Exhibit 4.5
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TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC.,
ISSUER,
AND
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
TRUSTEE
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INDENTURE
Dated as of July 28, 1997
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$200,000,000
5% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2004
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE. . . . . . . . . .1
SECTION 1.1. Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1
SECTION 1.2. Incorporation by Reference of TIA . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
SECTION 1.3. Rules of Construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
ARTICLE II. THE SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.1. Form and Dating . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.2. Execution and Authentication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
SECTION 2.3. Registrar and Paying Agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
SECTION 2.4. Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust. . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.5. Securityholder Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.6. Transfer and Exchange . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
SECTION 2.7. Replacement Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 2.8. Outstanding Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
SECTION 2.9. Treasury Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE III. REDEMPTION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 3.1. Right of Redemption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 3.2. Notices to Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 3.3. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed. . . . . . . . . . 21
SECTION 3.4. Notice of Redemption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
SECTION 3.5. Effect of Notice of Redemption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 3.6. Deposit of Redemption Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
SECTION 3.7. Securities Redeemed in Part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
ARTICLE IV. COVENANTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 4.1. Payment of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 4.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
SECTION 4.3. Corporate Existence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 4.4. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 4.5. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance . . . . . . . . . 25
SECTION 4.6. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 4.7. Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
SECTION 4.8. Limitation on Status as Investment Company. . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 4.9. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws . . . . . . . . . 27
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SECTION 4.10. Rule 144A Information Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
ARTICLE V. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 5.1. Limitation on Merger, Sale or Consolidation . . . . . . . 27
SECTION 5.2. Successor Corporation Substituted . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
ARTICLE VI. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 6.1. Events of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
SECTION 6.2. Acceleration of Maturity Date; Rescission and Annulment . 30
SECTION 6.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
SECTION 6.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
SECTION 6.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.6. Priorities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.7. Limitation on Suits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
SECTION 6.8. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium, Interest and Liquidated Damages. . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.9. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
SECTION 6.10. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.11. Control by Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.12. Waiver of Past Default. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
SECTION 6.13. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 6.14. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. . . . . . . . . . . . 36
ARTICLE VII. TRUSTEE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.1. Duties of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
SECTION 7.2. Rights of Trustee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SECTION 7.3. Individual Rights of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 7.4. Trustee's Disclaimer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
SECTION 7.5. Notice of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 7.6. Reports by Trustee to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 7.7. Compensation and Indemnity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
SECTION 7.8. Replacement of Trustee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
SECTION 7.9. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company . . . . 41
ARTICLE VIII. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 8.1. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 8.2. Repayment to the Company. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
ARTICLE IX. AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
SECTION 9.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders. . . . 42
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SECTION 9.2. Amendments, Supplemental Indentures and Waivers with
Consent of Holders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
SECTION 9.3. Compliance with TIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 9.4. Revocation and Effect of Consents . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
SECTION 9.5. Notation on or Exchange of Securities . . . . . . . . . . 45
SECTION 9.6. Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ARTICLE X. MEETINGS OF SECURITYHOLDERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 10.1. Purposes for Which Meetings May Be Called . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 10.2. Manner of Calling Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
SECTION 10.3. Calling of Meetings by the Company or Holders . . . . . . 46
SECTION 10.4. Who May Attend and Vote at Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 10.5. Regulations May Be Made by Trustee; Conduct of the
Meeting; Voting Rights; Adjournment . . . . . . . . . . . 47
SECTION 10.6. Voting at the Meeting and Record to Be Kept . . . . . . . 48
SECTION 10.7. Exercise of Rights of Trustee or Holders May Not Be
Hindered or Delayed by Call of Meeting. . . . . . . . . . 48
ARTICLE XI. RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL. . . . 49
SECTION 11.1. Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder
Upon a Change of Control. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
SECTION 11.2. Rescission of Change of Control Determination.. . . . . . 51
ARTICLE XII. SUBORDINATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
SECTION 12.1. Securities Subordinated to Senior Indebtedness. . . . . . 51
SECTION 12.2. No Payment on Securities in Certain Circumstances . . . . 52
SECTION 12.3. Securities Subordinated to Prior Payment of All
Senior Indebtedness on Dissolution, Liquidation
or Reorganization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
SECTION 12.4. Securityholders to Be Subrogated to Rights of Holders
of Senior Indebtedness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
SECTION 12.5. Obligations of the Company Unconditional. . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 12.6. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments Not Prohibited in
Absence of Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
SECTION 12.7. Application by Trustee of Assets Deposited with It. . . . 55
SECTION 12.8. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts or Omissions
of the Company or Holders of Senior Indebtedness. . . . . 56
SECTION 12.9. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to Effectuate
Subordination of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
SECTION 12.10. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior Indebtedness. . . . . . . 57
SECTION 12.11. Article XII Not to Prevent Events of Default. . . . . . . 57
SECTION 12.12. No Fiduciary Duty of Trustee to Holders of Senior
Indebtedness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
ARTICLE XIII. CONVERSION OF SECURITIES. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
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SECTION 13.1. Conversion Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
SECTION 13.2. Exercise of Conversion Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
SECTION 13.3. Fractional Interests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 13.4. Conversion Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 13.5. Adjustment of Conversion Price. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
SECTION 13.6. Continuation of Conversion Privilege in Case of
Reclassification, Change, Merger, Consolidation or
Sale of Assets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
SECTION 13.7. Notice of Certain Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
SECTION 13.8. Taxes on Conversion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 13.9. Company to Provide Stock. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
SECTION 13.10. Disclaimer of Responsibility for Certain Matters. . . . . 67
SECTION 13.11. Return of Funds Deposited for Redemption of Converted
Securities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
ARTICLE XIV. MISCELLANEOUS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 14.1. TIA Controls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 14.2. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
SECTION 14.3. Communications by Holders with Other Holders. . . . . . . 68
SECTION 14.4. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. . . . 69
SECTION 14.5. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion . . . . . . 69
SECTION 14.6. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 14.7. Legal Holidays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
SECTION 14.8. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 14.9. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements . . . . . . 70
SECTION 14.10. No Recourse Against Others. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 14.11. Successors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
SECTION 14.12. Duplicate Originals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 14.13. Severability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 14.14. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 14.15. Qualification of Indenture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
SECTION 14.16. Registration Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
TIA INDENTURE
SECTION SECTION
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310(a)(1) 7.10
(a)(2) 7.10
(a)(3) N.A.
(a)(4) N.A.
(a)(5) 7.10
(b) 7.8;
7.10;
14.2
(c) N.A.
311(a) 7.11
(b) 7.11
(c) N.A.
312(a) 2.5
(b) 14.3
(c) 14.3
313(a) 7.6
(b)(1) N.A.
(b)(2) 7.6
(c) 7.6;
14.2
(d) 7.6
314(a) 4.6;
13.2
(b) N.A.
(c)(1) 2.2;
7.2;
14.4
(c)(2) 7.2;
14.4
(c)(3) N.A.
(d) N.A.
(e) 14.5
(f) N.A.
315(a) 7.1(b)
(b) 7.5;
7.6;
14.2
(c) 7.1(a)
(d) 2.8;
6.11;
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7.1(b)(c)
(e) 6.14
316(a) (last sentence) 2.9
(a)(1)(A) 6.11
(a)(1)(B) 6.12
(a)(2) N.A.
(b) 6.12;
6.7
317(a)(1) 6.3
(a)(2) 6.4
(b) 2.4
318(a) 14.1
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N.A. means Not Applicable.
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed a part
of the Indenture.
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INDENTURE, dated as of July 28, 1997, between TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC., a
Delaware corporation (the "Company"), and THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York
banking corporation, as Trustee.
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of each other party and
for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company's 5% Convertible
Subordinated Notes due 2004:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.1. DEFINITIONS.
"ACCELERATION NOTICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.2.
"AFFILIATE" means (i) any person directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company, (ii)
any spouse, immediate family member, or other relative who has the same
principal residence of any person described in clause (i) above, and (iii) any
trust in which any person described in clause (i) or (ii) above has a beneficial
interest. For purposes of this definition, the term "control" means the power
to direct the management and policies of a person, directly or through one or
more intermediaries, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract, or otherwise.
"AGENT" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar.
"BANKRUPTCY LAW" means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar Federal, state
or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
"BENEFICIAL OWNER" for purposes of the definition of Change of Control has
the meaning attributed to it in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act (as
in effect on the Issue Date), whether or not applicable, except that a "person"
shall be deemed to have "beneficial ownership" of all shares that any such
person has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately
or only after the passage of time or upon the occurrence of certain events.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means, with respect to any person, the Board of
Directors of such person or any committee of the Board of Directors of such
person authorized, with respect to any particular matter, to exercise the power
of the Board of Directors of such person.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means, with respect to any person, a duly adopted
resolution of the Board of Directors of such person.
"BUSINESS DAY" means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
that is not a day on which banking institutions in New York, New York are
authorized or obligated by law or executive order to close.
"CAPITALIZED LEASE OBLIGATION" means, as to any Person, the obligation of
such Person to pay rent or other amounts under a lease to which such Person is a
party that is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease
obligation under GAAP.
"CAPITAL STOCK" means, with respect to any corporation, any and all shares,
interests, rights to purchase (other than convertible or exchangeable
Indebtedness), warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or
interests (however designated) in stock issued by that corporation.
"CASH" means such coin or currency of the United States of America as at
the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private
debts.
"CHANGE OF CONTROL" means (i) an event or series of events as a result of
which any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d)(3) and
14(d) of the Exchange Act) (excluding the Company or any wholly-owned subsidiary
thereof) is or becomes, directly or indirectly, the "beneficial owner" (as
defined in Rules 13d-3 and l3d-5 under the Exchange Act, whether or not
applicable) of more than 50% of the combined voting power of the then
outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in elections of directors,
managers or trustees, as applicable, of the Company or any successor entity
("Voting Stock"), (ii) the completion of any consolidation with or merger of the
Company into any other Person, or sale conveyance, transfer or lease by the
Company of all or substantially all of its assets to any Person, or any merger
of any other Person into the Company in a single transaction or series of
related transactions, and, in the case of any such transaction or series of
related transactions, the outstanding Common Stock of the Company is changed or
exchanged as a result, unless the stockholders of the Company immediately before
such transaction own, directly or indirectly, immediately following such
transaction, at least a majority of the combined voting power of the outstanding
voting securities of the Person resulting from such transaction in substantially
the same proportion as their ownership of the Voting Stock immediately before
such transaction, or (iii) such time as the Continuing Directors do not
constitute a majority of the Board of Directors of the Company (or, if
applicable, a successor corporation to the Company); provided that a Change of
Control shall not be deemed to have occurred if either (x) the last sale price
of the Common Stock for any five Trading Days during the 10 Trading Days
immediately preceding the Change of Control is at least equal to 105% of the
Conversion Price in effect on such day, or (y) with respect to a merger or
consolidation otherwise constituting a Change of Control described in clause
(ii) above, at least 90% of the consideration in such transaction or
transactions consists of common stock or securities convertible into common
stock that are, or upon issuance will be, traded on a United States national
securities exchange or approved for quotation on the Nasdaq National Market.
"CODE" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
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"COMMON STOCK" means the Company's common stock, par value $.01 per share,
or as such stock may be reconstituted from time to time.
"COMPANY" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a successor
replaces it pursuant to the Indenture, and thereafter means such successor.
"CONTINUING DIRECTOR" means at any date a member of the Company's Board of
Directors (i) who was a member of such board on the date of initial issuance of
the Securities or (ii) who was nominated or elected by at least a majority of
the directors who were Continuing Directors at the time of such nomination or
election or whose election to the Company's Board of Directors was recommended
or endorsed by at least a majority of the directors who were Continuing
Directors at the time of such nomination or election.
"CONVERSION PRICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.5.
"CUSTODIAN" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator
or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"DAMAGES PAYMENT DATE" shall have the meaning specified in the Registration
Rights Agreement.
"DATE OF CONVERSION" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.2.
"DEFAULT" means any event or condition that is, or after notice or passage
of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.12.
"DEFINITIVE SECURITIES" means Securities that are in the form of Security
attached hereto as Exhibit A that do not include the information called for by
footnotes 1 and 3 thereof.
"DEPOSITARY" means, with respect to the Securities issuable or issued in
whole or in part in global form, the person specified in Section 2.3 as the
Depositary with respect to the Securities, until a successor shall have been
appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this
Indenture, and, thereafter, "Depositary" shall mean or include such successor.
"DISQUALIFIED CAPITAL STOCK" means, with respect to the Company, Capital
Stock of the Company that, by its terms or by the terms of any security into
which it is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable, is, or upon the happening
of an event or the passage of time would be, required to be redeemed or
repurchased (including at the option of the holder thereof) by the Company, in
whole or in part, on or prior to the Stated Maturity of the Notes, provided that
only the portion of such Capital Stock which is so convertible, exercisable,
exchangeable or redeemable or subject to repurchase prior to such Stated
Maturity shall be deemed to be Disqualified Capital Stock.
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"DTC" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.1.
"EXCHANGE ACT" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and
the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC thereunder.
"EXPIRATION TIME" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.5.
"GAAP" means United States generally accepted accounting principles set
forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") or in such
other statements by such other entity as approved by a significant segment of
the accounting profession which are in effect in the United States; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that for purposes of determining compliance with covenants in the
Indenture, "GAAP" means such generally accepted accounting principles which are
in effect as of the Issue Date.
"GLOBAL SECURITY" means a Security that contains the paragraph referred to
in footnote 1 and the additional schedule referred to in footnote 3 to the form
of Security attached hereto as Exhibit A. There shall be separate Global
Securities, with separate CUSIP Numbers, to evidence interests (x) in the
Securities held by "qualified institutional buyers," as defined in Rule 144A
under the Securities Act, (y) in the Securities held by "accredited investors"
within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act,
and (z) by persons who acquired their interest in the Securities in compliance
with Regulation S under the Securities Act.
"HOLDER" or "SECURITYHOLDER" means the person in whose name a Security is
registered on the Registrar's books.
"INDEBTEDNESS" of any person means, without duplication, (a) all
liabilities and obligations, contingent or otherwise, of any such person, (i) in
respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the
whole of the assets of such person or only to a portion thereof), (ii) evidenced
by credit or loan agreements, bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments
(including, without limitation, notes or similar instruments given in connection
with the acquisition or any business, properties or assets of any kind), (iii)
evidenced by bankers' acceptances or similar instruments issued or accepted by
banks, (iv) for the payment of money relating to a Capitalized Lease Obligation
(as defined), or (v) evidenced by a letter of credit or a reimbursement
obligation of such person with respect to any letter of credit; (b) all
obligations of such person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of
property or services (but excluding trade accounts payable or accrued
liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business); (c) all net obligations
of such person under Interest Swap and Hedging Obligations (as defined); (d) all
liabilities of others of the kind described in the preceding clause (a), (b) or
(c) that such person has guaranteed or that is otherwise its legal liability, or
which is secured by a lien on property of such person, and all obligations to
purchase, redeem or acquire any Capital Stock; and (e) any and all deferrals,
renewals, extensions, replacements, restatements, refinancings and
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refundings (whether direct or indirect) of, or any indebtedness or obligation
issued in exchange for, any liability of the kind described in any of the
preceding clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d), or this clause (e), whether or not
between or among the same parties.
"INDENTURE" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof.
"INITIAL PURCHASERS" means Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation, Xxxxxx X. Xxxxx & Co., Incorporated, PaineWebber Incorporated and
BT Securities Corporation.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" means the stated due date of an installment of
interest on the Securities.
"INTEREST SWAP AND HEDGING OBLIGATION" means the obligations of any Person
under any interest rate protection agreement, interest rate future agreement,
interest rate option agreement, interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap
agreement or other interest rate hedge agreement, interest rate collar agreement
or other similar agreement or arrangement to which such Person is a party or
beneficiary.
"ISSUE DATE" means the date of first issuance of the Securities under this
Indenture.
"JUNIOR SECURITIES" means any Qualified Capital Stock and any Indebtedness
of the Company that is fully subordinated in right of payment to the Securities
and has no scheduled installment of principal due, by redemption, sinking fund
payment or otherwise, on or prior to the Stated Maturity of the Securities.
"LAST SALE PRICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.3.
"LEGAL HOLIDAY" shall have the meaning specified in Section 14.7.
"LIEN" means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest or other
encumbrance of any kind, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected
under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title retention
agreement and any lease deemed to constitute a security interest and any option
or other agreement to give any security interest).
"LIQUIDATED DAMAGES" shall have the meaning specified in the Registration
Rights Agreement.
"NON-ELECTING SHARE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.6.
"NOTICE OF DEFAULT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.1(3), (4)
or (5).
"OFFER" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.5.
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"OFFICER" means, with respect to the Company, the Chief Executive Officer,
the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer,
the Controller, the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of the Company.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means, with respect to the Company, a certificate
signed by two Officers or by an Officer and an Assistant Secretary of the
Company and otherwise complying with the requirements of Sections 14.4 and 14.5.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion from legal counsel who is
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee and which complies with the requirements of
Sections 14.4 and 14.5.
"PAYING AGENT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
"PAYMENT BLOCKAGE PERIOD" shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.2.
"PAYMENT DEFAULT" shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.2.
"PAYMENT NOTICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.2.
"PERSON" or "PERSON" means any corporation, individual, limited liability
company, joint stock company, joint venture, partnership, unincorporated
association, governmental regulatory entity, country, state or political
subdivision thereof, trust, municipality or other entity.
"PRINCIPAL" of any Indebtedness means the principal of such Indebtedness
plus, without duplication, any applicable premium, if any, on such Indebtedness.
"PROPERTY" means any right or interest in or to property or assets of any
kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or
intangible.
"PURCHASE AGREEMENT" means that certain Purchase Agreement, dated July 23,
1997, by and among the Company and the Initial Purchasers, as such agreement may
be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the
terms thereof.
"PURCHASED SHARES" shall have the meaning specified in Section 13.5.
"QUALIFIED CAPITAL STOCK" means any Capital Stock of the Company that is
not Disqualified Capital Stock.
"RECORD DATE" means a Record Date specified in the Securities whether or
not such Record Date is a Business Day.
