Exhibit 10.1
FMC
FINANCE VI S.A.
as Issuer
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Trustee
DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
as Paying Agent
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA,
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC. and
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GmbH
as Guarantors
INDENTURE
DATED AS OF JANUARY 20, 2010
with respect to the issuance of
5.50% SENIOR NOTES DUE 2016
TABLE OF
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Article I
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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Section 1.1
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Definitions
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Section 1.2
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Rules of Construction
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Section 1.3
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Incorporation by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
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Article II
THE NOTES
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Section 2.1
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Form and Dating
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Section 2.2
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Execution and Authentication
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Section 2.3
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Registrar and Paying Agent
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Section 2.4
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Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust
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Section 2.5
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List of Holders
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Section 2.6
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Book-Entry Provisions for Global Notes
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Section 2.7
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Registration of Transfer and Exchange
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Section 2.8
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Replacement Notes
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Section 2.9
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Outstanding Notes
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Section 2.10
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Treasury Notes
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Section 2.11
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Temporary Notes
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Section 2.12
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Cancellation
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Section 2.13
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Defaulted Interest
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Section 2.14
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ISINs and Common Codes
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Section 2.15
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Deposit of Moneys
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Section 2.16
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Certain Matters Relating to Global Notes
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Section 2.17
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Record Date
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Article III
REDEMPTION
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Section 3.1
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Optional Redemption
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Section 3.2
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Notices to Trustee
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Section 3.3
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Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed
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Section 3.4
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Notice of Redemption
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Section 3.5
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Effect of Notice of Redemption
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Section 3.6
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Deposit of Redemption Price
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Section 3.7
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Notes Redeemed in Part
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Section 3.8
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Special Tax Redemption
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Article IV
COVENANTS
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Section 4.1
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Payment of Notes
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Section 4.2
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Maintenance of Office or Agency
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Section 4.3
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Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness
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Section 4.4
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Limitation on Liens
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Section 4.5
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Ownership of the Issuer
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Section 4.6
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Existence
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Section 4.7
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Maintenance of Properties
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Section 4.8
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Payment of Taxes and Other Claims
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Section 4.9
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Maintenance of Insurance
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Section 4.10
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Reports
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Section 4.11
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Change of Control
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Section 4.12
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Additional Amounts
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Section 4.13
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Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default
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Section 4.14
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Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions
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Article V
SUCCESSOR ISSUER OR GUARANTOR
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Section 5.1
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Limitation on Mergers and Sales of Assets
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Section 5.2
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Successor Entity Substituted
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Section 5.3
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Substitution of the Issuer
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Article VI
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
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Section 6.1
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Events of Default
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Section 6.2
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Acceleration
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Section 6.3
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Other Remedies
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Section 6.4
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The Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Notes
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Section 6.5
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Rights and Remedies Cumulative
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Section 6.6
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Delay or Omission Not Waiver
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Section 6.7
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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Section 6.8
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Control by Majority
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Section 6.9
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Limitation on Suits
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Section 6.10
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Rights of Holders To Receive Payment
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Section 6.11
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Collection Suit by Trustee
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Section 6.12
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Trustee May File Proofs of Claim
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Section 6.13
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Priorities
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Section 6.14
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Restoration of Rights and Remedies
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Section 6.15
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Undertaking for Costs
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Section 6.16
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Notices of Default
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Article VII
TRUSTEE
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Section 7.1
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Duties of Trustee
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Section 7.2
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Rights of Trustee
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Section 7.3
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Individual Rights of Trustee
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Section 7.4
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Trustee’s Disclaimer
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Section 7.5
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Notice of Default
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Section 7.6
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Reports by Trustee to Holders of the Notes
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Section 7.7
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Compensation and Indemnity
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Section 7.8
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Replacement of Trustee
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Section 7.9
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Successor Trustee by Xxxxxx, Etc
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Section 7.10
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Eligibility; Disqualification
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Section 7.11
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Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company
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Article VIII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
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Section 8.1
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Option To Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance
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Section 8.2
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Legal Defeasance and Discharge
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Section 8.3
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Covenant Defeasance
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Section 8.4
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Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance
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Section 8.5
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Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture
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Section 8.6
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Survival of Certain Obligations
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Section 8.7
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Acknowledgment of Discharge by Trustee
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Section 8.8
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Application of Trust Moneys
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Section 8.9
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Repayment to the Issuer; Unclaimed Money
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Section 8.10
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Reinstatement
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Article IX
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
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Section 9.1
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Without Consent of Holders of Notes
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Section 9.2
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With Consent of Holders of Notes
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Section 9.3
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Notice of Amendment, Supplement or Waiver
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Section 9.4
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Revocation and Effect of Consents
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Section 9.5
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Notation on or Exchange of Notes
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Section 9.6
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Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc
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Article X
NOTE GUARANTEE
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Section 10.1
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Note Guarantee
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Section 10.2
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Execution and Delivery of Note Guarantees
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Section 10.3
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Guarantors May Consolidate, Etc., On Certain Terms
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Section 10.4
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Release of Guarantors
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Article XI
MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 11.1
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Notices
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Section 11.2
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Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
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Section 11.3
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Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion
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Section 11.4
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Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar
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Section 11.5
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Legal Holidays
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Section 11.6
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Governing Law
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Section 11.7
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Submission to Jurisdiction
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Section 11.8
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No Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders
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Section 11.9
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Successors
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Section 11.10
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Counterpart Originals
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Section 11.11
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Severability
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Section 11.12
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Table of Contents, Headings, etc
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Section 11.13
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Trust Indenture Act Controls
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Section 11.14
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Currency Indemnity
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Section 11.15
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Information
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A —
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Form of Initial Global Note
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A-1
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Exhibit B —
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Form of Initial Definitive Note
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B-1
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Exhibit C —
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Form of Note Guarantee
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C-1
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Exhibit D —
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Form of Transfer Certificate for Transfer from Rule 144A
Global Note to Regulation S Global Note
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D-1
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Exhibit E —
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Form of Transfer Certificate for Transfer from Regulation S
Global Note to Rule 144A Global Note
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E-1
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NOTE: This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be part of this
Indenture.
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INDENTURE dated as of January 20, 2010, among FMC FINANCE
VI S.A., a société anonyme organized under the laws of
Luxembourg (the “Issuer”), as Issuer, FRESENIUS
MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA, a partnership limited by
shares (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien) organized under the
laws of the Federal Republic of Germany (the
“Company”), FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC., a
New York corporation (“FMCH”) and FRESENIUS MEDICAL
CARE DEUTSCHLAND GmbH, a limited liability company organized
under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany
(“FMCD” and, together with the Company and FMCH, the
“Guarantors”), U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a
national banking association, as trustee (the
“Trustee”) and DEUTSCHE BANK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT, as
the paying agent (the “Paying Agent”).
The Issuer has duly authorized the creation and issuance of its
5.50% Senior Notes due 2016. The Notes consist of (i)
€250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of notes issued on
the date hereof (the “Initial Notes”) and
(ii) Additional Notes (as defined herein) that may be
issued on any Issue Date (all such notes referred to in
clauses (i) and (ii) being referred to as the
“Notes”); and, to provide therefor, the Issuer has
duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture.
The Notes will be guaranteed (the “Note Guarantee”) on
a senior unsecured basis by each Guarantor. Each of the Issuer
and the Guarantors has duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this
Indenture. All things necessary to make the
Notes, when duly issued and executed by the Issuer and
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee hereunder, the valid
obligations of the Issuer, and the Note Guarantee, when executed
by each Guarantor and endorsed upon the Notes, the valid
obligation of each Guarantor and to make this
Indenture a valid
agreement of the Issuer and each Guarantor, have been done.
Each party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other
parties and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section 1.1 Definitions.
As used in this Indenture, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“Accounting Principles” means U.S. GAAP, or, upon
adoption thereof by the Company and notice to the Trustee, IFRS
or any other accounting standards which are generally acceptable
in the jurisdiction of organization of the Company, approved by
the relevant regulatory or other accounting bodies in that
jurisdiction and internationally generally acceptable and, in
the case of IFRS or such other accounting standards, as in
effect from time to time.
“Acquired Indebtedness” means Indebtedness of a Person
existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary or is
merged into or consolidated with any other Person or that is
assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from such
Person and, in each case, not Incurred by such Person in
connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such
Person becoming a Subsidiary or such merger, consolidation or
acquisition.
“Additional Amounts” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 4.12 hereof.
“Additional Notes” means additional 5.50% Senior
Notes due 2016.
“Additional Taxing Jurisdiction” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 4.12 hereof.
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means:
(1) any other Person, directly or indirectly, controlling
or controlled by, or
(2) under direct or indirect common control with such
specified Person.
For the purposes of this definition, “control” when
used with respect to any Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract
or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and
“controlled” have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
“Agent” means the Paying Agent, any Registrar,
Authenticating Agent or co-Registrar.
“Agent Members” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.16.
“A/R Facility” means the accounts receivable facility
established pursuant to the Fifth Amended and Restated Transfer
and Administration Agreement dated as of November 17, 2009
by and among NMC Funding Corporation, as transferor, National
Medical Care, Inc., as initial collection agent, Paradigm
Funding LLC, and other conduit investors party thereto, the
financial institutions party thereto, The Bank of Nova Scotia,
Barclays Bank PLC, Bayerische Landesbank,
New York Branch,
Calyon
New York Branch and Royal Bank of Canada, as
administrative agents, and WestLB AG,
New York Branch, as
administrative agent and as agent (as amended, modified,
renewed, refunded, replaced, restated or refinanced from time to
time).
“Asset Disposition” means any direct or indirect sale,
issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease (other than operating
leases entered into in the ordinary course of business),
assignment or other transfer for value by the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries (including any Sale and Leaseback Transaction)
to any Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of the Company, including any disposition by means of
a merger, consolidation or similar transaction (each referred to
for the purposes of this definition as a
“disposition”), of:
(1) any shares of Capital Stock of any Subsidiary (other
than directors’ qualifying shares or shares required by
applicable law to be held by a Person other than the Company or
a Subsidiary),
(2) all or substantially all the assets of any division or
line of business of the Company or any Subsidiary, or
(3) any other assets of the Company or any Subsidiary
outside of the ordinary course of business of the Company or
such Subsidiary,
other than, in the case of clauses (1), (2) and
(3) above,
(A) a disposition of assets or issuance of Capital Stock by
a Subsidiary to the Company or by the Company or a Subsidiary to
a Wholly Owned Subsidiary,
(B) transactions permitted under Section 5.1, and
(C) dispositions in connection with Permitted Liens,
foreclosures on assets and any release of claims which have been
written down or written off.
“Attributable Debt” means, in respect of any Sale and
Leaseback Transaction, as of the time of determination, the
total obligation (discounted to present value at the rate per
annum equal to the discount rate which would be applicable to a
Capital Lease Obligation with the like term in accordance with
Accounting Principles) of the lessee for rental payments (other
than amounts required to be paid on account of property taxes,
maintenance, repairs, insurance, water rates and other items
which do not constitute payments for property rights) during the
remaining portion of the initial term of the lease included in
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
“Authenticating Agent” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.2.
“Average Life” means, as of the date of determination,
with respect to any Indebtedness or Preferred Stock, the
quotient obtained by dividing:
(1) the sum of the products of numbers of years from the
date of determination to the dates of each successive scheduled
principal payment of such Indebtedness or redemption or similar
payment with respect to such Preferred Stock multiplied by the
amount of such payment by,
(2) the sum of all such payments.
“Bankruptcy Law” means (i) for purposes of the
Company and FMCD, any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws of general application
(including, without limitation, the German Insolvency Code
(“Insolvenzordnung”), (ii) for purposes of the
Issuer, any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar statute
(including, without limitation, the Luxembourg Commercial Code
(Code de Commerce) and any
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similar statute), regulation or provision of any jurisdiction in
which the Issuer is organized or conducting business
(iii) for purposes of FMCH, any bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium and other similar laws of general
application (including, without limitation, 11 U.S.C.
§ 101 et seq., as amended) and (iv) for purposes
of the Trustee, any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar statute,
regulation or provision of any jurisdiction in which the Trustee
is organized or conducting business.
“Board of Directors” means, with respect to the Issuer
or any Guarantor, as the case may be, the Board of Directors (or
other body performing functions similar to any of those
performed by a Board of Directors including those performed, in
the case of a German stock corporation, by the management board
or, in the case of a KGaA, by the General Partner) of such
Person or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf
of such Board (or other body).
“Board Resolution” means, with respect to the Issuer
or a Guarantor, a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or a member of the Board of
Directors or Management Board of the Issuer or such Guarantor to
have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors or the
Management Board, or such committee of the Board of Directors or
the Management Board or officers of the Issuer or such Guarantor
to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of Directors or
the Management Board has been delegated, and to be in full force
and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to
the Trustee by the Issuer or the Guarantor, as the case may be,
and the Trustee shall be entitled to rely on such certification
as conclusive evidence thereof.
“Bund Rate” means the yield to maturity at the time of
computation of direct obligations of the Federal Republic of
Germany (Bund or Bundesanleihen) with a constant maturity (as
officially compiled and published in the most recent financial
statistics that have become publicly available at least two
Business Days (but not more than five Business Days) prior to
the redemption date (or, if such financial statistics are not so
published or available, any publicly available source of similar
market data selected by the Issuer in good faith)) most nearly
equal to the period from the redemption date to July 15,
2016; provided, however that if the period from the
redemption date to July 15, 2016 is not equal to the
constant maturity of the direct obligations of the Federal
Republic of Germany for which a weekly average yield is given,
the Bund Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation
(calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the
weekly average yields of direct obligations of the Federal
Republic of Germany for which such yields are given, except that
if the period from such redemption date to July 15, 2016 is
less than one year, the weekly average yield on actually traded
direct obligations of the Federal Republic of Germany adjusted
to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.
“Business Day” means any day other than:
(1) a Saturday or Sunday,
(2) a day on which banking institutions in Frankfurt am
Main or the jurisdiction of organization of the Issuer are
authorized or required by law or executive order to remain
closed, or
(3) a day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee is closed for business.
“Capital Lease Obligations” means an obligation that
is required to be classified and accounted for as a capital
lease for financial reporting purposes in accordance with
Accounting Principles, and the amount of Indebtedness
represented by such obligation shall be the capitalized amount
of such obligation determined in accordance with Accounting
Principles; and the Stated Maturity thereof shall be the date of
the last payment of rent or any other amount due under such
lease prior to the first date upon which such lease may be
terminated by the lessee without payment of a penalty.
“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all
shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options,
participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however
designated) equity of such Person, including any Preferred
Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such
equity.
“Cash Management Arrangements” means the cash
management arrangements of the Company and its Affiliates
(including any Indebtedness arising thereunder) which
arrangements are in the ordinary course of business consistent
with past practice.
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“Change of Control” means the occurrence of one or
more of the following events:
(1) so long as the Company is organized as a KGaA, if the
General Partner of the Company charged with management of the
Company shall at any time fail to be a Subsidiary of Fresenius
SE, or if Xxxxxxxxx SE shall fail at any time to own and control
more than 25% of the capital stock with ordinary voting power in
the Company;
(2) if the Company is no longer organized as a KGaA, any
event the result of which is that (A) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act), other
than Fresenius SE, is or becomes the beneficial owner (as
defined in
Rules 13d-3
and 13d-5
under the Exchange Act, except that such Person or group shall
be deemed to have “beneficial ownership” of all shares
that any such Person or group has the right to acquire, whether
such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage
of time), directly or indirectly, of more than 35% of the total
voting power of the Voting Stock of the Company and
(B) Fresenius SE does not “beneficially own” (as
defined in Rules
13d-3 and
13d-5 of the
Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, in the aggregate a
greater percentage of the total voting power of the Voting Stock
of the Company;
(3) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one
transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company to any Person or
group of related Persons for purposes of Section 13(d) of
the Exchange Act (a “Group”), together with any
Affiliates thereof (whether or not otherwise in compliance with
the provisions herein).
“Change of Control Triggering Event” means the
occurrence of a Change of Control and a Ratings Decline.
“Clearing Agency” means one or more of Euroclear,
Clearstream, or the successor of either of them, in each case
acting directly, or through a custodian, nominee or depository,
as holder of the Global Notes.
“Clearstream” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.6.
“Closing Date” means the date of this Indenture.
“Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code
of 1986, as amended.
“Company” means the party named as such in this
Indenture until a successor replaces it pursuant to this
Indenture and thereafter means such successor.
“Consolidated Coverage Ratio” of any Person as of any
date of determination means the ratio of (x) the aggregate
amount of EBITDA for such Person’s most recently ended four
full fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are
available immediately preceding the date of such determination
to (y) Consolidated Interest Expense for such four fiscal
quarters; provided, however, that:
(1) if such Person or any of its Subsidiaries has Incurred
or repaid, repurchased, defeased or otherwise discharged (in
each case other than Indebtedness under any revolving credit
facility unless such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid
and any related commitment has been terminated) any Indebtedness
since the beginning of such period that remains outstanding or
discharged or if the transaction giving rise to the need to
calculate the Consolidated Coverage Ratio is an Incurrence or
discharge of Indebtedness, or both, EBITDA and Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period shall be calculated after
giving effect on a pro forma basis to such Indebtedness as if
such Indebtedness had been Incurred or discharged on the first
day of such period and the Incurrence or discharge of any other
Indebtedness as if such Incurrence or discharge had occurred on
the first day of such period,
(2) if since the beginning of such period such Person or
any of its Subsidiaries shall have made any Asset Disposition,
the EBITDA for such period shall be reduced by an amount equal
to the EBITDA (if positive) directly attributable to the assets
which are the subject of such Asset Disposition for such period,
or increased by an amount equal to the EBITDA (if negative),
directly attributable thereto for such period and Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period shall be reduced by an amount
equal to the Consolidated Interest Expense directly attributable
to any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries
repaid, repurchased, defeased
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or otherwise discharged with respect to such Person and its
continuing Subsidiaries in connection with such Asset
Disposition for such period (or, if the Capital Stock of any
Subsidiary is sold, the Consolidated Interest Expense for such
period of credit and directly attributable to the Indebtedness
of such Subsidiary to the extent such Person and its continuing
Subsidiaries are no longer liable for such Indebtedness after
such Asset Disposition),
(3) if since the beginning of such period such Person or
any of its Subsidiaries (by merger or otherwise) shall have made
an Investment in any Subsidiary (or any Person which becomes a
Subsidiary) or an acquisition of assets, which constitutes all
or substantially all of an operating unit of a business, EBITDA
and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be
calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto (including the
Incurrence of any Indebtedness) as if such Investment or
acquisition occurred on the first day of such period, and
(4) if since the beginning of such period any Person (that
subsequently became a Subsidiary or was merged with or into such
Person or any of its Subsidiaries since the beginning of such
period) shall have made any Asset Disposition, any Investment or
acquisition of assets that would have required an adjustment
pursuant to clause (2) or (3) above if made by such
Person or a Subsidiary of such Person during such period, EBITDA
and Consolidated Interest Expense for such period shall be
calculated after giving pro forma effect thereto as if such
Asset Disposition, Investment or acquisition occurred on the
first day of such period.
For purposes of this definition, whenever pro forma effect is to
be given to an acquisition of assets, the amount of income or
earnings relating thereto and the amount of Consolidated
Interest Expense associated with any Indebtedness Incurred in
connection therewith, the pro forma calculations shall be
determined in good faith by a responsible financial or
accounting officer of the Company, as applicable. If any
Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being
given pro forma effect, the interest of such Indebtedness shall
be calculated as if the rate in effect on the date of
determination had been the applicable rate for the entire period
(taking into account any Interest Rate Agreement applicable to
such Indebtedness if such Interest Rate Agreement has a
remaining term in excess of 12 months).
“Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to
any Person for any period, the total interest expense of such
Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries, including the
amortization of debt discount and premium, the interest
component under capital leases and the implied interest
component (if any) under any Receivables Financing, in each case
on a consolidated basis determined in accordance with Accounting
Principles.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any
Person for any period, the net income of such Person and its
consolidated Subsidiaries (including, for any period after
January 1, 2009, any net income attributable to
non-controlling interest of such Person and its consolidated
Subsidiaries), in each case as determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with Accounting Principles; provided
that extraordinary gains and losses shall be excluded from
Consolidated Net Income.
“Consolidated Net Tangible Assets” means, as of any
date of determination, the total amount of all assets of the
Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with Accounting Principles, as of the end of the
most recent fiscal quarter for which the Company’s
financial statements are available, less the sum of:
(1) the Company’s consolidated current liabilities as
of such quarter end, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with Accounting Principles; and
(2) the Company’s consolidated assets that are
properly classified as intangible assets as of such quarter end,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with Accounting
Principles.
“Corporate Trust Office” means the address of the
Trustee specified in Section 11.1, or such other address as
to which the Trustee may, from time to time, give written notice
to the Company.
“Covenant Defeasance” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 8.3.
“Credit Facility” means (i) the bank credit
agreement entered into as of March 31, 2006 among the
Company, FMCH, the other borrowers identified therein, the
guarantors identified therein, the lenders party thereto and
Bank
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of America, N.A., as administrative agent, as amended, modified,
renewed, refunded, replaced, restated or refinanced from time to
time (the “Revolving Credit Facility”) and
(ii) the term loan credit agreement entered into as of
March 31, 2006 among the Company, FMCH, the other borrowers
identified therein, the guarantors identified therein, the
lenders party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as
administrative agent, as amended, modified, renewed, refunded,
replaced, restated or refinanced from time to time.
“Currency Agreement” means any foreign currency
exchange contract, currency swap agreement or other similar
agreement or arrangement.
“Custodian” means any receiver, trustee, assignee,
liquidator, sequestration or similar official under any
Bankruptcy Law.
“Default” means any event that is, or after notice or
passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default (as
defined herein).
“Default Interest Payment Date” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 2.13.
“Defeasance Trust” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 8.4.
“Definitive Notes” means Notes in definitive
registered form substantially in the form of
Exhibit B.
“Designated Government Obligations” means direct
non-callable and non-redeemable obligations (in each case, with
respect to the issuer thereof) of any member state of the
European Union that is a member of the European Union as of the
date of this Indenture or of the United States of America
(including, in each case, any agency or instrumentality
thereof), as the case may be, the payment of which is secured by
the full faith and credit of the applicable member state or of
the United States of America, as the case may be.
“Disqualified Stock” means, with respect to any
Person, any Capital Stock that by its terms (or by the terms of
any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable) or upon the happening of any event:
(1) matures or is mandatorily redeemable pursuant to a
sinking fund obligation or otherwise;
(2) is convertible or exchangeable for Indebtedness or
Disqualified Stock; or
(3) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in
whole or in part,
in each case on or prior to the first anniversary of the Stated
Maturity of the Notes; provided, however, that any
Capital Stock that would not constitute Disqualified Stock but
for provisions thereof giving holders thereof the right to
require such Person to repurchase or redeem such Capital Stock
upon the occurrence of an “asset sale” or “change
of control” occurring prior to the first anniversary of the
Stated Maturity of the Notes shall not constitute Disqualified
Stock if the “asset sale” or “change of
control” provisions applicable to such Capital Stock are
not more favorable to the holders of such Capital Stock than the
provisions of Section 4.11.
“EBITDA” for any Person for any period means the sum
of Consolidated Net Income of such Person, plus Consolidated
Interest Expense of such Person plus the following to the extent
deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income:
(1) all income tax expense of such Person and its
Subsidiaries,
(2) depreciation expense, and
(3) amortization expense, in each case for such period.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provision for taxes based on
the income or profits of, and the depreciation and amortization
of, a Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary shall be
added to Consolidated Net Income to compute EBITDA only to the
extent (and in the same proportion) that the net income of such
Subsidiary was included in calculating Consolidated Net Income
and only if a corresponding amount would be permitted at the
date of determination to be dividended to such Person by such
Subsidiary without prior approval (that has not been obtained),
pursuant to the terms of its charter and all agreements,
instruments, judgments, decrees, orders, statutes, rules and
governmental regulations applicable to such Subsidiary or its
stockholders.
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“€” or “euro” means the single currency
of the Participating Member States.
“Euroclear” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.6.
“Event of Default” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 6.1.
“Exchange Act” means the United States Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Finance Subsidiary” means any Wholly Owned Subsidiary
of the Company created for the sole purpose of issuing evidences
of Indebtedness and which is subject to similar restrictions on
its activities as the Issuer.
“Fresenius SE” means Fresenius SE, a European Company
(Societas Europaea) previously called Fresenius AG, a German
stock corporation.
“General Partner” means Fresenius Medical Care
Management AG, a German stock corporation, including its
successors and assigns and other Persons, in each case who serve
as the general partner (persönlich haftender
Gesellschafter) of the Company from time to time.
“Global Notes” shall mean Notes in registered global
form substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Guarantee” means any obligation, contingent or
otherwise, of any Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any
Indebtedness or other obligation of any Person (other than, in
the case of subsidiaries, obligations which would not constitute
Indebtedness) and any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent
or otherwise, of such Person:
(1) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the
purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation of
such Person (whether arising by virtue of partnership
arrangements, or by agreements to keep-well, to purchase assets,
goods, securities or services, to
take-or-pay
or to maintain financial statement conditions or
otherwise), or
(2) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other
manner the obligee of such Indebtedness or other obligation of
the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in
respect thereof (in whole or in part);
provided, however, that the term
“Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for
collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The
term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a corresponding
meaning.
“Guarantee Agreement” means, in the context of a
consolidation, merger or sale of all or substantially all of the
assets of a Guarantor, an agreement by which the Surviving
Person from such a transaction expressly assumes all of the
obligations of such Guarantor under its Note Guarantee.
“Guarantor” means each of the Company, FMCH and FMCD
and any successor or additional Guarantor, unless released from
its obligations under its Note Guarantee in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture.
“Hedging Obligations” of any Person means the
obligations of such Person pursuant to any Interest Rate
Agreement or Currency Agreement.
“Holder” means a Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Registrar’s books.
“IFRS” means international financial reporting
standards and interpretations issued by the International
Accounting Standards Board and adopted by the European
Commission, as in effect from time to time.
“Incur” means issue, assume, guarantee, incur or
otherwise become liable for; provided, however,
that any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at
the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger,
consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be
Incurred by such Subsidiary at the time it becomes a Subsidiary.
The term “Incurrence” when used as a noun shall have a
correlative meaning. The accretion of principal of a
non-interest bearing or other discount security shall be deemed
the Incurrence of Indebtedness.
“Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person on
any date of determination (without duplication):
(1) the principal of and premium (if any) in respect of
(A) indebtedness of such Person for money borrowed and
(B) indebtedness evidenced by notes, debentures, bonds or
other similar instruments for the payment of which such Person
is responsible or liable,
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(2) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person,
(3) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the
deferred purchase price of property or services, all conditional
sale obligations of such Person and all obligations of such
Person under any title retention agreement (other than
(x) customary reservations or retentions of title under
agreements with suppliers entered into in the ordinary course of
business, (y) trade debt Incurred in the ordinary course of
business and not overdue by 90 days or more and
(z) obligations Incurred under a pension, retirement or
deferred compensation program or arrangement regulated under the
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or
the laws of a foreign government),
(4) all obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of
any obligor on any letter of credit, bank guarantee,
banker’s acceptance or similar credit transaction (except
to the extent such reimbursement obligation relates to trade
debt in the ordinary course of business and such reimbursement
obligation is paid within 30 days after payment of the
trade debt),
(5) the amount of all obligations of such Person with
respect to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any
Disqualified Stock or, with respect to any subsidiary of such
Person, any Preferred Stock (but excluding, in each case, any
accrued dividends),
(6) all obligations of the type referred to in
clauses (1) through (5) of other Persons and all
dividends of other Persons for the payment of which, in either
case, such Person is responsible or liable, directly or
indirectly, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, including by
means of any Guarantee,
(7) all obligations of the type referred to in
clauses (1) through (6) of other Persons secured by
any Lien on any property or asset of such Person (whether or not
such obligation is assumed by such Person), the amount of such
obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the value of such
property or assets or the amount of the obligation so
secured, and
(8) to the extent not otherwise included in this
definition, Hedging Obligations of such Person.
The amount of Indebtedness of any Person at any date shall be
the outstanding balance at such date of all unconditional
obligations as described above and the maximum liability, upon
the occurrence of the contingency giving rise to the obligation,
of any contingent obligations at such date. For the avoidance of
doubt, the following will not be treated as Indebtedness:
(1) Indebtedness Incurred in respect of workers’
compensation claims, self insurance obligations, performance,
surety and similar bonds and completion guarantees provided in
this ordinary course of business;
(2) Indebtedness arising from agreements providing for
indemnification, adjustment of purchase price or similar
obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection
with the disposition or acquisition of any business, assets or
Capital Stock of a Subsidiary, provided, that the maximum
aggregate liability in respect of all such Indebtedness (other
than in respect of tax and environmental indemnities) shall at
no time exceed, in the case of a disposition, the gross proceeds
actually received by the Company and its Subsidiaries in
connection with such disposition and, in the case of an
acquisition, the fair market value of any business assets or
Capital Stock acquired;
(3) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or
other financial institution of a check, draft or similar
instrument (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn
against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business,
provided that such Indebtedness is extinguished within
five Business Days of the Incurrence.
