority. For all purposes of this Agreement and any other agreement related to the PRIDES, any such amounts so withheld shall be treated as paid to the Holder of Securities.
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Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company’s obligation to pay Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments) shall cease.
Each Certificate delivered under this Agreement upon registration of transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Certificate (including as a result of a Collateral Substitution or the reestablishment of an Income PRIDES) shall carry the rights to Contract Adjustment Payments accrued and unpaid, and to accrue Contract Adjustment Payments, which were carried by the Purchase Contracts which were represented by such other Certificates.
Subject to Section 5.9, in the case of any Security with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date that is after any Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, otherwise payable on such Payment Date shall be payable on such Payment Date notwithstanding such early settlement, and such Contract Adjustment Payments shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent, be payable to the Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such Security (or one or more predecessor Certificates) was registered at the close of business on such Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any Security with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, Contract Adjustment Payments that would otherwise be payable after the Early Settlement Date with respect to such Purchase Contract shall not be payable.
The Company’s obligations with respect to Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments), will be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the Company’s obligations under any Senior Indebtedness. Upon any payment or distribution of the Company’s assets to its creditors upon any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or reorganization, whether voluntary or involuntary, or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceedings, the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due thereon, or payment of such amounts shall have been provided for, before the holders of the Securities shall be entitled to receive any Contract Adjustment Payments.
No payment of Contract Adjustment Payments may be made if (i) any payment default on any Senior Indebtedness has occurred and is continuing beyond any applicable grace period; or (ii) any default other than a payment default with respect to Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing that permits the acceleration of the maturity thereof and the Agent receives a written notice of such default from the Company or the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
Section 5.3. Initial Remarketing.
Unless a Tax Event Redemption has occurred, the Company shall engage a nationally recognized investment bank (the “Remarketing Agent”) pursuant to the Remarketing Agreement to sell the Senior Notes on an Initial Remarketing Date selected by the Company (the “Initial Remarketing”). In order to facilitate the remarketing, the Agent shall notify, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding an Initial Remarketing Date, the Remarketing Agent of the aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes to be remarketed. Concurrently, the Collateral Agent, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, will present
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for remarketing such Senior Notes to the Remarketing Agent. Upon receipt of such notice from the Agent and such Senior Notes from the Collateral Agent, the Remarketing Agent will, on an Initial Remarketing Date, use its reasonable efforts to remarket such Senior Notes on such date at a price of approximately 100.25% (but not less than 100%) of the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price plus a remarketing fee (“Remarketing Fee”) which shall be (i) an amount equal to 25 basis points (0.25%) of the aggregate principal amount of the remarketed Senior Notes if the remarketed Senior Notes mature on or prior to February 17, 2010 or (ii) such other amount as agreed between the Company and the Remarketing Agent if the maturity date of the Senior Notes is otherwise extended on the Reset Date to a date after February 17, 2010. If the Remarketing Agent is able to remarket the Senior Notes at a price equal to or greater than 100% of the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price (a “Successful Initial Remarketing”), the portion of the proceeds from such Successful Initial Remarketing equal to the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price will be applied to purchase the Treasury Portfolio. Any proceeds in excess of those required to pay the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price and the Remarketing Fee will be remitted to the Agent for payment to the Holders of the related Income PRIDES. Income PRIDES Holders whose Senior Notes are so remarketed will not otherwise be responsible for the payment of any Remarketing Fee in connection therewith. The Treasury Portfolio will be substituted for the Senior Notes of Holders of Income PRIDES and will be pledged to the Collateral Agent to secure the Income PRIDES Holders’ obligation to pay the Purchase Price for the Common Stock under the related Purchase Contracts on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. Following the occurrence of a Successful Initial Remarketing, the Holders of Income PRIDES and the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Treasury Portfolio as the Holder of Income PRIDES and the Collateral Agent had in respect of the Senior Notes, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge thereof as provided in the Pledge Agreement, and any reference herein or in the Certificates to the Senior Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to such Treasury Portfolio and any reference herein or in the Certificates to interest on the Senior Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to corresponding distributions on the Treasury Portfolio. The Company may cause to be made in any Income PRIDES Certificates thereafter to be issued such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) as may be appropriate to reflect the substitution of the Treasury Portfolio for Senior Notes as collateral.
If, (1) in spite of using its reasonable efforts, the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the related Senior Notes (other than to the Company) of such Holders of Income PRIDES at a price not less than 100% of the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price or (2) a remarketing has not occurred because a condition precedent to the remarketing has not been fulfilled, in each case, the remarketing will be deemed to have failed, the Senior Notes will continue to be a component of the Income PRIDES and another Initial Remarketing may be attempted according to the procedures set forth in this Section 5.3. If the Remarketing Agent has failed to remarket the Senior Notes on up to five separate dates prior to the fifth Business Day preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, this shall be referred to as a “Failed Initial Remarketing”. The Company will cause a notice of a Failed Initial Remarketing to be published in an Authorized Newspaper.
Section 5.4. Payment of Purchase Price.
(a) (i) Unless a Tax Event Redemption has occurred or a Holder settles the underlying Purchase Contract through the early delivery of cash to the Agent in the manner
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described in Section 5.9, each Holder of an Income PRIDES must notify the Agent by use of a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto of its intention to pay in cash (“Cash Settlement”) the Purchase Price for the Common Stock to be purchased pursuant to a Purchase Contract. Such notice shall be made on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the seventh Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. The Agent shall promptly notify the Collateral Agent of the receipt of such a notice from a Holder intending to make a Cash Settlement.
(ii) A Holder of an Income PRIDES who has so notified the Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with paragraph (a)(i) above is required to pay the Purchase Price to the Collateral Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashiers’ check or wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds payable to or upon the order of the Company. Any cash received by the Collateral Agent will be invested promptly by the Collateral Agent in Permitted Investments and paid to the Company on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in settlement of the Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Any funds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of the investment earnings from the investment in such Permitted Investments will be distributed to the Agent when received for payment to the Holder.
(iii) If a Holder of an Income PRIDES fails to notify the Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with paragraph (a)(i) above, such failure shall constitute an event of default and the Holder shall be deemed to have consented to the disposition of the pledged Senior Notes pursuant to the remarketing as described in paragraph (b) below. If a Holder of an Income PRIDES does notify the Agent as provided in paragraph (a)(i) above of its intention to pay the Purchase Price in cash, but fails to make such payment as required by paragraph (a)(ii) above, such failure shall also constitute a default; however, the Senior Notes of such a Holder will not be remarketed but instead the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, will exercise its rights as a secured parry with respect to such Senior Notes, including those rights specified in paragraph (c) below.
(b) Unless a Tax Event Redemption or a Successful Initial Remarketing has occurred, the Senior Notes of Income PRIDES Holders who have not notified the Agent of their intention to effect a Cash Settlement as provided in paragraph (a)(1) above will be sold by the Remarketing Agent (the “Final Remarketing”) on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (the “Final Remarketing Date”). The Agent shall notify, by 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Final Remarketing Date, the Remarketing Agent of the aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes to be remarketed. Concurrently, the Collateral Agent, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, will present for remarketing such Senior Notes to the Remarketing Agent. Upon receipt of such notice from the Agent and such Senior Notes from the Collateral Agent, the Remarketing Agent will, on the Final Remarketing Date, use its reasonable efforts to remarket such Senior Notes on such date at a price of approximately 100.25% (but not less than 100%) of the aggregate principal amount of such Senior Notes plus the Remarketing Fee. If the Remarketing Agent is able to remarket the Senior Notes at a price equal to or greater than 100%
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of the aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes (a “Successful Final Remarketing”), the Remarketing Agent will remit the entire amount of the proceeds from such Successful Final Remarketing to the Collateral Agent. The portion of the proceeds equal to the aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes will automatically be applied by the Collateral Agent, in accordance with the Pledge Agreement, to satisfy in full such Income PRIDES holders’ obligations to pay the Purchase Price for the Common Stock under the related Purchase Contracts on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. Any proceeds in excess of those required to pay the Purchase Price and the Remarketing Fee will be remitted to the Agent for payment to the Holders of the related Income PRIDES. Income PRIDES Holders whose Senior Notes are so remarketed will not otherwise be responsible for the payment of any Remarketing Fee in connection therewith. If, (i) in spite of using its reasonable efforts, the Remarketing Agent cannot remarket the related Senior Notes (other than to the Company) of such Holders of Income PRIDES at a price not less than 100% of the aggregate principal amount of the Senior Notes or (2) a remarketing has not occurred because a condition precedent to the remarketing has not been fulfilled, in each case the remarketing will be deemed to have failed (a “Failed Final Remarketing”) and in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company will exercise its rights as a secured party with respect to such Senior Notes, including those actions specified in paragraph (c) below. The Company will cause a notice of such Failed Final Remarketing to be published on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in an Authorized Newspaper.
(c) With respect to any Senior Notes beneficially owned by Holders who have elected Cash Settlement but failed to deliver cash as required in (a)(ii) above, or with respect to Senior Notes which are subject to a Failed Final Remarketing, the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Company reserves all of its rights as a secured party with respect thereto and, subject to applicable law and paragraph (g) below, may, among other things, (1) retain the Senior Notes in full satisfaction of the Holders obligations under the Purchase Contracts or (ii) sell the Senior Notes in one or more public or private sales.