"REDEMPTION DATE," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to Article III of this
Indenture and Paragraph 5 in the form of Security.
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"REDEMPTION PRICE," when used with respect to any Security to be redeemed,
means the redemption price for such redemption pursuant to Paragraph 5 in the
form of Security, which shall include, without duplication, in each case,
accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, to and including the
Redemption Date.
"REGISTRAR" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.3.
"REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT" means the Registration Rights Agreement,
dated the date hereof, by and among the Initial Purchasers and the Company, as
such agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time in
accordance with the terms thereof.
"REPURCHASE DATE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.1.
"REPURCHASE OFFER" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.1.
"REPURCHASE PRICE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.1.
"REPURCHASE PUT DATE" shall have the meaning specified in Section 11.1.
"RESTRICTED SECURITY" means a Security, unless or until it has been (i)
disposed of in a transaction effectively registered under the Securities Act or
(ii) distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 (or any similar provision
then in force) under the Securities Act; provided, that in no case shall a
Security issued in accordance with this Indenture and the terms and provisions
of the Registration Rights Agreement be a Restricted Security.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"SECURITIES" means, collectively, the 5% Convertible Subordinated Notes due
2004, as supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof,
issued under this Indenture.
"SECURITIES ACT" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
"SECURITIES CUSTODIAN" means the Trustee, as custodian with respect to the
Securities in global form, or any successor entity thereto.
"SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS" means all obligations of the Company to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, interest (including all interest accruing
subsequent to the commencement of any bankruptcy or similar proceeding, whether
or not a claim for post-petition interest is allowable as a claim in any such
proceeding) and rent payable on or in connection with, and all fees, costs,
expenses and other amounts accrued or due on or in connection with, any
Indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding on the date of the Indenture or
thereafter created, incurred, assumed, guaranteed or in effect guaranteed by the
Company, unless the instrument creating or evidencing such Indebtedness provides
that such Indebtedness is not senior or superior in right of payment to the
Securities or which is PARI PASSU with, or subordinated to, the Securities;
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provided that in no event shall Senior Indebtedness include (a) Indebtedness of
the Company owed or owing to any Subsidiary of the Company or any officer,
director or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company, (b)
Indebtedness representing or with respect to any account payable or other
accrued current liability or obligation incurred in the ordinary course of
business in connection with the obtaining of materials or services, (c) any
liability for taxes owed or owing by the Company or any Subsidiary of the
Company or (d) Indebtedness of the Company under the convertible subordinated
notes issued in connection with its acquisition of Edgewood Tool and
Manufacturing Company and its affiliate, Xxx Arbor Assembly Corporation.
"SHELF REGISTRATION STATEMENT" shall have the meaning specified in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
"SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDIARY" means any Subsidiary which is a "significant
subsidiary" of the Company within the meaning of Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X
promulgated by the Commission as in effect as of the date of the Indenture.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for payment of any Defaulted Interest means a date
fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 2.12.
"STATED MATURITY," when used with respect to any Security, means August 1,
2004.
"SUBSIDIARY" with respect to any person, means (i) a corporation a majority
of whose Capital Stock with voting power normally entitled to vote in the
election of directors is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such
person, by such person and one or more Subsidiaries of such person or by one or
more Subsidiaries of such person, (ii) a partnership in which such person or a
Subsidiary of such person is, at the time, a general partner, or (iii) any other
person (other than a corporation) in which such person, one or more Subsidiaries
of such person, or such person and one or more Subsidiaries of such person,
directly or indirectly, at the date of determination thereof has at least
majority ownership interest.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code Sections
77aaa-77bbbb) as in effect on the date of the execution of this Indenture.
"TRADING DAY" means each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,
other than any day on which securities are not traded on the Nasdaq National
Market (or, if the Common Stock is not admitted to trading thereon, on the
principal national securities exchange on which the Common Stock is listed or
admitted to trading).
"TRANSFER RESTRICTED SECURITIES" means Securities that bear or are required
to bear the legend set forth in Section 2.6 hereof
"TRUSTEE" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a successor
replaces it in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture and thereafter
means such successor.
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"TRUST OFFICER" means any officer within the corporate trust division (or
any successor group) of the Trustee or any other officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the Persons who
at that time shall be such officers, and also means, with respect to a
particular corporate trust matter, any other officer of the Trustee to whom such
trust matter is referred because of his knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means direct non-callable obligations of, or
noncallable obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America for the
payment of which obligation or guarantee the full faith and credit of the United
States of America is pledged.
SECTION 1.2. INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE OF TIA.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following
TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"COMMISSION" means the SEC.
"INDENTURE SECURITIES" means the Securities.
"INDENTURE SECURITYHOLDER" means a Holder or a Securityholder.
"INDENTURE TO BE QUALIFIED" means this Indenture.
"INDENTURE TRUSTEE" or "INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEE" means the Trustee.
"OBLIGOR" on the indenture securities means the Company and any other
obligor on the Securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA,
defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them thereby.
SECTION 1.3. RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned
to it in accordance with GAAP;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
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(4) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the plural
include the singular;
(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;
(6) "herein," "hereof" and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision; and
(7) references to Sections or Articles means reference to such
Section or Article in this Indenture, unless stated otherwise.
ARTICLE II.
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1. FORM AND DATING.
The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication, in respect
thereof, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto, which Exhibit
is part of this Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends or
endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule or usage. The Company shall
approve the form of the Securities and any notation, legend or endorsement on
them. Any such notations, legends or endorsements not contained in the form of
Security attached as Exhibit A hereto shall be delivered in writing to the
Trustee. Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
The terms and provisions contained in the forms of Securities shall
constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the
extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery
of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound
thereby.
SECTION 2.2. EXECUTION AND AUTHENTICATION.
Two Officers shall sign, or one Officer shall sign and one Officer shall
attest to, the Security for the Company by manual or facsimile signature. The
Company's seal may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or reproduced on the
Securities and may be in facsimile form.
If an Officer whose signature is on a Security was an Officer at the time
of such execution but no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates the Security, the Security shall be valid nevertheless and the
Company shall nevertheless be bound by the terms of the Securities and this
Indenture.
A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee
manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Security but such
signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been authenticated
pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
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The Trustee shall authenticate the Securities for original issue in the
aggregate principal amount of up to $200,000,000 upon a written order of the
Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate. The Officers' Certificate
shall specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the date on which
the Securities are to be authenticated. The aggregate principal amount of
Securities outstanding at any time may not exceed $200,000,000, except as
provided in Section 2.7; PROVIDED, that Securities in excess of $175,000,000
shall not be issued other than pursuant to the over-allotment option granted by
the Company to the Initial Purchasers as provided in the Purchase Agreement.
Upon the written order of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate,
the Trustee shall authenticate Securities in substitution of Securities
originally issued to reflect any name change of the Company.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the Company
to authenticate Securities. Unless otherwise provided in the appointment, an
authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the Trustee may do so.
Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the Trustee includes
authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the same rights as an
Agent to deal with the Company, any Affiliate of the Company, or any of their
respective Subsidiaries.
Securities shall be issuable only in registered form without coupons in
denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 2.3. REGISTRAR AND PAYING AGENT.
The Company shall maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, where Securities may be presented for registration of
transfer or for exchange ("Registrar") and an office or agency where Securities
may be presented for payment ("Paying Agent") and where notices and demands to
or upon the Company in respect of the Securities may be served. The Company may
act as Registrar or Paying Agent, except that, for the purposes of Articles III,
VIII and XI and as otherwise specified in the Indenture, neither the Company nor
any Affiliate of the Company shall act as Paying Agent. The Registrar shall
keep a register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The
Company may have one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional Paying
Agents. The term "Paying Agent" includes any additional Paying Agent. The
Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent, and
the Trustee hereby initially agrees so to act.
The Company shall enter into an appropriate written agency agreement with
any Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall implement the
provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall
promptly notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any such
Agent. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the
Trustee shall act as such.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company ("DTC") to act
as Depositary with respect to the Global Securities.
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The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Securities Custodian
with respect to the Global Securities.
SECTION 2.4. PAYING AGENT TO HOLD ASSETS IN TRUST.
The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree
in writing that each Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders
or the Trustee all assets held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal
of, premium, if any, interest on or Liquidated Damages with respect to, the
Securities (whether such assets have been distributed to it by the Company or
any other obligor on the Securities), and shall notify the Trustee in writing of
any Default in making any such payment. If either of the Company or a
Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate such assets
and hold them as a separate trust fund for the benefit of the Holders or the
Trustee. The Company at any time may require a Paying Agent to distribute all
assets held by it to the Trustee and account for any assets disbursed and the
Trustee may at any time during the continuance of any payment Default, upon
written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying Agent to distribute all
assets held by it to the Trustee and to account for any assets distributed.
Upon distribution to the Trustee of all assets that shall have been delivered by
the Company to the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent (if other than the Company or
an Affiliate of the Company) shall have no further liability for such assets.
SECTION 2.5. SECURITYHOLDER LISTS.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee on or before the third Business Day preceding each Interest Payment Date
and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list in such
form and as of such date as the Trustee reasonably may require of the names and
addresses of Holders.
SECTION 2.6. TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.
(a) TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES. When Definitive
Securities are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request:
(x) to register the transfer of such Definitive Securities; or
(y) to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal
principal amount of Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations;
the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange
as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Definitive Securities surrendered for transfer or
exchange:
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(i) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar or
co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing; and
(ii) in the case of Transfer Restricted Securities that are Definitive
Securities, shall be accompanied by the following additional information and
documents, as applicable:
(A) if such Transfer Restricted Securities are being delivered to the
Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such Holder, without
transfer, a certification from such Holder to that effect (in substantially
the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(B) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred to a
"qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect (in substantially the form set forth on the
reverse of the Security); or
(C) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred in
accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act, a certification to
that effect (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the
Security);
(D) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred to an
institutional investor that is an "accredited investor" within the meaning
of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act, a
certification to that effect (in substantially the form set forth on the
reverse of the Security) accompanied by a certificate in the form of
Exhibit B to the Indenture to the Trustee; or
(E) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred in
reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements of the
Securities Act, a certification to that effect (in substantially the form
set forth on the reverse of the Security) accompanied by a customary
opinion of counsel substantially to the effect that such transfer may be
effected in reliance upon such exemption.
(b) RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF A DEFINITIVE SECURITY FOR A BENEFICIAL
INTEREST IN A GLOBAL SECURITY. A Definitive Security may not be exchanged for a
beneficial interest in a Global Security except upon satisfaction of the
requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of a Definitive
Security, duly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instruments of transfer in
form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar or Co-Registrar,
duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing,
together with:
(i) if such Definitive Security is a Transfer Restricted Security,
certification, substantially in the form set forth on the reverse of the
Security, that such Definitive Security is being transferred (x) to a
"qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act or
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(y) to an institutional investor that is an "accredited investor" (within
the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) or
(z) in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act; and
(ii) whether or not such Definitive Security is a Transfer Restricted
Security, written instructions directing the Trustee to make, or to direct
the Securities Custodian to make, an endorsement on the Global Security to
reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
represented by the applicable Global Security;
then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the
Securities Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures existing between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the
aggregate principal amount of Securities represented by the appropriate Global
Security to be increased accordingly. If no Global Securities are then
outstanding, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate an
appropriate new Global Security in the appropriate principal amount.
(c) TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF GLOBAL SECURITIES. The transfer and
exchange of Global Securities or beneficial interests therein shall be effected
through the Depositary, in accordance with this Indenture (including the
restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depositary
therefor.
(d) TRANSFER OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST IN A GLOBAL SECURITY FOR A
DEFINITIVE SECURITY.
(i) Upon receipt by the Trustee of written instructions or such other
form of instructions as is customary for the Depositary from the Depositary
or its nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial interest in a
Global Security and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written order or such
other form of instructions as is customary for the Depositary or the Person
designated by the Depositary as having such a beneficial interest in a
Transfer Restricted Security only, the following additional information and
documents (all of which may be submitted by facsimile):
(A) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to the
Person designated by the Depositary as being the beneficial owner, a
certification from such person to that effect (in substantially the
form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(B) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to a
"qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act,
a certification to that effect from the transferor (in substantially
the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
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(C) if such beneficial interest is being transferred in
accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act, a certification
to that effect (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse of
the Security);
(D) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being
transferred to an institutional investor that is an "accredited
investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under
the Securities Act, a certification to that effect (in substantially
the form set forth on the reverse of the Security) accompanied by a
certificate in the form of Exhibit B to the Indenture to the Trustee;
or
(E) if such beneficial interest is being transferred in
reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements of
the Securities Act, a certification to that effect from the transferee
or transferor (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse of
the Security) accompanied by a customary opinion of counsel
substantially to the effect that such transfer may be effected in
reliance upon such exemption;
then the Trustee or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee,
will cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing
between the Depositary and the Securities Custodian, the aggregate principal
amount of the applicable Global Security to be reduced and, following such
reduction, the Company will execute and, upon receipt of an authentication order
in the form of an Officers' Certificate, the Trustee will authenticate and make
available for delivery to the transferee a Definitive Security.
(ii) Definitive Securities issued in exchange for a beneficial
interest in a Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.6(d) shall be
registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the
Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect
participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall
make such Definitive Securities available for delivery to the persons in
whose names such Securities are so registered.
(e) RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE OF GLOBAL SECURITIES.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the
provisions set forth in subsection (f) of this Section 2.6), a Global Security
may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depositary to a nominee of the
Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another
nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
(f) AUTHENTICATION OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES IN ABSENCE OF DEPOSITARY.
If at any time:
(i) the Depositary for the Securities notifies the Company and
the Company notifies the Trustee in writing that the Depositary is no
longer willing or able to continue as Depositary for the Global
Securities and a successor Depositary for the Global
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Securities is not appointed by the Company within 90 days after delivery
of such notice; or
(ii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in
writing that it elects to cause the issuance of Definitive Securities under
this Indenture;
then the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers'
Certificate requesting the authentication and delivery of Definitive Securities,
will authenticate and make available for delivery Definitive Securities, in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Global
Securities, in exchange for such Global Securities.
(g) LEGENDS.
(i) Except as permitted by the following paragraph (ii), each
Security certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the Definitive
Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution
thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND,
ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, U.S.
PERSONS, EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE THIRD SENTENCE HEREOF. BY ITS
ACQUISITION HEREOF OR OF A BENEFICIAL INTEREST HEREIN, THE HOLDER (1)
REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN
RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT)(A "QIB"), (B) IT IS ACQUIRING THIS
SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT OR (C) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS
DEFINED IN RULE 501(A)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (AN "IAI"), (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT RESELL OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFER THIS SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY OF ITS
SUBSIDIARIES, (B) TO A PERSON WHOM THE SELLER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A QIB
PURCHASING FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QIB IN A TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A, (C) IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 903 OR 904 OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(E) TO AN IAI THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED
LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE
TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE
TRUSTEE) AND, IF SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN
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AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES, OR COMMON STOCK HAVING A MARKET VALUE,
LESS THAN $250,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY THAT
SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT, (F) IN ACCORDANCE
WITH ANOTHER EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES
ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY) OR (G)
PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND, IN EACH CASE, IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED
STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE JURISDICTION AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL
DELIVER TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY OR AN INTEREST HEREIN IS
TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. AS USED
HEREIN, THE TERMS "OFFSHORE TRANSACTION" AND "UNITED STATES" HAVE THE
MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY RULE 902 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO
REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING."
(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security
(including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Global
Security) pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act or an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act:
(A) in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is a
Definitive Security or that is represented by a Global Security, the
Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof to exchange such Transfer
Restricted Security for a Definitive Security that does not bear the
legend set forth above and rescind any restriction on the transfer of
such Transfer Restricted Security in the case of a sale or transfer
pursuant to Rule 144 under the Securities Act, after delivery of a
customary opinion of counsel; and
(B) any such Transfer Restricted Security represented by a
Global Security shall not be subject to the provisions set forth in
(i) above (such sales or transfers being subject only to the
provisions of Section 2.6(c) hereof).
(h) CANCELLATION AND/OR ADJUSTMENT OF GLOBAL SECURITY. At such time
as all beneficial interests in a Global Security have either been exchanged for
Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, such Global Security
shall be returned to or retained and cancelled by the Trustee. At any time
prior to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is
exchanged for Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, the
principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be
reduced and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security, by the Trustee
or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such
reduction.
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(i) OBLIGATIONS WITH RESPECT TO TRANSFERS AND EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE
SECURITIES.
(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and
Global Securities at the Registrar's or co-Registrar's request.
(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer
or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental charge payable
in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes, assessments,
or similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges or transfers pursuant
to Section 2.2 (fourth paragraph), 2.10, 3.7, 9.5, or 11.1 (final
paragraph)).
(iii) The Registrar or co-Registrar shall not be required to
register the transfer of or exchange of (a) any Definitive Security
selected for redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article III, except
the unredeemed portion of any Definitive Security being redeemed in part,
or (b) any Security for a period beginning 15 days before the mailing of a
notice of an offer to repurchase pursuant to Article XI hereof or the
mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities pursuant to Article III
hereof and ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing.
SECTION 2.7. REPLACEMENT SECURITIES.
If a mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder of a
Security claims and submits an affidavit or other evidence, satisfactory to the
Trustee, to the Trustee to the effect that the Security has been lost, destroyed
or wrongfully taken, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate
a replacement Security if the Trustee's requirements are met. If required by
the Trustee or the Company, such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other
indemnity, sufficient in the judgment of both the Company and the Trustee, to
protect the Company, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them
may suffer if a Security is replaced. The Company may charge such Holder for
its reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses in replacing a Security.
Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the Company.
SECTION 2.8. OUTSTANDING SECURITIES.
Securities outstanding at any time are all the Securities that have been
authenticated by the Trustee (including any Security represented by a Global
Security) except those cancelled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation,
those reductions in the interest in a Global Security effected by the Trustee
hereunder and those described in this Section 2.8 as not outstanding. A
Security does not cease to be outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of
the Company holds the Security, except as provided in Section 2.9.
