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EXHIBIT 5.5
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MCN CORPORATION
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THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO,
AS PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
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PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT
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DATED AS OF MARCH 25, 1997
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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RECITALS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 1.1. Definitions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Section 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders; Record Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Section 1.5. Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Section 1.7. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1.9. Separability Clause . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Section 1.11. Governing Law . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.13. Counterparts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
ARTICLE II
Certificate Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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Section 2.1. Forms of Certificates Generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Section 2.2. Form of Agent's Certificate of Authentication . . . . . . . 21
ARTICLE III
The Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.1. Title and Terms; Denominations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Section 3.2. Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the Certificates . . . . 22
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating . . . . . . . 23
Section 3.4. Temporary Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Section 3.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange . . . . 25
Section 3.6. Book-Entry Interests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Section 3.7. Notices to Holders . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 3.8. Appointment of Successor Clearing Agency . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 3.9. Definitive Certificates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Section 3.10. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Certificates . . . . . 29
Section 3.11. Persons Deemed Owners . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Section 3.12. Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 3.13. Substitution of Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Section 3.14. Reestablishment of Income PRIDES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Section 3.15. Transfer of Collateral upon Occurrence
of Termination Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
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Section 3.16. No Consent to Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
ARTICLE IV
The Preferred Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Section 4.1. Payment of Distribution; Rights to Distributions Preserved . 35
Section 4.2. Notice and Voting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Section 4.3. Tax Event; Investment Company Event . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
ARTICLE V
The Purchase Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Section 5.1. Purchase of Shares of Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Section 5.2. Contract Adjustment Payments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Section 5.3. Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments . 42
Section 5.4. Payment of Purchase Price . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Section 5.5. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Section 5.6. Adjustment of Settlement Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Section 5.7. Notice of Adjustments and Certain Other Events . . . . . . . 54
Section 5.8. Termination Event; Notice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Section 5.9. Early Settlement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Section 5.10. No Fractional Shares . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Section 5.11. Charges and Taxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
ARTICLE VI
Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
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Section 6.1. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Contract
Adjustment Payments and to Purchase Common Stock . . . . . 59
Section 6.2. Restoration of Rights and Remedies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 6.3. Rights and Remedies Cumulative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 6.4. Delay or Omission Not Waiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 6.5. Undertaking for Costs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Section 6.6. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
ARTICLE VII
The Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 7.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Section 7.2. Notice of Default . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 7.3. Certain Rights of Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Section 7.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities . . . 64
Section 7.5. May Hold Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 7.6. Money Held in Custody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Section 7.7. Compensation and Reimbursement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 7.8. Corporate Agent Required;
Eligibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Section 7.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor . . . . . 66
Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation
or Succession to Business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
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Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders . . . 68
Section 7.13. No Obligations of Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Section 7.14. Tax Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
ARTICLE VII
Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Section 8.1. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Holders . . . . . 70
Section 8.2. Supplemental Agreements with Consent of Holders . . . . . . 71
Section 8.3. Execution of Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Section 8.4. Effect of Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 8.5. Reference to Supplemental Agreements . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
ARTICLE IX
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 9.1. Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey
Property Except Under Certain Conditions . . . . . . . . . 73
Section 9.2. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation . . . . . . . . . 74
Section 9.3. Opinion of Counsel to Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
ARTICLE X
Covenants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 10.1. Performance Under Purchase Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Section 10.3. Company to Reserve Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
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Section 10.4. Covenants as to Common Stock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Section 10.5. Statements of Officers of the Company as to Default . . . . 76
EXHIBIT A Form of Income PRIDES Certificate
EXHIBIT B Form of Growth PRIDES Certificate
EXHIBIT C Instruction to Collateral Agent
EXHIBIT D Instruction to Purchase Contract Agent
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PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT, dated as of March 25, 1997, between MCN
Corporation, a Michigan corporation, doing business as MCN Energy Group Inc.
(the "Company"), and The First National Bank of Chicago, a national banking
association, acting as purchase contract agent for the Holders of Securities
from time to time (the "Agent").
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the Certificates evidencing the Securities.
All things necessary to make the Purchase Contracts, when the
Certificates are executed by the Company and authenticated, executed on behalf
of the Holders and delivered by the Agent, as provided in this Agreement, the
valid obligations of the Company, and to constitute these presents a valid
agreement of the Company, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
WITNESSETH:
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of the
Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Applications
Section 1.1. Definitions.
For all purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
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(b) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States;
(c) the words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of
similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section or other subdivision;
(d) the following terms have the meanings given to them in the
Declaration: (i) Indenture, (ii) Investment Company Event; (iii) Liquidation
Distribution; and (iv) Tax Event; and
(e) the following terms have the meanings given to them in this
Section 1.1(e).