“Indenture” means this Indenture, as amended, modified
or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms
hereof.
“Initial Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in
the preamble to this Indenture.
“Interest Rate Agreement” means any interest rate swap
agreement, interest rate cap agreement or other financial
agreement or arrangement.
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“Investment” in any Person means any direct or
indirect advance, loan (other than advances to customers in the
ordinary course of business that are recorded as accounts
receivable on the balance sheet of such Person) or other
extensions of credit (including by way of Guarantee or similar
arrangement) or capital contribution to (by means of any
transfer of cash or other property to others or any payment for
property or services for the account or use of others), or any
purchase or acquisition of Capital Stock, Indebtedness or other
similar instruments issued by such Person; provided,
however, that advances, loans or other extensions of
credit arising under the Cash Management Arrangements shall not
be deemed Investments.
“Investment Grade” means a rating of BBB- or higher by
S&P and Baa3 or higher by Xxxxx’x or the equivalent of
such ratings by S&P or Xxxxx’x and the equivalent in
respect of rating categories of any Rating Agencies substituted
for S&P or Xxxxx’x.
“Investment Grade Status” exists as of any time if at
such time both (i) the rating assigned to the Notes by
Xxxxx’x is at least Baa3 (or the equivalent) or higher and
(ii) the rating assigned to the Notes by S&P is at
least BBB- (or the equivalent) or higher and the equivalent in
respect of rating categories of any Rating Agencies substituted
for S&P or Moody’s.
“Issue Date” means the date on which any Notes are
issued.
“Issuer” means FMC Finance VI S.A. until a successor
replaces it pursuant to this Indenture and thereafter means such
successor.
“Issuer Order” means a written order or request signed
in the name of the Issuer by a Responsible Officer of the Issuer
and delivered to the Trustee by the Issuer.
“KGaA” means a German partnership limited by shares
(Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien).
“Legal Defeasance” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 8.2.
“Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, security interest,
encumbrance, lien or charge of any kind (including any
conditional sale or other title retention agreement or lease in
the nature thereof).
“Luxembourg Paying Agent” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.3.
“Maturity Date” means July 15, 2016.
“Moody’s” means Xxxxx’x Investors Service,
Inc. and its successors.
“Note Guarantee” means the Guarantee by a Guarantor of
the Issuer’s obligations with respect to the Notes.
“Notes” shall have the meaning set forth in the
preamble of this Indenture.
“Officers’ Certificate” means a certificate
signed by two Responsible Officers of the Issuer or of any
Guarantor.
“Opinion of Counsel” means a written opinion from
legal counsel who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The
counsel may be an employee of or counsel to the Issuer, a
Guarantor or the Trustee.
“Participating Member State” means a member state of
the European Union which has adopted or adopts the single
currency in accordance with the Treaty establishing the European
Community (as that Treaty is amended from time to time).
“Paying Agent” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.3.
“Permitted Liens” means, with respect to any Person:
(1) pledges or deposits by such Person under workmen’s
compensation laws, unemployment insurance laws or similar
legislation, or good faith deposits in connection with bids,
tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness)
or leases to which such Person is a party, or deposits to secure
public or statutory obligations of such Person or deposits or
cash or Designated Government Obligations to secure surety or
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appeal bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits as
security for contested taxes or import or customs duties or for
the payment of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary
course of business;
(2) Xxxxx imposed by law, including carriers’,
warehousemen’s and mechanics’ Liens, in each case for
sums not yet due or being contested in good faith if a reserve
or other appropriate provisions, if any, as are required by
Accounting Principles have been made in respect thereof;
(3) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental
charges not yet subject to penalties for non-payment or which
are being contested in good faith provided appropriate reserves,
if any, as are required by Accounting Principles have been made
in respect thereof;
(4) Liens in favor of issuers of surety or performance
bonds or letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances issued
pursuant to the request of and for the account of such Person in
the ordinary course of its business;
(5) encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights
of others for, licenses, rights of way, sewers, electric lines,
telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or
zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real properties or
liens incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person
or to the ownership of its properties which do not in the
aggregate materially adversely affect the value of said
properties or materially impair their use in the operation of
the business of such Person;
(6) Liens securing Hedging Obligations so long as the
related Indebtedness is, and is permitted to be, secured by a
Lien on the same property securing such Hedging Obligation or
Interest Rate Agreement;
(7) leases, subleases and licenses of real property which
do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the
business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and leases,
subleases and licenses of other assets in the ordinary course of
business;
(8) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default
so long as such Lien is adequately bonded and any appropriate
legal proceedings which may have been duly initiated for the
review of such judgment have not been finally terminated or the
period within which such proceedings may be initiated has not
expired;
(9) Liens for the purpose of securing the payment (or the
refinancing of the payment) of all or a part of the purchase
price of, or Capital Lease Obligations with respect to, assets
or property acquired or constructed in the ordinary course of
business; provided that:
(a) the aggregate principal amount secured by such Liens
does not exceed the cost of the assets or property so acquired
or constructed; and
(b) such Liens are created within 180 days of
construction or acquisition of such assets or property (or, upon
a refinancing, replace Liens created within such period) and do
not encumber any other assets or property of the Company or any
Subsidiary other than such assets or property and assets affixed
or appurtenant thereto;
(10) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or
common law provisions relating to banker’s Liens, rights of
set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or
other funds maintained with a depositary institution;
provided that such deposit account is not intended by the
Company or any Subsidiary to provide collateral to the
depositary institution;
(11) Liens arising from United States Uniform Commercial
Code financing statement filings (or similar filings in other
applicable jurisdictions) regarding operating leases entered
into by the Company and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course
of business;
(12) Liens existing on the Closing Date (other than Liens
under clause (19));
(13) Liens on property or shares of stock of a Person at
the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary; provided,
however, that such Liens are not created, Incurred or
assumed in connection with, or in contemplation of, such other
Person becoming a Subsidiary; provided further, however, that
any such Lien may not extend to any other property owned by the
Company or any Subsidiary;
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(14) Liens on property at the time the Company or a
Subsidiary acquired the property, including any acquisition by
means of a merger or consolidation with or into the Company or
any Subsidiary; provided, however, that such Liens
are not created, Incurred or assumed in connection with, or in
contemplation of, such acquisition; provided further,
however, that such Liens may not extend to any other
property owned by the Company or any Subsidiary;
(15) Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations of
the Company to a Subsidiary or of a Subsidiary owing to the
Company or a Subsidiary;
(16) Liens securing the Notes and all other Indebtedness
which by its terms must be secured if the Notes are secured;
(17) Liens securing Indebtedness incurred to refinance
Indebtedness that was previously secured (other than Liens under
clause (19)); provided, that such Lien is limited to all
or part of the same property or assets that secured the
Indebtedness refinanced;
(18) Liens arising by operation of law or by agreement to
the same effect in the ordinary course of business;
(19) Liens securing Indebtedness and other obligations
under the Credit Facility in an aggregate principal amount of
Indebtedness secured thereby not to exceed the greater of
(x) $4.6 billion, the maximum amount of Indebtedness
that could be incurred under the Credit Facility as of
March 31, 2006, and (y) 2.5 times the Company’s
aggregate EBITDA for the most recently ended four full fiscal
quarters for which internal financial statements are available;
(20) Liens securing the A/R Facility; and
(21) other Liens securing Indebtedness having an aggregate
principal amount, measured as of the date of creation of any
such Lien and the date of incurrence of any such Indebtedness,
not to exceed 5% of the Company’s Consolidated Net Tangible
Assets.
“Person” means any individual, corporation,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency,
instrumentality or political subdivision thereof, or any other
entity.
“Preferred Stock,” as applied to the Capital Stock of
any corporation, means Capital Stock of any class or classes
(however designated) which is preferred as to the payment of
dividends, or as to the distribution of assets upon any
voluntary or involuntary liquidation or dissolution of such
corporation, over shares of Capital Stock of any other class of
such corporation.
“Private Placement Legend” means the legend set forth
in Section 2.7(f).
“Qualified Capital Stock” means any Capital Stock
which is not Disqualified Stock.
“Rating Agencies” means:
(1) S&P and
(2) Xxxxx’x, or
(3) if S&P or Xxxxx’x or both shall not make a
rating of the Notes publicly available, despite the Company
using its commercially reasonable efforts to obtain such a
rating, a nationally recognized securities rating agency or
agencies, as the case may be, selected by the Company, which
shall be substituted for S&P or Xxxxx’x or both, as
the case may be.
“Rating Category” means:
(1) with respect to S&P, any of the following
categories: BB, B, CCC, CC, C and D (or equivalent successor
categories),
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(2) with respect to Xxxxx’x, any of the following
categories: Ba, B, Caa, Ca, C and D (or equivalent successor
categories), and
(3) the equivalent of any such category of S&P or
Xxxxx’x used by another rating agency. In determining
whether the rating of the Notes has decreased by one or more
gradations, gradations within rating categories (+
and − for S&P, 1, 2 and 3 for Xxxxx’x; or
the equivalent gradations for another rating agency) shall be
taken into account (e.g., with respect to S&P, a
decline in a rating from BB+ to BB, as well as from BB- to B+,
which constitute a decrease of one gradation).
“Rating Date” means the date which is 90 days
prior to the earlier of (1) a Change of Control and
(2) public notice of the occurrence of a Change of Control
or of the intention by the Company or any Person to effect a
Change of Control.
“Ratings Decline” means the occurrence on or within
90 days after the date of the first public notice of either
the occurrence of a Change of Control or of a transaction which
will effect a Change of Control, whichever is earlier (which
period shall be extended so long as any Rating Agency has
publicly announced that it is considering a possible downgrade
of the Notes) of (1) in the event the Notes are rated by
either Xxxxx’x or S&P on the Rating Date as Investment
Grade, a decrease in the rating of the Notes by both Rating
Agencies to a rating that is below Investment Grade, or
(2) in the event the Notes are rated below Investment Grade
by both Rating Agencies on the Rating Date, a decrease in the
rating of the Notes by either Rating Agency by one or more
gradations (including gradations within Rating Categories as
well as between Rating Categories).
“Receivables Financings” means:
(1) the A/R Facility, and
(2) any financing transaction or series of financing
transactions that have been or may be entered into by the
Company or a Subsidiary pursuant to which the Company or a
Subsidiary may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to a
Subsidiary or Affiliate, or any other Person, or may grant a
security interest in, any receivables or interests therein
secured by the merchandise or services financed thereby (whether
such receivables are then existing or arising in the future) of
the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, and any
assets related thereto, including without limitation, all
security interests in merchandise or services financed thereby,
the proceeds of such receivables, and other assets which are
customarily sold or in respect of which security interests are
customarily granted in connection with securitization
transactions involving such assets.
“Record Date” means the Record Dates specified in the
Notes.
“Redemption Date” when used with respect to any
Note to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption
pursuant to this Indenture and Paragraph 8 of the Notes.
“Redemption Price” when used with respect to any
Note to be redeemed, means the price fixed for such redemption
pursuant to this Indenture and Paragraphs 8 and 9 of the
Notes.
“Refinance” means, in respect of any Indebtedness, to
refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease
or retire, or to issue other Indebtedness in exchange or
replacement for, such Indebtedness. “Refinanced” and
“Refinancing” shall have correlative meanings.
“Refinancing Indebtedness” means Indebtedness that
Refinances any Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary
existing on the Closing Date or Incurred in compliance with
Section 4.3, including Indebtedness that Refinances
Refinancing Indebtedness; provided, however, that:
(1) such Refinancing Indebtedness has a Stated Maturity no
earlier than the Stated Maturity of the Indebtedness being
Refinanced,
(2) such Refinancing Indebtedness has an Average Life at
the time such Refinancing Indebtedness is Incurred that is equal
to or greater than the Average Life of the Indebtedness being
Refinanced, and
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(3) such Refinancing Indebtedness has an aggregate
principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue discount,
an aggregate issue price) that is equal to or less than the
aggregate principal amount (or if Incurred with original issue
discount, the aggregate accreted value) then outstanding or
committed (plus fees and expenses, including any premium and
defeasance costs) under the Indebtedness being Refinanced;
provided further, however, that Refinancing
Indebtedness shall not include (x) Indebtedness of a
Subsidiary that Refinances Indebtedness of the Company or
(y) Indebtedness of the Company or a Subsidiary that
Refinances Indebtedness of another Subsidiary.
“Registrar” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.3.
“Regulation S” means Regulation S (including
any successor regulation thereto) under the Securities Act, as
it may be amended from time to time.
“Regulation S Global Note” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 2.1.
“Regulation S Notes” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.1.
“Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction” shall have the meaning
set forth in Paragraph 2 of the Notes.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive
officer, president, chief financial officer, senior vice
president — finance, treasurer, assistant treasurer,
managing director, management board member or director of a
company (or in the case of the Company, a Responsible Officer of
its General Partner, other managing entity or other Person
authorized to act on its behalf, and if such Person is also a
partnership, limited liability company or similarly organized
entity, a Responsible Officer of the entity that may be
authorized to act on behalf of such Person).
“Restricted Period” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 2.7(b) hereof.
“Rule 144” means Rule 144 (including any
successor regulation thereto) under the Securities Act, as it
may be amended from time to time.
“Rule 144A” means Rule 144A (including any
successor regulation thereto) under the Securities Act, as it
may be amended from time to time.
“Rule 144A Global Note” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 2.1 hereof.
“Rule 144A Notes” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.1 hereof.
“Sale and Leaseback Transaction” means any direct or
indirect arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person
is a party, providing for the leasing to the Issuer or any
Guarantor or a Subsidiary of any property, whether owned by the
Issuer, a Guarantor or any Subsidiary at the Closing Date or
later acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred
by the Issuer, a Guarantor or such Subsidiary to such Person or
to any other Person from whom funds have been or are to be
advanced by such Person on the security of such property.
“SEC” means the U.S. Securities and Exchange
Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the
Exchange Act, or if at any time after the execution of this
Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the
duties now assigned to it under the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
“Secured Indebtedness” means any Indebtedness of the
Company secured by a Lien.
“Securities Act” means the U.S. Securities Act of
1933 or any successor statute thereto, in each case as amended
from time to time.
“Significant Subsidiary” means, with respect to any
Person, any Subsidiary of such Person that satisfies the
criteria for a “significant subsidiary” set forth in
Rule 1.02 of
Regulation S-X
under the Exchange Act.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s
Corporation and its successors.
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“Stated Maturity” means, with respect to any security,
the date specified in such security as the fixed date on which
the final payment of principal of such security is due and
payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption
provision (but excluding any provision providing for the
repurchase of such security at the option of the holder thereof
upon the happening of any contingency unless such contingency
has occurred).
“Subordinated Obligation” means any Indebtedness of
the Issuer or a Guarantor (whether outstanding on the Closing
Date or thereafter Incurred) that is subordinate or junior in
right of payment to the Notes or such Guarantor’s Note
Guarantees pursuant to a written agreement to that effect.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, any
corporation, limited liability company, association, partnership
or other business entity of which more than 50% of the total
voting power of shares of Voting Stock is at the time owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by:
(1) such Person;
(2) such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such
Person; or
(3) one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
Unless otherwise provided, all references to a Subsidiary shall
be a Subsidiary of the Company.
“Successor” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5.3.
“Surviving Person” means, with respect to any Person
involved in any merger, consolidation or other business
combination or the sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance
or other disposition of all or substantially all of such
Person’s assets, the Person formed by or surviving such
transaction or the Person to which such disposition is made.
“Tax Redemption Date” when used with respect to
any Note to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such
redemption pursuant to this Indenture and Paragraph 9 of
the Notes.
“Taxes” shall have the meaning set forth in
Paragraph 2 of the Notes.
“TIA” means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15
U.S. Code
77aaa-77bbbb)
as in effect on the date of this Indenture; provided,
however, that in the event the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939 is amended after such date, “TIA” means, to
the extent required by any such amendment, the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as so amended.
“Trust Officer” means any officer of the Trustee
(or any successor of the Trustee), including any director,
managing director, vice president, assistant vice president,
corporate trust officer, assistant corporate trust officer,
associate or any other officer or assistant 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 to whom such trust matter is
referred because of his or her knowledge of and familiarity with
the particular subject.
“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.
“U.S. GAAP” means generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America as in effect from
time to time, including those set forth in:
(1) the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting
Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants,
(2) statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board,
(3) such other statements by such other entity as approved
by a significant segment of the accounting profession, and
(4) the rules and regulations of the SEC governing the
inclusion of financial statements (including pro forma financial
statements) in periodic reports required to be filed pursuant to
Section 13 of the Exchange Act,
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including opinions and pronouncements in staff accounting
bulletins and similar written statements from the accounting
staff of the SEC.
“Voting Stock” of a Person means all classes of
Capital Stock or other interests (including partnership
interests) of such Person then outstanding and normally entitled
(without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to vote in
the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary all the
Capital Stock of which (other than directors’ qualifying
shares and shares held by other Persons to the extent such
shares are required by applicable law to be held by a Person
other than its parent or a Subsidiary of its parent) is owned by
the Company or by one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, or by
the Company and one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
Section 1.2 Rules
of Construction. Unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(b) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the
meaning assigned to it in accordance with Accounting Principles;
(c) “or” is not exclusive;
(d) words in the singular include the plural, and words in
the plural include the singular;
(e) provisions apply to successive events and
transactions; and
(f) “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.
Section 1.3 Incorporation
by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, the
provision is incorporated by reference in, and made a part of,
this Indenture.
The following TIA terms have the following meanings:
“indenture securities” means the Notes and any Note
Guarantee;
“indenture security holder” means a Holder;
“indenture to be qualified” means this Indenture;
“indenture trustee” or “institutional
trustee” means the Trustee;
“obligor” on the Notes means the Issuer and any
successor obligor upon the Notes or any Guarantor.
All other terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by
the Commission rule under the TIA have the meanings so assigned
to them therein.
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ARTICLE II
THE NOTES
Section 2.1 Form
and Dating. The Notes and the notation relating to the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication thereof, shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A (in the
case of Global Notes) and Exhibit B (in the
case of the Definitive Notes), as applicable. The Notes may have
notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock
exchange rule or usage. The Issuer and the Trustee shall approve
the form of the Notes and any notation, legend or endorsement on
them not inconsistent with the terms of this Indenture. Each
Note shall be dated the Issue Date and shall show the date of
its authentication.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes, annexed hereto
as Exhibits A and B, shall
constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the Issuer, the
Guarantors, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, by their execution
and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms
and provisions and to be bound thereby. The Notes will initially
be represented by the Global Notes. Definitive Notes will be
issued in exchange for Global Notes only in accordance with
Section 2.6(a).
As long as the Notes are in global form, the Paying Agent (in
lieu of the Trustee) shall be responsible for:
(1) paying sums due on the Global Notes; and
(2) arranging on behalf of and at the expense of the Issuer
for notices to be communicated to Holders in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture.
Each reference in this Indenture to the performance of duties
set forth in clauses (1) and (2) above by the Trustee
includes performance of such duties by the Paying Agent.
Notes offered and sold in their initial distribution in reliance
on Regulation S shall be initially issued as one or more
global notes, in registered, global form without interest
coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A
hereto, with such applicable legends as are provided in
Section 2.7(f)(ii), except as otherwise permitted herein,
and shall be referred to collectively herein as the
“Regulation S Global Note.” The aggregate
principal amount of the Regulation S Global Note may from
time to time be increased or decreased by adjustments made on
the records of the Trustee (following receipt by the Trustee of
all the information required hereunder), as hereinafter provided
(or by the issue of a further Regulation S Global Note), in
connection with a corresponding decrease or increase in the
aggregate principal amount of the Rule 144A Global Note or
in consequence of the issue of Definitive Notes or Additional
Notes in the form of Regulation S Global Notes, as
hereinafter provided. The Regulation S Global Note and all
other Notes that are not Rule 144A Notes shall collectively
be referred to herein as the “Regulation S Notes.”
Notes offered and sold in their initial distribution in reliance
on Rule 144A shall be initially issued as one or more
global notes in registered, global form without interest
coupons, substantially in the form of Exhibit A
hereto, with such applicable legends as are provided in
Section 2.7(f)(ii), except as otherwise permitted herein,
and shall be referred to collectively herein as the
“Rule 144A Global Note.” The aggregate principal
amount of the Rule 144A Global Note may from time to time
be increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of
the Trustee (following receipt by the Trustee of all information
required hereunder), as hereinafter provided (or by the issue of
a further Rule 144A Global Note), in connection with a
corresponding decrease or increase in the aggregate principal
amount of the Regulation S Global Note, or in consequence
of the issue of Definitive Notes or Additional Rule 144A
Global Notes, as hereinafter provided. The Rule 144A Global
Note and all other Notes (excluding interests in Rule 144A
Global Notes which are transferred in accordance with
Section 2.7(a) hereunder), if any, evidencing the debt, or
any portion of the debt, initially evidenced by such
Rule 144A Global Note, shall collectively be referred to
herein as the “Rule 144A Notes.”
Section 2.2 Execution
and Authentication. One Responsible Officer of or one
Person duly authorized by all requisite corporate actions by the
Issuer shall sign the Notes for the Issuer by manual or
facsimile signature.
If a Responsible Officer whose signature is on a Note was a
Responsible Officer at the time of such execution but no longer
holds that office or position at the time the Trustee
authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid
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nevertheless. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on such
signature as authentic and shall be under no obligation to make
any investigation in relation thereto.
A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the
Note. The signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note
has been authenticated under this Indenture.
Except as otherwise provided herein, the aggregate principal
amount of Notes which may be outstanding at any time under this
Indenture is not limited in amount. The Trustee shall
authenticate such Notes, which shall consist of (i) Initial
Notes for original issue on the Closing Date in an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed €250,000,000 and
(ii) Additional Notes from time to time for issuance after
the Closing Date to the extent otherwise permitted hereunder
(including, without limitation, under Section 4.3 hereof),
in each case upon receipt of an Issuer Order. Additional Notes
will be treated the same as the Notes for all purposes under
this Indenture, including, without limitation, for purposes of
waivers, amendments, redemptions and offers to purchase. Such
Issuer Order shall specify the aggregate principal amount of
Notes to be authenticated, the type of Notes, the date on which
the Notes are to be authenticated, the issue price and the date
from which interest on such Notes shall accrue, whether the
Notes are to be Initial Notes or Additional Notes and whether or
not the Notes shall bear the Private Placement Legend, or such
other information as the Trustee may reasonably request. In
authenticating the Notes and accepting the responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to the Notes, the Trustee shall
be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying
upon, an Opinion of Counsel in a form reasonably satisfactory to
the Trustee stating that the form and terms thereof have been
established in conformity with the provisions of this Indenture,
do not give rise to a Default and that the issuance of such
Notes has been duly authorized by the Issuer. Upon receipt of an
Issuer Order, the Trustee shall authenticate Notes in
substitution for Notes originally issued to reflect any name
change of the Issuer.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent
(“Authenticating Agent”) reasonably acceptable to the
Issuer to authenticate Notes. Unless otherwise provided in the
appointment, an Authenticating Agent may authenticate Notes
whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture
to authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such
Authenticating Agent. An Authenticating Agent has the same
rights as an Agent to deal with the Issuer and Affiliates of the
Issuer.
The Notes shall be issuable only in denominations of €1,000
and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof.
Section 2.3 Registrar
and Paying Agent. The Issuer shall maintain (i) an
office or agency where Notes may be presented for registration
of transfer or for exchange (“Registrar”),
(ii) an office or agency where Notes may be presented for
payment to Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft and (iii) upon
issuance of Definitive Notes, an office or agency where
Definitive Notes may be presented for payment to the Luxembourg
Paying Agent. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes
and of their transfer and exchange. At the option of the Issuer,
payment of interest may be made by check mailed to the Holders
at their addresses set forth in the register of Holders. The
Issuer may appoint one or more co-registrars and one or more
additional paying agents. The term “Registrar”
includes any co-registrar and the term “Paying Agent”
includes any additional paying agent. The Issuer may change any
Paying Agent or Registrar without notice to any Holder. The
Issuer shall notify the Trustee in writing of the name and
address of any Agent not a party to this Indenture. If the
Issuer fails to appoint or maintain another entity as Registrar
or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such. The Issuer, the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries may act as Paying Agent or
Registrar to the extent permitted under applicable laws or
regulations.
The Issuer shall notify the Trustee and the Trustee shall notify
the Holders of the name and address of any Agent not a party to
this Indenture. The Issuer shall enter into an appropriate
agency agreement with any Agent not a party to this Indenture,
which shall incorporate the provisions of the TIA. The agreement
shall implement the provisions of this Indenture and the Notes
that relate to such Agent. The Issuer shall notify the Trustee
of the name and address of any such Agent. If the Issuer fails
to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, or fails to give the
foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as such, and shall be
entitled to appropriate compensation in accordance with
Section 7.7 hereof.
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The Issuer initially appoints Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft
to act as the paying agent (together with its successor in such
capacity, the “Paying Agent”) and the Trustee to act
as the Registrar. If and so long as the Notes are listed on the
Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules
of such stock exchange so require, the Issuer shall appoint BGL
BNP Paribas Société Anonyme, or such other Person
located in Luxembourg and reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
(reasonableness to be determined objectively), as the Luxembourg
paying and transfer agent (together with its successor in such
capacity, the “Luxembourg Paying Agent”).
Section 2.4 Paying
Agent to Hold Assets in Trust. The Issuer shall require
the Paying Agent to agree in writing that such 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, Additional Amounts, if any, premium, if any, or interest on,
the Notes, and shall promptly notify the Trustee of any Default
by the Issuer in making any such payment. The Issuer at any time
may require a Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it
to the Trustee and account for any assets distributed 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
Issuer to the Paying Agent pursuant to this Section 2.4,
the Paying Agent shall have no further liability for such assets.
Section 2.5 List
of Holders. 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 Issuer shall furnish to the Trustee
within two Business Days after each Record Date as of such
Record Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request
in writing a list as of such date and in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of
Holders, which list may be conclusively relied upon by the
Trustee.
Section 2.6 Book-Entry
Provisions for Global Notes. The Global Notes initially
shall (i) be deposited with and registered in the name of
BT Globenet Nominees Limited as nominee for Deutsche Bank
Aktiengesellschaft, as the common depository, for the accounts
of Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V. (“Euroclear”) and
Clearstream Banking, société anonyme
(“Clearstream”) and (ii) bear the following
legend:
THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE OF THE CLEARING AGENCY. THIS
NOTE IS NOT EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE CLEARING AGENCY OR ITS NOMINEE
EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE,
AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS
NOTE AS A WHOLE TO THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE OF THE
CLEARING AGENCY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
(a) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture,
a Global Note may not be transferred as a whole except by the
Clearing Agency to a nominee of the Clearing Agency or by a
nominee of the Clearing Agency to the Clearing Agency or another
successor of the Clearing Agency or a nominee of such successor.
Interests of beneficial owners in the Global Notes may be
transferred or exchanged for Definitive Notes in accordance with
the rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency and the
provisions of Section 2.7. All Global Notes shall be
exchanged by the Issuer (with authentication by the Trustee) for
one or more Definitive Notes, if (a) the Clearing Agency
(i) has notified the Issuer that it is unwilling or unable
to continue as a Clearing Agency and (ii) a successor to
the Clearing Agency has not been appointed by the Issuer within
120 days of such notification, (b) the Clearing Agency
so requests following an Event of Default hereunder or
(c) in whole (but not in part) at any time if the Issuer in
its sole discretion determines. If an Event of Default occurs
and is continuing, the Issuer shall, at the written request
delivered through the a Clearing Agency of the Holder thereof or
of the holder of an interest therein, exchange all or part of a
Global Note for one or more Definitive Notes (with
authentication by the Trustee); provided, however,
that the principal amount of such Definitive Notes and such
Global Note after such exchange shall be €1,000 or integral
multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof. Whenever all of a
Global Note is exchanged for one or more Definitive Notes, it
shall be surrendered by the Holder thereof to the Registrar for
cancellation. Whenever a part of a Global Note is exchanged for
one
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or more Definitive Notes, the Global Note shall be surrendered
by the Holder thereof to the Paying Agent who together with the
Trustee, following such surrender, shall cause an adjustment to
be made to Schedule A of such Global Note such that the
principal amount of such Global Note will be equal to the
portion of such Global Note not exchanged and shall thereafter
return such Global Note to such Holder. A Global Note may not be
exchanged for a Definitive Note other than as provided in this
Section 2.6(a).