(d) (i) Unless a Holder of Growth PRIDES settles the underlying Purchase Contract through the early delivery of cash to the Agent in the manner described in Section 5.9 or a Tax Event Redemption or a successful Initial Remarketing has occurred, each Holder of a Growth PRIDES must notify the Agent by use of a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit E hereto of its intention to pay in cash the Purchase Price for the Common Stock to be purchased pursuant to a Purchase Contract on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
(ii) A Holder of a Growth PRIDES who has so notified the Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with paragraph (d)(i) above is required to pay the Purchase Price to the Collateral Agent prior to 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashiers’ check or wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds payable to or upon the order of the Company. Any cash received by the Collateral Agent will be invested promptly by the Collateral Agent in specific Permitted Investments as directed in writing by the Company and paid to the Company on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in settlement of the Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Any funds
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received by the Collateral Agent in respect of the investment earnings from the investment in such Permitted Investments will be distributed to the Agent when received for payment to the Holder.
(iii) If a Holder of a Growth PRIDES notifies the Agent of its intention to make a Cash Settlement in accordance with paragraph (d)(i) above, but fails to make such payment as required by paragraph (d)(ii) above, then upon the maturity of the Pledged Treasury Securities held by the Collateral Agent on the Business Day immediately prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the principal amount at maturity of the Treasury Securities or the Applicable Ownership Interest (as defined in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, received by the Collateral Agent will be invested promptly in specific overnight Permitted Investments as directed in writing by the Company. On the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, an amount equal to the Purchase Price will be remitted to the Company as payment thereof without receiving any instructions from the Holder. In the event the sum of the proceeds from the related Pledged Treasury Securities and the investment earnings earned from such investments is in excess of the aggregate Purchase Price of the Purchase Contracts being settled thereby, the Collateral Agent will distribute such excess to the Agent for the benefit of the Holder of the related Growth PRIDES when received.
(e) Any distribution to Holders of excess funds and interest described above shall be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York maintained for that purpose or, at the option of the Holder, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it appears on the Register.
(f) Unless a Holder settles the underlying Purchase Contract through the early delivery of cash to the Collateral Agent in the manner described herein, the Company shall not be obligated to issue any Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificate therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the Purchase Price for the Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner herein set forth.
(g) Upon Cash Settlement of any Purchase Contract, (i) the Collateral Agent will in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement cause the Pledged Senior Notes or the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying the relevant Security to be released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent free and clear of any security interest of the Company and transferred to the Agent for delivery to the Holder thereof or its designee as soon as practicable and (ii) subject to the receipt thereof from the Collateral Agent, the Agent shall, by book-entry transfer, or other appropriate procedures, in accordance with instructions provided by the Holder thereof, transfer such Senior Notes or such Treasury Securities (or, if no such instructions are given to the Agent by the Holder, the Agent shall hold such Senior Notes or such Treasury Securities, and any dividends or distributions thereon, in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder).
(h) The obligations of the Holders to pay the Purchase Price are non-recourse obligations and are payable solely out of any Cash Settlement or the proceeds of any Collateral Pledged to secure the obligations of the Holders and in no event will Holders be liable for any deficiency between the proceeds of Collateral disposition and the Purchase Price.
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Section 5.5. Issuance of Common Stock.
Unless a Termination Event shall have occurred on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or an Early Settlement shall have occurred, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, upon its receipt of payment in full of the Purchase Price for the Common Stock purchased by the Holders pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Article and subject to Section 5.6(b), the Company shall issue and deposit with the Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities, one or more certificates representing the newly issued shares of Common Stock registered in the name of the Agent (or its nominee) as custodian for the Holders (such certificates for Common Stock, together with any dividends or distributions for which a record date and payment date for such dividend or distribution has occurred after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, being hereinafter referred to as the “Purchase Contract Settlement Fund”) to which the Holders are entitled hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, upon surrender of a Certificate to the Agent on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, together with settlement instructions thereon duly completed and executed, the Holder of such Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a certificate representing that number of whole shares of Common Stock which such Holder is entitled to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Article V (after taking into account all Securities then held by such Holder) together with cash in lieu of fractional shares as provided in Section 5.10 and any dividends or distributions with respect to such shares constituting part of the Purchase Contract Settlement Fund, but without any interest thereon, and the Certificate so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. Such shares shall be registered in the name of the Holder or the Holder’s designee as specified in the settlement instructions provided by the Holder to the Agent. If any shares of Common Stock issued in respect of a Purchase Contract are to be registered to a Person other than the Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract is registered, no such registration shall be made unless the Person requesting such registration has paid any transfer and other taxes required by reason of such registration in a name other than that of the registered Holder of the Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract or has established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax either has been paid or is not payable.
Section 5.6. Adjustment of Settlement Rate.
(a) Adjustments for Dividends, Distributions, Stock Splits, Etc.
(1) In case the Company shall pay or make a cash dividend or other cash distribution on the Common Stock, the Reference Price and Threshold Appreciation Price used to calculate the Settlement Rate, as in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be adjusted by multiplying each of the Reference Price and Threshold Appreciation Price by a fraction, (i) the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price of the Common Stock on the dividend “ex date” minus the amount per share of cash dividend and (ii) the denominator of which will be the Closing Price of the Common Stock. For purposes of this paragraph, the term “ex date”, when used with respect to any issuance or distribution, shall mean the first date on which the Common Stock trades on such exchange or in such market without the right to receive such issuance or distribution.
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(2) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution on the Common Stock in Common Stock, the Settlement Rate, as in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such dividend or other distribution shall be increased by dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution, such increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (2), the number of shares of Common Stock at the time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include any shares issuable in respect of any scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend or make any distribution on Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(3) In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock (not being available on an equivalent basis to Holders of the Securities upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts underlying such Securities) entitling them, for a period expiring within 45 days after the record date for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants, to subscribe for or purchase Common Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a dividend reinvestment plan), the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be increased by dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such Current Market Price and the denominator of which shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase, such increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (3), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but shall include any shares issuable in respect of any scrip certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company shall not issue any such rights, options or warrants in respect of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(4) In case outstanding Common Stock shall be subdivided or split into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision or split becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, and, conversely, in case outstanding Common Stock shall each be combined into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
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day upon which such combination becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, such increase or reduction, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision, split or combination becomes effective.
(5) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness or assets (including securities, but excluding any rights, options or warrants referred to in paragraph (3) of this Section, any dividend or distribution paid exclusively in cash and any dividend or distribution referred to in paragraphs (1) or (2) of this Section), the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution filed with the Agent) of the portion of the assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator of which shall be such Current Market Price per share of Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the determination of shareholders entitled to receive such distribution. In any case in which this paragraph (5) is applicable, paragraph (3) of this Section shall not be applicable.
(6) In case the Company shall, (I) by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding any cash that is distributed in a Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies or as part of a distribution referred to in paragraph (5) of this Section) in an aggregate amount that, combined together with (II) the aggregate amount of any other distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in cash within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (6) or paragraph (7) of this Section has been made, exceeds 5% of the product of the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on the date for the determination of holders of Common Stock entitled to receive such distribution times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such date, then, and in each such case, immediately after the close of business on such date for determination, the Settlement Rate shall be increased so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the date fixed for determination of the stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction (i) the numerator of which shall be equal to the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on the date fixed for such determination less an amount equal to the quotient of (x) the combined amount distributed or payable in the transactions described in clauses (I) and (II) above and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such date for determination and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on such date for determination.
(7) In case (I) a tender or exchange offer made by the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for shares of Common Stock in a transaction or series of
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transactions which is subject to Rule 13e-4 under the Exchange Act (“Tender or Exchange Offer”) shall expire and such Tender or Exchange Offer (as amended upon the expiration thereof) shall require the payment to shareholders (based on the acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the Tender or Exchange Offer) of Purchased Shares) of an aggregate consideration having a fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) that combined together with (II) the aggregate of the cash plus the fair market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution), as of the expiration of such Tender or Exchange Offer, of consideration payable in respect of any other Tender or Exchange Offer, by the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common Stock expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such Tender or Exchange Offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (7) has been made and (III) the aggregate amount of any distributions to all holders of the Company’s Common Stock made exclusively in cash (excluding any cash that is distributed in a Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies or as part of a distribution referred to in paragraph (5) of this Section) within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such Tender or Exchange Offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to paragraph (6) of this Section or this paragraph (7) has been made, exceeds 15% of the product of the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock as of the last time (the “Expiration Time”) tenders could have been made pursuant to such Tender or Exchange Offer (as it may be amended) times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) on the Expiration Time, then, and in each such case, immediately prior to the opening of business on the day after the date of the Expiration Time, the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate immediately prior to the close of business on the date of the Expiration Time by a fraction (i) the numerator of which shall be equal to (A) the product of (I) the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock on the date of the Expiration Time and (II) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) on the Expiration Time less (B) the amount of cash plus the fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate consideration payable to shareholders based on the transactions described in clauses (I), (II) and (III) above (assuming in the case of clause (I) the acceptance, up to any maximum specified in the terms of the Tender or Exchange Offer, of Purchased Shares), and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the product of (A) the Current Market Price per share of Common Stock as of the Expiration Time and (B) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) as of the Expiration Time less the number of all shares validly tendered and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed so accepted, up to any such maximum, being referred to as the “Purchased Shares”).
