Exhibit 4.1
INDENTURE
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Dated as of April 11, 2003
between
FISERV, INC., as Issuer,
and
BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY, as Trustee
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$150,000,000
4% Notes due 2008
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN
THE TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
AND THE INDENTURE
Trust Indenture Act Section Indenture Section
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(S)310 (a)(1)............................................. 6.08
(a)(2)............................................. 6.08
(b)................................................ 6.08
(S)311 (b)(4)............................................. 6.12
(b)(6)............................................. 6.12
(S)312 (a)................................................ 7.01
(b)................................................ 7.02
(c)................................................ 7.02
(S)313 (a)................................................ 7.03
(b)(2)............................................. 7.03
(c)................................................ 7.03
(d)................................................ 7.03
(S)314 (a)................................................ 7.04
(c)(1)............................................. 1.02
(c)(2)............................................. 1.02
(e)................................................ 1.02
(S)315 (a)................................................ 6.01(a)
(b)................................................ 6.02
(c)................................................ 6.01(b)
(d)................................................ 6.01(c)
(e)................................................ 5.15
(S)316 (a) (last sentence)................................ 1.01
(a)(1)(A).......................................... 5.12
(a)(1)(B).......................................... 5.13
(b)................................................ 5.08
(S)317 (a)(1)............................................. 5.03
(a)(2)............................................. 5.04
(b)................................................ 10.03
(S)318 (a)................................................ 1.07
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This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
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Table of Contents
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ARTICLE 1
Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application
Section 1.01. Definitions.............................................................................1
Section 1.02. Compliance Certificates and Opinions....................................................9
Section 1.03. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee.................................................10
Section 1.04. Acts of Holders........................................................................10
Section 1.05. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and the Company...............................................12
Section 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver..............................................................12
Section 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act......................................................12
Section 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents...............................................12
Section 1.09. Successors and Assigns.................................................................13
Section 1.10. Separability Clause....................................................................13
Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture..................................................................13
Section 1.12. Governing Law..........................................................................13
Section 1.13. Legal Holidays.........................................................................13
Section 1.14. No Recourse Against Others.............................................................13
Section 1.15. Counterparts...........................................................................13
Section 1.16. No Security Interest Created...........................................................13
ARTICLE 2
Note Forms
Section 2.01. Forms Generally........................................................................13
Section 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication........................................14
Section 2.03. Certificated Note Form.................................................................14
ARTICLE 3
The Notes
Section 3.01. Issue Amount...........................................................................15
Section 3.02. Denominations..........................................................................16
Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.........................................16
Section 3.04. Temporary Notes........................................................................17
Section 3.05. Registration, Transfer and Exchange....................................................17
Section 3.06. Special Transfer and Exchange Provisions...............................................18
Section 3.07. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes............................................20
Section 3.08. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.........................................20
Section 3.09. Persons Deemed Owners..................................................................22
Section 3.10. Cancellation...........................................................................22
Section 3.11. Computation of Interest................................................................22
Section 3.12. CUSIP Numbers..........................................................................22
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ARTICLE 4
Satisfaction and Discharge
Section 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture................................................23
Section 4.02. Application of Trust Money.............................................................24
ARTICLE 5
Remedies
Section 5.01. Events of Default......................................................................24
Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment.....................................25
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee........................26
Section 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.......................................................27
Section 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes.................................27
Section 5.06. Application of Money Collected.........................................................28
Section 5.07. Limitation on Suits....................................................................28
Section 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and Interest.......................28
Section 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.....................................................29
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.........................................................29
Section 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver...........................................................29
Section 5.12. Control by Holders.....................................................................29
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults................................................................30
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs..................................................................30
Section 5.15. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.......................................................30
ARTICLE 6
The Trustee
Section 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities....................................................31
Section 6.02. Notice of Defaults.....................................................................32
Section 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee..............................................................32
Section 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes......................................33
Section 6.05. May Hold Notes.........................................................................33
Section 6.06. Money Held in Trust....................................................................33
Section 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement.........................................................33
Section 6.08. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility................................................34
Section 6.09. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor......................................34
Section 6.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.................................................36
Section 6.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business............................37
Section 6.12. Preferential Claims....................................................................37
Section 6.13. Appointment of Authenticating Agent....................................................38
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ARTICLE 7
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
Section 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders..............................39
Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.................................40
Section 7.03. Reports by Trustee.....................................................................41
Section 7.04. Reports by Company.....................................................................41
ARTICLE 8
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
Section 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms.........................................42
Section 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted......................................................43
ARTICLE 9
Supplemental Indentures
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.....................................43
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders........................................44
Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures...................................................44
Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures......................................................45
Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act....................................................45
Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures..........................................45
ARTICLE 10
Covenants
Section 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.............................................45
Section 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency........................................................45
Section 10.03. Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust............................................46
Section 10.04. Statement by Officers as to Default....................................................47
Section 10.05. Existence..............................................................................47
Section 10.06. Maintenance of Properties..............................................................47
Section 10.07. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims......................................................48
Section 10.08. Limitations on Liens...................................................................48
Section 10.09. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.........................................50
Section 10.10. Waiver of Certain Covenants............................................................51
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ARTICLE 11
Redemption of Notes
Section 11.01. Terms..................................................................................51
Section 11.02. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee..................................................52
Section 11.03. Selection by Trustee of Notes to be Redeemed...........................................52
Section 11.04. Notice of Redemption...................................................................52
Section 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price............................................................53
Section 11.06. Notes Payable on Redemption Date.......................................................53
Section 11.07. Notes Redeemed In Part.................................................................53
ARTICLE 12
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
Section 12.01. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance...........................54
Section 12.02. Defeasance and Discharge...............................................................54
Section 12.03. Covenant Defeasance....................................................................54
Section 12.04. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance........................................55
Section 12.05. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous
Provisions..........................................................................56
EXHIBIT A - Form of Note...............................................................................A-1
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INDENTURE
INDENTURE, dated as of April 11, 2003, between Fiserv, Inc., a Wisconsin
corporation, and BNY Midwest Trust Company, an Illinois trust company, as
trustee.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company (as herein defined) has duly authorized the execution
and delivery of this Indenture to provide, among other things, for the issuance,
execution, authentication, delivery and administration of $150,000,000 aggregate
principal amount of its 4% Notes due 2008;
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Notes (as herein defined), when
executed and delivered by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee or an
Authenticating Agent and delivered as provided in this Indenture, the valid and
legally binding obligations of the Company, and this Indenture a valid and
legally binding agreement of the Company, according to their respective terms,
have been done.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Notes by
the Holders (as herein defined) thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed,
for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Notes, as follows:
ARTICLE 1
Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application
Section 1.01. Definitions. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(i) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(ii) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(iii) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation
required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as
are generally accepted in the United States of America as of the date of
such computation;
(iv) the words "herein," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" and other
words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision; and
(v) the word "or" is always used inclusively.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined
in those Articles.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.04.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, the
term "control", when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power
to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee pursuant
to Section 6.13 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate the Notes.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or any
duly authorized committee of the board of directors of the Company.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of one or more resolutions 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, delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on
which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or obligated
by law, regulation or executive order to close.
"Certificated Note" means a Note in certificated form registered in the
name of a Person other than the Depositary or its nominee.
"Closing Date" means April 11, 2003.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Exchange Act or, if at any time after the
execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the body
performing such duties at such time.
"Company" means Fiserv, Inc. or any successor or other obligor permitted
under this Indenture.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" means a written request or order, as
the case may be, signed in the name of the Company by the Chief Executive
Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer,
Secretary or any Vice President of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means the United States Treasury security or
securities selected by the Independent Investment Banker as having an actual or
interpolated maturity
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comparable to the remaining term of the Notes to be redeemed that would be
utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial
practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable
maturity to the remaining term of such Notes.
"Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, (i)
the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations for such Redemption
Date, after excluding the highest and lowest of those Reference Treasury Dealer
Quotations, or (ii) if the Trustee obtains fewer then four Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
for such Redemption Date so obtained.
"Consolidated Stockholders' Equity" means the total stockholders' equity of
the Company and its subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, as of the end of the
most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Company for which financial
information is filed with the Commission under the Exchange Act.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered, which office at the date of original execution of this
Indenture is located at 0 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000 Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
00000.
"Corporation" means corporations and limited liability companies and,
except for purposes of Article Eight, associations, companies and business
trusts.
"CUSIP Number" means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a Note by
Standard & Poor's CUSIP Service Bureau.
"Custodian" means BNY Midwest Trust Company, as custodian of the Global
Notes for DTC under a custody agreement or any similar successor agreement.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company, or any successor thereto.
"default" means any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or
both would become, an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section 3.08.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Global Notes, DTC or such other
Person as shall be designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section
2.03(b).
"Dollars" means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal tender for
payment of debts in the United States of America.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Exchange Notes" means the senior debt securities of the Company to be
offered to Holders of Notes in exchange for the Original Notes pursuant to the
Exchange Offer containing
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terms identical in all material respects to the Original Notes for which they
are exchanged, except that (i) interest on the Exchange Notes shall accrue from
the last date on which interest was paid or duly made available for payment on
the Original Notes or, if no such interest has been paid or duly made available
for payment, from the date of original issuance of the Original Notes and (ii)
the Exchange Notes will not contain terms with respect to transfer restrictions
or the obligation to pay additional interest upon the occurrence of a
Registration Default.
"Exchange Offer" means the offer by the Company to issue Exchange Notes in
exchange for the Original Notes pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
"Exchange Offer Registration Statement" means a registration statement of
the Company under the Securities Act registering the offer of the Exchange Notes
in exchange for the Original Notes pursuant to the Exchange Offer.
"Funded Debt" of any Person means any indebtedness for money borrowed,
created, issued, incurred, assumed or guaranteed by such Person which, in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, would be classified as
long-term debt of such Person, but in any event including all indebtedness for
money borrowed of such Person, whether secured or unsecured, maturing more than
one year or extendible at the option of the obligor to a date more than one
year, after the date of determination thereof (excluding any amount thereof
included in current liabilities of such Person).
"Global Note" means a Note bearing the applicable legend specified in
Section 2.03(a) evidencing all or part of the Notes and registered in the name
of such Depositary or nominee.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (x) direct, full faith
and credit obligations of the United States of America or (y) obligations of a
Person controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of
the United States of America, in each case where the payment or payments
thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation
by the United States of America and which are not callable or redeemable at the
option of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued
by a bank as custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a
specific payment of principal of or interest on any such Government Obligation
held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt,
provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to
make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository
receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect to the Government
Obligation or the specific payment of principal of or interest on the Government
Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.
"Holder" means the Person in whose name a Note is registered in the
Register.
"Indebtedness" of any Person means (1) any liability of such Person (a) for
borrowed money, (b) evidenced by a bond, note, debenture or similar instrument,
(c) for the payment of money relating to a lease that is required to be
classified as a capitalized lease obligation of such Person in accordance with
generally accepted accounting principles, (d) preferred or preference stock of a
Subsidiary of such Person held by one or more Persons other than such Person or
a Subsidiary of such Person, or (e) with respect to letters of credit, bankers'
acceptances or similar
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facilities issued for the account of such Person, (2) any liability of others
described in the preceding clause (1) that such Person has guaranteed, that is
recourse to such Person or that is otherwise its legal liability and (3) any
amendment, supplement, modification, deferral, renewal, extension or refunding
of any liability of the types referred to in clauses (1) and (2) above.
"Indenture" means this agreement as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of
the Notes established as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Independent Investment Banker" means one of the Reference Treasury Dealers
appointed by the Trustee after consultation with the Company.
"Interest Payment Date" means, with respect to any Note, the Stated
Maturity of an installment of interest on such Note.
"Lien" means, with respect to any properties or assets, any mortgage or
deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, security interest, lien,
encumbrance or other security arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever on or
with respect to such properties or assets (including any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement having substantially the same economic effect as
any of the foregoing).
"Maturity" means, with respect to any Note, the date on which the principal
of such Note, or an installment of principal, becomes due and payable as therein
or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, notice of redemption or otherwise and includes any Redemption
Date.