"Act" when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning specified
in Section 1.4.
"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" 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.
"Agent" means the Person named as the "Agent" in the first paragraph
of this instrument until a successor Agent shall have become such pursuant to
the applicable provisions of this Agreement, and thereafter "Agent" shall mean
such Person.
"Agreement" means this instrument as originally executed or as it may
from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more agreements
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof.
"Applicable Market Value" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
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"Bankruptcy Code" means title 11 of the United States Code, or any
other law of the United States that from time to time provides a uniform system
of bankruptcy laws.
"Beneficial Owner" means, with respect to a Book-Entry Interest, a
Person, who is the beneficial owner of such Book-Entry Interest, as reflected
on the books of the Clearing Agency, or on the books of a Person maintaining an
account with such Clearing Agency (directly as a Clearing Agency Participant or
as an indirect participant, in each case in accordance with the rules of such
Clearing Agency).
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors of the Company or a
duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" means one or more resolutions of the Board of
Directors, a copy of which has been certified by the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors
and to be in full force and effect on the date of such certification and
delivered to the Agent.
"Book-Entry Interest" means a beneficial interest in a Global
Certificate, ownership and transfers of which shall be maintained and made
through book entries by a Clearing Agency as described in Section 3.6.
"Business Day" means any day which is not a Saturday or Sunday or a
day on which banking institutions in Xxx Xxxx Xxxx (xx xxx Xxxxx xx Xxx Xxxx)
are permitted or required by any applicable law to close.
"Cash Settlement" has the meaning set forth in Section 5.4(a)(i).
"Certificate" means an Income PRIDES Certificate or a Growth PRIDES
Certificate.
"Clearing Agency" means an organization registered as a "Clearing
Agency" pursuant to Section 17A of the Exchange Act that is acting as a
depositary for the Securities and in whose name or in the name of a nominee of
that organization, shall be registered a Global Certificate and which shall
undertake to effect book entry transfers and pledges of the Securities.
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"Clearing Agency Participant" means a broker, dealer, bank, other
financial institution or other Person for whom from time to time the Clearing
Agency effects book entry transfers and pledges of securities deposited with
the Clearing Agency.
"Closing Price" has the meaning specified in Section 3.13.
"Collateral" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 of the Pledge
Agreement.
"Collateral Agent" means The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Collateral Agent
under the Pledge Agreement until a successor Collateral Agent shall have become
such pursuant to the applicable provisions of the Pledge Agreement, and
thereafter "Collateral Agent" shall mean the Person who is then the Collateral
Agent thereunder.
"Collateral Substitution" has the meaning specified in Section 3.13.
"Common Stock" means the Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, of
the Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor shall have become such pursuant
to the applicable provision of this Agreement, and thereafter "Company" shall
mean such successor.
"Contract Adjustment Payments" means the fee payable by the Company in
respect of each Purchase Contract, equal to 3/4% per annum of the Stated
Amount, computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months, plus
any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments accrued pursuant to Section 5.2.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal corporate trust office of
the Agent at which, at any particular time, its corporate trust business shall
be administered, which office at the date hereof is located at Xxx Xxxxx
Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000- 0126, Attention: Corporate
Trust Services Division, except that for purposes of Section 10.2, such term
shall mean the office or agency of the Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, the
City of New York, which office at the date
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hereof is located at 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
"Current Market Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(8).
"Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of
MCN Financing III, dated March 19, 1997, among the Company, as the sponsor, the
trustees named therein and the holders from time to time of individual
beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.3.
"Depositary" means, initially, DTC until another Clearing Agency
becomes its successor.
"DTC" means the Depository Trust Company, the initial Clearing Agency.
"Early Settlement" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Amount" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Date" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(a).
"Early Settlement Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 5.9(b).
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any
statute successor thereto, in each case as amended from time to time, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
"Expiration Date" has the meaning specified in Section 1.4.
"Expiration Time" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(6).
"Global Certificate" means a Certificate that evidences all or part of
the Securities and is registered in the name of a Depositary or a nominee
thereof.
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"Global Preferred Security Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
the rights and obligations of a holder in respect of the number of Preferred
Securities specified on such certificate and which is registered in the name of
a Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof.
"Growth PRIDES" means, following the substitution of one or more
Treasury Securities for Preferred Securities as collateral to secure a holder's
obligations under a Purchase Contract, the collective rights and obligations of
a holder of a Growth PRIDES Certificate in respect of such Treasury Securities,
subject to the Pledge thereof, and the related Purchase Contract.
"Growth PRIDES Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights
and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Growth PRIDES specified
on such certificate.
