SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
EXHIBIT 4.7
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “Supplemental Indenture”), dated as of April 12, 2004, among ARG Services LLC, EP Scientific Products LLC, and PACTECH, LLC (the “Guaranteeing Subsidiaries”), subsidiaries of Apogent Technologies Inc. (or its permitted successor), a Wisconsin corporation (the “Company”), the Company, the other Guarantors (as defined in the Indenture referred to herein) and The Bank of New York, as trustee under the indenture referred to below (the “Trustee”).
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Company has heretofore executed and delivered to the Trustee an indenture (the “Indenture”), dated as of June 2, 2003 providing for the issuance of 6-1/2% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2013 (the “Notes”);
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries shall unconditionally Guarantee all of the Company’s Obligations under the Notes and the Indenture on the terms and conditions set forth herein (the “Subsidiary Guarantee”); and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 9.01 of the Indenture, the Trustee is authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the parties mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes as follows:
1. CAPITALIZED TERMS. Capitalized terms used herein without definition shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
2. AGREEMENT TO GUARANTEE. The Guaranteeing Subsidiaries hereby agrees as follows:
(a) Along with all Guarantors named in the Indenture, to jointly and severally Guarantee to each Holder of a Note authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns, the Notes or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, that:
(i) the principal of, and premium and Liquidated Damages, if any, and interest on the Notes will be promptly paid in full when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, redemption or otherwise, and interest on the overdue principal of and interest on the Notes, if any, if lawful, and all other obligations of the
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Company to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder will be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with the terms hereof and thereof; and
(ii) in case of any extension of time of payment or renewal of any Notes or any of such other obligations, that same will be promptly paid in full when due or performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any amount so Guaranteed or any performance so Guaranteed for whatever reason, the Guarantors shall be jointly and severally obligated to pay the same immediately.
(b) The obligations hereunder shall be unconditional, irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Notes or the Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or consent by any Holder of the Notes with respect to any provisions hereof or thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same or any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or defense of a Guarantor.
(c) The following is hereby waived: diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever.
(d) This Subsidiary Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the obligations contained in the Notes and the Indenture, and the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries accepts all obligations of a Guarantor under the Indenture.
(e) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, the Guarantors, or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation to either the Company or the Guarantors, any amount paid by either to the Trustee or such Holder, this Subsidiary Guarantee, to the extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
(f) The Guaranteeing Subsidiaries shall not be entitled to any right of subrogation in relation to the Holders in respect of any obligations Guaranteed hereby until payment in full of all obligations Guaranteed hereby.
(g) As between the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the obligations Guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture for the purposes of this Subsidiary Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the obligations Guaranteed hereby, and (y) in the event of any declaration of acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article 6 of the Indenture, such obligations (whether or
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not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of this Subsidiary Guarantee.
(h) The Guarantors shall have the right to seek contribution from any nonpaying Guarantor so long as the exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the Subsidiary Guarantee.
(i) Pursuant to Section 10.02 of the Indenture, after giving effect to any maximum amount and all other contingent and fixed liabilities that are relevant under any applicable bankruptcy or fraudulent conveyance laws, and after giving effect to any collections from, rights to receive contribution from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Guarantor under Article 10 of the Indenture, this new Subsidiary Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount permissible such that the obligations of such Guarantor under this Subsidiary Guarantee will not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
3. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY. Each Guaranteeing Subsidiaries agrees that the Subsidiary Guarantees shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Note a notation of such Subsidiary Guarantee.
4. GUARANTEEING SUBSIDIARIES MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON CERTAIN TERMS.
(a) The Guaranteeing Subsidiaries may not sell or otherwise dispose of all substantially all of its assets to, or consolidate with or merge with or into (whether or not such Guarantor is the surviving Person) another Person, other than the Company or another Guarantor unless:
(i) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of Default exists; and
(ii) either (A) subject to Sections 10.04 and 10.05 of the Indenture, the Person acquiring the property in any such sale or disposition or the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger unconditionally assumes all the obligations of that Guarantor, pursuant to a supplemental indenture in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, under the Notes, the Indenture and the Subsidiary Guarantee on the terms set forth herein or therein; or (B) the Net Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation, Section 4.10 thereof.
(b) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance and upon the assumption by the successor Person, by supplemental indenture, executed and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the Subsidiary Guarantee endorsed upon the Notes and the due and punctual performance of all of the covenants and conditions of the Indenture to be performed by the Guarantor, such successor Person shall succeed to and be
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substituted for the Guarantor with the same effect as if it had been named herein as a Guarantor. Such successor Person thereupon may cause to be signed any or all of the Subsidiary Guarantees to be endorsed upon all of the Notes issuable under the Indenture which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee. All the Subsidiary Guarantees so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under the Indenture as the Subsidiary Guarantees theretofore and thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of the Indenture as though all of such Subsidiary Guarantees had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
(c) Except as set forth in Articles 4 and 5 and Section 10.05 of Article 10 of the Indenture, and notwithstanding clauses (a) and (b) above, nothing contained in the Indenture or in any of the Notes shall prevent any consolidation or merger of a Guarantor with or into the Company or another Guarantor, or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the property of a Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to the Company or another Guarantor.