"Notes" means the 4% Notes due 2008 of the Company and includes the
Original Notes, the Exchange Notes and the Private Exchange Notes.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief Financial
Officer, the Treasurer or any Vice President of the Company, and attested by the
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or of counsel for the Company.
"Original Notes" means all Notes other than Exchange Notes and the Private
Exchange Notes.
"Outstanding," when used with respect to the Notes, means, as of the date
of determination, all the Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture, except:
(i) Notes theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation;
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(ii) Notes for whose payment at the Maturity thereof money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated
in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent)
for the Holders of such Notes; provided that, if such Notes are to be
redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to this
Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(iii) Notes with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance,
except to the extent specified in Article 12; and
(iv) Notes which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.07 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, unless there shall have been
presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Notes are held
by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Notes are valid and legally
binding obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Notes owned by
the Company or any other obligor thereunder or any Affiliate of the Company or
such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except
that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any
such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only
Notes which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee knows to be so owned shall be
so disregarded. Notes so owned which have been pledged in good faith may be
regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the
Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such Notes and that the
pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor or any Affiliate of the Company
or such other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Notes on behalf of the
Company.
"Person" means any individual, Corporation, partnership, joint venture,
association, joint-stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Notes, the place where
amounts due at Maturity of the Notes are payable as provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture or the Notes.
"Principal Facility" means any of the real property, fixtures, machinery
and equipment relating to any facility owned by the Company or any Subsidiary of
the Company except for any facility that, in the opinion of the Board of
Directors, is not of material importance to the business conducted by the
Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
"Predecessor Note" of any particular Note means every previous Note
evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Note; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Note
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.07 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be deemed to evidence the same
debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note.
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"Private Exchange Notes" has the meaning specified in the Registration
Rights Agreement.
"qualified institutional buyer" or "QIB" has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03(a).
"Redemption Date" means, with respect to any Note or portion thereof to be
redeemed, the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this Indenture or
such Note.
"Redemption Price" means, with respect to any Note or portion thereof to be
redeemed, the price at which such Note or portion is to be redeemed pursuant to
this Indenture or such Note.
"Reference Treasury Dealer" means each of Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Government
Securities Inc., Banc One Capital Markets, Inc., Wachovia Securities, Inc., BNY
Capital Markets, Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Xxxxx Xxxxxxx Inc. or their Affiliates
which are primary U.S. Government securities dealers, and their respective
successors; provided, however, that if any of the foregoing shall cease to be a
primary U.S. Government securities dealer in The City of New York (a "Primary
Treasury Dealer"), the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary
Treasury Dealer.
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotation" means, with respect to each Reference
Treasury Dealer and any Redemption Date, the average, as determined by the
Trustee, of the bid and asked prices for the Comparable Treasury Issue
(expressed in each case as a percentage of its principal amount) quoted in
writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury Dealer at approximately 3:30
p.m. (New York City time) on the third Business Day preceding such Redemption
Date.
"Register" and "Note Registrar" have the respective meanings specified in
Section 3.05.
"Registration" means the registration of the Exchange Offer for the
Original Notes by the Company pursuant to the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement or other registration for resale of the Registrable Notes under the
Securities Act pursuant to a Shelf Registration Statement, in each case in
accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights Agreement.
"Registration Default" has the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
"Registrable Notes" has the meaning set forth in the Registration Rights
Agreement.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights Agreement,
dated as of April 11, 2003, between the Company and initial purchasers named
therein (the "Initial Purchasers"), and certain permitted assigns specified
therein.
"Regular Record Date" means, for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date on the Notes, the date specified in or pursuant to this Indenture
or such Note as entitling Holders at the close of business on such date to such
interest.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act.
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"Responsible Officer" means any officer or authorized agent of the Trustee
in its Corporate Trust Office and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer or authorized agent to whom such
matter is referred because of knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject and who shall have direct responsibility for the administration of this
Indenture.
"Resale Restriction Termination Date" means the date which is the later of
(X) two years (or such shorter period of time as permitted by Rule 144(k) of the
Securities Act) after the later of the original issue date of the notes and the
last date on which Fiserv, Inc. or any "Affiliate" (as defined in Rule 144 under
the Securities Act) of Fiserv, Inc. was the owner of this note or interest (or
any predecessor of this note or interest) or (Y) such later date, if any, as may
be required by applicable law (the "Resale Restriction Termination Date").
"Restrictive Legend" shall mean the legend set forth on the face of the
Note attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"Rule 144A Global Note" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(a).
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Shelf Registration Statement" means a shelf registration statement under
the Securities Act filed by the Company, if required by, and meeting the
requirements of, the Registration Rights Agreement, registering the resale of
the Registrable Notes.
"Significant Subsidiary" of any Person means a Subsidiary of such Person
that qualifies as a "significant subsidiary" within the meaning of Rule 405
under the Securities Act.
"Special Record Date" means, for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on
any Note, the date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.08 entitling
Holders at the close of business on such date to such Defaulted Interest.
"Standard & Poor's" means Standard & Poor's Rating Services, a division of
The XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies.
"Stated Maturity" means, with respect to any Note or any installment of
principal thereof or interest thereon, the date established by or pursuant to
this Indenture or such Note on which the principal of such Note or such
installment of principal or interest is due and payable.
"Subsidiary" of any Person means (i) any corporation, association or other
business entity of which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of
capital stock or other equity interests entitled (without regard to the
occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or
trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by
such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such Person (or a
combination thereof), (ii) any partnership, limited liability company or similar
pass-through entity the sole general partner or the managing general partner or
managing member of which is such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person and (iii)
any partnership, limited liability company or similar pass-through entity the
only general partners, managing members or persons, however designated in
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corresponding roles, of which are such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of
such Person (or any combination thereof).
"Treasury Rate" means, with respect to any Redemption Date, the rate per
annum equal to the semi-annual equivalent yield to maturity or interpolated (on
a day count basis) of the Comparable Treasury Issue, assuming a price for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount)
equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for such Redemption Date.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first paragraph of
this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "Trustee" shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder. If at any time there is
more than one such Person, "Trustee" shall mean each such Person and as used
with respect to the Notes shall mean the Trustee with respect to Notes.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as
in force at the date as of which this Indenture was executed, except as provided
in Section 9.05.
"Unrestricted Global Note" means any Global Note other than a Rule 144A
Global Note.
"Vice President" means, when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a word or
words added before or after the title "vice president."
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means (i) any corporation,
association or other business entity of which 100% of the total voting power of
shares of capital stock or other equity interests entitled (without regard to
the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in the election of directors,
managers or trustees thereof is at the time owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of such
Person (or a combination thereof) and (ii) any partnership, limited liability
company or similar pass-through entity the sole partners, members or persons,
however designated in corresponding roles, of which are such Person or one or
more Subsidiaries of such Person (or any combination thereof).
Section 1.02. Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Indenture, upon any application or request by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture,
the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that
all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating that,
in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions precedent, 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 or any of them is specifically required
by any provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or
request, no additional Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel need be
furnished. Any Officers' Certificate or Opinion of Counsel delivered to the
Trustee must comply with Section 314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Every Officer's Certificate or Opinion of Counsel with respect to
compliance with a condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture shall
include:
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(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 has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him 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
covenant or condition has been complied with.
Section 1.03. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. 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 an Opinion of Counsel, unless such
officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
Opinion of Counsel with respect to the matters upon which the officer's
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such 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 Indenture or any Note, they may, but need not, be
consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 1.04. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to
be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or
by an agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company. Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and
evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders
signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
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Without limiting the generality of this Section 1.04, unless otherwise
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture, a Holder, including the Depositary,
may make, give or take, by a proxy, or proxies, duly appointed in writing, any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act
provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or taken by Holders,
and the Depositary may provide its proxy or proxies to the beneficial owners of
interests in any Global Note registered in the name of the Depositary or its
nominee through such Depositary's standing instructions and customary practices.
The Trustee shall fix a record date for the purpose of determining the
Persons who are beneficial owners of interests in any Global Note registered in
the name of the Depositary or its nominee and entitled under the procedures of
such Depositary to make, give or take, by a proxy or proxies duly appointed in
writing, any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act provided in or pursuant to this Indenture to be made, given or
taken by Holders. If such a record date is fixed, the Persons holding beneficial
ownership interests on such record date or their duly appointed proxy or
proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to make, give or take such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act,
whether or not such Persons transfer their interests after such record date.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee
deems sufficient and in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may
determine, and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with
respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section.
(c) The ownership, principal amount and serial numbers of Notes held
by any Person, and the date of holding the same, shall be proved by the
Register.
(d) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Notes any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act,
the Company may, at its option, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders of Notes entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company
shall have no obligation to do so. Any such record date shall be fixed by a
Board Resolution at the Company's discretion. If such a record date is not fixed
by the Company prior to the first solicitation of a Holder made by any Person in
respect of any such matters referred to above, such record date shall be the
date 30 days prior to such first solicitation of Holders. If such a record date
is fixed by the Company, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent and waiver or other Act may be sought or given before or after the
record date, but only the Holders of Notes of record at the close of business on
such record date shall be deemed to be Holders of Notes for the purpose of
determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of the Notes Outstanding
have authorized, agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Notes
Outstanding shall be computed as of such record date.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Note shall bind every future Holder of
the same Note and the Holder of every Note issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Note
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Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not
notation of such action is made upon such Note.
Section 1.05. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and the Company. Any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act of
Holders or any document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made upon,
given or furnished to, or filed with,
(i) the Trustee by any Holder or the Company shall be sufficient for
every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
(which may be via facsimile) to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust
Office at BNY Midwest Trust Company, 0 Xxxxx XxXxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: Corporate Trust Administration; or
(ii) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if
in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company at 000
Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000, Attn: General Counsel, or at any
other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
Section 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture or any Note
provides for notice to Holders of any event or condition, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such Note expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event or condition, at the Holder's address as it appears in the
Register, not later than the latest date, or 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. Any notice which is mailed in the manner
herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given or
provided. 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 made with the approval of the Trustee shall
constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Where this Indenture or any Note provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the equivalent of
such notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but
such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action
taken in reliance upon such waiver.
Section 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any provision in this
Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with, or omits, any required provision
of the Trust Indenture Act that would be applicable to this Indenture if this
Indenture were qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, such required provision
shall be deemed to be a part of this Indenture and shall supersede any provision
that limits, qualifies or conflicts with such required provision.
Section 1.08. 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.
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Section 1.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and agreements in this
Indenture by the Company shall bind their respective successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.10. Separability Clause. In case any provision in this Indenture
or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Notes, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 1.12. Governing Law. This Indenture and the Notes shall be governed
by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York,
including Section 5-1401 of the New York General Obligations Law, but otherwise
without regard to the conflict of law rules of such State.
Section 1.13. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest Payment Date
or date of Maturity of any Note shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or the Notes) the
required payment of interest, premium, if any, and/or principal need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date or date of Maturity,
and no interest shall accrue with respect to such payment for the period from
and after such Interest Payment Date or date of Maturity, as the case may be, to
the next succeeding Business Day.
Section 1.14. No Recourse Against Others. A director, officer, employee or
stockholder, as such, of the Company shall not have any liability for any
obligation of the Company under the Notes or this Indenture. By accepting a
Note, each Holder shall waive and release all such liability. This waiver and
release shall be part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
Section 1.15. Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in several
counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall
constitute but one and the same instrument.
Section 1.16. No Security Interest Created. Nothing in this Indenture or in
the Notes, express or implied, shall be construed to constitute a security
interest under the Uniform Commercial Code or similar legislation, as now or
hereafter enacted and in effect, in any jurisdiction where property of the
Company or its Subsidiaries is or may be located.