(b) In connection with the transfer of Global Notes as an
entirety to beneficial owners pursuant to Section 2.6(a),
the Global Notes shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Paying
Agent for cancellation, and the Issuer shall execute, and the
Trustee shall upon written instructions from the Issuer
authenticate and make available for delivery, to each beneficial
owner in exchange for its beneficial interest in the Global
Notes, an equal aggregate principal amount of Definitive Notes
of authorized denominations.
(c) Any Definitive Note delivered in exchange for an
interest in a Global Note pursuant to Section 2.6(a) shall,
except as otherwise provided by Section 2.7, bear the
Private Placement Legend.
Section 2.7 Registration
of Transfer and Exchange. Notwithstanding any provision
to the contrary herein, so long as a Note remains outstanding,
transfers of beneficial interests in Global Notes or transfers
of Definitive Notes, in whole or in part, shall be made only in
accordance with this Section 2.7.
(a) If a holder of a beneficial interest in the
Rule 144A Global Note wishes at any time to exchange its
interest in such Rule 144A Global Note for an interest in
the Regulation S Global Note, or to transfer its interest
in such Rule 144A Global Note to a Person who wishes to
take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in such
Regulation S Global Note, such holder may, subject to the
rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency, to the extent
applicable, and to the requirements set forth in this
Section 2.7(a), exchange or cause the exchange or transfer
or cause the transfer of such interest for an equivalent
beneficial interest in such Regulation S Global Note. Such
exchange or transfer shall only be made upon receipt by the
Paying Agent, as transfer agent, at its office in Frankfurt,
Germany or, so long as the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF
Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of that
exchange so require, upon receipt by the Luxembourg Paying
Agent, as transfer agent, at its office in Luxembourg of
(1) written instructions given in accordance with the
procedures of the Clearing Agency, to the extent applicable,
from or on behalf of a holder of a beneficial interest in the
Rule 144A Global Note directing the Paying Agent, as
transfer agent, to credit or cause to be credited a beneficial
interest in the Regulation S Global Note in an amount equal
to the beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note to
be exchanged or transferred, (2) a written order given in
accordance with the procedures of the Clearing Agency, to the
extent applicable, containing information regarding the account
to be credited with such increase and the name of such account,
and (3) a certificate in the form
of Exhibit D given by the holder of such
beneficial interest stating that the exchange or transfer of
such interest has been made pursuant to and in accordance with
Rule 903 or Rule 904 of Regulation S or
Rule 144 under the Securities Act. Upon such receipt, the
Paying Agent, as transfer agent, shall promptly deliver
instructions to the Clearing Agency, to reduce or reflect on its
records a reduction of the Rule 144A Global Note by the
aggregate principal amount of the beneficial interest in such
Rule 144A Global Note to be so exchanged or transferred
from the relevant participant, and the Paying Agent, as transfer
agent, shall promptly deliver instructions to the Clearing
Agency concurrently with such reduction, to increase or reflect
on its records an increase of the principal amount of such
Regulation S Global Note by the aggregate principal amount
of the beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Global Note to
be so exchanged or transferred, and to credit or cause to be
credited to the account of the Person specified in such
instructions of a beneficial interest in such Regulation S
Global Note equal to the reduction in the principal amount of
such Rule 144A Global Note. The Clearing Agency will
promptly notify the Trustee of any increases or decreases in the
amount of each Global Note.
(b) If a holder of a beneficial interest in the
Regulation S Global Note wishes at any time to exchange its
interest in such Regulation S Global Note for an interest
in the Rule 144A Global Note, or to transfer its interest
in such Regulation S Global Note to a Person who wishes to
take delivery thereof in the form of an interest in such
Rule 144A Global Note, such holder may, subject to the
rules and procedures of the Clearing Agency, to the extent
applicable, and to the requirements set forth in this
Section 2.7(b), exchange or cause the exchange or transfer
or cause the transfer of such interest for an equivalent
beneficial interest in such Rule 144A Global Note. Such
exchange or transfer shall only be made upon receipt by the
Paying Agent, as transfer agent, at its office in
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Frankfurt, Germany or, so long as the Notes are listed on the
Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules
of that exchange so require, upon receipt by the Luxembourg
Paying Agent, as transfer agent, at its office in Luxembourg of
(l) instructions given in accordance with the procedures of
the Clearing Agency, to the extent applicable, from or on behalf
of a beneficial owner of an interest in the Regulation S
Global Note directing the Paying Agent, as transfer agent, to
credit or cause to be credited a beneficial interest in the
Rule 144A Global Note in an amount equal to the beneficial
interest in the Regulation S Global Note to be exchanged or
transferred, (2) a written order given in accordance with
the procedures of the Clearing Agency, to the extent applicable,
containing information regarding the account to be credited with
such increase and the name of such account, and (3) prior
to or on the 40th day after the later of the commencement
of the offering of the Notes and the relevant Issue Date (the
“Restricted Period”), a certificate in the form
of Exhibit E given by the holder of such
beneficial interest and stating that the Person transferring
such interest in such Regulation S Note reasonably believes
that the Person acquiring such interest in such Rule 144A
Note is a Qualified Institutional Buyer (as defined in
Rule 144A) and is obtaining such beneficial interest in a
transaction meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and any
applicable securities laws of any state of the United States or
any other jurisdiction. Upon such receipt, the Paying Agent, as
transfer agent, shall promptly deliver instructions to the
Clearing Agency to reduce or reflect on its records a reduction
of the Regulation S Global Note by the aggregate principal
amount of the beneficial interest in such Regulation S
Global Note to be exchanged or transferred, and the Paying
Agent, as transfer agent, shall promptly deliver instructions to
the Clearing Agency concurrently with such reduction, to
increase or reflect on its records an increase of the principal
amount of such Rule 144A Global Note by the aggregate
principal amount of the beneficial interest in such
Regulation S Global Note to be so exchanged or transferred,
and to credit or cause to be credited to the account of the
Person specified in such instructions a beneficial interest in
such Rule 144A Global Note equal to the reduction in the
principal amount of such Regulation S Global Note. After
the expiration of the Restricted Period, the certification
requirement set forth in clause (3) of the second sentence
of this Section 2.7(b) will no longer apply to such
transfers. The Clearing Agency will promptly notify the Trustee
of any increases or decreases in the amount of each Global Note.
(c) Any beneficial interest in one of the Global Notes that
is transferred to a Person who takes delivery in the form of an
interest in another Global Note will, upon transfer, cease to be
an interest in such Global Note and become an interest in the
other Global Note and, accordingly, will thereafter be subject
to all transfer restrictions and other procedures applicable to
beneficial interests in such other Global Note for as long as it
remains such an interest.
(d) In the event that a Global Note is exchanged for
Definitive Notes in registered form without interest coupons,
pursuant to Section 2.6(a), or a Definitive Note in
registered form without interest coupons is exchanged for
another such Definitive Note in registered form without interest
coupons, or a Definitive Note is exchanged for a beneficial
interest in a Global Note, such Notes may be exchanged or
transferred for one another only in accordance with such
procedures as are substantially consistent with the provisions
of Sections 2.7(b) and (c) above (including the
certification requirements intended to ensure that such
exchanges or transfers comply with Rule 144, Rule 144A
or Regulation S, as the case may be) and as may be from
time to time adopted by the Issuer and the Trustee.
(e) Prior to the expiration of the Restricted Period,
beneficial interests in the Regulation S Global Note may
only be exchanged or transferred in accordance with the
certification requirements hereof.
(f) (i) Other than in the case of Notes issued
pursuant to a registration statement which has been declared
effective under the Securities Act, each Note issued hereunder
shall, upon issuance, bear the legend set forth in
clause (ii) below (the “Private Placement
Legend”) and such legend shall not be removed from such
Note except as provided in the next sentence. The legend on a
Note may be removed from a Note if there is delivered to the
Issuer and the Trustee such satisfactory evidence, which may
include an opinion of independent counsel licensed to practice
law in the State of
New York, as may be reasonably required by
the Issuer and the Trustee, that neither such legend nor the
restrictions on transfer set forth therein are required to
ensure that transfers of such Note will not violate the
registration requirements of the Securities Act, and the Issuer
and the Trustee consent to such removal. Upon provision of such
satisfactory evidence, the Trustee, at the written direction of
the Issuer, shall authenticate and deliver in exchange for such
Note another Note or Notes having an equal aggregate principal
amount that does
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not bear such legend. If such a legend required for a Note has
been removed from a Note as provided above, no other Note issued
in exchange for all or any part of such Note shall bear such
legend, unless the Issuer has reasonable cause to believe that
such other Note is a “restricted security” within the
meaning of Rule 144 and instructs the Trustee to cause a
legend to appear thereon.
(ii) To the extent required by paragraph (f)(i) above, the
Notes shall bear the following legend on the face thereof:
“THE SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS
ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION
UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THE
SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE
EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER MAY BE
RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A
THEREUNDER. THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT (A) SUCH SECURITY MAY BE
RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (1)(a) INSIDE THE
UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER 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 IN A TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT, (b) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A FOREIGN PERSON IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 903 OR
RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(c) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF
APPLICABLE) OR (d) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE
TO THE ISSUER IF THE ISSUER SO REQUESTS), (2) TO THE ISSUER
OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND,
IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT
HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN CLAUSE
(A) ABOVE. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR
RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.”
(g) By its acceptance of any Note bearing the Private
Placement Legend, each Holder of such a Note acknowledges the
restrictions on transfer of such Note set forth in this
Indenture and in the Private Placement Legend and agrees that it
will transfer such Note only as provided in this Indenture.
Neither the Trustee nor the Paying Agent shall have any
obligation or duty to monitor, and shall not be liable for any
failure to, determine or inquire as to compliance with any
restrictions on transfer imposed under this Indenture or under
applicable law with respect to any transfer of any interest in
any Note (including any transfers between or among Agent Members
or beneficial owners of interest in any Global Note) other than
to require delivery of such certificates and other documentation
or evidence as are expressly required by, and to do so if and
when expressly required by the terms of, this Indenture, and to
examine the same to determine substantial compliance as to form
with the express requirements hereof.
The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and
other written communications received pursuant to
Section 2.6 or this Section 2.7. The Issuer shall have
the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters,
notices or other written communications at any reasonable time
upon the giving of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.
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(h) Definitive Notes shall be transferable only upon the
surrender of a Definitive Note for registration of transfer.
When a Definitive Note is presented to the Registrar or a
co-registrar with a request to register a transfer, the
Registrar shall register the transfer as requested if its
requirements for such transfers are met. When Definitive Notes
are presented to the Registrar or a co-registrar with a request
to exchange them for an equal principal amount of Definitive
Notes of other denominations, the Registrar shall make the
exchange as requested if the same requirements are met. When a
Definitive Note is presented to the Registrar with a request to
transfer in part, the transferor shall be entitled to receive
without charge a Definitive Note representing the balance of
such Definitive Note not transferred. To permit registration of
transfers and exchanges, the Issuer shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Notes at the
Registrar’s or co-registrar’s request.
(i) The Issuer shall not be required to make, and the
Registrar need not register transfers or exchanges of,
Definitive Notes (i) for a period of 15 calendar days prior
to any date fixed for the redemption of the Notes, (ii) for
a period of 15 calendar days immediately prior to the date fixed
for selection of Notes to be redeemed in part, (iii) for a
payment period of 15 calendar days prior to any Record Date, or
(iv) that the registered Holder of Notes has tendered (and
not withdrawn) for repurchase in connection with a Change of
Control.
(j) Prior to the due presentation for registration of
transfer of any Definitive Note, the Issuer, the Guarantors, the
Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any co-registrar may
deem and treat the Person in whose name a Definitive Note is
registered as the absolute owner of such Definitive Note for the
purpose of receiving payment of principal, interest or
Additional Amounts, if any, on such Definitive Note and for all
other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Definitive Note
is overdue, and none of the Issuer, the Guarantors, the Trustee,
the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any co-registrar shall be
affected by notice to the contrary.
(k) The Issuer may require payment of a sum sufficient to
pay all taxes, assessments or other governmental charges in
connection with any transfer or exchange pursuant to this
Section 2.7.
(l) All Notes issued upon any transfer or exchange pursuant
to the terms of this Indenture will evidence the same debt and
will be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as
the Notes surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
(m) Holders of Notes (or holders of interests therein)
initially offered or sold in the United States to
“Qualified Institutional Buyers” as defined in
Rule 144A under the Securities Act pursuant to such rule
and prospective purchasers designated by such Holders (or
holders of interests therein) will have the right to obtain from
the Issuer upon request by such Holders (or holders of interests
therein) or prospective purchasers, during any period in which
the Issuer is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act, or not exempt from reporting pursuant to
Rule 12g3-2(b)
under the Exchange Act, the information required by paragraph
d(4)(i) of Rule 144A in connection with any transfer or
proposed transfer of such Notes.
Section 2.8 Replacement
Notes. If a mutilated Definitive Note is surrendered to
the Registrar, if a mutilated Global Note is surrendered to the
Issuer or if the Holder of a Note claims that such Note has been
lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Issuer shall issue and
the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note in such form
as the Note being replaced in the manner specified in this
Section 2.8. If required by the Trustee, the Registrar or
the Issuer, such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other
indemnity, sufficient in the judgment of the Issuer, the
Registrar and the Trustee, to protect the Issuer, the Registrar,
the Trustee and any Agent from any loss which any of them may
suffer if a Note is replaced. The Issuer may charge such Holder
for its reasonable out of-pocket expenses in replacing a Note,
including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel. Every
replacement Note is an additional obligation of the Issuer. The
provisions of this Section 2.8 are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies
with respect to the replacement of mutilated, destroyed, lost,
stolen or taken Notes.
Section 2.9 Outstanding
Notes. Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes
that have been authenticated by the Trustee except those
canceled by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those
reductions in the Global Note effected in accordance with the
provisions hereof and those described in this Section 2.9
as not outstanding. Subject to Section 2.10, a Note does
not cease to be outstanding because the Issuer or any of its
Affiliates holds the Note.
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If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.8 (other than a
mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be
outstanding unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to
it, and upon which it shall be entitled to rely in accordance
with Section 7.1(a), that the replaced Note is held by a
bona fide purchaser. A mutilated Note ceases to be
outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement thereof
pursuant to Section 2.8.
If the principal amount of any Note is considered paid under
Section 4.1 hereof, it ceases to be outstanding and
interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on it cease to accrue.
If on a Redemption Date or the Maturity Date the Paying
Agent holds cash sufficient to pay all of the principal and
interest due on the Notes payable on that date, then on and
after that date such Notes cease to be outstanding and interest
and Additional Amounts, if any, on such Notes cease to accrue.
Section 2.10 Treasury
Notes. In determining whether the Holders of the
required principal amount of Notes have concurred in any
direction, waiver or consent, Notes owned by the Issuer, the
Guarantors or any of their Affiliates shall be disregarded,
except that, for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or
consent, only Notes that a Trust Officer actually knows are
so owned shall be disregarded and the Trustee assumes no
liability in relation to any other Notes.
The Issuer shall notify the Trustee, in writing, when it or any
Guarantor or any of their Affiliates repurchases or otherwise
acquires Notes, of the aggregate principal amount of such Notes
so repurchased or otherwise acquired. The Trustee may require an
Officers’ Certificate, which shall promptly be provided
upon receipt by the appropriate Responsible Officers of the
requisite information, listing Notes owned by the Issuer, the
Guarantors a Subsidiary of the Issuer or the Guarantors or an
Affiliate of the Issuer or the Guarantors.
Section 2.11 Temporary
Notes. Until permanent Definitive Notes are ready for
delivery, the Issuer may prepare and the Trustee shall
authenticate temporary Definitive Notes upon receipt of an
Issuer Order pursuant to Section 2.2. The Officers’
Certificate shall specify the amount of temporary Definitive
Notes to be authenticated and the date on which the temporary
Definitive Notes are to be authenticated. Temporary Definitive
Notes shall be substantially in the form of permanent Definitive
Notes but may have variations that the Issuer considers
appropriate for temporary Definitive Notes. Without unreasonable
delay, the Issuer shall prepare and the Trustee shall
authenticate upon receipt of an Issuer Order pursuant to
Section 2.2 permanent Definitive Notes in exchange for
temporary Definitive Notes.
Section 2.12 Cancellation. The
Issuer at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent shall promptly
forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for
transfer, exchange or payment. The Trustee or, at the direction
of the Trustee, the Registrar or the Paying Agent, and no one
else, shall cancel and, at the written direction of the Issuer,
shall dispose of (subject to the record retention requirements
of the Exchange Act) all Notes surrendered for transfer,
exchange, payment or cancellation. Upon completion of any
disposal, the Trustee shall deliver a certificate of such
disposal to the Issuer, unless the Issuer directs the Trustee in
writing to deliver the cancelled Notes to the Issuer or the
Company. Subject to Section 2.8, the Issuer may not issue
new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation. If the Issuer shall acquire any of the
Notes, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or
satisfaction of the Indebtedness represented by such Notes
unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.12.
Section 2.13 Defaulted
Interest. If the Issuer defaults in a payment of
interest on the Notes, it shall pay the defaulted interest, plus
(to the extent lawful) any interest payable on the defaulted
interest, to the Holder thereof on a subsequent special record
date, which date shall be the fifteenth day next preceding the
date fixed by the Issuer for the payment of defaulted interest.
The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee and Paying Agent in
writing of the amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid
on each Note and the date of the proposed payment (a
“Default Interest Payment Date”), and at the same time
the Issuer shall deposit with the Trustee or Paying Agent an
amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be
paid in respect of such defaulted interest or shall make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee or Paying Agent for
such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such defaulted interest as in this
Section 2.13; provided, however, that in no
event shall the Issuer deposit monies proposed to be paid in
respect of
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defaulted interest later than 10:00 a.m. Frankfurt
time on the proposed Default Interest Payment Date with respect
to defaulted interest to be paid on the Note. At least
15 days before the subsequent special record date, the
Issuer shall mail to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, a
notice that states the subsequent special record date, the
payment date and the amount of defaulted interest, and interest
payable on such defaulted interest, if any, to be paid.
Section 2.14 ISINs
and Common Codes. The Issuer in issuing the Notes may
use ISINs
and/or
Common Codes, and if it does so, the Trustee shall use the ISIN
and/or
Common Code in notices of redemption or exchange as a
convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may
state that no representation is made as to the correctness or
accuracy of the ISIN
and/or
Common Code printed in the notice or on the Notes and that
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed on the Notes. The Issuer shall promptly notify the
Trustee of any changes in any ISINs
and/or
Common Codes.
Section 2.15 Deposit
of Moneys. Prior to 10:00 a.m. Frankfurt time
on each interest payment date and Maturity Date, the Issuer
shall have deposited with the Trustee or the Paying Agent (which
shall be the Paying Agent or its successor) in immediately
available funds money sufficient to make cash payments, if any,
due on such interest payment date or Maturity Date, as the case
may be, on all Notes then outstanding. Such payments shall be
made by the Issuer in a timely manner which permits the Paying
Agent to remit payment to the Holders on such interest payment
date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. Promptly upon receipt
of such payment, the Paying Agent shall confirm by the medium
chosen by the Paying Agent to the Issuer the receipt of such
payment.
Section 2.16 Certain
Matters Relating to Global Notes. Members of or
participants in a Clearing Agency (“Agent Members”)
shall have no rights under this Indenture or any Global Note
with respect to any Global Note held on their behalf by the
Clearing Agency or its nominee, and the Clearing Agency or its
nominee may be treated by the Issuer, the Guarantors, the
Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar and any agent of the
Issuer or the Guarantors as the absolute owner of the Global
Note for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing herein shall prevent the Issuer, the Guarantors, the
Trustee or any agent of the Issuer or the Guarantors from giving
effect to any written certification, proxy or other
authorization furnished by the Clearing Agency or its nominee or
impair, as between the Clearing Agency and its Agent Members,
the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of
the rights of a Holder of any Note.
(a) The Holder of any Global Note may grant proxies and
otherwise authorize any Person, including Euroclear and
Clearstream and their Agent Members and Persons that may hold
interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a
Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
Section 2.17 Record
Date. Unless otherwise set forth in this Indenture, the
record date for purposes of determining the identity of Holders
entitled to vote or consent to any action by vote or consent
authorized or permitted under this Indenture shall be determined
as provided for in TIA § 316(c).
ARTICLE III
REDEMPTION
Section 3.1 Optional
Redemption. The Issuer may redeem all or, from time to
time, a part of the Notes, at its option, at a redemption price
equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes plus accrued
interest to the redemption date, plus the excess of:
(a) as determined by the calculation agent (which shall
initially be the Trustee), the sum of the present values of the
remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the
Notes being redeemed not including any portion of such payment
of interest accrued on the date of redemption, from the
redemption date to the maturity date, discounted to the
redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a
360-day year
consisting of twelve
30-day
months) at the Bund Rate plus 50 basis points; over
(b) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being
redeemed.
The Company shall certify to the Trustee the applicable Bund
Rate at the time of any such redemption.
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Section 3.2 Notices
to Trustee. If the Issuer elects to redeem Notes
pursuant to Paragraphs 8 or 9 of such Notes, it shall
notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of the
Redemption Date and the principal amount of Notes to be
redeemed at least 15 days prior to the giving of the notice
contemplated by Section 3.4 (or such shorter period as the
Trustee in its sole discretion shall determine). The Issuer
shall give notice of redemption as required under the relevant
paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which such Notes are being
redeemed.
Section 3.3 Selection
of Notes To Be Redeemed. If less than all of the Notes
are to be redeemed at any time, selection of such Notes for
redemption will be made by the Trustee in compliance with the
requirements of the principal securities exchange, if any, on
which such Notes are listed, or if such Notes are not so listed,
by lot, on a pro rata basis, or by such other method as
the Trustee in its sole discretion shall deem fair and
appropriate (and in such manner as complies with applicable
legal and exchange requirements); provided,
however, that no Note of €1,000 in aggregate
principal amount or less shall be redeemed in part. If any Note
is to be redeemed in part only, the Trustee shall notify the
Issuer promptly of the portion of the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed. A new Note in principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion thereof will be issued and delivered to the
Trustee, or in the case of Definitive Notes, issued in the name
of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Note.
The selections made by the Trustee pursuant to this
Section 3.3 shall always be subject to Section 7.2(d).
Section 3.4 Notice
of Redemption. At least 30 days but not more than
60 days before a Redemption Date or a Tax
Redemption Date, as applicable, the Issuer shall, so long
as the Notes are in global form and are listed on the Euro MTF
Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such
stock exchange shall so require, publish in a newspaper having a
general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be the
Luxemburger Wort) or, to the extent and in the manner
permitted by such rules, posted on the official website of the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx) and notify the
Holders, the Trustee and the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, if
applicable, or in the case of Definitive Notes, in addition to
such publication, mail to Holders (with a copy to the Trustee)
by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at their respective
addresses as they appear on the registration books of the
Registrar. At the Issuer’s request made at least
45 days before the Redemption Date or a Tax
Redemption Date, as applicable (or such shorter period as
the Trustee in its sole discretion shall determine), the Paying
Agent shall give the notice of redemption in the Issuer’s
name and at the Issuer’s expense; provided,
however, that the Issuer shall deliver to the Trustee (in
advance) an Officers’ Certificate requesting that the
Trustee give such notice and setting forth in full the
information to be stated in such notice as provided in the
following items. Each notice for redemption shall identify the
Notes to be redeemed and shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date or the Tax
Redemption Date, as applicable;
(b) the Redemption Prices and the amount of accrued
and unpaid interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, to
be paid (subject to the right of Holders of record on the
relevant Record Date to receive interest and Additional Amounts,
if any, due on the relevant interest payment date);
(c) the name and address of the designated Paying Agent;
(d) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to
the designated Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price
plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, and Additional
Amounts, if any;
(e) that, unless the Issuer defaults in making the
redemption payment pursuant to the terms of this Indenture,
interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on Notes called for
redemption cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date
or the Tax Redemption Date, as applicable, and the only
remaining right of the Holders of such Notes is to receive
payment of the Redemption Price upon surrender to the
Paying Agent of the Notes redeemed;
(f) (i) if any Global Note is being redeemed in part,
the portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed
and that, after the Redemption Date, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, shall cease to accrue on the portion
called for redemption, and upon surrender of such Global Note
(if applicable), the Global Note with a notation on
Schedule A thereof adjusting the principal amount thereof
to be equal to the unredeemed portion, will be returned and
(ii) if any Definitive Note is being redeemed in part, the
portion of the principal amount of such Note to be redeemed, and
that, after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such
Definitive
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Note, a new Definitive Note or Notes in aggregate principal
amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued in
the name of the Holder thereof, upon cancellation of the
original Note;
(g) if fewer than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the
identification of the particular Notes (or portion thereof) to
be redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of Notes
to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be
outstanding after such partial redemption;
(h) the paragraph of the Notes pursuant to which the Notes
are to be redeemed; and
(i) the ISIN
and/or
Common Code, and that no representation is made as to the
correctness or accuracy of the ISIN
and/or
Common Code, if any, listed in such notice or printed on the
Notes.
Prior to the giving of any notice of redemption pursuant to
Paragraph 9 of the Notes, the Issuer will deliver to the
Trustee (a) an Officers’ Certificate of the Issuer
stating that the Issuer is entitled to effect such redemption
and setting forth a statement of facts showing that the
conditions precedent to the right of the Issuer so to redeem
have occurred and (b) an Opinion of Counsel qualified under
the laws of the relevant jurisdiction to the effect that the
Issuer has or will become obligated to pay such Additional
Amounts as a result of a change in Tax law, and that the Issuer
cannot avoid such obligation by taking reasonable measures
available to it.
Section 3.5 Effect
of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of redemption is
given in accordance with Section 3.4, Notes called for
redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date or
the Tax Redemption Date, as applicable, and at the
Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any,
and Additional Amounts, if any. Upon surrender to the Trustee or
Paying Agent, such Notes called for redemption shall be paid at
the Redemption Price (which shall include accrued and
unpaid interest thereon, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any,
to the Redemption Date or Tax Redemption Date, as
applicable), but installments of interest, the maturity of which
is on or prior to the Redemption Date or the Tax
Redemption Date, as applicable, shall be payable to Holders
of record at the close of business on the relevant Record Dates.
Section 3.6 Deposit
of Redemption Price. Prior to
10:00 a.m. Frankfurt time on the Redemption Date
or the Tax Redemption Date, as applicable, the Issuer shall
deposit with the Trustee or the Paying Agent (which shall be the
Paying Agent or its successor) euro in
same-day
funds sufficient to pay the Redemption Price plus accrued
and unpaid interest (subject to, as provided in the Notes, the
right of Holders to receive interest on the relevant interest
payment date), if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, of all
Notes to be redeemed on that date other than Notes or portion of
Notes called for redemption that have been delivered by the
Issuer to the Trustee for cancellation. The designated Paying
Agent shall promptly return to the Issuer any cash so deposited
which is not required for that purpose upon the written request
of the Issuer. Promptly upon receipt of such payment the Paying
Agent shall confirm by the medium chosen by the Paying Agent to
the Issuer the receipt of such payment.
If the Issuer complies with the preceding paragraph, then,
unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of such
Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any,
and Additional Amounts, if any, interest and Additional Amounts
on the Notes to be redeemed will cease to accrue on and after
the applicable Redemption Date or Tax Redemption Date,
whether or not such Notes are presented for payment. With
respect to Definitive Notes, if a Definitive Note is redeemed on
or after an interest Record Date but on or prior to the related
interest payment date, then any accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, and Additional Amounts, if any, shall be paid to the Person
in whose name such Note was registered at the close of business
on such Record Date. If any Note called for redemption shall not
be so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure
of the Issuer to comply with the preceding paragraph, interest,
and Additional Amounts, if any, shall be paid on the unpaid
principal, from the Redemption Date or the Tax
Redemption Date, as applicable, until such principal is
paid, and to the extent lawful on any interest not paid on such
unpaid principal, in each case at the rate provided in the Notes
and in Section 4.1.
Section 3.7 Notes
Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender and cancellation of a
Definitive Note that is redeemed in part, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder (at
the Issuer’s expense) a new Definitive Note equal in
principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Definitive
Note surrendered and canceled; provided, however,
that each such Definitive Note shall be in a principal amount at
maturity of €1,000 or integral multiples of €1,000 in
excess thereof. Upon surrender of a Global Note that is redeemed
in part, the Paying
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Agent shall promptly forward such Global Note to the Trustee who
shall make a notation on Schedule A thereof to reduce the
principal amount of such Global Note to an amount equal to the
unredeemed portion of the Global Note surrendered;
provided, however, that each such Global Note
shall be in a principal amount at maturity of €1,000 or
integral multiples of €1,000 in excess thereof.
