EXHIBIT 4.3
INDENTURE
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Dated as of _________, 200_
among
FEDEX CORPORATION, AS ISSUER,
THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN,
and
__________________, AS TRUSTEE
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DEBT SECURITIES
RECONCILIATION AND TIE BETWEEN
TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939
(THE "TRUST INDENTURE ACT") AND INDENTURE
TRUST INDENTURE ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
Section 310 (a)(1) ............................................. 6.09
(a)(2)............................................... 6.09
(b).................................................. 6.10
Section 311 (b)(4)............................................... 6.13
(b)(6)............................................... 6.13
Section 312 (a).................................................. 7.01
(b).................................................. 7.02
(c).................................................. 7.02
Section 313 (a).................................................. 7.03
(b)(2)............................................... 7.03
(c).................................................. 7.03
(d).................................................. 7.03
Section 314 (a).................................................. 7.04
(c)(1)............................................... 1.02
(c)(2)............................................... 1.02
(e).................................................. 1.02
(f).................................................. 1.02
Section 316 (a) (last sentence).................................. 1.01
(a)(1)(A)............................................ 5.02 and 5.12
(a)(1)(B)............................................ 5.13
(b).................................................. 5.08
Section 317 (a)(1)............................................... 5.03
(a)(2)............................................... 5.04
(b).................................................. 10.03
Section 318 (a).................................................. 1.07
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This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
NOTE: Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act provides that the provisions of
Sections 310-317 are a part of and govern every qualified indenture,
whether or not physically contained therein.
TABLE OF CONTENTS*
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS..................................................2
SECTION 1.02. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS.........................9
SECTION 1.03. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE.......................9
SECTION 1.04. ACTS OF HOLDERS.............................................10
SECTION 1.05. NOTICES, ETC. TO TRUSTEE, COMPANY AND GUARANTORS............11
SECTION 1.06. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER...................................11
SECTION 1.07. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT...........................12
SECTION 1.08. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS....................12
SECTION 1.09. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS......................................12
SECTION 1.10. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE.........................................12
SECTION 1.11. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE.......................................12
SECTION 1.12. GOVERNING LAW...............................................12
SECTION 1.13. LEGAL HOLIDAYS..............................................12
SECTION 1.14. LANGUAGE OF NOTICES.........................................13
SECTION 1.15. COUNTERPARTS................................................13
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01. FORMS GENERALLY.............................................13
SECTION 2.02. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION.............14
SECTION 2.03. GLOBAL SECURITIES...........................................14
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. AMOUNT UNLIMITED; ISSUABLE IN SERIES........................15
SECTION 3.02. DENOMINATIONS...............................................18
SECTION 3.03. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING..............18
SECTION 3.04. TEMPORARY SECURITIES........................................20
SECTION 3.05. REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE.........................21
SECTION 3.06. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES............23
SECTION 3.07. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED..............24
SECTION 3.08. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS.......................................25
SECTION 3.09. CANCELLATION................................................26
SECTION 3.10. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST.....................................26
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* This table of contents shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part of
the Indenture
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ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE.....................26
SECTION 4.02. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY..................................28
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT...........................................28
SECTION 5.02. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT..........29
SECTION 5.03. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT
BY TRUSTEE..................................................30
SECTION 5.04. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM............................31
SECTION 5.05. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION
OF SECURITIES...............................................32
SECTION 5.06. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED..............................32
SECTION 5.07. LIMITATION ON SUITS.........................................32
SECTION 5.08. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL,
PREMIUM AND INTEREST........................................33
SECTION 5.09. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES..........................33
SECTION 5.10. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE..............................34
SECTION 5.11. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER................................34
SECTION 5.12. CONTROL BY HOLDERS..........................................34
SECTION 5.13. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS.....................................34
SECTION 5.14. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS.......................................35
SECTION 5.15. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS............................35
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.........................35
SECTION 6.02. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS..........................................36
SECTION 6.03. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE...................................37
SECTION 6.04. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES......38
SECTION 6.05. MAY HOLD SECURITIES.........................................38
SECTION 6.06. MONEY HELD IN TRUST.........................................38
SECTION 6.07. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT..............................38
SECTION 6.08. INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK....................................39
SECTION 6.09. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY.....................39
SECTION 6.10. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR...........39
SECTION 6.11. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR......................41
SECTION 6.12. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION
TO BUSINESS.................................................42
SECTION 6.13. PREFERENTIAL CLAIMS.........................................43
SECTION 6.14. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT.........................43
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ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 7.01. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES
OF HOLDERS..................................................45
SECTION 7.02. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS......45
SECTION 7.03. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE..........................................46
SECTION 7.04. REPORTS BY COMPANY..........................................47
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 8.01. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON CERTAIN TERMS..............47
SECTION 8.02. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED...........................48
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS..........48
SECTION 9.02. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS.............50
SECTION 9.03. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES........................51
SECTION 9.04. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES...........................51
SECTION 9.05. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT.........................51
SECTION 9.06. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES..........51
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.01. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, ANY PREMIUM, INTEREST AND
ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS..........................................51
SECTION 10.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY.............................51
SECTION 10.03. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST...........52
SECTION 10.04. CORPORATE EXISTENCE.........................................54
SECTION 10.05. STATEMENT AS TO DEFAULT.....................................54
SECTION 10.06. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS..........................................54
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE....................................55
SECTION 11.02. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE.......................55
SECTION 11.03. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED...........55
SECTION 11.04. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION........................................56
SECTION 11.05. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE.................................56
SECTION 11.06. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE.......................57
SECTION 11.07. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART.................................57
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ARTICLE 12
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 12.01. UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE.....................................57
SECTION 12.02. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF GUARANTEE.........................59
SECTION 12.03. ADDITIONAL GUARANTORS.......................................59
SECTION 12.04. RELEASE OF A GUARANTOR......................................59
SECTION 12.05. WAIVER OF SUBROGATION.......................................60
SECTION 12.06. RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING
AGENT REGARDING DISSOLUTION, ETC. OF GUARANTORS.............60
SECTION 12.07. LIMITATION OF GUARANTOR'S LIABILITY.........................61
SECTION 12.08. OBLIGATIONS REINSTATED......................................61
SECTION 12.09. NO OBLIGATION TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE COMPANY............61
ARTICLE 13
DEFEASEANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASEANCE
SECTION 13.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE; COMPANY'S OPTION TO EFFECT
DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE...........................61
SECTION 13.02. DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE....................................62
SECTION 13.03. COVENANT DEFEASANCE.........................................62
SECTION 13.04. CONDITIONS TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE.............63
SECTION 13.05. DEPOSITED MONEY AND GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE
HELD IN TRUST; OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS...............64
ARTICLE 14
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 14.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE....................................66
SECTION 14.02. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES.......66
SECTION 14.03. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND...................66
ARTICLE 15
SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES
SECTION 15.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE....................................67
SCHEDULE I List of Subsidiary Guarantors
SCHEDULE II Form of Supplemental Indenture
SCHEDULE III Form of Supplemental Indenture to Add Additional Guarantors
EXHIBIT A Form of Debt Security
EXHIBIT B Form of Guarantee
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INDENTURE
INDENTURE, dated as of ____________, 200_, among
FedEx Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), the Guarantors referred to below and
_____________________, as trustee (the "TRUSTEE").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its senior unsecured
debentures, bonds, notes or other evidences of indebtedness, unlimited as to
principal amount, to bear such rates of interest, to mature at such time or
times, to be issued in one or more series and to have such other provisions as
shall be fixed as hereinafter provided;
WHEREAS, the Guarantors named herein have duly authorized the execution and
delivery of this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of
guarantees of the Securities (as herein defined) and the Company's obligations
under this Indenture (the "GUARANTEE");
WHEREAS, the Company and the Guarantors have duly authorized the execution
and delivery of this Indenture and all things necessary to make this Indenture a
valid agreement of the Company and the Guarantors, in accordance with its terms,
have been done; and
WHEREAS, this Indenture is subject to the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act of 1939, as amended, and the rules and regulations of the Securities and
Exchange Commission promulgated thereunder that are required to be part of this
Indenture and, to the extent applicable, shall be governed by such provisions.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities
by the Holders (as herein defined) thereof, it is mutually covenanted and
agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the Securities
or of any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. DEFINITIONS. For all purposes of this Indenture, except as
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(i) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned
to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(ii) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(iii) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term
"GENERALLY ACCEPTED ACCOUNTING PRINCIPLES" or "GAAP" with respect to any
computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting
principles as are generally accepted in the United States of America as of
the date of such computation; and
(iv) the words "HEREIN," "HEREOF," "HERETO" and "HEREUNDER" and
other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole and not
to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision.
Certain terms used principally in certain Articles hereof are defined in
those Articles.
"ACT," when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified in
Section 1.04.
"ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS" means any additional amounts which are required hereby
or by any Security, under circumstances specified herein or therein, to be paid
by the Company in respect of certain taxes, assessments or other governmental
charges imposed on Holders specified therein and which are owing to such
Holders.
"AFFILIATE" of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"CONTROL" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "CONTROLLING" and "CONTROLLED" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"AUTHENTICATING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to act on
behalf of the Trustee to authenticate Securities of one or more series.
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"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means the board of directors of the Company or any
duly authorized committee of the board of directors of the Company.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means a copy of one or more resolutions 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, delivered to the Trustee.
"BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than Saturday, Sunday or other day on
which banking institutions in
New York or Tennessee are authorized or obligated
by law to close.
"CAPITAL STOCK" of any Person means any and all shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock of
such Person.
"CLEARSTREAM" means Clearstream Banking, societe anonyme, or any successor
thereto.
"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to
time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"COMPANY" means
FedEx Corporation or any successor Corporation which shall
have become such under this Indenture.
"COMPANY REQUEST" or "COMPANY ORDER" means a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by its President or any Vice President and
delivered to the Trustee.
"CONVERSION EVENT" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign Currency
both by the government of the country or the confederation which issued such
Foreign Currency and for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or
other public institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii)
the euro for the settlement of transactions by public institutions of or within
the European Communities or (iii) any currency unit or composite currency other
than the euro for the purposes for which it was established.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the principal corporate trust office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered, which office at the date of original execution of this
Indenture is located at _____________________.
"CORPORATION" includes corporations and limited liability companies and,
except for purposes of Article Eight, associations, companies and business
trusts.
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"CURRENCY," with respect to any payment, deposit or other transfer in
respect of the principal of or any premium or interest on or any Additional
Amounts with respect to any Security, means Dollars or the Foreign Currency, as
the case may be, in which such payment, deposit or other transfer is required to
be made by or pursuant to the terms hereof or such Security and, with respect to
any other payment, deposit or transfer pursuant to or contemplated by the terms
hereof or such Security, means Dollars.
"CUSIP NUMBER" means the alphanumeric designation assigned to a Security by
Standard & Poor's Ratings Group, CUSIP Service Bureau.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 3.07.
"DEPOSITORY" means, with respect to the Securities of any series issuable
upon original issuance in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, The Depository Trust Company,
New York,
New York, another clearing
agency or any successor registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, which, in each case, shall be designated by the Company as contemplated
by Section 3.01.
"DOLLARS" means a dollar or other equivalent unit of legal tender for
payment of debts in the United States of America.
"EUROCLEAR" means Euroclear Bank S.A./N.V., as operator of the Euroclear
System, or any successor thereto.
"EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES" means the European Union, the European Coal and
Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Section 5.01.
"FOREIGN CURRENCY" means any currency, currency unit or composite currency,
including, without limitation, the euro, issued by the government of one or more
countries other than the United States or by any recognized confederation or
association of such governments.
"GLOBAL SECURITY" means a Security bearing the legend specified in Section
2.03 evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the Depository
or its nominee with respect to such series and registered in the name of such
Depository or nominee.
"GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means securities which are (x) direct full faith
and credit obligations of the United States of America or the other government
or governments in the confederation that issued the Foreign Currency in which
the principal of or any premium or interest on any Security or any Additional
Amounts in respect thereof shall be payable, in each case where the payment or
payments thereunder are supported by the full faith and credit of such
government or governments, or (y) obligations of a Person controlled or
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supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America or such other governments or governments, in each case where the payment
or payments thereunder are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America or such other government or
governments, which, in either case, are not callable or redeemable at the option
of the issuer thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a
bank as custodian with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific
payment of principal of or interest on any such Government Obligation held by
such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository receipt, PROVIDED
that (except as required by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any
deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such depository receipt from
any amount received by the custodian in respect to the Government Obligation or
the specific payment of principal of or interest on the Government Obligation
evidenced by such depository receipt.
"GUARANTEE" has the meaning stated in the second recital of this Indenture
and more particularly means the Guarantee made by each of the Guarantors as set
forth in Article 12 hereof and as endorsed on the Securities as provided herein.
"GUARANTOR" means (i) each of the undersigned companies listed on Schedule
I attached hereto, each a Subsidiary of the Company, and (ii) each Person who
becomes a Guarantor hereunder upon the execution of an indenture supplemental
hereto, substantially in the form of Schedule III attached hereto, pursuant to
Section 12.03.
"HOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered in the
Security Register.
"INDEBTEDNESS" of any Person means indebtedness for borrowed money and
indebtedness under purchase money liens or other conditional sales or similar
title retention agreements, in each case where such indebtedness has been
created, incurred, or assumed by such person to the extent such indebtedness
would appear as a liability upon a balance sheet of such Person prepared in
accordance with GAAP, guarantees by such Person of such indebtedness, and
indebtedness for borrowed money secured by any lien, pledge or other security
interest or encumbrance upon property owned by such Person, even though such
Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such indebtedness.
"INDENTURE" means this instrument as it may from time to time be
supplemented or amended by one or more indentures supplemental hereto entered
into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof and shall include the terms of
each particular series of Securities established as contemplated by Section
3.01.