"Growth PRIDES Register" and "Growth PRIDES Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"Holder," when used with respect to a Security, means a Person in
whose name the Security evidenced by an Income PRIDES Certificate and/or a
Growth PRIDES Certificate is registered in the related Income PRIDES Register
and/or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be.
"Income PRIDES" means the collective rights and obligations of a
Holder of an Income PRIDES Certificate in respect of a Preferred Security,
subject to the Pledge thereof, and a related Purchase Contract.
"Income PRIDES Certificate" means a certificate evidencing the rights
and obligations of a Holder in respect of the number of Income PRIDES specified
on such certificate.
"Income PRIDES Register" and "Income PRIDES Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.5.
"Indenture" has the meaning set forth in Section 1.1 of the
Declaration.
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"Indenture Trustee" means NBD Bank, N.A. (now known as NBD Bank), a
Michigan Banking Corporation, as trustee under the Indenture, or any successor
thereto.
"Institutional Trustee" means Wilmington Trust Company, as
institutional trustee under the Declaration, or any successor thereto that is a
financial institution unaffiliated with the Company.
"Investment Company Event" has the meaning set forth in Annex I of the
Declaration.
"Issuer Order" or "Issuer Request" means a written order or request
signed in the name of the Company by its Chairman of the Board, any Vice
Chairman, its President or a Vice President and by its Treasurer, an Assistant
Treasurer, its Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Agent.
"Junior Subordinated Debentures" means the series of junior
subordinated debentures of the Company designated the 7-1/4% Junior
Subordinated Debentures due May 16, 2002, to be issued under the Indenture as
of the date hereof.
"Liquidation Distribution" has the meaning set forth in Annex I of the
Declaration.
"NYSE" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the Chairman of
the Board, any Vice Chairman of the Board, the President or any Vice President
and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Agent.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by legal
counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company and who shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Agent.
"Outstanding Securities," with respect to any Income PRIDES and/or
Growth PRIDES, means, as of the date of determination, all Income PRIDES and/or
Growth PRIDES evidenced by Certificates theretofore authenticated, executed and
delivered under this Agreement, except:
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(i) If a Termination Event has occurred, (A) Growth PRIDES
and (B) Income PRIDES for which the Stated Amount of the underlying
Preferred Security or a Liquidation Distribution in respect of such
Preferred Security has been theretofore deposited with the Agent in
trust for the Holders of such Income PRIDES;
(ii) Income PRIDES and Growth PRIDES evidenced by
Certificates theretofore cancelled by the Agent or delivered to the
Agent for cancellation or deemed cancelled pursuant to the provisions
of this Agreement; and
(iii) Income PRIDES and Growth PRIDES evidenced by
Certificates in exchange for or in lieu of which other Certificates
have been authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and
delivered pursuant to this Agreement, other than any such Certificate
in respect of which there shall have been presented to the Agent proof
satisfactory to it that such Certificate is held by a bona fide
purchaser in whose hands the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced
by such Certificate are valid obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
number of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Income PRIDES or
Growth PRIDES owned by the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Agent shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Income PRIDES or
Growth PRIDES which a Responsible Officer of the Agent knows to be so owned
shall be so disregarded. Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES so owned which have
been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding Securities if the
pledgee establishes to the satisfaction of the Agent the pledgee's right so to
act with respect to such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES and that the pledgee is
not the Company or any Affiliate of the Company.
"Payment Date" means each March 31, June 30, September 30, and
December 31, commencing June 30, 1997.
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"Person" means any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Permitted Investments" has the meaning set forth in Section 1 of the
Pledge Agreement.
"Pledge" means the pledge under the Pledge Agreement of the Preferred
Securities or the Treasury Securities, in each case constituting a part of the
Securities.
"Pledge Agreement" means the Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof, by and among the Company, the Collateral Agent and the Agent, on its
own behalf and as attorney-in-fact for the Holders from time to time of the
Securities.
"Predecessor Certificate" means a Predecessor Income PRIDES
Certificate or a Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate.
"Predecessor Growth PRIDES Certificate" of any particular Growth
PRIDES Certificate means every previous Growth PRIDES Certificate evidencing
all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder
under the Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Growth PRIDES Certificate authenticated and delivered under
Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Growth PRIDES Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights
and obligations of the Company and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost
or stolen Growth PRIDES Certificate.
"Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate" of any particular Income
PRIDES Certificate means every previous Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing
all or a portion of the rights and obligations of the Company and the Holder
under the Income PRIDES evidenced thereby; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Income PRIDES Certificate authenticated and delivered under
Section 3.10 in exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or
stolen Income PRIDES Certificate shall be deemed to evidence the same rights
and obligations of the Company
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and the Holder as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Income PRIDES
Certificate.