Section 3.8 Special
Tax Redemption. The Issuer is entitled to redeem the
Notes, at its option, at any time in whole but not in part, upon
not less than 30 nor more than 60 days’ notice, at
100% of the principal amount of the Notes, plus accrued and
unpaid interest (if any) to the date of redemption (subject to
the right of holders of record on the relevant record date to
receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in
the event the Issuer has become or would become obligated to
pay, on the next date on which any amount would be payable with
respect to the Notes, any additional amounts as a result of:
(a) a change in or an amendment to the laws, treaties,
regulations or rulings of any Relevant Taxing
Jurisdiction; or
(b) any change in or amendment to any official position
regarding the application, administration or interpretation of
such laws, treaties, regulations or rulings (including by virtue
of a holding, judgment or order by a court of competent
jurisdiction);
which change or amendment to such laws or official position is
announced and becomes effective on or after the date of issuance
of the Notes; provided that the Issuer determines, in its
reasonable judgment, that the obligation to pay such additional
amounts cannot be avoided by the use of reasonable measures
available to it; provided, further, that at the
time such notice is given, such obligation to pay Additional
Amounts remains in effect.
Notice of any such redemption must be given within 270 days
of the earlier of the announcement or effectiveness of any such
change.
ARTICLE IV
COVENANTS
Section 4.1 Payment
of Notes.
(a) The Issuer shall pay the principal, premium, if any,
interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes in the
manner provided in such Notes and this Indenture. An installment
of principal of or interest, premium or Additional Amounts on
the Notes shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the
Trustee or Paying Agent holds prior to
10:00 a.m. Frankfurt time on that date money deposited
by the Issuer in immediately available funds and designated for,
and sufficient to pay the installment in full and is not
prohibited from paying such money to the Holders pursuant to the
terms of this Indenture.
(b) The Issuer shall pay, to the extent such payments are
lawful, interest (including post-petition interest in any
proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law) on overdue principal and on
overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace periods), on any Additional Amounts, from time
to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes. Interest will
be computed on the basis of a
360-day year
comprised of twelve
30-day
months.
Section 4.2 Maintenance
of Office or Agency. The Issuer shall maintain the
office or agency (which office may be an office of the Trustee
or an affiliate of the Trustee, Registrar or co-Registrar)
required under Section 2.3 where Notes may be surrendered
for registration of transfer or for exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Issuer in respect of the Notes and
this Indenture may be served. The Issuer 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
Issuer 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 11.1. The Issuer hereby initially designates the
office of the Trustee, acting through its office of 000 Xxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000, as its office
or agency as required under Section 2.3 hereof. If the
Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock
Exchange and the rules of such exchange so require, the Issuer
will appoint BGL BNP Paribas Société Anonyme, or such
other Person located in Luxembourg
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and reasonably acceptable to the Trustee (reasonableness to be
determined objectively), as an additional paying and transfer
agent.
Section 4.3 Limitation
on Incurrence of Indebtedness.
(a) The Issuer and the Company shall not, and shall not
permit any of their Subsidiaries to, Incur, directly or
indirectly, any Indebtedness; provided, however,
that the Company and any Subsidiary may Incur Indebtedness
(and the Company and any Subsidiary may Incur Acquired
Indebtedness) if on the date thereof:
(1) the Consolidated Coverage Ratio of the Company is at
least 2.0 to 1.0; and
(2) no Default or Event of Default will have occurred and
be continuing or would occur as a consequence of Incurring the
Indebtedness.
(b) The foregoing limitations contained in paragraph
(a) do not apply to the Incurrence of any of the following
Indebtedness:
(1) Indebtedness Incurred under the Revolving Credit
Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1.0 billion
outstanding at any time;
(2) Indebtedness in respect of Receivables Financings in an
aggregate principal amount which, together with all other
Indebtedness in respect of Receivables Financings outstanding on
the date of such Incurrence (other than Indebtedness permitted
by paragraph (a) or clause (3) of this paragraph (b)),
does not exceed 85% of the sum of (1) the total amount of
accounts receivables shown on the Company’s most recent
consolidated quarterly balance sheet, plus (2) without
duplication, the total amount of accounts receivable already
subject to a Receivables Financing;
(3) Indebtedness of the Company owed to and held by another
Guarantor, Indebtedness of a Wholly Owned Subsidiary owed to and
held by another Wholly Owned Subsidiary or Indebtedness of a
Wholly Owned Subsidiary owing to and held by the Company;
provided, however, that any subsequent issuance or
transfer of any Capital Stock that results in any such
Indebtedness being held by a Person other than the Company or
another Wholly Owned Subsidiary or any subsequent transfer of
such Indebtedness (other than to the Company or another Wholly
Owned Subsidiary) shall be deemed, in each case, to constitute
the Incurrence of such Indebtedness by the Company or the
Subsidiary, as the case may be;
(4) Indebtedness in respect of the Notes issued on the
Closing Date, and the related Note Guarantees by the Company and
the other Guarantors;
(5) Capital Lease Obligations and Indebtedness Incurred, in
each case, to provide all or a portion of the purchase price or
cost of construction of an asset or, in the case of a Sale and
Leaseback Transaction, to finance the value of such asset owned
by the Company or a Subsidiary;
(6) Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness of the type
covered by clause (1) or clause (2)) outstanding on the
Closing Date after giving effect to the application of proceeds
from the Notes;
(7) Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of Indebtedness
Incurred pursuant to paragraph (a) or pursuant to
clause (4) or (6) of this paragraph (b);
(8) Hedging Obligations entered into in the ordinary course
of the business and not for speculative purposes as determined
in good faith by the Company;
(9) customer deposits and advance payments received from
customers for goods purchased in the ordinary course of business;
(10) Indebtedness arising under the Cash Management
Arrangements; and
(11) Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or a Subsidiary
in an aggregate principal amount which, together with all other
Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries outstanding on
the date of such
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Incurrence (other than Indebtedness permitted by paragraph
(a) or clauses (1) through (10) of this paragraph
(b)), does not exceed $900 million.
(c) For purposes of determining compliance with the
foregoing covenant:
(1) in the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the
criteria of more than one of the types of Indebtedness described
above, the Company, in its sole discretion, will classify and
from time to time may reclassify such item of Indebtedness and
only be required to include the amount and type of such
Indebtedness in one of the above clauses, provided that
any Indebtedness outstanding on the Closing Date and
Indebtedness incurred under clause (b)(5) above may not be
reclassified to clause (a) above; and
(2) an item of Indebtedness may be divided and classified,
or reclassified, in more than one of the types of Indebtedness
described above, provided that any Indebtedness
outstanding on the Closing Date and Indebtedness incurred under
clause (b)(5) above may not be reclassified to clause (a)
above.
(d) If during any period the Notes have achieved and
continue to maintain Investment Grade Status and no Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing (such period is referred
to herein as an “Investment Grade Status Period”),
then upon notice by the Company to the Trustee by the delivery
of an Officers’ Certificate that it has achieved Investment
Grade Status, this covenant will be suspended and will not
during such period be applicable to the Company and its
Subsidiaries and shall only again be applicable if such
Investment Grade Status Period ends.
No action taken during an Investment Grade Status Period or
prior to an Investment Grade Status Period in compliance with
this Section 4.3 will require reversal or constitute a
default under the Notes in the event that this Section 4.3
is subsequently reinstated or suspended, as the case may be.
Section 4.4 Limitation
on Liens. The Issuer and the Company may not, and may
not permit any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries
to directly, or indirectly, create, Incur or suffer to exist any
Lien (other than Permitted Liens) upon any of its property or
assets (including Capital Stock), whether owned on the date
hereof or acquired after that date, securing any Indebtedness,
unless contemporaneously with (or prior to) the Incurrence of
the Liens effective provision is made to secure the Indebtedness
due under this Indenture and the Notes, equally and ratably with
(or prior to in the case of Liens with respect to Subordinated
Obligations) the Indebtedness secured by such Xxxx for so long
as such Indebtedness is so secured.
Section 4.5 Ownership
of the Issuer. The Company will continue to directly or
indirectly maintain 100% ownership of the Capital Stock of the
Issuer or any permitted successor of the Issuer,
provided, that any permitted successor of the Company may
succeed to the Company’s ownership of such Capital Stock.
The Company will cause the Issuer or its successor to engage
only in those activities that are necessary, convenient or
incidental to issuing and selling the Notes and any additional
Indebtedness permitted under Section 4.3 (including the
Issuer’s Guarantee of the Credit Facility and any
Additional Notes), and advancing or distributing the proceeds
thereof to the Company and its Subsidiaries and performing its
obligations relating to the Notes and any such additional
Indebtedness, pursuant to the terms thereof and of this
Indenture and any other applicable indenture.
Section 4.6 Existence. Except
as permitted by Article V, the Company shall do or cause to
be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force
and effect the existence, rights (charter and statutory) and
franchises of the Company, the Issuer and each other Guarantor;
provided, however, that the Company shall not be
required to preserve any such existence, right or franchise if
the Board of Directors of the Company in good faith shall
determine that the preservation thereof is no longer desirable
in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof at the time of such loss is not disadvantageous in any
material respect to the Holders.
Section 4.7 Maintenance
of Properties. Except as permitted by Article V,
the Company shall cause all properties used or useful in the
conduct of its business or the business of any Subsidiary of the
Company to be maintained and kept in good condition, repair and
working order and supplied with all necessary equipment and will
cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals, replacements,
betterments and improvements thereof, all as in the judgment of
the Company may be necessary so that the business carried on in
connection therewith may be properly
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and advantageously conducted at all times; provided,
however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the
Company from discontinuing the operation or maintenance of any
of such properties if such discontinuance is, as determined by
the Company, or its Responsible Officers, or any Subsidiary, or
its Responsible Officers, having managerial responsibility for
any such property, in good faith, desirable in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 4.8 Payment
of Taxes and Other Claims. The Company and the
Guarantors will pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged, before the same shall become delinquent,
(a) all material taxes, assessments and governmental
charges levied or imposed upon the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries or upon the income, profits or property of the
Company or any of its Subsidiaries (including satisfying any
withholding tax obligations), and (b) all material lawful
claims for labor, materials and supplies which, if unpaid, might
by law become a Lien upon the property of the Company or the
Guarantors or any of their Subsidiaries; provided, however,
that the Company or the Guarantors shall not 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 adequate reserves are maintained in
accordance with Accounting Principles.
Section 4.9 Maintenance
of Insurance. The Company shall, and shall cause its
Subsidiaries to, keep at all times all of their material
properties which are of an insurable nature insured against loss
or damage pursuant to self-insurance arrangements with insurers
believed by the Company to be responsible to the extent that
property of similar character is usually so insured by
corporations similarly situated and owning like properties in
accordance with good business practice. The Company shall, and
shall cause its Subsidiaries to, use the proceeds from any such
insurance policy to repair, replace or otherwise restore the
property to which such proceeds relate, except to the extent
that a different use of such proceeds is, as determined by the
Company, or any Subsidiary having managerial responsibility for
any such property, in good faith, desirable in the conduct of
its business or the business of any Subsidiary and not
disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
Section 4.10 Reports. For
so long as any Notes are outstanding, the Company will provide
the Trustee with:
(1) copies of the annual reports and of the information,
documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may
be required by the TIA at the times and in the manner provided
by the TIA;
(2) its annual financial statements and related notes
thereto for the most recent two fiscal years prepared in
accordance with U.S. GAAP (or IFRS or any other
internationally generally acceptable accounting standard in the
event the Company is required by applicable law to prepare its
financial statements in accordance with IFRS or such other
standard or is permitted and elects to do so, with appropriate
reconciliation to U.S. GAAP, unless not then required under
the rules of the SEC) and including segment data, together with
an audit report thereon, together with a discussion of the
“Operating Results” and “Liquidity” for such
fiscal years prepared in a manner substantially consistent with
the “Operating and Financial Review and Prospects”
required by
Form 20-F
under the Exchange Act (or any replacement or successor form)
appearing herein and a “Business Summary of the Financial
Year” and discussion of “Business Segments”
provided in a manner consistent with its annual report, a
description of “Related Party Transactions,” and a
description of Indebtedness, within 90 days of the end of
each fiscal year; and
(3) quarterly financial information as of and for the
period from the beginning of each year to the close of each
quarterly period (other than the fourth quarter), together with
comparable information for the corresponding period of the
preceding year, and a summary “Management’s Discussion
and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations” to the extent and in the form required under
the Exchange Act providing a brief discussion of the results of
operations for the period within 45 days following the end
of the fiscal quarter.
The Company shall also comply with the other provisions of
Section 314(a) of the TIA. In addition, so long as the
Notes remain outstanding and during any period when the Issuer
or the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act other than by virtue of the exemption therefrom
pursuant to
Rule 12g3-2(b),
the Company will furnish to any Holder or beneficial owner of
Notes initially offered and sold in the United States to
“qualified institutional buyers” as defined in
Rule 144A under the Securities Act pursuant to such rule
and any
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prospective purchaser in the United States designated by such
Holder or beneficial owner, upon request, any information
required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under
the Securities Act.
If and so long as the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, copies of such reports shall also
be available at the specified office of the Luxembourg Paying
Agent in Luxembourg.
Deliveries of such reports, information and documents to the
Trustee is for informational purposes only and the
Trustee’s receipt of such shall not constitute constructive
notice of any information contained therein or determinable from
information contained therein, including the Issuer’s, the
Company’s or any Guarantor’s compliance with any of
its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is entitled to
rely exclusively on Officers’ Certificates). The Trustee
shall have no obligation to review such reports to determine if
the information required by this Section 4.10 is contained
therein.
Section 4.11 Change
of Control. Each Holder of the Notes, upon the
occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering Event, will have
the right to require that the Issuer repurchase such
Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to 101%
of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right
of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive
interest due on the relevant interest payment date).
Within 30 days following a Change of Control Triggering
Event, the Issuer will mail a notice to each Holder with a copy
to the Trustee stating:
(1) that a Change of Control Triggering Event has occurred
and that such Holder has the right to require the Issuer to
purchase such Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash
equal to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and
unpaid interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the
right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to
receive interest on the relevant interest payment date);
(2) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such
Change of Control Triggering Event (including information with
respect to pro forma historical income, cash flow and
capitalization after giving effect to such Change of Control
Triggering Event);
(3) the repurchase date (which shall be no earlier than
30 days nor later than 60 days from the date such
notice is mailed);
(4) that each Note will be subject to repurchase only in
integral multiples of €1,000; and
(5) the instructions determined by the Issuer, consistent
with the covenant described hereunder, that a Holder must follow
in order to have its Notes purchased.
(6) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue
interest;
(7) that, unless the Issuer defaults in the payment of the
Change of Control purchase price, any Notes accepted for payment
shall cease to accrue interest after the repurchase date;
(8) that Holders accepting the offer to have their Notes
repurchased pursuant to a change of control offer will be
required to surrender the Notes to the Paying Agent or any other
Agent specified in the notice at the address specified in the
notice prior to the close of business on the Business Day
preceding the repurchase date;
(9) that Holders whose Notes are being purchased only in
part will be issued new Notes equal in principal amount to the
unpurchased portion of the Notes surrendered;
(10) any other procedures that a holder must follow to
accept a change of control offer or effect withdrawal of such
acceptance; and
(11) the name and address of the Paying Agent.
On the repurchase date, the Issuer shall, to the extent lawful:
(1) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof validly
tendered pursuant to the change of control offer;
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(2) deposit with the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay
the Change of Control purchase price in respect of all Notes or
portions thereof so tendered; and
(3) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee Notes
so accepted together with an Officers’ Certificate stating
the Notes or portions thereof tendered to the Issuer.
The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to each Holder of Notes so
accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price for
such Notes, and the Issuer shall execute and issue, and the
Trustee shall promptly authenticate and mail to such Holder, a
new Note equal in principal amount to any unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered; provided that each such new Note shall be
issued in an original principal amount in denominations of
€1,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess
thereof.
The Issuer will comply, to the extent applicable, with the
requirements of Section 14(e) of the Exchange Act and any
other securities laws or regulations in connection with the
repurchase of Notes pursuant to this Section 4.11. To the
extent that the provisions of any securities laws or regulations
or applicable listing requirements conflict with the provisions
of this Section 4.11, the Issuer will comply with the
applicable securities laws and regulations and will not be
deemed to have breached its obligations under this
Section 4.11 by virtue thereof.
Section 4.12 Additional
Amounts. At least 30 days prior to each date on
which payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest on the
Notes is to be made (unless such obligation to pay Additional
Amounts arises shortly before or after the 30th day prior
to such date, in which case it shall be promptly thereafter), if
the Issuer will be obligated to pay Additional Amounts pursuant
to Paragraph 2 of the Notes (the “Additional
Amounts”) with respect to any such payment, the Issuer will
promptly furnish the Trustee and the Paying Agent, if other than
the Trustee, with an Officers’ Certificate stating that
such Additional Amounts will be payable and the amounts so
payable, and will set forth such other information necessary to
enable the Trustee or the Paying Agent to pay such Additional
Amounts to the Holders on the payment date. The Issuer will pay
to the Trustee or the Paying Agent such Additional Amounts and,
if paid to a Paying Agent other than the Trustee, shall promptly
provide the Trustee with documentation evidencing the payment of
such Additional Amounts. Copies of such documentation shall be
made available to the Holders upon request. The Issuer shall
indemnify the Trustee and the Paying Agent for, and hold them
harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or willful misconduct on their part arising
out of or in connection with actions taken or omitted by any of
them in reliance on any Officers’ Certificate furnished to
them pursuant to this Section 4.12.
The Issuer will (i) make any required withholding or
deduction and (ii) remit the full amount deducted or
withheld to the Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction in accordance with
applicable law. The Issuer will use all reasonable efforts to
obtain certified copies of tax receipts evidencing the payment
of any Taxes so deducted or withheld from each Relevant Taxing
Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes and will provide such certified
copy to the Trustee.
If the Issuer or the Guarantors conduct business in any
jurisdiction (an “Additional Taxing Jurisdiction”)
other than a Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction and, as a result, are
required by the law of such Additional Taxing Jurisdiction to
deduct or withhold any amount on account of taxes imposed by
such Additional Taxing Jurisdiction from payments under the
Notes which would not have been required to be so deducted or
withheld but for such conduct of business in such Additional
Taxing Jurisdiction, the Additional Amounts provision described
above shall be considered to apply to such Holders as if
references in such provision to “Taxes” included taxes
imposed by way of deduction or withholding by any such
Additional Taxing Jurisdiction (or any political subdivision
thereof or taxing authority therein).
The Issuer will pay any present stamp, court or documentary
taxes, or any other excise, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including any penalties, interest or other
liabilities related thereto) which arise in Luxembourg (or any
political subdivision thereof or therein) from the execution,
delivery and registration of Notes upon original issuance and
initial resale of the Notes or any other document or instrument
referred to therein. If at any time the Issuer changes its place
of organization to outside of Luxembourg or there is a new
issuer organized outside of Luxembourg, the Issuer or new
issuer, as applicable, will pay any stamp, court or documentary
taxes, or any other excise, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including any penalties, interest or other
liabilities related thereto) which arise in the jurisdiction in
which the Issuer or new issuer is organized (or any
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political subdivision thereof or therein) and are payable by the
Holders of the Notes in respect of the Notes or any other
document or instrument referred to therein under any law, rule
or regulation in effect at the time of such change, or in
connection with, the enforcement of the Notes or any such other
document or instrument.
The foregoing obligations of this Section 4.12 will survive
any termination, defeasance or discharge of this Indenture and
will apply mutatis mutandis to any successor Person to
the Issuer or the Guarantors.
Whenever in this Indenture or in the Notes there is mentioned,
in any context, the payment of principal, premium or interest,
if any, or any other amount payable under or with respect to any
Note, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the
payment of Additional Amounts to the extent that, in such
context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in
respect thereof.
Section 4.13 Compliance
Certificate; Notice of Default. The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 90 days after the end of
each fiscal year an Officers’ Certificate stating whether
or not to the best knowledge of the xxxxxx thereof, the Issuer
and the Guarantors, as the case may be, have complied with all
conditions and covenants under this Indenture, whether a Default
or an Event of Default has occurred during such period, and, if
a Default or an Event of Default has occurred during such
period, specifying all such Events of Default and the nature
thereof of which such Responsible Officer has knowledge. Upon
becoming aware of, and as of such time that the Issuer should
reasonably have become aware of, a Default, the Company also
shall deliver to the Trustee, within 30 days thereafter,
written notice of any events which would constitute a Default,
their status and what action the Issuer is taking or proposes to
take in respect thereof, and, in the case of a Default in the
payment of interest, principal, redemption payments or any other
amount due on the Notes or the Guarantees, such same notice to
the Paying Agent.
Section 4.14 Limitation
on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. The Issuer and the
Company may not, and may not permit any Guarantor or any
Subsidiary to, enter into any Sale and Leaseback Transaction
unless:
(1) the Issuer or such Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case
may be, receives consideration at the time of such Sale and
Leaseback Transaction at least equal to the fair market value
(as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate of a Responsible
Officer, or, if the value exceeds $25 million, a resolution
of the Board of Directors of the Issuer or such Guarantor or
Subsidiary), of the property subject to such transaction;
(2) the Issuer or such Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case
may be, could have created a Lien on the property subject to
such Sale and Leaseback Transaction if such transaction was
financed with Indebtedness without securing the Notes pursuant
to Section 4.4; and
(3) the Issuer or such Guarantor or Subsidiary, as the case
may be, can Incur an amount of Indebtedness equal to the
Attributable Debt in respect of such Sale and Leaseback
Transaction.
ARTICLE V
SUCCESSOR
ISSUER OR GUARANTOR
Section 5.1 Limitation
on Mergers and Sales of Assets. The Issuer and the
Company may not, and may not permit any other Guarantor to
consolidate or merge with or into (whether or not the Issuer or
such Guarantor is the Surviving Person), or sell, assign,
transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of all or
substantially all of its properties and assets in one or more
related transactions, to another Person unless:
(1) the Surviving Person is an entity organized and
existing under the laws of Germany, the United Kingdom, any
other member state of the European Union (as of
December 31, 2003), Luxembourg, Switzerland, the United
States of America, or any State thereof or the District of
Columbia, or the jurisdiction of formation of the Issuer or any
Guarantor; or, if the Surviving Person is an entity organized
and existing under the laws of any other jurisdiction, the
Issuer delivers to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that the rights of the Holders of the Notes, would not be
affected adversely as a result of the law of the jurisdiction of
organization of the Surviving Person, insofar as such law
affects the ability of the Surviving Person to pay and perform
its obligations and undertakings in connection with the Notes
(in a transaction involving the Issuer) or its Note Guarantee or
the ability
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of the Surviving Person to obligate itself to pay and perform
such obligations and undertakings or the ability of the Holders
to enforce such obligations and undertakings;
(2) the Surviving Person (if other than the Issuer or a
Guarantor) shall expressly assume, (A) in a transaction or
series of transactions involving the Issuer, by a supplemental
indenture in a form satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the
obligations of the Issuer, (B) in a transaction or series
of transactions involving the Company, by a supplemental
indenture in a form satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the
obligations of the Company under the Indenture, or (C) in a
transaction or series of transactions involving a Guarantor
(including the Company), by a Guarantee Agreement, in a form
satisfactory to the Trustee, all of the obligations of such
Guarantor under its Note Guarantee;
(3) at the time of and immediately after such transaction,
no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing; and
(4) the Issuer or such Guarantor delivers to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that such consolidation, merger, transfer, assignment,
sale, lease or other disposition and such supplemental indenture
and Guarantee Agreement, if any, comply with this Indenture.
Section 5.2 Successor
Entity Substituted. Upon any consolidation or merger by
the Issuer, the Company or any other Guarantor with or into any
other Person, or any conveyance, transfer, sale, assignment,
lease or other disposition by the Issuer, the Company or any
other Guarantor in one or more transactions, of substantially
all of its properties and assets as an entirety to any Person in
accordance with Section 5.1, the Surviving Person shall
succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right
and power of, the Issuer or such Guarantor under this Indenture
with the same effect as if such Surviving Person had been named
as the Issuer or had been a Guarantor herein, and thereafter the
Issuer or such Guarantor shall be discharged from all
obligations and covenants hereunder and under the Notes.
Such Surviving Person (if the successor of the Issuer) may cause
to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the
name of the Issuer, any or all of the Notes issuable hereunder
which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Issuer and
delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such Surviving
Person instead of the Issuer and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the
Trustee shall authenticate and shall deliver any Notes which
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the
Responsible Officers of the Issuer to the Trustee for
authentication pursuant to such provisions and any Notes which
such Surviving Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and
delivered to the Trustee on its behalf for the purpose pursuant
to such provisions. All the Notes so issued shall in all
respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this
Indenture as the Notes theretofore or thereafter issued in
accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of
such Notes had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment,
transfer, conveyance, lease, or other disposition such changes
in phraseology and form may be made in the Notes thereafter to
be issued as may be appropriate.
Section 5.3 Substitution
of the Issuer. The Company, any other Guarantor or a
Finance Subsidiary (a “Successor”) may assume the
obligations of the Issuer under the Notes, by executing and
delivering to the Trustee (a) a supplemental indenture
which subjects such person to all of the provisions of the
Indenture and (b) an opinion of counsel to the effect that
such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized and
executed by such Person, and constitutes the legal, valid,
binding and enforceable obligation of such Person, subject to
customary exceptions; provided that (i) the Successor is
formed under the laws of the United States of America, or any
State thereof or the District of Columbia, Germany, the United
Kingdom or any other member state of the European Union as of
December 31, 2003 and (ii) no Additional Amounts would
be or become payable with respect to the Notes at the time of
such assumption, or as result of any change in the laws of the
jurisdiction of formation of such Successor that was reasonably
foreseeable at such time. The Successor shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the
Issuer under the Indenture with the same effect as if it were
the Issuer thereunder, and the former Issuer shall be discharged
from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the
Notes.
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ARTICLE VI
DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
Section 6.1 Events
of Default. Whenever used herein with respect to the
Notes, “Event of Default” means any one of the
following events which shall have occurred and be continuing:
(1) failure for 30 days to pay interest on the Notes,
including any Additional Amounts in respect thereof, when
due; or
(2) failure to pay principal of or premium, if any, on the
Notes when due, whether at maturity, upon redemption, by
declaration or otherwise; or
(3) failure to observe or perform any other covenant
contained in this Indenture for 60 days after notice as
provided in this Indenture; or
(4) default under any mortgage, indenture or instrument
under which there may be issued or by which there may be secured
or evidenced any Indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries (or the payment of which is
guaranteed by the Company), whether such Indebtedness or
Guarantee now exists or is Incurred after the Closing Date, if
(A) such default results in the acceleration of such
Indebtedness prior to its express maturity or will constitute a
default in the payment of such Indebtedness and (B) the
principal amount of any such Indebtedness that has been
accelerated or not paid at maturity, when added to the aggregate
principal amount of all other such Indebtedness, at such time,
that has been accelerated or not paid at maturity, exceeds
$100 million; or
(5) any final judgment or judgments (not covered by
insurance) which can no longer be appealed for the payment of
money in excess of $100 million shall be rendered against
the Issuer or the Company or any of its Subsidiaries and shall
not be discharged for any period of 60 consecutive days during
which a stay of enforcement shall not be in effect; or
(6) any Note Guarantee shall cease to be in full force and
effect in accordance with its terms for any reason except
pursuant to the terms of this Indenture governing the release of
Note Guarantees or the satisfaction in full of all the
obligations thereunder or shall be declared invalid or
unenforceable other than as contemplated by its terms, or any
Guarantor shall repudiate, deny or disaffirm any of its
obligations thereunder; or
(7) the Company, the Guarantors, the Issuer or any of the
Company’s Significant Subsidiaries pursuant to or within
the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law:
(a) commences negotiations with any one or more of its
creditors with a view to the general readjustment or
rescheduling of its indebtedness or makes a general assignment
for the benefit of or a composition with its creditors or, for
any of the reasons set out in
Sections 17-19
of the German Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung), files
for insolvency (Antrag auf Eröffnung eines
Insolvenzverfahrens) or the board of directors
(Geschäftsführer) is required by law to file
for insolvency, a creditor files for the opening of insolvency
proceedings and such filing is not frivolous and not dismissed
within a period of one month by the competent insolvency court,
or the competent court takes any of the actions set out in
Section 21 of the German Insolvenzordnung or a competent
court institutes insolvency proceedings (Eröffnung des
Insolvenzverfahrens) or denies a petition for commencement
of insolvency proceeding by reason of insufficient assets,
(b) commences a voluntary case,
(c) consents to the entry of an order for relief against it
in an involuntary case,
(d) consents to the appointment of a custodian of it or for
all or substantially all of its property,
(e) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors, or
(f) takes any corporate action to authorize or effect any
of the foregoing.