ARTICLE 2
Note Forms
Section 2.01. Forms Generally. (a) The Notes (including the Trustee's
certification of authentication) shall be issuable in definitive, fully
registered form only without interest coupons in substantially the form attached
hereto as Exhibit A; provided that Exchange Notes shall not contain terms with
respect to transfer restrictions or the obligation to pay additional interest
upon occurrence of a Registration Default. On the Closing Date, the Original
Notes shall be issued in such form as is set forth in 2.03(a). After the Closing
Date, the Company may issue Exchange
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Notes and Private Exchange Notes in accordance with the Registration Rights
Agreement. The Notes shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished in
such manner or in accordance with such plans as the officers of the Company
executing the same may determine with the approval of the Trustee.
The Notes may be issued with appropriate insertions, omissions,
substitutions and variations, and may have imprinted or otherwise reproduced
thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with any rules or
regulations pursuant thereto, or with the rules of any securities market in
which the Notes are admitted to trading, or to conform to general usage.
(b) Each Note shall be dated the date of its authentication.
Section 2.02. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. Only such
Notes as shall bear thereon a certificate of authentication substantially as set
forth in the form of the Note attached hereto as Exhibit A, executed and dated
by the Trustee by manual signature of one of its authorized signatories, shall
be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose. The Trustee's execution of such certificate of authentication upon any
Note executed by or on behalf of the Company shall be conclusive evidence that
the Note so authenticated has been duly authenticated and delivered hereunder
and that the Holder thereof is entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
Section 2.03. Certificated Note Form. (a) Except as otherwise provided
herein or pursuant to Section 3.01, Original Notes offered and sold as part of
their initial distribution to "qualified institutional buyers," as defined in
Rule 144A under the Securities Act ("QIBs") shall be issued in the form of one
or more Global Notes (each a "Rule 144A Global Note"), substantially in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit A, with such applicable legends as are provided for
herein. Rule 144A Global Notes shall be registered in the name of Cede & Co. or
another nominee designated by DTC and deposited with the Trustee, at its
Corporate Trust Office as custodian for DTC, as duly executed by the Company and
authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided.
Each Global Note shall also bear a legend substantially to the following
effect:
"Unless this Note is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation ("DTC"), to
the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange
or payment, and any Note issued in exchange for this Note or any
portion hereof is registered in the name of Cede & Co. or in such
other name as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC
(and any payment is made to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as
is requested by an authorized representative of DTC), any
transfer, pledge or other use hereof for value or otherwise by or
to any person is wrongful inasmuch as the registered owner and
Holder hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
Unless and until this Note is exchanged in whole or in part for
Notes in certificated form, this Note may not be transferred
except as a whole by
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DTC to a nominee thereof or by a nominee thereof to DTC or
another nominee of or by DTC or any such nominee to a successor
of DTC or a nominee of such successor."
(b) If at any time the Depositary notifies the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue in its role as Depositary for the Global Notes
or if at any time the Depositary is no longer a clearing agency registered under
the Exchange Act, the Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect
to the Global Notes. If (i) a successor Depositary for the Global Notes is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives the notice or
becomes aware of such unwillingness, inability or ineligibility, (ii) an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Notes, or (iii)
the Company decides in its sole discretion to terminate the book-entry system
through the Depositary, then without unnecessary delay but in any event not
later than the earliest date on which interests in the Global Notes may be
exchanged for Certificated Notes, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee duly
executed Certificated Notes containing identical terms and provisions and in
such minimum authorized denominations requested by beneficial owners of such
interests and in such aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of such interests. On or after the earliest date on which such
interests may be so exchanged, the Global Notes shall be surrendered from time
to time by the Depositary and in accordance with instructions given to the
Trustee and the Depositary (which instructions shall be in writing but need not
be contained in or accompanied by an Officers' Certificate or be accompanied by
an Opinion of Counsel), as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect
thereto to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be
exchanged, in whole or in part, for Certificated Notes as described above
without charge. The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery,
in exchange for interests in each such surrendered Global Note, duly executed
Certificated Notes containing identical terms and provisions and in such minimum
authorized denominations requested by beneficial owners of such interests and in
such aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of such
interests. Subject to Section 3.06(c), Certificated Notes will contain the
Restrictive Legend and, accordingly, will be subject to the restrictions on
transfer contained herein.
ARTICLE 3
The Notes
Section 3.01. Issue Amount. The aggregate principal amount of Notes which
may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except for Notes
authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange
for, or in lieu of, other Notes pursuant to this Indenture, is limited to
$150,000,000. Unless the context otherwise requires, the Original Notes, the
Exchange Notes and the Private Exchange Notes shall constitute one series for
all purposes under the Indenture, including with respect to any amendment,
waiver, acceleration or other Act of the Holders or upon redemption of the
Notes.
All amounts payable in respect of the Notes shall be made in United States
dollars. The Notes will mature on April 15, 2008, unless redeemed by the Company
prior to such date pursuant to Section 11.01. The Notes will bear interest at
the rate of 4% per annum from and including April 11, 2003 or the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been
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paid or duly made available for payment, as the case may be, payable
semiannually in arrears on April 15 and October 15 of each year, commencing
October 15, 2003, until the principal thereof has been paid or duly made
available for payment.
The Notes will not have the benefit of, or be subject to, a sinking fund.
Section 3.02. Denominations. The Notes shall be issuable in minimum
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000 in excess thereof.
Section 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating. The Notes
shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chief Executive Officer, its
President, its Chief Operating Officer, its Chief Financial Officer, its
Treaurer or any Vice President and attested by its Secretary or any Assistant
Secretary. The signature of any of these officers on the Notes may be manual or
facsimile.
Notes bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who were
the proper officers of the Company when their signatures were affixed to such
Notes 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 Notes or did not hold such offices at the date of such Notes.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this
Indenture, the Company may deliver Notes executed by the Company to the Trustee
for authentication, together with a Company Order for the authentication and
delivery of such Notes, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order
shall authenticate and deliver such Notes. At any time and from time to time
after the execution and delivery of this Indenture and after the effectiveness
of the Exchange Offer Registration Statement under the Securities Act with
respect thereto, the Company may deliver Exchange Notes executed by the Company
to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for the
authentication and delivery of such Exchange Notes and a like principal amount
of Original Notes for cancellation in accordance with Section 3.10, and the
Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and make
available for delivery such Exchange Notes. Prior to authenticating any Exchange
Notes, and accepting any additional responsibilities under this Indenture in
relation to such Exchange Notes, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, upon
request, and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating in substance:
(a) that all conditions hereunder precedent to the authentication and
delivery of such Exchange Notes and that such Exchange Notes, when duly
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee (and subject to any other conditions
specified in such Opinion of Counsel), will have been duly issued and delivered
and will constitute valid and legally binding obligations of the Company,
enforceable in accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency,
fraudulent transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general equity
principles; and
(b) that the issuance of the Exchange Notes in exchange for Original
Notes has been effected in compliance with the Securities Act.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Note shall have been authenticated
and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company, and the
Company shall deliver such Note to the Trustee for cancellation as provided in
Section 3.10 together with a written statement (which need not comply with
Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating that
such Note has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all purposes of
this Indenture such Note shall be deemed never to have been authenticated and
delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate or to cause an
Authentication Agent to authenticate any Notes if the issue of such Notes
pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights, duties,
indemnities or immunities under the Notes and this Indenture or otherwise in a
manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
Section 3.04. Temporary Notes. Pending the preparation of definitive Notes,
the Company may execute and deliver to the Trustee and, upon Company Order, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in the manner provided in Section 3.03,
temporary Notes which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Notes in lieu of which they are issued and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers of the Company executing such Notes may determine, as evidenced by
their execution of such Notes. Such temporary Notes may be in global form.
If temporary Notes are issued, the Company will cause definitive Notes to
be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive
Notes, the temporary Notes shall be exchangeable for definitive Notes upon
surrender of the temporary Notes at the office or agency of the Company in a
Place of Payment, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation
of any one or more temporary Notes the Company shall execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, a like principal amount of definitive Notes of
any authorized denominations containing terms and provisions that are identical
to those of any temporary Notes. Until so exchanged the temporary Notes shall in
all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive
Notes.
Section 3.05. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company shall cause
to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in
such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "Register") in
which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company
shall provide for the registration of Notes and the registration of transfers of
Notes. Such Register shall distinguish between Original Notes, Exchange Notes
and Private Exchange Notes. The Trustee is hereby appointed "Note Registrar" for
the purpose of registering Notes and transfers of Notes as herein provided.
The Company shall have the right to remove and replace from time to time
the Note Registrar for the Notes; provided that no such removal or replacement
shall be effective until a successor Note Registrar with respect to such Notes
shall have been appointed by the Company and shall have accepted such
appointment by the Company. In the event that the Trustee shall not be or shall
cease to be Note Registrar with respect to the Notes, it shall have the right to
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examine in the United States the Register for the Notes at all reasonable times.
There shall be only one Register for the Notes.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Note at the office or
agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Notes, of any authorized denominations and of a
like aggregate principal amount containing identical terms and provisions. No
transfer of a Note to any Person shall be effective under this Indenture or with
respect to such Note unless and until such Note has been registered in the name
of such Person.
At the option of the Holder, subject to Section 3.06, Notes may be
exchanged for other Notes bearing such restrictive legends as may be required by
this Indenture and containing identical terms and provisions in any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the
Notes to be exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Notes are so
surrendered for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, the Notes which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
All Notes issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes
shall be the valid and legally binding obligations of the Company, evidencing
the same debt, and (subject to the provisions of the Original Notes and the
Private Exchange Notes regarding transfer restrictions and the obligation to pay
additional interest upon a Registration Default) entitling the Holders thereof
to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Notes surrendered upon such
registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Note presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly endorsed,
or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Note Registrar duly executed, by the Holder thereof or the
Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Notes, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any registration of transfer or exchange of Notes, other than exchanges
pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
Notwithstanding any other provision herein, the Company shall not be
required (i) to issue, register the transfer of or exchange Notes during a
period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before the day of the
mailing of a notice of redemption of the Notes and ending at the close of
business on the day of such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or
exchange any Note so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except in the
case of any Note to be redeemed in part, the portion thereof not to be redeemed.
Section 3.06. Special Transfer and Exchange Provisions. Until the
Registration of all Notes under an effective Registration Statement pursuant to
the Registration Rights Agreement, the following provisions shall apply to each
such Note:
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(a) Transfers and Exchanges of Interests in a Rule 144A Global Note
or, if issued, Restricted Certificated Notes. With respect to the registration
of any proposed transfer or exchange of:
(i) an interest in a Rule 144A Global Note:
(A) the transfer or exchange of such interest to a transferee or
exchangee who takes delivery in the form of an interest in a Rule 144A
Global Note may be effected only through the book entry system
maintained by the Depositary; or
(B) the Registrar shall register the transfer or exchange of such
interest to a transferee or exchangee who takes delivery in the form
of an interest in an Unrestricted Global Note if such transfer or
exchange is being made after the Resale Restriction Termination Date
by a proposed transferor or exchanger who has delivered to the
Registrar a certificate from the transferor or exchanger to the effect
that such transfer or exchange has been effected pursuant to, and in
accordance with, Rule 144 under the Securities Act; or
(ii) a Restricted Certificated Note issued pursuant to Section
2.03(b), the Registrar shall register the transfer or exchange of such
Restricted Certificated Note (A) to a transferee or exchangee who takes
delivery of such Restricted Certificated Note only upon compliance with the
requirements therefor specified herein and in such Restricted Certificated
Note or (B) to a transferee or exchangee who takes delivery thereof in the
form of an Unrestricted Certificated Note if such transfer or exchange is
being made after the Resale Restriction Termination Date by a proposed
transferor or exchanger who has delivered to the Registrar a certificate
from the transferor or exchanger to the effect that such transfer or
exchange has been effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, Rule 144
under the Securities Act.
(b) Transfers and Exchanges of Unrestricted Certificated Notes or
Interests in the Unrestricted Global Note. With respect to any transfer or
exchange of Unrestricted Certificated Notes or interests in the Unrestricted
Global Note, the Registrar shall register the transfer or exchange of any such
Note without requiring any certifications, legal opinions or other information.