"Preferred Securities" means the 7-1/4% Trust Originated Preferred
Securities of the Trust, each having a liquidation amount of $50, representing
preferred undivided beneficial interests in the assets of the Trust.
"Proceeds" has the meaning set forth in Section 1 of the Pledge
Agreement.
"Purchase Contract," when used with respect to any Security, means the
contract obligating the Company to (i) sell and the Holder of such Security to
purchase Common Stock and (ii) pay the Holder Contract Adjustment Payments, on
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in Article Five hereof.
"Purchase Contract Settlement Date" means May 16, 2000.
"Purchase Contract Settlement Fund" has the meaning specified in
Section 5.5.
"Purchase Price" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Purchased Shares" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(a)(6).
"Record Date" for the distribution and Contract Adjustment Payments
payable on any Payment Date means, as to any Global Certificate, the Business
Day next preceding such Payment Date, and as to any other Certificate, the 15th
day of the month preceding such Payment Date.
"Register" means the Income PRIDES Register and the Growth PRIDES
Register.
"Registrar" means the Income PRIDES Registrar and the Growth PRIDES
Registrar.
"Reorganization Event" has the meaning specified in Section 5.6(b).
"Repayment Price" means, with respect to a Preferred Security, the
Stated Amount plus any accrued and unpaid
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distributions thereon to the date of repayment (subject to the rights of
holders of record on the relevant record date to receive distributions due on a
Payment Date).
"Responsible Officer," when used with respect to the Agent, means any
officer of the Agent assigned by the Agent to administer its corporate trust
matters.
"Security" means an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES.
"Settlement Rate" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Stated Amount" means $50.
"Tax Event" has the meaning set forth in Annex I of the Declaration.
"Termination Date" means the date, if any, on which a Termination
Event occurs.
"Termination Event" means the occurrence of any of the following
events: (i) at any time on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a
judgment, decree or court order shall have been entered granting relief under
the Bankruptcy Code, adjudicating the Company to be insolvent, or approving as
properly filed a petition seeking reorganization or liquidation of the Company
or any other similar applicable Federal or State law, and, unless such
judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, such decree or order shall have continued
undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days; or (ii) a judgment, decree
or court order for the appointment of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or
assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company or of its property, or for
the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, shall have been entered, and,
unless such judgment, decree or order shall have been entered within 60 days
prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, such judgment, decree or order
shall have continued undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days, or
(iii) at any time on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date the
Company shall file a petition for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, or shall
consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or shall file a
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tion or answer or consent seeking reorganization or liquidation under the
Bankruptcy Code or any other similar applicable Federal or State law, or shall
consent to the filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment
of a receiver or liquidator or trustee or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency
of it or of its property, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of
creditors, or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally
as they become due.
"Threshold Appreciation Price" has the meaning specified in Section
5.1.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, or any
successor statute.
"Trading Day" has the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
"Treasury Security" means a zero-coupon U.S. Treasury Security due May
15, 2000 (Cusip Number 912820 AW7) which is the principal strip of the 8.875%
U.S. Treasury Security which matures on May 15, 2000.
"Trust" means MCN Financing III, a statutory business trust formed
under the laws of the State of Delaware.
"Underwriting Agreement" means the Underwriting Agreement dated March
19, 1997 between the Company and the Trust, on the one hand, and Xxxxxxx Lynch,
Pierce, Xxxxxx & Xxxxx Incorporated, Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities
Corporation, Salomon Brothers Inc, Xxxxx Xxxxxx Inc., and Ladenburg Xxxxxxxx &
Co. Inc., as representatives of the several Underwriters named therein, on the
other hand.
"Vice President" 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 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions.
Except as otherwise expressly provided by this Agreement, upon any
application or request by the Company to the Agent to take any action under any
provision of this Agreement, the Company shall furnish to the Agent an
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Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent, if any, provided
for in this Agreement relating to the proposed action have been complied with
and an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all
such conditions precedent, 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 is specifically required by any provision of this Agreement relating
to such particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion
need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Agreement shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions
herein relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions
contained in such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to
enable him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such
covenant or condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Agent.
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
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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 may be based,
insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a certificate or opinion of, or
representations by, counsel, unless such officer knows, or in the exercise of
reasonable care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations
with respect to the matters upon which his certificate or opinion is based are
erroneous. Any such certificate or 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 stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company 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 Agreement, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders; Record Dates.
(a) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action provided by this Agreement 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 agent duly
appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, such
action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are delivered
to the Agent and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the Company. 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 Agreement and (subject to Section 7.1) conclusive in favor of the Agent
and the Company, if made in the manner provided in this Section.