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A default under clause (3) of this paragraph will not
constitute an Event of Default unless the Trustee or Holders of
25% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes notify the
Issuer and the Company of such default and such default is not
cured within the time specified in clause (3).
Section 6.2 Acceleration. If
an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default described in
clause (7) of Section 6.1 hereof) occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee by notice to the Company, or the Holders
of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Notes by notice to the Issuer, the Company and the Trustee, may,
and the Trustee at the request of such Holders shall, declare
the principal of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, on all the
Notes to be due and payable. Upon such a declaration, such
principal, premium, accrued and unpaid interest, and Additional
Amounts, if any, will be due and payable immediately. If an
Event of Default described in clause (7) of
section 6.1 above occurs and is continuing, the principal
of, premium, if any, and accrued and unpaid interest on all the
Notes will become and be immediately due and payable without any
declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any
Holders.
Section 6.3 Other
Remedies. If an Event of Default of which the Trustee
is aware occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may pursue any
available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect
the payment of principal of or, premium, if any, interest, and
Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes or to enforce the
performance of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture.
Section 6.4 The
Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Notes. All rights of action and claims under this
Indenture or the Notes may be prosecuted and enforced by the
Trustee (without liability) without the possession of any of the
Notes or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto.
Section 6.5 Rights
and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise provided
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Notes in Section 2.8, no right or
remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to
the Holders of Notes 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 or subsequent assertion or employment of any
other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 6.6 Delay
or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right
or remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or
an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given by the
Indenture or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders of Notes
may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be
deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders of Notes, in
each case in accordance with the terms of this Indenture.
Section 6.7 Waiver
of Past Defaults. Subject to Sections 2.10, 6.10
and 9.2, at any time after a declaration of acceleration with
respect to the Notes as described in Section 6.2, the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Notes by written notice to the Issuer and to the
Trustee, may waive all past defaults (except with respect to
nonpayment of principal, premium or interest) and rescind any
such declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes and
its consequences if (i) the rescission would not conflict
with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction
and (ii) all existing Events of Default, other than the
nonpayment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on
the Notes that have become due solely by such declaration of
acceleration, have been cured or waived. Such waiver shall not
excuse a continuing Event of Default in the payment of interest,
premium, if any, principal or Additional Amounts, if any, on
such Note held by a non-consenting Holder, or in respect of a
covenant or a provision which cannot be amended or modified
without the consent of each Holder affected thereby. The Issuer
shall promptly deliver to the Trustee an Officers’
Certificate stating that the requisite percentage of Holders has
consented to such waiver and attaching copies of such consents.
When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is cured and
ceases.
Section 6.8 Control
by Majority. Subject to Section 2.10, the Holders
of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Notes may, by written notice to the Trustee, direct
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power
conferred on it. Subject to Section 7.1, however, the
Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with
any law or this
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Indenture or that the Trustee determines is unduly prejudicial
to the rights of another Holder of Notes, or that may involve
the Trustee in personal liability; provided,
however, that the Trustee may take any other action
deemed proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such
direction. Prior to taking any action under this Indenture, the
Trustee will be entitled to indemnification satisfactory to it
in its sole discretion against all losses and expenses caused by
taking or not taking such action in accordance with
Section 7.7.
Section 6.9 Limitation
on Suits. Subject to Section 6.10, no Holder of
Notes may pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or
the Notes unless:
(1) such Holder has previously given the Trustee notice
that an Event of Default is continuing;
(2) Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
outstanding Notes have requested the Trustee to pursue the
remedy;
(3) such Holders have offered the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any
loss, liability or expense;
(4) the Trustee has not complied with such request within
60 days after the receipt of the request and the offer of
satisfactory security or indemnity; and
(5) the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Notes have not given the Trustee a direction that,
in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with such request
within such
60-day
period.
Section 6.10 Rights
of Holders To Receive Payment. Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Indenture (including, without
limitation, Section 8.9 hereof), the right of any Holder to
receive payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest, and
Additional Amounts, if any, on a Note, on or after the
respective due dates expressed in such Note, or to bring suit
for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates, shall not be impaired or affected without the
consent of such Holder.
Section 6.11 Collection
Suit by Trustee. If an Event of Default in payment of
principal, premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if
any, specified in clause (1) or clause (2) of
Section 6.1 occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust against the Company or any other obligor on the Notes for
the whole amount of principal, premium, if any, and accrued
interest remaining unpaid, together with interest on overdue
principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is
lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest, in each
case at the rate per annum borne by the Notes and such further
amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.7.
Section 6.12 Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee may file such
proofs of claim and 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 agents
and counsel and any other amount due to the Trustee under
Section 7.7, accountants and experts) and the Holders
allowed in any judicial proceedings relating to the Company, its
creditors or its property or other obligor on the Notes, its
creditors and its property and shall be entitled and empowered
to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same, and
any Custodian in any such judicial proceedings 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 to it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agent and
counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.7. To the extent that the payment of any such
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 7.7 hereof out of the estate in any
such proceeding, shall be denied for any reason, payment of the
same shall be secured by a Lien on, and shall be paid out of,
any and all distributions, dividends, money, securities and
other properties which the Holders of the Notes may be entitled
to receive in such proceeding whether in liquidation or under
any plan of reorganization or arrangement or otherwise.
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Section 6.13 Priorities. If
the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this
Article VI, it shall pay out the money or property in the
following order:
First: to the Trustee and the Agents for
amounts due under Section 7.7, including (but not limited
to) payment of all compensation, fees, expense and liabilities
incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and the costs
and expenses of collection;
Second: to Holders for amounts due and unpaid
on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, ratably, without preference or
priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable
on the Notes for principal, premium, if any, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, respectively; and
Third: to the Issuer, the Guarantors or any
other obligor on the Notes, as their interests may appear, or as
a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
The Trustee, upon prior notice to the Issuer, may fix a record
date and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to
this Section 6.13; provided that the failure to give
any such notice shall not affect the establishment of such
record date or payment date for Holders pursuant to this
Section 6.13.
Section 6.14 Restoration
of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or any Holder of
any Note has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or
remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been
discontinued or abandoned for any reason, or has been determined
adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in every
such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the
Issuer, the Trustee and the Holders of Notes shall be restored
severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder
and thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the
Holders of Notes shall continue as though no such proceeding had
been instituted.
Section 6.15 Undertaking
for Costs. In any suit for the enforcement of any right
or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against the
Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a
court in its discretion may require the filing by any party
litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the
suit, and the court in its discretion may assess reasonable
costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses,
against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the
merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the
party litigant. This Section 6.15 does not apply to a suit
by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder pursuant to
Section 6.10, or a suit by a Holder or Holders of more than
10% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes.
Section 6.16 Notices
of Default. If a Default occurs and is continuing and
is known to the Trustee, the Trustee must mail to each Holder of
Notes notice of the Default within 90 days after it has
become known to the Trustee. Except in the case of a Default in
the payment of principal of, premium, if any, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, on any Note, the Trustee may
withhold notice if and so long as a committee of
Trust Officers determines that withholding notice is in the
interests of such Holders of Notes.
ARTICLE VII
TRUSTEE
Section 7.1 Duties
of Trustee. If an Event of Default actually known to a
Trust Officer of the Trustee has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and
powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of
care and skill in their exercise as a prudent Person would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or
her own affairs. Subject to such provisions, the Trustee will be
under no obligation to exercise any of its rights or powers
under this Indenture at the request of any of the Holders of
Notes, unless they shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security and indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any
loss, liability or expense in accordance with the sixth
paragraph of Section 7.7.
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(a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default
actually known to the Trustee:
(1) The Trustee and the Agents will perform only those
duties as are specifically set forth herein and no others and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee or the Agents.
(2) In the absence of willful misconduct on their part, the
Trustee and the Agents may conclusively rely, as to the truth of
the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed
therein, upon certificates or opinions and such other documents
delivered to them pursuant to Section 11.2 and conforming
to the requirements of this Indenture. However, in the case of
any such certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof
are required to be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
examine the certificates and opinions to determine whether or
not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(3) 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:
(4) This paragraph does not limit the effect of
subsection (a) of this Section 7.1.
(5) Neither the Trustee nor Agent shall be liable for any
error of judgment made in good faith by a Trust Officer of
such Trustee or Agent, unless it is proved that the Trustee or
such Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(b) 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 6.2,
6.7 or 6.8.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall require the
Trustee or any Agent 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 take any action at the request or
direction of Holders if it shall have reasonable grounds for
believing that repayment of such funds is not assured to it or
it does not receive an indemnity satisfactory to it in its sole
discretion against such risk, liability, loss, fee or expense
which might be incurred by it in the performance of any of its
duties hereunder.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to the first paragraph and subsections (a),
(b) and (c) of this Section 7.1.
(e) Neither the Trustee nor the Agents shall be liable for
interest on any money received by it except as the Trustee and
any Agent may agree in writing with the Issuer. Money held in
trust by the Trustee or any Agent need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law.
(f) Any provision hereof relating to the conduct or
affecting the liability of or affording protection to the
Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section 7.1.
Section 7.2 Rights
of Trustee. Subject to Section 7.1:
(a) The Trustee and each Agent may rely conclusively on and
shall be protected from acting or refraining from acting based
upon any document believed by them to be genuine and to have
been signed or presented by the proper Person. Neither the
Trustee nor any Agent shall be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent
order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture, note, coupon,
security or other paper or document. The Trustee shall not be
deemed to have notice or any knowledge of any matter (including
without limitation Defaults or Events of Default) unless a
Trust Officer assigned to and working in the Trustee’s
Corporate Trust Office which is administering this
Indenture has actual knowledge thereof or unless written notice
thereof is received by the Trustee, attention: Corporate Trust
and such notice clearly references the Notes, the Issuer or this
Indenture.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may
consult with counsel and may require an Officers’
Certificate, Issuer Order (as applicable) or an Opinion of
Counsel or both. Neither the Trustee nor any Agent shall be
liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in
reliance on such certificate or opinion.
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(c) The Trustee and any Agent may act through their
attorneys and agents and shall not be responsible for the
misconduct or negligence of any agent (other than an agent who
is an employee of the Trustee or such 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 reasonably believes to
be authorized or within its rights or powers conferred upon it
by this Indenture; provided, however, that the
Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct,
negligence or bad faith.
(e) The Trustee or any Agent may consult with counsel of
its selection and the advice or opinion of such counsel as to
matters of law shall be full and complete authorization and
protection from liability in respect of any action taken,
omitted or suffered by it hereunder and in accordance with the
advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f) Except to the extent provided for in Section 9.1
and subject to Section 9.2 hereof, the Trustee may (but
shall not be obligated to), without the consent of the Holders,
give any consent, waiver or approval required by the terms
hereof, but shall not without the consent of the Holders of not
less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes
at the time outstanding (i) give any consent, waiver or
approval or (ii) agree to any amendment or modification of
this Indenture, in each case, that shall have a material adverse
effect on the interests of any Holder. The Trustee shall be
entitled to request and conclusively rely on an Opinion of
Counsel with respect to whether any consent, waiver, approval,
amendment or modification shall have a material adverse effect
on the interests of any Holder.
Section 7.3 Individual
Rights of Trustee. The Trustee or any Agent in its
respective individual or any other capacity may become the owner
or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Issuer, the
Guarantors, their Subsidiaries, or their respective Affiliates
with the same rights it would have if it were not the Trustee or
an Agent. However, in the event that the Trustee acquires any
conflicting interest it must eliminate such conflict within
90 days, apply to the SEC for permission to continue as
trustee or resign. Any Agent may do the same with like rights.
Section 7.4 Trustee’s
Disclaimer. The Trustee and the Agents shall not be
responsible for and make no representation as to the validity,
effectiveness or adequacy of this Indenture, the offering
materials related to the Notes or the Notes; they shall not be
accountable for the Issuer’s use of the proceeds from the
Notes or any money paid to the Issuer or upon the Issuer’s
direction under any provision hereof; and they shall not be
responsible for any statement or recital herein of the Issuer or
the Guarantors or any document issued in connection with the
sale of Notes or any statement in the Notes other than the
Trustee’s certificate of authentication.
Section 7.5 Notice
of Default. If an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing and a Trust Officer of the Trustee receives
actual notice of such event, the Trustee shall mail to each
Holder, as their names and addresses appear on the list of
Holders described in Section 2.5, notice of the uncured
Default or Event of Default within 90 days after the
Trustee receives such notice. Except in the case of a Default in
payment of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any
Note, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a
committee of its Trust Officers determines that withholding
the notice is in the interest of the Holders.
Section 7.6 Reports
by Trustee to Holders of the Notes. Within 60 days
after each May 15 beginning with May 15, 2011, and for so
long as Notes remain outstanding, the Trustee shall mail to the
Holders a brief report dated as of such reporting date that
complies with TIA § 313(a) (but if no event described
in TIA § 313(a) has occurred within the twelve months
preceding the reporting date, no report need be transmitted).
The Trustee also shall comply with TIA § 313(b). The
Trustee shall also transmit by mail all reports as required by
TIA § 313(c).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to the Holders
shall be mailed to the Issuer and filed with the SEC and each
stock exchange on which the Issuer has informed the Trustee in
writing the Notes are listed in accordance with TIA
§ 313(d). The Issuer shall promptly notify the Trustee
when the Notes are listed on any stock exchange and of any
delisting thereof.
Section 7.7 Compensation
and Indemnity. The Issuer shall pay to the Trustee and
Agents from time to time such compensation as the Issuer and the
Trustee or Agent, as applicable, shall from time to time agree
in writing for
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its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder. The
Trustee’s and the Agents’ compensation shall not be
limited by any law on compensation of a trustee of an express
trust. The Issuer shall reimburse the Trustee and Agents upon
request for all reasonable and duly documented and invoiced
disbursements, expenses and advances (including reasonable fees
and expenses of counsel) incurred or made by it in addition to
the compensation for their services, except any such
disbursements, expenses and advances as may be attributable to
the Trustee’s or any Agent’s negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith. Such expenses shall include the
reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the
Trustee’s and Agents’ accountants, experts and counsel
and any taxes or other expenses incurred by a trust created
pursuant to Section 8.4 hereof.
The Issuer agrees to pay the fees and expenses of the
Trustee’s legal counsel in connection with its review,
preparation and delivery of this Indenture and related
documentation.
The Issuer shall indemnify each of the Trustee, any predecessor
Trustee and the Agents (which, for purposes of this paragraph,
include such Trustee’s and Agents’ officers,
directors, employees and agents) for, and hold them harmless
against, any and all loss, damage, claim, proceedings, demands,
costs, expense or liability including taxes (other than taxes
based on the income of the Trustee) incurred by the Trustee or
an Agent without negligence or willful misconduct on its part in
connection with acceptance of administration of this trust and
performance of any provisions under this Indenture, including
the reasonable expenses and attorneys’ fees and expenses of
defending itself against any claim of liability arising
hereunder. The Trustee and the Agents shall notify the Issuer
promptly of any claim asserted against the Trustee or such Agent
for which it may seek indemnity. However, the failure by the
Trustee or the Agent to so notify the Issuer shall not relieve
the Issuer of its obligations hereunder. Subject to
Section 7.1(b), the Issuer need not reimburse or indemnify
against any loss liability or expense incurred by the Trustee
through its own willful misconduct or negligence. The Issuer
shall defend the claim and the Trustee or such Agent shall
cooperate in the defense (and may employ its own counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee) at the Issuer’s
expense. The Trustee or such Agent may have separate counsel and
the Issuer shall pay the reasonable fees and expenses of such
counsel. The Issuer need not pay for any settlement made without
its written consent, which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld.
To secure the Issuer’s payment obligations in this
Section 7.7, the Trustee and the Agents shall have a senior
Lien prior to the Notes against all money or property held or
collected by the Trustee and the Agents, in its capacity as
Trustee or Agent, except money or property held in trust to pay
principal or premium, if any, and Additional Amounts, if any, or
interest on particular Notes.
When the Trustee or an Agent incurs expenses or renders services
after the occurrence of an Event of Default specified in
clause (7) of Section 6.1, the expenses (including the
reasonable fees and expenses of its agents and counsel) and the
compensation for the services shall be preferred over the status
of the Holders in a proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law and are
intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
Bankruptcy Law. The Issuer’s obligations under this
Section 7.7 and any claim or Lien arising hereunder shall
survive the termination of this Indenture, the resignation or
removal of any Trustee or Agent, the discharge of the
Issuer’s obligations pursuant to Article VIII and any
rejection or termination under any Bankruptcy Law.
Save as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture, the
Trustee shall have absolute and uncontrolled discretion as to
the exercise of the discretion vested in the Trustee by this
Indenture but, whenever the Trustee is bound to act under this
Indenture at the request or direction of the Holders of Notes,
the Trustee shall nevertheless not be so bound unless first
indemnified to its satisfaction against all proceedings, claims
and demands to which it may render itself liable and all costs,
charges, expenses and liabilities which it may incur by so doing.
Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee, is
subject to this Section 7.7.
The Company shall be jointly and severally liable with the
Issuer for all of the Issuer’s obligations pursuant to this
Section 7.7.
Section 7.8 Replacement
of Trustee. The Trustee and any Agent may resign at any
time by so notifying the Issuer in writing. The Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may remove
the Trustee by
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so notifying the Issuer and the Trustee in writing and may
appoint a successor trustee with the Issuer’s consent. A
resignation or removal of the Trustee or any Agent and
appointment of a successor Trustee or Agent, as the case may be,
shall become effective only upon the acceptance by the successor
Trustee or the successor Agent, as the case may be, of
appointment as provided in this section. The Issuer may remove
the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee is adjudged a bankrupt or an insolvent or
an order for relief is entered with respect to the Trustee under
any Bankruptcy Law;
(2) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the
Trustee or its property; or
(3) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting with respect to
its duties hereunder.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in
the office of Trustee for any reason, the Issuer shall notify
each Holder of such event and shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes
office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
then outstanding Notes may, with the Issuer’s consent,
appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee
appointed by the Issuer. If the Issuer does not reasonably
promptly appoint a successor Trustee, the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may appoint a
successor Trustee.
A successor Trustee or successor Agent, as applicable, shall
deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to the retiring
Trustee or Agent, as applicable, and to the Issuer. Thereupon,
the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee or Agent, as
applicable, shall become effective, and the successor Trustee or
Agent, as applicable, shall have all the rights, powers and
duties of the Trustee or Agent, as applicable, under this
Indenture. Promptly after that, the retiring Trustee or Agent,
as applicable, shall transfer, after payment of all sums then
owing to the Trustee or Agent, as applicable, pursuant to
Section 7.7, all property held by it as Trustee or Agent,
as applicable, to the successor Trustee or Agent, as applicable,
subject to the Lien provided in Section 7.7. A successor
Trustee or Agent, as applicable, 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 Issuer or the Holders of at least 10% in principal
amount of the then outstanding Notes may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this
Section 7.8, the Issuer’s obligations under
Section 7.7 shall continue for the benefit of the retiring
Trustee and the Issuer shall pay to any replaced or removed
Trustee all amounts owed under Section 7.7 upon such
replacement or removal.
Section 7.9 Successor
Trustee by Xxxxxx, Etc. If the Trustee consolidates
with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially
all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation or
banking association, 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. In case any Notes shall
have been authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then
in office, any successor by consolidation, merger or conversion
to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such authentication and
deliver the Notes so authenticated with the same effect as if
such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Notes.
Section 7.10 Eligibility;
Disqualification. There shall at all times be a Trustee
hereunder that is a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America or of any state
thereof that is authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trustee power and that is subject to supervision or examination
by federal or state authorities. The Trustee together with its
affiliates shall at all times have a combined capital surplus of
at least $50.0 million as set forth in its most recent
annual report of condition.
This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirements of TIA §§ 310(a)(l), (2) and
(5). The Trustee is subject to TIA § 310(b) including
the provision in § 310(b)(1); provided that
there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA
§ 310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which
other securities, or conflicts of interest or participation in
other securities, of the Issuer or the Guarantors are
outstanding if the requirements for exclusion set forth in TIA
§ 310(b)(1) are met.
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Section 7.11 Preferential
Collection of Claims Against the Company. The Trustee
is subject to TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA § 311(b). A Trustee who has
resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA
§ 311(a) to the extent indicated therein.
ARTICLE VIII
SATISFACTION
AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section 8.1 Option
To Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. The
Issuer may, at the option of its Board of Directors evidenced by
a Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to the Notes,
elect to have either Section 8.2 or 8.3 be applied to all
outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth
below in this Article VIII.
Section 8.2 Legal
Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Issuer’s
exercise under Section 8.1 of the option applicable to this
Section 8.2, the Issuer shall be deemed to have been
discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding
Notes on the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(hereinafter, “Legal Defeasance”). For this purpose,
such Legal Defeasance means that the Issuer shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged all the obligations relating to the
outstanding Notes and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed to be
“outstanding” only for the purposes of
Section 8.6, Section 8.8 and the other Sections of
this Indenture referred to below in this Section 8.2, and
to have satisfied all of their other obligations under such
Notes and this Indenture and cured all then existing Events of
Default (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense of the
Issuer, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), except for the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the
rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive payments in
respect of the principal of, premium, if any, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, on such Notes when such payments are
due or on the Redemption Date solely out of the Defeasance
Trust created pursuant to this Indenture; (b) the
Issuer’s obligations with respect to Notes concerning
issuing temporary Notes, or, where relevant, registration of
such Notes, mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Notes and the
maintenance of an office or agency for payment and money for
security payments held in trust; (c) the rights, powers,
trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee, and the
Issuer’s or Guarantors’ obligations in connection
therewith; and (d) this Article VIII and the
obligations set forth in Section 8.6 hereof.
Subject to compliance with this Article VIII, the Issuer
may exercise its option under Section 8.2 notwithstanding
the prior exercise of its option under Section 8.3 with
respect to the Notes.
Section 8.3 Covenant
Defeasance. Upon the Issuer’s exercise under
Section 8.1 of the option applicable to this
Section 8.3, the Issuer, the Company and the other
Guarantors shall be released from any obligations under the
covenants contained in Article IV, Section 5.1(4),
Sections 6.1(3), (4) and (5), and Section 6.1 (7)
(with respect to the Company and the Subsidiaries other than the
Issuer), hereof with respect to the outstanding Notes on and
after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(hereinafter, “Covenant Defeasance”), and the Notes
shall thereafter be deemed not “outstanding” for the
purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration or act
of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection
with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed
“outstanding” for all other purposes hereunder (it
being understood that such Notes shall not be deemed outstanding
for accounting purposes). For this purpose, such Covenant
Defeasance means that, (i) with respect to the outstanding
Notes, the Issuer may omit to comply with and shall have no
liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set
forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by
reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or
by reason of any reference in any such covenant to any other
provision herein or in any other document and (ii) payment
on the Notes may not be accelerated because of an Event of
Default specified in Sections 6.1 (3), (4) or (5), or
Section 6.1 (7) (with respect only to the Company and the
Subsidiaries other than the Issuer).
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Section 8.4 Conditions
to Legal or Covenant Defeasance. In order to exercise
either of the defeasance options under Section 8.2 or
Section 8.3 hereof, the Issuer must comply with the
following conditions:
(1) the Issuer shall have irrevocably deposited in trust
(the “Defeasance Trust”) with the Trustee or the
Paying Agent for the benefit of the Holders Designated
Government Obligations, for the payment of principal, premium,
if any, interest on the Notes to redemption or maturity, as the
case may be;
(2) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel (subject to customary exceptions and
exclusions) to the effect that Holders of the Notes will not
recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. federal income tax
purposes as a result of such deposit and defeasance and will be
subject to U.S. federal income tax on the same amount and
in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the
case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred. In the
case of legal defeasance only, such Opinion of Counsel must be
based on a ruling of the Internal Revenue Service or other
change in applicable U.S. federal income tax law;
(3) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel in the Federal Republic of Germany (subject
to customary exceptions and exclusions) to the effect that
Holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for
income tax purposes of the Federal Republic of Germany as a
result of such deposit and defeasance and will be subject to
income tax in the Federal Republic of Germany on the same amount
and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been
the case if such deposit and defeasance had not occurred;
(4) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel in Luxembourg (subject to customary
exceptions and exclusions) to the effect that Holders of the
Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for income tax
purposes of Luxembourg as a result of such deposit and
defeasance and will be subject to income tax in Luxembourg on
the same amount and in the same manner and at the same times as
would have been the case if such deposit and defeasance had not
occurred;
(5) no Default or Event of Default (other than to Incur
Indebtedness used to defease the Notes under this Article) shall
have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit in
the Defeasance Trust or insofar as Events of Default from
bankruptcy or insolvency events are concerned, at any time in
the period ending on the 91st day after the date of deposit;
(6) such legal defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not
result in a breach or violation of any other material agreement
or instrument (other than this Indenture) to which the Company
or any of its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or
any of its Subsidiaries is bound;
(7) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate stating that the deposit was not made
by the Issuer with the intent of preferring the Holders over any
other creditors of the Issuer or with the intent of defeating,
hindering, delaying or defrauding any other creditors of the
Issuer or others; and
(8) the Issuer shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that all conditions precedent provided for or relating
to the legal defeasance or the covenant defeasance have been
complied with.
Section 8.5 Satisfaction
and Discharge of Indenture. This Indenture will be
discharged and will cease to be of further effect as to all
Notes issued thereunder when either (i) all such Notes
theretofore authenticated and delivered (except lost, stolen or
destroyed Notes which have been replaced or paid and Notes for
whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust and
thereafter repaid to the Issuer) have been delivered to the
Paying Agent or Trustee for cancellation or (ii) (A) all
such Notes not theretofore delivered to the Paying Agent or
Trustee for cancellation have become due and payable by reason
of the making of a notice of redemption or otherwise or will
become due and payable within one year and the Issuer has
irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the Paying
Agent or Trustee as trust funds in trust an amount of money
sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Notes not theretofore delivered to the Paying Agent or Trustee
for cancellation for principal, premium, if any, and accrued and
unpaid interest and Additional Amounts, if any, to the date of
maturity or redemption, (B) no Default (other than to Incur
Indebtedness used to defease the Notes under this Article) with
respect to this Indenture or the Notes shall have occurred and
be continuing on the date of such deposit or shall occur
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as a result of such deposit and such deposit will not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
other instrument to which the Issuer, the Company or any of the
other Guarantors is a party or by which it is bound,
(C) the Issuer has paid, or caused to be paid, all sums
payable by it under this Indenture, and (D) the Issuer has
delivered irrevocable instructions to the Trustee under this
Indenture to give the notice of redemption and apply the
deposited money toward the payment of such Notes at maturity or
the Redemption Date, as the case may be. In addition, the Issuer
must deliver an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel to the Trustee stating that all conditions precedent to
satisfaction and discharge have been satisfied. Upon such
discharge, the Paying Agent shall deliver the Notes to the
Issuer, marked “paid”, or at the option of the Paying
Agent, destroy the Notes and provide a certificate to the Issuer
and the Trustee certifying such destruction.
Section 8.6 Survival
of Certain Obligations. Notwithstanding the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and of the Notes in
the manner referred to in Section 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 or
8.5, the respective obligations of the Issuer, the Company, the
other Guarantors and the Trustee under Sections 2.2, 2.3,
2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 2.12, 2.13, 2.14, 4.1 (with
respect to the Trustee and, as far as the Issuer, the Company,
and each of the other Guarantors is concerned, subject to
Sections 8.2 and 8.5), 4.2, 4.6, 4.13 and 6.10,
Article VII and Article VIII shall survive until the
Notes are no longer outstanding, and thereafter the obligations
of the Issuer the Company, the other Guarantors and the Trustee
under Articles VII and VIII shall survive. Nothing
contained in this Article VIII shall abrogate any of the
obligations or duties of the Trustee under this Indenture.
Section 8.7 Acknowledgment
of Discharge by Trustee. Subject to Section 8.10,
after (i) the conditions of Section 8.4 or 8.5 have
been satisfied, (ii) the Issuer has paid or caused to be
paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Issuer and
(iii) the Issuer has delivered to the Trustee an
Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each
stating that all conditions precedent referred to in
clause (i) above relating to the satisfaction and discharge
of this Indenture have been complied with, the Trustee upon
written request shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of
all of the Issuer’s the Company’s, and the other
Guarantors’ obligations under this Indenture except for
those surviving obligations specified in this Article VIII.