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If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.7 (other than a mutilated
Security surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless the
Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security is held by
a BONA FIDE purchaser. A mutilated Security ceases to be outstanding upon
surrender of such Security and replacement thereof pursuant to Section 2.7.
If on a Redemption Date the Paying Agent (other than the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company) holds Cash or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient
to pay all of the principal and interest due on the Securities payable on that
date in accordance with Section 3.6 hereof and payment of the Securities called
for redemption is not otherwise prohibited pursuant to Article XII hereof or
otherwise, then on and after that date such Securities cease to be outstanding
and interest on them ceases to accrue.
SECTION 2.9. TREASURY SECURITIES.
In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount of
Securities have concurred in any direction, amendment, supplement, waiver or
consent, Securities owned by the Company or an Affiliate of the Company shall be
disregarded, except that, for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, amendment, supplement,
waiver or consent, only Securities that the Trustee knows are so owned shall be
disregarded.
SECTION 2.10. TEMPORARY SECURITIES.
Until definitive Securities are ready for delivery, the Company may prepare
and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Securities. Temporary Securities
shall be substantially in the form of definitive Securities but may have
variations that the Company reasonably and in good faith considers appropriate
for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare
and the Trustee shall authenticate definitive Securities in exchange for
temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all
respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as permanent
Securities authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.11. CANCELLATION.
The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee
any Securities surrendered to them for registration, transfer, exchange or
payment. The Trustee, or at the direction of the Trustee, the Registrar or the
Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company), and no one
else, shall cancel and return all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange,
payment or cancellation to the Company. Subject to Section 2.7, the Company may
not issue new Securities to replace Securities that have been paid or delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu
of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section 2.11,
except as expressly permitted in the form of Securities and as permitted by this
Indenture.
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SECTION 2.12. DEFAULTED INTEREST.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the person in whose
name that Security (or one or more predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually paid
or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date plus, to the extent lawful,
any interest payable on the defaulted interest (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder on the
relevant Record Date, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at
its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to the persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective
predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, 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
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of Cash 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 Cash when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as provided in this clause (1). 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 at his address as it appears in
the Security 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 mailed as aforesaid, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names the
Securities (or their respective predecessor Securities) are registered on
such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause,
such manner shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
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Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.12, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
ARTICLE III.
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.1. RIGHT OF REDEMPTION.
Redemption of Securities, as permitted by any provision of this Indenture,
shall be made in accordance with Paragraph 5 of the Securities and this Article
III. The Company will not have the right to redeem any Securities prior to
August 1, 2000. On or after August 1, 2000, the Company will have the right to
redeem all or any part of the Securities at the Redemption Prices specified in
Paragraph 5 therein under the caption "Redemption," in each case including
accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date.
SECTION 3.2. NOTICES TO TRUSTEE.
If the Company elects to redeem Securities pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the
Securities, it shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date, the
principal amount of Securities to be redeemed, the Redemption Price and whether
it wants the Trustee to give notice of redemption to the Holders.
If the Company elects to reduce the principal amount of Securities to be
redeemed pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Securities by crediting against any such
redemption Securities it has not previously delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, it shall so notify the Trustee of the amount of the reduction and
deliver such Securities with such notice.
The Company shall give each notice to the Trustee provided for in this
Section 3.2 at least 45 days before the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee). Any such notice may be cancelled at any
time prior to notice of such redemption being mailed to any Holder and shall
thereby be void and of no effect.
SECTION 3.3. SELECTION OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED.
If less than all of the Securities are to be redeemed pursuant to Paragraph
5 thereof, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed on a PRO RATA
basis, by lot or by such other method as the Trustee shall determine to be fair
and appropriate.
The Trustee shall make the selection from the Securities outstanding and
not previously called for redemption and shall promptly notify the Company in
writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any
Security selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed. Securities in denominations of $1,000 may be redeemed only in
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whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to $1,000 or any
integral multiple thereof) of the principal of Securities that have
denominations larger than $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to
Securities called for redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for
redemption.
SECTION 3.4. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date, the
Company shall mail a notice of redemption by first-class mail, postage prepaid,
to the Trustee and each Holder whose Securities are to be redeemed at such
Holder's address as it appears on the security register maintained by the
Registrar. At the Company's request, the Trustee shall give the notice of
redemption in the Company's name and at the Company's expense. Each notice for
redemption shall identify the Securities to be redeemed and shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date, and that the Securities called for
redemption may not be converted after the fifth Business Day prior to the
Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price, including the amount of accrued and unpaid
interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, to be paid upon such redemption;
(3) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
(4) that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to the
Paying Agent at the address specified in such notice to collect the
Redemption Price;
(5) that, unless (a) the Company defaults in its obligation to
deposit Cash with the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.6 hereof or
(b) such redemption payment is prohibited pursuant to Article XII hereof or
otherwise, interest on, and Liquidated Damages with respect to, Securities
called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the Redemption Date and
the only remaining right of the Holders of such Securities is to receive
payment of the Redemption Price, including accrued and unpaid interest and
Liquidated Damages, if any, to the Redemption Date, upon surrender to the
Paying Agent of the Securities called for redemption and to be redeemed;
(6) if any Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the
principal amount, equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof, of such
Security to be redeemed and that, on or after the Redemption Date, upon
surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in aggregate
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued;
(7) if less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification of the particular Securities (or portion thereof) to be
redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of such Securities to
be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be
outstanding after such partial redemption;
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(8) the CUSIP number of the Securities to be redeemed; and
(9) that the notice is being sent pursuant to this Section 3.4 and
pursuant to the redemption provisions of Paragraph 5 of the Securities.
SECTION 3.5. EFFECT OF NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.4,
Securities called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date
and at the Redemption Price, including accrued and unpaid interest and
Liquidated Damages, if any, to the Redemption Date. Upon surrender to the
Trustee or Paying Agent, such Securities called for redemption shall be paid at
the Redemption Price, including accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated
Damages, if any, to the Redemption Date; PROVIDED that if the Redemption Date is
after a regular Record Date and on or prior to the corresponding Interest
Payment Date or Damage Payment Date, the accrued interest and Liquidated
Damages, if any, shall be payable to the Holder of the redeemed Securities
registered on the relevant Record Date; and PROVIDED, FURTHER, that if a
Redemption Date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding
Business Day and no interest or Liquidated Damages shall accrue for the period
from such Redemption Date to such succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 3.6. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.
On or prior to the Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the
Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) Cash
sufficient to pay the Redemption Price of, including accrued and unpaid interest
on, and Liquidated Damages with respect to, all Securities to be redeemed on
such Redemption Date (other than Securities or portions thereof called for
redemption on that date that have been delivered by the Company to the Trustee
for cancellation). The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any
Cash so deposited which is not required for that purpose upon the written
request of the Company.
If the Company complies with the preceding paragraph and the other
provisions of this Article III and payment of the Securities called for
redemption is not prohibited under Article XII or otherwise, interest and
Liquidated Damages on the Securities to be redeemed will cease to accrue on the
applicable Redemption Date, whether or not such Securities are presented for
payment. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if any Security
surrendered for redemption in the manner provided in the Securities shall not be
so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of the Company to
comply with the preceding paragraph, Liquidated Damages shall continue to accrue
and be paid from the Redemption Date in accordance with Section 4 of the
Registration Rights Agreement and interest shall continue to accrue and be paid
from the Redemption Date until such payment is made on the unpaid principal,
and, to the extent lawful, on any interest not paid on such unpaid principal, in
each case at the rate and in the manner provided in Section 4.1 hereof and the
Security.
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SECTION 3.7. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.
Upon surrender of a Security that is to be redeemed in part, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery
to the Holder, without service charge to the Holder, a new Security or
Securities equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Security
surrendered.
ARTICLE IV.
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.1. PAYMENT OF SECURITIES.
The Company shall pay the principal of, interest on, and Liquidated Damages
with respect to, the Securities on the dates and in the manner provided in the
Securities and the Registration Rights Agreement, as applicable. An installment
of principal of, interest on, or Liquidated Damages with respect to, the
Securities shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or
Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds for
the benefit of the Holders, on or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on that
date, Cash deposited and designated for and sufficient to pay the installment.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest at the rate specified in the Securities compounded
semi-annually, to the extent lawful.
SECTION 4.2. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.
The Company shall maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York, an office or agency where Securities may be presented or surrendered for
payment, where Securities may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and for conversion and where notices and demands to or upon the Company
in respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company
shall 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 address of the Trustee set forth in Section
14.2.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices
or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered for any or all
such purposes and may from time to time rescind such designations; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that no such designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the
Company of its obligation to maintain an office or agency in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, for such purposes. The Company shall 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. The Company
hereby initially designates the corporate trust office of the Trustee as such
office.
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SECTION 4.3. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.
Subject to Article V, the Company shall do or cause to be done all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence
and the corporate or other existence of each of its Subsidiaries in accordance
with the respective organizational documents of each of them and the rights
(charter and statutory) and corporate franchises of the Company and each of its
Subsidiaries; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Company shall not be required to
preserve, with respect to itself, any right or franchise, and with respect to
any of its Subsidiaries, any such existence, right or franchise, if (a) the
Company shall determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable in
the conduct of the business of such entity and (b) the loss thereof is not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 4.4. PAYMENT OF TAXES AND OTHER CLAIMS.
Except with respect to immaterial items, the Company shall, and shall cause
each of its Subsidiaries to, pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged,
before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and
governmental charges (including withholding taxes and any penalties, interest
and additions to taxes) levied or imposed upon the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties and assets and (ii) all
lawful claims, whether for labor, materials, supplies, services or anything
else, which have become due and payable and which by law have or may become a
Lien upon the property and assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that neither the Company nor any Subsidiary shall be required
to pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment,
charge or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in
good faith by appropriate proceedings and for which disputed amounts adequate
reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP.
SECTION 4.5. MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES AND INSURANCE.
The Company shall cause all material properties used or useful to the
conduct of its business and the business of each of its Subsidiaries to be
maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order (reasonable wear
and tear excepted) and supplied with all necessary equipment and shall cause to
be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements, betterments and
improvements thereof, all as in their reasonable judgment may be necessary, so
that the business carried on in connection therewith may be properly conducted
at all times; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that nothing in this Section 4.5 shall prevent
the Company or any Subsidiary from discontinuing any operation or maintenance of
any of such properties, or disposing of any of them, if such discontinuance or
disposal is (a), in the judgment of the Company, desirable in the conduct of the
business of such entity and (b) not disadvantageous in any material respect to
the Holders.
The Company shall provide, or cause to be provided, for itself and each of
its Subsidiaries, insurance (including appropriate self-insurance) against loss
or damage of the kinds that, in the reasonable, good faith opinion of the
Company is adequate and appropriate for the conduct of the business of the
Company and such Subsidiaries in a prudent manner, with (except
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for self-insurance) reputable insurers or with the government of the United
States of America or an agency or instrumentality thereof, in such amounts, with
such deductibles, and by such methods as shall be customary, in the reasonable,
good faith opinion of the Company and adequate and appropriate for the conduct
of the business of the Company and such Subsidiaries in a prudent manner for
entities similarly situated in the industry, unless failure to provide such
insurance (together with all other such failures) would not have a material
adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of the
Company or such Subsidiary.
SECTION 4.6. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE; NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after
the end of its fiscal year an Officers' Certificate complying with Section
314(a)(4) of the TIA and stating that a review of its activities and the
activities of its Subsidiaries during the preceding fiscal year has been made
under the supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether
the Company has kept, observed, performed and fulfilled its obligations under
this Indenture and further stating, as to each such Officer signing such
certificate, whether or not the signer knows of any failure by the Company or
any Subsidiary of the Company to comply with any conditions or covenants in this
Indenture and, if such xxxxxx does know of such a failure to comply, the
certificate shall describe such failure with particularity. The Officers'
Certificate shall also notify the Trustee should the relevant fiscal year end on
any date other than the current fiscal year end date.
(b) The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are
outstanding, deliver to the Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware of any
Default, Event of Default or fact which would prohibit the making of any payment
to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities, an Officers' Certificate
specifying such Default, Event of Default or fact and what action the Company is
taking or proposes to take with respect thereto. The Trustee shall not be
deemed to have knowledge of any Default, any Event of Default or any such fact
unless one of its Trust Officers receives notice thereof from the Company or any
of the Holders.
SECTION 4.7. REPORTS.
Whether or not the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall deliver to the
Trustee, within 15 days after it is or would have been required to file such
with the SEC, annual and quarterly consolidated financial statements
substantially equivalent to financial statements that would have been included
in reports filed with the SEC if the Company was subject to the requirements of
Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, including, with respect to annual
information only, a report thereon by the Company's certified independent public
accountants as such would be required in such reports to the SEC and, in each
case, together with a management's discussion and analysis of financial
condition and results of operations which would be so required.
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SECTION 4.8. LIMITATION ON STATUS AS INVESTMENT COMPANY.
Neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall become an "investment
company" (as that term is defined in the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended), or otherwise become subject to regulation under the Investment Company
Act.
SECTION 4.9. WAIVER OF STAY, EXTENSION OR USURY LAWS.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it
will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or
take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or
other law which would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any
portion of the principal of, premium of, interest on, or Liquidated Damages with
respect to, the Securities as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
the Company 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.
SECTION 4.10. RULE 144A INFORMATION REQUIREMENT.
The Company shall furnish, within a reasonable period of time, to the
Holders or beneficial holders of the Securities or the underlying Common Stock
and prospective purchasers of Securities or the underlying Common Stock
designated by the Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities, upon their written
request, the information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4)
under the Securities Act until such time as the Shelf Registration Statement has
become effective under the Securities Act. The Company shall also furnish such
information during the pendency of any suspension of effectiveness of the Shelf
Registration Statement.
ARTICLE V.
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.1. LIMITATION ON MERGER, SALE OR CONSOLIDATION.
(a) The Company shall not, directly or indirectly, consolidate with
or merge with or into another Person or sell, lease, convey or transfer all or
substantially all of its assets (computed on a consolidated basis), whether in a
single transaction or a series of related transactions, to another Person or
group of affiliated Persons (other than to its wholly-owned subsidiaries),
unless (i) either (a) in the case of a merger or consolidation, the Company is
the surviving entity or (b) the resulting, surviving or transferee entity is a
corporation organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia and expressly assumes by supplemental indenture all of
the obligations of the Company in connection with the Securities and the
Indenture; (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or shall occur
immediately before or after giving effect on a PRO FORMA basis to such
transaction; and (iii) the
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Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger or transfer and, if a
supplemental indenture is required, such supplemental indenture comply with the
Indenture and that all conditions precedent relating to such transactions have
been satisfied.
(b) For purposes of clause (a) of this Section 5.1, the sale, lease,
conveyance, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or substantially
all of the properties and assets of one or more Subsidiaries of the Company,
which properties and assets, if held by the Company instead of such
Subsidiaries, would constitute all or substantially all of the properties and
assets of the Company on a consolidated basis, shall be deemed to be the
transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the
Company.
SECTION 5.2. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED.
Upon any consolidation or merger or any sale, lease, conveyance or transfer
of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with the
foregoing, the successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which
the Company is merged or to which such sale, lease, conveyance or transfer is
made, shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and
power of, the Company under the Indenture with the same effect as if such
successor corporation had been named therein as the Company, and when a
successor corporation duly assumes all of the obligations of the Company
pursuant hereto and pursuant to the Securities, the predecessor shall be
released from such obligations (except with respect to any obligations that
arise from or as a result of such transaction).
ARTICLE VI.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.1. EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
"Event of Default," wherever used herein, means any one of the following
events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
caused voluntarily or involuntarily or effected, without limitation, 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):
(1) failure to pay any installment of interest on, or Liquidated
Damages with respect to, the Securities as and when the same becomes due
and payable, or to perform any conversion of the Securities required under
this Indenture, and the continuance of such default for a period of 30
days, whether or not such payment is prohibited by Article XII;
(2) failure to pay all or any part of the principal of, or premium,
if any on the Securities when and as the same become due and payable at
maturity, redemption, by acceleration or otherwise, including, without
limitation, failure to pay all or any part of
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the Repurchase Price on the Repurchase Date in accordance with Article XI,
whether or not such payment is prohibited by Article XII;
(3) failure by the Company to observe or perform any covenant or
agreement contained in the Securities or this Indenture (other than a
default in the performance of any covenant or agreement which is
specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Section 6.1), and continuance of
such failure for a period of 60 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 Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the then outstanding Securities, a written notice specifying such
default or breach, requesting it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder;
(4) failure by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary to pay
principal, premium or interest when due (after giving effect to any
applicable period of grace) at maturity of any Indebtedness (other than
non-recourse obligations), in an amount in excess of $25,000,000 and the
continuance of such failure for 30 days after there has been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company or to the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the then
outstanding Securities, a written notice specifying such default,
requesting that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder;
(5) default by the Company or any Significant Subsidiary with respect
to any Indebtedness (other than non-recourse obligations), which default
results in the acceleration of Indebtedness having a principal amount in
excess of $25,000,000 without such Indebtedness having been discharged or
such acceleration having been rescinded or annulled for 30 days after there
has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company or to the
Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
then outstanding Securities, a written notice specifying such default,
requesting that it be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice of
Default" hereunder;
(6) a decree, judgment, or order by a court of competent jurisdiction
shall have been entered adjudging the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a
petition seeking reorganization of the Company or any of its Significant
Subsidiaries under any bankruptcy or similar law, and such decree or order
shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or
a decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction over the appointment
of a receiver, liquidator, trustee, or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency
of the Company, any of its Significant Subsidiaries, or of the property of
any such Person, or for the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of any
such Person, shall have been entered, and such decree, judgment, or order
shall have remained in force undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60
days;
(7) the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries shall
institute proceedings to be adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or shall
consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file
a petition or answer or consent seeking
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reorganization under any bankruptcy or similar law or similar statute, or
shall consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the
appointment of a Custodian, receiver, liquidator, trustee, or assignee in
bankruptcy or insolvency of it or any of its assets or property, or shall
make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall admit in
writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or
shall, within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law, become insolvent, fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due, or take any corporate action
in furtherance of or to facilitate, conditionally or otherwise, any of the
foregoing; or
(8) final unsatisfied judgments not covered by insurance, or the
issuance of any warrant of attachment against any portion of the property
or assets of the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries,
aggregating in excess of $25,000,000 at any one time shall have been
rendered against the Company or any of its Significant Subsidiaries and not
have been stayed, bonded or discharged for a period (during which execution
shall not be effectively stayed) of 60 days (or, in the case of any such
final judgment which provides for payment over time, which shall so remain
unstayed, unbonded or undischarged beyond any applicable payment date
provided therein).