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(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved in any manner which the Agent deems
sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Income
PRIDES Register or the Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be.
(d) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Certificate shall bind every
future Holder of the same Certificate and the Holder of every Certificate
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
Agent or the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such
action is made upon such Certificate.
(e) The Company may set any day as a record date for the purpose
of determining the Holders of Outstanding Securities entitled to give, make or
take any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other action provided or permitted by this Agreement to be given, made or taken
by Holders of Securities. If any record date is set pursuant to this
paragraph, the Holders of Outstanding Securities on such record date, and no
other Holders, shall be entitled to take the relevant action, whether or not
such Holders remain Holders after such record date; provided that no such
action shall be effective hereunder unless taken on or prior to the applicable
Expiration Date by Holders of the requisite number of Outstanding Securities on
such record date. Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the
Company from setting a new record date for any action for which a record date
has previously been set pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date
previously set shall automatically and with no action by any Person be
cancelled and of no effect), and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed
to render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite number of
Outstanding Securities on the date such action is taken. Promptly after any
record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the Company, at its own expense,
shall cause notice of such record date, the proposed action by Holders and the
applicable Expiration Date to be given to the Agent in writing and to each
Holder of Securities in the manner set forth in Section 1.6.
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With respect to any record date set pursuant to this Section, the
Company may designate any date as the "Expiration Date" and from time to time
may change the Expiration Date to any earlier or later day; provided that no
such change shall be effective unless notice of the proposed new Expiration
Date is given to the Agent in writing, and to each Holder of Securities in the
manner set forth in Section 1.6, on or prior to the existing Expiration Date.
If an Expiration Date is not designated with respect to any record date set
pursuant to this Section, the Company shall be deemed to have initially
designated the 180th day after such record date as the Expiration Date with
respect thereto, subject to its right to change the Expiration Date as provided
in this paragraph. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Expiration Date shall be
later than the 180th day after the applicable record date.
Section 1.5. Notices.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver
or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this Agreement to
be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Agent by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
the Agent at Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx, Xxxxx 0000, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx
00000-0000, Attention: Corporate Trust Services Division, or at any
other address previously furnished in writing by the Agent to the
Holders and the Company, or
(2) the Company by the Agent or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing
and personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
the Company at 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000,
Attention: Treasurer, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing to the Agent by the Company.
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(3) the Collateral Agent by the Agent, the Company or any
Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless
otherwise herein expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing and personally delivered or mailed, first-class
postage prepaid, addressed to the Collateral Agent at The Chase
Manhattan Bank, 000 X. 00xx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx
00000, Attention: Corporate Trust Trustee Administration, or at any
other address previously furnished in writing by the Collateral Agent
to the Agent, the Company and the Holders; or
(4) the Institutional Trustee by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and
personally delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, addressed
to the Institutional Trustee at Xxxxxx Sq. North, 0000 X. Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000, Attention: Corporate Trustee
Administration, or at any other address previously furnished in
writing by the Institutional Trustee to the Company; or
(5) the Indenture Trustee by the Company shall be sufficient
for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein expressly
provided) if made, given, furnished or filed in writing and personally
delivered or mailed, first-class postage prepaid, addressed to the
Indenture Trustee at NBD Bank, 000 Xxxxxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxxxxxx, XX 00000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Administration, or at any other address
previously furnished in writing by the Indenture Trustee to the
Company.
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.
Where this Agreement provides for notice to Holders of any event, such
notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided)
if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected
by such event, at its address as it appears in the applicable Register, not
later than the latest date, and 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
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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. Where this Agreement 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 Agent, 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 Agent
shall constitute a sufficient notification for every purpose hereunder.
Section 1.7. 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 1.8. Successors and Assigns.
All covenants and agreements in this Agreement by the Company shall
bind its successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.9. Separability Clause.
In case any provision in this Agreement or in the Securities shall be
invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of
the remaining provisions hereof and thereof shall not in any way be affected or
impaired thereby.
Section 1.10. Benefits of Agreement.
Nothing in this Agreement 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 benefits or any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under this Agreement. The Holders from time to time shall be
beneficiaries of this Agreement and
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shall be bound by all of the terms and conditions hereof and of the Securities
evidenced by their Certificates by their acceptance of delivery of such
Certificates.
Section 1.11. Governing Law.
This Agreement and the Securities shall be governed by and construed
in accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
Section 1.12. Legal Holidays.
In any case where any Payment Date shall not be a Business Day, then
(notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the Income PRIDES
Certificates or the Growth PRIDES Certificates) payment of the Contract
Adjustment Payments shall not be made on such date, but such payments shall be
made on the next succeeding Business Day with the same force and effect as if
made on such Payment Date, provided that no interest shall accrue or be payable
by the Company or any Holder for the period from and after any such Payment
Date, except that, if such next succeeding Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day with the same force and effect as if made on such
Payment Date.