Section 8.8 Application
of Trust Moneys. All cash deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 8.4 or 8.5 in respect of Notes
shall be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the
provisions of such Notes and this Indenture, to the payment,
either directly or through any Paying Agent as the Trustee may
determine, to the Holders of the Notes of all sums due and to
become due thereon for principal, premium, if any, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
The Issuer shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax,
fee or other charge imposed on or assessed against the cash
deposited pursuant to Section 8.4 or 8.5 or the principal
and interest received in respect thereof other than any such
tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the account of the
Holders of outstanding Notes.
Section 8.9 Repayment
to the Issuer; Unclaimed Money. The Trustee and any
Paying Agent shall promptly pay or return to the Issuer upon
Issuer Order any cash held by them at any time that are not
required for the payment of the principal of, premium, if any,
interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes for which
cash has been deposited pursuant to Section 8.4 or 8.5.
Any money held by the Trustee or any Paying Agent under this
Article VIII, in trust for the payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on any
Note and remaining unclaimed for two years after such principal,
premium, if any, interest and Additional Amounts, if any, that
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Issuer upon
Issuer Order or if then held by the Issuer shall be discharged
from such trust; and the Holder of such Note shall thereafter,
as an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Issuer for
payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, shall thereupon cease;
provided, however, that the Trustee or such Paying
Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at
the expense of the Issuer give notice to the Holders or cause to
be published notice once, in a newspaper having general
circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be the
Luxemburger Wort), if and so long as the Notes are listed
on the Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the
rules of such stock exchange shall so require, or, to the extent
and in the manner permitted by such rules, posted on the
official website of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange
(xxx.xxxxxx.xx), or in the case of Definitive Notes, in
addition to such publication, mail to Holders
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by first-class mail, postage prepaid, at their respective
addresses as they appear on the registration books of the
Registrar (and, if and so long as the Notes are listed on the
Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules
of such Stock Exchange shall so require, publish in a newspaper
having a general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to
be the Luxemburger Wort) or, to the extent and in the
manner permitted by such rules, posted on the official website
of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx), that such
money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date
of such notification, any unclaimed balance of such money then
remaining will be repaid to the Issuer).
Claims against the Issuer for the payment of principal or
interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on the Notes will
become void unless presentment for payment is made (where so
required in this Indenture) within, in the case of principal and
Additional Amounts, if any, a period of ten years, or, in the
case of interest, a period of five years, in each case from the
applicable original payment date therefor.
Section 8.10 Reinstatement. If
the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any cash in
accordance with Section 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5 by reason of
any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of
any court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or
otherwise prohibiting such application, the Issuer’s and
the Guarantors’ obligations under this Indenture and the
Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had
occurred pursuant to Section 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 or 8.5 until
such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply
all such cash in accordance with Section 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 or
8.5; provided, however, that if the Issuer has
made any payment of interest on, premium, if any, principal and
Additional Amounts, if any, of any Notes because of the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Issuer shall be subrogated
to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such
payment from the money held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS,
SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
Section 9.1 Without
Consent of Holders of Notes. Notwithstanding
Section 9.2 hereof, the Issuer and the Trustee together may
amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without the
consent of any Holder of a Note to:
(1) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;
(2) provide for the assumption by a successor entity of the
obligations of the Issuer under and pursuant to this Indenture
or of a Guarantor (other than the Company) under the Note
Guarantees;
(3) provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in
place of certificated Notes (provided that the
uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes
of Section 163(f) of the Code, or in a manner such that the
uncertificated Notes are described in Section 163(f)(B) of
the Code);
(4) add Note Guarantees with respect to the Notes;
(5) secure the Notes;
(6) add to the covenants of the Issuer and the Guarantors
for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender any right or
power conferred upon the Issuer;
(7) evidence and provide for the acceptance and appointment
under this Indenture of any successor trustee;
(8) comply with the rules of any applicable securities
depositary;
(9) issue Additional Notes in accordance with this
Indenture; or
(10) make any change that does not adversely affect the
rights of any Holder of Notes under this Indenture.
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Section 9.2 With
Consent of Holders of Notes. The Issuer and the Trustee
may amend or supplement this Indenture, the Notes or any amended
or supplemental indenture with the written consent of the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding (including without limitation consents obtained
in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange
offer for the Notes), and, subject to Sections 6.7 and
6.10, any existing Default or Event of Default and its
consequences or compliance with any provision of this Indenture
or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the Holders of at
least a majority in principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding (including without limitation consents obtained in
connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange offer
for the Notes). However, without the consent of each Holder of
an outstanding Note adversely affected, an amendment or waiver
may not (with respect to any Notes held by a non-consenting
Holder of Notes):
(1) reduce the percentage of principal amount of Notes
whose Holders must consent to an amendment;
(2) reduce the stated rate of or extend the stated time for
payment of interest on any such Note;
(3) reduce the principal of or extend the Stated Maturity
of any such Note;
(4) reduce the premium payable upon the redemption of any
such Note or change the time at which any such Note may be
redeemed as described under Section 3.1;
(5) reduce the premium payable upon the repurchase of any
Note, change the time at which any Note may be repurchased, or
change any of the associated definitions related to the
provisions of Section 4.11 once the obligation to
repurchase the Notes has arisen;
(6) make any such Note payable in money other than that
stated in such Note;
(7) impair the right of any Holder to receive payment of
premium, if any, principal of and interest on such Xxxxxx’s
Notes on or after the due dates therefor or to institute suit
for the enforcement of any payment on or with respect to such
Holder’s Notes;
(8) make any change in the amendment provisions which
require each Holder’s consent or in the waiver
provisions; or
(9) release the Company from its Note Guarantee (other than
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture).
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders of
Notes under this Section 9.2 to approve the particular form
of any proposed amendment or waiver, but it shall be sufficient
if such consent approves the substance thereof.
Section 9.3 Notice
of Amendment, Supplement or Waiver. After an amendment,
supplement or waiver under Section 9.1 or 9.2 hereto
becomes effective, the Issuer shall mail to the Holders of Notes
a notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver.
Any failure of the Issuer to mail such notice, or any defect
therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the
validity of any such amended or supplemental indenture or waiver.
Section 9.4 Revocation
and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment, supplement
or waiver becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder of a
Note is a continuing consent by the Holder of a Note and every
subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences
the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if
notation of the consent is not made on any Note. However, any
such Holder of a Note or subsequent Holder of a Note may revoke
the consent as to its Note if the Trustee receives written
notice of revocation before the date the waiver, supplement or
amendment becomes effective. An amendment, supplement or waiver
becomes effective in accordance with its terms and thereafter
binds every Holder of a Note. An amendment or waiver becomes
effective once the requisite number of consents is received by
the Issuer or the Trustee.
The Issuer may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date
for determining which Holders of the Notes must consent to such
amendment, supplement or waiver. If the Issuer fixes a record
date, the record date shall be fixed at (i) the later of
30 days prior to the first solicitation of such consent or
the date of the most recent list of Holders of Notes furnished
to the Trustee prior to such solicitation pursuant to
Section 2.5 or (ii) such other date as the Issuer
shall designate.
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Section 9.5 Notation
on or Exchange of Notes. The Trustee may place an
appropriate notation about an amendment, supplement or waiver on
any Note thereafter authenticated. The Issuer in exchange for
all Notes may issue and the Trustee shall authenticate new Notes
that reflect the amendment, supplement or waiver.
Failure to make the appropriate notation or issue a new Note
shall not affect the validity and effect 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, however, that the
Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, execute any such
amendment, supplement or waiver which adversely affects the
Trustee’s own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive indemnity
reasonably satisfactory to it, and shall be fully protected in
relying upon, if delivered, an Opinion of Counsel and an
Officers’ Certificate each stating that the execution of
any such amendment, supplement or waiver is authorized or
permitted by this Indenture and constitutes the legal, valid and
binding obligations of the Issuer and the Guarantors enforceable
in accordance with its terms. Any Opinion of Counsel shall not
be an expense of the Trustee. With respect to any amendment,
supplement or waiver under Section 9.2, the Trustee shall
also be entitled to receive evidence satisfactory to it of the
consent of the Holders.
ARTICLE X
NOTE GUARANTEE
Section 10.1 Note
Guarantee.
(a) Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally
unconditionally Guarantees, on a senior unsecured basis, to each
Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, and
to the Trustee on behalf of such Holder, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
(including Additional Amounts, if any) on such Note when and as
the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated
Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption, purchase or
otherwise, in accordance with the terms of such Note and of this
Indenture. In case of the failure of the Issuer punctually to
make any such payment, each Guarantor hereby jointly and
severally agrees to cause such payment to be made punctually
when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at
the Stated Maturity or by acceleration, call for redemption,
purchase or otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the
Issuer. The Note Guarantee extends to the Issuer’s
repurchase obligations arising from a Change of Control pursuant
to Section 4.11.
Each Guarantor hereby jointly and severally agrees that its
obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of
the validity, regularity or enforceability of such Note or this
Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any
exchange, release or non-perfection of any Lien on any
collateral for, or any release or amendment or waiver of any
term of any other Guarantee of, or any consent to departure from
any requirement of any other Guarantee of all or any of the
Notes, the effects of Bankruptcy Law applicable in the event of
bankruptcy proceedings being opened with respect to the Issuer,
of all or any portion of the claims of the Trustee or any of the
Holders for payment of any of the Notes, any waiver or consent
by the Holder of such Note or by the Trustee with respect to any
provisions thereof or of this Indenture, the obtaining of any
judgment against the Issuer or any action to enforce the same or
any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal
or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each Guarantor
hereby waives the benefits of diligence, presentment, demand for
payment, any requirement that the Trustee or any of the Holders
protect, secure, perfect or insure any security interest in or
other Lien on any property subject thereto or exhaust any right
or take any action against the Issuer or any other Person or any
collateral, filing of claims with a court in the event of
insolvency or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right to require a
proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or notice with
respect to such Note or the Indebtedness evidenced thereby and
all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Note Guarantee
will not be discharged in respect of such Note except by
complete performance of the obligations contained in such Note
and in this Note Guarantee. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that,
in the event of a default in payment of principal (or premium,
if any) or interest (including Additional Amounts, if any) on
such Note, whether at its Stated Maturity, by acceleration, call
for redemption, purchase or otherwise, legal proceedings may be
instituted by the Trustee on behalf of, or by, the
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Holder of such Note, subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in this Indenture, directly against each Guarantor to
enforce the Note Guarantee without first proceeding against the
Issuer. Each Guarantor agrees that, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, if, after the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee or any of the
Holders is prevented by applicable law from exercising its
respective rights to accelerate the maturity of the Notes, to
collect interest on the Notes, or to enforce or exercise any
other right or remedy with respect to the Notes, or the Trustee
or the Holders are prevented from taking any action to realize
on any collateral, such Guarantor agrees to pay to the Trustee
for the account of the Holders, upon demand therefor, the amount
that would otherwise have been due and payable had such rights
and remedies been permitted to be exercised by the Trustee or
any of the Holders.
No provision of the Note Guarantee or of this Indenture shall
alter or impair the Note Guarantee of any Guarantor, which is
absolute and unconditional, of the due and punctual payment of
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest (including
Additional Amounts, if any) on the Note upon which such Note
Guarantee is endorsed.
Each Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and
continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or
against the Issuer for liquidation or reorganization or
equivalent proceeding under applicable law, should the Issuer
become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of
creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all
or any significant part of the Issuer’s assets, or the
equivalent of any of the foregoing under applicable law, and
shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be,
if at any time payment and performance of the Notes, is,
pursuant to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or
must otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on the
Notes, whether as a voidable preference, fraudulent transfer, or
as otherwise provided under similar laws affecting the rights of
creditors generally or under applicable laws of the jurisdiction
of formation of the Issuer, all as though such payment or
performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or
any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned,
the Notes shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be
reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid and not
so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from
any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right
does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Note
Guarantee.
(b) Each Note Guarantee (other than the Company’s Note
Guarantee) will be limited in amount to an amount not to exceed
the maximum amount that can be guaranteed by the applicable
Guarantor without rendering the Note Guarantee, as it relates to
such Guarantor, voidable under applicable law relating to
fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer or similar laws
affecting the rights of creditors generally or under applicable
law of the jurisdiction of incorporation of such Guarantor.
(c) In the case of Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
(“FMCD”), the following provisions apply:
Without limiting the agreements set forth in Section 11.8,
the Note Guarantee of FMCD will be limited if and to the extent
payment under such Note Guarantee or the application of
enforcement proceeds would cause (i) FMCD’s net assets
(Reinvermögen - calculated as the sum of the balance
sheet positions shown under § 266(2)(A), (B) and
(C) German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch)) less
the sum of the liabilities (shown under the balance sheet
positions pursuant to § 266(3)(B), (C) and
(D) German Commercial Code) to fall below FMCD’s
registered share capital (Stammkapital) or (ii) (if the
amount of the net assets is already an amount less than the
registered share capital) cause such amount to be further
reduced and, in either case, thereby affecting the assets
required for the obligatory preservation of its registered share
capital according to section 30, 31 of the German Limited
Liability Company Act (GmbHG) (such event a “Capital
Impairment”). For the purposes of calculating the Capital
Impairment, the following adjustments will be made: (i) the
amount of any increase of the registered share capital out of
retained earnings (Kapitalerhöhung aus
Gesellschaftsmitteln) after the Closing Date that has been
effected without the prior consent of the Trustee shall be
deducted from the registered share capital; and
(ii) liabilities incurred in violation of the provisions of
the Notes and this Indenture shall be disregarded. In the event
FMCD’s net assets fall below its registered share capital,
FMCD, upon request of the Trustee will realize in due course, to
the extent legally permitted, any and all of its assets that are
shown in the balance sheet with a book
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value (Buchwert) that is significantly lower than the
market value of the assets if the relevant assets are not
necessary for FMCD’s business (nicht betriebsnotwendiges
Vermögen).
If FMCD objects to the amount demanded by the Trustee under the
Note Guarantee within twenty (20) business days after the
Trustee has submitted to FMCD a payment demand FMCD shall
appoint within five (5) business days a reputable
international auditor to determine the exact amount. The auditor
shall notify FMCD and the Trustee of the maximum amount payable
under the Note Guarantee within forty (40) business days
after its appointment. The costs of such auditor’s
determination shall be borne by FMCD. The determination of the
auditor shall be binding for FMCD, and the Holders (except for
manifest error). To the extent that any payment has been made
under the Note Guarantee by FMCD that would be necessary for
FMCD to be able to cure any Capital Impairment or Liquidity
Impairment such payment shall immediately — upon
FMCD’s demand — be returned to FMCD by any person
receiving such payment, provided, however, in no event shall the
Trustee or Paying Agent have any responsibility or liability for
the return of any amount distributed to any Holder or beneficial
owner of the Notes by the Trustee or Paying Agent, including,
without limitation, any obligation to seek return of such
amounts from such Holder or beneficial owner.
If (i) FMCD does not object to the payment amount within
the 20 business days period or (ii) if FMCD does not
appoint the auditor within the 5 business days period or
(iii) if the auditor fails to notify the amount payable
within the 40 days period, then the Trustee shall be
entitled to enforce the Note Guarantee without further delay.
The burden of demonstration and proof (Darlegungs- und
Beweislast) regarding the Capital Impairment and the maximum
amount payable under the Note Guarantee shall remain with FMCD.
The maximum amount payable under the guarantee shall be limited
to the extent and as long as FMCD as a consequence of the
payment would become unable to pay its debts when due
(zahlungsunfähig) within the meaning of
section 64 GmbHG (such event a “Liquidity
Impairment”). For the purpose of establishing whether a
Liquidity Impairment would occur, payments made by FMCD after
the Trustee has notified FMCD of its intention to enforce the
Note Guarantee with respect to payment obligations that are not
due at the time of the payment shall be disregarded, unless the
Trustee has consented to such payments (at the direction of the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding). From the time the Trustee has notified FMCD
and the Company of its intention to enforce the Note Guarantee,
the Company may not make any payment demands against FMCD under
shareholder loans and all such payment obligations of FMCD
towards the Company shall be deferred, subordinated or waived as
the Company sees fit, until the Trustee notifies FMCD that it is
no longer enforcing the Note Guarantee or the Trustee consents
(at the direction of the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding) to the payments
to be made to the Company. Such notice may be delivered by the
Trustee at any time and, if not previously delivered, will be
delivered by the Trustee after the Notes have been repaid in
full and all other obligations under this Indenture are
satisfied.
The limitations in this Section 10.1(c) as to the Capital
Impairment shall not apply to the extent FMCD has an adequate
compensation claim (vollwertiger Gegenleistungs- oder
Rückgewähranspruch) against the Company that
compensates for any loss incurred due to any payment by FMCD
under the Note Guarantee.
Section 10.2 Execution
and Delivery of Note Guarantees. The Note Guarantees to
be endorsed on the Notes shall be in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C. Each Guarantor hereby agrees to
execute its Note Guarantee, in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C, to be endorsed on each Note authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee.
The Note Guarantee shall be executed on behalf of the Company by
two members of the Management Board of its General Partner and
on behalf of any other Guarantor by such Person or Persons duly
authorized by the Board of Directors or Management Board of such
Guarantor. The signature of any or all of these Persons on the
Note Guarantee may be manual or facsimile.
A Note Guarantee bearing the manual or facsimile signature of
individuals who were at any time the Responsible Officers of a
Guarantor shall bind such Guarantor, notwithstanding that such
individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such offices
prior to the authentication and delivery of the Note on which
such Note Guarantee is endorsed or did not hold such offices at
the date of such Note Guarantee.
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The delivery of any Note by the Trustee, after the
authentication thereof in accordance with this Indenture, shall
constitute due delivery of the Note Guarantee endorsed thereon
on behalf of the Guarantors. Each of the Guarantors hereby
jointly and severally agrees that its Note Guarantee set forth
in Section 10.1 shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding any failure to endorse a Note Guarantee on any
Note.
Section 10.3 Guarantors
May Consolidate, Etc., On Certain Terms. Except as set
forth in Section 10.4 and in Article V hereof, nothing
contained in this Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent
any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the
Company, the Issuer or another Guarantor or shall prevent any
sale, transfer, assignment, lease, conveyance or other
disposition of the property of a Guarantor as an entirety or
substantially as an entirety to the Company, the Issuer or
another Guarantor.
Section 10.4 Release
of Guarantors. Subject to the limitations set forth in
Sections 5.1 and 5.2 hereof, (a) concurrently with any
consolidation or merger of a Guarantor or any sale, transfer,
assignment, lease, conveyance or other disposition of the
property of a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety, in each case as permitted by Sections 5.1, 5.2
and 10.3 hereof, and upon delivery by the Company or the Issuer
to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that such consolidation, merger, sale,
transfer, assignment, conveyance or other disposition was made
in accordance with Sections 5.1, 5.2 and 10.3 hereof, the
Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order
to acknowledge the release of such Guarantor from its
obligations under its Note Guarantee endorsed on the Notes and
under this Indenture. Any Guarantor not released from its
obligations under its Note Guarantee endorsed on the Notes and
under this Indenture shall remain liable for the full amount of
principal of (premium, if any) and interest (including
Additional Amounts, if any) on the Notes and for the other
obligations of a Guarantor under its Note Guarantee endorsed on
the Notes and under this Indenture. Concurrently with the
defeasance of the Notes under Section 8.2 or satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture under Section 8.5 hereof,
the Guarantors shall be released from all of their obligations
under their Note Guarantees endorsed on the Notes and under this
Indenture, without any action on the part of the Trustee or any
Holder of Notes.
(b) Upon the sale or other disposition (including by way of
merger or consolidation) of any Guarantor or the sale,
conveyance, transfer, assignment, lease or other disposition of
all or substantially all the assets of a Guarantor pursuant to
Section 5.1 hereof, such Guarantor shall automatically be
released from all obligations under its Note Guarantees endorsed
on the Notes and under this Indenture in accordance with
Sections 5.1 and 5.2.
(c) At the time a Guarantor (other than the Company) is no
longer a borrower or guarantor under the Credit Facility, such
Guarantor will be released and relieved from all of its
obligations under its Note Guarantee.
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.1 Notices. Any
notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder
shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by
hand delivery, by telecopier or first-class mail, postage
prepaid, addressed as follows:
if to the Company or to FMCD, to it at:
Else-Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx 0
00000 Xxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Facsimile:
011-49-6172-609-2280
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
if to the Issuer:
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FMC Finance VI S.A.
00-00, Xxx
Xx. Xxxxx,
X-0000 Xxxxxxxxxx
Facsimile:
011-352-263375-909
Attention: Xxx. Xxxxxxxx Xxx
if to FMCH:
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxxx XX
00000-1457
Facsimile: 000
000-0000
Attn: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx, Esq.
in each case, with a copy to:
Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA
Else-Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx 0
00000 Xxx Xxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Facsimile:
011-49-6172-609-2422
Attention: Xx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx
if to the Trustee:
U.S. Bank National Association
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Xxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Telecopier:
000-000-0000
Telephone:
000-000-0000
if to the Paying Agent:
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft
Grosse Xxxxxxxxxxxxx
00-00
00000 Xxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxx
Attention: Debt Services
Telecopier.: x00 00 000 00000
Telephone: x00 00 000 00000
Each of the Issuer and the Trustee by written notice to each
other such Person may designate additional or different
addresses for notices to such Person. Any notice or
communication to the Issuer or the Trustee, shall be deemed to
have been given or made as of the date so delivered if
personally delivered; when receipt is acknowledged, if
telecopied; and five (5) calendar days after mailing if
sent by first class 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 Holder shall be mailed
to such Person by first-class mail or other equivalent means at
such Person’s 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 Holder or any
defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to
other Holders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the
manner provided above, it is duly given, whether or not the
addressee receives it.
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If and so long as Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such Stock Exchange
shall so require, notices regarding the Notes given to the
Holders will be published by the Issuer in a newspaper having
general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be the
Luxemburger Wort) or, to the extent and in the manner
permitted by such rules, posted on the official website of the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx), and in the event the
Notes are in the form of Definitive Notes, sent by the Issuer,
by first-class mail, with a copy to the Trustee, to each Holder
of the Notes at such Xxxxxx’s address as it appears on the
registration books of the registrar. If and so long as such
Notes are listed on any other securities exchange, notices will
also be given by the Issuer in accordance with any applicable
requirements of such securities exchange. If and so long as any
Notes are represented by one or more Global Notes and ownership
of Book-Entry Interests therein are shown on the records of the
Clearing Agency or any successor appointed by the Clearing
Agency at the request of the Issuer, notices will be delivered
to the Clearing Agency or such successor for communication to
the owners of such Book-Entry Interests. Notices given by
publication will be deemed given on the first date on which any
of the required publications is made and notices given by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, will be deemed given five
calendar days after mailing.
Section 11.2 Certificate
and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent. Upon any
request or application by the Issuer to the Trustee or an Agent
to take any action under this Indenture, the Issuer and the
Guarantors shall furnish to the Trustee at the request of the
Trustee:
(1) an Officers’ Certificate, in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee (reasonableness to be
determined objectively), stating that, in the opinion of the
signers, all conditions precedent and covenants, if any,
provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action
have been satisfied or complied with; and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee or such Agent (reasonableness to be
determined objectively) stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, all such conditions precedent and covenants have been
satisfied or complied with.
In any case where several matters are required to be certified
by, or covered by an Opinion of Counsel of, any specified
Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified
by, or covered by the Opinion of Counsel of, only one such
Person, or that they be so certified or covered by only one
document, but one such Person may certify or give an Opinion of
Counsel with respect to some matters and one or more such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or
give an Opinion of Counsel as to such matters in one or several
documents.
Any certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Issuer may be
based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion
of Counsel, unless such Responsible Officer knows, or in the
exercise of reasonable care should know, that such Opinion of
Counsel with respect to the matters upon which his certificate
is based are erroneous. Any Opinion of Counsel may be based, and
may state that it is so based, insofar as it relates to factual
matters, upon a certificate of, or representations by, a
Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the Issuer
stating that the information with respect to such factual
matters is in the possession of the Issuer, unless such counsel
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that
the certificate or representations with respect to such matters
are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements,
opinions or other instruments under this Indenture, they may,
but need not, be consolidated and form one instrument.
Section 11.3 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;
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(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, such
Person has made such examination or investigation as is
necessary to enable such Person 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.
Section 11.4 Rules
by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar. The Trustee,
Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its
functions.
Section 11.5 Legal
Holidays. If a payment date is not a Business Day,
payment may be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening
period.
Section 11.6
Governing
Law. THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES, AND THE RIGHTS AND
DUTIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER AND THEREUNDER, SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE
STATE OF
NEW YORK. THE NOTE GUARANTEES WILL BE GOVERNED BY,
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
NEW
YORK EXCEPT THAT THE LIMITATIONS OF THE NOTE GUARANTEES
EXPRESSED IN SECTIONS 10.1(c) HEREOF (AND THE EQUIVALENT
PROVISION CONTAINED IN THE NOTE GUARANTEE ENDORSED ON THE
NOTES) WILL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.
Section 11.7
Submission
to Jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, each of the Issuer and the Guarantors
irrevocably submits to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of any
U.S. federal or state court in the Borough of Manhattan in
the City of
New York, County and State of
New York, United
States of America, in any suit or proceeding based on or arising
under this Indenture or the Notes, and irrevocably agrees that
all claims in respect of such suit or proceeding may be
determined in any such court. Each of the Issuer and the
Guarantors, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
irrevocably and fully waives the defense of an inconvenient
forum to the maintenance of such suit or proceeding and
irrevocably waives to the fullest extent it may effectively do
so any objection which it may now or hereafter have to the
laying of venue of any such proceeding, and each of the Issuer
and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably consents to be served with
notice and service of process by delivery or by registered mail
with return receipt requested addressed to FMCH’s
registered agent, which as of the date hereof is CT Corporation
System, 000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000 (which service of
process by registered mail shall be effective with respect to
the Issuer and the Guarantors so long as such return receipt is
obtained, or in the event of a refusal to sign such receipt any
Holder or the Trustee is able to produce evidence of attempted
delivery by such means). Each of the Issuer and the Guarantors
further agrees that such service of process and written notice
of such service to the Issuer and the Guarantors in the
circumstances described above shall be deemed in every respect
effective notice and service of process upon each of the Issuer
and the Guarantors in any such action or proceeding. Nothing
herein shall affect the right of any Person to serve process in
any other manner permitted by law. Each of the Issuer and the
Guarantors agrees that a final action in any such suit or
proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other
jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or in any other lawful
manner. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each of the Issuer and
the Guarantors hereby agrees that any action arising out of or
based on this Indenture or the Notes may also be instituted in
any competent court in Germany, and it expressly accepts the
jurisdiction of any such court in any such action.
Each of the Issuer and the Guarantors hereby irrevocably waives,
to the extent permitted by law, any immunity to jurisdiction to
which it may otherwise be entitled (including, without
limitation, immunity to pre-judgment attachment, post-judgment
attachment and execution) in any legal suit, action or
proceeding against it arising out of or based on this Indenture
or the Notes.
The provisions of this Section 11.7 are intended to be
effective upon the execution of this Indenture without any
further action by the Issuer and the Guarantors and the
introduction of a true copy of this Indenture into evidence
shall be conclusive and final evidence as to such matters.
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Section 11.8 No
Personal Liability of Directors, Officers, Employees and
Stockholders No member of the Board of Directors, officer,
employee, incorporator or stockholder of the Issuer, Xxxxxxxxx
SE, the Company or the Guarantors, as such, shall have any
liability for any obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor
under the Notes, this Indenture or the Note Guarantees or for
any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such
obligations or their creation. Each Holder by accepting a Note
waives and releases all such liability and agrees not to enforce
any claim in respect of the Notes, the Indenture or the Notes
Guarantees to the extent that it would give rise to such
personal liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for issuance of the Notes and the Note Guarantees.
Such waiver and release may not be effective to waive
liabilities under the U.S. federal securities laws and it
is the view of the SEC that such a waiver is against public
policy. In addition, such waiver and release may not be
effective under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Section 11.9 Successors. All
agreements of the Issuer in this Indenture and the Notes and the
Guarantors in this Indenture and the Note Guarantees shall bind
their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee in
this Indenture shall bind its successors.
Section 11.10 Counterpart
Originals. All parties hereto may sign any number of
copies of this Indenture. Each signed copy or counterpart shall
be an original, but all of them together shall represent one and
the same agreement.
Section 11.11 Severability. In
case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture or in
the Notes 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 11.12 Table
of Contents, Headings, etc. The Table of Contents,
Cross-Reference Table and headings of the Articles and Sections
of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of
reference only, are not to be considered a part of this
Indenture and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the
terms or provisions hereof.
Section 11.13 Trust Indenture
Act Controls. If any provision of this Indenture
limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by TIA
§ 318(c), the imposed duties shall control.