Notwithstanding the 60-day period and notice requirement contained in
Section 6.1(3) above, with respect to a default under Article XI the 60-day
period referred to in Section 6.1(3) shall be deemed to have begun as of the
date the Change of Control notice is required to be sent in the event that the
Company has not complied with the provisions of Section 11.1 and the Trustee or
Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding Securities
thereafter give the Notice of Default referred to in Section 6.1(3) to the
Company and, if applicable, the Trustee; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if the breach
or default is a result of a default in the payment when due of the Repurchase
Price on the Repurchase Date, such Event of Default shall be deemed, for
purposes of this Section 6.1, to arise no later than on the final Repurchase
Payment Date.
SECTION 6.2. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY DATE; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section
6.1(6) or (7) relating to the Company) occurs and is continuing, then in every
such case, unless the principal of all of the Securities shall have already
become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25%
in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities, by a notice in
writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders) (an
"Acceleration Notice"), may declare all of the principal of the Securities (or
the Repurchase Price if the Event of Default includes failure to pay the
Repurchase Price, determined as set forth below), including in each case accrued
interest thereon and Liquidated Damages with respect thereto, to be due and
payable immediately. If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.1(6) or (7)
relating to the Company occurs, all principal, accrued interest thereon and
Liquidated Damages with respect thereto will be immediately due and payable on
all outstanding Securities without any declaration or other act on the part of
Trustee or the Holders.
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At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made and
before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by
the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article VI, the Holders of no less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities, by
written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind, on behalf of all
Holders, any such declaration of acceleration if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee Cash
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on, and Liquidated Damages with respect
to, all Securities,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, applicable to) any
Securities which would then be due otherwise than by such declaration
of acceleration, and interest thereon at the rate borne by the
Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest and Liquidated Damages at the rate
borne by the Securities,
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents and counsel, and
(2) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, interest on and Liquidated Damages with
respect to Securities that have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in Section 6.12,
including, if applicable, any Event of Default relating to the covenants
contained in Section 11.1.
Notwithstanding the previous sentence of this Section 6.2, no waiver shall be
effective against any Holder for any Event of Default or event which with notice
or lapse of time or both would be an Event of Default with respect to any
covenant or provision which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of
the Holder of each outstanding Security affected thereby, unless all such
affected Holders agree, in writing, to waive such Event of Default or other
event. No such waiver shall cure or waive any subsequent Default or Event of
Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 6.3. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE.
The Company covenants that if an Event of Default in payment of principal,
premium, interest or Liquidated Damages specified in clause (1) or (2) of
Section 6.1 occurs and is continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the
Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole
amount then due and payable on such Securities for principal, premium (if any),
interest, Liquidated Damages and, to the extent that payment of such interest
shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal (and premium, if
any), Liquidated Damages and on any overdue interest, at the rate borne by the
Securities, and, in
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addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including compensation to, and 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 in favor of the
Holders, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums 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 the
Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the
manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effective 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 6.4. 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
Securities or the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their
creditors, the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities
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, interest or Liquidated
Damages) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or
otherwise to take any and all actions under the TIA, including
(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any), interest and Liquidated Damages owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities and to file such other papers or 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 agent and counsel) and of
the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(2) 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 under Section 7.7.
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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 Securities
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.
SECTION 6.5. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may
be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any
such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as
trustee of an express trust in favor of the Holders, and any recovery of
judgment shall, after provision for the payment of compensation to, and
expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be
for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 6.6. PRIORITIES.
Any money collected by the Trustee pursuant to this Article VI 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, premium (if
any), interest or Liquidated Damages, upon presentation of the Securities and
the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender
thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the Trustee in payment of all amounts due pursuant to Section
7.7;
SECOND: To the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company to the extent
provided in Article XII;
THIRD: To the Holders in payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for
principal of, premium (if any), interest on and Liquidated Damages with respect
to, the Securities in respect 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 Securities for principal, premium (if any),
interest and Liquidated Damages, respectively; and
FOURTH: To whomsoever may be lawfully entitled thereto, the remainder, if
any.
SECTION 6.7. LIMITATION ON SUITS.
No Holder of any Security shall have any right to order or direct the
Trustee 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
(A) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee of a
continuing Event of Default;
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(B) the Holders of not less than 25 % in principal amount of then
outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee to
institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own name as
Trustee hereunder;
(C) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable security
or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred or
reasonably probable to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(D) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and
offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such proceeding; and
(E) 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 then outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
SECTION 6.8. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL,
PREMIUM, INTEREST AND LIQUIDATED DAMAGES.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Holder of any
Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive
payment of the principal of, and premium (if any), interest on and Liquidated
Damages with respect to, such Security when due (including, in the case of
redemption, the Redemption Price on the applicable Redemption Date, and in the
case of the Repurchase Price, on the applicable Repurchase Date) and to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment after such respective
dates, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.9. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.7, 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.
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SECTION 6.10. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER.
No delay or omission by the Trustee or by any Holder of any Security to
exercise any right or remedy arising upon any Event of Default shall impair the
exercise of any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of
Default. Every right and remedy given by this Article VI 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 6.11. CONTROL BY HOLDERS.
The Holder or Holders of no less than a majority in aggregate principal
amount of then outstanding Securities shall have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, PROVIDED,
that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture,
(2) the Trustee shall not determine that the action so directed would
be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such direction,
and
(3) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 6.12. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULT.
Subject to Section 6.8, the Holder or Holders of not less than a majority
in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities may, on behalf of
all Holders, prior to the declaration of acceleration of the maturity of the
Securities, waive any past default hereunder and its consequences, except a
default
(A) in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any,
interest on, or Liquidated Damages with respect to, any Security not
yet cured as specified in clauses (1) and (2) of Section 6.1, or
(B) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which, under
Article IX, cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each outstanding Security affected.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any Event of
Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose
of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other
default or impair the exercise of any right arising therefrom.
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SECTION 6.13. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his
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 to be taken 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, 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 6.13 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 more than 10% in
aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities, or to any suit
instituted by any Holder for enforcement of the payment of principal of, premium
(if any), interest on or Liquidated Damages with respect to, any Security on or
after the respective Stated Maturity of such Security (including, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 6.14. 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 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.
ARTICLE VII.
TRUSTEE
The Trustee hereby accepts the trust imposed upon it by this Indenture and
covenants and agrees to perform the same, as herein expressed.
SECTION 7.1. DUTIES OF TRUSTEE.
(a) If a Default or 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 own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of
Default:
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(1) The Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically
set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no covenants or obligations
shall be implied in or read into this Indenture which are adverse to the
Trustee.
(2) 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. However,
the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(1) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section 7.1.
(2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in
good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 7.1.
(d) 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 to take or omit to take any action
under this Indenture or at the request, order or direction of the Holders or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(e) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) of this Section 7.1.
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any assets
received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.
Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other assets
except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 7.2. RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
Subject to Section 7.1:
(a) The Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be genuine
and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Trustee need not
investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
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(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may consult
with counsel of its selection and may require an Officers' Certificate or an
Opinion of Counsel, which shall conform to Sections 14.4 and 14.5. The Trustee
shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
reliance on such certificate or advice of counsel.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall
not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any attorney or agent
appointed with due care.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its rights or
powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
(e) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, 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.
(f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Holders, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture,
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred
therein or thereby.
(g) Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this Indenture, any
demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be sufficient if
signed by an Officer of the Company.
(h) The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance
of the Company's covenants in Article IV hereof. In addition, the Trustee shall
not be deemed to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except (i)
any Event of Default occurring pursuant to Sections 6.1(1), 6.1(2) or 5. 1, or
(ii) any Default or Event of Default of which the Trustee shall have received
written notification or obtained actual knowledge.
SECTION 7.3. INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company, any of its
Subsidiaries, or their respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have
if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. However,
the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
SECTION 7.4. TRUSTEE'S DISCLAIMER.
The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy of this
Indenture or the Securities and it shall not be accountable for the Company's
use of the proceeds from the
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Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the Securities,
other than the Trustee's certificate of authentication, or the use or
application of any funds received by a Paying Agent other than the Trustee.
SECTION 7.5. NOTICE OF DEFAULT.
If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if it is
known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Securityholder notice of
the uncured Default or Event of Default within 90 days after such Default or
Event of Default occurs. Except in the case of a Default or an Event of Default
in payment of principal (or premium, if any) of, interest on or Liquidated
Damages with respect to, any Security (including the payment of the Repurchase
Price on the Repurchase Date and the payment of the Redemption Price on the
Redemption Date), the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a Trust
Officer in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the interest
of the Securityholders.
SECTION 7.6. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS.
Within 60 days after each May 15 beginning with the May 15 following the
date of this Indenture, the Trustee shall, if required by law, mail to each
Securityholder a brief report dated as of such May 15 that complies with TIA
Section 313(a). The Trustee also shall comply with TIA Sections 313(b) and
313(c).
The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing if the Securities
become listed on any stock exchange or automatic quotation system.
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders shall
be mailed to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock exchange, if any,
on which the Securities are listed.
SECTION 7.7. COMPENSATION AND INDEMNITY.
The Company agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time such
compensation for its services as the parties shall agree from time to time. The
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon
request for all reasonable disbursements, expenses and advances incurred or made
by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation, disbursements
and expenses of the Trustee's agents, accountants, experts and counsel.
The Company agrees to indemnify the Trustee (in its capacity as Trustee)
and each of its officers, directors, attorneys-in-fact and agents for, and hold
it harmless against, any claim, demand, expense (including but not limited to
reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee's agents and
counsel), loss or liability incurred by it without negligence or bad faith on
its part, arising out of or in connection with the administration of this trust
and its rights or duties hereunder including the reasonable costs and expenses
of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or
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duties hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim
asserted against the Trustee for which it may seek indemnity. The Company shall
defend the claim and the Trustee shall provide reasonable cooperation at the
Company's expense in the defense. The Trustee may have separate counsel and the
Company shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel; PROVIDED,
that the Company will not be required to pay such fees and expenses if it
assumes the Trustee's defense and there is no conflict of interest between the
Company and the Trustee in connection with such defense. The Company need not
pay for any settlement made without its written consent. The Company need not
reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or liability to the extent
incurred by the Trustee through its negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.7, the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all assets held or
collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except assets held in
trust to pay principal and premium, if any, of or interest on particular
Securities.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event of
Default specified in Section 6.1(5) or (6) occurs, the expenses and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any Bankruptcy Law.
The Company's obligations under this Section 7.7 and any lien arising
hereunder shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee, the discharge
of the Company's obligations pursuant to Article VIII of this Indenture and any
rejection or termination of this Indenture under any Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 7.8. REPLACEMENT OF TRUSTEE.
The Trustee may resign by so notifying the Company in writing. The Holder
or Holders of a majority in principal amount of then outstanding Securities may
remove the Trustee by so notifying the Company and the Trustee in writing and
may appoint a successor trustee with the Company's consent. The Company may
remove the Trustee if:
(a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(b) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(c) a receiver, Custodian, or other public officer takes charge of
the Trustee or its property; or
(d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the office
of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holder or
Holders of a majority in principal amount of then
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outstanding Securities may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor
Trustee appointed by the Company.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment
to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that and provided
that all sums owing to the retiring Trustee provided for in Section 7.7 have
been paid, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as
trustee to the successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided in Section 7.7,
the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and
the successor Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the
Trustee under this Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail notice of its
succession to each Holder.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the
Holder or Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of then outstanding
Securities may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Securityholder may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and
the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section 7.8,
the Company's obligations under Section 7.7 shall continue for the benefit of
the retiring Trustee.
SECTION 7.9. SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE BY MERGER, ETC.
If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all
or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation,
the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any further act
shall, if such resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is otherwise
eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee.
SECTION 7.10. ELIGIBILITY; DISQUALIFICATION.
The Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA Section
310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus
of at least $100,000,000 as set forth in its most recent published annual report
of condition. The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 310(b).
SECTION 7.11. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY.
The Trustee shall comply with TIA Section 311 (a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA Section 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been
removed shall be subject to TIA Section 311(a) to the extent indicated.
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ARTICLE VIII.
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 8.1. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.
The Company may terminate its obligations under this Indenture (subject to
the provisions of this Article VIII) when it shall have delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation all Securities theretofore authenticated (other than any
Securities which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have
been replaced or paid as provided in Article II hereof) and the following
conditions shall be satisfied:
(1) The Company has paid all sums payable under the Indenture;
and
(2) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel in the United States, each stating that
all conditions precedent have been complied with as contemplated by this Section
8. 1.
SECTION 8.2. REPAYMENT TO THE COMPANY.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then held by
the Company, for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, interest on
or Liquidated Damages with respect to any Security and remaining unclaimed for
two years after such principal, premium, if any, interest or Liquidated Damages
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on its request; and the
Holder of such Security shall thereafter look only to the Company for payment
thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to
such trust money shall thereupon cease.
ARTICLE IX.
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.1. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS.
Without the consent of any Holder, the Company, when authorized by Board
Resolutions, 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:
(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect, or inconsistency, or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture
which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture, PROVIDED,
that such action pursuant to this clause (1) does not adversely affect the
interests of any Holder in any respect;
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(2) to create additional covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders, or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company or
to make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any
Holder, provided, that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel stating that such change pursuant to this clause (2) does not adversely
affect the rights of any Holder;
(3) to provide for collateral for or guarantors of the Securities;
(4) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company and the
assumption by any such successor of the obligations of the Company herein and in
the Securities in accordance with Article V; or
(5) to comply with the TIA.
SECTION 9.2. AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES AND WAIVERS WITH CONSENT
OF HOLDERS.
Subject to Section 6.8 and the last sentence of this paragraph, with the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of then outstanding Securities, by written act of said Holders delivered to the
Company and the Trustee, the Company, when authorized by Board Resolutions, and
the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities or 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 the Securities or of modifying in any manner the rights of
the Holders under this Indenture or the Securities. Subject to Section 6.8,
Section 11.2 and the last sentence of this paragraph, the Holder or Holders of
not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding
Securities may, in writing, waive compliance by the Company with any provision
of this Indenture or the Securities. Notwithstanding any of the above, however,
no such amendment, supplemental indenture or waiver shall, without the consent
of the Holder of each outstanding Security affected thereby:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of any Security or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate (or extend the time for payment) of interest thereon
or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or
the interest thereon or Liquidated Damages with respect thereto is payable, or
impair the right to institute suit for the conversion of any Security or the
enforcement of any such payment on or after the due date thereof (including, in
the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date), or reduce the
Repurchase Price, or alter the Repurchase Offer or redemption provisions in a
manner adverse to the Holders;
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such amendment,
supplemental indenture or waiver provided for in the Indenture;
(3) adversely affect the right of such Holder to convert Securities;
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(4) modify the provisions of Article 11 or the definition of Change of
Control, extent to the extent permitted by Section 11.2;
or
(5) modify any of the waiver provisions, except to increase any required
percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of the Indenture cannot
be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each outstanding
Security affected thereby.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section
9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, supplement or
waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the substance
thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.2 becomes
effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a notice
briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of the
Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any
way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or waiver.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.2 or Section
9.4 becomes effective, it shall bind each Holder.
In connection with any amendment, supplement or waiver under this Article
IX, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, offer to any Holder who
consents to such amendment, supplement or waiver, or (at the option of the
Company) to all Holders, consideration for consent to such amendment, supplement
or waiver.
SECTION 9.3. COMPLIANCE WITH TIA.
Every amendment, waiver or supplement of this Indenture or the Securities
shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.
SECTION 9.4. REVOCATION AND EFFECT OF CONSENTS.
Until an amendment, waiver or supplement becomes effective, a consent to it
by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of
a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the
consenting Holder's Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any
Security. However, any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent
as to his Security or portion of his Security by written notice to the Company
or the Person designated by the Company as the Person to whom consents should be
sent if such revocation is received by the Company or such Person before the
date on which the Trustee receives an Officers' Certificate certifying that the
Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities have consented (and not
theretofore revoked such consent) to the amendment, supplement or waiver.
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The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the
purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
supplement or waiver, which record date shall be the date so fixed by the
Company notwithstanding the provisions of the TIA. If a record date is fixed,
then notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph,
those Persons who were Holders at such record date, and only those Persons (or
their duly designated proxies), shall be entitled to revoke any consent
previously given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such
record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days
after such record date.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind
every Securityholder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (1)
through (4) of Section 9.2, in which case, the amendment, supplement or waiver
shall bind only each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and every
subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences the same
debt as the consenting Holder's Security; PROVIDED, that any such waiver shall
not impair or affect the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal and
premium of and interest on and Liquidated Damages with respect to a Security, on
or after the respective dates set for such amounts to become due and payable
expressed in such Security, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such
payment on or after such respective dates.
SECTION 9.5. NOTATION ON OR EXCHANGE OF SECURITIES.
If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security, the
Trustee may require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee or
require the Holder to put an appropriate notation on the Security. The Trustee
may place an appropriate notation on the Security about the changed terms and
return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so
determines, the Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee
shall authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms. Any failure
to make the appropriate notation or to issue a new Security shall not affect the
validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 9.6. TRUSTEE TO SIGN AMENDMENTS, ETC.
The Trustee shall execute any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized
pursuant to this Article IX; PROVIDED, that the Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, execute any such amendment, supplement or waiver which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture. The Trustee
shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of any amendment, supplement or
waiver authorized pursuant to this Article IX is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture.
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ARTICLE X.