(c) Legends. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes that
do not bear the Restrictive Legend, the Registrar shall deliver Notes that do
not bear the Restrictive Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or replacement of
Notes bearing the Restrictive Legend, the Registrar shall deliver only Notes
that bear the Restrictive Legend unless (i) the circumstances contemplated by
subparagraphs (a)(i)(B) or (a)(ii)(B) of this Section 3.06 exist or (ii) there
is delivered to the Registrar an Opinion of Counsel reasonably satisfactory to
the Company and the Trustee to the effect that neither the Restrictive Legend
nor the related restrictions on transfer or exchange are required to ensure that
such transfer or exchange is not made in violation of the Securities Act.
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(d) General. By its acceptance of any Note bearing the Restrictive
Legend, the Holder of such Note acknowledges the restrictions on transfer or
exchange of such Note set forth in this Indenture and in the Restrictive Legend
and agrees that it will transfer or exchange such Note only as provided in this
Indenture and the Restrictive Legend. The Registrar shall not register a
transfer or exchange of any Note unless such transfer or exchange complies with
the restrictions on transfer or exchange of such Note set forth in this
Indenture and in any applicable Restrictive Legend. In connection with any
transfer or exchange of Notes contemplated by clause (D), (E) or (F) in the
Restrictive Legend, the Holder of such Notes agrees by its acceptance of such
Notes to furnish the Registrar or the Company with such certifications, legal
opinions or other information as either of them may reasonably require to
confirm that such transfer or exchange is being made pursuant to an exemption
from, or a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the
Securities Act; provided that the Registrar shall not be required to determine
(but may rely on a determination made by the Company with respect to) the
sufficiency of any such certifications, legal opinions or other information.
Section 3.07. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Notes. If (i) any
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or if there shall be delivered to
the Company and the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction,
loss or theft of any Note and (ii) there shall be delivered to the Company and
the Trustee such indemnity as may be reasonably required by them to save each of
them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to
the Company or the Trustee that such Note has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute, and upon receipt of a Company Order the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note containing identical terms and
provisions and of any authorized denominations and like principal amount and
bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note has become or is
about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may, instead of
issuing a new Note, pay such Note.
Upon the issuance of any new Note under this Section 3.07, the Company may
require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other expenses (including
the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Note issued pursuant to this Section 3.07 in lieu of or in
exchange for, as the case may be, any mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note
shall constitute a separate obligation of the Company, whether or not the
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 3.07 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 Notes.
Section 3.08. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved. Interest on
any Note which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly made available for
payment, on any Interest Payment
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Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name such Note (or one or more
Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record
Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Note which is payable, but is not punctually paid or
duly made available for payment, on any Interest Payment Date ("Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant
Regular Record Date by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted
Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided
in clause (i) or (ii) below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Person in whose name the Notes (or their respective Predecessor Notes)
are registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each Note and the date of the
proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be
paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the
proposed payment. Such money when deposited will be held in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this
clause provided. Thereupon, the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than 15 days
and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid,
to each Holder of Notes at the Holder's address as it appears in the
Register, not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice
of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid
to the Persons in whose names the Notes (or their respective Predecessor
Notes) are registered at the close of business on such Special Record Date
and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (ii).
(ii) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on the
Notes in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which such Notes may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause,
such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
At the option of the Company, interest on Certificated Notes may be paid by
mailing a check to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Register or by transfer to an account maintained by the
payee with a bank located in the United States.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.08, each Note
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Note shall
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carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were
carried by such other Note.
Section 3.09. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment of a Note for
registration of transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name such Note is registered as the
owner of such Note for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and
premium, if any, and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.08) interest on such Note
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payment with respect
to such Note shall be overdue, and none of the Company, the Trustee or any agent
of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No owner of any beneficial interest in any Global Note shall have any
rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Note, and the Depositary
may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the
Trustee as the sole owner and Holder of such Global Note for all purposes
whatsoever. None of the Company, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Note
Registrar will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests in a Global Note or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Section 3.10. Cancellation. All Notes surrendered for payment, redemption,
registration of transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person other
than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and
shall be promptly canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the
Trustee for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated and delivered
hereunder which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever and may
deliver to the Trustee (or to an Authenticating Agent for delivery to the
Trustee) for cancellation any Notes previously authenticated hereunder which the
Company has not issued and sold, and all Notes so delivered shall be promptly
canceled by the Trustee. If the Company shall so acquire any of the Notes,
however, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of
the indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are
surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation. No Notes shall be authenticated in
lieu of or in exchange for any Notes canceled as provided in this Section 3.10,
except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Notes held by the
Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order or in accordance
with its customary procedures.
Section 3.11. Computation of Interest.
Interest on the Notes shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months.
Section 3.12. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Notes may use CUSIP numbers (if then generally
in use) and, if so, the Trustee shall use such CUSIP numbers in notices of
redemption as a convenience to Holders, provided that the Trustee shall assume
no responsibility for the accuracy of such numbers and any such redemption shall
not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company shall
promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP numbers.
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ARTICLE 4
Satisfaction and Discharge
Section 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture shall
upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to the Notes
specified in such Company Request (except as to rights of registration of
transfer or exchange of Notes herein expressly provided for), and the Trustee on
receipt of the Company Request, at the expense of the Company, shall execute
proper instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture,
when:
(a) either
(i) all Notes theretofore authenticated and delivered (other than (A)
Notes which have been mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen and which have
been replaced or paid as provided in Section 3.07 and (B) Notes for whose
payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and
held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust, as provided in Section 10.03) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii) all such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation:
(A) have become due and payable, or
(B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year, or
(C) if redeemable at the option of the Company are to be called
for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the
name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (A), (B) or (C) above, has deposited or caused
to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an
amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for principal, premium,
if any, and interest to the date of such deposit (in the case of Notes which
have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as
the case may be;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
or an Opinion of Counsel, stating that all conditions precedent herein provided
for relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to
such Notes have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Notes, the obligations of the Company to the Trustee under
Section 6.07, the obligations of the
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Trustee to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.13 and, if money shall have
been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (i) of this
Section 4.01, the obligations of the Company under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.07 and
10.02), shall survive such satisfaction and discharge.
Section 4.02. Application of Trust Money. Subject to the provisions of the
penultimate paragraph of Section 10.03, all money and Government Obligations
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 and Article 12 shall be held
in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the Notes for
which such deposit was made and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly
or through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying
Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the
principal, premium, if any, and interest for whose payment such money and
Government Obligations has been deposited with the Trustee; but such money and
Government Obligations need not be segregated from other funds except to the
extent required by law.
ARTICLE 5
Remedies
Section 5.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever used herein
with respect to the Notes, means any one of the following events (whatever the
reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or
involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, on
any Note at its Maturity;
(b) default in the payment of any interest upon any Note when it
becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30
days;
(c) default (i) in the payment of any scheduled principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any Indebtedness of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company (other than Notes), aggregating more than $25 million
in principal amount, when due after giving effect to any applicable grace period
or (ii) in the performance of any other term or provision of any Indebtedness of
the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (other than Notes), in excess of
$25 million principal amount that results in such Indebtedness becoming or being
declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would otherwise become
due and payable, and such acceleration shall not have been rescinded or
annulled, or such Indebtedness shall not have been discharged, within a period
of 15 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, a written notice
specifying such default and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant, agreement
or warranty of the Company in this Indenture and continuance of such default for
a period of 60 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail,
to the Company by the Trustee or
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to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes a written notice specifying such default and
requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder;
(e) the entry by a court having jurisdiction in the premises of (A) a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any
applicable bankruptcy or other law or (B) a decree or order adjudging the
Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company bankrupt or insolvent, or
approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any Significant
Subsidiary of the Company under any applicable bankruptcy or other law, or
appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator or
other similar official of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the
Company or of any substantial part of the property of any of them, or ordering
the winding up or liquidation of any of their affairs, and the continuance of
any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period of 60 consecutive
days; or
(f) the commencement by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of
the Company of a voluntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy or
other law, or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, or the consent by any of them to the entry of a decree or order for
relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company in
an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable bankruptcy or other law
or to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding
against any of them, or the filing by any of them of a petition or answer or
consent seeking reorganization or relief under any applicable bankruptcy or
other law, or the consent by any of them to the filing of such petition or to
the appointment of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator or similar official of the Company or any
Significant Subsidiary of the Company or of any substantial part of the property
of any of them, or the making by any of them of a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, or the admission by any of them in writing of its
inability to pay its debts generally as they become due.
Section 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(a), (b), (c) or (d) occurs and is
continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less than
25% in principal of the Outstanding Notes may declare the principal of and any
unpaid premium and accrued interest on all the Notes to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(e)
or (f) occurs, then in every such case the principal of any unpaid premium and
accrued interest on such Notes then Outstanding shall become immediately due and
payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to Notes
has been made and before the Stated Maturity thereof, the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, by written notice to the Company
and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
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(A) all overdue installments of interest and premium, if any, on
all Outstanding Notes;
(B) all unpaid principal of any Outstanding Notes which have
become due otherwise than by such declaration of acceleration and
interest thereon at the rate borne by the Notes;
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest or premium, if
any, is lawful, interest upon overdue interest or premium, if any, at
the rate borne by the Notes; and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Notes, other than the
non-payment of the principal of Notes which have become due solely by such
declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by
Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(i) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Notes when
such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days, or
(ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, on any Notes at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Notes, the whole amount then due and payable on
such Notes for principal, premium, if any, and interest and, to the extent that
payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue
principal, premium, if any, interest, at the rate borne by the Notes and, in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sum so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Notes and collect the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of the
property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Notes, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Notes occurs and is continuing, the
Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the
rights of the Holders of the Notes
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by such judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem appropriate to protect
and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any
covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of
any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to
the Company or any other obligor upon the Notes or the property of the Company
or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of
whether the principal of the Notes shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee
shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue principal,
premium, if any, or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention
in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal,
premium, if any, and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Notes and
to file such other papers and documents as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such
judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee or to which it may become entitled under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or
the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect
of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding; provided that the Trustee
may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a Trustee in bankruptcy
or similar official proceeding, and be a member of a creditors' or other similar
committee.
Section 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes. All
rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted
by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Notes or the production
thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted
by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust
and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes
in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
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Section 5.06. Application of Money Collected. Any money collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the
date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such
money on account of principal or interest or Additional Amounts, upon
presentation of the Notes and the notation thereon of the payment if only
partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07;
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of
and premium, if any, and interest on the Notes in respect of which or for the
benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on such Notes for
principal, premium, if any, and interest, respectively; and
Third: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or as a
court of competent jurisdiction shall direct in a written order.
Section 5.07. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Note shall have any
right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of
a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Notes;
(ii) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name
as Trustee hereunder;
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities to
be incurred in compliance with such request;
(iv) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceedings; and
(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been given
to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Notes shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision
of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the right of any other such
Holders of Notes, or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over
any other such Holders or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all such
Holders of Notes.
Section 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal and
Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of
any Note shall have the
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right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal
of and premium, if any, and (subject to Sections 3.05 and 3.08) interest on such
Note on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Note (or, in the case
of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of
such Holder.
Section 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any
Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this
Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason,
or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in
every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
Section 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Notes in the last paragraph of Section 3.07, no right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or 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 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event
of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given
by this Article 5 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised
from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by
the Holders, as the case may be.
Section 5.12. Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes shall have the right to direct the time, method
and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee,
or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee, with respect to the
Notes, provided that:
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture or with such Notes and the Trustee shall have been
offered reasonable indemnity as therein provided;
(ii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(iii) subject to Section 6.01, the Trustee need not take any action
which might be prejudicial to the Holders not consenting.
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Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee in its
discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such direction by Holders of Notes.
Section 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may on behalf of the Holders of all
the Notes waive any past default hereunder with respect to such Notes and its
consequences, except a default:
(i) in the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on
any Note, or
(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Note affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist with respect to
such Notes, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.14. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Holder of any Note by acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have
agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the
filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of
such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant in
such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or
defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section 5.14
shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit instituted by
the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding
in the aggregate 10% or more in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes, or to
any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or any premium or interest on any Note on or after the respective
Stated Maturities expressed in such Note (or, in the case of redemption, on or
after the Redemption Date).