In any case where any Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall not be a
Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
Income PRIDES Certificates or the Growth PRIDES Certificates), the Purchase
Contracts shall not be performed on such date, but the Purchase Contracts shall
be performed on the next preceding Business Day with the same force and effect
as if performed on such Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
Section 1.13. Counterparts.
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts by the
parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which, when so executed and
delivered, shall be deemed an original, but all such counterparts shall
together constitute one and the same instrument.
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Section 1.14. Inspection of Agreement.
A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times
during normal business hours at the Corporate Trust Office for inspection by
any Holder.
ARTICLE II
Certificate Forms
Section 2.1. Forms of Certificates Generally.
The Income PRIDES Certificates (including the form of Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Income PRIDES evidenced thereby) shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit A hereto, with such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Income PRIDES are listed or
any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the
officers of the Company executing such Income PRIDES Certificates, as evidenced
by their execution of the Income PRIDES Certificates.
The definitive Income PRIDES Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing the
Income PRIDES evidenced by such Income PRIDES Certificates, consistent with the
provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
The Growth PRIDES Certificates (including the form of Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby) shall be in
substantially the form set forth in Exhibit B hereto, with such letters,
numbers or other marks of identification or designation and such legends or
endorsements printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by
the rules of any securities exchange on which the Growth PRIDES may be listed
or any depositary therefor, or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by
the officers of the Company executing such Growth PRIDES Certificates, as
evidenced by their execution of the Growth PRIDES Certificates.
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The definitive Growth PRIDES Certificates shall be printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers of the Company executing the
Growth PRIDES evidenced by such Growth PRIDES Certificates, consistent with the
provisions of this Agreement, as evidenced by their execution thereof.
Every Global Certificate authenticated, executed on behalf of the
Holders and delivered hereunder shall bear a legend in substantially the
following form:
THIS CERTIFICATE IS A GLOBAL CERTIFICATE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE
PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED
IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE THEREOF. THIS CERTIFICATE
MAY NOT BE EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR A CERTIFICATE REGISTERED,
AND NO TRANSFER OF THIS CERTIFICATE IN WHOLE OR IN PART MAY BE
REGISTERED, IN THE NAME OF ANY PERSON OTHER THAN SUCH DEPOSITARY OR A
NOMINEE THEREOF, EXCEPT IN THE LIMITED CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE
PURCHASE CONTRACT AGREEMENT.
Section 2.2. Form of Agent's Certificate of Authentication.
The form of the Agent's certificate of authentication of the Income
PRIDES shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Income
PRIDES Certificates.
The form of the Agent's certificate of authentication of the Growth
PRIDES shall be in substantially the form set forth on the form of the Growth
PRIDES Certificates.
ARTICLE III
The Securities
Section 3.1. Title and Terms; Denominations.
The aggregate number of Income PRIDES evidenced by Certificates
authenticated, executed on behalf of the
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Holders and delivered hereunder is limited to 2,645,000 except for
Certificates authenticated, executed and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Certificates pursuant to
Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.10, 3.13, 3.14, 5.9 or 8.5.
The Certificates shall be issuable only in registered form and only in
denominations of a single Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES and any integral
multiple thereof.
Section 3.2. Rights and Obligations Evidenced by the Certificates.
Each Income PRIDES Certificate shall evidence the number of Income
PRIDES specified therein, with each such Income PRIDES representing the
ownership by the Holder thereof of a beneficial interest in Preferred Security
with a principal amount equal to the Stated Amount, subject to the Pledge of
such Preferred Security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and
the rights and obligations of the Holder thereof and the Company under one
Purchase Contract. The Agent as attorney-in-fact for, and on behalf of, each
Holder of Income PRIDES shall pledge, pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the
Preferred Security forming a part of such Holder's Income PRIDES, to the
Collateral Agent and grant to the Collateral Agent a security interest in the
right, title, and interest of such Holder in such Preferred Security, for the
benefit of the Company, to secure the obligation of the Holder under the
Purchase Contracts to purchase the Common Stock of the Company. Prior to the
purchase of shares of Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts, such Purchase
Contracts shall not entitle the Holders of Income PRIDES Certificates to any of
the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock, including, without
limitation, the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to
consent or to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of
stockholders or for the election of directors of the Company or for any other
matter, or any other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
Each Growth PRIDES Certificate shall evidence the number of Growth
PRIDES specified therein, with each such Growth PRIDES representing the
ownership by the Holder thereof of a beneficial interest in Treasury Security
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with a principal amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Preferred
Securities for which such Treasury Security is being substituted, subject to
the Pledge of such Treasury Security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement, and the rights and obligations of the Holder thereof and the Company
under one Purchase Contract. Prior to the purchase, if any, of shares of
Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts, such Growth PRIDES Certificates
shall not entitle the Holders of Growth PRIDES Certificates to any of the
rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock, including, without limitation,
the right to vote or receive any dividends or other payments or to consent or
to receive notice as stockholders in respect of the meetings of stockholders or
for the election of directors of the Company or for any other matter, or any
other rights whatsoever as stockholders of the Company.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 3.13 and 3.14 hereof, upon the
execution and delivery of this Agreement, and at any time and from time to time
thereafter, the Company may deliver Certificates executed by the Company to the
Agent for authentication, execution on behalf of the Holders and delivery,
together with its Issuer Order for authentication of such Certificates, and the
Agent in accordance with such Issuer Order shall authenticate, execute on
behalf of the Holder and deliver such Certificates.