MEETINGS OF SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 10.1. PURPOSES FOR WHICH MEETINGS MAY BE CALLED.
A meeting of Securityholders may be called at any time and from time to
time pursuant to the provisions of this Article X for any of the following
purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee, or to give
any directions to the Trustee, or to waive or to consent to the waiving of any
Default or Event of Default hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other
action authorized to be taken by Securityholders pursuant to any of the
provisions of Article VI;
(b) to remove the Trustee or appoint a successor Trustee pursuant to
the provisions of Article VII;
(c) to consent to an amendment, supplement or waiver pursuant to
provisions of Section 9.2; or
(d) to take any other action (i) authorized to be taken by or on
behalf of the Holder or Holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of
the Securities under any other provision of this Indenture, or authorized or
permitted by law or (ii) which the Trustee deems necessary or appropriate in
connection with the administration of this Indenture.
SECTION 10.2. MANNER OF CALLING MEETINGS.
The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Securityholders to take any
action specified in Section 10.1, to be held at such time and at such place in
the City of New York, New York or elsewhere as the Trustee shall determine.
Notice of every meeting of Securityholders, setting forth the time and place of
such meeting and in general terms the action proposed to be taken at such
meeting, shall be mailed by the Trustee, first-class postage prepaid, to the
Company and to the Holders at their last addresses as they shall appear on the
registration books of the Registrar, not less than 10 nor more than 60 days
prior to the date fixed for a meeting.
Any meeting of Securityholders shall be valid without notice if the Holders
of all Securities then outstanding are present in Person or by proxy, or if
notice is waived before or after the meeting by the Holders of all Securities
outstanding, and if the Company and the Trustee are either present by duly
authorized representatives or have, before or after the meeting, waived notice.
SECTION 10.3. CALLING OF MEETINGS BY THE COMPANY OR HOLDERS.
In case at any time the Company or the Holders of not less than 10% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, shall have
requested the Trustee to call a
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meeting of Securityholders to take any action specified in Section 10.1, by
written request setting forth in reasonable detail the action proposed to be
taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such
meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request, then the Company or the
Holders of Securities in the amount above specified may determine the time and
place in the City of New York, New York or elsewhere for such meeting and may
call such meeting for the purpose of taking such action, by mailing or causing
to be mailed notice thereof as provided in Section 10.2, or by causing notice
thereof to be published at least once in each of two successive calendar weeks
(on any Business Day during such week) in a newspaper or newspapers printed in
the English language, customarily published at least five days a week of a
general circulation in the City of New York, State of New York, the first such
publication to be not less than 10 nor more than 60 days prior to the date fixed
for the meeting.
SECTION 10.4. WHO MAY ATTEND AND VOTE AT MEETINGS.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Securityholders, a Person shall
(a) be a registered Holder of one or more Securities, or (b) be a Person
appointed by an instrument in writing as proxy for the registered Holder or
Holders of Securities. The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or
to speak at any meeting of Securityholders shall be the Persons entitled to vote
at such meeting and their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its
counsel and any representatives of the Company, and its counsel.
SECTION 10.5. REGULATIONS MAY BE MADE BY TRUSTEE; CONDUCT OF THE MEETING;
VOTING RIGHTS; ADJOURNMENT.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee may make
such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any action by or any
meeting of Securityholders, in regard to proof of the holding of Securities and
of the appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of
inspectors of votes, and submission and examination of proxies, certificates and
other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the
conduct of the meeting as it shall think appropriate. Such regulations may fix
a record date and time for determining the Holders of record of Securities
entitled to vote at such meeting, in which case those and only those Persons who
are Holders of Securities at the record date and time so fixed, or their
proxies, shall be entitled to vote at such meeting whether or not they shall be
such Holders at the time of the meeting.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Securityholders as provided in Section 10.3, in which case the
Company or the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in
like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by vote of the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Securities represented at the meeting and entitled to
vote.
At any meeting each Securityholder or proxy shall be entitled to one vote
for each $1,000 principal amount of Securities held or represented by him;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in
respect of any Securities challenged as not outstanding and
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ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not then outstanding. The chairman
of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than by virtue of Securities
held by him or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly designating him as the
proxy to vote on behalf of other Securityholders. Any meeting of
Securityholders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 10.2 or
Section 10.3 may be adjourned from time to time by vote of the Holder or Holders
of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities represented at the
meeting and entitled to vote, and the meeting may be held as so adjourned
without further notice.
SECTION 10.6. VOTING AT THE MEETING AND RECORD TO BE KEPT.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of Securityholders
shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of the
Holders of Securities or of their representatives by proxy and the principal
amount of the Securities voted by the ballot. The permanent chairman of the
meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes, who shall count all votes cast at
the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the
secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in duplicate of all
votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each
meeting of Securityholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and
there shall be attached to such record the original reports of the inspectors of
votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons
having knowledge of the facts, setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting
and showing that such notice was mailed as provided in Section 10.2 or published
as provided in Section 10.3. The record shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and the secretary of the meeting and one of
the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to
be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots
voted at the meeting.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the
matters therein stated.
SECTION 10.7. EXERCISE OF RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE OR HOLDERS MAY NOT BE
HINDERED OR DELAYED BY CALL OF MEETING.
Nothing contained in this Article X shall be deemed or construed to
authorize or permit, by reason of any call of a meeting of Securityholders or
any rights expressly or impliedly conferred hereunder to make such call, any
hindrance or delay in the exercise of any right or rights conferred upon or
reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders under any of the provisions of
this Indenture or of the Securities.
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ARTICLEXI.
RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL
SECTION 11.1. REPURCHASE OF SECURITIES AT OPTION OF THE HOLDER UPON A
CHANGE OF CONTROL.
(a) Subject to Section 11.2, in the event that a Change of Control
occurs, the Company shall offer, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Indenture, to purchase all or any part of each Holder's Securities (PROVIDED,
that the principal amount of such Securities must be $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof) on the date (the "Repurchase Date") that is no later than 45
Business Days after the occurrence of such Change of Control, at a cash price
(the "Repurchase Price") equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, together
with accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any, to the
Repurchase Date.
(b) In the event that, pursuant to this Section 11.1, the Company
shall be required to commence an offer to purchase Securities (a "Repurchase
Offer"), the Company shall follow the procedures set forth in this Section 11.1
as follows:
(1) the Repurchase Offer shall commence within 25 Business Days
following a Change of Control;
(2) the Repurchase Offer shall remain open for 20 Business Days
following its commencement, except to the extent that a longer period is
required by applicable law, but in any case not more than 60 Business Days
following the Change of Control (the "Repurchase Offer Period");
(3) upon the expiration of a Repurchase Offer, the Company shall
purchase all Securities tendered in response to the Repurchase Offer;
(4) if the Repurchase Date is on or after an interest payment
record date and on or before the related Interest Payment Date and Damage
Payment Date, any accrued interest and Liquidated Damages will be paid to the
Person in whose name a Security is registered at the close of business on such
record date, and no additional interest or Liquidated Damages will be payable to
Securityholders who tender Securities pursuant to the Repurchase Offer;
(5) the Company shall provide the Trustee with notice of the
Repurchase Offer at least 5 Business Days before the commencement of any
Repurchase Offer (or such shorter period that is satisfactory to the Trustee);
and
(6) on or before the commencement of any Repurchase Offer, the
Company or the Trustee (upon the request and at the expense of the Company)
shall send, by first-class mail, a notice to each of the Securityholders, which
(to the extent consistent with this Indenture) shall govern the terms of the
Repurchase Offer and shall state:
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(i) that the Repurchase Offer is being made pursuant to such
notice and this Section 11.1 and that all Securities, or portions thereof,
tendered will be accepted for payment;
(ii) the Repurchase Price (including the amount of accrued and
unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any), the Repurchase Date and
the Repurchase Put Date;
(iii) that any Security, or portion thereof, not tendered or
accepted for payment will continue to accrue interest and Liquidated
Damages, if any;
(iv) that, unless the Company defaults in depositing Cash with the
Paying Agent in accordance with the last paragraph of this clause (b) or
such payment is prevented pursuant to Article XII, any Security, or portion
thereof, accepted for payment pursuant to the Repurchase Offer shall cease
to accrue interest and Liquidated Damages after the Repurchase Date;
(v) that Holders electing to have a Security, or portion thereof,
purchased pursuant to a Repurchase Offer will be required to surrender the
Security, with the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on
the reverse of the Security completed, to the Paying Agent (which may not
for purposes of this Section 11.1, notwithstanding anything in this
Indenture to the contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company)
at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on
the earlier of (a) the third Business Day prior to the Repurchase Date and
(b) the third Business Day following the expiration of the Repurchase Offer
(such earlier date being the "Repurchase Put Date");
(vi) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election, in
whole or in part, if the Paying Agent (which may not for purposes of this
Section 11.1, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the contrary,
be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company) receives, up to the close
of business on the Repurchase Put Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile
transmission or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal
amount of the Securities the Holder is withdrawing and a statement that
such Holder is withdrawing his election to have such principal amount of
Securities purchased; and
(vii) a brief description of the events resulting in such Change of
Control.
Any such Repurchase Offer shall comply with all applicable provisions of
Federal and state laws, including those regulating tender offers, if applicable,
and any provisions of this Indenture which conflict with such laws shall be
deemed to be superseded by the provisions of such laws.
On or before the Repurchase Date, the Company shall (i) accept for payment
Securities or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant to the Repurchase
Offer on or before the Repurchase Put Date, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent
Cash sufficient to pay the Repurchase Price (together
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with accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages, if any) of all
Securities or portions thereof so tendered and (iii) deliver to the Trustee
Securities so accepted together with an Officers' Certificate listing the
Securities or portions thereof being purchased by the Company. The Paying Agent
shall promptly mail to Holders of Securities so accepted payment in an amount
equal to the Repurchase Price (together with accrued and unpaid interest and
Liquidated Damages, if any), and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and
mail or deliver to such Holders a new Security or Securities equal in principal
amount to any unpurchased portion of the Securities surrendered. Any Securities
not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to the
Holder thereof. The Company shall publicly announce the results of the
Repurchase Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Repurchase Date.
SECTION 11.2. RESCISSION OF CHANGE OF CONTROL DETERMINATION.
At any time prior to the close of business on the Business day immediately
preceding the Repurchase Date, the Holders of more than 66-2/3% in aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Securities, by written act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, may determine that the event
giving rise to the Change of Control shall not be treated as a Change of Control
for purposes of Section 11.1, in which event:
(1) the provisions of Section 11.1(a) shall not apply;
(2) if a Repurchase Offer has been made by the Company pursuant to Section
11.1(b), such Repurchase Offer shall be deemed revoked; and
(3) if any Securities have been tendered in response to the revoked
Repurchase Offer, such tenders shall be deemed rescinded and the Securities
promptly returned to the Holders thereof.
Following a determination by the Holders pursuant to this Section 11.2, the
Company shall mail to all Holders a notice briefly describing such
determination. Any failure of the Company to mail such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of any
such determination. An effective determination under this Section 11.2 shall be
binding on all holders
ARTICLE XII.
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 12.1. SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Company and each Holder, by its acceptance of Securities, agree that
(a) the payment of the principal of and interest on the Securities and (b) any
other payment in respect of the Securities, including on account of the
acquisition or redemption of the Securities by the Company (including, without
limitation, pursuant to Article XI) is subordinated, to the extent and in the
manner provided in this Article XII, to the prior payment in full of all Senior
Indebtedness
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of the Company, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter
created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed, and that these subordination
provisions are for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness.
This Article XII shall constitute a continuing offer to all Persons who, in
reliance upon such provisions, become holders of, or continue to hold, Senior
Indebtedness, and such provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and such holders are made obligees hereunder and any one or
more of them may enforce such provisions.
SECTION 12.2. NO PAYMENT ON SECURITIES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.
(a) No payment may be made by the Company on account of the
principal of, premium, if any, interest on, or Liquidated Damages with respect
to, the Securities, or to acquire any of the Securities (including repurchases
of Securities at the option of the Holder) for cash or property (other than
Junior Securities), or on account of the redemption provisions of the
Securities, (i) upon the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness of the Company by
lapse of time, acceleration (unless waived) or otherwise, unless and until all
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Senior Indebtedness are
first paid in full (or such payment is duly provided for), or (ii) in the event
of default in the payment of any principal of, premium, if any, or interest on
any Senior Indebtedness of the Company when it becomes due and payable, whether
at maturity or at a date fixed for prepayment or by declaration or otherwise
(collectively, a "Payment Default"), unless and until such Payment Default has
been cured or waived or otherwise has ceased to exist.
(b) Upon (i) the happening of an event of default (other than a
Payment Default) that permits, or would permit, with (w) the passage of time,
(x) the giving of notice, (y) the making of any payment of the Securities then
required to be made, or (z) any combination thereof (collectively, a
"Non-Payment Default"), the holders of Senior Indebtedness having a principal
amount then outstanding in excess of $10,000,000 (or with respect to which
Senior Indebtedness the holders are obligated to lend the Company in excess of
$10,000,000 principal amount) or their representative immediately to accelerate
its maturity and (ii) written notice of such Non-Payment Default given to the
Company and the Trustee by the holders of an aggregate of at least $10,000,000
principal amount outstanding of such Senior Indebtedness (or holders of
commitments to lend an aggregate of at least $10,000,000 principal amount of
Senior Indebtedness) or their representative (a "Payment Notice"), then, unless
and until such Non-Payment Default has been cured or waived or otherwise has
ceased to exist, no payment (by set-off or otherwise) may be made by or on
behalf of the Company on account of the principal of, premium, if any, interest
on, or Liquidated Damages with respect to, the Securities, or to acquire or
repurchase any of the Securities for cash or property, or on account of the
redemption provisions of the Securities, in any such case other than payments
made with Junior Securities. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless (i) the
Senior Indebtedness in respect of which such Non-Payment Default exists has been
declared due and payable in its entirety within 179 days after the Payment
Notice is delivered as set forth above (the "Payment Blockage Period"), and (ii)
such declaration has not been rescinded or waived, at the end of the Payment
Blockage Period, the Company shall be required to pay all sums not paid to the
Holders of the Securities during the
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Payment Blockage Period due to the foregoing prohibitions and to resume all
other payments as and when due on the Securities. Not more than one Payment
Notice may be given in any 365-day period, irrespective of the number of
defaults with respect to Senior Indebtedness during such period. In no event,
however, may the total number of days during which any Payment Blockage Period
or Payment Blockage Periods are in effect exceed 179 days in the aggregate
during any consecutive 365-day period.
(c) In furtherance of the provisions of Section 12.1, in the event
that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section 12.2, any payment
or distribution of assets of the Company (other than Junior Securities) shall be
received by the Trustee or the Holders or any Paying Agent at a time when such
payment or distribution is prohibited by the provisions of this Section 12.2,
then such payment or distribution (subject to the provisions of Section 12.7)
shall be received and held in trust by the Trustee or such Holder or Paying
Agent for the benefit of the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and
shall be paid or delivered by the Trustee or such Holders or such Paying Agent,
as the case may be, to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company
remaining unpaid or unprovided for or their representative or representatives,
or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any
instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness of the Company may have
been issued, ratably according to the aggregate amounts remaining unpaid on
account of the Senior Indebtedness of the Company held or represented by each,
for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company in full
after giving effect to any concurrent payment and distribution, or provision
therefor, to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 12.3. SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO PRIOR PAYMENT OF ALL SENIOR
INDEBTEDNESS ON DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION OR REORGANIZATION.
Upon any distribution of assets of the Company upon any dissolution,
winding up, total or partial liquidation or reorganization of the Company,
whether voluntary or involuntary, in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or a
similar proceeding or upon assignment for the benefit of creditors or any
marshalling of assets or liabilities:
(a) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall
first be entitled to receive payments in full (or have such payment duly
provided for) before the Holders are entitled to receive any payment on account
of the principal of, premium, if any, interest on, and Liquidated Damages with
respect to, the Securities (other than Junior Securities);
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (other than Junior
Securities) to which the Holders or the Trustee on behalf of the Holders would
be entitled (by setoff or otherwise), except for the provisions of this Article
XII, shall be paid by the liquidating trustee or agent or other Person making
such a payment or distribution directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of
the Company or their representative to the extent necessary to make payment in
full of all such Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness; and
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(c) in the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in
cash, property or securities (other than Junior Securities), shall be received
by the Trustee or the Holders or any Paying Agent (or, if the Company or any
Affiliate of the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, money for any such
payment or distribution shall be segregated or held in trust) on account of the
principal of or interest on the Securities before all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company is paid in full, such payment or distribution (subject to the provisions
of Section 12.7) shall be received and held in trust by the Trustee or such
Holder or Paying Agent for the benefit of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness, or their respective representative, ratably according to the
respective amounts of such Senior Indebtedness held or represented by each, to
the extent necessary to make payment as provided herein of all such Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid after giving effect to all concurrent payments and
distributions and all provisions therefor to or for the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness, but only to the extent that as to any holder of such Senior
Indebtedness, as promptly as practical following notice from the Trustee to the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness that such prohibited payment has been
received by the Trustee, Holder(s) or Paying Agent (or has been segregated as
provided above), such holder (or a representative therefor) notifies the Trustee
of the amounts then due and owing on such Senior Indebtedness, if any, held by
such holder and only the amounts specified in such notices to the Trustee shall
be paid to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 12.4. SECURITYHOLDERS TO BE SUBROGATED TO RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF
SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company as
provided herein, the Holders of Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of
assets of the Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until all amounts
owing on the Securities shall be paid in full, and for the purpose of such
subrogation no such payments or distributions to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness by the Company, or by or on behalf of the Holders by virtue of this
Article XII, which otherwise would have been made to the Holders shall, as
between the Company and the Holders, be deemed to be payment by the Company or
on account of such Senior Indebtedness, it being understood that the provisions
of this Article XII are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the
relative rights of the Holders, on the one hand, and the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness, on the other hand.