"INDEXED SECURITY" means a Security the terms of which provide that the
principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less than the
principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
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"INTEREST," with respect to any Original Issue Discount Security which by
its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest payable after
Maturity and, when used with respect to a Security which provides for the
payment of Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 10.06, includes such
Additional Amounts.
"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE," with respect to any Security, means the Stated
Maturity of an installment of interest on such Security.
"MATURITY," with respect to any Security, means the date on which the
principal of such Security, or an installment of principal, becomes due and
payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, notice of redemption or repurchase or otherwise and
includes any Redemption Date.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of the
Board of Directors, the President or any Vice President, and attested by the
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of or of counsel to the Company, or other counsel reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee.
"ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY" means any Security issued pursuant to
this Indenture which provides for declaration of an amount less than the
principal face amount thereof to be due and payable upon acceleration of the
Maturity pursuant to Section 5.02.
"OUTSTANDING," when used with respect to Securities of any series, means,
as of the date of determination, all Securities of such series theretofore
authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities for whose payment at the Maturity thereof money in
the necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent (other than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated
in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent)
for the Holders of such Securities; PROVIDED that, if such Securities are
to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly given pursuant to
this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been
made;
(iii) Securities for whose payment or redemption money or Government
Obligations as contemplated by Section 13.04 in the necessary amount have
been theretofore deposited with the Trustee (or
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another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.09) in trust for
the Holders of such Securities in accordance with Section 13.05; and
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.06 or in
exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been authenticated
and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, unless there shall have been
presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are
held by a bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (i) the principal
amount of an Original Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be
Outstanding shall be equal to the amount of the principal thereof that would be
due and payable as of the date of such determination upon acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, (ii) the principal amount of any
Indexed Security that may be counted in making such determination and that shall
be deemed outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face
amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided
in this Indenture, (iii) the principal amount of a Security denominated in a
Foreign Currency shall be the Dollar equivalent, determined on the date of
original issuance of such Security, of the principal amount (or, in the case of
an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent on the date of
original issuance of such Security of the amount determined as provided in (i)
above) of such Security, and (iv) Securities owned by the Company or any other
obligor or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities that the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned that
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 or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor.
"PAYING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on, or any Additional Amounts
with respect to, any Securities 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," with respect to the Securities of any series, means the
place where the principal of (and premium, if any), interest on, and Additional
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Amounts with respect to, the Securities of that series are payable as provided
in or pursuant to this Indenture or such Securities.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITY" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced by such
particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 3.06 in exchange for or in lieu of a
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
"REDEMPTION DATE," with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture or such Security.
"REDEMPTION PRICE," with respect to any Security or portion thereof to be
redeemed, means the price at which it is to be redeemed pursuant to this
Indenture or such Security.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date
on the Securities of any series means the date specified in or pursuant to this
Indenture or such Security as the "REGULAR RECORD DATE."
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER" means any officer or authorized agent of the Trustee
in its Corporate Trust Office and also means, with respect to a particular
corporate trust matter, any other officer or authorized agent to whom such
matter is referred because of knowledge of and familiarity with the particular
subject.
"SECURITIES" means any unsecured debentures, bonds, notes or other
evidences of indebtedness, as the case may be, of any series authenticated and
delivered from time to time under this Indenture, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that if at
any time there is more than one Person acting as Trustee under this Indenture,
"SECURITIES" with respect to any such Person shall mean securities authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture, exclusive, however, of Securities of any
series as to which such Person is not Trustee.
"SECURITY REGISTER" and "SECURITY REGISTRAR" have the respective meanings
specified in Section 3.05.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest on any
Security means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.07.
"STATED MATURITY," with respect to any Security or any installment of
principal thereof or interest thereon or any Additional Amounts, means the date
established by or pursuant to this Indenture or such Security as the fixed date
on which the principal of such Security or such installment of principal or
interest is, or such Additional Amounts are, due and payable.
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"SUBSIDIARY" means any Corporation of which at the time of determination
the Company or one or more Subsidiaries owns or controls, directly or
indirectly, more than 50% of the shares of voting stock. For the purposes of
this definition, "VOTING STOCK" means stock which ordinarily has 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 by reason of any contingency.
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the "TRUSTEE" in the first paragraph of
this Indenture until a successor Trustee shall have become such pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter "TRUSTEE" shall mean or
include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder. If at any time there is
more than one such Person, "TRUSTEE" shall mean such Person and as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of such series.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as
in force at the date as of which this instrument was executed, except as
provided in Section 9.05.
"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 "VICE PRESIDENT."
SECTION 1.02. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in this Indenture, upon any application or request by the
Company to the Trustee to take any action under any provision of this Indenture,
the Company and, if applicable, the Guarantors shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with or
an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such
conditions precedent, if any, have been complied with, except that, in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
or any of them is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture
relating to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or
opinion need be furnished. Any Officers' Certificate will comply with Section
314(e) of the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 1.03. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE. In any case where
several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion of,
any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified by,
or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so certified
or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or give an
opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons as to
other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as to such
matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or a Guarantor may
be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon an Opinion of Counsel,
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unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know,
that the opinion with respect to the matters upon which the certificate or
opinion is based are erroneous. Any such Opinion of Counsel may be based,
insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, an officer or officers of the Company or a Guarantor stating
that the information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession
of the Company or such Guarantor, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise
of reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or
representations with respect to such matters are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture or any Security, they may, but need not, be
consolidated and form one instrument.
SECTION 1.04. ACTS OF HOLDERS. (a) Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by this Indenture to
be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more
instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders in person or
by an agent duly appointed in writing. Except as herein otherwise expressly
provided, such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments
are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company or the Guarantors. Such instrument or instruments (and the action
embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the
"ACT" of the Holders signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution
of any such instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be
sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 6.01)
conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and the Guarantors, if made
in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such instrument
or writing may be proved in any reasonable manner which the Trustee deems
sufficient and in accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may
determine; and the Trustee may in any instance require further proof with
respect to any of the matters referred to in this Section.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security Register.
(d) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of Securities of any
series any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act, the Company may, at its option, fix in advance a record date for the
determination of Holders of Securities entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company
shall have no obligation to do so. Any such record date shall be fixed at the
Company's discretion. If not set by the Company prior to the first solicitation
of a Holder made by any Person in respect of any such matters referred to in the
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foregoing sentence, such record date shall be the date 30 days prior to such
first solicitation of Holders. If such a record date is fixed, such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent and waiver or other Act may be
sought or given before or after the record date, but only the Holders of
Securities of record at the close of business on such record date shall be
deemed to be Holders of Securities for the purpose of determining whether
Holders of the requisite proportion of Securities of such series Outstanding
have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the
Securities of such series Outstanding shall be computed as of such record date.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every future Holder of the
same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon the registration of
transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee, any Security
Registrar, any Paying Agent or the Company or any Guarantor in reliance thereon,
whether or not notation of such action is made upon such Security.
SECTION 1.05. NOTICES, ETC. TO TRUSTEE, COMPANY AND GUARANTORS. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be made
upon, given or furnished to, or filed with:
(i) the Trustee by any Holder or the Company or a Guarantor shall
be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office; or
(ii) the Company or a Guarantor by the Trustee or by any Holder
shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid,
to the Company at 000 Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxx 00000,
attention Corporate Vice President and Treasurer, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or a
Guarantor, as applicable.
SECTION 1.06. NOTICE TO HOLDERS; WAIVER. Where this Indenture or any
Security provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be
sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such Security expressly
provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder
affected by such event, at the Holder's address as it appears in the Security
Register, not later than the latest date, or not earlier than the earliest date,
prescribed for the giving of such notice. 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. Any notice which is mailed in the manner
herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given or
provided.
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Where this Indenture or any Security 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. 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 case by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by reason of
any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice by mail, then such
notification as shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute
a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
SECTION 1.07. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. If any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with another provision hereof which is required
to be included in this Indenture by any of the provisions of the Trust Indenture
Act, such required provision shall control.
SECTION 1.08. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
SECTION 1.09. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All covenants and agreements in this
Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors shall bind their respective
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 1.10. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. In case any provision in this Indenture
or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity,
legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.11. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE. Nothing in this Indenture or in the
Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the parties
hereto and their successors hereunder and the Holders, any benefit or any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.12. GOVERNING LAW. This Indenture, the Securities and the
Guarantees shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the
State of
New York.
SECTION 1.13. LEGAL HOLIDAYS. In any case where any Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day
at any Place of Payment, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or of the Securities) payment of interest or principal (and premium,
if any) or any Additional Amounts need not be made at such Place of Payment on
such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day at such Place of
Payment with the same force and effect as if made on the Interest Payment Date
or Redemption Date, or at the Stated Maturity, and no interest shall accrue with
respect to such payments for the period from and after such Interest Payment
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Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, to the next
succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 1.14. LANGUAGE OF NOTICES. Any request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, election or waiver required or permitted under this
Indenture shall be in the English language, except that, if the Company so
elects, any published notice may be in an official language of the country of
publication.
SECTION 1.15. COUNTERPARTS. This Indenture may be executed in several
counterparts, each of which shall be an original and all of which shall
constitute but one and the same instrument.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.01. FORMS GENERALLY. The Securities of each series (including the
Trustee's certification of authentication and the notation thereon relating to
the Guarantees) shall be in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A
hereof as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution 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, and may have such letters, numbers or other marks
of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities.
If any form of Securities of any series is established by action taken
pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of an appropriate record of such action
shall be certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and
delivered to the Trustee at the same time as or prior to the delivery of the
Company Order contemplated by Section 3.03 for the authentication and delivery
of such Securities.
The definitive Securities may be produced in any manner determined by the
officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such
Securities.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or any
Securities, the Securities shall be issuable in registered form without coupons
and shall not be issuable upon the exercise of warrants.
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SECTION 2.02. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. The
Trustee's Certificate of Authorization shall be in substantially the following
form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
_________________, as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
SECTION 2.03. GLOBAL SECURITIES. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant
to this Indenture or any Securities, the Securities shall be issued in global
form. Any such Security may provide that it or any number of such Securities
shall represent the aggregate amount of all Outstanding Securities of such
series (or such lesser amount as is permitted by the terms thereof) from time to
time endorsed thereon and may also provide that the aggregate amount of
Outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to time be increased or
reduced to reflect exchanges. Any endorsement of any Security in global form to
reflect the amount, or any increase or decrease in the amount, or changes in the
rights of Holders, of Outstanding Securities represented thereby shall be made
in such manner and by such Person as shall be specified therein or in the
Company Order to be delivered pursuant to Section 3.03 or 3.04 with respect
thereto.
Subject to the provisions of Section 3.03 and, if applicable, Section 3.04,
the Trustee shall deliver and redeliver any Security in permanent global form in
the manner and upon instructions given by the Person specified therein or in the
applicable Company Order. If a Company Order pursuant to Section 3.03 or 3.04
has been, or simultaneously is, delivered, any instructions by the Company with
respect to a Security in global form shall be in writing but need not be
accompanied by or contained in an Officers' Certificate and need not be
accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.07, unless otherwise specified
in or pursuant to this Indenture or any Securities, payment of principal of, any
premium and interest on, and any Additional Amounts in respect of, any Security
in global form shall be made to the Person specified therein.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.08 and except as provided in
the preceding paragraph, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company
and the Trustee shall treat as the Holder, the holder of such Global Security in
registered form.
Any Global Security authenticated and delivered hereunder shall bear a
legend in substantially the following form:
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"This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of a
Depository or a nominee of a Depository. This Security is exchangeable for
Securities registered in the name of a Person other than the Depository or
its nominee only in the limited circumstances described in the Indenture,
and no transfer of this Security (other than a transfer of this Security as
a whole by the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of
the Depository to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository) may
be registered except in such limited circumstances."
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.01. 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 and (subject to Section 3.03)
set forth in an Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto, substantially in the form of Schedule II attached hereto,
prior to the issuance of Securities of any series (subject to the last paragraph
of this Section 3.01):
(i) the title of the Securities and the series in which such
Securities shall be included (which shall distinguish the Securities of
the series from all other Securities);
(ii) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
of the series which 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 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 and except for
any Securities which, pursuant to Section 3.03 are deemed never to have
been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(iii) the date or dates on which the principal of the Securities of
the series is payable;
(iv) the Person to whom any interest on any Security of the series
shall be payable if other than 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 such interest, the rate or rates, which may
be fixed or variable, at which the Securities of the series shall
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bear interest, if any, if the rate is variable, the manner of calculation
thereof, the date or dates from which such interest shall accrue, the
Interest Payment Dates on which such interest shall be payable and the
Regular Record Date for the interest payable on any Interest Payment Date;
(v) the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest, if any, on and any Additional Amounts with respect to
Securities of the series shall be payable;
(vi) the date or dates on which, the period or periods within
which, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon
which Securities of the series may be redeemed, in whole or in part, at
the option of the Company;
(vii) the obligation, if any, of the Company to redeem or purchase
Securities of the series pursuant to any sinking fund or analogous
provisions or at the option of a Holder thereof and the date or dates on
which, the period or periods within which, the price or prices at which and
the terms and conditions upon which Securities of the series shall be
redeemed or purchased, in whole or in part, pursuant to such obligation and
any provisions for the remarketing of such securities so redeemed or
purchased;
(viii) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(ix) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of the
principal amount of Securities of the series which shall be payable upon
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
5.02 or the method by which such portion is to be determined;
(x) the application, if any, of either or both of Section 13.02
and Section 13.03 to the Securities of the series;
(xi) if other than Dollars, the Foreign Currency in which payment
of the principal of, any premium or interest on or any Additional Amounts
with respect to any of such Securities shall be payable;
(xii) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any,
on the Securities of that series are to be payable, at the election of the
Company or a holder thereof, in a currency (including a composite currency)
other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the date
or dates on which, the period or periods within which, and the terms and
conditions upon which, such election may be made;
(xiii) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest, if any, on the Securities of the series may be determined
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with reference to an index, formula or other method or methods based on a
currency (including a composite currency) other than that in which the
Securities are stated to be payable, the terms and conditions upon which
and the manner in which such amounts shall be determined and paid or
payable;
(xiv) if the amount of payments of principal of, any premium or
interest on the Securities of the series may be determined with reference
to an index, the manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(xv) whether any Securities of the series are to be issuable upon
original issuance in the form of one or more Global Securities and, if so,
(a) the Depository with respect to such Global Security or Securities and
(b) the circumstances under which any such Global Security may be exchanged
for Securities registered in the name of, and any transfer of such Global
Security may be registered to, a Person other than such Depository or its
nominee, if other than as set forth in Section 3.05;
(xvi) whether and under what circumstances Additional Amounts on
such Securities or any of them shall be payable;
(xvii) the notice, if any, to Holders regarding the determination of
interest on a floating rate Security and the manner of giving such notice,
and the basis upon which interest shall be calculated if other than that of
a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months;
(xviii) if the Securities of the series are to be convertible into or
exchangeable for Capital Stock, other debt securities (including
Securities), warrants, other equity securities or any other securities or
property of the Company or any other Person, at the option of the Company
or the Holder or on the occurrence of any condition or event, the terms and
conditions for that conversion or exchange;
(xix) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the
Events of Default or covenants of the Company with respect to any
Securities, whether or not such Events of Default or covenants are
consistent with the Events of Default or covenants set forth herein;
(xx) if any of such Securities are to be issuable in global form
and are to be issuable in definitive form (whether upon original issue or
upon exchange of a temporary Security) only upon receipt of certain
certificates or other documents or satisfaction of other conditions, then
the form and terms of such certificates, documents or conditions;
(xxi) if there is more than one Trustee, the identity of the Trustee
and, if not the Trustee, the identity of each Security Registrar, Paying
Agent or Authenticating Agent with respect to such Securities; and
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(xxii) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture) and any deletions from
or modifications or additions to this Indenture in respect of such series.
