EXHIBIT 4.1
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ENHANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC.
AND
The Chase Manhattan Bank, Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of ____________, __, 19__
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Senior Debt Securities
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS............................................................1
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined....................................1
ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES.............................................................7
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally..........................................7
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication...........................................8
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series.....................8
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities...............12
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities.................................13
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication..........................14
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities;
Payments of Interest....................................14
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange.....................17
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities.......................................21
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities, Destruction
Thereof.................................................22
SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities....................................23
SECTION 2.12 Compliance with Certain Laws and
Regulations.............................................25
SECTION 2.13 Appointment of Agents with Respect
to Certain Calculations.................................25
SECTION 2.14 Securities Issuable in the Form
of a Global Security....................................26
ARTICLE 3
COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY..............................................28
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest.......................28
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payment, etc................................29
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in
Office of Trustee.......................................30
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents...........................................31
SECTION 3.5 Written Statement to Trustee............................32
SECTION 3.6 Corporate Existence.....................................32
SECTION 3.7 Additional Amounts......................................32
SECTION 3.8 Defeasance of Certain Obligations
and Certain Events of Default...........................33
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ARTICLE 4
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE...............................................35
SECTION 4.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Information
as to Names and Addresses of
Securityholders.........................................35
SECTION 4.2 Preservation and Disclosure of
Securityholders' Lists..................................36
SECTION 4.3 Reports by the Company..................................37
SECTION 4.4 Reports by the Trustee..................................38
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT...................................................40
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined;
Acceleration of Maturity; Waiver
of Default..............................................40
SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by
Trustee; Trustee May Prove Debt.........................44
SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds.................................46
SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement...................................48
SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment
of Proceedings..........................................49
SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. ...............49
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Securityholders
to Institute Certain Suits..............................50
SECTION 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay
or Omission Not Waiver of Default.......................50
SECTION 5.9 Control by Securityholders..............................50
SECTION 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults.................................51
SECTION 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default,
But May Withhold in Certain
Circumstances...........................................51
SECTION 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of
Undertaking to Pay Costs................................52
ARTICLE 6
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE................................................52
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of
the Trustee; Prior to Default;
During Default..........................................52
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee...........................54
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SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals,
Disposition of Securities or
Application of Proceeds Thereof.........................55
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities;
Collections, etc........................................55
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee..................................56
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification
of Trustee and Its Prior Claim..........................56
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's
Certificate, etc........................................57
SECTION 6.8 Qualification of Trustee; Conflicting
Interests...............................................57
SECTION 6.9 Persons Eligible for Appointment
as Trustee..............................................63
SECTION 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor Trustee.......................................64
SECTION 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor
Trustee.................................................66
SECTION 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business of Trustee.......................67
SECTION 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims
Against the Company.....................................67
SECTION 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent.....................72
SECTION 6.15 Trustee Acting in Other Capacities......................74
ARTICLE 7
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS........................................74
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by
Securityholders.........................................74
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments.......................75
SECTION 7.3 Holders to Be Treated as Owners.........................75
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not
Outstanding......................................75
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken.....................76
ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...............................................77
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Securityholders..............................77
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With
Consent of Securityholders..............................78
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture........................79
SECTION 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee........................80
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of
Supplemental Indentures.................................80
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ARTICLE 9
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE.............................80
SECTION 9.1 Company May Consolidate, etc.,
on Certain Terms........................................80
SECTION 9.2 Successor Corporation Substituted.......................81
SECTION 9.3 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee...........................81
ARTICLE 10
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS......................................................82
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture...............................................82
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds
Deposited for Payment of Securities.....................85
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying
Agent...................................................85
SECTION 10.4 Return of Unclaimed Moneys Held by
Trustee and Paying Agent................................85
SECTION 10.5 Reinstatement of Company's Obligations..................86
ARTICLE 11
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Stockholders,
Officers and Directors of Company
Exempt from Individual Liability........................86
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole
Benefit of Parties and Securityholders..................86
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Company
Bound by Indenture......................................87
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Company,
Trustee and Securityholders.............................87
SECTION 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of
Counsel; Statements to Be Contained
Therein.................................................88
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays................................................89
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture
with Trust Indenture Act of 1939........................89
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern..................................90
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts............................................90
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings......................................90
SECTION 11.11 Determination of Principal Amount.......................90
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ARTICLE 12
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS............................90
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article................................90
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions...............90
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption.............92
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from
Eligibility for Selection for
Redemption..............................................93
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds....................93
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of _____________, __, 1998 between ENHANCE
FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC., a New York corporation (the "Company"), and The
Chase Manhattan Bank, a New York banking corporation, as Trustee (the
"Trustee"),
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the issue from time to time
of its unsecured debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness to be
issued in one or more Series (the "Securities") up to such principal amount or
amounts as may from time to time be authorized in accordance with the terms of
this Indenture and to provide, among other things, for the authentication,
delivery and administration thereof, the Company has duly authorized the
execution and delivery of this Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make this Indenture a valid
indenture and agreement according to its terms have been done;
NOW, THEREFORE:
In consideration of the premises and the purchases of the Securities
by the holders thereof, the Company and the Trustee mutually covenant and agree
for the equal and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to
time of the Securities as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1 Certain Terms Defined. The following terms (except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise clearly requires)
for all purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto
shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section. All other terms
used in this Indenture that are defined in the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 or
the definitions of which in the Securities Act of 1933 are referred to in the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939, including terms defined therein by reference to the
Securities Act of 1933 (except as herein otherwise expressly provided or unless
the context otherwise clearly requires), shall have the meanings assigned to
such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and
in said Securities Act as in force at the date of this Indenture. All accounting
terms used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to
such terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and the
term "generally accepted accounting principles" means such accounting principles
as are generally accepted in the United States at the time of any computation.
The words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import
refer to this Indenture as a whole, as supplemented and amended from time to
time, and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. The terms
defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to them in this Article and
include the plural as well as the singular.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the Trustee
pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more Series.
"Board of Directors" means either the Board of Directors of the
Company or the Executive Committee or other committee of such Board duly
authorized to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means, except as may otherwise be provided in the
form of Securities of any particular Series, with respect to any Place of
Payment, any day, other than a Saturday or Sunday, that is not a legal holiday,
or a day on which banking institutions are authorized or required by law or
regulation to close in The City of New York or in that Place of Payment, or with
respect to Securities denominated in a Foreign Currency, the capital city of the
country of such Foreign Currency, or with respect to Securities denominated in
ECU, Brussels, Belgium.
"CEDEL S.A." means Central de Liaison de Valeurs Mobilieres S.A.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or
if at any time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture such
Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, then the body performing such duties on such
date.
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"Company" means Enhance Financial Services Group Inc., a New York
corporation, and, subject to Article Nine, its successors and assigns.
"Company Notice" means the confirmation of the Company, transmitted
by telex, telecopy or in writing to the Trustee of the terms of the issuance of
any Securities issuable in Tranches.
"Company Order" or "Company Request" means a written order or
request of the Company, signed in its name by its President and Chief Financial
Officer or Treasurer.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee at which
the corporate trust business of the Trustee shall, at any particular time, be
principally administered, which office is, at the date as of which this
Indenture is dated, located at 000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000-0000. Attention: Global Trust Services.
"Coupon" means any interest coupon appertaining to any Security.
"Coupon Security" means any Security authenticated and delivered
with one or more Coupons appertaining thereto.
"Depository" means, unless otherwise specified by the Company
pursuant to Section 2.3, with respect to Securities of any series issuable or
issued as a Global Security, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York,
or any successor thereto registered as a clearing agency pursuant to the
provisions of Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or
other applicable statute or regulation.
"Dollar" means the coin or currency of the United States which as of
the time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised from
time to time by the Council of the European Communities.
"Euro-clear" means Xxxxxx Guaranty Trust Company of New York,
Brussels office, as operator of the Euro-clear System.
"Event of Default" means any event or condition specified as such in
Section 5.1.
"Foreign Currency" means a currency issued by the government of any
country other than the United States.
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"Global Security," when used with respect to any series of
Securities issued hereunder, means a Security which is executed by the Company
and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee to the Depository pursuant to the
Depository's instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture and an indenture
supplemental hereto, if any, or Board Resolution and pursuant to a Company
Order, which Global Security shall be registered in the name of the Depository
or its nominee and which shall represent, and shall be denominated in an amount
equal to the aggregate principal amount of, all of the Outstanding Securities of
such series or any portion thereof, in either case having the same terms,
including, without limitation, the same original issue date, date or dates on
which principal is due, and interest rate or method of determining interest.
"Holder," "Holder of Securities," "Securityholder" or other similar
terms mean the bearer of an Unregistered Security or a Registered Holder of a
Registered Security and, when used with respect to any Coupon, means the bearer
thereof.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed and
delivered or, if amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or
supplemented or both, and shall include the forms and terms of particular Series
of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
"Officer's Certificate" means a certificate signed by the President
and the Chief Financial Officer or the Treasurer of the Company and delivered to
the Trustee. Each such certificate shall include the statements provided for in
Section 11.5.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company. Each such opinion
shall include the statements provided for in Section 11.5 and shall be
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee.
"Original Issue Date" of any Security (or portion thereof) means the
earlier of (a) the date of such Security or (b) the date of any Security (or
portion thereof) for which such Security was issued (directly or indirectly) on
registration of transfer, exchange or substitution.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which provides
for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.1.
"Outstanding" (except as otherwise provided in Section 6.8), when
used with reference to Securities, shall, subject to
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the provisions of Section 7.4, mean, as of any particular time, all Securities
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or
redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been
deposited in trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than
the Company) or shall have been set aside, segregated and held in trust by
the Company for the holders of such Securities (if the Company shall act
as its own Paying Agent), provided that if such Securities, or portions
thereof, are to be redeemed prior to the maturity thereof, notice of such
redemption shall have been given as herein provided, or provision
satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice;
and
(c) Securities in substitution for which other Securities
shall have been authenticated and delivered, or which shall have been
paid, pursuant to the terms of Section 2.9 (except with respect to any
such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee is presented
that such Security is held by a person in whose hands such Security is a
legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company).
"Paying Agent" means any Person (which may include the Company)
authorized by the Company to pay the principal of or interest, if any, on any
Security on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" when used with respect to the Securities of any
Series, means the place or places where the principal of and interest, if any,
on the Securities of that Series are payable as specified pursuant to Section
3.2.
"principal" whenever used with reference to the Securities or any
Security or any portion thereof, shall be deemed to include "and premium, if
any."
"Redemption Price" or "redemption price" means the price at which
the Securities of any Series shall or may be redeemed in accordance with the
terms of such Securities, as
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provided in the Board Resolution or in any indenture supplemental hereto
establishing such Series as contemplated by Section 2.3.
"Registered Holder" when used with respect to a Registered Security
means the person in whose name such Security is registered in the Security
register.
"Registered Security" means any Security registered in the Security
register.
"Responsible Officer" when used with respect to the Trustee shall
mean any officer in the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee including any
treasurer, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant vice treasurer,
assistant secretary, or any other officer or assistant officer of the Trustee
customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the persons who
at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any corporate trust
matter is referred at the Corporate Trust Office because of his or her knowledge
of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Security" or "Securities" (except as otherwise provided in Section
6.8) has the meaning stated in the first recital of this Indenture, or, as the
case may be, Securities that have been authenticated and delivered under this
Indenture.
"Series" or "Series of Securities" means a series of Securities.
Except in Sections 1.1 - "Outstanding," 2.3 and 7.4 and Articles Five and Six,
the terms "Series" or "Series of Securities" shall also mean a Tranche in the
event that the applicable Series may be issued in separate Tranches.
"Stated Maturity," when used with respect to any Security of any
Series, means the date specified in such Security as the fixed date on which an
amount equal to the principal amount at maturity of such Security is due and
payable, as provided in the Board Resolution or in any indenture supplemental
hereto establishing such Series as contemplated by Section 2.3.
"Subsidiary" means any corporation, of which at least a majority of
the Voting Stock is at the time owned directly or indirectly by the Company or
by the Company and its other Subsidiaries.
"Tranche" means all Securities of the same Series which have the
same issue date, maturity date and other terms.
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"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first
paragraph hereof and, subject to the provisions of Article Six, any successor
trustee.
"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" (except as otherwise provided in
Sections 8.1 and 8.2) means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the
date as of which this Indenture was originally executed.
"United States" means the United States of America (including the
States and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other
areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"United States Alien" means any Person who, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, is a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual, a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust, or a
foreign partnership one or more of the members of which is, for United States
Federal income tax purposes, a foreign corporation, a non-resident alien
individual or a non-resident alien fiduciary of a foreign estate or trust.
"Unregistered Security" means any Security not registered as to
principal.
"vice president" when used with respect to the Company or the
Trustee, means any vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title of "vice president."
"Voting Stock" means outstanding shares of stock having voting power
for the election of directors, whether at all times or only so long as no senior
class of stock has such voting power because of default in dividends or some
other default.
"Yield to Maturity" means the yield to maturity on a series of
Securities, calculated at the time of issuance of such series, or, if
applicable, at the most recent redetermination of interest on such series, and
calculated by the Company in accordance with accepted financial practice.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1 Forms Generally. The Securities of each Series
(including any temporary or permanent global Securities) and the Coupons, if
any, shall be substantially in such form (not
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inconsistent with this Indenture) as shall be established by or pursuant to a
Board Resolution (or, to the extent established pursuant to, rather than set
forth in, such Board Resolution, in an Officer's Certificate) or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate insertions,
omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or permitted by
this Indenture (the provisions of which shall be appropriate to reflect the
terms of each Series of Securities, including the currency or denomination,
which may be Dollars, Foreign Currency or ECU) and may have imprinted or
otherwise reproduced thereon such legend or legends, not inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture, as may be required to comply with any law or with
any rules or regulations pursuant thereto, or with any rules of any securities
exchange or to conform to general usage, all as may be determined by the
officers executing such Securities and Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their
execution of the Securities and Coupons, if any.
The definitive Securities and Coupons, if any, shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities and
Coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and Coupons,
if any.
SECTION 2.2 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication. The
Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Securities shall be in
substantially the following form:
"This is one of the Securities of the Series designated herein and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Trustee
By ________________________________
Authorized Officer"
SECTION 2.3 Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. The aggregate
principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under
this Indenture is unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more Series. There shall be
established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, or to the extent established
pursuant to, rather than set forth in, such resolution, established in an
Officer's Certificate, or
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established in one or more indentures supplemental hereto, prior to the issuance
of Securities of any Series:
(1) the title of the Securities of the Series (which title shall
distinguish the Securities of the Series from all other Securities issued
by the Company);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the Series that may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture
(except for Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
Series pursuant to Section 2.8, 2.9, 2.11 or 12.3);
(3) whether Securities of the Series are to be issuable as
Registered Securities, Unregistered Securities or both, whether the
securities of such Series are to be uncertificated and whether any
Securities of the Series are to be issuable initially in temporary global
form and whether any Securities of the Series are to be issuable in
permanent global form with or without coupons and, if so, (i) whether
beneficial owners of interest in any such permanent global Security may
exchange such interest for Securities of such Series and of like tenor of
any authorized form and denomination and the circumstances under which any
such exchanges may occur, if other than in the manner provided in Section
2.8 and (ii) the name of the depositary with respect to any global
Security;
(4) the Person to whom any interest in any Registered Security of
the Series shall be payable, if other than the Person in whose name the
Security (or one or more predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the record date for such interest, the manner in
which, or the Person to whom, any interest on any Unregistered Security of
the Series shall be payable, if otherwise than upon presentation and
surrender of the Coupons appertaining thereto as they severally mature,
and the extent to which, or the manner in which, any interest payable on a
temporary global Security on an interest payment date will be paid if
other than in the manner provided in Section 2.11;
(5) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of
the Series is payable;
(6) the rate or rates (or formula for determining such rates) at
which the Securities of the Series shall bear interest, if any, the date
or dates from which such interest
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shall accrue, the interest payment dates on which such interest shall be
payable and the record dates for the determination of Holders to whom
interest is payable;
(7) whether the interest rate or interest rate formula, as the case
may be, for Securities of the Series may be reset at the option of the
Company and, if so, the date or dates on which such interest rate or
interest rate formula, as the case may be, may be reset;
(8) the place or places where the principal and interest on
Securities of the Series shall be payable (if other than as provided in
Section 3.2), any Registered Securities of the Series may be surrendered
for registration of transfer, Securities of the Series may be surrendered
for exchange and notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of the Series and this Indenture may be served;
(9) the price or prices at which, the period or periods within which
and the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the Series may be
redeemed or repurchased, in whole or in part, at the option of the Company
or repaid at the option of the Holders;
(10) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem, purchase or
repay Securities of the Series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the price or prices at
which and the period or periods within which and the terms and conditions
upon which Securities of the Series shall be redeemed, purchased or
repaid, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation;
(11) the denominations in which any Registered Securities of the
Series may be issued, if other than denominations of $1,000 and any
integral multiple thereof, and the denomination or denominations in which
any Unregistered Securities of the Series may be issued, if other than the
denomination of $5,000;
(12) the form of the Securities (or forms thereof if Unregistered
and Registered Securities shall be issuable in such Series), including
such legends as required by law or as the Company deems necessary or
appropriate, the form of any Coupons or temporary global Security which
may be issued and the forms of any certificates which may be required
hereunder or which the Company may require in connection
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with the offering, sale, delivery or exchange of Unregistered Securities;
(13) the currencies or currencies, including composite currencies,
in which payments of interest or principal are payable with respect to the
Securities of the Series if other than the currency of the United States;
(14) if the amount of payments of principal of or interest on the
Securities of any Series may be determined with reference to the
differences in the price of or rate of exchange between any indexes,
currencies or commodities, the manner in which such amounts shall be
determined;
(15) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the Series which shall be payable upon
acceleration of the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 or provable
in bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.2;
(16) whether Securities of the Series are issuable in Tranches;
(17) any additional events of default or restrictive covenants with
respect to the Securities of such Series which are not set forth herein,
and whether any such additional events of default or restrictive covenants
are subject to defeasance in accordance with Section 3.8;
(18) any other terms or conditions upon which the Securities of the
Series are to be issued (which terms shall not be inconsistent with the
provisions of this Indenture); and
(19) any trustees, authenticating or paying agents, transfer agents
or registrars or any other agents with respect to the Securities of such
Series.