If any payment or distribution to which the Holders would otherwise have
been entitled but for the provisions of this Article XII shall have been
applied, pursuant to the provisions of this Article XII, to the payment of
amounts payable under Senior Indebtedness of the Company, then the Holders shall
be entitled to receive from the holders of such Senior Indebtedness any payments
or distributions received by such holders of Senior Indebtedness in excess of
the amount sufficient to pay all amounts payable under or in respect of such
Senior Indebtedness in full.
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SECTION 12.5. OBLIGATIONS OF THE COMPANY UNCONDITIONAL.
Nothing contained in this Article XII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
the Securities is intended to or shall impair as between the Company and the
Holders, the obligation of each such Person, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders the principal of, premium, if any, interest
on, and Liquidated Damages with respect to, the Securities as and when the same
shall become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to
or shall affect the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of the Company
other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, nor shall anything herein or
therein prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising all remedies otherwise
permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject to the
rights, if any, under this Article XII, of the holders of Senior Indebtedness in
respect of cash, property or securities of the Company received upon the
exercise of any such remedy. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
Article XII or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities, upon any
distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article XII, the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.1 and 7.2, and the Holders
shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court of
competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the liquidating
trustee or agent or other Person making any distribution to the Trustee or to
the Holders for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate
in such distribution, the holders of the Senior Indebtedness and other
Indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount
or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or
to this Article XII so long as such court has been apprised of the provisions
of, or the order, decree or certificate makes reference to, the provisions of
this Article XII. Nothing in this Section 12.5 shall apply to the claims of, or
payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 7.7.
SECTION 12.6. TRUSTEE ENTITLED TO ASSUME PAYMENTS NOT PROHIBITED IN
ABSENCE OF NOTICE.
The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge of the
existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by
the Trustee unless and until a Trust Officer of the Trustee or any Paying Agent
shall have received, no later than one Business Day prior to such payment,
written notice thereof from the Company or from one or more holders of Senior
Indebtedness or from any representative therefor and, prior to the receipt of
any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 7.1
and 7.2, shall be entitled in all respects conclusively to assume that no such
fact exists.
SECTION 12.7. APPLICATION BY TRUSTEE OF ASSETS DEPOSITED WITH IT.
Amounts deposited in trust with the Trustee pursuant to and in accordance
with Article VIII shall be for the sole benefit of Securityholders and, to the
extent allocated for the payment of Securities, shall not be subject to the
subordination provisions of this Article XII. Otherwise, any deposit of assets
with the Trustee or the Agent (whether or not in trust) for the payment of
principal of or interest on any Securities shall be subject to the provisions of
Sections 12.1, 12.2, 12.3 and 12.4; PROVIDED THAT, if prior to one Business Day
preceding the date on which by the
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terms of this Indenture any such assets may become distributable for any purpose
(including, without limitation, the payment of either principal of or interest
on any Security) the Trustee or such Paying Agent shall not have received with
respect to such assets the written notice provided for in Section 12.6, then the
Trustee or such Paying Agent shall have full power and authority to receive such
assets and to apply the same to the purpose for which they were received, and
shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary which may be received by it
on or after such date.
SECTION 12.8. SUBORDINATION RIGHTS NOT IMPAIRED BY ACTS OR OMISSIONS OF
THE COMPANY OR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Indebtedness to
enforce subordination provisions contained in this Article XII shall at any time
in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of
the Company or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder,
or by any noncompliance by the Company with the terms of this Indenture,
regardless of any knowledge thereof which any such holder may have or be
otherwise charged with. The holders of Senior Indebtedness may extend, renew,
modify or amend the terms of the Senior Indebtedness or any security therefor
and release, sell or exchange such security and otherwise deal freely with the
Company, all without affecting the liabilities and obligations of the parties to
this Indenture or the Holders.
SECTION 12.9. SECURITYHOLDERS AUTHORIZE TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES.
Each Holder of the Securities by his acceptance thereof authorizes and
expressly directs the Trustee on his behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provisions contained in
this Article XII and to protect the rights of the Holders pursuant to this
Indenture, and appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for such purpose,
including, in the event of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership
proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors of the Company),
the immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of his Securities in the
form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to be approved. If the
Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the form required in
such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the time to file such
claim or claims, then the holders of the Senior Indebtedness or their
representative are or is hereby authorized to have the right to file and are or
is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the
Holders of said Securities. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their
representative to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to
authorize the Trustee or the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their
representative to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such
proceeding.
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SECTION 12.10. RIGHT OF TRUSTEE TO HOLD SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this
Article XII in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time held by it to the
same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and nothing in this
Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such
holder.
SECTION 12.11. ARTICLE XII NOT TO PREVENT EVENTS OF DEFAULT.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal of, premium, if any,
interest on, or Liquidated Damages with respect to, the Securities by reason of
any provision of this Article XII shall not be construed as preventing the
occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under Section 6.1 or in any way
prevent the Holders from exercising any right hereunder other than the right to
receive payment on the Securities.
SECTION 12.12. NO FIDUCIARY DUTY OF TRUSTEE TO HOLDERS OF SENIOR
INDEBTEDNESS.
The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and shall not be liable to any such holders (other than for
its willful misconduct or negligence) if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay
over or distribute to the Holders of Securities or the Company or any other
Person, cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness
shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XII or otherwise. Nothing in this
Section 12.12 shall affect the obligation of any other such Person to hold such
payment for the benefit of, and to pay such payment over to, the holders of
Senior Indebtedness or their representative.
ARTICLE XIII.
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 13.1. CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article XIII, at
the option of the Holder thereof, any Security may at any time, on or after the
90th date following the latest date of initial issuance of the Securities, be
converted, in whole, or in part in multiples of $1,000 principal amount, into
fully paid and non-assessable shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of
the Securities, at the conversion price in effect at the Date of Conversion,
until and including, but not after the close of business on the Stated Maturity,
or unless such Security or some portion thereof shall have been called for
redemption or delivered for repurchase prior to such date and no default is made
in making due provision for the payment of the redemption price in accordance
with the terms of this Indenture, in which case, with respect to such Security
or portion thereof as has been so called for redemption or delivered for
repurchase, such Security or portion thereof may be so converted until and
including, but not after, the close of business on the fifth Business Day prior
to the Redemption Date or Repurchase Date, as applicable, for such
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Security, unless the Company subsequently fails to pay the applicable Redemption
Price or Repurchase Price, as the case may be.
SECTION 13.2. EXERCISE OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE.
In order to exercise the conversion privilege, the Holder of any Security
to be converted shall surrender such Security to the Company at any time during
usual business hours at its office or agency maintained for the purpose as
provided in this Indenture, accompanied by a fully executed written notice, in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security, that the Holder
elects to convert such Security or a stated portion thereof constituting a
multiple of $1,000 principal amount, and, if such Security is surrendered for
conversion during the period between the close of business on any Record Date
and the opening of business on the next following Interest Payment Date and has
not been called for redemption on a Redemption Date which occurs within such
period or within five Business Days followin such Interest Payment Date,
accompanied (except in the case of the Interest Payment Date occurring on August
1, 2000) also by payment of an amount equal to the interest payable on such
Interest Payment Date on the principal amount of the Security being surrendered
for conversion, notwithstanding such conversion. Such notice of conversion
shall also state the name or names (with address) in which the certificate or
certificates for shares of Common Stock shall be issued. Securities surrendered
for conversion shall (if reasonably required by the Company or the Trustee) be
duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of
transfer in form satisfactory to the Company duly executed by, the Holder or his
attorney duly authorized in writing. As promptly as practicable after the
receipt of such notice and the surrender of such Security as aforesaid, the
Company shall, subject to the provisions of Section 13.8 hereof, issue and
deliver at such office or agency to such Holder, or on his written order, a
certificate or certificates for the number of full shares of Common Stock
issuable on such conversion of Securities in accordance with the provisions of
this Article XIII and Cash, as provided in Section 13.3 hereof, in respect of
any fraction of a share of Common Stock otherwise issuable upon such conversion.
Such conversion shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to the
close of business on the date (herein called the "Date of Conversion") on which
such Security shall have been surrendered as aforesaid, and the person or
persons in whose name or names any certificate or certificates for shares of
Common Stock shall be issuable upon such conversion shall be deemed to have
become on the Date of Conversion the holder or holders of record of the shares
represented thereby; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that any such surrender on any date when
the stock transfer books of the Company shall be closed shall cause the person
or persons in whose name or names the certificate or certificates for such
shares are to be issued to be deemed to have become the record holder or holders
thereof for all purposes at the opening of business on the next succeeding day
on which such stock transfer books are open but such conversion shall
nevertheless be at the conversion price in effect at the close of business on
the date when such Security shall have been so surrendered with the conversion
notice. In the case of conversion of a portion, but less than all, of a
Security, the Company shall as promptly as practicable execute, and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the expense of the
Company, a Security or Securities in the aggregate principal amount of the
unconverted portion of the Security surrendered. Except as otherwise expressly
provided in this Indenture, no payment or adjustment shall be made for interest
accrued on any Security (or portion thereof)
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converted or for dividends or distributions on any Common Stock issued upon
conversion of any Security.
SECTION 13.3. FRACTIONAL INTERESTS.
No fractions of shares or scrip representing fractions of shares shall be
issued upon conversion of Securities. If more than one Security shall be
surrendered for conversion at one time by the same holder, the number of full
shares which shall be issuable upon conversion thereof shall be computed on the
basis of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities so surrendered. If
any fraction of a share of Common Stock would, except for the foregoing
provisions of this Section 13.3, be issuable on the conversion of any Security
or Securities, the Company shall make payment in lieu thereof in an amount of
Cash equal to the value of such fraction computed on the basis of the last sale
price of the Common Stock as reported on the New York Stock Exchange (or if not
listed for trading thereon, then on the principal national securities exchange
on which the Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading) at the close of
business on the Date of Conversion or if no such sale takes place on such day,
the last sale price for such day shall be the average of the closing bid and
asked prices regular way on the New York Stock Exchange (or if not listed for
trading thereon, on the principal national securities exchange on which the
Common Stock is listed or admitted to trading) for such day (any such last sale
price being hereinafter referred to as the "Last Sale Price"). If on such
Trading Day the Common Stock is not quoted by any such organization, the fair
value of such Common Stock on such day, as reasonably determined in good faith
by the Board of Directors of the Company, shall be used.
SECTION 13.4. CONVERSION PRICE.
The conversion price per share of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of
the Securities shall initially be $51.75 (or $51.75 in principal amount of
Securities for each such share of Common Stock).
SECTION 13.5. ADJUSTMENT OF CONVERSION PRICE.
The conversion price (herein called the "Conversion Price") shall be
subject to adjustment from time to time as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall make or pay a dividend or make a
distribution in shares of Common Stock on any class of Capital Stock of the
Company, the Conversion Price in effect immediately following the record date
fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such dividend or
other distribution shall be reduced by multiplying such Conversion Price by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding at the close of business on such date and the denominator shall be
the sum of such number of shares and the total number of shares constituting
such dividend or other distribution. An adjustment made pursuant to this
subsection (a) shall become effective immediately, except as provided in
subsection (i) below, after such record date.
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(b) In case the Company shall (1) subdivide its outstanding shares
of Common Stock into a greater number of shares or (2) combine or reclassify its
outstanding shares of Common Stock into a smaller number of shares, the
Conversion Price in effect immediately following the effectiveness of such
action shall be adjusted by multiplying such Conversion Price by a fraction of
which the numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to such subdivision or combination and the denominator shall
be the number of shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such
subdivision or combination. An adjustment made pursuant to this subsection (b)
shall become effective immediately, except as provided in subsection (i) below,
after the effective date of a subdivision or combination.
(c) In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to
all or substantially all holders of Common Stock entitling them to subscribe for
or purchase shares of Common Stock at a price per share less than the then
current market price per share of the Common Stock (as determined pursuant to
subsection (g) below) on the record date fixed for determination of the
stockholders entitled to receive such rights, option or warrants, the Conversion
Price in effect immediately following such record date shall be adjusted to a
price, computed to the nearest cent, so that the same shall equal the price
determined by multiplying:
(i) such Conversion Price by a fraction, of which
(ii) the numerator shall be (A) the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding on such record date plus (B) the number of shares which
the aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so offered for
subscription or purchase would purchase at such current market price
(determined by multiplying such total number of shares by the exercise
price of such rights, options or warrants and dividing the product so
obtained by such current market price), and of which
(iii) the denominator shall be (A) the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding on such record date plus (B) the number of additional
shares of Common Stock which are so offered for subscription or purchase.
Such adjustment shall become effective immediately, except as provided in
subsection (i) below, after the record date for the determination of holders
entitled to receive such rights, options or warrants; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if
any such rights, options or warrants issued by the Company as described in this
subsection (b) are only exercisable upon the occurrence of certain triggering
events, then the Conversion Price will not be adjusted as provided in this
subsection (c) until such triggering events occur. Upon the expiration or
termination of any rights, options or warrants without the exercise of such
rights, options or warrants, the Conversion Price then in effect shall be
adjusted immediately to the Conversion Price which would have been in effect at
the time of such expiration or termination had such rights, options or warrants,
to the extent outstanding immediately prior to such expiration or termination,
never been issued.
(d) In case the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall
distribute to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock, any of its
assets, evidences of indebtedness,
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cash or securities (other than (x) dividends or distributions exclusively in
cash or (y) any dividend or distribution for which an adjustment is required to
be made in accordance with subsection (a) or (c) above) then in each such case
the Conversion Price in effect immediately following the record date fixed for
the determination of the stockholders entitled to such distribution) shall be
adjusted so that the same shall equal the price determined by multiplying such
Conversion Price by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the then current
market price per share of the Common Stock (determined as provided in subsection
(g) below) on such record date less the then fair market value (as reasonably
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company) of the
portion of the assets so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock,
and of which the denominator shall be such current market price per share of the
Common Stock. Such adjustment shall become effective immediately, except as
provided in subsection (i) below, after the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.
(e) In case the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall
make any distribution consisting exclusively of cash (excluding any cash portion
of distributions for which an adjustment is required to be made in accordance
with subsection (d) above, or cash distributed upon a merger or consolidation to
which Section 13.6 applies) to all or substantially all holders of Common Stock
in an aggregate amount that, combined together with (i) all other such all-cash
distributions made within the then preceding 12 months in respect of which no
adjustment pursuant to this subsection (e) has been made and (ii) any cash and
the fair market value of other consideration paid or payable in respect of any
tender or exchange offer by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries for Common
Stock concluded within the preceding 12 months in respect of which no adjustment
has been made, exceeds 15% of the Company's market capitalization (defined as
being the product of the then current market price of the Common Stock
(determined as provided in subsection (g) below) times the number of shares of
Common Stock then outstanding) on the record date fixed for the determination of
the stockholders entitled to such distribution, in each such case the Conversion
Price immediately following such record date shall be adjusted so that the same
shall equal the price determined by multiplying such Conversion Price by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the then current market price per share
of the Common Stock on such record date less the amount of the cash and/or fair
market value (as reasonably determined in good faith by the Board of Directors
of the Company) of other consideration so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock, and of which the denominator shall be such current market price
per share of the Common Stock. Such adjustment shall become effective
immediately, except as provided in subsection (i) below, after the record date
for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution.
(f) In case the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company shall
complete a tender or exchange offer for all or any portion of the Common Stock
(any such tender or exchange offer being referred to as an "Offer") that
involves an aggregate consideration having a fair market value as of the
expiration of such Offer (the "Expiration Time") that, together with (i) any
cash and the fair market value of any other consideration payable in respect of
any other tender or exchange offer, as of the expiration of such other tender or
exchange offer, expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such
Offer and in respect of which no Conversion Price adjustment pursuant to this
subsection (f) has been made and (ii) the aggregate
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amount of any all-cash distributions referred to in subsection (e) of this
Section 13.5 to all holders of Common Stock within the 12 months preceding the
expiration of such Offer for which no conversion price adjustment pursuant to
such subsection (e) has been made, exceeds 15% of the product of the then
current market price per share (determined as provided in subsection (g) below)
of the Common Stock on the Expiration Time times the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) on the Expiration Time, the
Conversion Price in effect immediately following such Expiration Time shall be
reduced by multiplying such Conversion Price by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be (i) the product of the then current market price per share
(determined as provided in subsection (g) below) of the Common Stock on the
Expiration Time times the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
(including any tendered shares) on the Expiration Time minus (ii) the fair
market value of the aggregate consideration payable to stockholders based on the
acceptance (up to any maximum specified in the terms of the Offer) of all shares
validly tendered and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed
so accepted being referred to as the "Purchased Shares") and the denominator
shall be the product of (i) such current market price per share on the
Expiration Time times (ii) such number of outstanding shares on the Expiration
Time less the number of Purchased Shares, such reduction to become effective
immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the Expiration
Time.
For purposes of this subsection (f), the fair market value of any
consideration with respect to an Offer shall be reasonably determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of the Company and described in a Board
Resolution.
(g) For the purpose of any computation under subsections (c), (d),
(e) and (f) above, the current market price per share of Common Stock on any
date shall be deemed to be the average of the Last Sale Prices of a share of
Common Stock for the five consecutive Trading Days selected by the Company
commencing not more than 20 Trading Days before, and ending not later than, the
earlier of the date in question and the date before the "'ex' date," with
respect to the issuance, distribution or Offer requiring such computation. If
on any such Trading Day the Common Stock is not quoted by any organization
referred to in the definition of Last Sale Price in Section 13.3 hereof, the
fair value of the Common Stock on such day, as reasonably determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of the Company, shall be used. For purposes of
this paragraph, the term "'ex' date," when used with respect to any issuance,
distribution or payments with respect to an Offer, means the first date on which
the Common Stock trades regular way on the New York Stock Exchange (or if not
listed or admitted to trading thereon, then on the principal national securities
exchange or the Nasdaq Stock Market's National Market if the Common Stock is
listed or admitted to trading thereon) without the right to receive such
issuance, distribution or Offer.