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially identical except as
to denomination, currency, rate of interest, or method of determining the rate
of interest, if any, Maturity, and the date from which interest, if any, shall
accrue and except as may otherwise be provided in or pursuant to such Board
Resolution referred to above and (subject to Section 3.03) set forth in the
Officers' Certificate referred to above or in any indenture supplemental hereto.
If any of the terms of the series are established by action taken pursuant to a
Board Resolution, a copy of the Board Resolution shall be delivered to the
Trustee at the same time as or prior to the delivery of the Officers'
Certificate setting forth the terms of the series.
Notwithstanding any contrary terms of this Section 3.01, the terms of the
Securities of any series may provide, without limitation, that the Securities
shall be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee on original issue from time
to time upon telephonic or written order of Persons designated in the Officers'
Certificate or supplemental indenture and that such Persons are authorized to
determine, consistent with such Officers' Certificate or any supplemental
indenture, such terms and conditions of the Securities of such series as are
specified in such certificate or supplemental indenture. All Securities of any
one series may be reopened for issuances of additional Securities of such series
or to establish additional terms of such series of Securities.
SECTION 3.02. DENOMINATIONS. Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to
this Indenture, the principal of, any premium and interest on and any Additional
Amounts with respect to the Securities shall be payable in Dollars. The
Securities of each series shall be issuable only in fully registered form
without coupons in such denominations as shall be specified pursuant to Section
3.01. In the absence of any such provision with respect to the Securities of any
series, the Securities of such series shall be issuable in denominations of
$1,000 and any integral multiple thereof. Securities not denominated in Dollars
shall be issuable in such denominations as are established with respect to such
Securities in or pursuant to this Indenture.
SECTION 3.03. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION, DELIVERY AND DATING. The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its President or any
Vice President, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by its
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary. The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals who
were the proper officers of the Company when their signatures were affixed to
such Securities shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or
any of them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and
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delivery of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such
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, together with the
Guarantees of the Guarantors endorsed thereon, executed by the Company and the
Guarantors to the Trustee for authentication, together with a Company Order for
the authentication and delivery of such Securities with the Guarantees endorsed
thereon, and the Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate
and deliver such Securities. If the form or terms of the Securities of the
series have been established in or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions or
indentures supplemental hereto as permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01, in
authenticating such Securities and accepting the additional responsibilities
under this Indenture in relation to such Securities, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, upon request, and (subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully
protected in relying upon:
(a) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that:
(i) if the form of such Securities has been established by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section 2.01, that such
form has been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(ii) if the terms of such Securities have been established by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by Section 3.01, that such
terms have been established in conformity with the provisions of this
Indenture;
(iii) this Indenture has been qualified under the Trust Indenture
Act; and
(iv) that such Securities and the Guarantees of the Guarantors
endorsed thereon, when such Securities have been authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and subject to any other conditions specified in
such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and legally binding
obligations of the Company and the Guarantors, respectively, enforceable in
accordance with their terms, subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent
transfer, reorganization, moratorium and similar laws of general
applicability relating to or affecting creditors' rights and to general
equity principles and will entitle the Holders thereof to the benefits of
this Indenture; and
(b) an Officers' Certificate stating that, to the best knowledge of the
Person executing such certificate, no event which is, or after notice or lapse
of time would become, an Event of Default with respect to any of the Securities
shall have occurred and be continuing.
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Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.01 and of the preceding
paragraph, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued at one
time, it shall not be necessary to deliver an Opinion of Counsel, Officers'
Certificate or Company Order otherwise required at or prior to the time of
authentication of each Security of such series if such documents are delivered
at or prior to the time of authentication upon original issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by, or on behalf of, the Trustee or by the Authenticating Agent by
manual signature. Such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated
and delivered hereunder.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 3.09 together with a written statement (which need not
comply with Section 1.02 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel)
stating that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for
all purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture.
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate or to cause an
Authenticating Agent to authenticate any Securities if the issue of such
Securities pursuant to this Indenture will affect the Trustee's own rights,
duties, indemnities or immunities under the Securities and this Indenture or
otherwise in a manner which is not reasonably acceptable to the Trustee.
SECTION 3.04. TEMPORARY SECURITIES. Pending the preparation of definitive
Securities of any series and Guarantees, the Company may execute and deliver to
the Trustee, and, upon Company Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
in the manner provided in Section 3.03, temporary Securities with the Guarantees
endorsed thereon which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or
otherwise produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor
of the definitive Securities and Guarantees in lieu of which they are issued and
with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations
as the officers of the Company executing such Securities may determine, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities. Such temporary Securities may
be in global form.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Securities 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
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such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities at the office or agency
of the Company in a Place of Payment for that series, without charge to the
Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities
of any series the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and
deliver in exchange therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of
the same series and of like tenor of authorized denomination containing terms
and provisions that are identical to those of any temporary Securities. Until so
exchanged 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.
SECTION 3.05. REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE. The Company shall cause
to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the register maintained in
such office and in any other office or agency of the Company in a Place of
Payment being herein sometimes collectively referred to as the "SECURITY
REGISTER") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may prescribe,
the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities and of transfers of
Securities. The Trustee is hereby appointed "SECURITY REGISTRAR" for the purpose
of registering Securities and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
The Company shall have the right to remove and replace from time to time
the Security Registrar for any series of Securities; PROVIDED that no such
removal or replacement shall be effective until a successor Security Registrar
with respect to such series of Securities shall have been appointed by the
Company and shall have accepted such appointment by the Company. In the event
that the Trustee shall not be or shall cease to be Security Registrar with
respect to a series of Securities, it shall have the right to examine the
Security Register for such series at all reasonable times. There shall be only
one Security Register for each series of Securities.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security of any series
at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment for such series,
the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in
the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities
of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate
principal amount and tenor containing identical terms and provisions.
At the option of the Holder, Securities of any series may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series containing identical terms and provisions in
any authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount and tenor,
upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at 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, with
the Guarantees endorsed thereon, which the Holder making the exchange is
entitled to receive.
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All Securities and Guarantees endorsed thereon issued upon any registration
of transfer or exchange of Securities with Guarantees of the Guarantors endorsed
thereon shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the respective
Guarantors, evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under
this Indenture, as the Securities and Guarantees endorsed thereon surrendered
upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for
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
the Holder's 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 registration of transfer or exchange of Securities, other than
exchanges pursuant to Section 3.04, 9.06 or 11.07 not involving any transfer.
Except as otherwise provided herein, 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 business 15 days before the day of the
mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of such series selected for
redemption under Section 11.03 and ending at the close of business on the day of
such mailing, or (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any Security so
selected for redemption in whole or in part, except the unredeemed portion of
any Security being redeemed in part.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01, any Global Security of any series shall be
exchangeable for definitive Securities only if: (a) such Depository is
unwilling, unable or ineligible to continue as Depository with respect to such
Global Security and a successor depository is not appointed by the Company
within 90 days or if at any time the Depository with respect to such Global
Security ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, or (b) the Company executes and delivers to the Trustee
a Company Order providing that such Global Security shall be so exchangeable and
the transfer thereof so registrable.
If the beneficial owners of interests in a Global Security are entitled to
exchange such interests for definitive Securities as the result of an event
described in the preceding sentence, 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 with
the Guarantees endorsed thereon in such form and denominations as are required
by or pursuant to this Indenture, and of the same series, containing identical
terms and in aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of such
Global Security,
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executed by the Company. On or after the earliest date on which such interests
may be so exchanged, such Global Security shall be surrendered from time to time
by the Depository and in accordance with instructions given to the Trustee and
the Depository (which instructions shall be in writing but need not be contained
in or accompanied by an Officers' Certificate or be accompanied by an Opinion of
Counsel), as shall be specified in the Company Order with respect thereto to the
Trustee, as the Company's agent for such purpose, to be exchanged, in whole or
in part, for definitive Securities with the Guarantees endorsed thereon as
described above without charge.
The Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in exchange
for each portion of such surrendered Global Security, a like aggregate principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations
and of like tenor with the Guarantees endorsed thereon as the portion of such
Global Security to be exchanged, 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 the same series to be redeemed and ending on the relevant Redemption Date.
Promptly following any such exchange in part, such Global Security shall be
returned by the Trustee to such Depository in accordance with the instructions
of the Company referred to above. If a Security is issued in exchange for any
portion of a Global Security after the close of business at the office or agency
for such Security where such exchange occurs on or after (i) any Regular Record
Date for such Security and before the opening of business at such office or
agency on the next Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date for
such Security 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, interest shall not be payable on such Interest Payment Date or proposed
date for payment, as the case may be, in respect of such Security, but shall 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
Global Security shall be payable in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture.
SECTION 3.06. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES. If (i) any
mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee or if there shall be delivered
to the Company and the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security and (ii) there shall be delivered to
the Company and the Trustee such indemnity as may be required by them to save
each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence of
notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by a
bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its request the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Security, a new Security of the same series with the Guarantees
endorsed thereon containing identical terms and of like tenor and principal
amount and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
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In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has become
or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, 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.
Every new Security of any series and Guarantee issued pursuant to this
Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute a
separate obligation of the Company and the respective Guarantors, whether or not
the destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by
anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities of the same series and
Guarantees duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section, as amended or supplemented pursuant to this
Indenture, are exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other
rights and remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 3.07. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED. Unless
otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to any series of
Securities, interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, any
Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any
Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security
(or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business
on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, any Security
of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "DEFAULTED INTEREST") shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date
by virtue of having been such Holder, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by
the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (i) or (ii)
below:
(i) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest to
the Person in whose name the Securities of such series (or their respective
Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall
be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the Trustee in
writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each
Security 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
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money when deposited will 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 which shall be not more than 15 days and not less than
10 days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than 10 days
after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such Special Record Date and,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date
therefor to be mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of
Securities of such series at the Holder's 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 so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall
be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable
pursuant to the following clause (ii).
(ii) 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 such Securities may be
listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after
notice given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant
to this clause, such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the
Trustee.
Unless otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the
Securities of any particular series pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, at the option of the Company, interest on Securities may be paid by
mailing a check to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address
shall appear in the Security Register or by transfer to an account maintained by
the payee with a bank located in the United States.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon registration of 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 3.08. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. Prior to due presentment of a Security
for registration of transfer, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and any
agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name such Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the
purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and premium, if any) and (subject
to Sections 3.05 and 3.07) interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect
to such Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any
payment with respect to such Security shall be overdue, and neither the Company,
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Guarantors, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the
Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No Holder of any beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its
behalf by a Depository shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect
to such Global Security, and such Depository may be treated by the Company, the
Guarantors, the Trustee, and any agent of the Company, the Guarantors or the
Trustee as the owner of such Global Security for all purposes whatsoever. None
of the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security
Registrar 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 3.09. CANCELLATION. All Securities surrendered for payment,
redemption, registration of transfer, exchange or for credit against any sinking
fund payment shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be
delivered to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office and shall be promptly
canceled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever and may deliver to
the Trustee (or to an Authenticating Agent for delivery to the Trustee) for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated hereunder which the Company
has not issued and sold, and all Securities so delivered shall be promptly
canceled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in
exchange for any Securities canceled as provided in this Section, except as
expressly permitted by this Indenture. All canceled Securities held by the
Trustee shall be disposed of as directed by a Company Order.
SECTION 3.10. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. Except as otherwise specified
pursuant to Section 3.01 for Securities of any series, interest on the
Securities of each series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months.
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE
SECTION 4.01. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE. This Indenture shall
upon Company Request cease to be of further effect with respect to any series of
Securities specified in such Company Request (except as to rights of
registration of transfer or exchange of Securities), and the Trustee on receipt
of the Company Request, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as to
such series, when:
(a) either
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(i) all Securities of such series theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (A) Securities of such series which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid as provided
in Section 3.06 and (B) Securities of such series for whose payment money
has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust by
the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such
trust, as provided in Section 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation; or
(ii) all such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation:
(A) have become due and payable, or
(B) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity within
one year, or
(C) if redeemable at the option of the Company are to be called
for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the
name, and at the expense, of the Company,
and the Company, in the case of (A), (B) or (C) above, has deposited or
caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in trust for the
purpose an amount sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness
on such Securities not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and any
Additional Amounts to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities
which have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity or Redemption
Date, as the case may be;
(b) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums payable
hereunder by the Company; and
(c) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate or an
Opinion of Counsel, stating that all conditions precedent herein relating to the
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such Securities
have been complied with.