All Securities of any one Series shall be substantially identical
except as to denomination, except as provided in the immediately succeeding
paragraph, and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board
Resolution or Officer's Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental
hereto. All Securities of any one Series need not be issued at the same time,
and unless otherwise provided, a Series may be reopened for issuances of
additional Securities of such Series.
Each Series may be issued in one or more Tranches. Except as
provided in the foregoing paragraph, all Securities of
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a Tranche shall have the same terms, including issue date, except that
Securities of the same Tranche may be issued in different denominations of the
same currency or composite currency.
SECTION 2.4 Authentication and Delivery of Securities. At any time
and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the
Company may deliver Securities of any Series having attached thereto appropriate
Coupons, if any, executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication,
together with a Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such
Securities, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall
authenticate and deliver such Securities; provided, however, that in connection
with its original issuance, no Unregistered Security shall be mailed or
otherwise delivered to any location in the United States; and provided, further,
that an Unregistered Security may be delivered in connection with its original
issuance only if the Person entitled to receive such Unregistered Security shall
have furnished a certificate in the form of Exhibit A-1 hereto dated no earlier
than 15 days prior to the earlier of the date on which such Unregistered
Security is delivered and the date on which any temporary Security first becomes
exchangeable for such Unregistered Security in accordance with the terms of such
temporary Security and this Indenture. If any Security shall be represented by a
permanent global Unregistered Security, then, for purposes of this Section and
Section 2.11, the notation of a beneficial owner's interest therein upon
original issuance of such Security or upon exchange of a portion of a temporary
global Security shall be deemed to be delivered in connection with its original
issuance of such beneficial owner's interest in such permanent global
Unregistered Security. In authenticating such Securities and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive and (subject to Section 6.1) shall be
fully protected in relying upon:
(1) a Company Order requesting such authentication and setting forth
delivery instructions if the Securities are not to be delivered to the
Company;
(2) any Board Resolution, Officer's Certificate or supplemental
indenture referred to in Sections 2.1 and 2.3 by or pursuant to which the
forms of the Securities of any such Series were established;
(3) an Officer's Certificate setting forth the form and terms of the
Securities stating that the form and terms of the Securities have been
established pursuant to Sections
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2.1 and 2.3 and comply with this Indenture, and covering such other
matters as the Trustee may reasonably request;
(4) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that:
(a) the form or forms and terms of such Securities have been
established pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 and comply with this
Indenture;
(b) the authentication and delivery of such Securities by the
Trustee are authorized under the provisions of this Indenture;
(c) such Securities, when authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any
conditions specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute
valid and binding obligations of the Company;
(d) all laws and requirements in respect of the execution and
delivery by the Company have been complied with; and
(e) covering such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably
request;
provided, however, that in the case of any Series issuable in Tranches, if the
Trustee has previously received the documents referred to in Section 2.4(l)-(4)
with respect to any Tranche of such Series, the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver Securities of such Series executed and delivered bv the Company for
original issuance upon receipt by the Trustee of the applicable Company Notice.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate and
deliver any Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised by
counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken by the Company or
if the issue of such Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture in a manner not
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
SECTION 2.5 Execution of Securities. The Securities shall be signed
on behalf of the Company by the Chairman of its Board of Directors or its
president or any vice president or its treasurer or any assistant treasurer,
under its corporate seal which may, but need not, be attested. Such signatures
may be the manual or facsimile signatures of the present or any future such
officers. The seal of the Company may be in the form of a
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facsimile thereof and may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or otherwise
reproduced on the Securities. Typographical and other minor errors or defects in
any such reproduction of the seal or any such signature shall not affect the
validity or enforceability of any Security that has been duly authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee. Any Coupons attached to any Unregistered Security
shall be executed on behalf of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature
of any such officer of the Company.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any of the
Securities or Coupons shall cease to be such officer before the Security or
Coupon so signed shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed
of by the Company, such Security or Coupon nevertheless may be authenticated and
delivered or disposed of as though the person who signed such Security or Coupon
had not ceased to be such officer of the Company; and any Security or Coupon may
be signed on behalf of the Company by such persons as, at the actual date of the
execution of such Security or Coupon, shall be the proper officers of the
Company, although at the date of the execution and delivery of this Indenture
any such person was not such an officer.
SECTION 2.6 Certificate of Authentication. Only such Securities and
Coupons appertaining thereto as shall bear thereon a certificate of
authentication substantially in the form hereinbefore recited, executed by the
Trustee by the manual signature of one of its Responsible Officers, shall be
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any
purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee upon any Security executed by the
Company shall be conclusive evidence that the Security so authenticated has been
duly authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the Holder is entitled to
the benefits of this Indenture.
The Trustee shall not authenticate or deliver any Unregistered
Security until any matured Coupons appertaining thereto have been detached and
canceled, except as otherwise provided or permitted by this Indenture.
SECTION 2.7 Denomination and Date of Securities; Payments of
Interest. The Securities shall be issuable in denominations as shall be
specified as contemplated by Section 2.3. In the absence of any such
specification with respect to the Securities of any Series, Registered
Securities of such Series shall be issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any
multiple thereof, and Unregistered Securities of such Series shall be issuable
in denominations of $5,000, and interest shall be
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computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months. The Securities
shall be numbered, lettered or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in
accordance with such plan as the officers of the Company executing the same may
determine with the approval of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and
authentication thereof.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication, shall bear interest from the date and shall be payable on the
dates, in each case, which shall be specified as contemplated by Section 2.3.
Interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any interest payment date shall be paid, in the case of
Registered Securities, to the person in whose name that Security (or one or more
predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the regular
record date for the payment of such interest and, in the case of Unregistered
Securities, upon surrender of the Coupon appertaining thereto in respect of the
interest due on such interest payment date. At the option of the Company,
payment of interest on any Registered Security may be made, subject to Section
3.2, by check mailed to the Registered Holder's address as shown on the Security
register.
The term "record date" as used with respect to any interest payment
date (except for a date for payment of defaulted interest) shall mean the date
specified as such in the terms of the Securities of any particular Series, or,
if no such date is so specified, if such interest payment date is the first day
of a calendar month, the close of business on the fifteenth day of the next
preceding calendar month or, if such interest payment date is the fifteenth day
of a calendar month, the close of business on the first day of such calendar
month, whether or not such record date is a Business Day.
Any interest on any Security of any Series which is payable, but is
not punctually paid or duly provided for, on any interest payment date (called
"defaulted interest" for the purpose of this Section) shall forthwith cease to
be payable to the Registered Holder on the relevant regular record date by
virtue of his having been such Holder; and such defaulted interest may be paid
by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or
clause (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any defaulted interest
to the persons in whose names any such
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Registered Securities (or their respective predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on a special record date for the
payment of such defaulted interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner. At least 20 days prior to the date of a proposed payment of
defaulted interest, the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the
amount of defaulted interest proposed to be paid on each Security of such
Series and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such defaulted interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to such defaulted
interest as in this clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
special record date for the payment of such defaulted interest in respect
of Registered Securities of such Series which shall be not more than 15
nor less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not
less than 10 days after receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the
proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such
special record date and, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such defaulted interest and
the special record date thereof to be mailed, first class postage prepaid,
to each Registered Holder at his address as it appears in the Security
register, not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice
of the proposed payment of such defaulted interest and the special record
date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such defaulted interest in
respect of Registered Securities of such Series shall be paid to the
person in whose names such Securities (or their respective predecessor
Securities) are registered on such special record date and such defaulted
interest shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any defaulted interest on the
Securities of any Series in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with
the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of
that Series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange, if, after notice given by the Company to the Trustee if the
proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such payment shall be deemed
practicable by the Trustee.
Any defaulted interest payable in respect of any Security of any
Series which is not a Registered Security shall
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be payable pursuant to such procedures as may be satisfactory to the Trustee in
such manner that there is no discrimination as between the Holders of Registered
Securities and other Securities of the same Series, and notice of the payment
date therefor shall be given by the Trustee, in the name and at the expense of
the Company, in the manner specified in Section 11.4.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
SECTION 2.8 Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company will
keep at each office or agency to be maintained for the purpose as provided in
Section 3.2 for each Series of Securities a register or registers in which,
subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, it will register,
and will register the transfer of, Registered Securities as in this Article
provided. Such register shall be in written form in the English language or in
any other form capable of being converted into such form within a reasonable
time. At all reasonable times such register or registers shall be open for
inspection by the Trustee.
Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any Series at any such office or agency to be maintained for these
purpose as provided in Section 3.2, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in the name of the transferee or transferees a
new Registered Security or Registered Securities of the same Series in
authorized denominations for a like aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any Series may
be exchanged for other Registered Securities of the same Series of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor,
upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at any such office or agency.
Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the Securities which
the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, Unregistered Securities may not be
issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
At the option of the Holder, Unregistered Securities of any Series
may be exchanged or Registered Securities of the same Series of any authorized
denominations and of a like aggregate
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principal amount and tenor, upon surrender of the Unregistered Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured coupons, if any, and
all matured coupons, if any, in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of
an Unregistered Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupons and all
matured coupon or coupons or matured coupon or coupons in default, such exchange
may be effected if the Unregistered Securities are accompanied by payment in
funds acceptable to the Company in an amount equal to the face amount of such
missing coupon or coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons
may be waived by the Company and the Trustee if there is furnished to them such
security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying
Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any
Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which such a payment shall
have been made, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the amount of such
payment; provided, however, that, except as otherwise provided in Section 3.2,
interest represented by coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and
surrender of those coupons at an office or agency located outside the United
States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in case an Unregistered Security of any
Series is surrendered at any such office or agency in exchange for a Registered
Security of the same Series and like tenor after the close of business at such
office or agency on any record date and before the opening of business at such
office or agency on the relevant interest payment date, such Unregistered
Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating to such interest
payment date and interest will not be payable on such interest payment date in
respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Unregistered
Security, but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon when due in
accordance with the provisions of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3, any permanent global Security shall be exchangeable
only as provided in this paragraph. If the beneficial owners of interests in a
permanent global Security are entitled to exchange such interests for Securities
of such Series and of like tenor and principal amount of another authorized form
and denomination, as specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, then without
unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the earliest date on which
such interests may be so exchanged, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee
definitive Securities of that Series in aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of such permanent global Security, executed by the Company. On
or after the earliest date on which such interests may be so exchanged, such
permanent global Securities shall be surrendered from time to
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time by the depositary holding such global Security and in accordance with
instructions given to the Trustee and such depositary (which instructions shall
be in writing but need not comply with Section 11.5 or be accompanied by an
Opinion of Counsel), as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect to
the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole
or in part, for definitive Securities of the same Series without charge. The
Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange for each
portion of such surrendered permanent global Security, a like aggregate
principal amount of definitive Securities of the same Series of authorized
denominations and of like tenor as the portion of such permanent global Security
to be exchanged which (unless the Securities of the Series are not issuable both
as Unregistered Securities and as Registered Securities, in which case the
definitive Securities exchanged for the permanent global Security shall be
issuable only in the form in which the Securities are issuable, as specified as
contemplated by Section 2.3) shall be in the form of Unregistered Securities or
Registered Securities, or any combination thereof, as shall be specified by the
beneficial owner thereof; provided, however, that no such exchanges may occur
during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days before any
selection of Securities of that Series to be redeemed and ending on the relevant
Redemption Date; and provided, further, that no Unregistered Security delivered
in exchange for a portion of a permanent global Security shall be mailed or
otherwise delivered to any location in the United States. Promptly following any
such exchange in part, such permanent global Security shall be returned by the
Trustee to the depositary or such other depositary referred to above in
accordance with the instructions of the Company referred to above. If a
Registered Security is issued in exchange for any portion of a permanent global
Security after the close of business at the office or agency where such exchange
occurs on (i) any Regular Record Date and before the opening of business at such
office or agency on the relevant Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special
Record Date and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the
related proposed date for payment of interest or defaulted interest, as the case
may be, will not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for
payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Registered Security, but will be
payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case
may be, only to the Person to whom interest in respect of such portion of such
permanent global Security is payable in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
Upon presentation for registration of any Unregistered Securities of
any Series which by its terms is registrable as to
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principal, at the office or agency of the Company to be maintained as provided
in Section 3.2, such Security shall be registered as to principal in the name of
the Holder thereof and such registration shall be noted on such Security. Any
Security so registered shall be transferable on the registry books of the
Company upon presentation of such Security at such office or agency for similar
notation thereon, but such Security may be discharged from registration by being
in a like manner transferred to bearer, whereupon transferability by delivery
shall be restored. Unregistered Securities shall continue to be subject to
successive registrations and discharges from registration at the option of the
Holders thereof.
Unregistered Securities shall be transferable by delivery, except
while registered as to principal. Registration of any Coupon Security shall not
affect the transferability by delivery of the Coupons appertaining thereto which
shall continue to be payable to bearer and transferable by delivery.
All Securities and Coupons issued upon any transfer or exchange of
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
and Coupons surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer
or exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) be duly
endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Security registrar duly executed, by the
Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient
to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection
with any transfer or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to
Section 2.11, 8.5 or 12.3 not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of or exchange Securities of any Series during a period beginning at
the opening of 15 Business Days before any selection of Securities of that
Series to be redeemed and ending at the close of business on (A) if Securities
of the Series are issuable only as Registered Securities, the day of the mailing
of the relevant notice of redemption and (B) if Securities of the Series are
issuable as Unregistered Securities, the day of the first publication of the
relevant notice of redemption or, if Securities of the Series are also issuable
as
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Registered Securities and there is no publication, the mailing of the relevant
notice of redemption, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any
Registered Security so selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part, or (iii) to exchange
any Unregistered Security so selected for redemption except that such an
Unregistered Security may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that Series
and like tenor, provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously
surrendered for redemption.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities
shall be valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same debt, and
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Securities
surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
None of the Trustee, any agent of the Trustee, any Paying Agent or
the Company will have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Global Security or for maintaining, supervising or reviewing any
records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
SECTION 2.9 Mutilated, Defaced, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. In case any temporary or definitive Security or Coupon shall become
mutilated, defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company in its
discretion may execute, and upon the written request of any officer of the
Company, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Security of the same
Series or Coupon, bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in
exchange and substitution for the mutilated or defaced Security or Coupon, or in
lieu of and substitution for the Security or Coupon so destroyed, lost or
stolen. In every case the applicant for a substitute Security or Coupon shall
furnish to the Company and to the Trustee and to any agent of the Company or the
Trustee such security or indemnity as may be required by them to indemnify and
defend and to save each of them harmless and, in every case of destruction, loss
or theft, evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of
such Security or Coupon and of the ownership thereof.
Upon the issuance of any substitute Security or Coupon, the Company
may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
In case any Security or Coupon which has matured or is about to mature or has
been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated or
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defaced or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a
substitute Security or Coupon, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without
surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated or defaced Security or
Coupon), if the applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Company and to
the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee such security or
indemnity as any of them may require to save each of them harmless, and, in
every case of destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to
the Company and the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security or
Coupon and of the ownership thereof.
Every substitute Security of any Series or Coupon issued pursuant to
the provisions of this Section by virtue of the fact that any such Security or
Coupon is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security
or Coupon shall be at any time enforceable by anyone and shall be entitled to
all the benefits of (but shall be subject to all the limitations of rights set
forth in) this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other
Securities of such Series or Coupons duly authenticated and delivered hereunder.
All Securities or Coupons shall be held and owned upon the express condition
that, to the extent permitted by the law, the foregoing provisions are exclusive
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, defaced, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities or Coupons and shall preclude any and all other rights
or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or hereafter enacted to
the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of negotiable
instruments or other securities without their surrender.
SECTION 2.10 Cancellation of Securities, Destruction Thereof. All
Securities surrendered for payment, redemption, registration of transfer or
exchange, or for credit against any payment in respect of a sinking or analogous
fund and all Coupons surrendered for payment or exchange, shall, if surrendered
to the Company or any agent of the Company or the Trustee, be delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation or, if surrendered to the Trustee, shall be cancelled
by it; and no Securities or Coupons shall be issued in lieu thereof, except as
expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee
shall destroy cancelled Securities and Coupons held by it and deliver a
certificate of destruction to the Company. If the Company shall acquire any of
the Securities and Coupons, such acquisition shall not operate as a redemption
or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such Securities and Coupons
unless and until the same are delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
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SECTION 2.11 Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any Series, the Company may execute, and upon Company
Order the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any
authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities
in lieu of which they are issued, in registered form or, if authorized, in
bearer form with one or more coupons or without coupons, and with such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as the
officers executing may determine, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities. In the case of any Series issuable as Unregistered Securities, such
temporary Securities may be in global form.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form (which
shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions of the following
paragraphs), if temporary Securities of any Series are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Securities of that Series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities of such Series, the
temporary Securities of such Series shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities of such Series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such
Series at the office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to Section 3.2
for the purpose of exchanges of Securities of such Series, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities
of any Series (accompanied by any unmatured coupons appertaining thereto) the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like aggregate principal amount of definitive Securities of the same
Series and of like tenor of authorized denominations; provided, however, that no
definitive Unregistered Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary
Registered Security; and provided, further, that a definitive Unregistered
Security shall be delivered in exchange for a temporary Unregistered Security
only in compliance with the conditions set forth in Section 2.4.
If temporary Securities of any Series are issued in global form, any
such temporary global Security shall, unless otherwise provided therein, be
delivered to the London office of a depositary or common depositary (the "Common
Depositary"), for the benefit of Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A., for credit to the
respective accounts of the beneficial owners of such Securities (or to such
other accounts as they may direct).
Without unnecessary delay but in any event not later than the date
specified in, or determined pursuant to the terms of, any such temporary global
Security (the "Exchange Date"), the
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Company shall deliver to the Trustee definitive Securities, in aggregate
principal amount equal to the principal amount of such temporary global
Security, or, if so specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, a permanent global
Security, in either case, executed by the Company. On or after the Exchange
Date, such temporary global Security shall be surrendered by the Common
Depositary to the Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be
exchanged, in whole or from time to time in part, for definitive Securities
without charge and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for
each portion of such temporary global Security, an equal aggregate principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same Series of authorized denominations
and of like tenor as the portion of such temporary global Security to be
exchanged. The definitive Securities to be delivered in exchange for any such
temporary global Security shall be in bearer form, registered form, permanent
global bearer form or permanent global registered form, or any combination
thereof, as specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, and, if any combination
thereof is so specified, as requested by the beneficial owner thereof; provided,
however, that, unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security,
upon such presentation by the Common Depositary, such temporary global Security
is accompanied by a certificate dated the Exchange Date or a subsequent date and
signed by Euro-clear as to the portion of such temporary global Security held
for its account then to be exchanged and a certificate dated the Exchange Date
or a subsequent date and signed by CEDEL S.A. as to the portion of such
temporary global Security held for its account then to be exchanged, each in the
form set forth in Exhibit A-2 to this Indenture; and provided, further, that
definitive Unregistered Securities shall be delivered in exchange for a portion
of a temporary global Security only in compliance with the requirements of
Section 2.4.