Section 5.15. 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 Indenture; and
the Company (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it will not hinder,
delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but
will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law
had been enacted.
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ARTICLE 6
The Trustee
Section 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except during the
continuance of an Event of Default,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties
as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants
or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof
are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
be under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
substantially conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of
his or her own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own willful misconduct; except that:
(i) this clause (c) shall not be construed to limit the effect of
clause (a) of this Section 6.01;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the direction
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Notes; and
(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers.
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(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section 6.01.
Section 6.02. Notice of Defaults. Within 30 days after the occurrence of
any default hereunder with respect to the Notes, the Trustee shall transmit by
mail to all Holders of Notes, as their names and addresses appear in the
Register, notice of such default hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such
default shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the
case of a default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Note, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such notice
if and so long as a trust committee of directors or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such notice is in the
interest of the Holders of Notes.
Section 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected in
acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document
(whether in its original or facsimile form) 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 a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall
deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence
be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee 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 Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of
any of the Holders pursuant to this Indenture (including, without limitation,
pursuant to Section 5.12), unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable indemnity satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and
liabilities which might be incurred by it or the counsel or agents in compliance
with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into
such facts or matters as it may see fit at the expense of the Company and shall
incur no liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or investigation;
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(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder; and
(h) the rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given
to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are
extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities
hereunder, and each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
Section 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Notes. The
recitals contained herein and in the Notes, except the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and neither the
Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Notes, except that the Trustee
represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver this Indenture,
authenticate the Notes and perform its obligations hereunder and that the
statements made by it in any Statement of Eligibility on Form T-1 supplied to
the Company are true and accurate, subject to the qualifications set forth
therein. The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for
the use or application by the Company of Notes or the proceeds thereof.
Section 6.05. May Hold Notes. The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any
Paying Agent, any Note Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and,
subject to Section 6.12, may otherwise deal with the Company with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
Note Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.06. Money Held in Trust. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company.
Section 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company agrees:
(i) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder;
(ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision of this
Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as shall be determined to have been caused by its
own negligence or willful misconduct; and
(iii) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against,
any loss, liability, claim, damage or expense, including reasonable fees
and expenses of counsel, incurred without negligence or willful misconduct
on its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder,
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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, except to the extent that any such loss,
liability or expense is determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to
have been caused by the Trustee's own negligence or willful misconduct.
"Trustee" for purposes of this Section 6.07 shall include any predecessor
Trustee, but the negligence or willful misconduct of any Trustee shall not
affect the rights or obligations of the Company or any other Trustee hereunder.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an
Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(e) or (f), the expenses (including
the reasonable charges and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the
services are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any U.S.
federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section 6.07 shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.
Section 6.08. Corporate Trustee Required; Eligibility. (a) There shall at
all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall:
(i) 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;
(ii) be eligible under Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to
act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act;
and
(iii) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and
be subject to supervision or examination by U.S. federal or state
authority.
(b) 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 6.08, 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 Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section 6.08, it shall resign immediately in the
manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this Article 6.
(c) The Trustee shall comply with Section 310(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act regarding disqualification of a trustee upon acquiring a
conflicting interest.
Section 6.09. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor. (a) No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article 6 shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.10. The indemnities existing in favor of the Trustee
hereunder shall survive the Trustee's resignation or removal or termination of
this Indenture.
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(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Notes by
giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the instrument of acceptance by
a successor Trustee required by Section 6.10 shall not have been delivered to
the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of resignation, the
resigning Trustee may petition at the expense of the Company any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect
to the Notes.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Notes
by the Company or by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes, delivered to the Trustee, and to the Company in the case of
an Act of the Holders.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the obligations imposed upon
it under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the
Notes after written request therefor by the Company or by any Holder who
has been a bona fide Holder of a Note for at least six months;
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.08 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company may remove the Trustee with respect to
the Notes, or (ii) subject to Section 5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide
Holder of a Note for at least six months may, on behalf of such Holder and all
others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
removal of the Trustee with respect to the Notes and the appointment of a
successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with
respect to the Notes, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee
with respect to the Notes (it being understood that at any time there shall be
only one Trustee with respect to the Notes).
If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes shall
be appointed by an Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the
successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such
appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.10,
become the successor Trustee with respect to the Notes and supersede the
successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
If no successor Trustee with respect to the Notes shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 6.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Note
for at least six months may, on behalf of such
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Holder and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Notes.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal
of the Trustee with respect to the Notes and each appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Notes by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Notes as their names and
addresses appear in the Register. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Trustee with respect to the Notes and the address of its Corporate
Trust Office.
Section 6.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In case of the
appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Notes, every
successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to
the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the
successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Notes, the Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor
Trustee with respect to the Notes shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment
and which,
(i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or desirable
to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor Trustee all the
rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to
the Notes, and
(ii) shall add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as
shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the
trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee;
it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee.
Upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the
extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Notes; but, on request of
the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Notes.
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(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred
to in clause (a) or (b) of this Section 6.10, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article 6.
Section 6.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any Corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with which
it may be consolidated, or any Corporation resulting from any merger, conversion
or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any Corporation
succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
Corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article 6,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the request of the
Trustee, the parties shall execute and deliver such writings as the Trustee
reasonably may request to reflect such succession. In case any Notes shall have
been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any
successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee
may adopt such authentication and deliver the Notes so authenticated with the
same effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes;
and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been authenticated, any
successor Trustee may authenticate such Notes either in the name of any
predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such
cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the
Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of the Trustee shall
have; provided, however, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Notes in the name
of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor or successors by
merger, conversion or consolidation.
Section 6.12. Preferential Claims. Reference is made to Section 311 of the
Trust Indenture Act. For purposes of Section 311(b)(4) and (6) of such Act:
(i) "cash transaction" means any transaction in which full payment for
goods or securities sold is made within seven days after delivery of the
goods or securities in currency or in checks or other orders drawn upon
banks or bankers and payable upon demand; and
(ii) "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, xxxx of exchange,
acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or incurred by
the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase, processing,
manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or merchandise and
which is secured by documents evidencing title to, possession of, or a lien
upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the receivables or proceeds
arising from the sale of the goods, wares or merchandise previously
constituting the security, provided the security is received by the Trustee
simultaneously with the creation of the creditor relationship with the
Company arising from the making, drawing, negotiating or incurring of the
draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or obligation.
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If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company (or
any other obligor under the Notes), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
Section 6.13. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. At any time when any of
the Notes remain Outstanding, the Trustee may appoint an Authenticating Agent or
Agents with respect to the Notes which shall be authorized to act on behalf of
the Trustee to authenticate Notes issued upon original issuance, exchange or
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section
3.07, and Notes so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this
Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated
by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in the Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Notes by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate
of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and
delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate
of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at
all times 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 act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by U.S. federal or state authority. If such Authenticating Agent
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section 6.13, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating
Agent shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its
most recent report of condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating
Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this
Section 6.13, such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner
and with the effect specified in this Section 6.13.
Any Corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any Corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided that such Corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section 6.13, without the execution or filing of any paper or any
further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving 30 days' written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof
to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section 6.13, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail
written notice of such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all
Holders of Notes with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as
their names and addresses appear in the Register. Any successor Authenticating
Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become vested with all
the rights, powers
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and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named
as an Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed
unless eligible under the provisions of this Section 6.13.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services under this Section 6.13, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 6.07.
If an Authenticating Agent is appointed with respect to the Notes pursuant
to this Section 6.13, the Notes may have endorsed thereon, in addition to the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, an alternate certificate of
authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Notes designated therein referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
BNY Midwest Trust Company, as Trustee
By:
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As Authenticating Agent
By:
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Authorized Signatory
If the Notes may not be originally issued at one time, and if the Trustee
does not have an office capable of authenticating Notes upon original issuance
located in a Place of Payment where the Company wishes to have Notes
authenticated upon original issuance, the Trustee, if so requested by the
Company in writing or by facsimile (which writing need not comply with Section
1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel), shall appoint in
accordance with this Section 6.13 an Authenticating Agent having an office in a
Place of Payment designated by the Company with respect to the Notes.
ARTICLE 7
Holders' Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
Section 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee with respect to
the Notes:
(i) semi-annually, not later than each Interest Payment Date a list,
in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Holders as of the preceding Regular Record Date therefor,
and
(ii) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
time such list is furnished;
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provided, however, that so long as the Trustee is the Note Registrar no such
list shall be required to be furnished.
Section 7.02. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders. (a)
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the names and addresses of Holders of the Notes contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and
addresses of such Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Note
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list of the Holders of Notes furnished to
it as provided in Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list of such Holders.
(b) If two or more Holders of Notes (herein referred to as
"applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Note 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 of Notes
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Notes and is
accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business
Days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either:
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a) with respect to the
Notes, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders of
Notes whose names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a), and as to the
approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder of Notes whose name and address appear in the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a) a copy
of the form or proxy or other communication which is specified in such request,
with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be
mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses
of mailing, unless within five days after such tender the Trustee shall mail to
such applicants and file with the Commission, together with a copy of the
material to be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of
the Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interest of the Holders
or would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify
the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing
upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an
order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an
order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find,
after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained
have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail
copies of such material to all such Holders with reasonable promptness after the
entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall
be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants respecting their
application.
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(c) Every Holder of Notes, by receiving and holding the same, agrees
with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee nor
any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
in accordance with Section 7.02(b), regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under Section 7.02(b).
Section 7.03. Reports by Trustee. (a) Within 60 days after May 15 of each
year commencing with the year 2004, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Register, a brief report,
dated as of such May 15, if any, as may be required by Section 313(a), 313(b)(2)
and 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission
to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Notes are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company will
notify the Trustee when any Notes are listed on any stock exchange or delisted
therefrom.
Section 7.04. Reports by Company. The Company shall:
(a) file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual reports and
of the information, documents and other reports which the Company may be
required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of
the Exchange Act; or, if the Company is not required to file information,
documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections, then it shall file
with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the supplementary and
periodic information, documents and reports which may be required pursuant to
Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security listed and registered on
a national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in such
rules and regulations;
(b) if the Company is no longer required (or is not required, as the
case may be) to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange
Act, then it shall promptly furnish or cause to be furnished such information as
is specified pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act (or any
successor provision thereto) to such Holder or to a prospective purchaser of a
Note who is designated by such Holder, upon the request of such Holder or
prospective purchaser, in order to permit compliance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act.
(c) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules
and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such additional
information, documents and reports with respect to compliance by the Company
with the conditions and covenants of this Indenture as may be required from time
to time by such rules and regulations; and
(d) transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and addresses
appear in the Register, within 30 days after the filing thereof with the
Trustee, such summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be
filed by the Company pursuant to clauses (a)
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through (c) of this Section 7.04 as may be required by rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission.
(e) Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee
is for informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Issuer's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
ARTICLE 8
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
Section 8.01. Company May Consolidate, Etc. on Certain Terms. The Company
shall not in a single transaction or a series of related transactions,
consolidate or merge with or into any other Person, permit any other Person to
consolidate with or merge into the Company or convey, transfer or lease all or
substantially all of its properties and assets to any other Person, unless:
(a) in case the Company shall not be the surviving entity or the
Company shall convey, transfer or lease all or substantially all of its
properties and assets to any other Person, the Person formed by such
consolidation or merger or the Person to which all or substantially all of the
properties and assets of the Company are conveyed, transferred or leased, as the
case may be, shall be a Corporation organized and existing under the laws of the
United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia and
shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto executed and
delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on all
Outstanding Notes and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the
part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(b) immediately after giving effect to any such transaction and
treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company as a result of such transaction as having been
incurred by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company at the time of such
transaction, no default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(c) if, as a result of any such transaction, the properties or assets
of the Company would become subject to a Lien which would not be permitted by
the covenant specified contained in Section 10.08 of this Indenture, the Company
or such successor Person, as the case may be, shall take those steps that are
necessary to secure the Notes equally and ratably with Indebtedness secured by
such Lien; and
(d) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that such consolidation,
merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply
with this Article 8 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with.
