EXHIBIT 4.7
FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE
FOURTH SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this "Supplemental Indenture"), dated
as of July 31, 2001, among Empress Casino Joliet Corporation (the "Guaranteeing
Subsidiary"), Argosy Gaming Company, a Delaware corporation (the "Company"),
Argosy of Iowa, an Iowa corporation, Centroplex Centre Convention Hotel, L.L.C.,
a Louisiana limited liability company, Xxxxx Gaming Company, an Illinois
corporation, Argosy of Louisiana, Inc., a Louisiana corporation, Catfish Queen
Partnership in Commendam, a Louisiana partnership, The Indiana Gaming Company,
an Indiana corporation, Iowa Gaming Company, an Iowa corporation, Jazz
Enterprises, Inc., a Louisiana corporation and The Missouri Gaming Company, a
Missouri corporation, Belle of Sioux City, L.P., an Iowa limited partnership,
Indiana Gaming II, L.P., an Indiana limited partnership, Indiana Gaming Holding
Company, an Indiana corporation and Indiana Gaming Company, L.P., an Indiana
limited partnership (collectively, the "Subsidiary Guarantors") and Bank One
Trust Company, National Association, as trustee under the Indenture referred to
below (the "Trustee").
WITNESSETH
WHEREAS, the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors have heretofore
executed and delivered to the Trustee an Indenture dated as of June 8, 1999 as
supplemented by a First Supplemental Indenture, dated as of February 8, 2001, as
further supplemented by a Second Supplemental Indenture, dated as of March 2,
2001, as further supplemented by a Third Supplemental Indenture, dated as of
March 12, 2001 (the "Indenture") providing for the issuance of an initial
principal amount of $350,000,000 of 10 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2009
(the "Notes");
WHEREAS, the Indenture provides that under certain circumstances the
Guaranteeing Subsidiary shall execute and deliver to the Trustee a supplemental
indenture pursuant to which the Guaranteeing Subsidiary 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 hereto do hereby mutually covenant and agree 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 Subsidiary hereby agrees
as follows:
(a) Along with all Subsidiary 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 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 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 Subsidiary
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 Subsidiary accepts all obligations of a
Subsidiary Guarantor under the Indenture.
(e) If any Holder or the Trustee is required by any court or
otherwise to return to the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors, or any
Custodian, Trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation
to either the Company or the Subsidiary 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 Subsidiary 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.
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(g) As between the Subsidiary 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 not
due and payable) shall forthwith become due and payable by the Subsidiary
Guarantors for the purpose of this Subsidiary Guarantee.
(h) The Subsidiary Guarantors shall have the right to seek
contribution from any non-paying Subsidiary Guarantor so long as the
exercise of such right does not impair the rights of the Holders under the
Guarantee.
(i) Pursuant to Section 11.03 of the Indenture, after giving effect
to any maximum amount and any 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 Subsidiary
Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other Subsidiary Guarantor
under Article 11 of the Indenture, this new Subsidiary Guarantee shall be
limited to the maximum amount permissible such that the obligations of such
Subsidiary Guarantor under this Subsidiary Guarantee will not constitute a
fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
(j) Pursuant to Section 11.02 of the Indenture, the obligations of
each Subsidiary Guarantor under its Subsidiary Guarantee pursuant to
Article II of the Indenture shall be junior and subordinated to the Senior
Indebtedness of such Subsidiary Guarantor on the same basis as the Notes
are junior and subordinated to the Senior Indebtedness of the Company.
3. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY. The Guaranteeing Subsidiary 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 SUBSIDIARY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON CERTAIN TERMS.
(a) The Guaranteeing Subsidiary may not consolidate with or merge
with or into (whether or not such Subsidiary Guarantor is the surviving Person)
another corporation, Person or entity whether or not affiliated with such
Subsidiary Guarantor unless:
(i) subject to Sections 11.05 and 11.06 of the Indenture, the Person
formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than a
Subsidiary Guarantor or the Company) unconditionally assumes all the
obligations of such Subsidiary 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; and
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(ii) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Default
or Event of Default exists.
(b) In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance and
upon the assumption by the successor corporation, 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 Subsidiary Guarantor, such successor corporation shall succeed
to and be substituted for the Subsidiary Guarantor with the same effect as if it
had been named herein as a Subsidiary Guarantor. Such successor corporation
thereupon may cause to be signed any or all of the Subsidiary Guarantees to be
endorsed upon all of the Notes issuable hereunder 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 11.05 of
Article 11 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 Subsidiary Guarantor with or into the Company or
another Subsidiary Guarantor, or shall prevent any sale or conveyance of the
property of a Subsidiary Guarantor as an entirety or substantially as an
entirety to the Company or another Subsidiary Guarantor.
5. RELEASES.
(a) In the event of a sale or other disposition of all of the assets
of any Subsidiary Guarantor, by way of merger, consolidation or otherwise, or a
sale or other disposition of all to the capital stock of any Subsidiary
Guarantor, in each case to a Person that is not (either before or after giving
effect to such transaction) a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, then such
Subsidiary 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
Subsidiary 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
Subsidiary Guarantor) will 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 4.15 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 4.15 of the Indenture, the Trustee shall execute any
documents reasonably required in order to evidence the release of any Subsidiary
Guarantor from its obligations under its Subsidiary Guarantee.
(b) Any Subsidiary 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 Subsidiary
Guarantor under the Indenture as provided in Article 11 of the Indenture.
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6. NO RECOURSE AGAINST OTHERS. No past, present or future director,
officer, employee, incorporator, stockholder or agent of the Guaranteeing
Subsidiary, as such, shall have any liability for any obligations of the Company
or any Guaranteeing Subsidiary 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 SEC that such a waiver is against public policy.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. EFFECT OF HEADINGS. The Section headings herein are for
convenience only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
10. 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 Subsidiary and the Company.
(SIGNATURE PAGE FOLLOWS)
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Third
Supplemental Indenture to be duly executed and attested, all as of the date
first above written.
Dated: July 31, 2001
EMPRESS CASINO JOLIET CORPORATION
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
ARGOSY GAMING COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial
Officer
XXXXX GAMING COMPANY
ARGOSY OF IOWA, INC.
ARGOSY OF LOUISIANA, INC.
THE INDIANA GAMING COMPANY
INDIANA GAMING HOLDING COMPANY
IOWA GAMING COMPANY
JAZZ ENTERPRISES, INC.
THE MISSOURI GAMING COMPANY
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
BELLE OF SIOUX CITY, L.P.
By: IOWA GAMING COMPANY,
its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
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CATFISH QUEEN PARTNERSHIP IN
COMMENDAM
By: ARGOSY OF LOUISIANA, INC.,
its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
CENTROPLEX CENTRE CONVENTION
HOTEL, L.L.C.
By: ARGOSY GAMING COMPANY,
its Manager
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
INDIANA GAMING COMPANY, L.P.
By: THE INDIANA GAMING
COMPANY,
its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
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INDIANA GAMING II, L.P.
By: INDIANA GAMING HOLDING
COMPANY,
its General Partner
By: /s/ Xxxx X. Xxxxx
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Xxxx X. Xxxxx
Treasurer
BANK ONE TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
By: /s/ Xxxxx Xxxx
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