Unless otherwise specified in such temporary global Security, the
interest of a beneficial owner of Securities of a Series in a temporary global
Security shall be exchanged for definitive Securities of the same Series and of
like tenor following the Exchange Date when the account holder instructs
Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A., as the case may be, to request such exchange on his
behalf and delivers to Euro-clear or CEDEL, S.A., as the case may be, a
certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A-1 to this Indenture, dated no
earlier than 15 days prior to the Exchange Date. Unless otherwise specified in
such temporary global Security, any such exchange shall be made free of charge
to the beneficial owners of such temporary global Security, except that a Person
receiving definitive Securities must bear the cost of insurance, postage,
transportation and the like in the event that such Person does not take delivery
of such
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definitive Securities in person at the offices of Euro-clear or CEDEL S.A.
Definitive Securities in bearer form to be delivered on exchange for any portion
of a temporary global Security shall be delivered only outside the United
States.
Until exchanged in full as hereinabove provided, the temporary
Securities of any Series shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as definitive Securities of the same Series and of like
tenor authenticated and delivered hereunder, except that, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, interest payable on a temporary global
Security on an Interest Payment Date for Securities of such Series occurring
prior to the applicable Exchange Date shall be payable to Euro-clear and CEDEL
S.A. on such Interest Payment Date upon delivery by Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A. to
the Trustee of a certificate or certificates in the form set forth in Exhibit
A-3 to this Indenture, for credit without further interest on or after such
Interest Payment Date to the respective accounts of the Persons who are the
beneficial owners of such temporary global Security on such Interest Payment
Date and who have each delivered to Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A., as the case may
be, a certificate in the form set forth in Exhibit A-4 to this Indenture. Any
interest so received by Euro-clear and CEDEL S.A. and not paid as herein
provided shall be returned to the Trustee and then to the Company in accordance
with Section 10.4.
SECTION 2.12 Compliance with Certain Laws and Regulations. If any
Unregistered Securities are to be issued in any Series of Securities, the
Company will use reasonable efforts to provide for arrangements and procedures
designed pursuant to then applicable laws and regulations, if any, to ensure
that Unregistered Securities are sold or resold, exchanged, transferred and paid
only in compliance with such laws and regulations and without adverse
consequences to the Company.
SECTION 2.13 Appointment of Agents with Respect to Certain
Calculations. The Company may appoint an Agent or Agents with respect to one or
more Series of Securities which Agent or Agents shall be authorized to determine
the rate or rates of interest applicable to the Securities of any Series from
time to time in effect, the amount of principal or premium, if any payable on
the Securities of any Series and the rates of exchange applicable to the
Securities of any Series denominated in a currency other than United States
dollars from time to time in effect, all in accordance with the terms of the
Securities of such Series. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to any
such calculation by the Trustee, it shall be deemed to refer to the calculation
by such agent or agents. Such agent, upon calculating the amounts so to be
calculated pursuant to the terms
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of the Securities of any Series shall communicate promptly in writing the
amounts so calculated to the Company and the Trustee. Absent manifest error, all
amounts so calculated shall be binding on the Company, the Trustee and the
Holders of the Securities of such Series.
Any such agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company and to the Trustee. The Company may at any time terminate
the agency of any such agent by giving written notice thereof to such agent and
to the Trustee. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a
termination, the Company may appoint a successor agent and shall give notice of
such appointment to all Holders of Securities in the manner provided in Section
11.4.
SECTION 2.14 Securities Issuable in the Form of a Global Security.
(a) If the Company shall establish pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 2.3 that the
Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or in part in the
form of one or more Global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the
Trustee or its agent shall, in accordance with Section 2.4 and the Company Order
delivered to the Trustee or its agent thereunder, authenticate and deliver such
Global Security or Global Securities, which (i) shall represent, and shall be
denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of, the
Outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by such Global Security
or Global Securities, or such portion thereof as the Company shall specify in a
Company Order, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depository for such
Global Security or Global Securities or its nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by
the Trustee or its agent to the Depository or pursuant to the Depository's
instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect:
"Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative of the
Depository to the Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange,
or payment, and any certificate issued is registered in the name of the nominee
of the Depository or in such other name as is requested by an authorized
representative of the Depository (and any payment is made to the nominee of the
Depository or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of the Depository), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE, OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR
VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered
owner hereof, the nominee of the Depository, has an interest herein."
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.14 or of
Section 2.8, and subject to the provisions of paragraph (c) below, unless the
terms of a Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be exchanged
in whole or
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in part for individual certificates representing Securities, a Global Security
may be transferred, in whole but not in part and in the manner provided in
Section 2.8, only to a nominee of the Depository for such Global Security, or to
the Depository, or a successor Depository for such Global Security selected or
approved by the Company, or to a nominee of such successor Depository.
(c) (i) If at any time the Depository for a Global Security notifies
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for such
Global Security or if at any time the Depository for the Global Securities for
such series shall no longer be eligible or in good standing under the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or regulation, the
Company shall appoint a successor Depository with respect to such Global
Security. If a successor Depository for such Global Security is not appointed by
the Company within 90 days after the Company receives notice or becomes aware of
such ineligibility, the Company will execute, and the Trustee or its agent, upon
receipt of a Company Request for the authentication and delivery of certificates
representing Securities of such series in exchange for such Global Security,
will authenticate and deliver, certificates representing Securities of such
Series of like tenor and terms in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security.
(ii) The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion
determine that the Securities of any series or portion thereof issued or
issuable in the form of one or more Global Securities shall no longer be
represented by such Global Security or Global Securities. In such event the
Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Request for the
authentication and delivery of certificates representing Securities of such
series in exchange in whole or in part for such Global Security, will
authenticate and deliver certificates representing Securities of such series of
like tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal amount equal
to the principal amount of such Global Security or Global Securities
representing such series or portion thereof in exchange for such Global Security
or Global Securities.
(iii) If specified by the Company pursuant to Sections 2.1 and
2.3 with respect to Securities issued or issuable in the form of a Global
Security, the Depository for such Global Security may surrender such Global
Security in exchange in whole or in part for certificates representing
Securities of such series of like tenor and terms in definitive form on such
terms as are acceptable to the Company and such
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Depository. Thereupon the Company shall execute, and the Trustee or its agent
shall authenticate and deliver, without a service charge, (1) to each Holder
specified by the Security Registrar or the Depository a certificate or
certificates representing Securities of the same series of like tenor and terms
and of any authorized denomination as requested by such person in an aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Holder's beneficial interest
as specified by the Security Registrar or the Depository in the Global Security;
and (2) to such Depository a new Global Security of like tenor and terms and in
an authorized denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal
amount of certificates representing Securities delivered to Holders thereof.
(iv) In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding
three paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee or its agent will
authenticate and deliver certificates representing Securities in definitive
registered form in authorized denominations for Securities of the same series or
any integral multiple thereof. Upon the exchange of the entire principal amount
of a Global Security for certificates representing Securities, such Global
Security shall be cancelled by the Trustee or its agent. Except as provided in
the preceding paragraph, certificates representing Securities issued in exchange
for a Global Security pursuant to this Section shall be registered in such names
and in such authorized denominations for Securities of that Series or any
integral multiple thereof, as the Security Registrar or Depository shall
instruct the Trustee or its agent in writing. The Trustee or the Security
Registrar shall deliver at its Corporate Trust Office such certificates
representing Securities to the Holders in whose names such Securities are so
registered.
ARTICLE 3
COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
SECTION 3.1 Payment of Principal and Interest. The Company covenants
and agrees for the benefit of each Series of Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid the principal of, and interest on, each of
the Securities of such Series in accordance with the terms of the Securities of
such Series, any Coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture.
The interest on Unregistered Securities shall be payable only upon
presentation and surrender of the Coupons for such interest installments as are
evidenced thereby as they
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mature. The interest on any temporary Unregistered Security shall be paid, as to
any installment of interest evidenced by a Coupon attached thereto, if any, only
upon presentation and surrender of such Coupon, and, as to the other
installments of interest, if any, only upon presentation of such Securities for
notation thereon of the payment of such interest.
SECTION 3.2 Offices for Payment, etc. If Securities of a Series are
issuable only as Registered Securities, the Company will maintain an office or
agency where Securities of that Series may be presented or surrendered for
payment, where Securities of that Series may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that Series and this Indenture may be served.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, if Securities of a
Series are issuable as Registered Securities and/or Unregistered Securities, the
Company will maintain (A) in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an
office or agency where any Registered Securities of that Series may be
surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that Series may be
surrendered for exchange, where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of that Series and this Indenture may be served and
where Unregistered Securities of that Series and related coupons may be
presented or surrendered for payment in the circumstances described in the
following paragraph (and not otherwise), (B) subject to any laws or regulations
applicable thereto, outside the United States, an office or agency where
Securities of that Series and related coupons may be presented and surrendered
for payment (including payment of any additional amounts payable on Securities
of that Series pursuant to Section 3.7); provided, however, that if the
Securities of that Series are listed on The International Stock Exchange, the
London Stock Exchange, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange
located outside the United States and such stock exchange shall so require, the
Company will maintain a Paying Agent for the Securities of that Series in
London, Luxembourg or any other required city located outside the United States,
as the case may be, so long as the Securities of that Series are listed on such
exchange, and (C) subject to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, outside
the United States, an office or agency where any Registered Securities of that
Series may be surrendered for registration of transfer, where Securities of that
Series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities of that Series and this Indenture may
be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee and the
Holders of the location, and any change in the location, of any such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any
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such required office or agency in respect of any Series of Securities or shall
fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations and
surrenders of Securities of that Series may be made and notices and demands may
be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, except that
Unregistered Securities of that Series and the related coupons may be presented
and surrendered for payment (including payment of any additional amounts payable
on Unregistered Securities of that Series pursuant to Section 3.7) at an office
maintained by the Trustee in London, and the Company hereby appoints the same as
its agent to receive such respective presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
Except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 2.3, no
payment of principal or interest on Unregistered Securities shall be made at any
office or agency of the Company in the United States or by check mailed to any
address in the United States or by transfer to an account maintained with a bank
located in the United States, provided, however, that, if the Securities of a
Series are denominated and payable in Dollars, payment of principal of and any
premium, if any, and interest on any Unregistered Security (including any
additional amounts payable on Securities of such Series pursuant to Section 3.7)
shall be made at the office of the Company's Paying Agent in the Borough of
Manhattan, The City of New York, if (but only if) payment in Dollars of the full
amount of such principal, premium, interest or additional amounts, as the case
may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained for the
purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is illegal or effective
precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities of one or more Series may be presented
or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to time rescind
such designations; provided, however, that no such designation or rescission
shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain an office
or agency in accordance with the requirements set forth above for Securities of
any Series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the
Trustee and the Holders of any such designation or rescission and of any change
in the location of any such other office or agency.
Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 2.3, the Trustee is
appointed Paying Agent and Registrar.
SECTION 3.3 Appointment to Fill a Vacancy in Office of Trustee. The
Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a
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vacancy in the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in
Section 6.10, a Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee with
respect to each Series of Securities hereunder.
SECTION 3.4 Paying Agents. Whenever the Company shall appoint a
Paying Agent other than the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
Series, it will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of this Section,
(a) that it will hold all sums received by it as such Agent for the
payment of the principal of or interest on the Securities of such Series
or Coupons (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by
any other obligor on the Securities of such Series or Coupons) in trust
for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such Series or of the
Trustee, and upon the occurrence of an Event of Default pay over all such
sums received by it to the Trustee,
(b) that it will give the Trustee written notice of any failure by
the Company (or by any other obligor on the Securities of such Series) to
make any payment of the principle of or interest on the Securities of such
Series or Coupons when the same shall be due and payable, and
(c) that it will give the Trustee written notice of any change of
address of any Holder of which it is aware.
The Company will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of
or interest on the Securities of such Series or Coupons, deposit with the Paying
Agent a sum sufficient to pay such principal or interest so becoming due, and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee in writing of any failure to take such action.
If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent with respect to the
Securities of any Series or Coupons, it will, on or before each due date of the
principal of or interest on the Securities of such Series or Coupons, set aside,
segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of
such Series or Holders of such Coupons a sum sufficient to pay such principal or
interest so becoming due. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in
writing of any failure to take such action.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Company may at any time, for the purpose of
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obtaining a satisfaction and discharge with respect to one or more or all Series
of Securities or Coupons hereunder, or for any other reason, pay or cause to be
paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any such Series by the Company or
any Paying Agent hereunder, as required by this Section, such sums to be held by
the Trustee upon the trusts herein contained.
Anything in this Section to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section is subject to the
provisions of Sections 10.3 and 10.4.
SECTION 3.5 Written Statement to Trustee. The Company will deliver
to the Trustee on or before May 1 in each year in which there are Securities
Outstanding hereunder an Officer's Certificate, stating that in the course of
the performance of their duties as officers of the Company they would normally
have knowledge of any default by the Company in the performance or fulfillment
of any covenant, agreement or condition contained in this Indenture, stating
whether or not they have knowledge of any such default and, if so, specifying
each such default of which the signers have knowledge and the nature thereof.
SECTION 3.6 Corporate Existence. So long as any Securities shall be
Outstanding, subject to Article Nine, the Company will do or cause to be done
all things necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate
existence, rights (charter and statutory) and franchises; provided, however,
that the Company shall not be required to preserve any such right or franchise
if the Board of Directors shall determine that the preservation thereof is no
longer desirable in the conduct of the business of the Company and that the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 3.7 Additional Amounts. If the Securities of a Series
provide for the payment of additional amounts, the Company will pay to the
Holder of any Security of such Series or any Coupon appertaining thereto
additional amounts as provided therein. Whenever in this Indenture there is
mentioned, in any context, the payment of the principal or premium, if any, of
or interest on, or in respect of, any security of a Series or payment of any
related Coupon or the net proceeds received on the sale or exchange of any
Security of any Series, such mention shall be deemed to include mention of the
payment of additional amounts provided for in this Section to the extent that,
in such context, additional amounts are, were or would be payable in respect
thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express mention of the
payment of additional amounts (if
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applicable) in any provisions hereof shall not be construed as excluding
additional amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not
made.
If the Securities of a Series provide for the payment of additional
amounts, at least 10 days prior to the first interest payment date with respect
to that Series of Securities (or if the Securities of that Series will not bear
interest prior to maturity, the first day on which a payment of principal is
made), and at least 10 days prior to each date of payment of principal, premium,
if any, or interest if there has been any change with respect to the matters set
forth in the below-mentioned Officer's Certificate, the Company will furnish the
Trustee and the Company's principal Paying Agent or Paying Agents, if other than
the Trustee , with an Officer's Certificate instructing the Trustee and such
Paying Agent or Paying Agents whether such payment of principal of or interest
on the Securities of that Series shall be made to Holders of Securities of that
Series or any related Coupons who are United States Aliens without withholding
for or on account of any tax, assessment or other governmental charge described
in the Securities of that Series. If any such withholding shall be required,
then such Officer's Certificate shall specify by country the amount, if any,
required to be withheld on such payments to such Holders of Securities or
Coupons and the Company will pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the
additional amounts required by this Section. The Company, notwithstanding any
other provision in this Indenture, covenants to indemnify the Trustee and any
Paying Agent and their officers, directors, employees and agents for, and to
hold them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense (including counsel's
fees, expenses and disbursements) reasonably incurred without negligence or bad
faith on their part arising out of or in connection with actions taken or
omitted by any of them in reliance on any Officer's Certificate furnished
pursuant to this Section.
SECTION 3.8 Defeasance of Certain Obligations and Certain Events of
Default. Unless otherwise provided in the Board Resolutions, Officer's
Certificate or an indenture supplemental hereto establishing a series of
Securities subject to additional restrictive covenants or events of default as
contemplated by Section 2.3, the Company may omit to comply with any term,
provision or condition set forth in any such additional restrictive covenant,
and Section 5.1(d) (with respect to any such additional restrictive covenant),
Section 5.1(e) and any such additional event of default shall be deemed not to
be an Event of Default, in each case with respect to the Securities of any
Series, if the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with
the Trustee, under the terms of an irrevocable trust agreement in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, as trust funds in trust (subject to Sections 10.2,
10.3,
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10.4 and 10.5 hereof) solely for the benefit of the Securityholders of such
Series for that purpose, (i) cash or (ii) direct noncallable obligations of, or
noncallable obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America or an agency
thereof for the payment of which guarantee or obligation the full faith and
credit of the United States of America is pledged ("U.S. Government
Obligations"), or a combination thereof, maturing as to principal and interest
in such amounts and at such times as are sufficient, without consideration of
any reinvestment of such principal or interest, to pay the principal of and
interest on the outstanding Securities of such Series and Coupons to maturity or
redemption, as the case may be, provided that the Trustee shall have been
irrevocably instructed in writing to apply such money or the proceeds of such
U.S. Government Obligations to the payment of said principal of and interest on
the Outstanding Securities and Coupons of such Series; provided that:
(a) such deposit shall not cause the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that Series to have a conflicting interest as defined in
Section 6.8 and for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to
the Securities of any Series;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, this Indenture or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound; and
(c) no Event of Default under Section 5.1(a), 5.1(b) or 5.1(c), or
event which with the lapse of time would become an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of that Series shall have occurred and be
continuing on the date of such deposit, and no Event of Default under
Section 5.1(f) or Section 5.1(g) or event which with the giving of notice
or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of Default under Section
5.1(f) or Section 5.1(g) shall have occurred and be continuing on the 91st
day after such date of deposit.
Such irrevocable trust agreement shall include, among other things,
provision for (1) payment of the principal of and interest on the Securities of
such Series and Coupons when due (by redemption, sinking fund payments or
otherwise), (2) the payment of the expenses of the Trustee (including counsel's
fees, expenses and disbursements) incurred or to be incurred in connection with
carrying out such trust provisions, (3) rights of registration, transfer,
substitution and exchange of Securities of such Series and Coupons in accordance
with the terms stated in this Indenture and (4) continuation of the rights
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and obligations and immunities of the Trustee as against the Securityholders of
such Series as stated in this Indenture.