Section 11.14 Currency
Indemnity. Any payment on account of an amount that is
payable in euros (the “Required Currency”),
which is made to or for the account of any Holder of the Notes
or the Trustee in lawful currency of any other jurisdiction (the
“Judgment Currency”), whether as a result of
any judgment or order or the enforcement thereof or the
liquidation of the Issuer or a Guarantor, shall constitute a
discharge of the Issuer or the Guarantor’s obligation under
this Indenture and the Notes or Note Guarantee, as the case may
be, only to the extent of the amount of the Required Currency
which such holder or the Trustee, as the case may be, could
purchase in the London foreign exchange markets with the amount
of the Judgment Currency in accordance with normal banking
procedures at the rate of exchange prevailing on the first
Business Day following receipt of the payment in the Judgment
Currency. If the amount of the Required Currency that could be
so purchased is less than the amount of the Required Currency
originally due to such Holder or the Trustee, as the case may
be, the Issuer shall indemnify and hold harmless the Holder or
the Trustee, as the case may be, from and against all loss or
damage arising out of, or as a result of, such deficiency. This
indemnity shall constitute an obligation separate and
independent from the other obligations contained in this
Indenture or the Notes, shall give rise to a separate and
independent cause of action, shall apply irrespective of any
indulgence granted by any Holder or the Trustee from time to
time and shall continue in full force and effect notwithstanding
any judgment or order for a liquidated sum in respect of an
amount due hereunder or under any judgment or order.
Section 11.15 Information. For
so long as the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange, and the rules of such stock exchange
so require, copies of this Indenture will be made available in
Luxembourg through the offices of the Luxembourg Paying Agent in
such city.
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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.
Very truly yours,
FMC FINANCE VI S.A.
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA,
a partnership limited by shares, represented by
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE MANAGEMENT AG, its general partner
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Assistant Treasurer
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
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EXHIBIT A
to
THE INDENTURE
[FORM OF
FACE OF GLOBAL NOTE]
[Global
Note Legend]
THIS NOTE IS A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME
OF THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE OF THE CLEARING AGENCY. THIS
NOTE IS NOT EXCHANGEABLE FOR SECURITIES REGISTERED IN THE
NAME OF A PERSON OTHER THAN THE CLEARING AGENCY OR ITS NOMINEE
EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE,
AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (OTHER THAN A TRANSFER OF THIS
NOTE AS A WHOLE TO THE CLEARING AGENCY OR A NOMINEE OF THE
CLEARING AGENCY) MAY BE REGISTERED EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE.
[Private
Placement Legend]
THE SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS
ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION
UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THE
SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE
EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER MAY BE
RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A
THEREUNDER. THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT (A) SUCH SECURITY MAY BE
RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (1)(a) INSIDE THE
UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER 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 IN A TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT, (b) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A FOREIGN PERSON IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 903 OR
RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(c) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF
APPLICABLE) OR (d) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE
TO THE ISSUER IF THE ISSUER SO REQUESTS), (2) TO THE ISSUER
OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND,
IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT
HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN CLAUSE
(A) ABOVE. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR
RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.
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FMC
FINANCE VI S.A.
5.50% Senior
Note due 2016
Common Code
No.:
ISIN
No.:
No.
€
FMC FINANCE VI S.A., a société anonyme organized under
the laws of Luxembourg (the “Issuer”, which term
includes any successor entity), for value received, promises to
pay to BT Globenet Nominees Limited or its registered assigns
upon surrender hereof the principal sum indicated on
Schedule A hereof, on July 15, 2016.
Interest Payment Dates: January 15 and July 15, commencing
July 15, 2010
Record Dates: January 1 and July 1 immediately preceding the
Interest Payment
Dates
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note
contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same
effect as if set forth at this place.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be
duly executed.
Dated:
FMC FINANCE VI S.A.
Name:
Title:
Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Securities with the Guarantees endorsed
thereon referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
Name:
Title:
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[FORM OF
REVERSE]
FMC
FINANCE VI S.A.
5.50% Senior
Note due 2016
1. Interest. FMC FINANCE VI S.A., a
société anonyme organized under the laws of Luxembourg
(the “Issuer”), promises to pay interest on the
principal amount of this Note at the rate and in the manner
specified below. Interest on the Notes will accrue at 5.50% per
annum on the principal amount then outstanding, and be payable
semi-annually in cash in arrears on each January 15 and
July 15, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing July 15, 2010, to
the Holder hereof. Notwithstanding any exchange of this Note for
a Definitive Note during the period starting on a Record Date
relating to such Definitive Note and ending on the immediately
succeeding interest payment date, the interest due on such
interest payment date shall be payable to the Person in whose
name this Global Note is registered at the close of business on
the Record Date for such interest. Interest on the Notes will
accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been
paid. Interest will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year
of twelve
30-day
months.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal and on
overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace periods) and on any Additional Amounts, from
time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes. Any
interest paid on this Note shall be increased to the extent
necessary to pay Additional Amounts as set forth herein.
2. Additional Amounts. All payments made under
or with respect to the Notes under the Indenture or pursuant to
any Note Guarantee must be made free and clear of and without
withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or
future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental
charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities
related thereto) imposed or levied by or on behalf of
(1) the United States, Germany, Luxembourg, the United
Kingdom or any political subdivision or governmental authority
thereof or therein having the power to tax, (2) any
jurisdiction from or through which payment on the Notes or any
Note Guarantee is made, or any political subdivision or
governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to
tax or (3) any other jurisdiction in which the payor is
organized or otherwise considered to be a resident or engaged in
business for tax purposes, or any political subdivision or
governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to
tax (each a “Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction”),
collectively, “Taxes,” unless the Issuer or any
Guarantor is required to withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by
the interpretation or administration thereof by the relevant
government authority or agency provided, however, that in
determining what withholding is required by law for
U.S. federal income and withholding tax purposes, the
Issuer and any Guarantor shall be entitled to treat any payments
on or in respect of the Notes or any Note Guarantee as if the
Notes or any Note Guarantee were issued by a U.S. person as
defined in section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. If the Issuer
or any Guarantor is so required to withhold or deduct any amount
for or on account of Taxes from any payment made under or with
respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, the Issuer or such
Guarantor, as the case may be, will be required to pay such
amount — “Additional Amounts” — as
may be necessary so that the net amount (including Additional
Amounts) received by each Holder after such withholding or
deduction (including any withholding or deduction on such
Additional Amounts) will not be less than the amount such Holder
would have received if such Taxes had not been withheld or
deducted; provided, however, that no Additional
Amounts will be payable with respect to payments made to any
Holder or beneficial owner to the extent such Taxes are imposed
by reason of (i) its being or having been connected with a
Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction, otherwise than by the acquisition,
ownership, holding or disposition of the Notes, the enforcement
of the rights under the Notes or under any Note Guarantee or the
receipt of payments in respect of the Notes or any Note
Guarantee, or (ii) such Holder or beneficial owner not
cooperating with the Issuer or the Guarantors in completing any
procedural formalities that it is legally eligible to complete
and are necessary for the Issuer or the Guarantors to pay or
obtain authorization to make payments without such Taxes
(including, without limitation, providing prior to the receipt
of any payment on or in respect of a Note or any Note Guarantee,
a complete, correct and executed IRS
Form W-8
or W-9 or
successor form, as applicable, with all appropriate
attachments); provided, however, that for purposes of
this obligation to pay Additional Amounts, the Issuer and any
Guarantor shall be entitled, for U.S. federal income and
withholding tax purposes, to treat any payments on or in respect
of the Notes as if the Notes were issued by a U.S. person
as defined in section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
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Further, no Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to
(i) any Tax imposed by the United States or any political
subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein on
interest by reason of any Holder or beneficial owner holding or
owning, actually or constructively, 10% or more of the total
combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Issuer or
any Guarantor entitled to vote or (ii) any Tax imposed by
the United States or any political subdivision or governmental
authority thereof or therein on interest by reason of any Holder
or beneficial owner being a controlled foreign corporation that
is a related person within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4)
of the Code with respect to the Issuer or any Guarantor. The
Issuer or Guarantor (as applicable) will also make such
withholding or deduction and remit the full amount deducted or
withheld to the relevant authority as and when required in
accordance with applicable law. The Issuer or Guarantor (as
applicable) will use all reasonable efforts to obtain certified
copies of tax receipts evidencing the payment by the Issuer or
Guarantor (as applicable) of any Taxes so deducted or withheld
from each Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes and
will provide such certified copies to the Trustee.
Wherever in the Indenture or the Notes there are mentioned, in
any context, (1) the payment of principal,
(2) purchase prices in connection with a purchase of Notes
under the Indenture or the Notes, (3) interest or
(4) any other amount payable on or with respect to any of
the Notes, such reference shall be deemed to include payment of
Additional Amounts as described under this heading to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be
payable in respect thereof.
The Issuer will pay any present stamp, court or documentary
taxes, or any other excise, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including any penalties, interest or other
liabilities related thereto) which arise in Luxembourg (or any
political subdivision thereof or therein) from the execution,
delivery and registration of Notes upon original issuance and
initial resale of the Notes or any other document or instrument
referred to therein. If at any time the Issuer changes its place
of organization to outside of Luxembourg or there is a new
issuer organized outside of Luxembourg, the Issuer or new
issuer, as applicable, will pay any stamp, court or documentary
taxes, or any other excise, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including any penalties, interest or other
liabilities related thereto) which arise in the jurisdiction in
which the Issuer or new issuer is organized (or any political
subdivision thereof or therein) and are payable by the Holders
of the Notes in respect of the Notes or any other document or
instrument referred to therein under any law, rule or regulation
in effect at the time of such change, or in connection with, the
enforcement of the Notes or any such other document or
instrument.
The foregoing obligations will survive any termination,
defeasance or discharge of the Indenture. References in this
section (“Additional Amounts”) to the Issuer or
Guarantor shall apply to any successor(s) thereto.
3. Method of Payment. The Issuer shall pay
interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Person
in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business
on the Record Date for such interest. The Issuer shall pay
principal and interest in euros. Immediately available funds for
the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), interest
and Additional Amounts, if any, on this Note due on any interest
payment date, Maturity Date, Redemption Date or other
repurchase date will be made available to the Paying Agent to
permit the Paying Agent to pay such funds to the Holders on such
respective dates.
4. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially,
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft will act as Paying Agent and
U.S. Bank National Association will act as Registrar. In
the event that a Paying Agent or transfer agent is replaced, the
Issuer will provide notice thereof (so long as the Notes are
Global Notes) published in a newspaper having a general
circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be the
Luxemburger Wort), or posted on the official website of
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx), if and so long as
the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange and the rules of such stock exchange shall so
require, and (in the case of Definitive Notes), in addition to
such publication, mailed by first-class mail to each
Holder’s registered address. The Issuer may change any
Registrar without notice to the Holders. The Issuer, the Company
or any of their Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions,
act in the capacity of Registrar or transfer agent.
5. Indenture. The Issuer issued the Notes under
an Indenture, dated as of January 20, 2010 (the
“Indenture”), among the Issuer, Fresenius Medical Care
AG & Co. KGaA (the “Company”), Fresenius
Medical Care Holdings, Inc. (“FMCH”), Fresenius
Medical Care Deutschland GmbH (“FMCD” and together
with the Company and
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FMCH, the “Guarantors”), U.S. Bank National
Association (the “Trustee”) as Trustee and Deutsche
Bank Aktiengesellschaft (the “Paying Agent”) as Paying
Agent. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes (as
defined in the Indenture) of the Issuer designated as its
5.50% Senior Notes due 2016. The terms of the Notes include
those stated in the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and
Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture for a statement
of them. The Notes are general obligations of the Issuer. The
Notes are not limited in aggregate principal amount and
Additional Notes (as defined in the Indenture) may be issued
from time to time under the Indenture, in each case subject to
the terms of the Indenture; provided that the aggregate
principal amount of Notes that will be issued on the Closing
Date (as defined in the Indenture) will not exceed
€250,000,000. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to
be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as
the same may be amended from time to time.
6. Ranking. The Notes will be senior unsecured
obligations of the Issuer. The payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes (and the Guarantees
of such obligations under the Note Guarantees) will:
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Indebtedness of the Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable,
that is not by its terms expressly subordinated to other
Indebtedness of the Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable;
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rank senior in right of payment to all Indebtedness of the
Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable, that is, by its terms,
expressly subordinated to the senior Indebtedness of the Issuer
and the Guarantors, as applicable;
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be effectively subordinated to the Secured Indebtedness of the
Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable, to the extent of the
value of the collateral securing such Indebtedness, and to the
Indebtedness of the Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors of the
Notes; and
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in the case of the Note Guarantee of Fresenius Medical Care
Deutschland GmbH, be effectively subordinated to the claims of
such Guarantor’s third-party creditors as a result of
limitations applicable to the Note Guarantee as set forth in
Section 10.1(c) of the Indenture.
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7. Note Guarantee. As provided in the Indenture
and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the
obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture and this Note are
Guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis pursuant to Note
Guarantees endorsed hereon. The Indenture provides that a
Guarantor shall be released from its Note Guarantee upon
compliance with certain conditions.
8. Optional Redemption. The Issuer may redeem
all or, from time to time, a part of the Notes, at its option,
at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of
the Notes plus accrued interest to the redemption date, plus the
excess of:
(a) as determined by the calculation agent (which shall
initially be the Trustee), the sum of the present values of the
remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the
Notes being redeemed not including any portion of such payment
of interest accrued on the date of redemption, from the
redemption date to the maturity date, discounted to the
redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a
360-day year
consisting of twelve
30-day
months) at the Bund Rate plus 50 basis points; over
(b) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being
redeemed.
If the optional redemption date is on or after an interest
record date and on or before the related interest payment date,
the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to the
Person in whose name the Note is registered at the close of
business on such record date, and no additional interest will be
payable to beneficial Holders whose Notes will be subject to
redemption by the Issuer.
In the case of any partial redemption, the Trustee will select
the Notes for redemption in compliance with the requirements of
the principal securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes
are listed or, if the Notes are not listed, then by lot, on a
pro rata basis, or by such other method as the Trustee in its
sole discretion will deem to be fair and appropriate, although
no Note of €1,000 in original principal amount or less will
be redeemed in part. If any Note is to be redeemed in part only,
the notice of redemption relating to that Note will state the
portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. A new
Note in principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof
will be
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issued and delivered to the Trustee, or in the case of
Definitive Notes, issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon
cancellation of the original Note.
9. Special Tax Redemption. The Issuer is
entitled to redeem the Notes, at its option, at any time in
whole but not in part, upon not less than 30 nor more than
60 days’ notice, at 100% of the principal amount of
the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest (if any) to the date
of redemption (a “Tax Redemption Date”) (subject
to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to
receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in
the event the Issuer has become or would become obligated to
pay, on the next date on which any amount would be payable with
respect to the Notes, any additional amounts as a result of:
(a) a change in or an amendment to the laws, treaties,
regulations or rulings of any Relevant Taxing
Jurisdiction; or
(b) any change in or amendment to any official position
regarding the application, administration or interpretation of
such laws, treaties, regulations or rulings (including by virtue
of a holding, judgment or order by a court of competent
jurisdiction);
which change or amendment to such laws or official position is
announced and becomes effective on or after the date of issuance
of the Notes; provided that the Issuer determines, in its
reasonable judgment, that the obligation to pay such additional
amounts cannot be avoided by the use of reasonable measures
available to it; provided, further, that at the
time such notice is given, such obligation to pay Additional
Amounts remains in effect.
Notice of any such redemption must be given within 270 days
of the earlier of the announcement or effectiveness of any such
change.
10. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption
will be given at least 30 days but not more than
60 days before the Redemption Date or Tax
Redemption Date, as the case may be, (i) so long as
the Notes are in global form, by publishing in a newspaper
having a general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to
be the Luxemburger Wort), or posted on the official
website of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx), if and
so long as the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such stock exchange
shall so require, and notify the Holders, the Trustee and the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange, if applicable and (ii) in the
case of Definitive Notes, in addition to such publication, by
mailing first-class mail to each Holder’s registered
address. Notes in denominations of €1,000 may be redeemed
only in whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions
(equal to €1,000 or any integral multiple of €1,000 in
excess thereof) of the principal of Notes that have
denominations larger than €1,000.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, from and after any
Redemption Date or Tax Redemption Date, as the case
may be, if monies for the redemption of the Notes called for
redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent for
redemption on such Redemption Date or Tax
Redemption Date, as the case may be, then, unless the
Issuer defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price,
the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, and the only right of the Holders of
such Notes will be to receive payment of the
Redemption Price.
11. Change of Control. Each Holder of the
Notes, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering
Event, will have the right to require that the Issuer repurchase
such Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to
101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right
of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive
interest due on the relevant interest payment date). Holders of
Notes that are subject to an offer to purchase will receive a
Change of Control offer from the Company prior to any related
Change of Control payment date and may elect to have such Notes
purchased by completing the form entitled “Option of Holder
to Elect Purchase” appearing below.
12. Denominations; Form. The Global Notes are
in registered global form, without coupons, in denominations of
€1,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess
thereof.
13. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered
Holder of this Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all
purposes, subject to the terms of the Indenture.
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14. Unclaimed Funds. If funds for the payment
of principal, interest, premium or Additional Amounts remain
unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agents will
repay the funds to the Issuer at its written request. After
that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agents with
respect to such funds shall cease.
15. Legal Defeasance and Covenant
Defeasance. The Issuer may be discharged from its
obligations under the Indenture and the Notes except for certain
provisions thereof (“Legal Defeasance”), and may be
discharged from its obligations to comply with certain covenants
contained in the Indenture (“Covenant Defeasance”), in
each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in
the Indenture.
16. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to
certain exceptions specified in the Indenture, the Indenture or
the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default
or Event of Default or compliance with any provision of the
Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding.
17. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture
imposes certain covenants that, among other things, limit the
ability of the Issuer, the Company, the Guarantors and their
Subsidiaries to incur additional Indebtedness, to incur
additional Liens, to enter into Sale and Leaseback Transactions
and enter into certain consolidations or mergers. The
limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications
and exceptions. The Issuer must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.
18. Successors. When a successor assumes all
the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the
predecessor will be released from those obligations.
19. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of
Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
clause (7) of Section 6.1 of the Indenture) occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may declare all
the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture. Holders of Notes may
not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the
Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture
or the Notes unless it has received full indemnity. The
Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein
provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise
of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of
Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default
(except a Default in payment of principal, premium, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, including an accelerated payment) if
it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.
20. Trustee Dealings with Issuer. The Trustee
under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity,
may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal
with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective
Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
21. No Recourse Against Others. No member of
the Board of Directors, officer, employee, incorporator or
stockholder of the Issuer, Xxxxxxxxx SE, the Company or the
Guarantors, as such, shall have any liability for any
obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under the Notes, the
Indenture or the Note Guarantees or for any claim based on, in
respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability and agrees not to enforce any claim in respect of the
Notes, the Indenture or the Notes Guarantees to the extent that
it would give rise to such personal liability. The waiver and
release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes
and the Note Guarantees. Such waiver and release may not be
effective to waive liabilities under the U.S. federal
securities laws and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver
is against public policy. In addition, such waiver and release
may not be effective under the laws of the Federal Republic of
Germany. The waiver and release are part of the consideration
for issuance of the Notes.
22. Authentication. This Note shall not be
valid until the Trustee or authenticating agent signs the
certificate of authentication on this Note.
23. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary
abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note 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 (=
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Uniform Gifts to Minors Act). Unless otherwise defined herein,
terms defined in the Indenture are used herein as defined
therein.
24. ISINs and Common Codes. The Issuer will
cause ISINs
and/or
Common Codes to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the
Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the
accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance
may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed
hereon.
25.
Governing Law. THIS NOTE AND THE
INDENTURE, AND THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
AND THEREUNDER, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK. THE
NOTE GUARANTEES WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK EXCEPT
CERTAIN MATTERS CONCERNING LIMITATION THEREOF WILL BE CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.
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SCHEDULE A
SCHEDULE OF
PRINCIPAL AMOUNT
The initial principal amount at maturity of this Note shall be
€[principal amount]. The following decreases/increases in
the principal amount at maturity of this Note have been made:
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A-10
OPTION OF
HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Issuer
pursuant to Section 4.11 of the Indenture, check the box
below:
o
If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by
the Issuer pursuant to Section 4.11 of the Indenture, state
the amount:
€
Date:
Your
Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this
Note)
Signature
Guarantee:
Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion
Program
(or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee)
A-11
EXHIBIT B
to
THE INDENTURE
[FORM OF
FACE OF DEFINITIVE NOTE]
THIS NOTE IS A DEFINITIVE NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF
THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO.
[Private
Placement Legend]
THE SECURITY (OR ITS PREDECESSOR) EVIDENCED HEREBY WAS
ORIGINALLY ISSUED IN A TRANSACTION EXEMPT FROM REGISTRATION
UNDER SECTION 5 OF THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE “SECURITIES ACT”), AND THE
SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD OR OTHERWISE
TRANSFERRED IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR AN APPLICABLE
EXEMPTION THEREFROM. EACH PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY IS HEREBY NOTIFIED THAT THE SELLER MAY BE
RELYING ON THE EXEMPTION FROM THE PROVISIONS OF
SECTION 5 OF THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144A
THEREUNDER. THE HOLDER OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY AGREES
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE ISSUER THAT (A) SUCH SECURITY MAY BE
RESOLD, PLEDGED OR OTHERWISE TRANSFERRED, ONLY (1)(a) INSIDE THE
UNITED STATES TO A PERSON WHO THE SELLER 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 IN A TRANSACTION
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT, (b) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A FOREIGN PERSON IN A
TRANSACTION MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS OF RULE 903 OR
RULE 904 OF REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(c) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION UNDER
THE SECURITIES ACT PROVIDED BY RULE 144 THEREUNDER (IF
APPLICABLE) OR (d) IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANOTHER
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
SECURITIES ACT (AND BASED UPON AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE
TO THE ISSUER IF THE ISSUER SO REQUESTS), (2) TO THE ISSUER
OR (3) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT AND,
IN EACH CASE, IN ACCORDANCE WITH ANY APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS
OF ANY STATE OF THE UNITED STATES OR ANY OTHER APPLICABLE
JURISDICTION AND (B) THE HOLDER WILL, AND EACH SUBSEQUENT
HOLDER IS REQUIRED TO, NOTIFY ANY PURCHASER OF THE SECURITY
EVIDENCED HEREBY OF THE RESALE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN CLAUSE
(A) ABOVE. NO REPRESENTATION CAN BE MADE AS TO THE
AVAILABILITY OF THE EXEMPTION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 FOR
RESALE OF THE SECURITY EVIDENCED HEREBY.
B-1
FMC
FINANCE VI S.A.
5.50% Senior
Note due 2016
Common Code
No.:
ISIN
No.:
No.
€
FMC FINANCE VI S.A., a société anonyme organized under
the laws of Luxembourg (the “Issuer”, which term
includes any successor entity), for value received, promises to
pay to BT Globenet Nominees Limited or its registered assigns
upon surrender hereof the principal sum of
€ ,
on July 15, 2016.
Interest Payment Dates: January 15 and July 15, commencing
July 15, 2010
Record Dates: January 1 and July 1 immediately preceding the
related Interest Payment Dates
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Note
contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same
effect as if set forth at this place.
B-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be
duly executed.
Dated:
FMC FINANCE VI S.A.
Name:
Title:
Trustee’s
Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Securities with the Guarantees endorsed
thereon referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee
Name:
Title:
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[FORM OF
REVERSE]
FMC
FINANCE VI S.A.
5.50% Senior
Note due 2016
1. Interest. FMC FINANCE VI S.A., a
société anonyme organized under the laws of Luxembourg
(the “Issuer”), promises to pay interest on the
principal amount of this Note at the rate and in the manner
specified below. Interest on the Notes will accrue at 5.50% per
annum on the principal amount then outstanding, and be payable
semi-annually in cash in arrears on each January 15 and
July 15, or if any such day is not a Business Day, on the
next succeeding Business Day, commencing July 15, 2010, to
the Holder hereof. Notwithstanding any exchange of this Note for
a Definitive Note during the period starting on a Record Date
relating to such Definitive Note and ending on the immediately
succeeding interest payment date, the interest due on such
interest payment date shall be payable to the Person in whose
name this Global Note is registered at the close of business on
the Record Date for such interest. Interest on the Notes will
accrue from the most recent date to which interest has been
paid. Interest will be computed on the basis of a
360-day year
of twelve
30-day
months.
The Issuer shall pay interest on overdue principal and on
overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace periods) and on any Additional Amounts, from
time to time on demand at the rate borne by the Notes. Any
interest paid on this Note shall be increased to the extent
necessary to pay Additional Amounts as set forth herein.
2. Additional Amounts. All payments made under
or with respect to the Notes under the Indenture or pursuant to
any Note Guarantee must be made free and clear of and without
withholding or deduction for or on account of any present or
future tax, duty, levy, impost, assessment or other governmental
charge (including penalties, interest and other liabilities
related thereto) imposed or levied by or on behalf of
(1) the United States, Germany, Luxembourg, the United
Kingdom or any political subdivision or governmental authority
thereof or therein having the power to tax, (2) any
jurisdiction from or through which payment on the Notes or any
Note Guarantee is made, or any political subdivision or
governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to
tax or (3) any other jurisdiction in which the payor is
organized or otherwise considered to be a resident or engaged in
business for tax purposes, or any political subdivision or
governmental authority thereof or therein having the power to
tax (each a “Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction”),
collectively, “Taxes,” unless the Issuer or any
Guarantor is required to withhold or deduct Taxes by law or by
the interpretation or administration thereof by the relevant
government authority or agency provided, however, that in
determining what withholding is required by law for
U.S. federal income and withholding tax purposes, the
Issuer and any Guarantor shall be entitled to treat any payments
on or in respect of the Notes or any Note Guarantee as if the
Notes or any Note Guarantee were issued by a U.S. person as
defined in section 7701(a)(30) of the Code. If the Issuer
or any Guarantor is so required to withhold or deduct any amount
for or on account of Taxes from any payment made under or with
respect to the Notes or any Note Guarantee, the Issuer or such
Guarantor, as the case may be, will be required to pay such
amount — “Additional Amounts” — as
may be necessary so that the net amount (including Additional
Amounts) received by each Holder after such withholding or
deduction (including any withholding or deduction on such
Additional Amounts) will not be less than the amount such Holder
would have received if such Taxes had not been withheld or
deducted; provided, however, that no Additional
Amounts will be payable with respect to payments made to any
Holder or beneficial owner to the extent such Taxes are imposed
by reason of (i) its being or having been connected with a
Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction, otherwise than by the acquisition,
ownership, holding or disposition of the Notes, the enforcement
of the rights under the Notes or under any Note Guarantee or the
receipt of payments in respect of the Notes or any Note
Guarantee, or (ii) such Holder or beneficial owner not
cooperating with the Issuer or the Guarantors in completing any
procedural formalities that it is legally eligible to complete
and are necessary for the Issuer or the Guarantors to pay or
obtain authorization to make payments without such Taxes
(including, without limitation, providing prior to the receipt
of any payment on or in respect of a Note or any Note Guarantee,
a complete, correct and executed IRS
Form W-8
or W-9 or
successor form, as applicable, with all appropriate
attachments); provided, however, that for purposes of
this obligation to pay Additional Amounts, the Issuer and any
Guarantor shall be entitled, for U.S. federal income and
withholding tax purposes, to treat any payments on or in respect
of the Notes as if the Notes were issued by a U.S. person
as defined in section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
B-4
Further, no Additional Amounts shall be payable with respect to
(i) any Tax imposed by the United States or any political
subdivision or governmental authority thereof or therein on
interest by reason of any Holder or beneficial owner holding or
owning, actually or constructively, 10% or more of the total
combined voting power of all classes of stock of the Issuer or
any Guarantor entitled to vote or (ii) any Tax imposed by
the United States or any political subdivision or governmental
authority thereof or therein on interest by reason of any Holder
or beneficial owner being a controlled foreign corporation that
is a related person within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4)
of the Code with respect to the Issuer or any Guarantor. The
Issuer or Guarantor (as applicable) will also make such
withholding or deduction and remit the full amount deducted or
withheld to the relevant authority as and when required in
accordance with applicable law. The Issuer or Guarantor (as
applicable) will use all reasonable efforts to obtain certified
copies of tax receipts evidencing the payment by the Issuer or
Guarantor (as applicable) of any Taxes so deducted or withheld
from each Relevant Taxing Jurisdiction imposing such Taxes and
will provide such certified copies to the Trustee.