In the event there are Securities of two or more series hereunder, the
Trustee shall be required to execute an instrument acknowledging satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture only if requested to do so with respect to
Securities of such series as to which it is Trustee and if the other conditions
thereto are met.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of any series, the obligations of the Company to the
Trustee under Section 6.07, the obligations of the Trustee to any Authenticating
Agent under Section 6.14 and, if money shall have been deposited with the
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Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of clause (i) of this Section, the obligations
of the Company and the Guarantors under Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 10.02 and
11.03, and the obligation to pay Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to
such Securities as contemplated by Section 10.06 (but only to the extent that
any Additional Amounts payable with respect to such Securities exceed the amount
deposited in respect of such Additional Amounts pursuant to Section
4.01(a)(ii)), shall survive.
SECTION 4.02. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY. Subject to the provisions of the
penultimate paragraph of Section 10.03, all money and Government Obligations
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01 and Article Thirteen shall
be held in trust and applied by it, in accordance with the provisions of the
Securities of the series for which such deposit was made and this Indenture, to
the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the Company
acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may determine, to the Persons
entitled thereto, of the principal (and premium, if any), interest and
Additional Amounts for whose payment such money and Government Obligations has
been deposited with the Trustee; but such money and Government Obligations need
not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
ARTICLE 5
REMEDIES
SECTION 5.01. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. "EVENT OF DEFAULT," wherever used herein
with respect to the Securities of any series, means any one of the following
events (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), unless such event is specifically deleted
or modified in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture, Board Resolution or
Officers' Certificate establishing the terms of such series pursuant to this
Indenture:
(a) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of such series
when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a period of
30 days;
(b) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any
Security of such series at its Maturity;
(c) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant, agreement or
warranty of the Company or any Guarantor in this Indenture (other than a
covenant, agreement or warranty a default in whose performance is elsewhere in
this Section specifically dealt with or which has expressly been included in
this Indenture solely for the benefit of a series of Securities other than such
series) and
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continuance of such default for a period of 60 days after there has been given,
by registered or certified mail, to the Company and such Guarantor by the
Trustee or to the Company, such Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of not
less than a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series a written notice specifying such default and requiring it to be remedied
and stating that such notice is a "NOTICE OF DEFAULT" hereunder;
(d) default in the deposit of any sinking fund payment when and as due by
the terms of a Security of such series;
(e) the entry by a court having jurisdiction of a decree or order adjudging
the Company a bankrupt or insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect
of the Company under federal bankruptcy law or any other applicable federal or
state law, or appointing a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or of any substantial part
of its property, or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and
the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a period
of 60 consecutive days;
(f) the commencement by the Company of proceedings to be adjudicated a
bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the commencement of bankruptcy or
insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of a petition or answer
or consent seeking reorganization or relief under federal bankruptcy law or any
other applicable federal or state law, or the consent by it to the appointment
of or taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator or similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of
its property, or the making by it of a general assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or the admission by it in writing of its inability to pay its debts
generally as they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company
in furtherance of any such action; or
(g) any other Event of Default provided pursuant to Section 3.01 with
respect to Securities of such series.
SECTION 5.02. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT. If an
Event of Default 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 a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series may declare the principal amount of all the Securities
of such series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the
Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders), and upon any such declaration
such principal amount shall become immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with respect to
Securities of any series has been made and before the Stated Maturity thereof,
the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
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series, by written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul
such declaration and its consequences if:
(i) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest on and any Additional
Amounts with respect to all Securities of such series;
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any on) any Securities of
such series which have become due otherwise than by such declaration
of acceleration and interest thereon at the rate borne by the
Securities of such series and any Additional Amounts;
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest or Additional
Amounts is lawful, interest upon overdue interest or Additional
Amounts at the rate borne by the Securities of such series; and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel; and
(ii) all Events of Default with respect to the Securities of such
series, other than the non-payment of the principal of Securities of such
series which have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration,
have been cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.03. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE. The Company covenants that if:
(i) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Securities
when such interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for
a period of 30 days, or
(ii) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Securities at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable
on such Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest and, to the
extent that payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on
any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the
rate borne by
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the Securities and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee,
its agents and counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand, the
Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may institute a
judicial proceeding for the collection of the sum so due and unpaid, may
prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and may enforce the same
against the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities and collect the
moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided by law out of
the property of the Company or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series occurs and
is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce
its rights and the rights of the Holders of the Securities of such series by
such judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem appropriate to protect and
enforce any such rights, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted
herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 5.04. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM. In case of the pendency of
any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to
the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or the property of the
Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the Trustee (irrespective
of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be due and payable as
therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the
Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment of overdue
principal (and premium, if any) or interest or Additional Amounts) shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest and Additional Amounts owing and unpaid in
respect of the Securities and to file such other papers and documents as
may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee
(including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and of
the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or
other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by
each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
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shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to
the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee or to which it may become entitled under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 5.05. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF SECURITIES.
All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the Securities may be
prosecuted by the Trustee without the possession of any of the Securities or the
production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding
instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an
express trust and any recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the
payment of the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of
the Trustee, its agents and counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders
of the Securities in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 5.06. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED. Any money collected by the
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at the
date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such
money on account of principal (or premium, if any), interest or Additional
Amounts, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon of the
payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.07;
Second: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid for principal of
(and premium, if any), interest and Additional Amounts on the Securities in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal (and premium, if
any), interest and Additional Amounts, respectively; and
Third: To the payment of the remainder, if any, to the Company or any other
Person lawfully entitled thereto.
SECTION 5.07. LIMITATION ON SUITS. No Holder of any Security of any series
shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with
respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or
for any other remedy hereunder, unless:
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(i) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such
series;
(ii) the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have made written request
to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default
in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(iii) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee indemnity
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee against the costs, expenses and
liabilities to be incurred in compliance with such request;
(iv) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceedings; and
(v) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
It being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Securities shall
have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the right of any
other such Holders of Securities of such series, or to obtain or to seek to
obtain priority or preference over any other such Holders or to enforce any
right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal and ratable benefit of all such Holders of Securities.
SECTION 5.08. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF HOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM
AND INTEREST. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, the Holder
of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and unconditional, to
receive payment of the principal of (and premium, if any, on) and (subject to
Section 3.07) interest on, and any Additional Amounts with respect to, such
Security on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in
the case of redemption, on the Redemption Date) and to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment and such rights shall not be impaired without
the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 5.09. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. If the Trustee or any
Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under this
Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any reason,
or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then and in
every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
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SECTION 5.10. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. Except as otherwise provided
with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Securities in the last paragraph of Section 3.06, no right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended
to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other
right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in
equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.11. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER. No delay or omission of the
Trustee or of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy accruing upon any Event
of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of any
such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein. Every right and remedy given
by this Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 5.12. CONTROL BY HOLDERS. The Holders of not less than a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, PROVIDED that:
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture or with such Securities and the Trustee shall have been
offered reasonably acceptable indemnity as therein provided;
(ii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(iii) subject to Section 6.01, the Trustee need not take any action
which might be prejudicial to the Holders of such series not consenting.
SECTION 5.13. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS. The Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series may on
behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past
default hereunder with respect to such series and its consequences, except a
default:
(i) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series, or
(ii) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series affected.
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Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist with respect to
such series, and any Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have
been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.14. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS. All parties to this Indenture agree,
and each Holder of any Security by acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have
agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted 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 Company, to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any
suit instituted by any Holder, or group of Holders, holding in the aggregate
more than 10% in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series,
or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of the payment of
the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security on or after
the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 5.15. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS. Each of the Company and the
Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not
at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or at
any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the performance
of this Indenture; and each of the Company and the Guarantors (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of
any such law and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit
the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. (a) Except during the
continuance of an Event of Default,
(i) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties 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 its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness of
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the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to
the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture; but in
the case of any such 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) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and
use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his or her own
affairs.
(c) 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 willful misconduct; except that:
(i) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
Subsection (a) of this Section;
(ii) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(iii) 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 direction
of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series relating to the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series; and
(iv) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of this
Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or affording
protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this Section.
SECTION 6.02. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS. Within 90 days after the occurrence of
any default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as their
names and addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default
hereunder known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or
waived; PROVIDED,
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HOWEVER, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the principal
of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security, 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 Responsible
Officers of the Trustee in good faith determine that the withholding of such
notice is in the interest of the Holders of Securities of such series; and
PROVIDED, FURTHER, that in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 5.01(c) with respect to the Securities of such series no such notice to
Holders shall be given until at least 60 days after the occurrence thereof. For
the purpose of this Section, the term "DEFAULT" means any event which is, or
after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with
respect to Securities of such series.
SECTION 6.03. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. Subject to the provisions of
Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, note, other
evidence of indebtedness 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 or direction of the Company mentioned herein shall be
sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order and any resolution
of the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem
it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking, suffering
or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other evidence be herein
specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part, rely upon
an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel and the written advice of such
counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith
and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of
the Holders pursuant to this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered
to the Trustee indemnity reasonably acceptable to the Trustee against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which might be incurred by it;
(f) 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, direction, consent, order, bond, debenture,
note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but the
Trustee, in its
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discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or
matters as it may see fit; 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 or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by it
hereunder.
SECTION 6.04. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES. The
recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's
certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company,
and neither the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent assumes any responsibility
for their correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity
or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or the Guarantees, except
that the Trustee represents that it is duly authorized to execute and deliver
this Indenture, authenticate the Securities and perform its obligations
hereunder and that the statements made by it in a Statement of Eligibility and
Qualification on Form T 1 supplied to the Company are true and accurate, subject
to the qualifications set forth therein. The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of Securities
or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.05. MAY HOLD SECURITIES. The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent,
any Paying Agent, any Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in
its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Securities and, subject to Section 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company
with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent,
Paying Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 6.06. MONEY HELD IN TRUST. Except as otherwise expressly provided
herein, money held by the Trustee in trust hereunder need not be segregated from
other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee shall be under no
liability for interest on any money received by it hereunder except as otherwise
agreed with the Company.
SECTION 6.07. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. The Company agrees:
(i) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for all services rendered by it hereunder;
(ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision
of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith; and
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(iii) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against,
any loss, liability or expense, including reasonable expenses of counsel,
incurred without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of the trust or trusts
hereunder, including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any
claim or liability in connection with the exercise or performance of any of
its powers or duties hereunder, except to the extent that any such loss,
liability or expense was due to the Trustee's negligence or bad faith.
SECTION 6.08. INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.
SECTION 6.09. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY. (a) There shall at
all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall:
(i) be a Corporation organized and doing business under the laws of
the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers;
(ii) be eligible under Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to
act as trustee under an indenture qualified under the Trust Indenture Act;
and
(iii) have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority.
If such Corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of said 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. If at
any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and with
the effect hereinafter specified in this Article.
(b) The following Indenture shall be considered specifically described
herein for purposes of clause (i) of the proviso contained in Section 310(b)(1)
of the Trust Indenture Act: [ ]
SECTION 6.10. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR. (a) No
resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor Trustee
pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee in accordance with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the Securities of
one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the Company. If the
instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee required by Section 6.11 shall
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not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such
notice of resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the Securities
of any series by the Company or by Act of the Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series,
delivered to the Trustee, and to the Company in the case of an Act of the
Holders.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the obligations imposed
upon it under Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to
the Securities after written request therefor by the Company or by any
Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months;
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.09 and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company or by
any such Holder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver 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, (i) the Company may remove the Trustee with respect to
all Securities or the Securities of such series, or (ii) subject to Section
5.14, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at least six
months may, on behalf of such Holder and all others similarly situated, petition
any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect
to all Securities of such series and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of acting,
or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for any cause, with respect
to the Securities of one or more series, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor Trustee or Trustees with respect to the Securities of that or those
series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be appointed
with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series and that at
any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
particular series).
If, within one year after such resignation, removal or incapability, or the
occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of any series shall be appointed by Act of the Holders of 75% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series delivered to the Company and
the
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retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment in accordance with the applicable requirements of
Section 6.11, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
such series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
If no successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall
have been so appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in
the manner required by Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of such
Holder and all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each removal of
the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and each appointment of
a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series by mailing
written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all
Holders of Securities of such series as their names and addresses appear in the
Security Register. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate
Trust Office.
SECTION 6.11. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR. (a) In case of the
appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all Securities,
every successor Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and
deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee
shall become effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed
or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the
successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges,
execute and deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the
rights, powers and trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of
one or more series shall execute and deliver an indenture supplemental hereto
wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such appointment and which,
(i) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or
desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each successor
Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee
with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates,
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(ii) if the retiring Trustee is not retiring with respect to all
Securities, shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed necessary or
desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the
retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series as
to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue to be vested
in the retiring Trustee, and
(iii) 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 hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee.
Upon the execution and delivery of such supplemental indenture, the
resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the
extent provided therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further
act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or
those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on
request of the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall
duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and
money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of
that or those series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute
any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming
to such successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts referred to in
paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless at the time of
such a acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and eligible under
this Article.
SECTION 6.12. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO BUSINESS.
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 any Corporation
succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business of the
Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder, provided such
Corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article,
without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of
any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been authenticated,
but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor by merger,
conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt such
authentication and
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deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same effect as if such
successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
SECTION 6.13. PREFERENTIAL CLAIMS. Reference is made to Section 311 of the
Trust Indenture Act. For purposes of Section 311(b)(4) and (6) of such Act:
(i) "CASH TRANSACTION" means any transaction in which full payment
for goods or securities sold is made within seven days after delivery of
the goods or securities in currency or in checks or other orders drawn
upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand; and
(ii) "SELF-LIQUIDATING PAPER" means 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,
manufacturing, 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.