After any such irrevocable deposit, accompanied by an Officer's
Certificate and Opinion of Counsel which shall state that the provisions of the
first two paragraphs of this Section 3.8 have been complied with, and upon
delivery by the Company to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect
that Securityholders of such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for
Federal income tax purposes as a result of such deposit and discharge and will
be subject to Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and
at the same time as would have been the case if such deposit and discharge had
not occurred, then the Company shall be discharged of its obligations under the
Securities of such Series and this Indenture with respect to such Series except
for those surviving obligations specified above, and the Trustee upon written
request shall acknowledge in writing such discharge. In addition, if the
Securities of that Series are then listed on the New York Stock Exchange, Inc.,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the
effect that such deposit, defeasence and discharge will not cause such
Securities to be delisted. Prior to the delivery of such acknowledgment, the
Trustee may require the Company to deliver to it an Officer's Certificate and
Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for
herein relating to the deposit and discharge contemplated by this provision have
been complied with, and the Trustee may also require that the Opinion of Counsel
shall also state that such deposit does not violate applicable law.
ARTICLE 4
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1 Company to Furnish Trustee Information as to Names and
Addresses of Securityholders. The Company covenants and agrees that it will
furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee a list in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require of the names and addresses of the Holders of the
Registered Securities of each Series:
(a) semiannually and not more than 10 days after each record date
for the payment of interest on such Securities, as hereinabove specified,
as of such record date and on dates to be determined pursuant to Section
2.3 for non-interest bearing securities in each year, and
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(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after receipt by the Company of any such request as of a
date not more than 15 days prior to the time such information is
furnished;
provided that if and so long as the Trustee shall be the Security registrar for
such Series, such list shall not be required to be furnished but in any event
the Company shall be required to furnish such information concerning the Holders
of Unregistered Securities which is known to it; provided, further, that the
Company shall have no obligation to investigate any matter relating to any
Holder of an Unregistered Security or any Holder of a Coupon.
SECTION 4.2 Preservation and Disclosure of Securityholders' Lists.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the Holders of
each Series of Securities contained in the most recent list furnished to it as
provided in Section 4.1 or maintained by the Trustee in its capacity as Security
registrar for such Series, if so acting. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list so
furnished.
(b) In case three or more Holders of Securities (hereinafter
referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee and furnish to the
Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned Security for a
period of at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such
application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other Holders
of Securities of a particular Series (in which case the applicants must all hold
Securities of such Series) or with Holders of all Securities with respect to
their rights under this Indenture or under such Securities and such application
is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within five Business
Days after the receipt of such application, at its election, either
(i) afford to such applicants access to the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection
(a) of this Section, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders
of Securities of such Series or all Securities, as the case may be, whose
names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a)
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of this Section, as to the approximate cost of mailing to such
Securityholders the form of proxy or other communication, if any,
specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford to such applicants access
to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Securityholder of such Series or all Securities, as the
case may be, whose name and address appear in the information preserved at the
time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this
Section, a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which is specified
in such request, with reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the
material to be mailed and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the
reasonable expenses of mailing.
(c) Each and every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding
the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor
the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be held
accountable by reason of the disclosure of any such information as to the names
and addresses of the Holders of Securities in accordance with provisions of
subsection (b) of this Section, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under such subsection
(b).
SECTION 4.3 Reports by the Company. The Company covenants:
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(a) to file with the Trustee, within 15 days after the Company is
required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or copies of
such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commissioner may from time to
time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may be required
to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and if the Company is not required to
file information, documents, or reports pursuant to either of such
Sections, then to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission,
such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents, and reports
which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, or in respect of a security listed and registered on a
national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in
such rules and regulations;
(b) to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such
additional information, documents, and reports with respect to compliance
by the Company with the conditions and covenants provided for in this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
(c) to transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities in the manner
and to the extent required by Sections 4.4(c) and 11.4, within 30 days
after the filing thereof with the Trustee, such summaries of any
information, documents, and reports required to be filed by the Company
pursuant to subsection (a)and(b)of this Section as may be required to be
transmitted to such Holders by rules and regulations prescribed from time
to time by the Commission.
SECTION 4.4 Reports by the Trustee. (a) On or before July 14 in
each year following the date hereof, so long as any Securities are outstanding
hereunder, the Trustee shall transmit by mail as provided below to the
Securityholders of each Series, as hereinafter in this Section provided, a brief
report dated as of May 15 with respect to any of the following events which
may have occurred within the previous 12 months (but if no such event has
occurred within such period, no report need be transmitted):
(i) any change in its eligibility under Section 6.9 and its
qualification under Section 6.8, or in lieu thereof, if to the best of its
knowledge it has continued to be eligible and qualified under such
Sections, a written statement to such effect;
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(ii) the character and amount of any advances (and if the
Trustee elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making
thereof) made by the Trustee, as such, which remain unpaid on the date of
such report and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a
lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities of any Series, on any
property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, except that the
Trustee shall not be required (but may elect) to report such advances if
such advances so remaining unpaid aggregate not more than 1/2 of l% of the
principal amount of the Securities of any Series Outstanding on the date
of such report;
(iii) the amount, interest rate, and maturity date of all
other indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity on the date of such
report, with a brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except any indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in any manner described in Section 6.13(b)(2),(3),(4)
or (6);
(iv) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically
in the possession of the Trustee (as such) on the date of such report;
(v) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has
not previously reported; and
(vi) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its
duties under this Indenture which it has not previously reported and which
in its opinion materially affects the Securities, except action in respect
of a default, notice of which has been or is to be withheld by it in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5.11.
(b) The Trustee shall transmit to the Securityholders of each
Series, as provided in subsection (c) of this Section, a brief report with
respect to the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee elects
so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made by the
Trustee, as such, since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to the
provisions of subsection (a) of this Section (or if such report has yet been so
transmitted, since the date of this Indenture) for the reimbursement of which it
claims or may claim a lien or charge prior to that of the Securities of such
Series on property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee and which it has
not previously reported pursuant to this subsection (b), except that the Trustee
shall not be required
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(but may elect) to report such advances if such advances remaining unpaid at any
time aggregate 10% or less of the principal amount of Securities of such Series
Outstanding at such time, such report to be transmitted within 90 days after
such time.
(c) Reports pursuant to this Section shall be transmitted by mail to
all registered Holders of Securities, as the names and addresses of such Holders
appear upon the registry book of the Company and to such Holders of Unregistered
Securities as have, within the two years preceding such notice, filed their
names and addresses with the Trustee for that purpose, and, except in the case
of reports pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section 4.4, to all Holders whose
names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time of such
notice by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.2(a).
(d) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Securityholders, be furnished to the Company and be filed by the
Trustee with each stock exchange upon which the Securities of any applicable
Series are listed and also with the Commission. The Company agrees to notify the
Trustee with respect to any Series when and as the Securities of such Series
become admitted to trading on any national securities exchange.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1 Event of Default Defined; Acceleration of Maturity;
Waiver of Default. "Event of Default" as used herein with respect to Securities
of any Series whatever means each one of the following events which shall have
occurred and be continuing (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and
whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law
or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or
regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(a) default in the payment of any installment of interest upon any
of the Securities of such Series as and when the same shall become due and
payable, and continuance of such default for a period of 30 days; or
(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal on
any of the Securities of such Series as and
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when the same shall become due and payable either at maturity, upon
redemption, by declaration or otherwise; or
(c) default in the payment of any sinking fund installment as and
when the same shall become due and payable by the terms of the Securities
of such Series; or
(d) default in the performance, or breach, of any agreement of the
Company in respect of the Securities of such Series (other than an
agreement in respect of the Securities of such Series a default in whose
performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 60
days after receipt by the Company from the Trustee or the Holders of at
least 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such Series
affected thereby, of a written notice specifying such default or breach
and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such notice is a "Notice
of Default" hereunder; or
(e) a default under any bond, debenture, note or other evidence of
indebtedness for money borrowed by the Company (including a default with
respect to Securities of any Series other than that Series) or 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 (including this Indenture), whether such
indebtedness now exists or shall hereafter be created, which default shall
constitute a failure to pay such indebtedness in a principal amount in
excess of $20,000,000 when due and payable after the expiration of any
applicable grace period with respect thereto or shall have resulted in
such indebtedness in a principal amount in excess of $20,000,000 becoming
or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it would
otherwise have become due and payable, without such indebtedness having
been discharged, or such acceleration having been rescinded or annulled,
within a period of 15 days after there shall have been given, by
registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to the
Company and the Trustee by the Holders of at east 25% in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that Series a written notice specifying
such default and requiring the Company to cause such indebtedness to be
discharged or cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
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(f) the Company pursuant to or under or within the meaning of any
Bankruptcy Law: (i) commences a voluntary case or proceeding; (ii)
consents to the entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary
case or proceeding or the commencement of any case against it; (iii)
consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or any substantial part
of its property; (iv) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its
creditors; (v) files a petition in bankruptcy or answer or consent seeking
reorganization or relief; or (vi) consents to the filing of such petition
or the appointment of or taking possession by a Custodian; or
(g) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree
under any Bankruptcy Law that: (i) is for relief against the Company in an
involuntary case or proceeding, or adjudicates the Company insolvent or
bankrupt; (ii) appoints a Custodian of the Company or for any substantial
part of its property; or (iii) orders the winding up or liquidation of the
Company; and the order or decree remains unstayed and in effect for 60
days; or
(h) there has occurred any other Event of Default provided in the
indenture supplemental hereto or Board Resolution under which such Series
of Securities is issued or in the form of Security for such Series.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Xxxxx 00, Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Code, or any similar
Federal or state law for the relief of debtors. "Custodian" means any receiver,
trustee, assignee, liquidator, custodian or similar official under any
Bankruptcy Law.
If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default under clauses
(f) and (g)) with respect to Securities of any Series at the time Outstanding
occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of
not less than 25% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
Series may declare the principal amount (or, if the Securities of that Series
are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as
may be specified in the terms of that Series) of all of the Securities of that
Series and the interest, if any, accrued thereon to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee given by
Holders), and upon any such declaration such principal amount (or specified
amount) and interest shall become immediately due and payable. If an Event of
Default described in clause (f) or (g) occurs and is continuing, the entire
principal amount (or, if the Securities of that Series are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in
the terms of that Series) of all the Securities then Outstanding and
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interest accrued thereon shall become and be immediately due and payable without
any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or any Securityholders.
The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that
if, at any time after the principal (or, if the Securities are Original Issue
Discount Securities, such portion of the principal as may be specified in the
terms thereof) of the Securities of any Series shall have been so declared due
and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, the Company shall
pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest upon all the Securities of such Series and the
principal of any and all Securities of such Series which shall have become due
otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and, to the
extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law, on
overdue installments of interest, at the same rate as the rate of interest or
Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original Issue Discount Securities) specified
in the Securities of such Series, to the date of such payment or deposit) and
such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation and
reimbursement for the expenses and disbursements to the Trustee, its agents,
attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
advances made, by the Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and
if any and all Events of Default under the Indenture, other than the nonpayment
of the principal of Securities which shall have become due by acceleration,
shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein - then
and in every such case the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of all the Securities of such Series then Outstanding, by written notice to the
Company and to the Trustee, may waive all defaults with respect to such Series
and rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no such waiver
or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent
default or shall impair any right consequent thereon.
For all purposes under this Indenture, if a portion of the principal
of any Original Issue Discount Securities shall have been accelerated and
declared due and payable pursuant to the revisions hereof, then, from and after
such declaration, unless such declaration has been rescinded and annulled, the
principal amount of such Original Issue Discount Securities shall be deemed, for
all purposes hereunder, to be such portion of the principal thereof as shall be
due and payable as a result of such acceleration, and payment of such portion of
the principal thereof as shall be due and payable as a result of such
acceleration, together with interest, if any, thereon and all
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other amounts owing thereunder, shall constitute payment in full of such
Original Issue Discount Securities.
SECTION 5.2 Collection of Indebtedness by Trustee; Trustee May Prove
Debt. The Company covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the
payment of any installment of interest on any of the Securities of any Series
when such interest shall have become due and payable, and such default shall
have continued for a period of 30 days or (b) in case default shall be made in
the payment of all or any principal of any of the Securities of any Series when
the same shall have become due and payable, whether upon maturity of the
Securities of such Series or upon any redemption or by declaration or otherwise
- then upon demand of the Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee for the
benefit of the Holders of the Securities of such Series and the Holders of any
Coupons appertaining thereto the whole amount that then shall have become due
and payable on all Securities of such Series or such Coupons for principal of or
interest, as the case may be (with interest to the date of such payment upon the
overdue principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is
enforceable under applicable law, on overdue installments of interest at the
same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of Original
Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such Series); and in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including reasonable compensation to and
reimbursement for the expenses and disbursements of the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and any
expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and
each predecessor Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith.
Until such demand is made by the Trustee, the Company may pay the
principal of and interest on the Securities of any Series to the persons
entitled thereto, whether or not the principal of and interest on the Securities
of such Series are overdue.
In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon
such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust,
shall be entitled and empowered to institute any action or proceedings at law or
in equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute
any such action or proceedings to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any
such judgment or final decree against the Company or other obligor upon such
Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the property of the
Company or other obligor upon such Securities, wherever situated, the moneys
adjudged or decreed to be payable.
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In case there shall be pending proceedings relative to the Company
or any other obligor upon the Securities under any Bankruptcy Law, or in case a
Custodian shall have been appointed for or taken possession of the Company or
its property or such other obligor, or in case of any other comparable judicial
proceedings relative to the Company or other obligor under the Securities of any
Series, or to the creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor,
the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of any Securities shall then
be due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and
irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand pursuant to the
provisions of this Section, shall be entitled and empowered (but shall have no
obligation to), by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise:
(a) to file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of
principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities of
any Series, and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for reasonable compensation and reimbursement for expenses and
disbursements to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, and their
respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for reimbursement of all
expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence or bad
faith) and of the Securityholders and the Holders of any Coupons
appertaining thereto allowed in any judicial proceedings relative to the
Company or other obligor upon all Securities of any Series, or to the
creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor,
(b) unless prohibited by applicable law and regulations, to vote on
behalf of the holders of the Securities of any Series in any election of a
trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization, liquidation
or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or person performing similar
functions in comparable proceedings, and
(c) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims, and to distribute all amounts received
with respect to the claims of the Securityholders and of the Trustee on
their behalf; and any Custodian or other similar official is hereby
authorized by each of the Holders to make payments to the Trustee, and, in
the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of payments
directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as
shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation and reimbursement for
expenses and disbursements to the Trustee, each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and
liabilities
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incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith and all other
amounts due to the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee pursuant to Section
6.6.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or vote for or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Securities of any Series or the rights of any Holder
thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any
Securityholder in any such proceeding except, as aforesaid, to vote for the
election of a trustee in bankruptcy or similar person.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture,
or under any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the
possession of any of the Securities or the production thereof at any trial or
other proceedings relative thereto, and any such action or proceedings
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust, and any recovery of judgment, subject to the payment of the
expenses, disbursements and compensation of the Trustee, each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents and attorneys, shall be for the ratable
benefit of the Holders of the securities and Holders of any Coupons in respect
of which such action was taken.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the
Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all the
Holders of the Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto in respect to which
such action was taken, and it shall not be necessary to make any Holders of such
Securities and Coupons appertaining thereto parties to any such proceedings.
SECTION 5.3 Application of Proceeds. Any moneys collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article in respect of the Securities of any Series
shall be applied in the following order at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such moneys on account of principal
or interest, upon presentation of the several Securities and any Coupons
appertaining thereto in respect of which moneys have been collected and stamping
(or otherwise noting) thereon the payment, or issuing Securities of such Series
in reduced principal amounts in exchange for the presented Securities of like
Series if only partially paid, or upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
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FIRST: To the payment of costs and expenses applicable to such
Series in respect of which moneys have been collected, including
reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and
their respective agents and attorneys and of all fees, expenses and
liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith, and all
other amounts due to the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee pursuant to
Section 6.6;
SECOND: In case the principal of the Securities of such Series in
respect of which moneys have been collected shall not have become and be
then due and payable, to the payment of interest on the Securities of such
Series in default in the order of the maturity of the installments of such
interest, with interest (to the extent that such interest has been
collected by the Trustee) upon the overdue installments of interest at the
same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of
Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in such Securities, such
payments to be made ratably to the persons entitled thereto, without
discrimination or preference;
THIRD: In case the principal of the Securities of such Series in
respect of which moneys have been collected shall have become and shall be
then due and payable, to the payment of the whole amount then owing and
unpaid upon all the Securities such Series for principal and interest,
with interest upon the overdue principal, and (to the extent that payment
of such interest is permissible by law and that such interest has been
collected by the Trustee) upon overdue installments of interest at the
same rate as the rate of interest or Yield to Maturity (in the case of
Original Issue Discount Securities) specified in the Securities of such
Series; and in case such moneys shall be insufficient to pay in full the
whole amount so due and unpaid upon the Securities of such Series, then to
the payment of such principal and interest or Yield to Maturity, without
preference or priority of principal over interest or Yield to Maturity or
of interest or Yield to Maturity over principal, or of any installment of
interest over any other installment of interest, or of any Security of
such Series over any other Security of such Series, ratably to the
aggregate of such principal and accrued and unpaid interest; and
FOURTH: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or
any other person lawfully entitled thereto.
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SECTION 5.4 Suits for Enforcement. In case an Event of Default has
occurred, has not been waived and is continuing, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effective to protect and enforce any of such rights, either at law or in
equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of
any covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise
of any power granted in this Indenture or to enforce any other legal or
equitable right vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
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SECTION 5.5 Restoration of Rights on Abandonment of Proceedings. In
case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this Indenture
and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned for any reason,
or shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such
case the Company and the Trustee shall be restored respectively to their former
positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and powers of the
Company, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall continue as though no such
proceedings had been taken.