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Section 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any consolidation or
merger by the Company with or into any other Corporation or any conveyance,
transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of
the Company to any other Person in accordance with Section 8.01, the successor
Corporation formed by such consolidation or merger or to which such conveyance,
transfer or lease is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may
exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the
same effect as if such successor Corporation has been named as the Company
herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease to another Person, the
predecessor Corporation shall be relieved of all obligations and covenants under
this Indenture and the Notes.
ARTICLE 9
Supplemental Indentures
Section 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. Without
the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Trustee, at any time and from
time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and
the assumption by any such successor of the obligations and covenants of the
Company contained herein and in the Notes;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders of the Notes or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon
the Company under this Indenture or the Notes;
(c) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to the Notes;
(d) to secure the Notes;
(e) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision in
this Indenture or the Notes which may be inconsistent with any other provision
in this Indenture or the Notes, or to make any other provisions with respect to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture, provided such action shall
not materially adversely affect the interests of the Holders of any Notes then
Outstanding (to be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel); it being understood that
any such action made solely to conform this Indenture or the Notes to the final
offering memorandum provided to investors in connection with the initial
offering of the Notes by the Company will not be deemed to materially adversely
affect the interest of the Holders of any Notes;
(f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Notes and to add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide
for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.10(b);
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(g) to modify the Restrictive Legend; provided, however, that any such
modification shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders or
beneficial owners of any Notes then Outstanding;
(h) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and
discharge of the Notes pursuant to Article Twelve, provided that no such
supplement shall materially adversely affect the interest of the Holders of any
Notes then Outstanding; or
(i) to amend or supplement any provision contained in this Indenture
or the Notes, provided that no such amendment or supplement shall materially
adversely affect the interests of the Holders of any Notes then Outstanding (to
be evidenced by an Opinion of Counsel).
Section 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders. With the
consent of the Holders of a majority in the principal amount of the Outstanding
Notes affected by such supplemental indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered
to the Company and the Trustee, the Company and the Trustee may enter into an
indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Notes
under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture
shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected
thereby,
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment
of interest on, any such Note, or reduce the principal amount thereof, rate of
interest thereon or any amount payable upon redemption thereof, or change any
Place of Payment where, or the currency in which, the principal of and any
premium and interest on any such Note is payable, or impair the right to
institute suit for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to any such
Note on or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date);
(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
the consent of whose Holders is required to modify or amend this Indenture or
the Notes, or the consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver of
compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults
hereunder and their consequences provided for in this Indenture; or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section 9.02 or Section 5.13,
except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other
provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of
the Holder of each Outstanding Note affected thereby.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section 9.02 to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article 9 or the
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modifications thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall
be provided with and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in
relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such
supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee
may, but shall not be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture or otherwise.
Section 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture under this Article 9, this Indenture shall be modified in
accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this
Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Notes theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article 9 shall conform to the requirements
of the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
Section 9.06. Reference in Notes to Supplemental Indentures. Notes
authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture
pursuant to this Article 9 may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a
notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such
supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Notes so modified
as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Company, to any such
supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company and
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for Outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE 10
Covenants
Section 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of Notes
that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on the Notes in accordance with the terms of the Notes and this
Indenture.
Section 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in each Place of Payment for the Notes an office
or agency where Notes may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Notes
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Notes and this Indenture
may be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee 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 Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent
to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
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The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Notes may be presented or surrendered for any or all such
purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; 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 each Place of Payment for
Notes for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any change in the location
of any such other office or agency.
Section 10.03. Money for Note Payments to be Held in Trust.
If the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect
to the Notes, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any of the Notes, segregate and hold in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the
principal, premium and interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly
notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for the Notes, it
will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Notes, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay such
principal, premium or interest, such sum to be held as provided by the Trust
Indenture Act, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for the Notes other than the
Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such Paying
Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of this Section
10.03, that such Paying Agent will comply with the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act applicable to it as a Paying Agent and:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on Notes in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or
otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(ii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Notes) in the making of any payment, and in respect
of the Notes, of any Event of Default; and
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default or Event
of Default, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent for payment in
respect of the Notes.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
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Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or received by
the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.08) in
respect of Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee (or such other
trustee) pursuant to Section 12.04, or then held by the Company, in trust for
the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Note and
remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal, premium or interest has
become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if
then held by the Company) shall be discharged from such trust; and the Holder of
such Note shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the
Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, New York, or to
be mailed to such Holder, or both, notice that such money remains unclaimed and
that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from
the earlier of the date of such publication or such mailing, any unclaimed
balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the Company.
Section 10.04. Statement by Officers as to Default.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof
the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of the terms,
provisions and conditions of this Indenture (without regard to any period of
grace or requirement of notice provided hereunder) and, if the Company shall be
in default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as possible and in any
event within five days after the Company becomes aware of the occurrence of any
Event of Default or an event which, with notice or the lapse of time or both,
would constitute an Event of Default, an Officers' Certificate setting forth the
details of such Event of Default or default and the action which the Company
proposes to take with respect thereto.
Section 10.05. Existence.
Subject to Article 8, the Company will do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its existence, rights
(charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however, that the Company
shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise if the Board of
Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable
in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss thereof is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 10.06. Maintenance of Properties.
The Company will cause all properties used or useful in the conduct of its
business or the business of any Subsidiary of the Company to be maintained and
kept in good condition, repair
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and working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will cause to be
made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and improvements
thereof, all as in the judgment of the Company may be necessary so that the
business carried on in connection therewith may be properly and advantageously
conducted at all times; provided, however, that nothing in this Section 10.06
shall prevent the Company from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any
of such properties if such discontinuance is, in the judgment of the Company,
desirable in the conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary of
the Company and not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 10.07. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before
the same shall become delinquent, (1) all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company or
upon the income, profits or property of the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company, and (2) all lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if
unpaid, might by law become a lien upon the property of the Company or any
Subsidiary of the Company; provided, however, that the Company shall not be
required to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax,
assessment, charge or claim (i) whose amount, applicability or validity is being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings or (ii) whose amount,
together with all other such taxes, assessments, charges or claims, does not
exceed $250,000 at any one time.
Section 10.08. Limitations on Liens.
The Company will not at any time directly or indirectly create or assume
and will not cause or permit a Subsidiary of the Company directly or indirectly
to create or assume, otherwise than in favor of the Company or a Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary of the Company, any Lien upon (1) any Principal Facility or any
interest it may have therein, (2) any stock of any Subsidiary of the Company or
(3) any Indebtedness of any Subsidiary of the Company to the Company or any
other Subsidiary of the Company, whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
without making effective provision (and the Company covenants that in such case
it will make or cause to be made effective provision) whereby the Notes and any
other Indebtedness of the Company then entitled thereto shall be secured by such
Lien equally and ratably with any and all other obligations and Indebtedness
thereby secured, so long as any such other obligations and Indebtedness shall be
so secured; provided, however, that the foregoing covenant shall not be
applicable to the following:
(a) (i) any Lien on any Principal Facility hereafter acquired or
constructed by the Company or a Subsidiary, or on which such Principal
Facility so constructed is located, and created prior to, contemporaneously
with or within 360 days after, such acquisition or construction or the
commencement of commercial operation of such Principal Facility to secure
or provide for the payment of any part of the purchase or construction
price of such Principal Facility, or (ii) the acquisition by the Company or
a Subsidiary of the Company of any Principal Facility subject to any Lien
upon such Principal Facility existing at the time of acquisition thereof,
whether or not assumed by the Company or such Subsidiary of the Company, or
(iii) any Lien existing on the property, shares of stock or indebtedness of
a corporation at the time such corporation
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shall become a Subsidiary of the Company, or (iv) any conditional sales
agreement or other title retention agreement with respect to any Principal
Facility hereafter acquired or constructed; provided that, in the case of
clauses (i) through (iv) of this Section 10.08, such Lien does not spread
to any Principal Facility owned prior to such acquisition or construction
or to any other Principal Facility thereafter acquired or constructed other
than additions to such acquired or constructed Principal Facility and other
than property on which such Principal Facility so constructed is located;
and provided, further, that if a firm commitment from a bank, insurance
company or other lender or investor (not including the Company or, a
Subsidiary or an Affiliate of the Company) for the financing of the
acquisition or construction of any Principal Facility is made prior to,
contemporaneously with or within the 360-day period hereinabove referred
to, the applicable Lien shall be deemed to be permitted by this subsection
(a) whether or not created or assumed within such period;
(b) any Lien created for the sole purpose of extending, renewing or
refunding any Lien permitted by subsection (a) of this Section 10.08;
provided, however, that the principal amount of Indebtedness secured
thereby shall not exceed the principal amount of Indebtedness so secured at
the time of such extension, renewal or refunding and that such extension,
renewal or refunding Lien shall be limited to all or any part of the same
collateral that secured the Lien extended, renewed or refunded;
(c) (i) Liens for taxes or assessments or governmental charges or
levies not then due and delinquent or the validity of which is being
contested in good faith, and against which an adequate reserve has been
established; (ii) Liens on any Principal Facility created in connection
with pledges or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations or to
secure performance in connection with bids or contracts; (iii)
materialmen's, mechanics', carrier's, workmen's, repairmen's or other like
Lien or Liens on any Principal Facility created in connection with deposits
to obtain the release of such Liens; (iv) Liens on any Principal Facility
created in connection with deposits to secure surety, stay, appeal or
customs bonds; (v) Liens created by or resulting from any litigation or
legal proceeding which is currently being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings; (vi) leases and Liens, rights of reverter and
other possessory rights of the lessor thereunder; (vii) zoning
restrictions, easements, rights-of-way or other restrictions on the use of
real property or minor irregularities in the title thereto; and (viii) any
other Liens and encumbrances similar to those specified in this subsection
(c) the existence of which does not, in the opinion of the Company,
materially impair the use by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company
of the affected Principal Facility in the operation of the business of the
Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or the value of such Principal
Facility for the purposes of such business;
(d) any contracts for production, research or development with or for
the Government, directly or indirectly, providing for advance, partial or
progress payments on such contracts and for a Lien, paramount to all other
Liens, upon money advanced or paid pursuant to such contracts, or upon any
material or supplies in connection with the performance of such contracts
to secure such payments to the Government, and Liens or other evidences of
interest in favor of the Government, paramount to all other Liens, on any
equipment, tools, machinery, land or buildings hereafter constructed,
installed or
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purchased by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company primarily for the
purpose of manufacturing or producing any product or performing any
development work, directly or indirectly, for the Government to secure
Indebtedness incurred and owing to the Government for the construction,
installation or purchase of such equipment, tools, machinery, land or
buildings; it being understood that, for purposes of this subsection (d),
"Government" shall mean the Government of the United States of America and
any department, agency or political subdivision thereof and the government
of any foreign country with which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
permitted to do business under applicable law and any department, agency or
political subdivision thereof;
(e) any Lien created after the date of this Indenture on any Principal
Facility leased to or purchased by the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company after that date and securing, directly or indirectly, obligations
issued by a State, a territory or a possession of the United States, or any
political subdivision of any of the foregoing, or the District of Columbia,
to finance the cost of acquisition or cost of construction of such
Principal Facility, provided that the interest paid on such obligations is
entitled to be excluded from gross income of the recipient pursuant to
Section 103(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (or any successor to
such provision) as in effect at the time of the issuance of such
obligations;
(f) any Lien on any Principal Facility now owned or hereafter acquired
or constructed by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, or on which
such Principal Facility so owned, acquired or constructed is located, to
secure or provide for the payment of any part of the construction price or
cost of improvements of such Principal Facility, and created prior to,
contemporaneously with or within 360 days after, such construction or
improvement; provided, that if a firm commitment from a bank, insurance
company or other lender or investor (not including the Company, or a
Subsidiary or an Affiliate of the Company) for the financing of the
acquisition or construction of such Principal Facility is made prior to,
contemporaneously with or within the 360-day period hereinabove referred
to, the applicable Lien shall be deemed to be permitted by this subsection
(f) whether or not created or assumed within such period; and
(g) any Lien not otherwise permitted under this Section 10.08;
provided that the aggregate amount of Indebtedness secured by all such
Liens plus the aggregate sale price of property involved in sale and
leaseback transactions of one or more Principal Facilities not otherwise
permitted except under Section 10.09(a) does not exceed 15% of Consolidated
Stockholders' Equity.