SECTION 6.14. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT. At any time when any of
the Securities remain Outstanding 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 issuance, exchange, registration of transfer or
partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 3.06, 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 the Indenture to the authentication and
delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, 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.
Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the Company and shall at
all times be a Corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia,
authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined
capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and subject to supervision or
examination by federal or state authority. If such Authenticating Agent
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of said supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes
of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent
shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most
recent report of condition
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so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating Agent
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in this
Section.
Any Corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any Corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any Corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, PROVIDED that such Corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving 30 days' 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, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of
such appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of
Securities of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will
serve, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any
successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder
shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provisions of this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating 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 6.07.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series 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 alternate
certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
, as Trustee
By:
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As Authenticating Agent
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By:
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE 7
HOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY TRUSTEE AND COMPANY
SECTION 7.01. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF HOLDERS.
The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee with respect to
the Securities of each series:
(i) semi-annually, not later than each Interest Payment Date for
such series (or, in the case of any series not having semi-annual Interest
Payment Dates, semi-annually, not later than the dates determined pursuant
to Section 3.01 for such series) a list, in such form as the Trustee may
reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of the
preceding Regular Record Date (or as of such other date determined pursuant
to Section 3.01 for such series) therefor, and
(ii) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within
30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the
time such list is furnished;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that so long as the Trustee is the Security Registrar no such
list shall be required to be furnished.
SECTION 7.02. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO HOLDERS. (a)
The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably practicable,
the names and addresses of Holders of the Securities of each series contained in
the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and
the names and addresses of such Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity
as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list of the Holders of
Securities of any series furnished to it as provided in Section 7.01 upon
receipt of a new list of such Holders.
(b) If three or more Holders of Securities of any series (herein referred
to as "APPLICANTS") apply in writing to the Trustee, and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security of such series
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 such series with respect to their rights under this
Indenture or under the Securities of such series and is accompanied by a copy of
the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Trustee
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shall, within five Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its
election, either:
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section 7.02(a) with respect to
the Securities of such series, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders
of Securities of such series whose names and addresses appear in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
7.02(a), and as to the approximate cost of mailing to such Holders the form
of proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such applicants,
mail to each Holder of Securities of such series whose name and address appear
in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with
Section 7.02(a) a copy of the form or 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, unless within five days after
such tender the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a written
statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such mailing would
be contrary to the best interest of the Holders or would be in violation of
applicable law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion.
If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing upon the objections specified
in the written statement so filed, shall enter an order refusing to sustain any
of such objections or if, after the entry of an order sustaining one or more of
such objections, the Commission shall find, after notice and opportunity for
hearing, that all the objections so sustained have been met and shall enter an
order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail copies of such material to all such
Holders with reasonable promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal
of such tender; otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or
duty to such applicants respecting their application.
(c) 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 either of them shall be held accountable by reason of the
disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the Holders
in accordance with Section 7.02(b), 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 Section 7.02(b).
SECTION 7.03. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE. (a) Within 60 days after May 1 of each
year commencing with the year _____, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Holders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief
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report dated as of such May 1, if any, as may be required by Section 313(a) of
the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange upon which any
Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The Company
will notify the Trustee when any Securities are listed on any stock exchange.
SECTION 7.04. REPORTS BY COMPANY.
(a) The Company shall 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 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; or, if the Company is not required
to file information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections,
then it shall 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 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) The Company shall 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 of this Indenture as
may be required from time to time by such rules and regulations; and
(c) The Company shall transmit by mail to all Holders, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, 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 paragraphs (a) and (b)
of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed from time
to time by the Commission.
ARTICLE 8
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE, TRANSFER OR LEASE
SECTION 8.01. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC. ON CERTAIN TERMS. The Company
shall not in a single transaction or a series of related transactions,
consolidate with or merge into any other Person or permit any other Person to
consolidate with or merge into the Company unless:
(a) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge into another
Corporation or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets as, or
substantially as, an entirety to any Person, the Corporation formed by such
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consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires
by conveyance, transfer, or lease the properties and assets of the Company, as,
or substantially as, an entirety shall be a Corporation organized and existing
under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the
District of Columbia and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto executed and delivered to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the
Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any),
interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to all the Securities and
the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the part of the Company
to be performed or observed;
(b) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, or event which after notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an
Event of Default, shall have occurred and be continuing; and
(c) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, stating that such consolidation, merger,
conveyance, transfer or lease and such supplemental indenture comply with this
Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such
transaction have been complied with.
SECTION 8.02. SUCCESSOR CORPORATION SUBSTITUTED. Upon any consolidation by
the Company with or merger by the Company into any other Corporation or any
conveyance, transfer or lease of the properties and assets of the Company as, or
substantially as, an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.01, the
successor Corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to,
and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company
under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Corporation has
been named as the Company herein, and thereafter, except in the case of a lease
to another Person, the predecessor Corporation shall be relieved of all
obligations and covenants under this Indenture and the Securities.
ARTICLE 9
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF HOLDERS. Without
the consent of any Holders, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee, at any
time and from time to time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or any
Guarantor and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of the
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Company or such Guarantor herein and in the Securities or such Guarantee, as the
case may be;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company or any Guarantor for the
benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and, if such
covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the
benefit of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred
upon the Company or any Guarantor;
(c) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to Securities of
any or all series;
(d) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this Indenture,
provided that any such change or elimination shall become effective only when
there is no Security Outstanding of any series created prior to the execution of
such supplemental indenture which is entitled to the benefit of such provision;
(e) to secure the Securities of any or all series;
(f) to add new Guarantors pursuant to Section 12.03;
(g) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision herein
which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture,
provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series in any material respect;
(h) to add to or change any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the issuance of Securities
in bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with or
without interest coupons;
(i) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series as
permitted by Sections 2.01 and 3.01;
(j) 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 one Trustee, pursuant to the requirements of Section 6.11(b);
(k) to add to, delete from or revise the conditions, limitations and
restrictions on the authorized amount, terms or purposes of issue,
authentication and delivery of Securities, as herein set forth;
(l) to supplement any of the provisions of this Indenture to such
extent as shall be necessary to permit or facilitate the defeasance and
discharge of any series of Securities pursuant to Article Thirteen, PROVIDED
that no such supplement
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shall materially adversely affect the interest of the Holders of any
Securities then Outstanding; or
(m) to amend or supplement any provision contained herein or in any
supplemental indenture, PROVIDED that no such amendment or supplement shall
materially adversely affect the interest of the Holders of any Securities then
Outstanding.
SECTION 9.02. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF HOLDERS. With the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental indenture,
by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee,
the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or
of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of Securities of such
series under this Indenture; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby,
(a) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any installment of
interest on, any such Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or any
interest thereon or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof, or reduce
the amount of the principal of an Original Issue Discount Security that would be
due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof
pursuant to Section 5.02, or change any Place of Payment where, or the currency
in which, any such Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable,
or impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on
or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on or after
the Redemption Date);
(b) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities
of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental indenture, or the consent of those Holders is required for any
waiver (of compliance with certain provisions of this Indenture or certain
defaults hereunder and their consequences) provided for in this Indenture; or
(c) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 5.13, except to
increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of this
Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or other
provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for the
benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies the
rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such covenant
or the provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this Indenture
of the Holders of Securities or any other series.
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It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it shall
be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 9.03. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this
Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section
6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating
that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by
this Indenture. The Trustee may, but 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.
SECTION 9.04. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be modified in
accordance therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this
Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or
thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
SECTION 9.05. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. Every supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of
the Trust Indenture Act as then in effect.
SECTION 9.06. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities of any series authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Trustee, bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the
Trustee and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in
exchange for Outstanding Securities of such series.
ARTICLE 10
COVENANTS
SECTION 10.01. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, ANY PREMIUM, INTEREST AND ADDITIONAL
AMOUNTS. The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders of each
series of Securities that it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on and any Additional Amounts with respect to the
Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities and
this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. The Company will maintain
in each Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency
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where Securities of such series may be presented or surrendered for registration
or transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities of such series and this Indenture may be served. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the location, and any
change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to
furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders,
notices and demands may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the
Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all
such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
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 each Place of Payment for Securities of any series for such purposes. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
or rescission and of any change in the location of any such other office or
agency.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities pursuant to
Section 3.01, if and so long as the Securities of any series (i) are denominated
in a Foreign Currency or (ii) may be payable in a Foreign Currency, or so long
as it is required under any other provision of this Indenture, then the Company
will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required,
at least one exchange rate agent.
SECTION 10.03. MONEY FOR SECURITIES PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST. If the
Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent with respect to any series
of Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of such series, segregate
and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming
due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure so
to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any series of
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Securities of such series, deposit with a
Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (or premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal, premium or interest, and (unless such Paying
Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its action
or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of Securities other
than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which
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such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions of
this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(i) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest on Securities of such series in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be
paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(ii) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of such series) in the making of any
payment of principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on the Securities
of such series; and
(iii) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the satisfaction
and discharge of this Indenture or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company
Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in trust by
the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the
same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or such
Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such
Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with respect to such
money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or received by
the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of Section 6.09) in
respect of Government Obligations deposited with the Trustee (or such other
trustee) pursuant to Section 13.04, or then held by the Company, in trust for
the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any
Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years after such
principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and payable shall be
paid to the Company on Company Request, or (if then held by the Company) shall
be discharged from such trust. The Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as
an unsecured general creditor, look only to the Company for payment thereof, and
all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease.
The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such
repayment, may publish, in the English language, in a newspaper customarily
published on each Business Day and of general circulation in the City of
New
York,
New York, or to be mailed to such Holder, or both, notice that such money
remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified therein, which shall not be
less than 30 days from the earlier of the date of such publication or such
mailing, any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to
the Company.
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SECTION 10.04. CORPORATE EXISTENCE. Subject to Article Eight, 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 foregoing shall not obligate the Company
to preserve any such right or franchise if the Company shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no longer desirable in the conduct of its business and
that the loss thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to any
Holder.
SECTION 10.05. STATEMENT AS TO DEFAULT. The Company will deliver to the
Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, an Officers'
Certificate, stating as to the signer thereof that he or she is familiar with
the affairs of the Company and whether or not to such officer's knowledge the
Company is in compliance (without regard to any period of grace or requirement
of notice) with all conditions and covenants of this Indenture. The officer
executing such certificate shall be the Company's principal executive, finance
or accounting officer and such certificate need not comply with Section 1.02 of
this Indenture.
SECTION 10.06. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS. If any Securities of a series provide
for the payment of Additional Amounts, the Company agrees to pay to the Holder
of any such Security Additional Amounts as provided in or pursuant to this
Indenture or such Securities. Whenever in this Indenture there is mentioned, in
any context, the payment of the principal of or any premium or interest on, or
in respect of, any Security of any series 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 by the terms of
such series established hereby or pursuant hereto to the extent that, in such
context, Additional Amounts are, were or would be payable in respect thereof
pursuant to such terms, and express mention of the payment of Additional Amounts
(if applicable) in any provision hereof shall not be construed as excluding
Additional Amounts in those provisions hereof where such express mention is not
made.
Except as otherwise provided in or pursuant to this Indenture or the
Securities of the applicable series, 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 such series of Securities (or if the Securities of
such series shall 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 or interest if there has been any change with respect to
the matters set forth in the below-mentioned Officers' Certificate, the Company
shall furnish to the Trustee and the Paying Agent, if other than the Trustee, an
Officers' Certificate instructing the Trustee and such Paying Agent whether such
payment of principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Securities of
such series shall be made to Holders of Securities of such series who are United
States aliens without withholding for or on account of any tax, assessment or
other governmental charge described in the Securities of such series. If any
such withholding shall be required, then such Officers' Certificate shall
specify by country the amount, if any, required to be withheld on such payments
to such Holders of Securities, and
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the Company agrees to pay to the Trustee or such Paying Agent the Additional
Amounts required by the terms of such Securities.
ARTICLE 11
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 11.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. Securities of any series which are
redeemable before their Stated Maturity shall be redeemable in accordance with
their terms and (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.01 for
Securities of any series) in accordance with this Article Eleven.
SECTION 11.02. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE. In case of any
redemption of less than all the Securities of any series, the Company shall, at
least 60 days prior to the Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a
shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such
Redemption Date and of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In
the case of any redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any
restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an
Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance with such restriction.
SECTION 11.03. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED. If less
than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all of the
Securities of a specified tenor are to be redeemed), the particular Securities
to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption
Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series subject to
such redemption and not previously called for redemption, by such method as the
Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection
for redemption of portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for
Securities of that series and tenor or any integral multiple thereof) of the
principal amount of Securities of such series of a denomination larger than the
minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series. If less than all
of the Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed,
the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more than 45 days
prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of
such series and specified tenor not previously called for redemption in
accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities
selected for redemption and, in the case of any Securities 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 shall relate, in the
case of any Securities redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion
of the principal amount of such Securities which has been or is to be redeemed.
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SECTION 11.04. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption shall be given by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days
prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed.
Failure to give notice by mailing in the manner herein provided to the Holder of
any Securities designated for redemption as a whole or in part, or any defect in
the notice to any such Holder, shall not affect the validity of the proceedings
for the redemption of any other Securities or portion thereof.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(i) the Redemption Date;
(ii) the Redemption Price;
(iii) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of any series and
tenor are to be redeemed, the identification (and, in the case of partial
redemption, the principal amounts) of the particular Securities to be
redeemed;
(iv) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become
due and payable upon each such Security to be redeemed and that interest
thereon will cease to accrue on and after said date;
(v) the place or places where such Securities are to be surrendered
for payment of the Redemption Price;
(vi) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the case;
(vii) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, that on
and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder
of such Security will receive, without charge, a new Security or Securities
of authorized denominations for the principal amount thereof remaining
unredeemed; and
(viii) the CUSIP Number or the Euroclear or the Clearstream reference
numbers of such Securities, if any (or any other numbers used by a
Depository to identify such Securities).