SECTION 5.6 Limitations on Suits by Securityholders. No Holder of
any Security of any Series or Holder of any Coupon shall have any right by
virtue or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to institute any action
or proceeding at law or in equity or in bankruptcy or otherwise upon or under or
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a Custodian or other
similar official or for any other remedy hereunder, unless such Holder
previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of default and of the
continuance thereof, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the Holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such Series
then Outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute
such action or proceedings in its own name as trustee hereunder and shall have
offered to the Trustee such indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it, as it may
require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or
thereby and the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request
and offer of indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action or
proceeding and no direction inconsistent with such written request shall have
been given to the Trustee pursuant to Section 5.9; it being understood and
intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and Holder of every
Security and by a Holder of each Coupon appertaining thereto and the Trustee,
that no one or more Holders of Securities of any Series or one or more
Securities of any Series or one or more Holders of any Coupons appertaining
thereto shall have any right in any manner whatever, by virtue or by availing of
any provisions of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of
any other such Holder of Securities or any other Holders of such Coupons, or to
obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such Holder or
to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided
and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all Holders of Securities of
the applicable Series and all the Holders of Coupons appertaining thereto. For
the protection and enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each any every
Securityholder and the Trustee shall
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be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 5.7 Unconditional Rights of Securityholders to Institute
Certain Suits. Notwithstanding any provision in this Indenture and any provision
of any Security or Coupon, the right of any Holder of any Security and the right
of any Holder of any Coupon appertaining thereto to receive payment of the
principal of and interest on such Security on or after the respective due dates
expressed in such Security, or to institute 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 5.8 Powers and Remedies Cumulative; Delay or Omission Not
Waiver of Default. Except as provided in Section 5.6, no right or remedy herein
conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
No delay or omission of the Trustee or of any Securityholder to
exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and
continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power or shall be
construed to be a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence
therein; and, subject to Section 5.6, every power and remedy given by this
Indenture or by law to the Trustee, to the Securityholders or to the Holder of
any Coupon appertaining thereto may be exercised from time to time, and as often
as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee, the Securityholders or Holders of
any Coupon.
SECTION 5.9 Control by Securityholders. The Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of each Series affected (with each
Series treated as a separate class) at the time Outstanding shall have the right
to direct in writing the time, method, and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such Series by this
Indenture; provided that such direction shall not be otherwise than in
accordance with law and the provisions of this Indenture and provided further
that (subject to the provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have the right
to decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee, being
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advised by counsel, shall determine that the action or proceeding so directed
may not lawfully be taken or if the Trustee in good faith by its board of
directors, the executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee shall determine that the action or
proceedings so directed would involve the Trustee in personal liability or if
the Trustee in good faith shall so determine that the actions or forebearances
specified in or pursuant to such direction would be unduly prejudicial to the
interests of Holders of the Securities of all Series or of the Holders of any
Coupons appertaining thereto so affected not joining in the giving of said
direction, it being understood that (subject to Section 6.1) the Trustee shall
have no duty to ascertain whether or not such actions or forbearances are unduly
prejudicial to such Holders.
Nothing in this Indenture shall impair the right of the Trustee in
its discretion to take any action deemed proper by the Trustee and which is not
inconsistent with such written direction or directions by Securityholders.
SECTION 5.10 Waiver of Past Defaults. Prior to the declaration of
the acceleration of the maturity of the Securities of any Series as provided in
Section 5.1, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of such Series then Outstanding may waive any such default or Event
of Default and its consequences except a default in respect of a covenant or
provision hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Security affected. In the case of any such waiver, the Company,
the Trustee, the Holders of the Securities of such Series and the Holder of any
Coupon appertaining thereto shall be restored to their former positions and
rights hereunder, respectively.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist and be
deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred, and any Event of Default
arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured and not to have occurred
for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent
thereon.
SECTION 5.11 Trustee to Give Notice of Default, But May Withhold in
Certain Circumstances. The Trustee shall transmit to the Securityholders of any
Series notice in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 11.4, of all
defaults which have occurred with respect to such Series, such notice to be
transmitted within 90 days after the occurrence thereof, unless such defaults
shall have been cured before the giving of such notice (the term "default" or
"defaults" for the
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purposes of this Section being hereby defined to mean any event or condition
which is, or with notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of
Default); provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of the
principal of or interest on any of the Securities of such Series or any default
in the payment of any sinking fund installment or analogous obligation in
respect of any of the Securities of such Series, the Trustee shall be protected
in withholding such notice if and so long as the board of directors, the
executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such
Series.
SECTION 5.12 Right of Court to Require Filing of Undertaking to Pay
Costs. All parties to this Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security and
each Holder of any Coupon, by his acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to have
agreed, that a court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it as Trustee, the
filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of
such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder or
group of Securityholders of any Series holding in the aggregate more than 10% in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such Series, or to any suit
instituted by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the
principal of or interest on any Security on or after the due date expressed in
such Security.
ARTICLE 6
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1 Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee; Prior to
Default; During Default. With respect to the Holders of any Series of Securities
issued hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default
with respect to the Securities of a particular Series and after the curing or
waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred with respect to such
Series, undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture. No implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee. In case an Event of
Default with respect to the Securities of a Series has occurred (which has not
been cured or
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waived) of which a Responsible Officer has actual knowledge, 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 man would
exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default with respect to
the Securities of any Series and after the curing or waiving of all such
Events of Default with respect to such Series which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with respect to
the Securities of an Series shall be determined solely by the
express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be
liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as
are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied
covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture against
the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee,
the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements
and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any
statements, certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and
conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of
any such statements, certificates or opinions which by any provision
hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the Trustee, the
Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Responsible Officers of the
Trustee, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in
ascertaining the pertinent facts; and
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the written
direction of the Holders pursuant to Section 5.9 relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to
the
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Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
under this Indenture.
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers, if there shall be reasonable ground for believing that the
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such liability is not
reasonably assured to it.
SECTION 6.2 Certain Rights of the Trustee. Subject to Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully protected
in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, officer's
Certificate or any other certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, coupon,
security or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officer's Certificate (unless
other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and
any resolution of the Board of Directors may be evidenced to the Trustee
by a copy thereof certified by the secretary or any assistant secretary of
the Company;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel and any advice or action
taken by the Trustee in reasonable reliance on the advice of counsel or
an Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted to be
taken by it hereunder in good faith and in accordance with such advice
or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
trusts or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee
security or indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred therein or thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted
by it in good faith and believed by it to
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be authorized or within rights or powers conferred upon it by this
Indenture;
(f) prior to the occurrence of any Event of Default hereunder and
after the curing or waiving of all Events of Default, the Trustee shall
not be bound to make any investigation into the facts or matters stated in
any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report,
notice, request, consent, order, approval, appraisal, bond, debenture,
note, coupon, security, or other paper or document unless requested in
writing to do so by the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Securities of all Series affected then
Outstanding; provided that, if the payment within a reasonable time to the
Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it
in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not
reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the
terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require indemnity reasonably
satisfactory to it against such expenses or liabilities as a condition to
proceeding; the reasonable expenses of every such investigation shall be
paid by the Company or, if paid by the Trustee or any predecessor Trustee,
shall be repaid by the Company upon demand; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents,
custodians, nominees or attorneys not regularly in its employ and the
Trustee shall not be responsible for any negligent action, negligent
failure to act or wilful misconduct on the part of any such agent,
custodian, nominee or attorney.
SECTION 6.3 Trustee Not Responsible for Recitals, Disposition of
Securities or Application of Proceeds Thereof. The recitals contained herein and
in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificate of authentication, shall be
taken as the statements of the Company and the Trustee assumes no responsibility
for the correctness of the same. The Trustee makes no representation as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of any of the
Securities or of the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.4 Trustee and Agents May Hold Securities; Collections,
etc. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, Security registrar, or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the
owner or pledgee of Securities or Coupons with the same rights it would have if
it were not the Trustee or such agent and, subject to Sections 6.8
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and 6.13, if operative, may otherwise deal with the Company and receive,
collect, hold and retain collections from the Company with the same rights it
would have if it were not the Trustee or such agent.
SECTION 6.5 Moneys Held by Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
Section 10.4 hereof, all moneys received by the Trustee shall, until used or
applied as herein provided, be held in trust for the purposes for which they
were received, but need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by mandatory provisions of law. Neither the Trustee nor any agent of
the Company or the Trustee shall be under any liability for interest on any
moneys received by it hereunder.
SECTION 6.6 Compensation and Indemnification of Trustee and Its
Prior Claim. The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time
to time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, reasonable compensation (which
shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of
a trustee of an express trust) and the Company covenants and agrees to pay or
reimburse the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by or on
behalf of it in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of
its counsel and of all agents and other persons not regularly in its employ)
except any such expense, disbursement or advance as may arise from its
negligence or bad faith. The Company also covenants to indemnify the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee and the officers, directors, agents and employee
for, and to hold it and them harmless against, any loss, liability or expense
incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of this Indenture or the
trusts hereunder and its duties hereunder, including the costs and expenses
of defending itself against or investigating any claim of liability in the
premises. The obligations of the Company under this Section to compensate and
indemnify the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee and to pay or reimburse
the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee for expenses, disbursements and
advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder and shall survive
the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture or the earlier resignation
or termination of the Trustee. Such additional indebtedness shall be a prior
lien to that of the Securities upon all property and funds held or collected
by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of the
Holders of particular Securities or the Holders of particular Coupons, and
the Securities are hereby subordinated to such senior claim. When the Trustee
incurs expenses or renders services in connection with an Event of Default
specified in Section 5.1 or in connection with Article Five hereof, the
expenses (including
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the reasonable fees and expenses of its counsel) and the compensation for the
service in connection therewith are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any bankruptcy law.
SECTION 6.7 Right of Trustee to Rely on Officer's Certificate, etc.
Subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the administration of the trusts of
this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it necessary or desirable that a matter be
proved or established prior to taking or suffering or omitting any action
hereunder, it may request and such matter (unless other evidence in respect
thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence or
bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be conclusively proved and
established by an Officer's Certificate and/or Opinion of Counsel, as the case
may be, delivered to the Trustee, and such certificate or Opinion of Counsel,
shall be full warrant to the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted
by it or under the provisions of this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 6.8 Qualification of Trustee; Conflicting Interests. (a) If
the Trustee has or shall acquire any conflicting interest, as defined in this
Section, it shall, within 90 days after ascertaining that it has such
conflicting interest, either eliminate such conflicting interest or resign in
the manner and with the effect specified in this Indenture.
(b) In the event that the Trustee shall fail to comply with the
provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, the Trustee shall, within 10 days
after the expiration of such 90 day period, transmit by mail notice of such
failure to the Securityholders in the manner and to the extent provided in
Section 4.4(c) and 11.4.
(c) For the purposes of this Section, the Trustee shall be deemed to
have a conflicting interest with respect to Securities of any Series if
(i) the Trustee is trustee under this Indenture with respect
to the Outstanding Securities of any other Series or is a trustee under
another indenture under which any other securities, or certificates of
interest or participation in any other securities, of an Issuer are
outstanding, unless such other indenture is a collateral trust indenture
under which the only collateral consists of Securities issued under this
Indenture; provided that there shall be excluded from the operation of
this paragraph this Indenture with respect to the Securities of any Series
other than such Series or any other indenture or indentures under
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which other securities, or certificates of interest or participation in
other securities, of an Issuer are outstanding if (i) this Indenture is
and such other indenture or indentures are wholly unsecured, and such
other indenture or indentures are hereafter qualified under the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, unless the Commission shall have found and declared
by order pursuant to Section 305(b) or Section 307(c) of such Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 that differences exist between the provisions of
this Indenture with respect to Securities of such Series and one or more
other Series, or the provisions of this Indenture and the provisions of
such other indenture or indentures which are so likely to involve a
material conflict of interest as to make it necessary in the public
interest or for the protection of investors to disqualify the Trustee from
acting as such under this Indenture with respect to Securities of such
Series and such other Series, or under this Indenture or such other
indenture or indentures, or (ii) the Issuer shall have sustained the
burden of proving, on application to the Commission and after opportunity
for hearing thereon, that trusteeship under this Indenture with respect to
Securities of such Series and such other Series, or under this Indenture
and such other indenture or indentures is not so likely to involve a
material conflict of interest as to make it necessary in the public
interest or for the protection of investors to disqualify the Trustee from
acting as such under this Indenture with respect to Securities of such
Series and such other Series, or under this Indenture and such other
indentures;
(ii) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers
is an obligor upon the Securities of any Series issued under this
Indenture or any underwriter for an Issuer;
(iii) the Trustee directly or indirectly controls or is
directly or indirectly controlled by or is under direct or indirect common
control with an Issuer or an underwriter for an Issuer;
(iv) the Trustee or any of its directors or executive officers
is a director, officer, partner, employee, appointee, or representative of
an Issuer, or of an underwriter (other than the Trustee itself) for an
Issuer who is currently engaged in the business of underwriting, except
that (x) one individual may be a director or an executive officer, or
both, of the Trustee and a director or an executive officer, or both, of
an Issuer, but may not be at the same time an executive officer of both
the Trustee
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and an Issuer;(y) if and so long as the number of directors of the Trustee
in office is more than nine, one additional individual may be a director
or an executive officer, or both, of the Trustee and a director of an
Issuer; and (z) the Trustee may be designated by an Issuer or by any
underwriter for an Issuer to act in the capacity of transfer agent,
registrar, custodian, Paying Agent, fiscal agent, escrow agent or
depositary, or in any other similar capacity, or, subject to the
provisions of Subsection (c) (i) of this Section, to act as trustee,
whether under an indenture or otherwise;
(v) 10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is
beneficially owned either by an Issuer or by any director, partner or
executive officer thereof, or 20% or more of such voting securities is
beneficially owned, collectively, by any two or more of such persons; or
10% or more of the voting securities of the Trustee is beneficially owned
either by an underwriter for an Issuer or by any director, partner, or
executive officer thereof, or is beneficially owned, collectively, by any
two or more such persons;
(vi) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default, (x) 5% or more
of the voting securities or 10% or more of any other class of security of
an Issuer, not including the Securities issued under this Indenture and
securities issued under any other indenture under which the Trustee is
also trustee, or (y) 10% or more of any class of security of an
underwriter for an Issuer;
(vii) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default, 5% or more of
the voting securities of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee,
owns 10% or more of the voting securities of, or controls directly or
indirectly or is under direct or indirect common control with, an Issuer;
(viii) the Trustee is the beneficial owner of, or holds as
collateral security for an obligation which is in default, 10% or more of
any class of security of any person who, to the knowledge of the Trustee,
owns 50% or more of the voting securities of an Issuer; or
(ix) the Trustee owns on May 15 in any calendar year, in the
capacity of executor, administrator, testamentary or inter vivos trustee,
guardian, committee or
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conservator, or in any other similar capacity, an aggregate of 25% or more
of the voting securities, or of any class of security, of any person, the
beneficial ownership of a specified percentage of which would have
constituted a conflicting interest under Section 6.8(c)(vi), (vii) or
(viii). As to any such securities of which the Trustee acquired ownership
through becoming executor, administrator or testamentary trustee of an
estate which included them, the provisions of the preceding sentence shall
not apply, for a period of two years from the date of such acquisition, to
the extent that such securities included in such estate do not exceed 25%
of such voting securities or 25% of any such class of securities. Promptly
after May 15 in each calendar year the Trustee shall make a check of its
holdings of such securities in any of the above-mentioned capacities as of
such May 15. If an Issuer fails to make payment in full of principal of or
interest on any of the Securities when and as the same becomes due and
payable, and such failure continues for 30 days thereafter, the Trustee
shall make a prompt check of its holdings of such securities in any of the
above-mentioned capacities as of the date of the expiration of such 30-day
period, and after such date, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this paragraph, all such securities so held by the Trustee, with sole or
joint control over such securities vested in it, shall, but only so long
as such failure shall continue, be considered as though beneficially owned
by the Trustee for the purposes of subsections (c)(vi), (vii) and (viii)
of this Section.
The specification of percentages in subsections (c)(v) to (ix),
inclusive, of this Section shall not be construed as indicating that the
ownership of such percentages of the securities of a person is or is not
necessary or sufficient to constitute direct or indirect control for the
purposes of subsection (c)(iii) or (vii) of this Section.
For the purposes of subsections (c)(vi), (vii), (viii) and (ix) of
this Section, only:
(i) the terms "security" and "securities" shall include only
such securities as are generally known as corporate securities, but shall
not include any note or other evidence of indebtedness issued to evidence
an obligation to repay moneys lent to a person by one or more banks, trust
companies, or banking firms, or any certificate of interest or
participation in any such note or evidence of indebtedness;
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(ii) an obligation shall be deemed to be in default when a
default in payment of principal shall have continued for 30 days or more
and shall not have been cured; and
(iii) the Trustee shall not be deemed to be the owner or
holder of (x) any security which it holds as collateral security, as
trustee or otherwise, for an obligation which is not in default as defined
in clause (ii) above, or (y) any security which it holds as collateral
security under this Indenture, irrespective of any default hereunder, or
(z) any security which it holds as agent for collection, or as custodian,
escrow agent, or depository, or in any similar representative capacity.
Except as provided above, the word "security" or "securities" as
used in this Section shall mean any note, stock, treasury stock, bond,
debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in
any profit-sharing agreement, collateral trust certificate, reorganization
certificate or subscription, transferable share, investment contract, voting
trust certificate, certificate of deposit for a security, fractional undivided
interest in oil, gas or other mineral rights, or, in general, any interest or
instrument commonly known as a "security", or any certificate of interest or
participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee
of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.
(d) For purposes of this Section:
(i) the term "underwriter" when used with reference to an
Issuer shall mean every person who, within three years prior to the time
as of which the determination is made, has purchased from the Issuer with
a view to, or has offered or sold for the Issuer in connection with, the
distribution of any security of the Issuer outstanding at such time, or
has participated or has had a direct or indirect participation in an such
undertaking, or has participated or has had a participation in the direct
or indirect underwriting of any such undertaking, but such term shall not
include a person whose interest was limited to a commission from an
underwriter or dealer not in excess of the usual and customary
distributor's or seller's commission;
(ii) the term "director" shall mean any director of a
corporation or any individual performing similar
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functions with respect to any organization whether incorporated or
unincorporated;
(iii) the term "person" shall mean an individual, a
corporation, a partnership, an association, a joint-stock company, a
trust, an unincorporated organization, or a government or political
subdivision thereof; as used in this paragraph, the term "trust" shall
include only a trust where the interest or interests of the beneficiary or
beneficiaries are evidenced by a security;
(iv) the term "voting security" shall mean any security
presently entitling the owner or holder thereof to vote on the direction
or management of the affairs of a person, or any security issued under or
pursuant to any trust, agreement or arrangement whereby a trustee or
trustees or agent or agents for the owner or holder of such security are
presently entitled to vote on the direction or management of the affairs
of a person;
(v) the term "Issuer" shall mean any obligor upon the
Securities; and
(vi) the term "executive officer" shall mean the president,
every vice president, every trust officer, the cashier, the secretary, and
the treasurer of a corporation, and any individual customarily performing
similar functions with respect to any organization whether incorporated or
unincorporated, but shall not include the chairman of the board of
directors.