The Certificates shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its
Chairman of the Board, its Vice Chairman of the Board, its President or one of
its Vice Presidents, under its corporate seal reproduced thereon attested by
its Secretary or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of
these officers on the Certificates may be manual or facsimile.
Certificates bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Certificates or did
not hold such offices at the date of such Certificates.
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No Purchase Contract evidenced by a Certificate shall be valid until
such Certificate has been executed on behalf of the Holder by the manual
signature of an authorized signatory of the Agent, as such Holder's
attorney-in-fact. Such signature by an authorized signatory of the Agent shall
be conclusive evidence that the Holder of such Certificate has entered into the
Purchase Contracts evidenced by such Certificate.
Each Certificate shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Certificate shall be entitled to any benefit under this Agreement
or be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such
Certificate a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by an authorized signatory of the Agent by manual
signature, and such certificate upon any Certificate shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Certificate has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder.
Section 3.4. Temporary Certificates.
Pending the preparation of definitive Certificates, the Company shall
execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate, execute on
behalf of the Holders, and deliver, in lieu of such definitive Certificates,
temporary Certificates which are in substantially the form set forth in Exhibit
A or Exhibit B hereto, as the case may be, with such letters, numbers or other
marks of identification or designation and such legends or endorsements
printed, lithographed or engraved thereon as may be required by the rules of
any securities exchange on which the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES are listed,
or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers of the Company
executing such Certificates, as evidenced by their execution of the
Certificates.
If temporary Certificates are issued, the Company will cause
definitive Certificates to be prepared without unreasonable delay. After the
preparation of definitive Certificates, the temporary Certificates shall be
exchangeable for definitive Certificates upon surrender of the temporary
Certificates at the Corporate Trust Office, at the expense of the Company and
without charge to the
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Holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Certificates, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent
shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange
therefor, one or more definitive Certificates of like tenor authorized
denominations and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES,
as the case may be, as the temporary Certificate or Certificates so
surrendered. Until so exchanged, the temporary Certificates shall in all
respects evidence the same benefits and the same obligations with respect to
the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, evidenced thereby as
definitive Certificates.
Section 3.5. Registration; Registration of Transfer and Exchange.
The Agent shall keep at the Corporate Trust Office a register (the
"Income PRIDES Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of Income PRIDES
Certificates and of transfers of Income PRIDES Certificates (the Agent, in such
capacity, the "Income PRIDES Registrar") and a Register (the "Growth PRIDES
Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Agent shall provide for the registration of the Growth PRIDES
Certificates following Collateral Substitutions and transfers of Growth PRIDES
Certificates (the Agent, in such capacity, the "Growth PRIDES Registrar").
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Certificate at the
Corporate Trust Office, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and
the Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the designated transferee or
transferees, and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee or
transferees, one or more new Certificates of any authorized denominations, like
tenor, and evidencing a like number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the
case may be.
At the option of the Holder, Certificates may be exchanged for other
Certificates, of any authorized denominations and evidencing a like number of
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, upon surrender of the
Certificates to be exchanged at the Corporate Trust Office. Whenever any
Certificates are so surren-
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dered for exchange, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the
Agent shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver the
Certificates which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Certificates issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange
of a Certificate shall evidence the ownership of the same number of Income
PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and be entitled to the same
benefits and subject to the same obligations, under this Agreement as the
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, evidenced by the
Certificate surrendered upon such registration of transfer or exchange.