(8) In case (I) an offering made by the Company of securities (other than a offering of Common Stock) in which the value of such securities is linked to Common Stock is successfully completed in a amount exceeding $200 million (after November 17, 2004, $300 million) or (II) of an announcement by the Company of an acquisition of a public company in which the consideration to be delivered by the Company includes more than $200 million (after November 17, 2004, $300 million) of Common Stock or securities whose value is linked to Common Stock (each a “Significant Corporate
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Action”), the Reference Price and Threshold Appreciation Price used to calculate the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the prices determined by multiplying such prices at the close of business on the date of the closing of the securities offering with respect to (I) above and at the close of business on the date of the announcement of the acquisition with respect to (II) above by a fraction according to the following table:
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Settlement Date |
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Adjustment Factor |
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February 12, 2004 – August 17, 2004 |
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96 |
% |
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August 18, 2004 – February 17, 2005 |
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96.5 |
% |
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February 18, 2005 – August 17, 2005 |
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97 |
% |
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August 18, 2005 – February 17,2006 |
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97.5 |
% |
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February 18, 2006 – August 17, 2006 |
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98 |
% |
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August 18, 2006 – February 17, 2007 |
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98.5 |
% |
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February 18, 2007 – August 17, 2007 |
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99 |
% |
After August 17, 2007, the Settlement Rate will not be subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of a Significant Corporate Action.
(9) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a Reorganization Event to which Section 5.5(b) applies) shall be deemed to involve (a) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution” and the “date fixed for such determination” within the meaning of paragraph (5) of this Section), and (b) a subdivision, split or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such reclassification into the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding immediately thereafter (and the effective date of such reclassification shall be deemed to be “the day upon which such subdivision or split becomes effective” or “the day upon which such combination becomes effective”, as the case may be, and “the day upon which such subdivision, split or combination becomes effective” within the meaning of paragraph (4) of this Section).
(10) The “Current Market Price” per share of Common Stock on any day means the average of the daily Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading Days ending on the last Trading Day before the day in question.
(11) All adjustments to the Settlement Rate, shall be calculated to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share of Common Stock (or if there is not a nearest 1/10,000th of a share to the next lower 1/10,000th of a share). No adjustment in the Settlement Rate shall be required unless such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least one percent therein; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of this subparagraph are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent adjustment. Adjustments carried forward will be made at least once a
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year on February 1 of each year, notwithstanding that the required change to the Settlement Rate is less than one percent. If an adjustment is made to the Settlement Rate pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (12) of this Section 5.6(a), an adjustment shall also be made to the Applicable Market Value solely to determine which of clauses (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of Settlement Rate in Section 5.1 will apply on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. Such adjustment shall be made by multiplying the Applicable Market Value by a fraction, the numerator of which shall be the Settlement Rate immediately after such adjustment pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8), (9) or (12) of this Section 5.6(a) and the denominator of which shall be the Settlement Rate immediately before such adjustment; provided, however, that if such adjustment to the Settlement Rate is required to be made pursuant to the occurrence of any of the events contemplated by paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (7), (8), (9) or (12) of this Section 5.6(a) during the period taken into consideration for determining the Applicable Market Value, appropriate and customary adjustments shall be made to the Settlement Rate.
(12) The Company may make such increases in the Settlement Rate, in addition to those required by this Section, as it considers to be advisable in order to avoid or diminish any income tax to any holders of Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock or issuance of rights or warrants to purchase or subscribe for stock or from any event treated as such for income tax purposes or for any other reasons.
(b) Adjustment for Consolidation, Merger or Other Reorganization Event. In the event of (1) any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into another Person (other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company is the continuing corporation and in which the Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to the merger or consolidation is not exchanged for cash, securities or other property of the Company or another corporation), (ii) any sale, transfer, lease or conveyance to another Person of the property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, (iii) any statutory exchange of securities of the Company with another Person (other than in connection with a merger or acquisition) or (iv) any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company other than as a result of or after the occurrence of a Termination Event (any such event, a “Reorganization Event”), the Settlement Rate will be adjusted to provide that each Holder of Securities will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date with respect to each Purchase Contract forming a part thereof, the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event (without any interest thereon, and without any right to dividends or distribution thereon which have a record date that is prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date) by a Holder of the number of shares of Common Stock issuable on account of each Purchase Contract if the Purchase Contract Settlement Date had occurred immediately prior to such Reorganization Event assuming such Holder of Common Stock is not a Person with which the Company consolidated or into which the Company merged or which merged into the Company or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be (any such Person, a “Constituent Person”), or an Affiliate of a Constituent Person to the extent such Reorganization Event provides for different treatment of Common Stock held by Affiliates of the Company and non-affiliates and such Holder failed to exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event (provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event is not the same for
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each share of Common Stock held immediately prior to such Reorganization Event by other than a Constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised (“non-electing share”), then for the purpose of this Section the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event by each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares). In the event of such a Reorganization Event, the Person formed by such consolidation, merger or exchange or the Person which acquires the assets of the Company or, in the event of a liquidation or dissolution of the Company, the Company or a liquidating trust created in connection therewith, shall execute and deliver to the Agent an agreement supplemental hereto providing that the Holders of each Outstanding Security shall have the rights provided by this Section 5.6. Such supplemental agreement shall provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental agreement, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Section. The above provisions of this Section shall similarly apply to successive Reorganization Events.
(c) In the event that the Company or the Agent, in their sole discretion, reasonably determine that (1) an adjustment of the settlement rate on the PRIDES could be treated in part or in whole as a deemed distribution taxable as a dividend for United States federal or any relevant state or local income tax purposes, and (2) as a result of such treatment, the Company or the Agent is required to withhold and pay any amount of tax with respect to such deemed dividend, then the Company or the Agent, as the case may be, shall be entitled to withhold such amounts from any cash payment or payments otherwise due to such Holder of Securities. For all purposes of this Agreement and any other agreement related to the PRIDES, any such amounts so withheld shall be treated as paid to the Holder of Securities otherwise entitled to such payment.
Section 5.7. Notice of Adjustments and Certain Other Events.
(a) Whenever the Settlement Rate is adjusted as herein provided, the Company shall:
(i) forthwith compute the Settlement Rate in accordance with Section 5.6 and prepare and transmit to the Agent an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the Settlement Rate, the method of calculation thereof in reasonable detail, and the facts requiring such adjustment and upon which such adjustment is based; and
(ii) within 10 Business Days following the occurrence of an event that requires an adjustment to the Settlement Rate pursuant to Section 5.6 (or if the Company is not aware of such occurrence, as soon as practicable after becoming so aware), provide a written notice to the Holders of the Securities of the occurrence of such event and a statement in reasonable detail setting forth the method by which the adjustment to the Settlement Rate was determined and setting forth the adjusted Settlement Rate.
(b) The Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities to determine whether any facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Settlement Rate, or with respect to the nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with respect to the method employed in making the same. The Agent shall not be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of any Common Stock,
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or of any securities or property, which may at the time be issued or delivered with respect to any Purchase Contract; and the Agent makes no representation with respect thereto. The Agent shall not be responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any Common Stock pursuant to a Purchase Contract or to comply with any of the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this Article.
Section 5.8. Termination Event; Notice.
The Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights and obligations of Holders to purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Securities shall thereafter represent the right to receive the Senior Notes, forming a part of such Securities in the case of Income PRIDES, or Treasury Securities in the case of Growth PRIDES, in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.3 of the Pledge Agreement. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Register.
Section 5.9. Early Settlement.
(a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Section 5.9, on or after June 11, 2004, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Securities, having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof, may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) in the case of Income PRIDES on or prior to the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date and in the case of Growth PRIDES on or prior to the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in each case, as provided herein. Upon Early Settlement, (i) the Holder’s right to receive additional Contract Adjustment Payments in respect of such Purchase Contracts will terminate and (ii) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of any amount accrued in respect of Contract Adjustment Payments. In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing Securities shall deliver such Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied by payment (payable to the Company in immediately available funds in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to (i) the product of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement plus (ii) in the case of Income PRIDES Certificates, if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the sum of the dividends on the related Senior Notes payable on such Payment Date and an amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence, no payment or adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying any
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Securities at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Securities and if such requirements are first satisfied after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not a Business Day, the “Early Settlement Date” with respect to such Securities shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
(b) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Securities, the Company shall issue, and the Holder shall be entitled to receive, 7.8567 shares of Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract as to which Early Settlement is effected (the “Early Settlement Rate”). The Early Settlement Rate shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement Rate is adjusted. As promptly as practicable after Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts in accordance with the provisions of this Section 5.9, the Company shall issue and shall deliver to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office a certificate or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.10.
(c) No later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early Settlement Date the Company shall cause (i) the Common Stock issuable upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts to be issued and delivered, and (ii) the related Senior Notes, in the case of Income PRIDES, or the related Treasury Securities, in the case of Growth PRIDES, to be released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent and transferred, in each case to the Agent for delivery to the Holder thereof or its designee.
(d) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject to receipt of Common Stock from the Company and the Senior Notes, or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Collateral Agent, as applicable, the Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Securities, (i) transfer to the Holder the Senior Notes or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, forming a part of such Securities, and (ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.10.
(e) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Securities evidenced by a Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Agent shall authenticate, countersign and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Securities as to which Early Settlement was not effected.
Section 5.10. No Fractional Shares.