(h) In addition to the foregoing adjustments in subsections (a),
(b), (c), (d), (e) and (f) above, the Company, from time to time and to the
extent permitted by law, may reduce the Conversion Price by any amount for at
least 20 Business Days, if the Board of Directors has made a determination,
which determination shall be conclusive, that such reduction would be in the
best interests of the Company. The Company shall cause notice of such reduction
to be mailed to each Holder of Securities, in the manner specified in
Section 13.7, at least 15 days
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prior to the date on which such reduction commences. The Company, at its
option, also may make such reductions in the Conversion Price as it considers to
be advisable in order that any event treated for Federal income tax purposes as
a dividend of stock or stock rights will not be taxable to the holders of the
shares of Common Stock.
(i) In any case in which this Section 13.5 shall require that an
adjustment be made immediately following a record date, the Company may elect to
defer the effectiveness of such adjustment (but in no event until a date later
than the effective time of the event giving rise to such adjustment), in which
case the Company shall, with respect to any Security converted after such record
date and on and before such adjustment shall have become effective (i) defer
paying any Cash payment pursuant to Section 13.3 hereof or issuing to the Holder
of such Security the number of shares of Common Stock and other capital stock of
the Company (or other assets or securities) issuable upon such conversion in
excess of the number of shares of Common Stock and other Capital Stock of the
Company issuable thereupon only on the basis of the Conversion Price prior to
adjustment, and (ii) not later than five Business Days after such adjustment
shall have become effective, pay to such Holder the appropriate Cash payment
pursuant to Section 13.3 hereof and issue to such Holder the additional shares
of Common Stock and other Capital Stock of the Company issuable on such
conversion.
(j) No adjustment in the Conversion Price shall be required unless
such adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1.0% of the
Conversion Price; PROVIDED, that any adjustments which by reason of this
subsection (i) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and taken
into account in any subsequent adjustment. All calculations under this Article
XIII shall be made to the nearest cent or to the nearest one-hundredth of a
share, as the case may be.
(k) Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted as herein provided,
the Company shall promptly (i) file with the Trustee and each conversion agent
an Officers' Certificate setting forth the Conversion Price after such
adjustment and setting forth a brief statement of the facts requiring such
adjustment, which certificate shall be conclusive evidence of the correctness of
such adjustment, and (ii) mail or cause to be mailed a notice of such adjustment
to each holder of Securities at his address as the same appears on the registry
books of the Company.
(l) In the event that the Company distributes rights or warrants
(other than those referred to in subsection (c) above) pro rata to holders of
Common Stock, so long as any such rights or warrants have not expired or been
redeemed by the Company, the Company shall make proper provision so that the
Holder of any Note surrendered for conversion will be entitled to receive upon
such conversion, in addition to the shares of Common Stock issuable upon such
conversion (the "Conversion Shares"), a number of rights or warrants to be
determined as follows: (i) if such conversion occurs on or prior to the date for
the distribution to the holders of rights or warrants of separate certificates
evidencing such rights or warrants (the "Distribution Date"), the same number of
rights or warrants to which a holder of a number of shares of Common Stock equal
to the number of Conversion Shares is entitled at the time of such conversion in
accordance with the terms and provisions of and applicable to the rights or
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warrants, and (ii) if such conversion occurs after such Distribution Date, the
same number of rights or warrants to which a holder of the number of shares of
Common Stock into which the principal amount of such Note so converted was
convertible immediately prior to such Distribution Date would have been entitled
on such Distribution Date in accordance with the terms and provisions of and
applicable to the rights or warrants.
SECTION 13.6. CONTINUATION OF CONVERSION PRIVILEGE IN CASE OF
RECLASSIFICATION, CHANGE, MERGER, CONSOLIDATION OR SALE OF ASSETS.
If any of the following shall occur, namely: (a) any reclassification or
change of outstanding shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of the
Securities (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par value,
or from no par value, to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or
combination), (b) any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any
other Person, or the merger of any other Person with or into the Company (other
than a merger which does not result in any reclassification, change, conversion,
exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock) or (c) any sale,
transfer or conveyance of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company
(computed on a consolidated basis), then the Company, or such successor or
purchasing entity, as the case may be, shall, as a condition precedent to such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, execute and
deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture providing that the Holder of
each Security then outstanding shall have the right to convert such Security
only into the kind and amount of shares of stock and other securities and
property (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, change,
consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or conveyance by a holder of the number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon conversion of such Security immediately
prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or
conveyance assuming such holder of Common Stock of the Company failed to
exercise his rights of an election, if any, as to the kind or amount of
securities, cash and other property receivable upon such reclassification,
change, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or conveyance (PROVIDED that if
the kind or amount of securities, cash, and other property receivable upon such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or conveyance is
not the same for each share of Common Stock of the Company held immediately
prior to such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or
conveyance in respect of which such rights of election shall not have been
exercised ("non-electing share"), then for the purpose of this Section 13.6 the
kind and amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer or conveyance by
each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind and amount so receivable
per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares). Such supplemental
indenture shall provide for adjustments which shall be as nearly equivalent as
may be practicable to the adjustments provided for in this Article III. If, in
the case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, the stock or
other securities and property (including cash) receivable thereupon by a holder
of shares of Common Stock includes shares of stock or other securities and
property (including cash) of a corporation other than the successor or
purchasing corporation, as the case may be, in such consolidation, merger, sale
or conveyance, then such supplemental indenture shall also be executed by such
other corporation and shall contain such additional provisions to protect the
interests of the Holders of the Securities as the Board of Directors of the
Company shall reasonably consider necessary by reason of the
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foregoing. The provisions of this Section 13.6 shall similarly apply to
successive consolidations, mergers, sales or conveyances.
Notice of the execution of each such supplemental indenture shall be mailed
to each Holder of Securities at his address as the same appears on the registry
books of the Company.
Neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent shall be under any
responsibility to determine the correctness of any provisions contained in any
such supplemental indenture relating either to the kind or amount of shares of
stock or securities or property (including cash) receivable by Holders of
Securities upon the conversion of their Securities after any such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance or to any
adjustment to be made with respect thereto, but, subject to the provisions of
Article VIII hereof, may accept as conclusive evidence of the correctness of any
such provisions, and shall be protected in relying upon, the Officers'
Certificate (which the Company shall be obligated to file with the Trustee prior
to the execution of any such supplemental indenture) with respect thereto.
SECTION 13.7. NOTICE OF CERTAIN EVENTS.
In case:
(a) the Company shall declare a dividend (or any other
distribution) payable to the holders of Common Stock (other than cash
dividends);
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to the holders of
Common Stock of rights, warrants or options to subscribe for or purchase any
shares of stock of any class or of any other rights;
(c) the Company shall authorize any reclassification or change of
the Common Stock (including a subdivision or combination of its outstanding
shares of Common Stock), or any consolidation or merger to which the Company is
a party and for which approval of any stockholders of the Company is required,
or the sale or conveyance of all or substantially all the property or business
of the Company;
(d) there shall be proposed any voluntary or involuntary
dissolution, liquidation or winding-up of the Company; or
(e) the Company or any of its Subsidiaries shall complete an
Offer;
then, the Company shall cause to be filed at the office or agency maintained for
the purpose of conversion of the Securities as provided in Section 3.2 hereof,
and shall cause to be mailed to each Holder of Securities, at his address as it
shall appear on the registry books of the Company, at least 20 days before the
date hereinafter specified (or the earlier of the dates hereinafter specified,
in the event that more than one date is specified), a notice stating the date on
which (1) a record is expected to be taken for the purpose of such dividend,
distribution, rights, warrants or options or Offer, or if a record is not to be
taken, the date as of which the holders of Common
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Stock of record to be entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights,
warrants or options or to participate in such Offer are to be determined, or
(2) such reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
dissolution, liquidation or winding-up is expected to become effective and
the date, if any is to be fixed, as of which it is expected that holders of
Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of Common
Stock for securities or other property deliverable upon such
reclassification, change, consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
dissolution, liquidation or winding-up.
SECTION 13.8. TAXES ON CONVERSION.
The Company will pay any and all documentary, stamp or similar taxes
payable to the United States of America or any political subdivision or taxing
authority thereof or therein in respect of the issue or delivery of shares of
Common Stock on conversion of Securities pursuant thereto; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that the Company shall not be required to pay any tax which may be payable in
respect of any transfer involved in the issue or delivery of shares of Common
Stock in a name other than that of the Holder of the Securities to be converted
and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless and until the person
requesting such issue or delivery has paid to the Company the amount of any such
tax or has established, to the satisfaction of the Company, that such tax has
been paid. The Company extends no protection with respect to any other taxes
imposed in connection with conversion of Securities.
SECTION 13.9. COMPANY TO PROVIDE STOCK.
The Company shall reserve, free from pre-emptive rights, out of its
authorized but unissued shares, sufficient shares to provide for the conversion
of the Securities from time to time as such Securities are presented for
conversion, PROVIDED, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to
preclude the Company from satisfying its obligations in respect of the
conversion of Securities by delivery of repurchased shares of Common Stock which
are held in the treasury of the Company.
If any shares of Common Stock to be reserved for the purpose of conversion
of Securities hereunder require registration with or approval of any
governmental authority under any Federal or state law before such shares may be
validly issued or delivered upon conversion, then the Company covenants that it
will in good faith and as expeditiously as possible use its best efforts to
secure such registration or approval, as the case may be, PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that nothing in this Section 13.9 shall be deemed to limit in any way the
obligations of the Company provided in this Article XIII.
Before taking any action which would cause an adjustment reducing the
Conversion Price below the then par value, if any, of the Common Stock, the
Company will take all corporate action which may, in the Opinion of Counsel, be
necessary in order that the Company may validly and legally issue fully paid and
non-assessable shares of Common Stock at such adjusted Conversion Price.
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The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be issued
upon conversion of Securities will upon issue be fully paid and non-assessable
by the Company and free of preemptive rights.
SECTION 13.10. DISCLAIMER OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR CERTAIN MATTERS.
Neither the Trustee nor any agent of the Trustee shall at any time be under
any duty or responsibility to any Holder of Securities to determine whether any
facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Price, or with
respect to the Officers' Certificate referred to in Section 13.5 hereof, or with
respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with
respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture
provided to be employed, in making the same. Neither the Trustee nor any agent
of the Trustee shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or
the kind or amount) of any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or
property (including cash), which may at any time be issued or delivered upon the
conversion of any Security; and neither the Trustee nor any conversion agent
makes any representation with respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any
agent of the Trustee shall be responsible for any failure of the Company to
issue, register the transfer of or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock
certificates or other securities or property (including cash) upon the surrender
of any Security for the purpose of conversion or, subject to Article VIII
hereof, to comply with any of the covenants of the Company contained in this
Article XIII.
SECTION 13.11. RETURN OF FUNDS DEPOSITED FOR REDEMPTION OF CONVERTED
SECURITIES.
Any funds which at any time shall have been deposited by the Company or on
its behalf with the Trustee or any other Paying Agent for the purpose of paying
the principal of and interest on any of the Securities and which shall not be
required for such purposes because of the conversion of such Securities, as
provided in this Article XIII, shall after such conversion be repaid to the
Company by the Trustee or such other Paying Agent.
ARTICLE XIV.
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 14.1. TIA CONTROLS.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts with the
duties imposed by operation of the TIA, the imposed duties, whether or not this
Indenture has been qualified under the TIA, shall control.
SECTION 14.2. NOTICES.
Any notices or other communications to the Company or the Trustee required
or permitted hereunder shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if
made by hand delivery,
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by telex, by telecopier or registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return
receipt requested, addressed as follows:
if to the Company:
Tower Automotive, Inc.
0000 XXX Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxx X. Xxxx
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
if to the Trustee:
The Bank of New York
000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 00 Xxxx
Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
Any party by notice to each other party may designate additional or
different addresses as shall be furnished in writing by such party. Any notice
or communication to any party shall be deemed to have been given or made as of
the date so delivered, if personally delivered; when answered back, if telexed;
when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and five Business Days after
mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a
notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until
actually received by the addressee).
Any notice or communication mailed to a Securityholder shall be mailed to
him by first class mail or other equivalent means at his address as it appears
on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given to
him if so mailed within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder or any defect
in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Securityholders.
If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly
given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
SECTION 14.3. COMMUNICATIONS BY HOLDERS WITH OTHER HOLDERS.
Securityholders may communicate pursuant to TIA Section 312(b) with other
Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the
Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall
have the protection of TIA Section 312(c).
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SECTION 14.4. CERTIFICATE AND OPINION AS TO CONDITIONS PRECEDENT.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:
(1) An Officers' Certificate (in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee) stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all
conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the
proposed action have been complied with; and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel (in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such
conditions precedent have been complied with.
SECTION 14.5. STATEMENTS REQUIRED IN CERTIFICATE OR OPINION.
Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or
covenant provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he 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 or not, in the opinion of each such
Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with; PROVIDED, HOWEVER,
that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may rely on an
Officers' Certificate or certificates of public officials.
SECTION 14.6. RULES BY TRUSTEE, PAYING AGENT, REGISTRAR.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Securityholders. The Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for
its functions.
SECTION 14.7. LEGAL HOLIDAYS.
A "Legal Holiday" is a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking
institutions in New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to close. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday at such place,
payment may be made at such place on the next succeeding day that is not a Legal
Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.
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SECTION 14.8. GOVERNING LAW.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS MADE
AND PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY NEW YORK STATE COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH
OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK OR ANY FEDERAL COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH
OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN RESPECT OF ANY SUIT, ACTION OR
PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES, AND
IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. THE COMPANY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ANY
OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF THE VENUE OF ANY
SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY
SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN
INCONVENIENT FORUM. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THE TRUSTEE OR ANY
SECURITYHOLDER TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO
COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST THE COMPANY IN ANY OTHER
JURISDICTION.
SECTION 14.9. NO ADVERSE INTERPRETATION OF OTHER AGREEMENTS.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt
agreement of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any such indenture, loan
or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 14.10. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
No direct or indirect partner, employee, stockholder, director or officer,
as such, past, present or future of the Company or any successor corporation,
shall have any personal liability in respect of the obligations of the Company
under the Securities or this Indenture by reason of his, her or its status as
such partner, stockholder, employee, director or officer. Each Securityholder
by accepting a Security waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver and
release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
SECTION 14.11. SUCCESSORS.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Securities shall
bind its successor. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind
its successor.
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SECTION 14.12. DUPLICATE ORIGINALS.
All parties may sign any number of copies or counterparts of this
Indenture. Each signed copy or counterpart shall be an original, but all of
them together shall represent the same agreement.
SECTION 14.13. SEVERABILITY.
In case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture or in the
Securities shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for
any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in
every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions
hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.
SECTION 14.14. TABLE OF CONTENTS, HEADINGS, ETC.
The Table of Contents, Cross-Reference Table and headings of the Articles
and the Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of
reference only, are not to be considered a part hereof and shall in no way
modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 14.15. QUALIFICATION OF INDENTURE.
The Company shall qualify this Indenture under the TIA in accordance with
the terms and conditions of the Registration Rights Agreement and shall pay all
costs and expenses (including attorneys' fees for the Company and the Trustee)
incurred in connection therewith, including, but not limited to, costs and
expenses of qualification of the Indenture and the Securities and printing this
Indenture and the Securities. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive from the
Company any such Officers' Certificates, Opinions of Counsel or other
documentation as it may reasonably request in connection with any such
qualification of this Indenture under the TIA.
SECTION 14.16. REGISTRATION RIGHTS.
Certain Holders of the Securities are entitled to certain registration
rights with respect to such Securities pursuant to, and subject to the terms of,
the Registration Rights Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed as of the date first written above.
TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC., a Delaware corporation
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxxx
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Title: Assistant Secretary
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, a New York banking
corporation, as Trustee
By: /s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxxx
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Title: Assistant Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
[FORM OF SECURITY]
TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
5% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE
DUE 2004
No. CUSIP No. __________
$_______
Tower Automotive, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the
"Company," which term includes any successors under the Indenture hereinafter
referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay to _____, or registered
assigns, the principal sum of ____________ Dollars, on August 1, 2004.
Interest Payment Dates: February 1 and August 1; commencing February 1,
1998.
Record Dates: January 15 and July 15.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security on the reverse
side, which will, for all purposes, have the same effect as if set forth at this
place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Instrument to be duly
executed under its corporate seal.
TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC., a Delaware
corporation
[Seal]
By:
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Name:
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Title:
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Attest:
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Secretary
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[FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION]
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned Indenture.
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
Dated:
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TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
5% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTE
DUE 2004
Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in
definitive form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by the
Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a nominee of the Depositary to
the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary or by the Depositary or any
such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee of such successor
Depositary. Unless this certificate 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 certificate issued 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 hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.(1)
THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE
SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN MAY BE OFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED, ENCUMBERED OR
OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION UNLESS SUCH
TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, REGISTRATION.
THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITIES EVIDENCED HEREBY BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF
AGREES THAT SUCH SECURITIES ARE "RESTRICTED SECURITIES" WITHIN THE MEANING
OF RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND THAT IT AND ANY SUBSEQUENT HOLDER
WILL NOT OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY, PRIOR TO THE DATE
(THE "RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE") WHICH IS THREE YEARS AFTER THE
LATER OF THE ORIGINAL ISSUE DATE HEREOF AND THE LAST DATE ON WHICH THE
COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATED PERSON OF THE COMPANY WAS THE OWNER OF THIS
SECURITY (OR ANY PREDECESSOR OF SUCH SECURITY) EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY,
(B) PURSUANT TO A REGISTRATION STATEMENT WHICH HAS BEEN DECLARED EFFECTIVE
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A, FOR SO LONG AS IT IS
AVAILABLE, TO A PERSON IT REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT PURCHASES FOR
ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO
WHOM NOTICE IS
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(1) This paragraph should only be added if the Security is issued in global
form.