(e) The percentages of voting securities and other securities
specified in this Section shall be calculated in accordance with the following
provisions:
(i) a specified percentage of the voting securities of the
Trustee, an Issuer or any other person referred to in this Section (each
of whom is referred to as "person" in this paragraph) means such amount of
the outstanding voting securities of such person as entitles the holder or
holders thereof to cast such specified percentage of the aggregate votes
which the holders of all the outstanding voting securities of such person
are entitled to cast in the direction or management of the affairs of such
person;
(ii) a specified percentage of a class of securities of a
person means such percentage of the aggregate amount of securities of the
class outstanding;
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(iii) the term "amount", when used in regard to securities,
means the principal amount if relating to evidences of indebtedness, the
number of shares if relating to capital shares, and the number of units if
relating to any other kind of security;
(iv) the term "outstanding" means issued and not held by or
for the account of the issuer; the following securities shall not be
deemed outstanding within the meaning of this definition:
(A) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
relating to securities of the issuer of the same class;
(B) securities of an issuer held in a sinking fund
relating to another class of securities of the issuer, if the
obligation evidenced by such other class of securities is not in
default as to principal or interest or otherwise;
(C) securities pledged by the issuer thereof as security
for an obligation of the issuer not in default as to principal or
interest or otherwise; and
(D) securities held in escrow if placed in escrow by the
issuer thereof;
provided that any voting securities of an issuer shall be deemed
outstanding if any person other than the issuer is entitled to
exercise the voting rights thereof; and
(v) a security shall be deemed to be of the same class as
another security if both securities confer upon the holder or holders
thereof substantially the same rights and privileges; provided, that in
the case of secured evidences of indebtedness, all of which are issued
under a single indenture, differences in the interest rates or maturity
dates of various Series thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to
constitute such Series different classes, and provided, further, that, in
the case of unsecured evidences of indebtedness, differences in the
interest rates or maturity dates thereof shall not be deemed sufficient to
constitute them securities of different classes, whether or not they are
issued under a single indenture.
SECTION 6.9 Persons Eligible for Appointment as Trustee. The Trustee
for each Series of Securities hereunder
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shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America or of any State or the District of Columbia
having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000, and which is
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and is subject to
supervision or examination by Federal, State or District of Columbia authority.
Such corporation shall have its principal place of business in the United States
of America, if there be such a corporation in such location willing to act upon
reasonable and customary terms and conditions. If such corporation publishes
reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements
of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of
this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to
be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall
resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.10.
SECTION 6.10 Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor
Trustee. (a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at
any time resign with respect to one or more or all Series of Securities by
giving written notice of resignation to the Company and by mailing notice
thereof to the Holders in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 11.4.
Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor trustee or trustees with respect to the applicable Series by written
instrument in duplicate, executed by authority of the Board of Directors, one
copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one
copy to the successor trustee or trustees. If no successor trustee shall have
been so appointed with respect to any Series and have accepted appointment
within 30 days after the mailing of such notice of resignation, the resigning
trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security or Securities of the applicable Series for at least six months may,
subject to the provisions of Section 5.12, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of, a successor
trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem
proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of
Section 6.8 with respect to any Series of
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Securities after written request therefor by the Company or by any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security or Securities
of such Series for at least six months; or
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.9 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with
respect to any Series of the Securities, or shall be adjudged a bankrupt
or insolvent, or a receiver or liquidator of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation;
then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee with respect to the
applicable Series of Securities and appoint a successor trustee for such Series
by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the Board of Directors
of the Company, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee
so removed and one copy to the successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions
of Section 5.12, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security or Securities of such Series for at least six months may on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor
trustee with respect to such Series. Such court may thereupon, after such
notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and
appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of each Series at the time Outstanding may at any time remove the
Trustee with respect to Securities of such Series and appoint a successor
trustee with respect to the Securities of such Series by delivering to the
Trustee so removed, to the successor trustee so appointed and to the Company the
evidence provided for in Section 7.1 of the action in that regard taken by the
Securityholders.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee with respect to any
Series and any appointment of a successor trustee with respect to such Series
pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall become effective
upon the payment of any fees, expenses and/or disbursements owed to the
Trustee (including the fees, expenses and/or disbursements of its agents not
regularly in its employ and counsel) and acceptance of appointment by the
successor trustee as provided in Section 6.11.
(e) No Trustee shall be liable for any action or omission of any
predecessor and/or successor Trustee.
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SECTION 6.11 Acceptance of Appointment by Successor Trustee. Any
successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.10 shall execute and
deliver to the Company and to its predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the
predecessor Trustee with respect to all or any applicable Series shall become
effective and such successor trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and obligations
with respect to such Series of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if
originally named as trustee for such Series hereunder; but, nevertheless, on the
written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, upon payment of its
charges then unpaid, the trustee ceasing to act shall, subject to Section 10.4,
pay over to the successor trustee all moneys at the time held by it hereunder
and shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor
trustee all such rights, powers, duties and obligations. Upon request of any
such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act shall,
nevertheless, retain a prior claim upon all property or funds held or collected
by such trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of
Section 6.6.
If a successor trustee is appointed with respect to the Securities
of one or more (but not all) Series, the Company, the predecessor Trustee and
each successor trustee with respect to the Securities of an applicable Series
shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain
such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all
the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any Series as to which the predecessor Trustee is not retiring
shall continue to be vested in the predecessor Trustee, and shall add to or
change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide
for or facilitate the administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one
trustee, it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental
indenture shall constitute such trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that
each such trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts under separate
indentures.
No successor trustee with respect to any Series of Securities shall
accept appointment as provided in this Section 6.11 unless at the time of such
acceptance such successor trustee shall be qualified under the provisions of
Section 6.8 and eligible under the provisions of Section 6.9.
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Upon acceptance of appointment by any successor trustee as provided
in this Section 6.11, the Company shall give notice in the manner and to the
extent provided in Section 11.4 to the Holders of Securities of any Series for
which such successor trustee is acting as trustee at their last addresses as
they shall appear in the Security register. If the acceptance of appointment is
substantially contemporaneous with the resignation, then the notice called for
by the preceding sentence may be combined with the notice called for by Section
6.10. If the Company fails to mail such notice within ten days after acceptance
of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor trustee shall cause such
notice to be mailed at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 6.12 Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to
Business of Trustee. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a
party, or an corporation succeeding to the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided that such
corporation shall be qualified under the provisions of Section 6.8 and eligible
under the provisions of Section 6.9, without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties hereto, anything
herein to the contrary notwithstanding.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to
the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Securities of any Series shall
have been authenticated but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee and deliver
such Securities so authenticated; and, in case at that time any of the
Securities of any Series shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the
Trustee may authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor
Trustee hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and in all such cases
such certificates shall have the full force which it is anywhere in the
Securities of such Series or in this Indenture provided that the certificate of
the Trustee shall have; provided, that the right to adopt the certificate of
authentication of any predecessor Trustee or to authenticate Securities of any
Series in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only to its successor
or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 6.13 Preferential Collection of Claims Against the Company.
(a) Subject to the provisions of this Section, if the Trustee shall be or shall
become a creditor, directly or
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indirectly, secured or unsecured, of an Issuer within four months prior to a
default, as defined in subsection (c) of this Section, or subsequent to such a
default, then, unless and until such default shall be cured, the Trustee shall
set apart and hold in a special account for the benefit of the Trustee
individually, the Holders of the Securities, the Holders of Coupons and the
holders of other indenture securities (as defined in this section):
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount due and
owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal or interest,
effected after the beginning of such four month period and valid as
against such Issuer and its other creditors, except any such reduction
resulting from the receipt or disposition of any property described in
subsection (a)(2) of this Section, or from the exercise of any right of
set-off which the Trustee could have exercised if a petition in bankruptcy
had been filed by or against such Issuer upon the date of such default;
and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any claim as
such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction or
composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such four month
period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if
disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of such Issuer and
its other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the Trustee:
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account of
any such claim by any person (other than such Issuer) who is liable
thereon, (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim by the
Trustee to a third person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
securities or other property in respect of claims filed against such
Issuer in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to Title 11 of the United States Code or applicable state law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by it as
security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior to the
beginning of such four month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of the
claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as security for
any such claim, if such claim was
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created after the beginning of such four month period and such property
was received as security therefor simultaneously with the creation
thereof, and if the Trustee shall sustain the burden of proving that at
the time such property was so received the Trustee had no reasonable cause
to believe that a default as defined in subsection (c) of this Section
would occur within four months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph (B) or
(C), against the release of any property held as security for such claim
as provided in such paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may be, to the
extent of the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property
substituted after the beginning of such four month period for property held as
security at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value
of the property released, have the same status as the property released, and, to
the extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in
renewal of or in substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding
any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have
the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
between the Trustee, the Securityholders, the Holders of Coupons and the holders
of other indenture securities in such manner that the Trustee, such
Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities realize, as a
result of payments from such special account and payments of dividends on claims
filed against an Issuer in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for
reorganization pursuant to Title 11 of the United States Code or applicable
State law, the same percentage of their respective claims, figured before
crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything on account of the receipt by it
from such Issuer of the funds and property in such special account and before
crediting to the respective claims of the Trustee, such Securityholders and the
holders of other indenture securities, dividends on claims filed against such
Issuer in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to Title 11 of the United States Code or applicable State law, but
after crediting thereon receipts on account of the indebtedness represented by
their respective claims from all sources other than from such dividends and from
the funds and property so held in such special account. As used in this
paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term "dividends" shall include any
distribution with respect to such
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claim, in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to Title 11 of the United States Code or applicable State law, whether
such distribution is made in cash, securities or other property, but shall not
include any such distribution with respect to the secured portion, if any, of
such claim. The court in which such bankruptcy, receivership or proceeding for
reorganization is pending shall have jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the
Trustee, such Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities, in
accordance with the provisions of this paragraph, the funds and the property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such
apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to the provisions of this paragraph
due consideration in determining the fairness of the distributions to be made to
the Trustee, such Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities
with respect to their respective claims, in which event it shall not be
necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value of any securities or other
property held in such special account or as security for any such claim, or to
make a specific allocation of such distributions as between the secured and
unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply the provisions of this
paragraph as a mathematical formula.
Any Trustee who has resigned or been removed after the beginning of
such four month period shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection (a)
as though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has
resigned or been removed prior to the beginning of such four month period, it
shall be subject to the provisions of this subsection (a) if and only if the
following conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim which would
have given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had
continued as trustee, occurred after the beginning of such four
month period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred
within four months after such resignation or removal.
(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of this Section a
creditor relationship arising from:
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under
any indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one year or
more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
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(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court
of competent jurisdiction or by this Indenture for the purpose of preserving any
property which shall at any time be subject to the lien of this Indenture or of
discharging tax liens or other prior liens or encumbrances thereon, if notice of
such advance and of the circumstances surrounding the making thereof is given to
the Securityholders at the time and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in
the capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered
or premises rented or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or securities
sold in a cash transaction as defined in subsection (c)(3) below;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a
corporation organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the Federal
Reserve Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a creditor of such
Issuer; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of
any drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall within the
classification of self-liquidating paper as defined in subsection (c)(4) of this
Section.
(c) As used in this Section:
(1) the term "default" shall mean any failure to make payment
in full of the principal of or interest upon any of the Securities or upon the
other indenture securities when and as such principal or interest becomes due
and payable;
(2) the term "other indenture securities" shall mean
securities upon which an Issuer is an obligor (as defined in the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939) outstanding under any other indenture (i) under which the Trustee
is also trustee, (ii) which contains provisions substantially similar to the
provisions of subsection (a) of this Section, and (iii) under which a default
exists at the time of the apportionment of the funds and property held in said
special account;
(3) the term "cash transaction" shall mean any transaction in
which full payment for goods or securities sold is made within seven days after
delivery of the goods or securities
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in currency or in checks or other orders drawn upon banks or bankers and payable
upon demand;
(4) the term "self-liquidating paper" shall mean any draft,
xxxx of exchange acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase, processing,
manufacture, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or merchandise and which
is secured by documents evidencing title to, possession of, or a lien upon the
goods, wares or merchandise or the receivables or proceeds arising from the sale
of the goods, wares or merchandise previously constituting the security,
provided the security is received by the Trustee simultaneously with the
creation of the creditor relationship with the Company arising from the making,
drawing, negotiating or incurring of the draft, xxxx of exchange, acceptance or
obligation; and
(a) the term "Issuer" shall mean any obligor upon the
Securities.
SECTION 6.14 Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee may
appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more Series of
Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such Series issued upon original issue or upon
exchange, registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to
Section 2.9, and Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if
authenticated by the Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication or any other action in connection
therewith, such reference shall be deemed to include authentication and delivery
on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and a certificate of
authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent and
other action taken on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each
Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice thereof
to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of
resignation or upon such a termination, the Trustee may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities in the manner provided
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in Section 11.4. Any successor Authentication Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties
of its predecessor hereunder, with the effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed
unless acceptable to the Company.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authentication Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 6.6.
If an appointment with respect to one or more Series of Securities
is made pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such Series may have
endorsed thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alternative certificate of authentication in the following form:
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"This is one of the Securities of the Series designated herein and
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
The Chase Manhattan Bank,as Trustee
By:________________________________
As Authenticating Agent
By:________________________________
Authorized Officer"
SECTION 6.15 Trustee Acting in Other Capacities. In the event
that the Trustee is also acting as Paying Agent, Authenticating Agent or
Registrar hereunder, the rights and protections afforded to the Trustee
pursuant to this Article 6 shall also be afforded to such Paying Agent,
Authenticating Agent or Registrar.
ARTICLE 7
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1 Evidence of Action Taken by Securityholders. (a) Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action provided by this Indenture to be given or taken by a specified percentage
in principal amount of the Securityholders of any or all Series may be embodied
in and evidenced by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor
signed by such specified percentage of Securityholders in person or by agent
duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided,
such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Trustee. Proof of execution of any instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture
and (subject to Sections 6.1 and 6.2) conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the
Company, if made in the manner provided in this Article.
(b) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by the
Security register. With respect to any Series of Registered Securities, the
Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date for the purpose of
determining the identity of Registered Holders entitled to receive any notice or
to consent to any supplement to this Indenture or to any amendment or waiver of
any provision hereof. If a record date is fixed, only those persons who were
Registered Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies) shall
be entitled to receive such notice or to consent to such supplement, amendment
or waiver or to revoke any such consent previously given, whether or not such
persons continue to be Holders after such record date. Any such record date
shall not be more than 60 days prior to the first solicitation of such consent
or the date of the most recent list of Securityholders furnished to the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.1.
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(c) The amount of Unregistered Securities held by any Person
executing any instrument or writing as a Securityholder, the numbers of such
Unregistered Securities, and the date of his holding the same may be proved by
the production of such Securities or by a certificate executed by any trust
company, bank, broker or member of a national securities exchange (wherever
situated), as depositary, if such certificate is in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, showing that at the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit
with such depositary, or exhibited to it, the Unregistered Securities therein
described; or such facts may be proved by the certificate or affidavit of the
Person executing such instrument or writing as a Securityholder, if such
certificate or affidavit is in form satisfactory to the Trustee. The Trustee and
the Company may assume that such ownership of any Unregistered Security
continues until (i) another certificate or affidavit bearing a later date issued
in respect of the same Unregistered Security is produced, or (ii) such
Unregistered Security is produced by some other person, or (iii) such
Unregistered Security is surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security, or
(iv) such Unregistered Security has been canceled in accordance with Section
2.10.
SECTION 7.2 Proof of Execution of Instruments. Subject to Sections
6.1 and 6.2, the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or
proxy may be proved in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to
the Trustee.
SECTION 7.3 Holders to Be Treated as Owners. The Company, the
Trustee and any Agent of the Company or the Trustee may deem and treat the
person in whose name any Security shall be registered upon the Security register
for such Series as the absolute owner of such Security (whether or not such
Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other
writing thereon) for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the
principal of and interest on such Security and for all other purposes; and
neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to
any such person, or upon his order, shall be valid, and, to the extent of the
sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys
payable upon any such Security.
SECTION 7.4 Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding. In
determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any or all Series have concurred in any direction,
consent or waiver
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under this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Company or any other
obligor on the Securities with respect to which such determination is being made
or by any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under
direct or indirect common control with the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities with respect to which such determination is being made shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding for the purpose of any such
determination, except that for the purpose of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver only
Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so
owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been pledged in
good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee establishes to the
satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or
under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any other obligor on
the Securities. In case of a dispute as to such right, the advice of counsel
shall be full protection in respect of any decision made by the Trustee in
accordance with such advice. Upon request of the Trustee, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee promptly an Officer's Certificate listing and identifying
all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held by or for the
account of any of the above-described persons; and, subject to Sections 6.1 and
6.2, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officer's Certificate as
conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all
Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such
determination.
SECTION 7.5 Right of Revocation of Action Taken. At any time prior
to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as provided in Section 7.1, of
the taking of any action by the Holders of the percentage in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities of any or all Series, as the case may be, specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any Holder of a Security the
serial number of which is shown by the evidence to be included among the serial
numbers of the Securities the Holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice at the Corporate Trust Office and upon proof of
holding as provided in this Article, revoke such action so far as concerns such
Security. Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the Holder of any
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such Holder and upon all future
Holders and owners of such Security and of any Securities issued in exchange or
substitution therefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard
thereto is made upon any such Security. Any action taken by the Holders of the
percentage in aggregate
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principal amount of the Securities of any or all Series, as the case may be,
specified in this Indenture in connection with such action shall be conclusively
binding upon the Company, the Trustee and the Holders of all the Securities
affected by such action.
ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.1 Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Securityholders. The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the
Trustee may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date of the execution thereof)
for one or more of the following purposes:
(a) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge to the Trustee
as security for the Securities of one or more Series any property or assets;
(b) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company pursuant
to Article Nine;
(c) to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions, conditions or provisions as its Board of Directors and the Trustee
shall consider to be for the protection of the Holders of Securities, and to
make the occurrence, or the occurrence and continuance, of a default in any such
additional covenants, restrictions, conditions or provisions an Event of Default
permitting the enforcement of all or any of the several remedies provided in
this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, that in respect of any such
additional covenant, restriction, condition or provision such supplemental
indenture may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which
period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults)
or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such an Event of Default or may
limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such an Event of Default or may
limit the right of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of such Series to waive such an Event of Default;
(d) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture
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which may be defective or inconsistent with any other provision contained herein
or in any supplemental indenture; or to make such other provisions in regard to
matters or questions arising under this Indenture or under any supplemental
indenture as the Board of Directors may deem necessary or desirable and which
shall not materially and adversely affect the interests of the Holders of the
Securities or the Holders of any Coupons;
(e) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any Series as
permitted by Sections 2.1 and 2.3; or
(f) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more
Series and to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture as shall
be necessary to provide for or facilitate the administration of the trusts
hereunder by more than the one trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section
6.11.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer, assignment, mortgage or pledge of any property thereunder,
but the Trustee shall not be obligated to enter into any such supplemental
indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under
this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this
Section may be executed without the consent of the Holders of any of the
Securities at the time Outstanding, notwithstanding any of the provisions of
Section 8.2.
SECTION 8.2 Supplemental Indentures With Consent of Securityholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Article Seven) of the Holders of a
majority of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
Outstanding of all Series affected by such supplemental indenture (treated as
one class), the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
may, from time to time and at any time, enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto (which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 as in force at the date of execution thereof) for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any
of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each such
Series; provided, that no such supplemental indenture shall (a) extend the final
maturity of any Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce the
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rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon, or reduce any amount
payable on redemption thereof, or reduce the amount of principal of an Original
Issue Discount Security that would be due and payable upon an acceleration of
the maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 or the amount provable in
bankruptcy pursuant to Section 5.2, or impair or affect the right of any
Securityholder to institute suit for payment thereof or, if the Securities
provide therefor, any right of repayment at the option of the Securityholder
without the consent of the Holder of the Security so affected, or (b) reduce the
aforesaid percentage of Securities of any Series, the consent of the Holders of
which is required for any such supplemental indenture, without the consent of
the Holder of the Security so affected.
Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by a copy of a Board
Resolution authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and
upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders
as aforesaid and other documents, if any, required by Section 7.1, the Trustee
shall join with the Company in the execution of such supplemental indenture
unless such supplements indenture affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in
its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter into such supplemental
indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders
under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Company
shall give notice in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 11.4 to
the Holders of Securities of each Series affected thereby at their addresses as
they shall appear on the registry books of the Company, setting forth in general
terms the substance of such supplemental indenture. Any failure of the Company
to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in any way
impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
SECTION 8.3 Effect of Supplemental Indenture. Upon the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions hereof, this Indenture
shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance therewith and
the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities
under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of Securities
of each Series and Holders of Coupons affected
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thereby shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject
in all respects to such modifications and amendments, and all the terms and
conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part
of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 8.4 Documents to Be Given to Trustee. The Trustee is
entitled to receive and conclusively rely on an Officer's Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture
executed pursuant to this Article Eight complies with the applicable provisions
of this Indenture.
SECTION 8.5 Notation on Securities in Respect of Supplemental
Indentures. Securities of any Series authenticated and delivered after the
execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this
Article may bear, upon the written direction of the Company, a notation in form
satisfactory to the Trustee for such Series as to any matter provided for by
such supplemental indenture or as to any action taken at any such meeting. If
the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new Securities of any Series so
modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of
Directors, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any such
supplemental indenture may be prepared by the Company, authenticated by the
Trustee and delivered in exchange for the Securities of such Series then
outstanding.
ARTICLE 9
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE OR CONVEYANCE
SECTION 9.1 Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms. The
Company covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with any other
corporation or sell or convey all or substantially all of its assets to any
Person, unless (i) either the Company shall be the continuing corporation, or
the successor corporation or the Person which acquires by sale or conveyance
substantially all the assets of the Company (if other than the Company) shall be
a corporation organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
State thereof and shall expressly assume the due and punctual payment of the
principal of and interest on all the Securities, according to their tenor, and
the due and punctual performance and observance of all of the covenants and
conditions of this Indenture to be performed or observed by the Company, by
supplemental indenture satisfactory to the Trustee, executed and delivered to
the Trustee by such corporation, and (ii) the Company or such successor
corporation,
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as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or consolidation,
or such sale or conveyance, be in default in the performance of any such
covenant or condition.
SECTION 9.2 Successor Corporation Substituted. In case of any such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and following such an assumption by
the successor corporation, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Company, with the same effect as if it had been named
herein. Such successor corporation may cause to be signed, and may issue either
in its own name or in the name of the Company prior to such succession any or
all of the Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been
signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such
successor corporation instead of the Company and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall
authenticate and shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been
signed and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for
authentication, and any Securities which such successor corporation thereafter
shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee for that purpose. All of
the Securities so issued shall in all respects have the same legal rank and
benefit under this Indenture as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued
in accordance with the terms of this Indenture as though all of such Securities
had been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance such
changes in phraseology and form (but not in substance) may be made in the
Securities thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
In the event of any such sale or conveyance (other than a conveyance
by way of lease) the Company or any successor corporation which shall
theretofore have become such in the manner described in this Article shall be
discharged from all obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the
Securities and may be liquidated and dissolved.
SECTION 9.3 Opinion of Counsel to Trustee. The Trustee is entitled
to receive and conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel, prepared in
accordance with Section 11.5, as conclusive evidence that any such
consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance, and any such assumption, and any such
liquidation or dissolution, complies with the applicable provisions of this
Indenture.
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ARTICLE 10
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
SECTION 10.1 Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. (A) If at any
time (a) the Company shall have paid or caused to be paid the principal of and
interest on all the Securities of any Series and Coupons, if any, appertaining
thereto Outstanding hereunder (other than Securities and Coupons which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided in
Section 2.9) as and when the same shall have become due and payable, or (b) the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee for cancellation all Securities of
any Series and Coupons theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities of
such Series and Coupons which have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which
shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) or (c)(i) all the
Securities of such Series and Coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to
become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within
one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice
of redemption, and (ii) the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused
to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount in cash (other
than moneys repaid by the Trustee or any Paying Agent to the Company in
accordance with Section 10.4) or U.S. Government Obligations, as defined below,
maturing as to principal and interest in such amounts and at such times as will
ensure the availability of cash sufficient to pay at maturity or upon redemption
all Securities of such Series and Coupons (other than any Securities of such
Series and Coupons which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which
shall have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.9) not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and interest due
or to become due to such date of maturity as the case may be, and if, in any
such case, the Company shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company with respect to Securities of such Series and Coupons,
then this Indenture shall cease to be of further effect with respect to
Securities of such Series and Coupons (except as to (i) rights of registration
of transfer and exchange, and the Company's right of optional redemption, (ii)
substitution of mutilated, defaced, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities and
Coupons, (iii) rights of Holders to receive payments of principal thereof and
interest thereon upon the original stated due dates therefor (but not upon
acceleration) and remaining rights of the Holders to receive mandatory sinking
fund payments, if any, (iv) the rights, obligations and immunities of the
Trustee hereunder and (v) the
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rights of the Securityholders of such Series as beneficiaries hereof with
respect to the property so deposited with the Trustee payable to all or any
of them), and the Trustee, on demand of the Company accompanied by an
Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the cost and expense
of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging such
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture with respect to such Series;
provided, that the rights of Holders of the Securities and Holders of Coupons
to receive amounts in respect of principal of and interest on the Securities
and Coupons held by them shall not be delayed longer than required by then
applicable mandatory rules or policies of any securities exchange upon which
the Securities are listed. The Company agrees to reimburse the Trustee for
any costs, disbursements or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly
incurred and to compensate the Trustee for any services thereafter reasonably
and properly rendered by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture, the
Securities of such Series and Coupons.
(B) In addition to the provisions of Section 10.1(A), the Company
may terminate its obligations under the Securities of any Series and this
Indenture with respect to such Series, except those obligations referred to in
the penultimate paragraph of this Section 10.1, if the Company has irrevocably
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee, under the terms of an
irrevocable trust agreement in form satisfactory to the Trustee,
as trust funds in trust solely for the benefit of the Securityholders of such
Series for that purpose, (i) cash or (ii) direct noncallable obligations of, or
noncallable obligations guaranteed by, the United States or an agency thereof
for the payment of which guarantee or obligation the full faith and credit of
the United States is pledged ("U.S. Government Obligations"), or a combination
thereof, maturing as to principal and interest in such amounts and at such times
as are sufficient, without consideration of any reinvestment of such principal
or interest, to pay the principal of and interest on the outstanding Securities
of such Series and Coupons to maturity or redemption, as the case may be,
provided that the Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such
money or the proceeds of such U.S. Government Obligations to the payment of said
principal of and interest on the Outstanding Securities and Coupons of such
Series; provided that:
(a) such deposit shall not cause the Trustee with respect to the
Securities of that Series to have a conflicting interest as defined in Section
6.8 and for purposes of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to the Securities
of any Series;
(b) such deposit will not result in a breach or violation of, or
constitute a default under, this Indenture or
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any other agreement or instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it
is bound; and
(c) no Event of Default under Section 5.1(a), 5.1(b) or 5.1(c), or
event which with the lapse of time would become an Event of Default with respect
to the Securities of that Series shall have occurred and be continuing on the
date of such deposit, and no Event of Default under Section 5.1(f) or Section
5.1(g) or event which with the giving of notice or lapse of time, or both, would
become an Event of Default under Section 5.1(f) or Section 5.1(g) shall have
occurred and be continuing on the 91st day after such date of deposit.
Such irrevocable trust agreement shall include, among other things,
provision for (1) payment of the principal of and interest on the Securities of
such Series and Coupons when due (by redemption, sinking fund payments or
otherwise), (2) the payment of the expenses, fees and disbursements of the
Trustee incurred or to be incurred in connection with carrying out such trust
provisions, (3) rights of registration, transfer, substitution and exchange of
Securities of such Series and Coupons in accordance with the terms stated in
this Indenture and (4) continuation of the rights and obligations and immunities
of the Trustee as against the Securityholders of such Series as stated in this
Indenture.
Notwithstanding the first paragraph of this Section 10.1(B), the
Company's obligations in Sections 2.8, 2.9, 3.1, 3.2, 5.1, 6.6, 6.10, 10.4 and
10.5 shall survive until the Securities of such Series and Coupons, if any, are
no longer Outstanding; provided, however, that the Company's obligations in
Section 5.1 shall survive only with respect to Events of Default as defined in
Sections 5.1(a), 5.1(b), and 5.1(c). Thereafter, the Company's obligations in
Sections 6.6, 10.4 and 10.5 shall survive.
After any such irrevocable deposit, accompanied by an Officer's
Certificate which shall state that the provisions of the first two paragraphs of
this Section 10.1(B) have been complied with, and upon delivery by the Company
to the Trustee of an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that Securityholders of
such Series will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax
purposes as a result of such deposit and discharge and will be subject to
Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same
time as would have been the case if such deposit and discharge had not occurred,
then the Company shall be discharged of its obligations under the Securities of
such Series and this Indenture with respect to such Series except for those
surviving obligations specified above, and the Trustee upon request shall
acknowledge in writing such discharge. In
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addition, if the Securities of that Series are then listed on the New York Stock
Exchange, Inc., the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that such deposit, deficience and discharge will not cause
such Securities to be delisted. Prior to the delivery of such acknowledgment,
the Trustee may require the Company to deliver to it an Officer's Certificate
and Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent provided for
herein relating to the deposit and discharge contemplated by this provision have
been complied with, and the Trustee may also require that the Opinion of Counsel
shall also state that such deposit does not violate applicable law.
SECTION 10.2 Application by Trustee of Funds Deposited for Payment
of Securities. Subject to Section 10.4, all moneys deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 3.8 or 10.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it to the
payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent), to the Holders of the particular Securities of
such Series and any Coupons appertaining thereto for the payment or redemption
of which such moneys have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums due and
to become due thereon for principal and interest; but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 10.3 Repayment of Moneys Held by Paying Agent. In connection
with the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to Securities
of any Series or Coupons, all moneys then held by any Paying Agent under the
provisions of this Indenture with respect to such Series of Securities or
Coupons shall, upon demand of the Company, be repaid to it or paid to the
Trustee and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys.
SECTION 10.4 Return of Unclaimed Moneys Held by Trustee and Paying
Agent. Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent for
the payment of the principal of or interest on any Security of any Series or
Coupons and not applied but remaining unclaimed for two years after the date
upon which such principal or interest shall have become due and payable, shall,
upon the written request of the Company and unless otherwise required by
mandatory provisions of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law, be repaid to the Company by the Trustee for such Series or such Paying
Agent, and the Holder of the Security of such Series or Holders of Coupons
appertaining thereto shall, unless otherwise required by mandatory provisions of
applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property laws, thereafter look only
to the Company for any payment which such Holder may be entitled to collect, and
all
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liability of the Trustee or any Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall
thereupon cease.
SECTION 10.5 Reinstatement of Company's Obligations. If the Trustee
is unable to apply any funds or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with
Section 3.8 or 10.1 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 Company's obligations under this
Indenture and the Securities of any Series for which such application is
prohibited shall be revived and reinstated as if no deposit had occurred
pursuant to Section 3.8 or 10.1 until such time as the Trustee is permitted to
apply all such funds or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Section
3.8 or 10.1; provided, however, that if the Company has made any payment of
interest on or principal of any of such Securities or Coupons because of the
reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated to the rights
of the Securityholders of such Securities to receive such payment from the funds
or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee.
ARTICLE 11
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 11.1 Incorporators, Stockholders, Officers and Directors of
Company Exempt from Individual Liability. No recourse under or upon any
obligation, covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture, in any Security
or Coupon appertaining thereto, or because of any indebtedness evidenced
thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, as such, or against any past,
present or future stockholder, officer or director, as such of the Company or of
any successor, either directly or through the Company or any successor, under
any rule of law, statute or constitutional provision or by the enforcement of
any assessment or by any legal or equitable proceeding or otherwise, all such
liability being expressly waived and released by the acceptance of the
Securities by the Holders thereof and as part of the consideration for the issue
of the Securities.
SECTION 11.2 Provisions of Indenture for the Sole Benefit of Parties
and Securityholders. Nothing in this Indenture or in the Securities, expressed
or implied, shall give or be construed to give to any Person, firm or
corporation, other than the parties hereto, any Paying Agent and their
successors hereunder and the Holders of the Securities and Coupons, if any, any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture or under any
covenant or provision herein contained,
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all such covenants and provisions being for the sole benefit of the parties
hereto and their successors and of the Holders of the Securities.
SECTION 11.3 Successors and Assigns of Company Bound by Indenture.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture
contained by or on behalf of the Company shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 11.4 Notices and Demands on Company, Trustee and
Securityholders. Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture
is required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee, by the Holders of
Securities, or by the Holders of Coupons to or on the Company shall be in
writing and may be given or served by being deposited postage prepaid, first
class mail (except as otherwise specifically provided herein) addressed (until
another address of the Company is filed by the Company with the Trustee) to
Enhance Financial Services Group Inc., 000 Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: General Counsel, except that any notices required or permitted to be
given under Section 5.1 hereof shall be given or served by registered or
certified mail only. Any notice, direction, request or demand by the Company or
any Securityholder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if in writing and given or made at
the Trustee's Corporate Trust Office.
Where this Indenture provides for notice to Holders of any event,
(1) if any of the Securities affected by such event are Registered Securities,
such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid to such
Registered Holders as their names and addresses appear in the Security register
within the time prescribed and (2) if any of the Securities affected by such
event are Unregistered Securities, such notice shall be sufficiently given
(unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if published once in a newspaper,
in an official language of the country of publication or in English, customarily
published on each Business Day, and of general circulation in New York, New York
and London, England and in such other city or cities as may be specified in such
Securities within the time prescribed. Where successive notices are required in
respect of Unregistered Securities, such notices may be made in the same or in
different newspapers, each meeting the foregoing requirements in the same city
on successive Business Days. Where this Indenture provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive
such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice.
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Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such filing
shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver. In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail,
neither the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed
to any particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with
respect to other Holders, and any notice which is mailed in the manner herein
provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given.
In case, by reason of the suspension of or irregularities in regular
mail service, it shall be impracticable to mail notice to the Company and
Securityholders when such notice is required to be given pursuant to any
provision of this Indenture, then any manner of giving such notice as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee shall be deemed to be a sufficient giving of such
notice.
SECTION 11.5 Officer's Certificates and Opinions of Counsel;
Statements to Be Contained Therein. Upon any application or demand by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any of the provisions of this
Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an Officer's Certificate
stating that all conditions precedent provided for in this Indenture relating to
the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating
that in the opinion of such counsel all such conditions precedent have been
complied with, except that in the case of any such application or demand as to
which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any provision
of this Indenture relating to such particular application or demand, no
additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture shall include (a) a statement that the person
making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition, (b) 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, (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he has made such
examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an
informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has been
complied with and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such
person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
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Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Company
may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or
opinion of or representations by counsel, unless such officer knows that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which
his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous,
or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of counsel may be based, insofar as it
relates to factual matters, information with respect to which is in the
possession of the Company, upon the certificate, statement or opinion of or
representations by an officer or officers of the Company, unless such counsel
knows that the certificate, statement or opinion or representations with respect
to the matters upon which his certificate, statement or opinion may be based as
aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know that
the same are erroneous.
Any certificate, statement or opinion of an officer of the Company
or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to accounting matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of or representations by an accountant or firm of
accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such officer or counsel, as the
case may be, knows that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or
opinion may be based as aforesaid are erroneous, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know that the same are erroneous.
Any certificate or opinion of any independent firm of public
accountants filed with the Trustee shall contain a statement that such firm is
independent.
SECTION 11.6 Payments Due on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. If the
date of maturity of interest on or principal or premium, if any, of the
Securities of any Series or Coupons appertaining thereto or the date fixed for
redemption or repayment of any such Security or Coupon shall not be a Business
Day, then payment of interest, principal or premium if any, need not be made on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same
force and effect as if made on the date of maturity or the date fixed for
redemption, and no interest shall accrue for the period after such date.