No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares of Common Stock shall be issued or delivered upon settlement on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts. If Certificates evidencing more than one Purchase Contract shall be surrendered for settlement at one time by the same Holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock which shall be delivered upon settlement shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Purchase Contracts evidenced by the Certificates so
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surrendered. Instead of any fractional share of Common Stock which would otherwise be deliverable upon settlement of any Purchase Contracts on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or upon Early Settlement, the Company, through the Agent, shall make a cash payment in respect of such fractional interest in an amount equal to the value of such fractional shares times the Applicable Market Value. The Company shall provide the Agent from time to time with sufficient funds to permit the Agent to make all cash payments required by this Section 5.10 in a timely manner.
Section 5.11. Charges and Taxes.
The Company will pay all stock transfer and similar taxes attributable to the initial issuance and delivery of the Common Stock pursuant to the Purchase Contracts; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any such tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any exchange of or substitution for a Certificate evidencing a Security or any issuance of a share of Common Stock in a name other than that of the registered Holder of a Certificate surrendered in respect of the Securities evidenced thereby, other than in the name of the Agent, as custodian for such Holder, and the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such share certificates or Certificates unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the transfer or issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has been paid.
Section 5.12. Early Settlement Upon Merger.
(a) In the event of a merger or consolidation of the Company of the type described in Section 5.6(b) in which the Common Stock outstanding immediately prior to such merger or consolidation is exchanged for consideration consisting of at least 30% cash or cash equivalents (any such event a “Cash Merger”), then the Company (or the successor to the Company hereunder) shall be required to offer the Holder of each Income PRIDES the right to settle the Purchase Contract underlying such Income PRIDES prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (“Merger Early Settlement”) as provided herein. On or before the fifth Business Day after the consummation of a Cash Merger the Company or, at the written request and expense of the Company, the Agent shall give all Holders notice, in the manner provided in Section 1.6, of the occurrence of the Cash Merger and of the right of Merger Early Settlement arising as a result thereof. The Company shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Agent and the Collateral Agent. Each such notice shall contain:
(i) the date on which the Merger Early Settlement will be effected (the “Merger Early Settlement Date”);
(ii) the date, which shall be 10 days after the date of the notice, by which the Merger Early Settlement right must be exercised;
(iii) the Settlement Rate in effect as a result of such Cash Merger and the kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable by the Holder upon settlement of each Purchase Contract pursuant to Section 5.6(b);
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(iv) a statement to the effect that all or a portion of the Stated Amount payable by the Holder to settle the Purchase Contract will be offset against the amount of cash so receivable upon exercise of Merger Early Settlement, as applicable; and
(v) the instructions a Holder must follow to exercise the Merger Early Settlement right.
(b) To exercise a Merger Early Settlement right, a Holder shall deliver to the Agent on or before 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the date specified in the notice the Income PRIDES Certificate(s) with respect to which the Merger Early Settlement right is being exercised with the form of “Election to Settle Early” on the reverse thereof, duly completed accompanied by payment of the purchase price for the property to be purchased pursuant to the Purchase Contracts underlying such Income PRIDES, which payment shall be made in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashier’s check payable to the order of the Company in immediately available funds in an amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Income PRIDES in respect of which the Merger Early Settlement is being effected less the amount of cash that otherwise would be deliverable by the Company or its successor upon settlement of the Purchase Contract in lieu of Common Stock pursuant to Section 5.6(b) and as described in the notice to Holders.
(c) In the event a Merger Early Settlement right shall be exercised by a Holder in accordance with the terms hereof, (1) on the Merger Early Settlement Date the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered by the Agent to each such exercising Holder the net cash, securities and other property to be received, as provided herein, by such exercising Holder in respect of the number of Purchase Contracts for which such Merger Early Settlement right was exercised and (ii) all references herein to Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be deemed to refer to such Merger Early Settlement Date and all references to the form of Settlement Instruction shall be deemed to refer to the form of Election to Settle Early, as applicable.
(d) In the event that Merger Early Settlement is effected with respect to less than all of the Purchase Contracts underlying the Income PRIDES evidenced by a Income PRIDES Certificate, upon such Merger Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Agent shall execute on behalf of the Holders and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing the Income PRIDES as to which Merger Early Settlement was not effected.
Section 5.13. Early Settlement Upon Significant Corporate Action.
(a) Upon the occurrence of a Significant Corporate Action of the Company of the type described in Section 5.6(a)(8), then the Company (or the successor to the Company hereunder) shall be required to offer the Holder of each Income PRIDES the right to settle the Purchase Contract underlying such Income PRIDES prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (“Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement”) at the Settlement Rate based on the Current Market Price of the Common Stock on the date of Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement as adjusted as a result of such Significant Corporate Action pursuant to Section 5.6(a)(8). On or before the fifth Business Day after the closing date of the securities offering described in Section 5.6(a)(8)(I) or the announcement date of the acquisition described in Section 5.6(a)(8)(II),
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as applicable, or, at the written request and expense of the Company, the Agent shall give all Holders notice, in the manner provided in Section 1.6, of the occurrence of the Significant Corporate Action and of the right of Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement arising as a result thereof. The Company shall also deliver a copy of such notice to the Agent and the Collateral Agent. Each such notice shall contain:
(i) the date on which the Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement will be effected (the “Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement Date”);
(ii) the date, which shall be 10 days after the date of the notice, by which the Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement right must be exercised;
(iii) a statement to the effect that all or a portion of the Stated Amount payable by the Holder to settle the Purchase Contract will be offset against the amount of cash so receivable upon exercise of Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement, as applicable; and
(iv) the instructions a Holder must follow to exercise the Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement right.
(b) To exercise a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement right, a Holder shall deliver to the Agent on or before 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the date specified in the notice the Income PRIDES Certificate(s) with respect to which the Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement right is being exercised with the form of “Election to Settle Early” on the reverse thereof, duly completed accompanied by payment of the purchase price for the property to be purchased pursuant to the Purchase Contracts underlying such Income PRIDES, which payment shall be made in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashier’s check payable to the order of the Company in immediately available funds in an amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Income PRIDES in respect of which the Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement is being effected less the amount of cash that otherwise would be deliverable by the Company or its successor upon settlement of the Purchase Contract in lieu of Common Stock and as described in the notice to Holders.
(c) In the event a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement right shall be exercised by a Holder in accordance with the terms hereof, (1) on the Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement Date the Company shall deliver or cause to be delivered by the Agent to each such exercising Holder the net cash, securities and other property to be received, as provided herein, by such exercising Holder in respect of the number of Purchase Contracts for which such Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement right was exercised and (ii) all references herein to Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be deemed to refer to such Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement Date and all references to the form of Settlement Instruction shall be deemed to refer to the form of Election to Settle Early, as applicable.
(d) In the event that Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement is effected with respect to less than all of the Purchase Contracts underlying the Income PRIDES evidenced by a Income PRIDES Certificate, upon such Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Agent shall execute on behalf of the Holders and deliver to the
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Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing the Income PRIDES as to which Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement was not effected.
ARTICLE VI
REMEDIES
Section 6.1. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Contract Adjustment Payments and to Purchase Common Stock.
The Holder of any Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional (subject to the occurrence of a Termination Event), to receive payment of each installment of the Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Security on the respective Payment Date for such Security (less any applicable withholding) and to purchase Common Stock pursuant to such Purchase Contract and, in each such case, to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment or right to purchase Common Stock, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 6.2. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company and such Holder shall be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of such Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.3. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates in the last paragraph of Section 3.10, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to 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 6.4. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy upon a default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such right. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by such Holders.
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Section 6.5. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Agreement agree, and each Holder of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance of such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES 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 Agreement, or in any suit against the Agent for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Agent, 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; provided that the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by the Agent, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of payments of interest on any Senior Notes or Contract Adjustment Payments on any Purchase Contract on or after the respective Payment Date therefor in respect of any Security held by such Holder, or for enforcement of the right to purchase shares of Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts constituting part of any Security held by such Holder.
Section 6.6. Waiver of 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 stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Agreement; 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 Agent or the Holders, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE VII
THE AGENT
Section 7.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a) (1) The Agent undertakes to perform, with respect to the Securities, such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Agreement against the Agent; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith, willful misconduct or negligence on its part, the Agent may, with respect to the Securities, conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Agent and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement, but in the case of any certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Agent, the Agent shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
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Agreement, but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of mathematical calculations stated therein.
(b) No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve the Agent from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, its own bad faith, or its own willful misconduct, except that
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(3) no provision of this Agreement shall require the Agent 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 adequate indemnity is not provided to it.
(c) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording protection to the Agent shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
(d) The Agent is authorized to execute and deliver the Pledge Agreement in its capacity as Agent.
Section 7.2. Notice of Default.
Within 30 days after the occurrence of any default by the Company hereunder of which a Responsible Officer of the Agent has actual knowledge, the Agent shall transmit by mail to the Company and the Holders of Securities, as their names and addresses appear in the Register, notice of such default hereunder, unless such default shall have been cured or waived.
Section 7.3. Certain Rights of Agent.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1:
(a) the Agent may conclusively rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer’s Certificate, Issuer Order or Issuer Request, and any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
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(c) whenever in the administration of this Agreement the Agent shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Agent (unless other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officer’s Certificate of the Company;
(d) the Agent may consult with counsel of its selection 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 Agent shall not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the Agent, in its discretion, may make reasonable further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters related to the execution, delivery and performance of the Purchase Contracts as it may see fit, and, if the Agent shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be given a reasonable opportunity to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney;
(f) the Agent may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or an Affiliate and the Agent shall not be responsible for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney or an Affiliate appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(g) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Agent, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Agent in each of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder;
(h) the Agent may request that the Company delivery an Officer’s Certificate setting forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such time to take specified actions pursuant to this Agreement, which Officer’s Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officer’s Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such certificate previously delivered and not superseded; and
(i) in no event shall the Agent be responsible or liable for special, indirect or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever (including, but not limited to, loss of profit) irrespective of whether the Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and regardless of the form of action.