Section 10.09. Limitations on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.
The Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary of the Company to,
sell or transfer (except to the Company or one or more of its Wholly-Owned
Subsidiaries, or both) any Principal Facility owned by it on the date of this
Indenture with the intention of taking back a lease of such property, other than
a lease for a temporary period not to exceed 36 months with the intent that the
use by the Company or such Subsidiary of the Company of such property will be
discontinued at or before the expiration of such period, unless either:
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(a) the sum of the aggregate sale price of property involved in sale
and leaseback transactions not otherwise permitted under this Section 10.09 plus
the aggregate amount of Indebtedness secured by all Liens not otherwise
permitted except under Section 10.08(g) does not exceed 15% of Consolidated
Stockholders' Equity; or
(b) the Company, within 180 days after the sale and leaseback
transaction shall have been made by the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company, applies an amount equal to the greater of (i) the proceeds of the sale
of the Principal Facility sold and leased back in such transaction or (ii) the
fair market value of the Principal Facility sold and leased back at the time of
entering into such transaction (which may be conclusively determined by the
Board of Directors of the Company) to the retirement of Notes or other Funded
Debt of the Company ranking on a parity with the Notes; provided, that the
amount required to be applied to the retirement of Notes or other Funded Debt of
the Company pursuant to this clause (b) shall be reduced by (1) the principal
amount of any Notes delivered within 180 days after such sale and leaseback to
the Trustee for retirement and cancellation, and (2) the principal amount of any
other Funded Debt of the Company ranking on a parity with the Notes voluntarily
retired by the Company within 180 days after such sale and leaseback, whether or
not any such retirement of Funded Debt shall be specified as being made pursuant
to this clause (b). Notwithstanding the foregoing, no retirement of Funded Debt
referred to in this clause (b) may be effected by payment at maturity or
pursuant to any mandatory sinking fund payment or any mandatory prepayment
provisions.
Section 10.10. Waiver of Certain Covenants.
The Company may, with respect to the Notes, omit in any particular instance
to comply with any term, provision or condition set forth in any covenant
provided pursuant to Section 9.01(b) for the benefit of the Holders of Notes or
in any of Sections 10.06 to 10.09, inclusive, if before the time for such
compliance the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Notes shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such term, provision or condition,
but no such waiver shall extend to or affect such term, provision or condition
except to the extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become
effective, the obligations of the Company and the duties of the Trustee in
respect of any such term, provision or condition shall remain in full force and
effect.
ARTICLE 11
Redemption of Notes
Section 11.01. Terms.
The Company may, at its option, redeem the Notes, in whole or from time to
time in part, prior to April 15, 2008, at a Redemption Price equal to the
greater of (i) 100% of the principal amount of Notes to be redeemed and (ii) the
sum of the present values of the remaining scheduled payments of principal of
and interest on the Notes to be redeemed (exclusive of unpaid interest accrued
thereon to the Redemption Date) discounted to the Redemption Date on a
semi-annual basis (assuming a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months) at the
Treasury Rate plus
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20 basis points, plus, in each case, unpaid interest on the Notes to be redeemed
accrued to the Redemption Date.
In the case of any redemption of the Notes, interest installments whose
Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date will be payable to the
Holders of such Notes at the close of business on the relevant Regular Record
Date. Notes (or portions thereof) for whose redemption provision is made in
accordance with this Indenture shall cease to bear interest from and after the
Redemption Date.
Section 11.02. Election to Redeem; Notice to Trustee.
The election of the Company to redeem any Notes shall be evidenced by a
Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of
less than all the Notes, the Company shall, at least 45 days prior to the
Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be
acceptable to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and the
principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed.
Section 11.03. Selection by Trustee of Notes to be Redeemed.
If less than all the Notes are to be redeemed pursuant to Section 11.01,
the particular Notes to be redeemed shall be selected, not more than 90 days
prior to the Redemption Date, by the Trustee from among the Outstanding Notes
not previously called for redemption, by such method as the Trustee shall deem
fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for the Notes or any
integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of the Notes of a
denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for the Notes.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Notes
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected for partial
redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires,
all provisions relating to the redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of
any Notes redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the
principal amount of such Notes which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 11.04. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption shall be given by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Notes to be redeemed. Failure to
give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of any Notes
designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in the notice to
any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other Notes or portion thereof.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
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(iii) the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed;
(iv) if less than all of the Outstanding Notes are to be redeemed, the
identification (and, in the case of partial redemption, the portions of the
principal amounts) of the particular Notes to be redeemed;
(v) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Note to be redeemed and that interest thereon
will cease to accrue on and after said date;
(vi) the place or places where such Notes are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price;
(vii) the CUSIP numbers of such Notes, if any (or any other numbers
used by the Depositary to identify such Notes); and
(viii) that, unless the Company defaults in paying the Redemption
Price, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes called for redemption on
the Redemption Date.
Notice of redemption of Notes to be redeemed shall be given by the Company
or, on Company Request, by the Trustee at the expense of the Company.
Section 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. On or before any Redemption
Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if
the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of all the Notes which are to be redeemed on that date.
Section 11.06. Notes Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of redemption
having been given as aforesaid, the Notes so to be redeemed shall, on the
Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein
specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the
payment of the Redemption Price) such Notes shall cease to bear interest. Upon
surrender of any such Note for redemption in accordance with said notice, such
Note shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price; provided, however,
that installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the
Redemption Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Notes, or one or more
Predecessor Notes, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant
Regular Record Dates according to their terms.
If any Note called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal thereof shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Note.
Section 11.07. Notes Redeemed In Part.
Any Note which is to be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at an
office or agency in accordance with the notice of redemption (with, if the
Company or the Trustee shall so require, due endorsement by, or a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly
executed by, the Holder thereof or other appropriate person), and
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the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Note, without service charge, a new Note or Notes of any
authorized denominations as requested by such Holder, in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Note so surrendered.
ARTICLE 12
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
Section 12.01. Company's Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance. The Company may at its option, at any time, with respect to the
Notes, elect to have either Section 12.02 or Section 12.03 be applied to the
Outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this
Article 12.
Section 12.02. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's exercise of the
above option applicable to this Section 12.02, the Company shall be deemed to
have been discharged from their respective obligations with respect to the
Outstanding Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(hereinafter, "defeasance").
For this purpose, defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding Notes
and to have satisfied all its other obligations under such Notes and this
Indenture insofar as such Notes are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense
of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except
for the following which shall survive until otherwise terminated or discharged
hereunder:
(a) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Notes to receive, solely from
the trust fund described in Section 12.04 and as more fully set forth in such
Section 12.04, payments in respect of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on such Notes when such payments are due;
(b) the Company's obligations with respect to such Notes under
Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.07, 6.07, 10.02 and 10.03;
(c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities and other
provisions in respect of the Trustee hereunder; and
(d) this Article 12.
Subject to compliance with this Article 12, the Company may exercise its
option under this Section 12.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option
under Section 12.03 with respect to the Notes.
Section 12.03. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise of the
above option applicable to this Section 12.03, the Company shall be released
from its obligations under Sections 10.06, 10.07, 10.08 and 10.09 with respect
to the Outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth below
are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance").
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For this purpose, covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the
Outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no
liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such
Section, whether directly or indirectly by reason of any reference elsewhere
herein to any such Section or by reason of any reference in any such Section to
any other provision herein or in any other document, but the remainder of this
Indenture and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby. Following a covenant
defeasance, payment of the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of
Default under Section 5.01(d) relating thereto.
Section 12.04. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 12.02 or
Section 12.03 to the Outstanding Notes.
(a) The Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 6.08 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article
Twelve applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely
to, the benefit of the Holders of such Notes, (A) an amount in Dollars, or (B)
Government Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and
interest in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, no
later than one Business Day prior to the due date of any payment, money in an
amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient, without reinvestment, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay
and discharge, and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other qualifying
trustee) to pay and discharge, the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on all Outstanding Notes on the Stated Maturity therefor in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture and such Notes. Before such a deposit, the
Company may make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of
any Notes at a future date in accordance with any redemption provisions relating
to such Notes, which shall be given effect in applying the foregoing.
(b) No default or Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall
have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit and, with respect to
defeasance only, at any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the
date of such deposit (it being understood that this condition shall not be
deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).
(c) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee
for the Notes to have a conflicting interest for purposes of the Trust Indenture
Act.
(d) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in a
breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, this Indenture or any
other agreement or instrument to which the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company is a party or by which any of them are bound.
(e) In the case of an election under Section 12.02, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the Company
has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service
a ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has been a change in the
applicable U.S. federal income tax law, in either case to
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the effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders
of the Outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S.
federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject
to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and at the
same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not occurred.
(f) In the case of an election under Section 12.03, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of the Outstanding Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for
U.S. federal income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and
will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant
defeasance had not occurred.
(g) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in
compliance with any additional terms, conditions or limitations which may be
imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Article 9.
(h) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in the Indenture relating to either the defeasance under Section
12.02 or the covenant defeasance under Section 12.03 (as the case may be) have
been complied with.
Section 12.05. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to be Held in
Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions. Subject to the provisions of the last two
paragraphs of Section 10.03, all money and Government Obligations (including the
proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee --
collectively, for purposes of this Section, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section
12.04 in respect of the Outstanding Notes shall be held in trust and applied by
the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Notes and this Indenture,
to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (but not including
the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the
Holders of such Notes, of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to Section 12.04 or the principal, premium, if any, and interest
received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which
by law is for the account of the Holders of the Outstanding.
Anything in this Article 12 to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company Request any
money or Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section 12.04 which,
in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in
excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be deposited to
effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
FISERV, INC., Issuer
Attest:
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Title: Executive Vice President, Title: Senior Executive Vice
General Counsel, Chief President, Chief Financial
Administrative Officer Officer and Treasurer
and Secretary
BNY MIDWEST TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
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Name: Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF NOTE
[If this a Rule 144A Global Note or a Restricted Certificated Note, add the
following Restrictive Legend: THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE OR OTHER
SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS NOTE NOR ANY INTEREST HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED,
SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE
ABSENCE OF THAT REGISTRATION OR UNLESS THE TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT
SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER OF THIS NOTE AND BENEFICIAL OWNERS OF INTERESTS
HEREIN EACH (1) REPRESENTS THAT IT IS (A) A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS
DEFINED IN RULE 144A ("RULE 144A") UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (A "QIB"), (B) ONLY
IN THE CASE OF CLAUSE (E) BELOW, AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN
THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPHS (a)(1), (2), (3), (7) OR (8) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (AN "IAI") THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE OR INTEREST FOR ITS OWN
ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER IAI FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO,
OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE
SECURITIES ACT, OR (C) ONLY IN THE CASE OF CLAUSE (D) BELOW, A PERSON THAT, AT
THE TIME THE BUY ORDER WAS ORIGINATED, WAS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES AND WAS NOT
A U.S. PERSON (AND WAS NOT PURCHASING FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF A U.S.
PERSON) WITHIN THE MEANING OF REGULATION S ("REGULATION S") UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT, (2) AGREES NOT TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS NOTE OR INTEREST
PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THE LATER OF (X) TWO YEARS (OR SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF
TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144(k) OF THE SECURITIES ACT) AFTER THE LATER OF THE
ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE OF THIS NOTE AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH FISERV, INC. OR ANY
"AFFILIATE" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OF FISERV, INC.