SECTION 11.7 Conflict of Any Provision of Indenture with Trust
Indenture Act of 1939. If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision included in this Indenture
which is required to be included herein by any of Sections 310 to 317,
inclusive, of
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the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, such required provision shall control.
SECTION 11.8 New York Law to Govern. THIS INDENTURE AND EACH
SECURITY SHALL BE DEEMED TO BE A CONTRACT UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW
YORK, AND FOR ALL PURPOSES SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF
SUCH STATE.
SECTION 11.9 Counterparts. This Indenture may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which shall be an original; but such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 11.10 Effect of Headings. The Article and Section headings
herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and shall not affect
the construction hereof.
SECTION 11.11 Determination of Principal Amount. In determining
whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of outstanding Securities
of any Series have given any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent or waiver hereunder, or whether sufficient funds are available for
redemption or for any other purpose, the principal amount of an Original Issue
Discount Security that shall be deemed to be outstanding for such purposes shall
be the amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the
date of such determination upon a declaration of acceleration of the maturity
thereof pursuant to Section 5.1 and the principal amount of any Securities
denominated in a Foreign Currency or ECU that shall be deemed to be outstanding
for such purposes shall be determined by converting the Foreign Currency or the
specified amount of each Component Currency into Dollars at the Market Exchange
Rate as of the date of such determination.
ARTICLE 12
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES AND SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 12.1 Applicability of Article. The provisions
of this Article shall be applicable to the Securities of any Series which are
redeemable before their maturity or to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a Series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section
2.3 for Securities of such Series.
SECTION 12.2 Notice of Redemption; Partial Redemptions. Notice of
redemption to the Holders of Securities of any Series to be redeemed as a whole
or in part at the option
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of the Company shall be given by giving notice of such redemption as provided in
Section 11.4, at least 30 days and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed
for redemption to such Holders of Securities of such Series. Failure to give
notice by mail, or any defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security of a
Series designated for redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the
validity of the proceedings for the redemption of any other Security of such
Series.
The notice of redemption to each such Holder shall specify the date
fixed for redemption, the redemption price, the place or places of payment, that
payment will be made upon presentation and surrender of such Securities, and
that, unless otherwise specified in such notice, Coupon Securities, if any,
surrendered for payment must be accompanied by all Coupons maturing subsequent
to the redemption date, failing which the amount of any such missing Coupon or
Coupons will be deducted from the sum due for payment, that such redemption is
pursuant to the mandatory or optional sinking fund, or both, if such be the
case, that interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption will be paid as
specified in such notice and that on and after said date interest thereon or on
the portions thereof to be redeemed will cease to accrue and that, if less than
all of the Outstanding Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the
identification and principal amount of the Securities to be redeemed. In case
any Security of a Series is to be redeemed in part, the notice of redemption
shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be redeemed and shall
state that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such
Security, a new Security or Securities of such Series in principal amount equal
to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
The notice of redemption of Securities of any Series to be redeemed
at the option of the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's
written request, by the Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company.
On or prior to the redemption date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in this Section, the Company will deposit with the
Trustee or with one or more paying agents (or, if the Company is acting as its
own paying agent, set aside, segregate and hold in trust as provided in Section
3.4) an amount of money sufficient to redeem on the redemption date all the
Securities of such Series so called for redemption at the appropriate redemption
price, together with accrued interest to the date fixed for redemption. If less
than all the Outstanding Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the Company
will deliver to the Trustee at least 60 days prior to the date fixed
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for redemption an Officer's Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount
of Securities to be redeemed.
If less than all the Securities of a Series are to be redeemed, the
Trustee shall select, in such manner as it shall deem appropriate and fair,
Securities of such Series to be redeemed in whole in part. Securities may be
redeemed in part in multiples equal to the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of such Series or any multiple thereof. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Company in writing of the Securities of such Series selected for
redemption and, in the case of any Securities of such Series selected for
partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. For all
purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all
provisions relating to the redemption of Securities of any Series shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed.
SECTION 12.3 Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If notice
of redemption has been given as above provided, the Securities or portions of
Securities specified in such notice shall become due and payable on the date and
at the place stated in such notice at the applicable redemption price together
with interest accrued to the date fixed for redemption, and on and after said
date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such Securities at the
redemption price, together with interest accrued to said date) interest on the
Securities or portions of Securities so called for redemption shall cease to
accrue and, except as provided in Sections 6.5 and 10.4, such Securities shall
cease from and after the date fixed for redemption to be entitled to any benefit
or security under this Indenture, and the Holders thereof shall have no right in
respect of such Securities except the right to receive the redemption price
thereof and unpaid interest to the date fixed for redemption. On presentation
and surrender of such Securities at a place of payment specified in said notice,
said Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by
the Company at the applicable redemption price, together with interest accrued
thereon to the date fixed for redemption; provided that any semiannual payment
of interest on Registered Securities becoming due on the date fixed for
redemption shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities registered as such
on the relevant record date subject to the terms and provisions of Section 2.7
hereof.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid or duly
provided for, bear interest from the date
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fixed or redemption at the rate of interest borne by the Security.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only and the
Coupons appertaining thereto, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver to or on the order of the Holder thereof, at the
expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities and the Coupons
appertaining thereto, of authorized denominations, in principal amount equal to
the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented.
SECTION 12.4 Exclusion of Certain Securities from Eligibility for
Selection for Redemption. Securities shall be excluded from eligibility for
selection for redemption if they are identified by registration and certificate
number in a written statement signed by an authorized officer of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at least 60 days prior to the last date on which notice
of redemption may be given as being owned of record and beneficially by, and not
pledged or hypothecated by, either (a) the Company or (b) an entity specifically
identified in such written statement directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company.
SECTION 12.5 Mandatory and Optional Sinking Funds. The minimum
amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by the terms of Securities of
any Series is herein referred to as a "mandatory sinking fund payment," and any
payment in excess of such minimum amount provided for by the terms of Securities
of any Series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment." The
date on which a sinking fund payment is to be made is herein referred to as the
"sinking fund payment date."
In lieu of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any Series of Securities in cash, the Company may at its
option (a) deliver to the Trustee Securities of such Series theretofore
purchased or otherwise acquired (except upon redemption pursuant to the
mandatory sinking fund) by the Company or receive credit for Securities of such
Series (not previously so credited) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired
(except as aforesaid) by the Company and delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10, (b) receive credit for optional sinking
fund payments (not previously so credited) made pursuant to this Section, or (c)
receive credit for Securities of such Series (not previously so credited)
redeemed by the Company through any optional redemption provision contained in
the terms of such Series. Securities so delivered or credited shall be received
or credited by the
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Trustee at the sinking fund redemption price specified in such Securities.
On or before the sixtieth day next preceding each sinking fund
payment date for any Series, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an
Officer's Certificate (a) specifying the portion of the mandatory sinking fund
payment to be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion to be satisfied by
credit of Securities of such Series, (b) stating that none of the Securities of
such Series has theretofore been so credited, (c) stating that no defaults in
the payment of interest or Events of Default with respect to such Series have
occurred (which have not been waived or cured) and are continuing, (d) stating
whether or not the Company intends to exercise its right to make an optional
sinking fund payment with respect to such Series and, if so, specifying the
amount of such optional sinking fund payment which the Company intends to pay on
or before the next succeeding sinking fund payment date and (e) specifying such
sinking fund payment date. Any Securities of such Series to be credited and
required to be delivered to the Trustee in order for the Company to be entitled
to credit therefor as aforesaid which have not theretofore been delivered to the
Trustee shall be delivered for cancellation pursuant to Section 2.10 to the
Trustee with such written statement (or reasonably promptly thereafter if
acceptable to the Trustee). Such written statement shall be irrevocable and upon
its receipt by the Trustee the Company shall become unconditionally obligated to
make all the cash payments or payments therein referred to, if any, on or before
the next succeeding sinking fund payment date. Failure of the Company, on or
before any such sixtieth day to deliver such written statement and Securities
specified in this paragraph, if any, shall not constitute a default but shall
constitute, on and as of such date, the irrevocable election of the Company (i)
that the mandatory sinking fund payment for such Series due on the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date shall be paid entirely in cash without the
option to deliver or credit Securities of such Series in respect thereof and
(ii) that the Company will make no optional sinking fund payment with respect to
such Series as provided in this Section.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional or
both) to be made in cash on the next succeeding sinking fund payment date plus
any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made in cash shall
exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company shall so request) with respect to
the Securities of any particular Series, such cash shall be applied on the next
succeeding sinking fund payment date to the redemption of Securities of such
Series at the sinking fund redemption price together with accrued interest to
the date fixed
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for redemption. If such amount shall be $50,000 or less and the Company makes no
such request then it shall be carried over until a sum in excess of $50,000 is
available. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in Section 12.2, for
redemption on such sinking fund payment date a sufficient principal amount of
Securities of such Series to absorb said cash, as nearly as may be possible, and
shall (if requested in writing by the Company) inform the Company of the serial
numbers of the Securities of such Series (or portions thereof) so selected.
Securities of any Series which are identified by registration and certificate
number in an Officer's Certificate at least 60 days prior to the sinking fund
payment date as being beneficially owned by, and not pledged or hypothecated by,
the Company or an entity directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or
under direct or indirect common control with the Company shall be excluded from
Securities of such Series eligible for selection for redemption. The Trustee, in
the name and at the expense of the Company (or the Company, if it shall so
notify the Trustee in writing) shall cause notice of redemption of the
Securities of such Series to be given in substantially the manner provided in
Section 12.2 (and with the effect provided in Section 12.3) for the redemption
of Securities of such Series in part at the option of the Company. The amount of
any sinking fund payments not so applied or allocated to the redemption of
Securities of such Series shall be added to the next cash sinking fund payment
for such Series and, together with such payment, shall be applied in accordance
with the provisions of this Section. Any and all sinking fund moneys held on the
stated maturity date of the Securities of any particular Series (or earlier, if
such maturity is accelerated), which are not held for the payment or redemption
of particular Securities of such Series shall be applied, together with other
moneys, if necessary, sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the
principal of, and interest on, the Securities of such Series at maturity.
On or before each sinking fund payment date, the Company shall pay to the
Trustee in cash or shall otherwise provide for the payment of all interest
accrued to the date fixed for redemption on Securities to be redeemed on such
sinking fund payment date.
The Trustee shall not redeem or cause to be redeemed any Securities
of a Series with sinking fund moneys or mail or publish any notice of redemption
of Securities for such Series by operation of the sinking fund during the
continuance of a default in payment of interest on such Securities or of any
Event of Default except that, where the mailing or publication of notice of
redemption of any Securities shall theretofore have been made, the Trustee shall
redeem or cause to be redeemed such Securities,
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provided that it shall have received from the Company a sum sufficient for such
redemption. Except as aforesaid, any moneys in the sinking fund for such Series
at the time when any such default or Event of Default shall occur, and any
moneys thereafter paid into the sinking fund, shall, during the continuance of
such default or Event of Default, be deemed to have been collected under Article
Five and held for the payment of all such Securities. In case such Event of
Default shall have been waived as provided in Section 5.10 or the default cured
on or before the sixtieth day preceding the sinking fund payment date in any
year, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next succeeding sinking
fund payment date in accordance with this Section to the redemption of such
Securities.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be hereto affixed and
attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
ATTEST ENHANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES
GROUP INC.
By: _________________________
Name: By: ___________________________
Title: Name:
Title:
[CORPORATE SEAL]
ATTEST:
The Chase Manhattan Bank,
as Trustee
By: __________________________
Name:
Title: By: ___________________________
Name:
[CORPORATE SEAL] Title:
00
XXXXX XX XXX XXXX )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On this __th day of 1998, before me personally came ____________, to me
personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
resides at ___________, _______________; that he is the _________ of Enhance
Financial Services Group Inc., one of the corporations described in and which
executed the above instrument; that he knows the corporate seal of said
corporation; that the seal affixed to said instrument is such corporate seal;
that it was so affixed by authority of the Board of Directors of said
corporation; and that he signed his name thereto by like authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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Notary Public
STATE OF NEW YORK )
) ss.:
COUNTY OF NEW YORK )
On this __th day of __________ 1998 , before me personally came ___________, to
me personally known, who, being by me duly sworn, did depose and say that he
resides at ______________; that he is a _____________ of ________________, one
of the corporations described in and which executed the above instrument; that
he knows the corporate seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed to said
instrument is such corporate seal; that it was so affixed by authority of the
Board of Directors of said corporation, and that he signed his name thereto by
like authority.
[NOTARIAL SEAL]
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Notary Public
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Exhibit A-1
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY
PERSON ENTITLED TO RECEIVE BEARER SECURITY]
CERTIFICATE
ENHANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC.
[Description of Securities to be delivered]
This is to certify that the above-captioned Securities are not being
acquired by or on behalf of a United States Person or by persons who have
purchase such Securities for offer to resell or resale to any U.S. Persons or
any person in the United States or, if a beneficial interest in the Securities
is being acquired by or on behalf of a United States Person, that such person is
a financial institution within the meaning of Section 1.1.65-12(c)(1)(v) of the
United States Treasury regulations which agrees to comply with the requirements
of Section 165(j)(3)(A), (B) or (C) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended, and the regulations thereunder and which is not purchasing for offer to
resell or resale inside the United States. If the undersigned is a dealer, the
undersigned agrees to obtain a similar certificate from each person entitled to
delivery of any of the above-captioned Securities in bearer form purchased from
it; provided, however, that if the undersigned has actual knowledge that the
information contained in such a certificate is false, the undersigned will not
deliver a Security in temporary or definitive bearer form to the person who
signed such certificate notwithstanding the delivery of such certificate to the
undersigned.
As used herein, "United States Person" means any citizen or resident
of the United States of America (including the States an the District of
Columbia) and its territories, its possessions and all areas subject to its
jurisdiction ("United States"), including any corporation, partnership or other
entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any
political subdivision thereof and any estate or trust which is subject to United
States federal income taxation regardless of the source of its income.
We undertake to advise you by telex if the above statement as to
beneficial ownership is not correct on the date of delivery of the
above-captioned Securities in bearer form as to all of such Securities.
A-1-1
We understand that this certificate is required in connection with
United States securities and tax laws. We irrevocably authorize you to produce
this certificate or a copy hereof to any interested party in any administrative
or legal proceedings or official inquiry with respect to the matters covered by
this certificate.
Dated: _________________, 19__
[To be dated on or after
____________, 19__ (the date
determined pursuant to the
Indenture)]
[Name of person entitled to
receive Security]
By:
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X-0-0
Xxxxxxx X-0
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EURO-CLEAR
AND CEDEL S.A. IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXCHANGE
OF A PORTION OF A TEMPORARY GLOBAL SECURITY]
CERTIFICATE
ENHANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC.
[Description of Securities to be delivered]
This is to certify with respect to $_____________ principal amount of the
above-captioned Securities (i) that we have received from each of the persons
appearing in our records as persons being entitled to a portion of such
principal amount (our "Qualified Account Holders") a certificate with respect to
such portion substantially in the form attached hereto and (ii) that we are not
submitting herewith for exchange any portion of the temporary global Security
representing the above-captioned Securities excepted in such certificate or
certificates.
We further certify that as of the date hereof we have not received any
notification from any of our Qualified Account Holders to the effect that the
statements made by such Qualified Account Holders with respect to any portion of
the part of the Global Security submitted herewith for exchange are no longer
true and cannot be relied upon as of the date hereof.
Dated: 19__
(To be dated no earlier than
the Exchange Date)
[XXXXXX GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK, Brussels Office, as
Operator of the Euro-clear System]
[CEDEL S.A.]
By:
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Exhibit A-3
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY EURO-CLEAR
AND CEDEL S.A. TO OBTAIN INTEREST PRIOR TO AN EXCHANGE DATE]
CERTIFICATE
ENHANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC.
[Description of Securities on which interest is to be paid]
This is to certify with respect to the above-captioned Securities or, with
respect to payments on any global security representing Securities, the
principal amount of any global security listed below that we have received from
each of the persons appearing in our records as persons being entitled to
receive payments with respect thereto (our "Qualified Account Holders") a
certificate with respect to such Qualified Account Holders substantially in the
form attached hereto.
We further certify that as of the date hereof we have not received any
notification from any of our Qualified Account Holders to the effect that the
statements made by such Qualified Account Holders with respect to any Security
or interest in any global security listed above are no longer true and cannot be
relied upon as of the date hereof.
Dated: ______________, 19__
(To be dated no earlier than the
relevant Interest Payment Date)
XXXXXX GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
Brussels Office, as Operator of the
Euro-clear System]
[CEDEL S.A.]
By:
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Exhibit A-4
CERTIFICATE
[FORM OF CERTIFICATE TO BE GIVEN BY BENEFICIAL OWNERS
TO OBTAIN INTEREST PRIOR TO ANY EXCHANGE DATE)
ENHANCE FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP INC.
[Description of Securities on which interest is to be paid]
This is to certify that as of the Interest Payment Date on (Insert Date)and
except as provided in the second paragraph hereof, none of the above-captioned
Securities held by you for our account or any interest in any global security
representing the such Securities was beneficially owned by a United States
Person (as defined below) or by persons who have purchased such Securities for
offer to resell or resale to any United States Persons or any person in the
United States or, if any of such Securities held by you for our account were
beneficially owned by a United States Person, such United States Person either
provided an Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 with respect to such interest
payment or certified with respect to such interest payment that it was an exempt
recipient as defined in Section 1.6049-4(c)(1)(ii) of the United States Treasury
regulations.
This certificate excepts and does not relate to $______ principal amount of the
above-captioned Securities or an interest in a global security representing the
Securities appearing in your books as being held for our account as to which we
are not yet able so to certify and as to which we understand that we cannot
receive any payments with respect thereto until we are able so to certify.
We understand that this certificate is required in connection with United States
tax laws. We irrevocably authorize you to produce this certificate or a copy
hereof to any interested party in any administrative or legal proceedings or
official inquiry with respect to the matters covered by this certificate.
As used herein, "United States Person" means any citizen or resident of the
United States of America (including the States and the District of Columbia),
its territories and possessions an all areas subject to its jurisdiction
("United States"), including any corporation, partnership or other entity
created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any political
subdivision thereof and any estate or trust which is subject to United States
federal income taxation regardless of the source of its income.
A-4-1
(Name of person entitled to
receive interest)
By:
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Dated: _____________, 19__
(To be dated on or after the
15th day before the relevant
Interest Payment Date)
A-4-2