Section 7.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken as the statements of the Company and the Agent assumes no responsibility for their accuracy. The Agent makes no representations as to the validity or sufficiency of either this Agreement or of the Securities, or of the Pledge Agreement or the Pledge. The Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the proceeds in respect of the Purchase Contracts.
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Section 7.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, or the Agent and its Affiliates, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company, the Collateral Agent or any other Person with the same rights it would have if it were not Registrar or such other agent, or the Agent.
Section 7.6. Money Held in Custody.
Money held by the Agent in custody hereunder need not be segregated from the other funds except to the extent required by law or provided herein. The Agent shall be under no obligation to invest or pay interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
Section 7.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Agent from time to time such compensation as shall be agreed in writing between the Company and the Agent for all services rendered by it hereunder;
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Agent in accordance with any provision of this Agreement (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Agent and any predecessor Agent for, and to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, liability, damage, claim or expense, including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Agent), incurred without negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of its 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.
The provisions of this Section 7.7 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the resignation or removal of the Agent.
Section 7.8. Corporate Agent Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be an Agent hereunder which shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, having (or being a member of a bank holding company having) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and having a Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if there be such a
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corporation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, qualified and eligible under this Article and willing to act on reasonable terms. If such corporation 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, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at any time the Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
Section 7.9. Resignation and Removal, Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Agent and no appointment of a successor Agent pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Agent in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10.
(b) The Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company 60 days prior to the effective date of such resignation. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Agent required by Section 7.10 shall not have been delivered to the Agent within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the resigning Agent may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Agent.
(c) The Agent may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities delivered to the Agent and the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Agent required by Section 7.10 shall not have been delivered to the Agent within 30 days after the giving of such notice or removal, the Agent being removed may petition, at the expense of the Company, any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Agent.
(d) if at anytime:
(1) the Agent fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA, as if the Agent were an indenture trustee under an indenture qualified under the TIA, after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months; or
(2) the Agent shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.8 and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by any such Holder; or
(3) the Agent shall become incapable of acting or shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Agent or of its property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or control of the Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the Agent, or (ii) any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Agent and the appointment of a successor Agent.
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(e) If the Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Agent for any cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Agent and shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10. If no successor Agent shall have been so appointed by the Company and accepted appointment in the manner required by Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly, situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Agent.
(f) The Company shall give, or shall cause such successor Agent to give, notice of each resignation and each removal of the Agent and each appointment of a successor Agent by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses appear in the applicable Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Agent and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Agent, every such successor Agent so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Agent an instrument accepting such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Agent shall become effective and such successor Agent, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, agencies and duties of the retiring Agent; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Agent, such retiring Agent shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Agent all the rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Agent and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Agent all property and money held by such retiring Agent hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Agent, the Company shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor Agent all such rights, powers and agencies referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(c) No successor Agent shall accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Agent shall be qualified and eligible under this Article.
Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any Person into which the 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 the Agent shall be a party, or any Person succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the Agent, shall be the successor of the Agent hereunder, provided such Person shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Certificates shall have been authenticated and executed on behalf of the Holders, but not delivered, by the Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such Agent may adopt such authentication and execution and deliver the Certificates so authenticated and executed with the same effect as if such successor Agent had itself authenticated and executed such Securities.
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Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Agent shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders received by the Agent in its capacity as Registrar.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as “applicants”) apply in writing to the Agent, and furnish to the Agent reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their rights under this Agreement or under the Securities and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Agent shall, mail to all the Holders copies of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Agent of the materials to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of such mailing.
Section 7.13. No Obligations of Agent.
Except to the extent otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Agent assumes no obligations and shall not be subject to any liability under this Agreement, the Pledge Agreement or any Purchase Contract in respect of the obligations of the Holder of any Security thereunder. The Company agrees, and each Holder of a Certificate, by his acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have agreed, that the Agent’s execution of the Certificates on behalf of the Holders shall be solely as agent and attorney-in-fact for the Holders, and that the Agent shall have no obligation to perform such Purchase Contracts on behalf of the Holders, except to the extent expressly provided in Article V hereof.
Section 7.14. Tax Compliance.
(a) The Agent, on its own behalf and on behalf of the Company, will comply with all applicable certification, information reporting and withholding (including “backup” withholding) requirements imposed by applicable tax laws, regulations or administrative practice with respect to (i) any payments made with respect to the Securities or (ii) the issuance, delivery, holding, transfer, redemption or exercise of rights under the Securities. Such compliance shall include, without limitation, the timely filing of required returns and the timely payment of all amounts required to be withheld to the appropriate taxing authority or its designated agent.
(b) The Agent shall comply with any written direction received from the Company with respect to the reasonable application of such requirements to particular payments or Holders or in other particular circumstances, and may for purposes of this Agreement rely on any such direction in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.1(a)(2) hereof.
(c) The Agent shall maintain all appropriate records documenting compliance with such requirements, and shall make such records available, on written request, to the Company or its authorized representative within a reasonable period of time after receipt of such request.
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ARTICLE VIII
SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENTS
Section 8.1. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Agent, at any time and from time to time, may enter into one or more agreements supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent, for any of the following purposes:
(1) 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 Certificates; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by a successor Agent; or
(4) to make provision with respect to the rights of Holders pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.5(b); or
(5) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein which may be inconsistent with any other provisions herein, or to make any other provisions with respect to such matters or questions arising under this Agreement, provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders.
Section 8.2. Supplemental Agreements With Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority of the outstanding Purchase Contracts voting together as one class, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Agent, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Agent may enter into an agreement or agreements supplemental hereto for the purpose of modifying in any manner the terms of the Purchase Contracts, or the provisions of this Agreement or the rights of the Holders in respect of the Securities; provided, however, that, except as contemplated herein, no such supplemental agreement shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change any Payment Date;
(2) change the amount or the type of Collateral required to be Pledged to secure a Holder’s Obligations under the Purchase Contract, impair the right of the Holder of any Purchase Contract to receive distributions on the related Collateral (except for the rights of Holders of Income PRIDES to substitute the Treasury Securities for the Pledged Senior Notes or the rights of holders of Growth PRIDES to substitute Senior Notes for the Pledged Treasury Securities) or otherwise adversely affect the Holder’s rights in or to such Collateral or adversely alter the rights in or to such Collateral;
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(3) reduce any Contract Adjustment Payments or change any place where, or the coin or currency in which, any Contract Adjustment Payment is payable;
(4) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any Purchase Contract or any Contract Adjustment Payments;
(5) reduce the number of shares of Common Stock to be purchased pursuant to any Purchase Contract, increase the price to purchase shares of Common Stock upon settlement of any Purchase Contract, change the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or the right to Early Settlement or otherwise adversely affect the Holder’s rights under any Purchase Contract; or
(6) reduce the percentage of the outstanding Purchase Contracts the consent of whose Holders is required for any such supplemental agreement;
provided, that if any amendment or proposal referred to above would adversely affect only the Income PRIDES or the Growth PRIDES, then only the affected class of Holder as of the record date for the Holders entitled to vote thereon will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal, and such amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the consent of Holders of not less than a majority of such class.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental agreement, but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 8.3. Execution of Supplemental Agreements.
In executing, or accepting the additional agencies created by, any supplemental agreement permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the agencies created by this Agreement, the Agent shall be provided with and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental agreement is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental agreement which affects the Agent’s own rights, duties or immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
Section 8.4. Effect of Supplemental Agreements.
Upon the execution of any supplemental agreement under this Article, this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental agreement shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes; and every Holder of Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 8.5. Reference to Supplemental Agreements.
Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered after the execution of any supplemental agreement pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Agent, bear a notation in form approved by the Agent as to any matter provided for in such supplemental agreement. If the Company shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as to
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conform, in the opinion of the Agent and the Company, to any such supplemental agreement may be prepared and executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Agent in exchange for Outstanding Certificates.
ARTICLE IX
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
Section 9.1. Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property Except Under Certain Conditions.
The Company covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with or into any other Person or sell, assign, transfer, lease or convey all or substantially all of its properties and assets to any Person or group of affiliated Persons in one transaction or a series of related transactions, unless (i) either the Company shall be the continuing entity, or the successor (if other than the Company) shall be a Person, other than an individual, organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof or the District of Columbia and such entity shall expressly assume all the obligations of the Company under the Purchase Contracts, the Senior Notes, this Agreement and the Pledge Agreement by one or more supplemental agreements in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent and the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered to the Agent and the Collateral Agent by such Person, and (ii) the Company or such successor entity, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation, or such sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, be in default in its payment obligations under this Agreement or the Senior Notes, or in default of its obligations to deliver Common Stock (or other property) on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or any Early Settlement Date, or in material default in the performance of any covenant or condition hereunder, under any of the Securities or under the Pledge Agreement.