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be given by the
Company or, on Company Request, by the Trustee at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 11.05. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE. On or before any Redemption
Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if
the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as
provided in Section 10.03) an amount of money sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, and (except if the Redemption Date shall be an Interest
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Payment Date) accrued interest on, all the Securities which are to be redeemed
on that date.
SECTION 11.06. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE. Notice of redemption
having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed shall, on the
Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price therein
specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default in the
payment of the Redemption Price) such Securities shall cease to bear interest.
Upon surrender of any such Security for redemption in accordance with said
notice, such Security shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption Price,
together with accrued interest to the Redemption Date; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
installments of interest whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption
Date shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more
Predecessor Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the
relevant Regular or Special Record Dates according to their terms and the
provisions of Section 3.07.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon surrender
thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any) shall, until paid,
bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security.
SECTION 11.07. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART. Any Security which is to be
redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at an office or agency of the Company
at a Place of Payment therefor (with, if the Company or the Trustee so requires,
due endorsement by, or a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Trustee duly executed by, the Holder thereof or the Holder's
attorney duly authorized in writing), and the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder of such Security without
service charge, a new Security or Securities of the same series and of like
tenor of any authorized denomination as requested by such Holder, in aggregate
principal amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the
principal of the Security so surrendered.
If a Global Security is so surrendered, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Depository, without service
charge, a new Global Security in a denomination equal to and in exchange for the
unredeemed portion of the principal of the Global Security so surrendered.
ARTICLE 12
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 12.01. UNCONDITIONAL GUARANTEE. Each of the Guarantors hereby fully
and unconditionally, jointly and severally, guarantees to each Holder of a
Security authenticated and delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its
successors and assigns, irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this
Indenture, the Securities or the obligations of the Company to the Holders or
the
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Trustee hereunder or thereunder, that: (a) the principal of, premium, if any,
and interest on the Securities will be duly and punctually paid in full when
due, whether at maturity, upon redemption, by acceleration or otherwise, and
interest on the overdue principal and (to the extent permitted by law) interest,
if any, on the Securities and all other obligations of the Company or the
Guarantors to the Holders or the Trustee hereunder or thereunder (including
fees, expenses or other) and all other obligations under the Indenture or the
Securities will be promptly paid in full or performed, all in accordance with
the terms hereof and thereof; and (b) in case of any extension of time of
payment or renewal of any Securities or any of such other obligations under the
Indenture or the Securities or any change in the time, manner or place of
payment of, or in any other term in respect thereof, or waiver of or consent to
any departure from any other agreement relating to any obligations under the
Indenture or the Securities, the same will be promptly paid in full when due or
performed in accordance with the terms of the extension or renewal, whether at
Stated Maturity, by acceleration or otherwise. Failing payment when due of any
amount so guaranteed, or failing performance of any other obligation of the
Company to the Holders, for whatever reason, the Guarantors shall be obligated
to pay, or to perform or cause the performance of, the same immediately. An
Event of Default under this Indenture or the Securities shall constitute an
event of default under this Guarantee and shall entitle the Holders of
Securities to accelerate the obligations of the Guarantors hereunder in the same
manner and to the same extent as the obligations of the Company.
The Guarantors hereby agree that their obligations hereunder shall be
absolute and unconditional, not subject to any reduction, limitation,
impairment, termination, defense, offset, counterclaim or recoupment whatsoever
(all of which are expressly hereby waived by the Guarantors) whether by reason
of any claim of any character whatsoever, including, without limitation, any
claim of waiver, release, surrender, alteration or compromise, or by reason of
any liability at any time to any Guarantor or otherwise, whether based upon any
obligations or any other agreement or otherwise, and howsoever arising, whether
out of action or inaction or otherwise and whether resulting from default,
willful misconduct, negligence or otherwise, and without limiting the foregoing,
irrespective of the validity, regularity or enforceability of the Securities or
this Indenture, the absence of any action to enforce the same, any waiver or
consent by any Holder of the Securities with respect to any provisions hereof or
thereof, the recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce
the same, any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to any departure from
or failure to enforce any other guarantee, for all or any of the Securities or
other obligations under this Indenture, whether or not a Guarantee is affixed to
any particular Security, any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or
dissolution, or any other proceeding of the Company, or any Guarantor,
including, without limitation, rejection of any Guarantee in such bankruptcy, or
any other circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable
discharge or defense of a guarantor.
Each Guarantor hereby waives the benefit of diligence, presentment, demand
of payment, filing of claims with a court in the event of insolvency or
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bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require a proceeding first against the
Company, protest, notice and all demands whatsoever and covenants that its
Guarantee shall not be discharged except by complete performance of the
obligations contained in the Securities, this Indenture and this Guarantee. This
Guarantee is a guarantee of payment and not of collection. If any Holder or the
Trustee is required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company or to the
Guarantors, or any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official
acting in relation to the Company or any Guarantor, any amount paid by the
Company or any Guarantor to the Trustee or such Holder, this Guarantee to the
extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between it, on the one hand, and the
Holders of Securities and the Trustee, on the other hand (a) subject to this
Article Twelve, the maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be
accelerated as provided in Article Five hereof for the purposes of this
Guarantee, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing
such acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby, and (b) in
the event of any acceleration of such obligations as provided in Article Five
hereof, such obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become
due and payable by the Guarantors for the purpose of this Guarantee.
SECTION 12.02. EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF GUARANTEE. To further evidence the
Guarantee set forth in Section 12.01, each Guarantor hereby agrees that a
notation of such Guarantee shall be endorsed on each Security authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and executed by either manual or facsimile signature of
an officer of such Guarantor.
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in Section 12.01
shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on
each Security a notation of such Guarantee.
If an officer of a Guarantor whose signature is on this Indenture or a
Guarantee no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee authenticates such
Security or at any time thereafter, such Guarantor's Guarantee of such Security
shall be valid nevertheless.
The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the authentication
thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee set forth in
this Indenture on behalf of the Guarantors.
SECTION 12.03. ADDITIONAL GUARANTORS. The Company and the Guarantors
covenant and agree that they shall cause each Person that is or becomes a
Guarantor hereunder to execute and deliver to the Trustee an indenture
supplemental hereto, substantially in the form of Schedule III attached hereto,
evidencing the same.
SECTION 12.04. RELEASE OF A GUARANTOR. Upon the sale, exchange, transfer or
other disposition (by merger or otherwise), other than a lease, of a Guarantor,
or of all of the Capital Stock of a Guarantor, or all, or substantially all,
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the assets of a Guarantor, to any Person that is not an Affiliate of the
Company, such Guarantor shall be deemed to be automatically and unconditionally
released and discharged from all its obligations under its Guarantee and under
this Article Twelve without any further action required on the part of the
Trustee or any Holder. The Trustee shall deliver an appropriate instrument
evidencing such release upon receipt of a request of the Company accompanied by
an Officers' Certificate certifying as to the compliance with this Section
12.04.
SECTION 12.05. WAIVER OF SUBROGATION. Until this Indenture is discharged
and all of the Securities are discharged and paid in full, each Guarantor hereby
irrevocably waives and agrees not to exercise any claim or other rights which it
may now or hereafter acquire against the Company that arise from the existence,
payment, performance or enforcement of the Company's obligations under the
Securities or this Indenture and such Guarantor's obligations under this
Guarantee and this Indenture, in any such instance including, without
limitation, any right of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution,
indemnification, and any right to participate in any claim or remedy against the
Company, whether or not such claim, remedy or right arises in equity, or under
contract, statute or common law, including, without limitation, the right to
take or receive from the Company, directly or indirectly, in cash or other
property or by set-off or in any other manner, payment or security on account of
such claim or other rights. If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor in
violation of the preceding sentence and any amounts owing to the Trustee or the
Holders of Securities under the Securities, this Indenture, or any other
document or instrument delivered under or in connection with such agreements or
instruments, shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall have been
deemed to have been paid to such Guarantor for the benefit of, and held in the
trust for the benefit of, the Holders of the Securities, and shall forthwith be
paid to the Trustee for the benefit of such Holders to be credited and applied
to the Securities, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance with the terms of
this Indenture. Each Guarantor acknowledges that it will receive direct and
indirect benefits from the financing arrangements contemplated by this Indenture
and that the waiver set forth in this Section 12.05 is knowingly made in
contemplation of such benefits.
SECTION 12.06. RELIANCE ON JUDICIAL ORDER OR CERTIFICATE OF LIQUIDATING
AGENT REGARDING DISSOLUTION, ETC. OF GUARANTORS. Upon any payment or
distribution of assets of any Guarantor referred to in this Article Twelve, the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, and the Holders, shall be
entitled to rely upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent
jurisdiction in which such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation,
reorganization, dissolution, winding-up or similar case or proceeding is
pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating
trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other person
making such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the Holders,
for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or
amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to
this Article Twelve.
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SECTION 12.07. LIMITATION OF GUARANTOR'S LIABILITY. Notwithstanding any
other provision hereof, each Guarantor, and by its acceptance hereof each
Holder, hereby confirms that it is the intention of all such parties that the
Guarantee by such Guarantor pursuant to its Guarantee does not constitute a
fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes of Title 11 of the United States
Code, as amended, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform Fraudulent
Transfer Act or any similar federal, state or foreign law. To effectuate the
foregoing intention, each Holder and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably agree
that the obligations of such Guarantor under this Guarantee shall be limited to
the maximum amount which, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed
liabilities of such Guarantor, will result in the obligations of the Guarantor
under its Guarantee not constituting such fraudulent transfer or conveyance.
SECTION 12.08. OBLIGATIONS REINSTATED. The obligations of each Guarantor
hereunder shall continue to be effective or shall be reinstated, as the case may
be, if at any time any payment which would otherwise have reduced the
obligations of such Guarantor hereunder (whether such payment shall have been
made by or on behalf of the Company) is rescinded or reclaimed from any of the
Holders upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company or such Guarantor or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been
made. If demand for, or acceleration of the time for, payment by the Company is
stayed upon the insolvency, bankruptcy, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, all such Indebtedness otherwise subject to demand for payment or
acceleration shall nonetheless be payable by each Guarantor as provided herein.
SECTION 12.09. NO OBLIGATION TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST THE COMPANY. Neither
the Trustee nor any other Person shall have any obligation to enforce or exhaust
any rights or remedies or to take any other steps under any security for the
obligations under this Indenture or against the Company or any other Person or
any property of the Company or any other Person before the Trustee is entitled
to demand payment and performance by any Guarantor of its liabilities and
obligations under its Guarantee or under this Indenture.
ARTICLE 13
DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 13.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE; COMPANY'S OPTION TO EFFECT
DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE. If pursuant to Section 3.01 provision is made
for either or both of (a) defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section
13.02 or (b) covenant defeasance of the Securities of a series under Section
13.03 to apply to Securities of any series, then the provisions of such Section
or Sections, as the case may be, together with the other provisions of this
Article Thirteen, shall be applicable to the Securities of such series, and the
Company may at its option, at any time, with respect to the Securities of such
series, elect to have either Section 13.02 (if applicable) or Section 13.03 (if
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applicable) be applied to the Outstanding Securities of such series upon
compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article Thirteen.
SECTION 13.02. DEFEASANCE AND DISCHARGE. Upon the Company's exercise of the
above option applicable to this Section, the Company and the Guarantors shall be
deemed to have been discharged from their obligations with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of such series on the date the conditions set forth below
are satisfied (hereinafter, "DEFEASANCE").
For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to
have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by the Outstanding
Securities of such series and to have satisfied all its other obligations under
such Securities and this Indenture insofar as such Securities are concerned (and
the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder:
(a) the rights of Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series to
receive, solely from the trust fund described in Section 13.04 and as more fully
set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest, if any, on and Additional Amounts, if any, with respect
to, such Securities when such payments are due;
(b) the Company's obligations with respect to such Securities under
Sections 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 6.07, 10.02, 10.03 and 10.06 (but only to the extent
that any Additional Amounts payable exceed the amount deposited in respect of
such Additional Amounts pursuant to Section 13.04(a) below);
(c) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities and other provisions
in respect of the Trustee hereunder; and
(d) this Article Thirteen.
Subject to compliance with this Article Thirteen, the Company may exercise
its option under this Section 13.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise of its
option under Section 13.03 with respect to the Securities of such series.
SECTION 13.03. COVENANT DEFEASANCE. Upon the Company's exercise of the
above option applicable to this Section, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Sections 8.01, 10.05, 12.05, 5.01(c) (as to Sections 8.01 and
10.05), 5.01(e), 5.01(f) and 5.01(g) (if Section 5.01(g) is specified as
applicable to the Securities of such series) with respect to the Outstanding
Securities of such series on and after the date the conditions set forth below
are satisfied (hereinafter, "COVENANT DEFEASANCE").
For this purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to the
Outstanding Securities of such series, the Company and the Guarantors may omit
to comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or
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limitation set forth in any such Section, whether directly or indirectly by
reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or by reason of any
reference in any such Section to any other provision herein or in any other
document, but the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities shall be
unaffected thereby. Following a covenant defeasance, payment of the Securities
of such series may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default specified
above in this Section 13.03.
SECTION 13.04. CONDITIONS TO DEFEASANCE OR COVENANT DEFEASANCE. The
following shall be the conditions to application of either Section 13.02 or
Section 13.03 to the Outstanding Securities of such series.
(a) The Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 6.09 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article
Thirteen applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making
the following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated
solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (A) an amount in
Dollars or in such Foreign Currency in which such Securities are then
specified as payable at Stated Maturity, or (B) Government Obligations which
through the scheduled payment of principal and interest in respect thereof in
accordance with their terms will provide, within two weeks of the due date of
any payment, money in an amount, or (C) a combination thereof, sufficient,
without reinvestment, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of
independent public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof
delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge, and which shall be applied by
the Trustee (or other qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge, (i) the
principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any, on and any
Additional Amounts with respect to the Outstanding Securities of such series
on the Stated Maturity of such principal or installments of principal or
interest and (ii) any mandatory sinking fund payments or analogous payments
applicable to the Outstanding Securities of such series on the day on which
such payments are due and payable in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture and of such Securities. Before such a deposit, the Company may make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of any series of
Securities at a future date in accordance with any redemption provisions
contained in the supplemental indenture relating to such series, which shall
be given effect in applying the foregoing.