WAS THE OWNER OF THIS NOTE OR INTEREST (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF THIS NOTE OR
INTEREST) OR (Y) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW
(THE "RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE"), EXCEPT (A) TO FISERV, INC., (B)
PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT THAT HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (C) FOR SO LONG AS THE NOTES ARE ELIGIBLE FOR RESALE PURSUANT TO
RULE 144A, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QIB THAT PURCHASES THIS NOTE
OR INTEREST FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER QIB, IN EACH CASE
TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE
144A, (D) TO A NON-U.S. PERSON IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION WITHIN THE MEANING OF,
AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH, REGULATION S, (E) TO AN IAI THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE
OR INTEREST FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF ANOTHER IAI FOR INVESTMENT
AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY
DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER
AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE
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REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT (INCLUDING RULE 144 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT), SUBJECT IN EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES TO ANY REQUIREMENT OF
LAW THAT THE DISPOSITION OF ITS PROPERTY OR THE PROPERTY OF THE APPLICABLE
INVESTOR ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS BE AT ALL TIMES WITHIN ITS OR THEIR CONTROL AND TO
COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY APPLICABLE STATE OF THE UNITED STATES
OR OTHER JURISDICTION, AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM
THIS NOTE OR INTEREST IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF
THIS LEGEND.] [Include in Certificated Notes ; PROVIDED THAT FISERV, INC. AND
THE TRUSTEE SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER OF THIS
NOTE PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (D), (E), OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION
OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATIONS AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF
THEM, AND TO REQUIRE THAT A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM APPEARING ON THE
OTHER SIDE OF THIS NOTE IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO FISERV,
INC. AND THE TRUSTEE]. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE EARLIER OF THE
TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE OR INTEREST PURSUANT TO CLAUSE 2(B) ABOVE OR UPON THE
REQUEST OF THE HOLDER AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.
[Include In Global Notes: UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC"),
TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT,
AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IN EXCHANGE FOR THIS NOTE OR ANY PORTION HEREOF IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC), ANY
TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON
IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER AND HOLDER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS
AN INTEREST HEREIN.
UNLESS AND UNTIL THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES IN
CERTIFICATED FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY DTC TO
A NOMINEE THEREOF OR BY A NOMINEE THEREOF TO DTC OR ANOTHER NOMINEE OF OR BY DTC
OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR OF DTC OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR.]
REGISTERED
No.
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CUSIP NO.
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FISERV, INC.
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% NOTE DUE 20
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Fiserv, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation (the "Company", which term includes
any successor Person under the Indenture referred to on the reverse hereof), for
value received, hereby promises to pay Cede & Co., c/o The Depository Trust
Company, 00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, or registered assigns, the
principal amount reflected on Schedule 1 hereto on , 20 (the
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"Stated Maturity Date"), unless this Note is redeemed on a Redemption Date (as
defined on the reverse hereof) prior to the Stated Maturity Date in accordance
with the provisions specified on the reverse hereof (such Stated Maturity Date
or any Redemption Date is referred to herein as the "Maturity Date" with respect
to the principal repayable on such date), and to pay interest on the outstanding
principal amount of this Note from , 2003 or, if applicable, the most
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recent "Interest Payment Date" to which interest has been paid or duly made
available for payment, semi-annually in arrears on and of each
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year, commencing , 2003, and, if applicable, on the Maturity Date, at
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the rate of % per annum, until the principal hereof is paid or duly made
--
available for payment, provided that if any Registration Default with respect to
this Note occurs under, and within the meaning of, the Registration Rights
Agreement, then the per annum interest rate on this Note will increase for the
period from the occurrence of such Registration Default until such time as no
Registration Default is in effect with respect to this Note (at which time the
per annum interest rate will be reduced to %) at a per annum rate of 0.25%
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for the first 90-day period following the occurrence of such Registration
Default and by an additional 0.25% thereafter (up to a maximum of 0.50%).
The interest so payable, and punctually paid or duly made available for
payment, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be
paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is
registered at the close of business on the "Regular Record Date" for such
interest, which shall be the or (whether or not a Business Day), as
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the case may be, immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date [if this Note
is an Original Note, then insert - ; provided that any unpaid interest
(including any Additional Interest (as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement) payable upon the occurrence of a Registration Default) accrued on
this Note upon the issuance of an Exchange Note in exchange for this Note shall
cease to be payable to the Holder hereof and shall be payable on the next
succeeding Interest Payment Date to the Holder thereof on the related Regular
Record Date.] Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly made available
for payment shall forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on such Regular
Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one
or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof, notice of which shall be given to
Holders of Notes not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date, or be
paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes may be listed, and
upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, all as more fully provided
in the Indenture.
Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any
Interest Payment Date and, if applicable, on the Maturity Date will include
interest accrued from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to
which interest has been paid or duly made available for payment (or
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, 2003, if no interest has been paid or been duly made
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available for payment) on this Note to but excluding such Interest Payment Date
or the Maturity Date, as the case may be.
The principal of and premium, if any, and interest, if any, on this Note
payable on the Maturity Date will be paid against presentation of this Note at
the office or agency of the Company maintained for that purpose in the Borough
of Manhattan, The City of New York (the "Place of Payment"). The Company hereby
appoints as Paying Agent for the Notes where Notes may be presented
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or surrendered for payment or transfer or exchange and where notices,
designations or requests in respect of payments with respect to the Notes may be
served.
If any Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date falls on a day that is
not a Business Day (as defined below), principal, premium, if any, or interest
payable with respect to such Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date, as the
case may be, will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no
interest shall accrue on the amount so payable for the period from and after
such Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date, as the case may be, to such
next succeeding Business Day. "Business Day" means any day other than Saturday,
Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are
obligated or authorized by law, regulation or executive order to close.
Payments in respect of this Note will be made by the Company in immediately
available funds in such currency of the United States of America as at the time
of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note 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
Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit
under the Indenture 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.
FISERV, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
Attest:
By:
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Name:
Title:
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Notes of the series designated therein referred to in
the Indenture.
BNY Midwest Trust Company,
as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
Dated:
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF CERTIFICATED NOTE]
FISERV, INC.
% NOTE DUE 20
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This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of senior debt securities of
the Company issued under an Indenture, dated as of , 20 (the
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"Indenture"), among the Company and BNY Midwest Trust Company, as Trustee (the
"Trustee," which term includes any successor trustee under the Indenture), to
which Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made
for a statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and
immunities thereunder of the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes
and of the terms upon which senior debt securities are, and are to be,
authenticated and delivered thereunder. This Note is one of the duly authorized
series of senior debt securities of the Company designated as " % Notes due
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20__" (the "Notes"), and the aggregate principal amount of the Notes to be
issued under such series is limited to $ (subject to the provisions
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of the Indenture). Capitalized terms used herein but not defined have the
meanings ascribed to such terms in the Indenture.
In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall occur and be
continuing, the principal of the Notes may, and in certain cases shall, be
accelerated in the manner and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
This Note will be redeemable, in whole or in part, at the option of the
Company at any time or from time to time on a date fixed for redemption therefor
(a "Redemption Date") at a redemption price equal to the greater of (i) 100% of
the principal amount of this Note to be redeemed and (ii) as determined by the
Independent Investment Banker, the sum of the present values of the remaining
scheduled payments of principal of and interest on this Note or the portion
hereof to be redeemed (not including any unpaid interest accrued thereon to such
Redemption Date), discounted to such Redemption Date semiannually (assuming a
360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury Rate plus __
basis points, plus, in the case of each of clause (i) and (ii) above, unpaid
interest accrued thereon to the Redemption Date (collectively, the "Redemption
Price"). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company will pay any interest
installment due on an Interest Payment Date that occurs on or before a
Redemption Date to the Holder of this Note as of the close of business on the
Regular Record Date immediately preceding such Interest Payment Date.
Written notice of any redemption will be mailed to the Holder of this Note
at least 30 days but not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date. Unless
the Company defaults in payment of the Redemption Price, on and after the
Redemption Date, interest will cease to accrue on this Note or the portion
hereof called for redemption.
If less than all of the Notes are to be redeemed by the Company, the
Trustee will elect, in such manner as it deems fair and appropriate, the Notes
to be redeemed in whole or in part.
This Note may not be repaid at the option of the Holder hereof prior to the
Stated Maturity Date and is not subject to, or entitled to the benefit of, any
sinking fund.
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The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the
entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events
of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain
conditions set forth therein.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the rights of the Holders of the Notes at any time by the Company
and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders a majority in the principal
amount of the Notes at the time Outstanding. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Notes at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Notes, to
waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the Indenture and
certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such
consent or waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding
upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or
Notes issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange herefor or
in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon
this Note.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on this Note at the times, places and rate, and in the currency, herein
prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and
therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Register,
upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office or agency
of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a
written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Note
Registrar duly executed by, the Holder hereof or its attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes, of any authorized denominations
and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the designated
transferee or transferees.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and
therein set forth, this Note is exchangeable for the same aggregate principal
amount of Notes of different authorized denominations, as requested by the
Holder surrendering the same.
The Notes are issuable only in fully registered form without interest
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess
thereof.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may, in certain cases, require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner and Holder hereof for
all purposes, whether or not this Note be overdue, and none of the Company, the
Trustee or any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
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This Note shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws
of the State of New York, including Section 5-1401 of the New York General
Obligations Law, but otherwise without regard to the conflict of law rules of
such State.
All capitalized terms used but not defined in this Note that are defined in
the Indenture shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations.
TEN COM as tenants in common
TEN ENT as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in
common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT Custodian
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(Cust) (Minor)
under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assigns(s) and
transfer(s) unto
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the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints
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to transfer said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of
substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature Guaranteed
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NOTICE: Signature must be guaranteed NOTICE: The signature to this
by a member firm of the New York Stock assignment must correspond with the
Exchange or a commercial bank or trust name as written upon the face of the
company. within Note in every particular,
without alteration or enlargement or
any change whatever.
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[THE FOLLOWING PROVISION TO BE INCLUDED ON ALL RESTRICTED CERTIFICATED
NOTES ONLY.]
In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the Resale
Restriction Termination Date, the undersigned Holder confirms that without
utilizing any general solicitation or general advertising that:
[Check one]
[ ] (a) Such Note is being transferred by the undersigned Holder to Fiserv,
Inc.
or
[ ] (b) Such Note is being transferred by the undersigned Holder pursuant to
an effective registration statement under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933.
or
[ ] (c) Such Note is being transferred by the undersigned Holder to a person
reasonably believed to be a "qualified institutional buyer," as
defined in Rule 144A under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, for its
own account or for the account of another qualified institutional
buyer, pursuant to the exemption from registration under the U.S.
Securities Act of 1933 provided by Rule 144A thereunder, and to whom
notice is given that the transfer is being made in reliance upon Rule
144A.
or
[ ] (d) Such Note is being transferred by the undersigned Holder to a person
reasonably believed not to be a U.S. person, as defined in Regulation
S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, in an "offshore transaction,"
as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933,
pursuant to the exemption from, or in a transaction not subject to,
registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933.
or
[ ] (e) Such Note is being transferred by the undersigned Holder in a minimum
aggregate principal amount of $100,000 to an institutional investor
reasonably believed to be an "accredited investor," as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), 2), (3), (7) or (8) under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933,
for its own account or as a fiduciary or agent for others (each of
which is also such an institutional accredited investor), for
investment purposes and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in
connection with, any distribution in violation of the U.S. Securities
Act of 1933.
or
[ ] (f) Such Note is being transferred pursuant to any other available
exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities
Act of 1933 (including Rule 144 under the Securities Act).
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If any transfer of this Note is proposed to be made pursuant to clause (d),
(e) or (f) above prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date, the Company
and the Trustee reserve the right to require the delivery of an opinion of
counsel, certifications and/or other information satisfactory to them.
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Schedule 1
SCHEDULE OF CHANGES IN OUTSTANDING PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
This is a Global Note within the meaning of the Indenture. The following
notations in respect of changes in the outstanding principal amount of this
Global Note have been made:
Initial Principal Change in Outstanding New Notation
Date Amount Principal Amount Balance Made by
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