Section 9.2. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by a successor entity in accordance with Section 9.1, such successor entity shall succeed to and be substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company. Such successor entity thereupon may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. any or all of the Certificates evidencing Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Agent; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this Agreement prescribed, the Agent shall authenticate and execute on behalf of the Holders and deliver any Certificates which previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Agent for authentication and execution, and any Certificate evidencing Securities which such successor entity thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Agent for that purpose. All the Certificates so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Certificates theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement as though all of such Certificates had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
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In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the Certificates evidencing Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 9.3. Opinion of Counsel Given to Agent.
The Agent, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.3, shall receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, complies with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent to the consummation of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance have been met.
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Section 10.1. Performance Under Purchase Contracts.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders from time to time of the Securities that it will duly and punctually perform its obligations under the Purchase Contracts in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contracts and this Agreement.
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York an office or agency where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for acquisition of Common Stock upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or Early Settlement and for transfer of Collateral upon occurrence of a Termination Event, where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange, for a Collateral Substitution or re-establishment of an Income PRIDES and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this Agreement may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Agent of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Agent with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Company hereby appoints the Agent as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or agencies where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Agent of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The Company hereby designates as the place of payment for the Securities the Corporate Trust Office and appoints the Agent at its Corporate Trust Office as paying agent in such city.
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Section 10.3. Company to Reserve Common Stock.
The Company shall at all times prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of its authorized but unissued Common Stock the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable against tender of payment in respect of all Purchase Contracts constituting a part of the Securities evidenced by Outstanding Certificates.
Section 10.4. Covenants as to Common Stock.
The Company covenants that all Common Stock which may be issued against tender of payment in respect of any Purchase Contract constituting a part of the Outstanding Securities will, upon issuance, be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
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(Form of Face of Income PRIDES Certificate)
THIS SECURITY AND THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY, THE SHARES OR COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION.
THE HOLDER OR THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY OR SHARES OR COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THIS SECURITY OR THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY) ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (D) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE RIGHTS OF THE COMPANY PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C) OR (D) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT, AND IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
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This Income PRIDES Certificate certifies that is the registered Holder of the number of Income PRIDES set forth above. Each Income PRIDES represents (i) either (a) beneficial ownership by the Holder of $1,000 principal amount of Senior Notes due 2010 (the “Senior Note”) of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), subject to the Pledge of such Senior Note by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement or
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(b) upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or a Successful Initial Remarketing, the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, subject to the Pledge of such Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under one Purchase Contract with the Company. All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting part of each Income PRIDES evidenced hereby have been pledged to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder under the Purchase Contract comprising a portion of such Income PRIDES.
The Pledge Agreement provides that all payments of principal on the Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, or interest payments on any Pledged Senior Notes (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (B) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, constituting part of the Income PRIDES received by the Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Collateral Agent by wire transfer in same day funds (i) in the case of (A) interest payments with respect to Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (B) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and (B) any payments of the principal amount or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such terms) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, with respect to any Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, that have been released from the Pledge pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, to the Agent to the account designated by the Agent, no later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment is received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 12:30 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be made no later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day) and (ii) in the case of payments of the principal amount on any Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio that has not been released from the Pledge pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, as the case may be, to the Company on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (as defined herein) in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, in full satisfaction of the respective obligations of the Holders of the Income PRIDES of which such Pledged Senior Notes or the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, are a part under the Purchase Contracts forming a part of such Income PRIDES. Payment of interest on any Senior Notes or distributions on the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (B) of the definition of such term) in the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, forming part of an Income PRIDES evidenced hereby which are payable quarterly in arrears on February 17, May 17, August 17 and November 17, each year, commencing May 17, 2004 (a “Payment Date”), shall, subject to receipt thereof from the Collateral Agent, be paid to the Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate (or a Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date. If
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the Senior Notes are successfully remarketed pursuant to the Remarketing Agreement and the Reset Date is not a Payment Date, any interest paid with respect to the Pledged Senior Notes on such Reset Date shall be received by the Collateral Agent and held in a non-interest bearing account, until payment to the Agent for the benefit of Holders is made on the Payment Date next following such Reset Date.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, not later than February 17, 2008 (the “Purchase Contract Settlement Date”), at a price of $1,000 (the “Stated Amount”), a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock, $0.01 par value (“Common Stock”), of the Company equal to the applicable Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date there shall have occurred a Termination Event, an Early Settlement, a Merger Early Settlement or a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement with respect to the Income PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof. The purchase price (the “Purchase Price”) for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby, if not paid earlier, shall be paid on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date by application of (1) cash received from a Holder or (2) payment received in respect of the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, pledged to secure the obligations under such Purchase Contract of the Holder of the Income PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a part.
Interest on the Senior Notes, distributions on the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (B) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio and Contract Adjustment Payments, as the case may be, will be payable at the Corporate Trust Office of the Agent and at the New York Office or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears on the Income PRIDES Register or by wire transfer to the account designated by a prior written notice from such Person.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Agent by manual signature, this Income PRIDES Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly executed.
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AGENT’S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Income PRIDES Certificates referred to in the within mentioned Purchase Contract Agreement.
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(Form of Reverse of Income PRIDES Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of February 12, 2004 (as may be supplemented from time to time, the “Purchase Contract Agreement”), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Purchase Contract Agent (including its successors thereunder, herein called the “Agent” or “Purchase Contract Agent”), to which Purchase Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Agent, the Company and the Holders and of the terms upon which the Income PRIDES Certificates are, and are to be, executed and delivered. In the case of any inconsistency between this Certificate and the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement shall prevail.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date at a price equal to the Purchase Price, a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have occurred a Termination Event, an Early Settlement, a Merger Early Settlement or a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement with respect to the Security of which such Purchase Contract is a part.
The “Settlement Rate” is the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or greater than $127.28 (the “Threshold Appreciation Price”), the difference of the two following fractions: (i) the Stated Amount divided by $83.19 (the “Reference Price”) and (ii) $530 divided by the Applicable Market Value, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price, but is greater than the Reference Price, the Stated Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to Reference Price, 12.0207 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, which is equal to the Stated Amount divided by the Reference Price, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement (and in each case rounded upward or downward to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share). No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The Company shall pay, on each Payment Date in respect of each Purchase Contract forming part of an Income PRIDES evidenced hereby, an amount (the “Contract Adjustment Payments”) equal to 2.525% per annum of the Stated Amount; computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate (or a predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate or a predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate) is registered on the Register at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
The Company’s obligations with respect to Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments), will be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the Company’s obligations under any Senior Indebtedness. Upon any payment or distribution of the Company’s assets to its creditors upon any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
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reorganization, whether voluntary or involuntary, or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceedings, the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due thereon, or payment of such amounts shall have been provided for, before the holders of the Securities shall be entitled to receive any Contract Adjustment Payments.
No payment of Contract Adjustment Payments may be made if (i) any payment default on any Senior Indebtedness has occurred and is continuing beyond any applicable grace period; or (ii) any default other than a payment default with respect to Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing that permits the acceleration of the maturity thereof and the Agent receives a written notice of such default from the Company or the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company’s obligation to pay Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments) shall cease.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby which is settled either through Early Settlement, Cash Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement shall obligate the Holder of the related Income PRIDES to purchase at the applicable Purchase Price, and the Company to sell, a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock equal to the Early Settlement Rate or the Settlement Rate, as adjusted, as applicable.
The “Applicable Market Value” means the average of the Closing Price per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or, for purposes of determining cash payable in lieu of factional shares in connection with an Early Settlement, the third Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant Early Settlement Date.
The “Closing Price” of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on The New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in composite transactions for the principal United States national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities exchange, the last closing sale price on and as reported by the NASDAQ Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the Closing Price means the market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company. A “Trading Day” means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall pay the applicable Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby by effecting a Cash
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Settlement or an Early Settlement or from the Proceeds of a remarketing of the related Pledged Senior Notes of such holders or of the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio. Unless a Tax Event Redemption or a Successful Initial Remarketing has occurred, a Holder of Income PRIDES who does not elect to make an effective (1) Cash Settlement on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, or (2) Early Settlement on or prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time, on the fifth Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, shall pay the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be issued under the related Purchase Contract from the Proceeds of the sale of the related Pledged Senior Notes held by the Collateral Agent. Unless a Tax Event Redemption or a Successful Initial Remarketing has occurred, such sale will be made by the Remarketing Agent pursuant to the terms of the Remarketing Agreement and any supplemental remarketing agreement executed in connection therewith between the parties thereto, on the third Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. If a Tax Event Redemption or a Successful Initial Remarketing has occurred, a Holder of Income PRIDES who does not elect to make an effective Early Settlement on or prior to 5:00 p.m. New York City time, on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall pay the Purchase Price with the Proceeds at maturity of the Applicable Ownership Interest (as defined in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio.
The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner herein set forth.
Under and subject to the terms of the Pledge Agreement and the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged Senior Notes. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which holders of Senior Notes are entitled to vote or upon the solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Senior Notes, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the Holders of Income PRIDES a notice (a) containing such information as is contained in the notice or solicitation, (b) stating that each Income PRIDES Holder on the record date set by the Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as the record date for determining the holders of Senior Notes entitled to vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the voting rights pertaining to the Senior Notes constituting a part of such Holder’s Income PRIDES and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon the written request of the Income PRIDES Holders on such record date, the Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number of Senior Notes as to which any particular voting instructions are received. In the absence of specific instructions from the Holder of an Income PRIDES, the Agent shall abstain from voting the Senior Notes evidenced by such Income PRIDES.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, pursuant to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent will apply, out of the aggregate Redemption Price for the Senior Notes that are components of Income
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PRIDES, an amount equal to the aggregate Redemption Amount for the Senior Notes that are components of Income PRIDES to purchase on behalf of the Holders of Income PRIDES, the Treasury Portfolio and, after deducting the Remarketing Fee to the extent permitted under the terms of the Remarketing Agreement, promptly remit the remaining portion of such Redemption Price to the Agent for payment to the Holders of such Income PRIDES.