(b) No Event of Default or event with which notice of lapse of time or
both would become an Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such
series shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit and,
with respect to defeasance only, at any time during the period ending on the
123rd day after the date of such deposit (it being understood that this
condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period).
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(c) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause the Trustee
for the Securities of such series to have a conflicting interest for purposes
of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to any securities of the Company.
(d) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall 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.
(e) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not cause any
Securities of such series then listed on any registered national securities
exchange under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, to be deleted.
(f) In the case of an election under Section 13.02, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel stating that (x) the
Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal
Revenue Service a ruling, or (y) since the date of this Indenture there has
been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case to the
effect that, and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders
of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain
or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and
will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner
and at the same times as would have been the case if such defeasance had not
occurred.
(g) In the case of an election under Section 13.03, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series will not recognize
income, gain or loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such
covenant defeasance and will be subject to federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case
if such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(h) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected in
compliance with any additional terms, conditions or limitations which may be
imposed on the Company in connection therewith pursuant to Section 3.01.
(i) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel, stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in the Indenture relating to either the defeasance under Section
13.02 or the covenant defeasance under Section 13.03 (as the case may be)
have been complied with.
SECTION 13.05. DEPOSITED MONEY AND GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS TO BE HELD IN
TRUST; OTHER MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS. Subject to the provisions of the last two
paragraphs of Section 10.03, all money and Government Obligations (including the
proceeds thereof) deposited with the Trustee (or other qualifying
trustee--collectively, for purposes of this Section, the "TRUSTEE") pursuant to
Section 13.04 in respect of the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be
held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of
such
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Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any
Paying Agent (but not including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as
the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities, of all sums due
and to become due thereon in respect of principal (and premium, if any) and
interest and Additional Amounts, if any, but such money need not be segregated
from other funds except to the extent required by law.
Unless otherwise specified in or pursuant to this Indenture or any
Security, if after a deposit referred in Section 13.02 has been made, (a) a
Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was made is entitled to,
and does, elect pursuant to Section 3.01 or the terms of such Security to
receive payment in a Currency other than that in which the deposit pursuant to
Section 13.02 has been made in respect of such Security, or (b) a Conversion
Event occurs in respect of the Foreign Currency in which the deposit pursuant to
Section 13.02 has been made, the indebtedness represented by such Security shall
be deemed to have been, and will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any), and interest, if any, on and
Additional Amounts, if any, with respect to, such Security as the same becomes
due out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified
below in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited
in respect of such Security into the Currency in which such Security becomes
payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based on (x) in the
case of payments made pursuant to clause (a) above, the applicable market
exchange rate for such Currency in effect on the second Business Day prior to
each payment date, or (y) with respect to a Conversion Event, the applicable
market exchange rate for such Foreign Currency in effect (as nearly as feasible)
at the time of the Conversion Event.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the Government Obligations deposited
pursuant to Section 13.04 or the principal and interest received in respect
thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for the
account of the Holders of the Outstanding Securities of such series.
Anything in this Article Thirteen to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon Company
Request any money or Government Obligations held by it as provided in Section
13.04 which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent
public accountants expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the
Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof which would then be required to be
deposited to effect an equivalent defeasance or covenant defeasance.
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ARTICLE 14
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 14.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The provisions of this Article
Fourteen shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of a series, except as otherwise permitted or required in or pursuant
to this Indenture or any Security of such series issued pursuant to this
Indenture.
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 such series is herein referred to as an "OPTIONAL SINKING
FUND PAYMENT." If provided for by the terms of Securities of any series, the
cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided
in Section 14.02. Each sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption
of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of Securities of such
series and this Indenture.
SECTION 14.02. SATISFACTION OF SINKING FUND PAYMENTS WITH SECURITIES. The
Company may (a) deliver Outstanding Securities of a series (other than any of
such Securities previously called for redemption) and (b) apply as a credit
Securities of such series which have been redeemed either at the election of the
Company pursuant to the terms of such series of Securities, or through the
application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms of
such Securities, in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking
fund payment required to be made pursuant to the terms of such Securities, as
provided by the terms of such Securities, PROVIDED that such Securities have not
been previously so credited. Such Securities shall be received and credited for
such purpose by the Trustee at the Redemption Price specified in such Securities
for redemption through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such
required sinking fund payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 14.03. REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES FOR SINKING FUND. Not less than 75
days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of Securities, the
Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate specifying the
amount of the next ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment for such series
pursuant to the terms of such series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 14.02, and the optional amount, if any, to be added in cash to the next
ensuing mandatory sinking fund payment, and will also deliver to the Trustee any
Securities to be so delivered. Not less than 45 days prior to each such sinking
fund payment date, the Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon
such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in Section 11.03 and
cause notice of the redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the
expense of the Company in the manner provided in Section 11.04. Such notice
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having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the
terms and in the manner stated in Sections 11.06 and 11.07.
ARTICLE 15
SECURITIES IN FOREIGN CURRENCIES
SECTION 15.01. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. Whenever this Indenture provides
for (i) any action by, or the determination of any of the rights of, Holders of
Securities of any series in which not all of such Securities are denominated in
the same Currency, or (ii) any distribution to Holders of Securities, in the
absence of any provision to the contrary in this Indenture or the Securities,
any amount in respect of any Security denominated in a Currency other than
Dollars shall be treated for any such action or distribution as that amount of
Dollars that could be obtained for such amount on such reasonable basis of
exchange and as of the record date with respect to Securities of such series (if
any) for such action, determination of rights or distribution (or, if there
shall be no applicable record date, such other date reasonably proximate to the
date of such action, determination of rights or distribution) as the Company may
specify in a written notice to the Trustee or, in the absence of such written
notice, as the Trustee may determine.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
FEDEX CORPORATION, as Issuer
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX CUSTOM CRITICAL, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
VIKING FREIGHT, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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XXXXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX LTD., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS JAPAN K.K., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX TRADE NETWORKS, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
TOWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
TOWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL
CANADA INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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CARIBBEAN TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
WORLD TARIFF, LIMITED, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM,
LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDEX FREIGHT CORPORATION, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
AMERICAN FREIGHTWAYS, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS AVIATION
SERVICES, INCORPORATED, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS (AUSTRALIA)
PTY LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL
(FRANCE) SNC, as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS (SINGAPORE)
PTE. LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC. &
CO., V.O.F./S.N.C., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS
(MEXICO) Y COMPANIA S.N.C. DE
C.V., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
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Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS S.A.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS
INTERNATIONAL, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS PACIFIC, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS VIRGIN
ISLANDS, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
_____________________, as Trustee
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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SCHEDULE I
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTORS
American Freightways, Inc.
Caribbean Transportation Services, Inc.
Federal Express Corporation
Federal Express (Australia) Pty Ltd.
Federal Express Aviation Services, Incorporated
Federal Express Canada Ltd.
Federal Express Europe, Inc.
Federal Express Europe, Inc. & Co., V.O.F./S.N.C.
Federal Express Holdings S.A.
Federal Express Holdings (Mexico) y Compania S.N.C. de C.V.
Federal Express International (France) SNC
Federal Express International, Inc.
Federal Express Japan K.K.
Federal Express Pacific, Inc.
Federal Express (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
Federal Express Virgin Islands, Inc.
FedEx Corporate Services, Inc.
FedEx Custom Critical, Inc.
FedEx Freight Corporation
FedEx Freight System, Inc.
FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
FedEx Ground Package System, Ltd.
FedEx Supply Chain Services, Inc.
FedEx Trade Networks, Inc.
Tower Group International, Inc.
Tower Group International Canada Inc.
Viking Freight, Inc.
World Tariff, Limited
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SCHEDULE II
FEDEX CORPORATION, as Issuer,
THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN
AND
---------------------------,
as Trustee
Supplemental Indenture
No. __
Dated as of _____________, ____
___% Notes due __________________, ______
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. ___, dated as of __________, _____ among
FedEx
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), the Guarantors referred to
in the Indenture defined below and _____________________, as Trustee (the
"TRUSTEE").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have executed and
delivered an Indenture dated as of _______________, as amended or supplemented
(the "INDENTURE"), to provide for the issuance from time to time of the
Company's Securities;
WHEREAS, Sections 2.01 and 3.01 of the Indenture provide that the form and
terms of Securities of any series may be established pursuant to an indenture
supplemental to the Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all things necessary to make the Securities, when executed by the
Company and authenticated and delivered hereunder and under the Indenture, duly
issued by the Company and all acts and proceedings required by law, the
Indenture and the organizational documents of the Company and the Guarantors
necessary to constitute this Supplemental Indenture No. __ a valid and binding
agreement for the uses and purposes set forth herein have been done and
performed, and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture No. __
have in all respects been duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities
by the holders hereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and
proportionate benefit of the holders of the Securities of the series hereby
established, as follows:
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ARTICLE 1
RELATION TO THE INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL
APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. RELATION TO THE INDENTURE. This Supplemental Indenture
No. ___ constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.
SECTION 1.02. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION. For
all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. ___ unless otherwise specified
herein:
(a) all terms defined in this Indenture which are used and not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meanings they are given in the Indenture; and
(b) the provisions of general application stated in Section 1.01 of the
Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture No. __, except that the
words "HEREIN," "HEREOF," "HERETO" and "HEREUNDER" and other words of similar
import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to the Indenture
or any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of the Indenture or this
Supplemental Indenture No. ___.
ARTICLE 2
THE SERIES OF NOTES
SECTION 2.01. TITLE. There shall be a series of Securities designated the
"___% Notes due __________, ____" (the "NOTES").
SECTION 2.02. PRINCIPAL AMOUNT. The aggregate principal amount of the Notes
which may be authenticated and delivered under this Supplemental Indenture shall
not exceed $__________ (except for Notes which may be authenticated and
delivered upon registration of transfer of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of,
other Notes pursuant to Section 3.04, 3.05, 3.06, 9.06 or 11.07 of the
Indenture).
SECTION 2.03. MATURITY. The date on which the principal of the Notes shall
be payable shall be __________.
SECTION 2.04. INTEREST. [The Notes shall bear interest at the rate of [ ]%
per annum. Interest shall accrue from __________, _____ or from the most recent
Interest Payment Date to which interest has been paid or provided for. Accrued
interest shall be payable on _________, _____ and on each _____ and _____
thereafter, to the persons in whose names the Notes are registered at the close
of business on the preceding _____ or _____, as the case may be.]
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[Insert other interest provisions if necessary]
SECTION 2.05. PLACE OF PAYMENT. [The Place of Payment for the Notes shall
be the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or such other office of the Paying
Agent as the Paying Agent may reasonably request by notice to the Company and
the Trustee (if the Paying Agent is not the Trustee).]
SECTION 2.06. REDEMPTION. [Insert redemption terms] The provisions of
Article Thirteen of the Indenture [shall/shall not] apply to the Notes.
SECTION 2.07. INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK.
SECTION 2.08. FORM OF NOTES. The Notes shall be in the form of Exhibit A
attached hereto.
SECTION 2.09. CURRENCY. [Insert currency terms.]
SECTION 2.10. SINKING FUND. [Insert sinking fund terms.]
SECTION 2.11. ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS. The provisions of Section 10.06 of the
Indenture [shall/shall not] apply to the Notes.
SECTION 2.12. CONVERSION OR EXCHANGE. [Insert conversion or exchange
terms.]
ARTICLE 3
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 3.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. The Indenture, as supplemented and
amended by this Supplemental Indenture No. __, is in all respects hereby
adopted, ratified and confirmed.
SECTION 3.02. EFFECTIVENESS. This Supplemental Indenture No. __ shall take
effect as of the date hereof.
SECTION 3.03. GOVERNING LAW. This Supplemental Indenture No. __ shall be
deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of
New York, and for
all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of said State.
SECTION 3.04. COUNTERPARTS. This Supplemental Indenture No. __ 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture No. __ to be duly executed, as of the day and year first written
above.
FEDEX CORPORATION, as Issuer
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX CUSTOM CRITICAL, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
VIKING FREIGHT, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS CANADA LTD., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS JAPAN K.K., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX TRADE NETWORKS, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
TOWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
TOWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL
CANADA INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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CARIBBEAN TRANSPORTATION
SERVICES, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
WORLD TARIFF, LIMITED, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM,
LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDEX FREIGHT CORPORATION, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
AMERICAN FREIGHTWAYS, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS AVIATION
SERVICES, INCORPORATED, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS (AUSTRALIA)
PTY LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL
(FRANCE) SNC, as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS (SINGAPORE)
PTE. LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC. &
CO., V.O.F./S.N.C., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS
(MEXICO) Y COMPANIA S.N.C. DE
C.V., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS S.A.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS
INTERNATIONAL, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS PACIFIC, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS VIRGIN
ISLANDS, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
_____________________, as Trustee
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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SCHEDULE III
FEDEX CORPORATION, as Issuer
THE GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN,
THE ADDITIONAL GUARANTOR NAMED HEREIN
AND
---------------------,
as Trustee
Supplemental Indenture
No. __
Dated as of _____________, ______
___% Notes due __________________, ______
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE NO. ___, dated as of __________, _____ among FedEx
Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY"), the Guarantors referred to
in the Indenture defined below, ________________ (the "ADDITIONAL GUARANTOR")
and ________________, as Trustee (the "TRUSTEE").