Wherever in the Indenture or the Notes there are mentioned, in
any context, (1) the payment of principal,
(2) purchase prices in connection with a purchase of Notes
under the Indenture or the Notes, (3) interest or
(4) any other amount payable on or with respect to any of
the Notes, such reference shall be deemed to include payment of
Additional Amounts as described under this heading to the extent
that, in such context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be
payable in respect thereof.
The Issuer will pay any present stamp, court or documentary
taxes, or any other excise, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including any penalties, interest or other
liabilities related thereto) which arise in Luxembourg (or any
political subdivision thereof or therein) from the execution,
delivery and registration of Notes upon original issuance and
initial resale of the Notes or any other document or instrument
referred to therein. If at any time the Issuer changes its place
of organization to outside of Luxembourg or there is a new
issuer organized outside of Luxembourg, the Issuer or new
issuer, as applicable, will pay any stamp, court or documentary
taxes, or any other excise, property or similar taxes, charges
or levies (including any penalties, interest or other
liabilities related thereto) which arise in the jurisdiction in
which the Issuer or new issuer is organized (or any political
subdivision thereof or therein) and are payable by the Holders
of the Notes in respect of the Notes or any other document or
instrument referred to therein under any law, rule or regulation
in effect at the time of such change, or in connection with, the
enforcement of the Notes or any such other document or
instrument.
The foregoing obligations will survive any termination,
defeasance or discharge of the Indenture. References in this
section (“Additional Amounts”) to the Issuer or
Guarantor shall apply to any successor(s) thereto.
3. Method of Payment. The Issuer shall pay
interest on the Notes (except defaulted interest) to the Person
in whose name this Note is registered at the close of business
on the Record Date for such interest. Holders must surrender
Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The
Issuer shall pay principal and interest in euros. Immediately
available funds for the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any), interest and Additional Amounts, if any, on
this Note due on any interest payment date, Maturity Date,
Redemption Date or other repurchase date will be made
available to the Paying Agent to permit the Paying Agent to pay
such funds to the Holders on such respective dates.
4. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially,
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft will act as Paying Agent and
U.S. Bank National Association will act as Registrar. In
the event that a Paying Agent or transfer agent is replaced, the
Issuer will provide notice thereof (so long as the Notes are
Global Notes) published in a newspaper having a general
circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to be the
Luxemburger Wort), or posted on the official website of
the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx), if and so long as
the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the Luxembourg
Stock Exchange and the rules of such stock exchange shall so
require, and (in the case of Definitive Notes), in addition to
such publication, mailed by first-class mail to each
Holder’s registered address. The Issuer may change any
Registrar without notice to the Holders. The Issuer, the Company
or any of their Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions,
act in the capacity of Registrar or transfer agent.
5. Indenture. The Issuer issued the Notes under
an Indenture, dated as of January 20, 2010 (the
“Indenture”), among the Issuer, Fresenius Medical Care
AG & Co. KGaA (the “Company”), Fresenius
Medical Care Holdings,
B-5
Inc. (“FMCH”), Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
(“FMCD” and together with the Company and FMCH, the
“Guarantors”), U.S. Bank National Association
(the “Trustee”) as Trustee and Deutsche Bank
Aktiengesellschaft (the “Paying Agent”) as Paying
Agent. This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes (as
defined in the Indenture) of the Issuer designated as its
5.50% Senior Notes due 2016. The terms of the Notes include
those stated in the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and
Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture for a statement
of them. The Notes are general obligations of the Issuer. The
Notes are not limited in aggregate principal amount and
Additional Notes (as defined in the Indenture) may be issued
from time to time under the Indenture, in each case subject to
the terms of the Indenture; provided that the aggregate
principal amount of Notes that will be issued on the Closing
Date (as defined in the Indenture) will not exceed
€250,000,000. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to
be bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as
the same may be amended from time to time.
6. Ranking. The Notes will be senior unsecured
obligations of the Issuer. The payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Notes (and the Guarantees
of such obligations under the Note Guarantees) will:
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Indebtedness of the Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable,
that is not by its terms expressly subordinated to other
Indebtedness of the Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable;
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rank senior in right of payment to all Indebtedness of the
Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable, that is, by its terms,
expressly subordinated to the senior Indebtedness of the Issuer
and the Guarantors, as applicable;
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be effectively subordinated to the Secured Indebtedness of the
Issuer and the Guarantors, as applicable, to the extent of the
value of the collateral securing such Indebtedness, and to the
Indebtedness of the Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors of the
Notes; and
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in the case of the Note Guarantee of Fresenius Medical Care
Deutschland GmbH, be effectively subordinated to the claims of
such Guarantor’s third-party creditors as a result of
limitations applicable to the Note Guarantee as set forth in
Section 10.1(c) of the Indenture.
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7. Note Guarantee. As provided in the Indenture
and subject to certain limitations set forth therein, the
obligations of the Issuer under the Indenture and this Note are
Guaranteed on a senior unsecured basis pursuant to Note
Guarantees endorsed hereon. The Indenture provides that a
Guarantor shall be released from its Note Guarantee upon
compliance with certain conditions.
8. Optional Redemption. The Issuer may redeem
all or, from time to time, a part of the Notes, at its option,
at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal amount of
the Notes plus accrued interest to the redemption date, plus the
excess of:
(a) as determined by the calculation agent (which shall
initially be the Trustee), the sum of the present values of the
remaining scheduled payments of principal and interest on the
Notes being redeemed not including any portion of such payment
of interest accrued on the date of redemption, from the
redemption date to the maturity date, discounted to the
redemption date on a semi-annual basis (assuming a
360-day year
consisting of twelve
30-day
months) at the Bund Rate plus 50 basis points; over
(b) 100% of the principal amount of the Notes being
redeemed.
If the optional redemption date is on or after an interest
record date and on or before the related interest payment date,
the accrued and unpaid interest, if any, will be paid to the
Person in whose name the Note is registered at the close of
business on such record date, and no additional interest will be
payable to beneficial Holders whose Notes will be subject to
redemption by the Issuer.
In the case of any partial redemption, the Trustee will select
the Notes for redemption in compliance with the requirements of
the principal securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes
are listed or, if the Notes are not listed, then by lot, on a
pro rata basis, or by such other method as the Trustee in its
sole discretion will deem to be fair and appropriate, although
no Note of €1,000 in original principal amount or less will
be redeemed in part. If any Note is to be redeemed in part only,
the notice of redemption relating to that Note will state the
portion of the principal
B-6
amount thereof to be redeemed. A new Note in principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued and
delivered to the Trustee, or in the case of Definitive Notes,
issued in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of
the original Note.
9. Special Tax Redemption. The Issuer is
entitled to redeem the Notes, at its option, at any time in
whole but not in part, upon not less than 30 nor more than
60 days’ notice, at 100% of the principal amount of
the Notes, plus accrued and unpaid interest (if any) to the date
of redemption (a “Tax Redemption Date”) (subject
to the right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to
receive interest due on the relevant interest payment date), in
the event the Issuer has become or would become obligated to
pay, on the next date on which any amount would be payable with
respect to the Notes, any additional amounts as a result of:
(a) a change in or an amendment to the laws, treaties,
regulations or rulings of any Relevant Taxing
Jurisdiction; or
(b) any change in or amendment to any official position
regarding the application, administration or interpretation of
such laws, treaties, regulations or rulings (including by virtue
of a holding, judgment or order by a court of competent
jurisdiction);
which change or amendment to such laws or official position is
announced and becomes effective on or after the date of issuance
of the Notes; provided that the Issuer determines, in its
reasonable judgment, that the obligation to pay such additional
amounts cannot be avoided by the use of reasonable measures
available to it; provided, further, that at the
time such notice is given, such obligation to pay Additional
Amounts remains in effect.
Notice of any such redemption must be given within 270 days
of the earlier of the announcement or effectiveness of any such
change.
10. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption
will be given at least 30 days but not more than
60 days before the Redemption Date or Tax
Redemption Date, as the case may be, (i) so long as
the Notes are in global form, by publishing in a newspaper
having a general circulation in Luxembourg (which is expected to
be the Luxemburger Wort), or posted on the official
website of the Luxembourg Stock Exchange (xxx.xxxxxx.xx), if and
so long as the Notes are listed on the Euro MTF Market of the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange and the rules of such stock exchange
shall so require, and notify the Holders, the Trustee and the
Luxembourg Stock Exchange, if applicable and (ii) in the
case of Definitive Notes, in addition to such publication, by
mailing first-class mail to each Holder’s registered
address. Notes in denominations of €1,000 may be redeemed
only in whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions
(equal to €1,000 or any integral multiple of €1,000 in
excess thereof) of the principal of Notes that have
denominations larger than €1,000.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, from and after any
Redemption Date or Tax Redemption Date, as the case
may be, if monies for the redemption of the Notes called for
redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying Agent for
redemption on such Redemption Date or Tax
Redemption Date, as the case may be, then, unless the
Issuer defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price,
the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, and the only right of the Holders of
such Notes will be to receive payment of the
Redemption Price.
11. Change of Control. Each Holder of the
Notes, upon the occurrence of a Change of Control Triggering
Event, will have the right to require that the Issuer repurchase
such Holder’s Notes, at a purchase price in cash equal to
101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the date of purchase (subject to the right
of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive
interest due on the relevant interest payment date). Holders of
Notes that are subject to an offer to purchase will receive a
Change of Control offer from the Company prior to any related
Change of Control payment date and may elect to have such Notes
purchased by completing the form entitled “Option of Holder
to Elect Purchase” appearing below.
12. Denominations; Form. The Global Notes are
in registered global form, without coupons, in denominations of
€1,000 and integral multiples of €1,000 in excess
thereof.
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13. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered
Holder of this Note shall be treated as the owner of it for all
purposes, subject to the terms of the Indenture.
14. Unclaimed Funds. If funds for the payment
of principal, interest, premium or Additional Amounts remain
unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agents will
repay the funds to the Issuer at its written request. After
that, all liability of the Trustee and such Paying Agents with
respect to such funds shall cease.
15. Legal Defeasance and Covenant
Defeasance. The Issuer may be discharged from its
obligations under the Indenture and the Notes except for certain
provisions thereof (“Legal Defeasance”), and may be
discharged from its obligations to comply with certain covenants
contained in the Indenture (“Covenant Defeasance”), in
each case upon satisfaction of certain conditions specified in
the Indenture.
16. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to
certain exceptions specified in the Indenture, the Indenture or
the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in principal
amount of the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default
or Event of Default or compliance with any provision of the
Indenture or the Notes may be waived with the consent of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding.
17. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture
imposes certain covenants that, among other things, limit the
ability of the Issuer, the Company, the Guarantors and their
Subsidiaries to incur additional Indebtedness, to incur
additional Liens, to enter into Sale and Leaseback Transactions
and enter into certain consolidations or mergers. The
limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications
and exceptions. The Issuer must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.
18. Successors. When a successor assumes all
the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture in accordance with the terms of the Indenture, the
predecessor will be released from those obligations.
19. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of
Default (other than an Event of Default specified in
clause (7) of Section 6.1 of the Indenture) occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes may declare all
the Notes to be due and payable immediately in the manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture. Holders of Notes may
not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the
Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture
or the Notes unless it has received full indemnity. The
Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein
provided, Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding to direct the Trustee in its exercise
of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders of
Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default
(except a Default in payment of principal, premium, interest and
Additional Amounts, if any, including an accelerated payment) if
it determines that withholding notice is in their interest.
20. Trustee Dealings with Issuer. The Trustee
under the Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity,
may become the owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal
with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their respective
Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
21. No Recourse Against Others. No member of
the Board of Directors, officer, employee, incorporator or
stockholder of the Issuer, Xxxxxxxxx SE, the Company or the
Guarantors, as such, shall have any liability for any
obligations of the Issuer or any Guarantor under the Notes, the
Indenture or the Note Guarantees or for any claim based on, in
respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability and agrees not to enforce any claim in respect of the
Notes, the Indenture or the Notes Guarantees to the extent that
it would give rise to such personal liability. The waiver and
release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes
and the Note Guarantees. Such waiver and release may not be
effective to waive liabilities under the U.S. federal
securities laws and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver
is against public policy. In addition, such waiver and release
may not be effective under the laws of the Federal Republic of
Germany. The waiver and release are part of the consideration
for issuance of the Notes.
22. Authentication. This Note shall not be
valid until the Trustee or authenticating agent signs the
certificate of authentication on this Note.
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23. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary
abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a Note 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). Unless
otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Indenture are
used herein as defined therein.
24. ISINs and Common Codes. The Issuer will
cause ISINs
and/or
Common Codes to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the
Holders of the Notes. No representation is made as to the
accuracy of such numbers as printed on the Notes and reliance
may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed
hereon.
25. Governing Law. THIS NOTE AND THE
INDENTURE, AND THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE PARTIES HEREUNDER
AND THEREUNDER, SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. THE
NOTE GUARANTEES WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK EXCEPT
CERTAIN MATTERS CONCERNING LIMITATION THEREOF WILL BE CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY.
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ASSIGNMENT
FORM
To assign this Note fill in the form below:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to
(Print or type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
(Insert assignee’s social security or tax I.D. No.)
and irrevocably
appoint
agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Issuer.
The agent may substitute another to act for him.
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OPTION OF
HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Issuer
pursuant to Section 4.11 of the Indenture, check the box
below:
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If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by
the Issuer pursuant to Section 4.11 of the Indenture, state
the amount: €
Date:
Your
Signature:
(Sign exactly as your name appears on the other side of this
Note)
Signature
Guarantee:
Participant in a recognized Signature Guarantee Medallion Program
(or other signature guarantor program reasonably acceptable to
the Trustee)
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EXHIBIT C
to
THE INDENTURE
FORM OF
NOTE GUARANTEE
For value received, each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and
severally unconditionally Guarantees, on a senior unsecured
basis, to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee, and to the Trustee on behalf of such Holder, the
due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest (including Additional Amounts, if any) on such
Note when and as the same shall become due and payable, whether
at the Stated Maturity, by acceleration, call for redemption,
purchase or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of such Note
and of the Indenture.
In case of the failure of the Issuer punctually to make any such
payment, each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally
agrees to cause such payment to be made punctually when and as
the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by acceleration, call for redemption, purchase or
otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the Issuer. The
Note Guarantee extends to the Issuer’s repurchase
obligations arising from a Change of Control pursuant to the
Indenture.
Each of the Guarantors hereby jointly and severally agrees that
its obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective
of the validity, regularity or enforceability of such Note or
the Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same,
any exchange, release or non-perfection of any Lien on any
collateral for, or any release or amendment or waiver of any
term of any other Guarantee of, or any consent to departure from
any requirement of any other Guarantee of, all or any of the
Notes, the effects of Bankruptcy Law applicable in the event of
bankruptcy proceedings being opened with respect to the Issuer,
of all or any portion of the claims of the Trustee or any of the
Holders for payment of any of the Notes, any waiver or consent
by the Holder of such Note or by the Trustee with respect to any
provisions thereof or of the Indenture, the obtaining of any
judgment against the Issuer or any action to enforce the same or
any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a legal
or equitable discharge or defense of a guarantor. Each of the
Guarantors hereby waives the benefits of diligence, presentment,
demand for payment, any requirement that the Trustee or any of
the Holders protect, secure, perfect or insure any security
interest in or other Lien on any property subject thereto or
exhaust any right or take any action against the Issuer or any
other Person or any collateral, filing of claims with a court in
the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Issuer, any right
to require a proceeding first against the Issuer, protest or
notice with respect to such Note or the Indebtedness evidenced
thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that this Note
Guarantee will not be discharged in respect of such Note except
by complete performance of the obligations contained in such
Note and in this Note Guarantee. Each of the Guarantors hereby
agrees that, in the event of a default in payment of principal
(or premium, if any) or interest (including Additional Amounts,
if any) on such Note, whether at its Stated Maturity, by
acceleration, call for redemption, purchase or otherwise, legal
proceedings may be instituted by the Trustee on behalf of, or
by, the Holder of such Note, subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in the Indenture, directly against each of the
Guarantors to enforce this Note Guarantee without first
proceeding against the Issuer. Each Guarantor agrees that, to
the extent permitted by applicable law, if, after the occurrence
and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee
or any of the Holders is prevented by applicable law from
exercising its respective rights to accelerate the maturity of
the Notes, to collect interest on the Notes, or to enforce or
exercise any other right or remedy with respect to the Notes, or
the Trustee or the Holders are prevented from taking any action
to realize on any collateral, such Guarantor agrees to pay to
the Trustee for the account of the Holders, upon demand
therefor, the amount that would otherwise have been due and
payable had such rights and remedies been permitted to be
exercised by the Trustee or any of the Holders.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Note Guarantee or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the
Note Guarantee of any Guarantor, which is absolute and
unconditional, of the due and punctual payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) and interest (including Additional
Amounts, if any) on the Note upon which this Note Guarantee is
endorsed.
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This Note Guarantee shall remain in full force and effect and
continue to be effective should any petition be filed by or
against the Issuer for liquidation or reorganization, or
equivalent proceeding under applicable law, should the Issuer
become insolvent or make an assignment for the benefit of
creditors or should a receiver or trustee be appointed for all
or any significant part of the Issuer’s assets, or the
equivalent of any of the foregoing under applicable law, and
shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be,
if at any time payment and performance of the Notes is, pursuant
to applicable law, rescinded or reduced in amount, or must
otherwise be restored or returned by any obligee on the Notes
whether as a voidable preference, fraudulent transfer, or as
otherwise provided under similar laws affecting the rights of
creditors generally or under applicable laws of the jurisdiction
of formation of the Issuer, all as though such payment or
performance had not been made. In the event that any payment, or
any part thereof, is rescinded, reduced, restored or returned,
the Notes shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable
law, be reinstated and deemed reduced only by such amount paid
and not so rescinded, reduced, restored or returned.
The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from
any non-paying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right
does not impair the rights of the Holders under this Note
Guarantee. The Guarantors or any particular Guarantor shall be
released from this Note Guarantee upon the terms and subject to
certain conditions provided in the Indenture.
By delivery of a supplemental indenture to the Trustee in
accordance with the terms of the Indenture or the execution of a
Guarantee Agreement, each Person that becomes, or assumes the
obligations of, a Guarantor after the date of the Indenture will
be deemed to have executed and delivered this Note Guarantee for
the benefit of the Holder of this Note with the same effect as
if such Guarantor were named below.
All terms used in this Note Guarantee which are defined in the
Indenture referred to in the Note upon which this Note Guarantee
is endorsed shall have the meanings assigned to them in such
Indenture.
This Note Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any
purpose until the certificate of authentication on the Note upon
which this Note Guarantee is endorsed shall have been executed
by the Trustee under the Indenture by manual signature.
Each Note Guarantee (other than that of the Company) will be
limited in amount to an amount not to exceed the maximum amount
that can be guaranteed by the applicable Guarantor without
rendering the Note Guarantee, as it relates to such Guarantor,
voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance
or fraudulent transfer or similar laws affecting the rights of
creditors generally or under applicable law of the jurisdiction
of incorporation of such Guarantor.
In the case of Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
(“FMCD”), the following provisions apply:
Without limiting the agreements set forth in Section 11.8,
the Note Guarantee of FMCD will be limited if and to the extent
payment under such Note Guarantee or the application of
enforcement proceeds would cause (i) FMCD’s net assets
(Reinvermögen — calculated as the sum of
the balance sheet positions shown under § 266(2)(A),
(B) and (C) German Commercial Code
(Handelsgesetzbuch)) less the sum of the liabilities
(shown under the balance sheet positions pursuant to
§ 266(3)(B), (C) and (D) German Commercial
Code) to fall below FMCD’s registered share capital
(Stammkapital) or (ii) (if the amount of the net assets
is already an amount less than the registered share capital)
cause such amount to be further reduced and, in either case,
thereby affecting the assets required for the obligatory
preservation of its registered share capital according to
section 30, 31 of the German Limited Liability Company Act
(GmbHG) (such event a “Capital Impairment”). For the
purposes of calculating the Capital Impairment, the following
adjustments will be made: (i) the amount of any increase of
the registered share capital out of retained earnings
(Kapitalerhöhung aus Gesellschaftsmitteln) after the
Closing Date that has been effected without the prior consent of
the Trustee shall be deducted from the registered share capital;
and (ii) liabilities incurred in violation of the
provisions of the Notes and this Indenture shall be disregarded.
In the event FMCD’s net assets fall below its registered
share capital, FMCD, upon request of the Trustee will realize in
due course, to the extent legally permitted, any and all of its
assets that are shown in the balance sheet with a book value
(Buchwert) that is significantly lower than
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the market value of the assets if the relevant assets are not
necessary for FMCD’s business (nicht betriebsnotwendiges
Vermögen).
If FMCD objects to the amount demanded by the Trustee under the
Note Guarantee within twenty (20) business days after the
Trustee has submitted to FMCD a payment demand FMCD shall
appoint within five (5) business days a reputable
international auditor to determine the exact amount. The auditor
shall notify FMCD and the Trustee of the maximum amount payable
under the Note Guarantee within forty (40) business days
after its appointment. The costs of such auditor’s
determination shall be borne by FMCD. The determination of the
auditor shall be binding for FMCD, and the Holders (except for
manifest error). To the extent that any payment has been made
under the Note Guarantee by FMCD that would be necessary for
FMCD to be able to cure any Capital Impairment or Liquidity
Impairment such payment shall immediately — upon
FMCD’s demand — be returned to FMCD by any person
receiving such payment, provided, however, in no event shall the
Trustee or Paying Agent have any responsibility or liability for
the return of any amount distributed to any Holder or beneficial
owner of the Notes by the Trustee or Paying Agent, including,
without limitation, any obligation to seek return of such
amounts from such Holder or beneficial owner.
If (i) FMCD does not object to the payment amount within
the 20 business days period or (ii) if FMCD does not
appoint the auditor within the 5 business days period or
(iii) if the auditor fails to notify the amount payable
within the 40 days period, then the Trustee shall be
entitled to enforce the Note Guarantee without further delay.
The burden of demonstration and proof (Darlegungs- und
Beweislast) regarding the Capital Impairment and the maximum
amount payable under the Note Guarantee shall remain with FMCD.
The maximum amount payable under the guarantee shall be limited
to the extent and as long as FMCD as a consequence of the
payment would become unable to pay its debts when due
(zahlungsunfähig) within the meaning of
section 64 GmbHG (such event a “Liquidity
Impairment”). For the purpose of establishing whether a
Liquidity Impairment would occur, payments made by FMCD after
the Trustee has notified FMCD of its intention to enforce the
Note Guarantee with respect to payment obligations that are not
due at the time of the payment shall be disregarded, unless the
Trustee has consented to such payments (at the direction of the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the Notes
then outstanding). From the time the Trustee has notified FMCD
and the Company of its intention to enforce the Note Guarantee,
the Company may not make any payment demands against FMCD under
shareholder loans and all such payment obligations of FMCD
towards the Company shall be deferred, subordinated or waived as
the Company sees fit, until the Trustee notifies FMCD that it is
no longer enforcing the Note Guarantee or the Trustee consents
(at the direction of the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding) to the payments
to be made to the Company. Such notice may be delivered by the
Trustee at any time and, if not previously delivered, will be
delivered by the Trustee after the Notes have been repaid in
full and all other obligations under this Indenture are
satisfied.
The limitations as to the Capital Impairment shall not apply to
the extent FMCD has an adequate compensation claim
(vollwertiger Gegenleistungs- oder
Rückgewähranspruch) against the Company that
compensates for any loss incurred due to any payment by FMCD
under this Note Guarantee.
Reference is made to Article X of the Indenture for further
provisions with respect to this Note Guarantee.
THE NOTE GUARANTEES WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK EXCEPT THAT
THE LIMITATIONS OF THE NOTE GUARANTEES EXPRESSED IN
SECTION 10.1(c) OF THE INDENTURE (AND THE EQUIVALENT
PROVISIONS IN THE ELEVENTH PARAGRAPH HEREOF) WILL BE
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF
GERMANY.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the Guarantors has caused this Note
Guarantee to be duly executed.
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & CO. KGaA, a German
partnership limited by shares, represented by
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE MANAGEMENT AG, a German
corporation, its general partner, as a Guarantor
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FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE HOLDINGS, INC., as a Guarantor
Name:
Title:
FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH, as a Guarantor
Name:
Title:
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT D
to
THE INDENTURE
FORM OF
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER FROM
RULE 144A GLOBAL NOTE TO REGULATION S GLOBAL
NOTE
(Transfers pursuant to Section 2.7(a) of the
Indenture)
FMC Finance VI S.A.
c/o U.S.
Bank National Association
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Hartford, CT 06103
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RE: 5.50% Senior
Notes due 2016
(the
“Notes”) of FMC Finance VI S.A.
Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of
January 20, 2010 (the “Indenture”) between FMC
Finance VI S.A., Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA,
Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., Fresenius Medical Care
Deutschland GmbH, and U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall
have the meanings given them in the Indenture.
This letter relates to
€
(being in a minimum amount of €1,000 and any integral
multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof) principal amount of
Notes beneficially held through interests in the Rule 144A
Global Note (ISIN: XS0477568553 Common Code:
047756855) with Euroclear and Clearstream Banking in the
name
of (the
“Transferor”), account
number .
The Transferor hereby requests that on [INSERT DATE] such
beneficial interest in the Rule 144A Global Note be
transferred or exchanged for an interest in the
Regulation S Global Note (ISIN: XS0477568637 Common Code:
047756863) in the same principal denomination and
transferred
to
(account
no. ).
If this is a partial transfer, a minimum amount of €1,000
and any integral multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof of
the Rule 144A Global Note will remain outstanding.
In connection with such request and in respect of such Notes,
the Transferor does hereby certify that such transfer has been
effected in accordance with the transfer restrictions set forth
in the Indenture and the Notes and pursuant to and in accordance
with Rule 903 or 904 of Regulation S under the
Securities Act, and accordingly the Transferor further certifies
that:
(A) (1) the offer of the Notes was not made to a
Person in the United States;
(2) either (a) at the time the buy order was
originated, the transferee was outside the United States or we
and any Person acting on our behalf reasonably believed that the
transferee was outside the United States or (b) the
transaction was executed in, on or through the facilities of a
designated offshore securities market and neither the Transferor
nor any Person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction
was prearranged with a buyer in the United States;
(3) no directed selling efforts have been made in
contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or 904(a)
of Regulation S, as applicable; and
(4) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to
evade the registration requirements of the Securities Act.
OR
(B) such transfer is being made in accordance with
Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
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This certificate and the statements contained herein are made
for your benefit and the benefit of the Issuer. Terms used in
this certificate and not otherwise defined in the Indenture have
the meanings set forth in Regulation S under the Securities
Act.
Dated:
[Name of Transferor]
Name:
Title:
Telephone No.:
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EXHIBIT E
to
THE INDENTURE
FORM OF
TRANSFER CERTIFICATE FOR TRANSFER FROM
REGULATION S GLOBAL NOTE TO RULE 144A GLOBAL
NOTE
(Transfers pursuant to Section 2.7(b) of the
Indenture)
FMC Finance VI S.A.
c/o U.S.
Bank National Association
000 Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Hartford, CT 06103
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RE: 5.50% Senior
Notes due 2016
(the
“Notes”) of FMC Finance VI S.A.
Reference is hereby made to the Indenture dated as of January
20] 2010 (the “Indenture”) between FMC Finance
VI S.A., Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA,
Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., Fresenius Medical Care
Deutschland GmbH, and U.S. Bank National Association, as
Trustee. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall
have the meanings given them in the Indenture.
This letter relates to €
(being in a minimum amount of €1,000 and in an integral
multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof) principal amount of
Notes beneficially held through interests in the
Regulation S Global Note (ISIN: XS0477568637 Common Code:
047756863) with Euroclear and Clearstream Banking in the
name
of
(the “Transferor”), account
number .
The Transferor hereby requests that on [INSERT DATE] such
beneficial interest in the Regulation S Global Note be
transferred or exchanged for an interest in the Rule 144A
Global Note (ISIN: XS0477568553 Common Code: 047756855)in the
same principal denomination and transferred
to
(account
no. ).
If this is a partial transfer, a minimum of €1,000 and any
integral multiple of €1,000 in excess thereof of the
Regulation S Global Note will remain outstanding.
In connection with such request, and in respect of such Notes,
the Transferor does hereby certify that such Notes are being
transferred in accordance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act to a transferee that the Transferor knows or
reasonably believes is purchasing the Notes for its own account
or an account with respect to which the transferee exercises
sole investment discretion and the transferee and any such
account is a “qualified institutional buyer” within
the meaning of Rule 144A, in each case in a transaction
meeting the requirements of Rule 144A and in accordance
with any applicable securities laws of any state of the United
States or any other jurisdiction.
This certificate and the statements contained herein are made
for your benefit and the benefit of the Issuer.
Dated:
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[Name of Transferor]
Name:
Title:
Telephone No.:
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