Upon the occurrence of a Successful Initial Remarketing, pursuant to the terms of the Remarketing Agreement, the Remarketing Agent will apply an amount equal to the Treasury Portfolio Purchase Price to purchase on behalf of the Holders of Income PRIDES, the Treasury Portfolio, and, after deducting the Remarketing Fee to the extent permitted under the terms of the Remarketing Agreement, promptly remit the remaining portion of such Proceeds of the Successful Initial Remarketing to the Agent for payment to the Holders of such Income PRIDES.
Following the occurrence of a Tax Event Redemption prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or following a Successful Initial Remarketing, the Holders of Income PRIDES and the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Treasury Portfolio as the Holder of Income PRIDES and the Collateral Agent had in respect of the Senior Notes, as the case may be, subject to the Pledge thereof as provided in Articles II, III, IV, V and VI of the Pledge Agreement and any reference herein to the Senior Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to such Treasury Portfolio and any reference herein or in the Certificates to interest on the Senior Notes shall be deemed to be a reference to corresponding distributions on the Treasury Portfolio.
The Income PRIDES Certificates are issuable only in definitive form and only in denominations of a single Income PRIDES and any integral multiple thereof. Income PRIDES Certificates may be transferred or exchanged as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. The Income PRIDES Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be required for any such transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. A Holder who elects to substitute Treasury Securities for Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, thereby creating Growth PRIDES, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in connection therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying an Income PRIDES remains in effect, such Income PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Income PRIDES in respect of Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, and the Purchase Contract constituting such Income PRIDES may be transferred and exchanged only as an Income PRIDES. A Holder of an Income PRIDES may create a Growth PRIDES by delivering to the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, in exchange for the release of such pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and after such Collateral Substitution, the Security for which such
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pledged Treasury Securities secures the Holder’s obligation under the Purchase Contract shall be referred to as a “Growth PRIDES.” Such Collateral Substitution may cause the equivalent aggregate Stated Amount of this Certificate to be increased or decreased; provided, however, the equivalent aggregate Stated Amount outstanding under this Income PRIDES Certificate shall not exceed $250,000,000. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Company may from time to time authorize and issue additional PRIDES that will constitute a single series with the PRIDES represented by this Income PRIDES Certificate without the consent of the Holders thereof. All such adjustments to the equivalent aggregate Stated Amount of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall be duly recorded by placing an appropriate notation on the Schedule attached hereto.
A Holder of Growth PRIDES may recreate Income PRIDES by delivering to the Collateral Agent Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, with an aggregate principal amount, in the case of such Senior Notes, or with the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, in the case of such appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, equal to the aggregate principal amount of the pledged Treasury Securities in exchange for the release of such pledged Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
The Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments and the rights and obligations of the Holders to purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Income PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, from the Pledge in accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, at the option of the Holders thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. Upon Early Settlement, (i) the right of the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate to receive additional Contract Adjustment Payments in respect of such Purchase Contracts will terminate and (ii) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of any amount accrued in respect of Contract Adjustment Payments. In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts evidenced by this Income PRIDES Certificate, the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall deliver this Income PRIDES Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office or the New York Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early set forth below duly completed and accompanied by payment in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashiers check or wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds payable to the Company in an amount (the “Early Settlement
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Amount”) equal to (i) the product of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement plus (ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, interest and Contract Adjustment Payment, if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Securities, the Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio underlying such Securities shall be released from the Pledge as provided in the Pledge Agreement and the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of shares of Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract forming part of an Income PRIDES as to which Early Settlement is effected equal to the Early Settlement Rate. The Early Settlement Rate shall initially be equal to 7.8567 shares of Common Stock and shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement Rate is adjusted as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Income PRIDES Certificate in accordance with the Purchase Contract Agreement, the transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement) under the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this Income PRIDES Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder, by its acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase Contracts forming part of the Income PRIDES evidenced hereby on his behalf as his attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e., affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code, agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform its obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact, and consents to and agrees to be bound by the Pledge of the Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, underlying this Income PRIDES Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and to all other provisions of the Pledge Agreement. The Holder, by its acceptance hereof, further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, Proceeds of the pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder’s obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such Proceeds.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the Purchase Contracts then
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THE PURCHASE CONTRACTS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.
Each Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate, and each beneficial owner hereof, by its acceptance hereof or of its interest herein, covenants and agrees to treat (i) itself as the owner of the related Senior Notes or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, (ii) the Senior Notes as indebtedness of the Company, in each case, for United States federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, and (iii) the Purchase Contract and the Senior Notes or the Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, as separate financial instruments, in each case, for all tax purposes.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate is registered as the owner of the Income PRIDES evidenced hereby for the purpose of receiving payments of interest payable quarterly on the Senior Notes or on the maturing quarterly interest strips of the Treasury Portfolio and Contract Adjustment Payments, as applicable, whether or not any payments in respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company, the Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof, entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Agent during regular business hours of the Agent.
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ABBREVIATIONS
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
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The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for Common Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Income PRIDES evidenced by this Income PRIDES Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate hereby irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Income PRIDES evidenced by this Income PRIDES Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Income PRIDES with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share and any Income PRIDES Certificate representing any Income PRIDES evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Senior Notes deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
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THIS SECURITY AND THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY, THE SHARES OR COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN OR THEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION.
THE HOLDER OR THIS SECURITY, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF, AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY OR SHARES OR COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE (THE “RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE”) WHICH IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THIS SECURITY OR THE SHARES OF COMMON STOCK ISSUABLE UPON SETTLEMENT OF THIS SECURITY AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH AFFILIATED MANAGERS GROUP, INC. (THE “COMPANY”) OR ANY AFFILIATE OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY) ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY OR AFFILIATE THEREOF, (B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (D) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE RIGHTS OF THE COMPANY PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C) OR (D) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT, AND IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
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This Growth PRIDES Certificate certifies that is the registered Holder of the number of Growth PRIDES set forth above. Each Growth PRIDES represents (i) an undivided beneficial ownership interest in a Treasury Security having a principal amount at maturity equal to $1,000, subject to the Pledge of such Treasury Security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the Holder under one Purchase Contract with
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Affiliated Managers Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”). All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Purchase Contract Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Treasury Securities constituting part of each Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby have been pledged to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder under the Purchase Contract comprising a portion of such Growth PRIDES.
The Pledge Agreement provides that all payments of the principal of any Treasury Securities received by the Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Collateral Agent by wire transfer in same day funds (i) in the case of any principal payments with respect to any Treasury Securities that have been released from the Pledge pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, to the Holders of the applicable Growth PRIDES to the accounts designated by them in writing for such purpose no later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment is received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after 12:30 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be made no later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding Business Day), and (ii) in the case of the principal of any Pledged Treasury Securities, to the Company on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date (as defined herein) in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, in full satisfaction of the respective obligations of the Holders of the Growth PRIDES of which such Pledged Treasury Securities are a part under the Purchase Contracts forming a part of such Growth PRIDES.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, not later than February 17, 2008 (the “Purchase Contract Settlement Date”), at a price of $1,000 (the “Stated Amount”), a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock, par value $0.01 (“Common Stock”), of the Company equal to the applicable Settlement Rate, unless on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date there shall have occurred a Termination Event, an Early Settlement, a Merger Early Settlement or a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement with respect to the Growth PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof. The purchase price (the “Purchase Price”) for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby, if not paid earlier, shall be paid on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date by application of the Proceeds from the Treasury Securities pledged to secure the obligations under such Purchase Contract in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been executed by the Agent by manual signature, this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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(Form of Reverse of Growth PRIDES Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase Contract Agreement, dated as of February 12, 2004 (as may be supplemented from time to time, the “Purchase Contract Agreement”), between the Company and The Bank of New York, as Purchase Contract Agent (including its successors thereunder, herein called the “Agent” or “Purchase Contract Agent”), to which the Purchase Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Agent, the Company and the Holders and of the terms upon which the Growth PRIDES Certificates are, and are to be, executed and delivered. In the case of any inconsistency between this Certificate and the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement shall prevail.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date at the Purchase Price, a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have occurred a Termination Event, an Early Settlement, a Merger Early Settlement or a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement with respect to the Security of which such Purchase Contract is a part.
The “Settlement Rate” is the number of shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or greater than $127.28 (the “Threshold Appreciation Price”), the difference of the two following fractions: (i) the Stated Amount divided by $83.19 (the “Reference Price”) and (ii) $530 divided by the Applicable Market Value, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the Threshold Appreciation Price, but is greater than the Reference Price, the Stated Amount divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Value is less than or equal to Reference Price, 12.0207 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, which is equal to the Stated Amount divided by the Reference Price, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement (and in each case rounded upward or downward to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share). No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The Company shall pay, on each Payment Date in respect of each Purchase Contract forming part of a Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby, an amount (the “Contract Adjustment Payments”) equal to 2.525% per annum of the Stated Amount; computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Such Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the Person in whose name this Growth PRIDES Certificate (or a predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate or a predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate) is registered on the Register at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
The Company’s obligations with respect to Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments), will be subordinated and junior in right of payment to the Company’s obligations under any Senior Indebtedness. Upon any payment or distribution of the Company’s assets to its creditors upon any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
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reorganization, whether voluntary or involuntary, or in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceedings, the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due or to become due thereon, or payment of such amounts shall have been provided for, before the holders of the Securities shall be entitled to receive any Contract Adjustment Payments.