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GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (D)
PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES WITHIN
THE MEANING OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) TO AN
INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR," WITHIN THE MEANING OF RULE 501(a)(1),
(2), (3) OR (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THE SECURITY FOR
ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF 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 SECURITIES
ACT, OR (F) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S AND THE
TRUSTEE'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO
CLAUSE (D), (E) OR (F) TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
CERTIFICATION AND OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO EACH OF THEM, AND IN
EACH OF THE FOREGOING CASES, A CERTIFICATE OF TRANSFER IN THE FORM
APPEARING ON THIS SECURITY IS COMPLETED AND DELIVERED BY THE TRANSFEROR TO
THE TRUSTEE. THIS LEGEND WILL BE REMOVED UPON THE REQUEST OF THE HOLDER
AFTER THE RESALE RESTRICTION TERMINATION DATE.(2)
1. INTEREST.
Tower Automotive, Inc., a Delaware corporation (hereinafter called the
"Company," which term includes any successors under the Indenture hereinafter
referred to), promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Security
at the rate of 5% per annum. To the extent it is lawful, the Company promises
to pay interest on any interest payment due but unpaid on such principal amount
at a rate of 7% per annum compounded semi-annually.
The Company will pay interest semi-annually on February 1 and Auguat 1 of
each year (each, an "Interest Payment Date"), commencing February 1, 1998.
Interest on the Securities will accrue from the most recent date to which
interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid on the Securities, from
July 29, 1997. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
consisting of twelve 30-day months.
2. METHOD OF PAYMENT.
The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted
interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business
on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date. Holders
must surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. Any
such interest not so punctually paid, and defaulted interest relating thereto,
may be paid to the Persons who are registered Holders at the close of business
on a Special Record Date for the payment of such defaulted interest, as more
fully provided in the
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(2) This paragraph should be included only for the Transfer Restricted
Securities.
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Indenture referred to below. Except as provided below, the Company shall pay
principal and interest in such coin or currency of the United States of America
as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for payment of public and
private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender"). The Securities will be payable as to
principal, premium, interest and Liquidated Damages at the office or agency of
the Company maintained for such purpose within or without the City and State of
New York, or at the option of the Company, payment of principal, premium,
interest and Liquidated Damages may be made by check mailed to the Holders at
their addresses set forth in the registry of Holders, and provided that payment
by wire transfer of immediately available funds will be required with respect to
principal of, premium and interest on and Liquidated Damages with respect to
Global Securities and all other Securities the Holders of which shall have
provided wire transfer instructions to the Company or the Paying Agent.
3. PAYING AGENT AND REGISTRAR.
Bank of New York (the "Trustee") will act as Paying Agent and Registrar.
The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without
notice to the Holders. The Company or any of its Subsidiaries may, subject to
certain exceptions, act as Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar.
4. INDENTURE.
The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture, dated as of July 28,
1997 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and the Trustee. Capitalized terms
herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein.
The terms of the Securities include those stated in the Indenture and those made
part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act, as in effect on
the date of the Indenture. The Securities are subject to all such terms, and
Holders of Securities are referred to the Indenture and said Act for a statement
of them. The Securities are general unsecured obligations of the Company
limited in aggregate principal amount to $200,000,000.
5. REDEMPTION.
The Securities may be redeemed in whole or from time to time in part at any
time on and after August 1, 2000, at the option of the Company, at the
Redemption Price (expressed as a percentage of principal amount) set forth below
with respect to the indicated Redemption Date, in each case, plus any accrued
but unpaid interest and Liquidated Damages to the Redemption Date. The
Securities may not be so redeemed prior to August 1, 2000.
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If redeemed during
the 12-month period
beginning on August 1 Redemption Price
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2000 ............................. 102.857%
2001 ............................. 102.143%
2002 ............................. 101.429%
2003 ............................. 100.714%
2004 ............................. 100.000%
Any such redemption will comply with Article III of the Indenture.
6. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION.
Notice of redemption will be sent by first class mail, at least 30 days and
not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date to the Holder of each
Security to be redeemed at such Holder's last address as then shown upon the
registry books of the Registrar. Securities may be redeemed in part in
multiples of $1,000 only.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, from and after any Redemption Date,
if monies for the redemption of the Securities called for redemption shall have
been deposited with the Paying Agent on such Redemption Date and payment of the
Securities called for redemption is not prohibited under Article XII of the
Indenture, the Securities called for redemption will cease to- bear interest and
the only right of the Holders of such Securities will be to receive payment of
the Redemption Price, plus any accrued and unpaid interest and Liquidated
Damages, if any, to the Redemption Date.
7. DENOMINATIONS; TRANSFER; EXCHANGE.
The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in denominations of
$1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder may register the transfer of,
or exchange Securities in accordance with, the Indenture. The Registrar may
require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and
transfer documents and to pay any taxes and fees required by law or permitted by
the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange any
Securities selected for redemption.
8. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.
The registered Holder of a Security may be treated as the owner of it for
all purposes.
9. UNCLAIMED MONEY.
If money for the payment of principal, interest or Liquidated Damages
remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent(s) will pay
the money back to the Company at its
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written request. After that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying
Agent(s) with respect to such money shall cease.
10. AMENDMENT; SUPPLEMENT; WAIVER.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Securities may be
amended or supplemented, and any existing Default or Event of Default or
compliance with any provision may be waived, with the written consent of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then
outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto
may amend or supplement the Indenture or the Securities to, among other things,
cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, or make any other change that does
not adversely affect the rights of any Holder of a Security.
11. CONVERSION RIGHTS.
Subject to the provisions of the Indenture, the Holders have the right to
convert the principal amount of the Securities into fully paid and nonassessable
shares of Common Stock of the Company at the initial conversion price per share
of Common Stock of $51.75 (or $51.75 in principal amount of Securities for each
such share of Common Stock), or at the adjusted conversion price then in effect,
if adjustment has been made as provided in the Indenture, upon surrender of the
Security to the Company, together with a fully executed notice in substantially
the form attached hereto and, if required by the Indenture, an amount equal to
accrued interest payable on such Security.
12. RANKING.
Payment of principal, premium, if any, interest on and Liquidated Damages
with respect to the Securities is subordinated, in the manner and to the extent
set forth in the Indenture, to the prior payment in full of all Senior
Indebtedness.
13. REPURCHASE AT OPTION OF HOLDER UPON A CHANGE OF CONTROL.
If there is a Change of Control, the Company shall be required to offer to
purchase on the Repurchase Date all outstanding Securities at a purchase price
equal to 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest
and Liquidated Damages, if any, to the Repurchase Date. Holders of Securities
will receive a Repurchase Offer from the Company prior to any related Repurchase
Date and may elect to have such Securities purchased by completing the form
entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" appearing below.
14. SUCCESSORS.
When a successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor under the
Securities and the Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those
obligations.
15. DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES.
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If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than as Event of
Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization),
then in every such case, unless the principal of all of the securities shall
have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of 25 %
in aggregate principal amount of Securities then outstanding may declare all the
Securities to be due and payable immediately in the manner and with the effect
provided in the Indenture. Holders of Securities may not enforce the Indenture
or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture. The Trustee may require
indemnity satisfactory to it before it enforces the Indenture or the Securities.
Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities then outstanding may direct the Trustee in its exercise
of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of Securities
notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default in
payment of principal, interest or Liquidated Damages), if it determines that
withholding notice is in their interest.
16. TRUSTEE DEALINGS WITH COMPANY.
The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity,
may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the Company or
its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its Affiliates as if
it were not the Trustee.
17. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS.
No stockholder, director, officer or employee, as such, past, present or
future, of the Company or any successor corporation shall have any personal
liability in respect of the obligations of the Company under the Securities or
the Indenture by reason of his, her or its status as such stockholder, director,
officer or employee. Each Holder of a Security by accepting a Security waives
and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
18. AUTHENTICATION.
This Security shall not be valid until the Trustee or authenticating agent
signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this Security.
19. ABBREVIATIONS AND DEFINED TERMS.
Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Security
or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by
the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as
tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors
Act).
20. CUSIP NUMBERS.
Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform
Security Identification Procedures, the Company will cause CUSIP numbers to be
printed on the
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Securities as a convenience to the Holders of the Securities. No representation
is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Securities and
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed hereon.
21. ADDITIONAL RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF TRANSFER RESTRICTED SECURITIES.
In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Securities under the
Indenture, Holders of Securities shall have all the rights set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
The Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without
charge a copy of the Indenture and/or the Registration Rights Agreement.
Request may be made to:
Tower Automotive, Inc.
0000 XXX Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000
Attention: Secretary
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[FORM OF] ASSIGNMENT
I or we assign this Security to
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(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee)
Please insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee
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and irrevocably appoint _______________ agent to transfer this Security on the
books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Dated: _______________________ Signed:
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(Sign exactly as your name appears
on the other side of this Security)
Signature Guaranty:
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Signatures must be guarantied by an "eligible guarantor instution" meeting the
requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such
other "signature guaranty program" as may be determined by the Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Article M of the Indenture, check the box: / /
If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by the
Company pursuant to Article XI of the Indenture, state the amount you want to be
purchased: $__________
Date: _____________________ Signature:
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(Sign exactly as your name appears on
the other side of this Security)
Signature Guaranty:
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Signatures must be guarantied by an "eligible guarantor instution" meeting the
requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Security Transfer Agent Medallion Program ("STAMP") or such
other "signature guaranty program" as may be determined by the Registrar in
addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES (3)
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for Definitive
Securities have been made:
Amount of Amount of Principal Amount Signature of
decrease in increase in of this Global authorized officer
Principal Amount Principal Amount Security following of Trustee or
Date of of this Global of this Global such decrease (or Securities
Exchange Security Security increase) Custodian
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(3) This schedule should only be added if the Security is issued in global
form.
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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE
OR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF SECURITIES
Re: 5% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED NOTES DUE 2004 OF TOWER AUTOMOTIVE, INC.
This Certificate relates to $______ principal amount of Securities held in
*_______ book-entry or * __________ definitive form by _________ (the
"Transferor").
1. The Transferor:(*)
/ / (a) has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver in exchange for
its beneficial interest in the Global Security held by the Depositary a Security
or Securities in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an
aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global
Security (or the portion thereof indicated above); or
/ / (b) has requested the Trustee by written order to exchange or register
the transfer of a Security or Securities.
2. In connection with any such request and in respect of each such
Security, the Transferor does hereby certify that Transferor is familiar with
the Indenture relating to the above-captioned Securities and as provided in
Section 2.6 of such Indenture, the transfer of this Security does not require
registration under the Securities Act because:*
/ / (a) Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor's own account,
without transfer (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(A) or Section
2.6(d)(i)(A) of the Indenture).
/ / (b) Such Security is being transferred to a person who the Transferor
reasonably believes is a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule
144A under the Securities Act) purchasing for its own account or for the account
of a qualified institutional buyer over which it exercises sole investment
discretion that is aware that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule
144A (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(B), Section 2.6(b)(i)(x) or Section
2.6(d)(i)(B) of the Indenture).
/ / (c) Such Security is being transferred in accordance with Regulation S
under the Securities Act (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(C), Section
2.6(b)(i)(y) or Section 2.6(d)(i)(C) of the Indenture).
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(*) Check applicable box.
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/ / (d) Such Security is being transferred to an institutional investor that is
an "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(l),(2),(3) or (7)
under the Securities Act which delivers a certificate in the form of Exhibit B
to the Indenture to the Trustee (in satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(D) or
Section 2.6(d)(i)(D) of the Indenture).
/ / (e) Such Security is being transferred in reliance on and in compliance
with another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
An Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 2.6(a)(ii)(E) or Section 2.6(d)(i)(E) of the Indenture).
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[INSERT NAME OF TRANSFEROR]
By:
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Date:
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3. Affiliation with the Company [check if applicable]
[ ] (a) The undersigned represents and warrants that it is, or at
some time during which it held this Security was, an
Affiliate of the Company.
(b) If 3(a) above is checked AND if the undersigned was not an
Affiliate of the Company at all times during which it held
this Security, indicate the periods during which the
undersigned was an Affiliate of the Company:
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(c) If 3(a) above is checked AND if the Transferee will not pay
the full purchase price for the transfer of this Security on
or prior to the date of transfer indicate when such purchase
price will be paid:
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TO BE COMPLETED BY TRANSFEREE IF 2(b) ABOVE IS CHECKED AND THE TRANSFEROR IS NOT
A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER:
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the
Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined
not to request such information.
Dated:
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NOTICE: To be executed by an officer.
TO BE COMPLETED BY TRANSFEREE IF 2(c) ABOVE IS CHECKED:
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is not a "U.S. Person" (as
defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended).
Dated:
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NOTICE: To be executed by an officer.
If none of the boxes under Section 2 of this certificate is checked or if any of
the above representations required to be made by the Transferee is not made, the
Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Security in the name of any
person other than the Holder hereof.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY AGREES THAT, UNLESS THE BOX ABOVE UNDER ITEM 3(a) IS
CHECKED, THE UNDERSIGNED SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED THAT IT IS NOT NOR
HAS IT BEEN AT ANY TIME DURING WHICH IT HELD THIS SECURITY AN AFFILIATE, AS
DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OF THE
COMPANY.
Dated:
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NOTICE: The signature of the Holder to this
assignment must correspond with the
name as written upon the face of
this Security particular, without
alteration or enlargement or any
change whatsoever.
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EXHIBIT B
INVESTOR LETTER OF REPRESENTATION
Tower Automotive, Inc.
c/o the Trustee
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This letter is delivered by the undersigned to request a transfer of
$________ principal amount of the 5% Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2004
(the "Notes") of Tower Automotive, Inc. (the "Company"). The Notes are
described in that certain Offering Memorandum (the "Offering Memorandum") dated
July 23, 1997 relating to the offering of the Notes. We acknowledge receipt of
the Offering Memorandum and acknowledge that we have read the Offering
Memorandum, have had access to such financial and other information and have
been afforded the opportunity to ask such questions of representatives of the
Company and receive answers thereto, as we deem necessary in connection with our
decision to purchase the Notes.
Upon transfer the Notes would be registered in the name of the undersigned:
Name:
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Address:
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Taxpayer ID Number:
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The undersigned represents and warrants to you that:
1. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the
"Securities Act")), purchasing for our own account or for the account of such an
institutional "accredited investor," and we are acquiring the Notes for
investment purposes and not with a view to, or for offer or sale in connection
with any distribution in violation of the Securities Act and we have such
knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable of
evaluating the merits and risk of our investment in the Notes and invest in or
purchase securities similar to the Notes in the normal course of our business,
and we, and any accounts for which we are acting, are each able to bear the
economic risk of our or its investment. We confirm that neither the Company nor
any person acting on its behalf has offered to sell the Notes by, and that we
have not been made aware of the offering of the Notes by, any form of general
solicitation or general advertising,
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including, but not limited to, any advertisement, article, notice or other
communication published in any newspaper, magazine or similar media or broadcast
over television or radio.
2. We understand that the Notes and the Common Stock issuable upon
conversion of the Notes (the Notes and such Common Stock are collectively
referred to herein as "Restricted Securities") have not been registered under
the Securities Act and, unless so registered, may not be sold except as
permitted in the following sentence. We agree on our own behalf and on behalf
of any investor account for which we are purchasing Notes are "restricted
securities" within the meaning of Rule 144 under the Securities Act and to
offer, sell or otherwise transfer such Notes prior to the date which is three
years after the later of the date of original issue (or any predecessor thereto)
(the "Resale Restriction Termination Date") only (a) to the Company,
(b) pursuant to a registration statement that has been declared effective under
the Securities Act, (c) pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act, for so
long as it is available, to a person we reasonably believe is a qualified
institutional buyer under Rule 144A under the Securities Act (a "QIB") that
purchases for its own account or for the account of a QIB and to whom notice is
given that the transfer is being made in reliance on Rule 144A, (d) pursuant to
offers and sales that occur outside the United States within the meaning of
Regulation S under the Securities Act, (e) to an institutional "accredited
investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the
Securities Act that is purchasing for its own account or for the account of an
institutional "accredited investor," in each case, with respect to the Notes, or
(f) pursuant to any other available exemption from the registration requirements
of the Securities Act, subject in each of the foregoing cases to any requirement
of law that the disposition of our property or the property of such investor
account or accounts be at all times within our or their control and in
compliance with any applicable state securities laws. The foregoing
restrictions on resale will not apply subsequent to the Resale Restriction
Termination Date. If any resale or other transfer of the Notes is proposed to
be made pursuant to clause (e) above prior to the Resale Restriction Termination
Date, the transferor shall deliver a letter from the transferee substantially in
the form of this letter to the Company and the trustee (the "Trustee") under the
indenture, dated as of July 28, 1997, between the Company and the Trustee
relating to the Notes, which shall provide, among other things, that the
transferee is an institutional "accredited investor" within the meaning of
Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act and that it is
acquiring such Notes for investment purposes and not for distribution in
violation of the Securities Act. Each purchaser acknowledges that the Company
and the Trustee reserve the right prior to any offer, sale or other transfer,
prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date of the Restricted Securities
pursuant to clause (d), (e) or (f) above to require the delivery of an opinion
of counsel, certifications and/or other information satisfactory to the Company
and the Trustee.
3. We understand that the Notes will be in the form of definitive
physical certificates bearing the legend set forth in clause (4) in the "Notice
to Investors" section of the Offering Memorandum.
We acknowledge that you, the Initial Purchasers and others will rely upon
our confirmations, acknowledgments and agreements set forth herein, and we agree
to notify you promptly in writing if any of our representations and warranties
herein ceases to be accurate and complete.
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THIS LETTER SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE
LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
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By:
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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF CONVERSION NOTICE
TO: Tower Automotive, Inc.
The undersigned owner of this Security hereby: (i) irrevocably exercises
the option to convert this Security, or the portion hereof below designated, for
shares of Common Stock of Tower Automotive, Inc. in accordance with the terms of
this Indenture referred to in this Security and (ii) directs that such shares of
Common Stock deliverable upon the conversion, together with any check in payment
for fractional shares and any Security(ies) representing any unconverted
principal amount hereof, be issued and delivered to the registered holder hereof
unless a different name has been indicated below. If shares are to be delivered
registered in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the undersigned
will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto. Any amount required
to be paid by the undersigned on account of interest accompanies this Security.
Dated:
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Signature
Fill in for registration of shares if to be delivered, and of Securities if
to be issued, otherwise than to and in the name of the registered holder.
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identifying Number
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(Name)
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(Street Address)
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(City, State and Zip Code)
(Please print name and address)
Principal amount to be converted:
(if less than all)
$
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