RECITALS
WHEREAS, the Company, the Guarantors and the Trustee have executed and
delivered an Indenture dated as of _______________, as amended or supplemented
(the "INDENTURE"), to provide for the issuance from time to time of the
Company's Securities;
WHEREAS, Section 12.03 of the Indenture provides that each Person who
becomes a Guarantor shall execute a supplemental indenture evidencing the same;
WHEREAS, the Additional Guarantor desires to become a Guarantor under the
Indenture; and
WHEREAS, all acts and proceedings required by law, the Indenture and the
organizational documents of the Company, the Guarantors and the Additional
Guarantor necessary to constitute this Supplemental Indenture No. __ a valid and
binding agreement for the uses and purposes set forth herein have been done and
performed, and the execution and delivery of this Supplemental Indenture No. __
have in all respects been duly authorized.
NOW, THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and good and valuable
consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, it is mutually
covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate benefit of the holders of
the Securities of each series, as follows:
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ARTICLE 1
RELATION TO THE INDENTURE; DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL
APPLICATION
SECTION 1.01. RELATION TO THE INDENTURE. This Supplemental Indenture
No.___ constitutes an integral part of the Indenture.
SECTION 1.02. DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION. For
all purposes of this Supplemental Indenture No. ___ unless otherwise specified
herein:
(a) all terms defined in this Indenture which are used and not otherwise
defined herein shall have the meanings they are given in the Indenture; and
(b) the provisions of general application stated in Section 1.01 of the
Indenture shall apply to this Supplemental Indenture No. __, except that the
words "HEREIN," "HEREOF," "HERETO" and "HEREUNDER" and other words of similar
import refer to this Supplemental Indenture as a whole and not to the Indenture
or any particular Article, Section or other subdivision of the Indenture or this
Supplemental Indenture No. ___.
ARTICLE 2
ADDITION OF GUARANTOR
SECTION 2.01. ADDITION OF GUARANTOR. The Additional Guarantor is hereby
made a party to the Indenture as a Guarantor thereunder.
ARTICLE 3
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 3.01. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE. The Indenture, as supplemented and
amended by this Supplemental Indenture No. __, is in all respects hereby
adopted, ratified and confirmed.
SECTION 3.02. EFFECTIVENESS. This Supplemental Indenture No. __ shall take
effect as of the date hereof.
SECTION 3.03. GOVERNING LAW. This Supplemental Indenture No. __ shall be
deemed to be a contract made under the laws of the State of
New York, and for
all purposes shall be construed in accordance with the laws of said State.
SECTION 3.04. COUNTERPARTS. This Supplemental Indenture No. __ 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.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental
Indenture No. __ to be duly executed, as of the day and year first written
above.
FEDEX CORPORATION, as Issuer
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS CORPORATION,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX CUSTOM CRITICAL, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
VIKING FREIGHT, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS CANADA LTD., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS JAPAN K.K., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX TRADE NETWORKS, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
TOWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
TOWER GROUP INTERNATIONAL CANADA
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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CARIBBEAN TRANSPORTATION SERVICES,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
WORLD TARIFF, LIMITED, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX GROUND PACKAGE SYSTEM,
LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX SUPPLY CHAIN SERVICES, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDEX FREIGHT CORPORATION, as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDEX FREIGHT SYSTEM, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
AMERICAN FREIGHTWAYS, INC., as
Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS AVIATION SERVICES,
INCORPORATED, as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS (AUSTRALIA)
PTY LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL
(FRANCE) SNC, as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS (SINGAPORE)
PTE. LTD., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS EUROPE, INC. &
CO., V.O.F./S.N.C., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS (MEXICO)
Y COMPANIA S.N.C. DE C.V.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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FEDERAL EXPRESS HOLDINGS S.A.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS INTERNATIONAL,
INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS PACIFIC, INC.,
as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
FEDERAL EXPRESS VIRGIN
ISLANDS, INC., as Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
_____________________, as
Additional Guarantor
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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_____________________, as Trustee
Attest:
By: By:
------------------------- ------------------------------
Name: Name:
Title: Title:
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EXHIBIT A
REGISTERED PRINCIPAL AMOUNT:
No._______ $ _______________
CUSIP NO._____________
FEDEX CORPORATION
___% Note due _______,__
Guaranteed as to Payment of Principal and Interest
by the Guarantors named in the Indenture
UNLESS THIS NOTE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE
DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A
NEW YORK CORPORATION (THE "DEPOSITORY") (55 XXXXX
XXXXXX, XXX XXXX, XXX XXXX), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY NOTE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF
CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
THE DEPOSITORY, AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. 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 SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST
HEREIN.
UNLESS AND UNTIL THIS NOTE IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR NOTES IN
CERTIFICATED FORM, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE
DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE THEREOF OR BY A NOMINEE THEREOF TO THE DEPOSITORY OR
ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A
SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY.
FedEx Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "COMPANY," which term
includes any successor Person under the Indenture referred to on the reverse
hereof), for value received, hereby promises to pay
Cede & Co.
c/o The Depository Trust Company
00 Xxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
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or registered assigns, the principal sum of _______________ DOLLARS on
_________,__ (the "MATURITY DATE") and to pay interest thereon from _______,____
or from the most recent "INTEREST PAYMENT DATE" to which interest has been paid
or duly provided for, semi-annually on _______ and ______ of each year,
commencing ____,___, and on the Maturity Date, at the rate of ___% per annum,
until the principal hereof is paid or duly provided for. The interest so
payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date
will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name this
Note (or one or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business
on the "REGULAR RECORD DATE" for such interest, which shall be the ______ or
____ (whether or not a Business Day), as the case may be, next preceding such
Interest Payment Date. Any such interest not so punctually paid or duly provided
for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered Holder on such Regular
Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose name this Note (or one
or more Predecessor Notes) is registered at the close of business on a Special
Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest to be fixed by the
Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof, notice of which shall be given to
Holders of Notes of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent
with the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes of this
series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange,
all as more fully provided in the Indenture.
The Company will at all times appoint and maintain a Paying Agent (which
may be the Trustee) authorized by the Company to pay the principal of and
interest on any Notes of this series on behalf of the Company and having an
office or agency in ______________ and in such other cities, if any, as the
Company may designate in writing to the Trustee (the "PLACE OF PAYMENT") where
Notes of this series may be presented or surrendered for payment and where
notices, designations or requests in respect for payments with respect to Notes
of this series may be served. The Company has initially appointed
___________________ as such Paying Agent.
Interest payments on this Note will be computed and paid on the basis of a
360-day year of twelve 30-day months. Interest payable on this Note on any
Interest Payment Date and on the Maturity Date will include interest accrued
from and including the most recent Interest Payment Date to which interest has
been paid or duly provided for (or from and including _______, ___, if no
interest has been paid on this Note) to but excluding such Interest Payment Date
or the Maturity Date, as the case may be.
If any Interest Payment Date or the Maturity Date falls on a day that is
not a Business Day (as defined below), principal or interest payable with
respect to such Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be, will
be paid on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
it were paid on the date such payment was due, and no interest shall accrue on
the amount so
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payable for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date or the Maturity
Date, as the case may be. "BUSINESS DAY" means any day other than Saturday,
Sunday or other day on which banking institutions in
New York or Tennessee are
obligated or authorized by law to close.
The principal and interest payable on this Note will be made by wire
transfer of immediately available funds to the Holder hereof in such currency of
the United States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for the
payment of public and private debts.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Note set forth
on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all purposes have the
same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the Certificate of Authentication hereon has been executed by the
Trustee by manual signature, this Note shall not be entitled to any benefit
under the Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
FEDEX CORPORATION
By:
---------------------
Name:
Title:
Attest:
By:
----------------------------------
Name:
Title:
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CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein referred to
in the within-mentioned Indenture.
_____________________, as Trustee
By:
--------------------------------
Authorized Officer
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF NOTE]
FEDEX CORPORATION
__ % Note due _________,__
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company
(herein called the "NOTES"), limited in aggregate principal amount to
$______(except as otherwise provided in the Indenture), issued and to be issued
as one series of debt securities of the Company under an Indenture, dated as
of________, _____, as amended and supplemented from time to time (the
"INDENTURE"), among the Company, the Guarantors referred to in the Indenture and
_____________________, as Trustee (the "TRUSTEE," which term includes any
successor trustee under the Indenture), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a statement of the respective
rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities thereunder of the Company,
the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders of the Notes and of the terms upon
which the Notes are, and are to be, authenticated and delivered. In addition to
the Notes, the Company is authorized to issue an unlimited amount of debt
securities in one or more series (herein collectively with the Notes called the
"DEBT SECURITIES") under the Indenture. Capitalized terms used herein and in the
Guarantee endorsed hereon but not defined have the meanings ascribed to such
terms in the Indenture.
This Note is not redeemable at the option of the Company or at the option
of the Holder prior to the Maturity Date [and is not subject to any sinking
fund].
[This Note is not convertible or exchangeable.]
The Notes are unconditionally guaranteed as to the due and punctual payment
of the principal and interest in respect thereof by the Guarantors as evidenced
by their guarantees (the "GUARANTEES") set forth hereon. The Guarantees are
direct and unconditional obligations of such Guarantors and rank and will rank
equally in priority of payment and in all other respects with all other
unsecured and unsubordinated obligations of such Guarantors now or hereafter
outstanding.
In case an Event of Default with respect to the Notes of this series shall
occur and be continuing, the principal of the Notes of this series may be
declared due and payable in the manner and with the effect provided in the
Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions for defeasance at any time of (i) the
entire indebtedness of this Note or (ii) certain respective covenants and Events
of Default with respect to this Note, in each case upon compliance with certain
conditions set forth therein, which provisions apply to the Notes.
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein provided, the
amendment thereof and the modification of the rights and obligations of the
Company and the Guarantors and the rights of the Holders of the Debt Securities
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of each series to be affected under the Indenture at any time by the Company,
the Guarantors and the Trustee with the consent of the Holders of not less than
a majority in principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time Outstanding or
the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of
each series of Debt Securities to be affected if less than all series are to be
affected by such modification or amendment. The Indenture also contains
provisions permitting the Holders of specified percentages in principal amount
of the Debt Securities of each series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the
Holders of all Debt Securities of such series, to waive compliance by the
Company and the Guarantors with certain provisions of the Indenture and certain
past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences. Any such consent or
waiver by the Holder of this Note shall be conclusive and binding upon such
Holder and upon all future Holders of this Note and of any Note or Notes issued
upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange hereof or in lieu
hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is made upon this
Note.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Note or of
the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the Company, which is
absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of and interest on this Note at
the times, places and rate, and in the currency herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein and
therein set forth, the transfer of this Note is registrable in the Security
Register, upon surrender of this Note for registration of transfer at the office
or agency of the Company in the Place of Payment, duly endorsed by, or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Security Registrar, duly executed by the Holder hereof or its
attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new Notes of this
series and of like tenor, of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate
principal amount, will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees.
The Notes of this series are issuable only in registered form without
coupons in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple of $1,000 in excess
thereof. As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations herein
and therein set forth, Notes of this series issued in definitive registered form
are exchangeable for the same aggregate principal amount of Notes of this series
and of like tenor and authorized denominations, as requested by the Holder
surrendering the same.
No service charge shall be made for any such registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any
tax or other governmental charge payable in connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Note for registration of transfer, the
Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name this Note is registered as the owner hereof for all
purposes,
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whether or not this Note be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor
any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
No recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of the
Company or any Guarantor in the Indenture or any indenture supplemental thereto
or in any Note, or because of the creation of any indebtedness represented
thereby, shall be had against any incorporator, stockholder, officer or
director, as such, of the Company or any Guarantor or of any successor thereto,
either directly or through the Company or any Guarantor or any successor
thereto, 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 hereof and as part of the consideration for the issue hereof.
At the option of the Corporation and upon satisfaction of certain
conditions specified in the Indenture, either (a) the Corporation shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire indebtedness on the Notes or (b)
the Corporation need not comply with certain covenants contained in the
Indenture, in each case upon the deposit by the Corporation with the Trustee in
trust for the Holders of the Notes of an amount of funds or obligations issued
or guaranteed by the United States of America sufficient to pay and discharge
upon the stated maturity thereof the entire indebtedness evidenced by the Notes,
all as provided in the Indenture.
This Note shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of
the State of New York.
All terms used in this Note which are defined in the Indenture shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
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ABBREVIATIONS
The following abbreviations, when used in the inscription on the face of
this instrument, shall be construed as though they were written out in full
according to applicable laws or regulations.
TEN COM as tenants in common
TEN ENT as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN as joint tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants
in common
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT ______________ Custodian ______________
(Cust) (Minor)
under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assigns(s) and
transfer(s) unto _______________________________________________________________
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the within Note and all rights thereunder, and hereby irrevocably constitutes
and appoints to ________________________________________________________________
transfer said Note on the books of the Company, with full power of substitution
in the premises.
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Dated:
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Signature Guaranteed
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NOTICE: Signature must be guaranteed by a member firm of the New York Stock
Exchange or a commercial bank or trust company.
NOTICE: The signature to this assignment must correspond with the name as
written upon the face of the within Note in every particular, without alteration
or enlargement or any change whatever.
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EXHIBIT B
GUARANTEE
______________ (the "GUARANTOR") hereby, jointly and severally with each
other Guarantor, fully and unconditionally guarantees (such guarantee being
referred to herein as the "GUARANTEE") the due and punctual payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities, whether at
maturity, upon redemption, by acceleration or otherwise, the due and punctual
payment of interest on the overdue principal, premium and interest, if any, on
the Securities, and the due and punctual performance of all other obligations of
the Company to the Holders or the Trustee, all in accordance with the terms set
forth in Article Twelve of the Indenture.
The obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of Securities and to the
Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set forth, to
the extent and in the manner provided, in Article Twelve of the Indenture, and
reference is hereby made to such Indenture for the precise terms of the
Guarantee therein made.
The Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until the
certificate of authentication on the Securities upon which the Guarantee is
noted shall have been executed by the Trustee under the Indenture by the manual
signature of one of its authorized signatories.
This Guarantee shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York.
This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the
Indenture.
_____________________, as Guarantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
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