No payment of Contract Adjustment Payments may be made if (i) any payment default on any Senior Indebtedness has occurred and is continuing beyond any applicable grace period; or (ii) any default other than a payment default with respect to Senior Indebtedness occurs and is continuing that permits the acceleration of the maturity thereof and the Agent receives a written notice of such default from the Company or the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company’s obligation to pay Contract Adjustment Payments (including any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments) shall cease.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby which is settled through Early Settlement, Merger Early Settlement or a Significant Corporate Action Early Settlement shall obligate the Holder of the related Growth PRIDES to purchase at the applicable Purchase Price, and the Company to sell, a number of newly issued shares of Common Stock equal to the Early Settlement Rate or the Settlement Rate, as adjusted, as applicable.
The “Applicable Market Value” means the average of the Closing Price per share of Common Stock on each of the 20 consecutive Trading Days ending on the third Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or, for purposes of determining cash payable in lieu of fractional shares in connection with an Early Settlement, the third Trading Day immediately preceding the relevant Early Settlement Date.
The “Closing Price” of the Common Stock on any date of determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing sale price is reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on The New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in composite transactions for the principal United States national or regional securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities exchange, the last closing sale price on and as reported as reported by the NASDAQ stock Market or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the Closing Price means the market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company. A “Trading Day” means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby by effecting either an Early
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The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner herein set forth.
The Growth PRIDES Certificates are issuable only in definitive form and only in denominations of a single Growth PRIDES and any integral multiple thereof. Growth PRIDES Certificates may be transferred or exchanged as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. The Growth PRIDES Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be required for any such transfer or exchange, but the Company and the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith. A Holder who elects to substitute Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, for Treasury Securities, thereby recreating Income PRIDES, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in connection therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying a Growth PRIDES remains in effect, such Growth PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Growth PRIDES in respect of the Treasury Security and the Purchase Contract constituting such Growth PRIDES may be transferred and exchanged only as a Growth PRIDES. A Holder of Growth PRIDES may recreate Income PRIDES by delivering to the Collateral Agent Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, with an aggregate principal amount, in the case of such Senior Notes, or with the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, in the case of such appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, equal to the aggregate principal amount of the pledged Treasury Securities in exchange for the release of such pledged Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and after such substitution, the Security for which such Pledged Senior Notes or appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, secures the Holder’s obligation under the Purchase Contract shall be referred to as an “Income PRIDES.” Such substitution may cause the equivalent aggregate Stated Amount of this Certificate to be increased or decreased; provided, however, the equivalent aggregate Stated Amount outstanding under this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall not exceed $250,000,000. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, the Company may from time to time authorize and issue additional PRIDES that will constitute a single series with the PRIDES represented by this Growth PRIDES Certificate without the consent of the Holders thereof. All such adjustments to the equivalent aggregate Stated Amount
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A Holder of an Income PRIDES may create a Growth PRIDES by delivering to the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities in an aggregate principal amount of the pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest (as specified in clause (A) of the definition of such term) of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be, in exchange for the release of such pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio; as the case may be, in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
The Purchase Contracts and all obligations and rights of the Company and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract Adjustment Payments and the rights and obligations of the Holders to purchase Common Stock, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the Growth PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Treasury Securities from the Pledge in accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, at the option of the Holders thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof may be settled early (“Early Settlement”) as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts evidenced by this Growth PRIDES Certificate, the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall deliver this Growth PRIDES Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust Office or the New York Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of Election to Settle Early set forth below duly completed and accompanied by payment in lawful money of the United States by certified or cashiers check or wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds payable to the Company in an amount (the “Early Settlement Amount”) equal to (i) the product of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement plus (ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, interest and Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, payable on such Payment Date with respect to such Purchase Contracts. Upon Early Settlement, (i) the right of the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate to receive additional Contract Adjustment Payments in respect of such Purchase Contracts will terminate and (ii) no adjustment will be made to or for the Holder on account of any amount accrued in respect of Contract Adjustment Payments. Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Securities, the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying such Securities shall be released from the Pledge as provided in the Pledge Agreement and the Holder shall be entitled to receive a number of shares of Common Stock on
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account of each Purchase Contract forming part of a Growth PRIDES as to which Early Settlement is effected equal to the Early Settlement Rate. The Early Settlement Rate shall initially be equal to 7.8567 shares of Common Stock and shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as the Settlement Rate is adjusted as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, the transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement) under the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contract Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this Growth PRIDES Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder, by his acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, by its acceptance hereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase Contracts forming part of the Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby on his behalf as its attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e., affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code, agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform its obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the Pledge Agreement on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact, and consents to and agrees to be bound by the Pledge of the Treasury Securities underlying this Growth PRIDES Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement and to all other provisions of the Pledge Agreement. The Holder, by its acceptance hereof, further covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, Proceeds of the pledged Treasury Securities on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder’s obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such Proceeds.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the Purchase Contracts then outstanding. In addition, certain amendments to the Purchase Contract Agreement may be made without any consent of the Holders as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
THE PURCHASE CONTRACTS SHALL FOR ALL PURPOSES BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAWS.
Each Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, and each beneficial owner hereof, by its acceptance hereof or of its interest herein, covenants and agrees to treat (i) itself as the owner of the related Treasury Securities for United States federal, state and local income and franchise tax purposes, and (ii) the Purchase Contract and the Treasury Securities, as separate financial instruments for all tax purposes.
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The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Growth PRIDES Certificate is registered as the owner of the Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby for the purpose of receiving payments on the Treasury Securities, Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payments in respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company, the Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof, entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock. A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection at the offices of the Agent during regular business hours of the Agent.
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ABBREVIATIONS
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s) and transfer(s) unto
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the within Growth PRIDES Certificates and all rights thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
attorney to transfer said Growth PRIDES Certificates on the books of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. with full power of substitution in the premises.
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SETTLEMENT INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for Common Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Growth PRIDES evidenced by this Growth PRIDES Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate hereby irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Growth PRIDES evidenced by this Growth PRIDES Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Growth PRIDES with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share and any Growth PRIDES Certificate representing any Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Treasury Securities deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable incident thereto.
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INSTRUCTION FROM PURCHASE
CONTRACT AGENT
TO COLLATERAL AGENT
[Collateral Agent Address]
Re: PRIDES of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (the “Company”)
We hereby notify you in accordance with Section [4.1] [4.2] of the Pledge Agreement, dated as of February 12, 2004 (the “Pledge Agreement”), among the Company, yourselves, as Collateral Agent, Custodial Agent and Securities Intermediary and ourselves, as Purchase Contract Agent and as attorney-in-fact for the holders of [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES] from time to time, that the holder of the Securities listed below (the “Holder”) has elected to substitute [$ aggregate principal amount of Treasury Securities] [$ aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] in exchange for an equal Value of [Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Pledged Treasury Securities] held by you in accordance with the Pledge Agreement and has delivered to us a notice stating that the Holder has Transferred [Treasury Securities] [Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] to you, as Collateral Agent. We hereby instruct you, upon receipt of such [Pledged Treasury Securities] [Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] and upon the payment by such Holder of any applicable fees, to release the [Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Treasury Securities] related to such [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES] to us in accordance with the Holder’s instructions. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
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INSTRUCTION TO PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
[Purchase Contract Agent Address]
Re: PRIDES of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (the “Company”)
The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you that it has delivered to , as Collateral Agent, [$ aggregate principal amount of Treasury Securities] [$ aggregate principal amount of Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] in exchange for an equal Value of [Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio, as the case may be,] [Pledged Treasury Securities] held by the Collateral Agent, in accordance with Section [4.1 ], [4.2] of the Pledge Agreement, dated February 12, 2004 (the “Pledge Agreement”), between you, the Company and the Collateral Agent. The undersigned Holder has paid the Collateral Agent all applicable fees relating to such exchange. The undersigned Holder hereby instructs you to instruct the Collateral Agent to release to you on behalf of the undersigned Holder the [Pledged Senior Notes or the appropriate Applicable Ownership Interest of the Treasury Portfolio] [Pledged Treasury Securities] related to such [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES]. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined shall have the meaning set forth in the Pledge Agreement.
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NOTICE TO SETTLE BY SEPARATE CASH
[Purchase Contract Agent Address]
Re: PRIDES of Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (the “Company”)
The undersigned Holder hereby irrevocably notifies you in accordance with Section 5.4 of the Purchase Contract Agreement dated as of February 12, 2004 among the Company and yourselves, as Purchase Contract Agent and as Attorney-in- Fact for the Holders of the Purchase Contracts, that such Holder has elected to pay to the Collateral Agent, on or prior to 11:00 a.m. New York City time, on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, (in lawful money of the United States by [certified or cashiers check or] wire transfer, in each case in immediately available funds), $ as the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock issuable to such Holder by the Company under the related Purchase Contract on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. The undersigned Holder hereby instructs you to notify promptly the Collateral Agent of the undersigned Holders election to make such cash settlement with respect to the Purchase Contracts related to such Holder’s [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES].
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