5. RELEASES.
(a) In the event of any sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of any Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a sale or other disposition of all of the Capital Stock of any Guarantor, in each case to a Person that is not (either before or after giving effect to such transaction) a Subsidiary of the Company, then such Guarantor (in the event of a sale or other disposition, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, of all of the Capital Stock of such Guarantor) or the corporation acquiring the property (in the event of a sale or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of such Guarantor) shall be released and relieved of any obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee; provided that the Net Proceeds of such sale or other disposition are applied in accordance with the applicable provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10 of the Indenture. Upon delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such sale or other disposition was made by the Company in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture, including without limitation Section 4.10 of the Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of any Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee.
(b) If the Company designates any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 4.18 of the Indenture, then such Guarantor shall be released and relieved of any Obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee in accordance with the provisions of the Indenture.
(c) Upon the release of a Guarantee by a Subsidiary under all then outstanding Credit Facilities and at any time after the termination of certain covenants as provided in Section 4.19 of the Indenture, then such Guarantor shall be released and relieved of any Obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee in
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accordance with the provisions of the Indenture; provided, however, that in the event that any such Subsidiary thereafter Guarantees any Indebtedness of the Company under any Credit Facility (or if any released Guarantee under any Credit Facility is reinstated or renewed), then such Subsidiary shall Guarantee the Notes on the terms and conditions set forth in the Indenture.
(d) Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of and interest on the Notes and for the other obligations of any Guarantor under the Indenture as provided in Article 10 of the Indenture.
6. SUBORDINATION. The Notes and the Subsidiary Guarantees are subordinated to Senior Debt, as defined in the Indenture. To the extent provided in the Indenture, Senior Debt must be paid before the Notes may be paid. Each of the Company and the Guarantors agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note and a Subsidiary Guarantee agrees, to the subordination provisions contained in the Indenture.
7. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. No past, present or future director, officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or agent of the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company or any Guaranteeing Subsidiaries under the Notes, any Subsidiary Guarantees, the Indenture or this Supplemental Indenture or for any claim based on, in respect of, or by reason of, such obligations or their creation. Each Holder of the Notes by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for issuance of the Notes. Such waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities laws and it is the view of the Commission that such a waiver is against public policy.
8. NEW YORK LAW TO GOVERN. THE INTERNAL LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SHALL GOVERN AND BE USED TO CONSTRUE THIS SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE BUT WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO APPLICABLE PRINCIPLES OF CONFLICTS OF LAW TO THE EXTENT THAT THE APPLICATION OF THE LAWS OF ANOTHER JURISDICTION WOULD BE REQUIRED THEREBY.
9. COUNTERPARTS. The parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. Each signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
10. EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Section headings herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
11. THE TRUSTEE. The Trustee shall not be responsible in any manner whatsoever for or in respect of the validity or sufficiency of this Supplemental Indenture or for or in respect of the recitals contained herein, all of which recitals are made solely by the Guaranteeing Subsidiaries and the Company.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed, all as of the date first above written.
Dated: April 12, 2004
| ARG SERVICES LLC | ||||||
| By: |
Nalge Nunc International Corporation | |||||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Name: |
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Title: |
Vice President and Secretary | |||||
| EP SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS LLC | ||||||
| By: |
Chase Scientific Glass, Inc. | |||||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Name: |
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Title: |
Vice President and Secretary | |||||
| PACTECH, LLC | ||||||
| By: |
Nalge Nunc International Corporation | |||||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Title: | Vice President and Secretary | |||||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||||
| Title: | Executive Vice President – Administration, General Counsel | |||||
| The Bank of New York, as Trustee | ||||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxx Xxxxxx | |||
| Authorized Signatory | ||||
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| Existing Guarantors | ||||
| APOGENT HOLDING COMPANY APOGENT SERVICE CORPORATION | ||||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Title: | President and Secretary | |||
| ABGENE INC. APOGENT FINANCE COMPANY APOGENT TRANSITION CORP. BARNSTEAD THERMOLYNE CORPORATION BT CANADA HOLDINGS INC. CAPITOL VIAL INC. CHASE SCIENTIFIC GLASS, INC. CONSOLIDATED TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY ERIE SCIENTIFIC COMPANY OF PUERTO RICO ERIE UK HOLDING COMPANY EVER READY THERMOMETER CO., INC. GENEVAC INC. G&P LABWARE HOLDINGS INC. LAB-LINE INSTRUMENTS, INC. LAB VISION CORPORATION MATRIX TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION MICROGENICS CORPORATION MOLECULAR BIOPRODUCTS, INC. NALGE NUNC INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMPANY THE NAUGATUCK GLASS COMPANY NEOMARKERS, INC. NERL DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION OWL SEPARATION SYSTEMS, INC. QUALITY SCIENTIFIC PLASTICS, INC. REMEL INC. XXXXXXX-XXXXX SCIENTIFIC COMPANY XXXXXXX SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION SAMCO SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION SEPARATION TECHNOLOGY, INC. SERADYN INC. | ||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Name: | Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Title: | Vice President and Secretary | |||
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| METAVAC LLC | ||||
| By: |
The Naugatuck Glass Company | |||
| By: |
/s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | |||
| Name: Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx | ||||
| Title: Vice President and Secretary | ||||
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