Every Certificate presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Agent) be duly endorsed,
or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Agent duly executed, by the Holder thereof or his attorney
duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of transfer or
exchange of a Certificate, but the Company and the Agent may require payment
from the Holder 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 Certificates, other than any exchanges pursuant to Sections 3.6 and
8.5 not involving any transfer.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to
execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to
authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder and deliver any Certificate
presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or for exchange on or
after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or the Termination Date. In lieu
of delivery of a new Certificate, upon satisfaction of the applicable
conditions specified above in this Section and receipt of appropriate
registration or transfer instructions from such Holder, the Agent shall (i) if
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date has occurred, deliver the shares of
Common Stock issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a part of
the Securities evidenced by such Certificate, (ii) in the case of Income
PRIDES, if a
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Termination Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, transfer the aggregate Stated Amount of the Preferred Securities
evidenced thereby, or (iii) in the case of Growth PRIDES, if a Termination
Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
transfer the Treasury Securities evidenced thereby, in each case subject to the
applicable conditions and in accordance with the applicable provisions of
Article Five hereof.
Section 3.6. Book-Entry Interests.
The Certificates, on original issuance, will be issued in the form of
one or more, fully registered Global Certificates, to be delivered to the
Depositary by, or on behalf of, the Company. Such Global Certificate shall
initially be registered on the books and records of the Company in the name of
Cede & Co., the nominee of the Depositary, and no Beneficial Owner will receive
a definitive Certificate representing such Beneficial Owner's interest in such
Global Certificate, except as provided in Section 3.9. The Agent shall enter
into an agreement with the Depositary if so requested by the Company. Unless
and until definitive, fully registered Certificates have been issued to
Beneficial Owners pursuant to Section 3.9:
(a) the provisions of this Section 3.6 shall be in full
force and effect;
(b) the Company shall be entitled to deal with the
Clearing Agency for all purposes of this Agreement (including the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments and receiving approvals, votes or consents
hereunder) as the Holder of the Securities and the sole holder of the Global
Certificate(s) and shall have no obligation to the Beneficial Owners;
(c) to the extent that the provisions of this Section 3.6
conflict with any other provisions of this Agreement, the provisions of this
Section 3.6 shall control; and
(d) the rights of the Beneficial Owners shall be
exercised only through the Clearing Agency and shall be limited to those
established by law and agreements between such Beneficial Owners and the
Clearing Agency
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and/or the Clearing Agency Participants. The Clearing Agency will make book
entry transfers among Clearing Agency Participants and receive and transmit
payments of Contract Adjustment Payments to such Clearing Agency Participants.
Section 3.7. Notices to Holders.
Whenever a notice or other communication to the Holders is required to
be given under this Agreement, the Company or the Company's agent shall give
such notices and communications to the Holders and, with respect to any
Securities registered in the name of a Clearing Agency or the nominee of a
Clearing Agency, the Company or the Company's agent shall, except as set forth
herein, have no obligations to the Beneficial Owners.
Section 3.8. Appointment of Successor Clearing Agency.
If any Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as
securities depositary with respect to the Securities, the Company may, in its
sole discretion, appoint a successor Clearing Agency with respect to the
Securities.
Section 3.9. Definitive Certificates.
If (i) a Clearing Agency elects to discontinue its services as
securities depositary with respect to the Securities and a successor Clearing
Agency is not appointed within 90 days after such discontinuance pursuant to
Section 3.8, (ii) the Company elects to terminate the book-entry system through
the Clearing Agency with respect to the Securities, or (iii) there shall have
occurred and be continuing a default by the Company in respect of its
obligations under one or more Purchase Contracts, then upon surrender of the
Global Certificates representing the Book-Entry Interests with respect to the
Securities by the Clearing Agency, accompanied by registration instructions,
the Company shall cause definitive Certificates to be delivered to Beneficial
Owners in accordance with the instructions of the Clearing Agency. The Company
shall not be liable for any delay in delivery of such instructions and may
conclusively rely on and shall be protected in relying on, such instructions.
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Section 3.10. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Certificates.
If any mutilated Certificate is surrendered to the Agent, the Company
shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall authenticate,
execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver in exchange therefor, a new
Certificate, evidencing the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as
the case may be, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Agent (i) evidence
to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Certificate, and
(ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to hold each of them
and any agent of any of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice to the
Company or the Agent that such Certificate has been acquired by a bona fide
purchaser, the Company shall execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent
shall authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder,
in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate, a new Certificate,
evidencing the same number of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may
be, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to
execute and deliver to the Agent, and the Agent shall not be obligated to
authenticate, execute on behalf of the Holder, and deliver to the Holder, a
Certificate on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or the
Termination Date. In lieu of delivery of a new Certificate, upon satisfaction
of the applicable conditions specified above in this Section and receipt of
appropriate registration or transfer instructions from such Holder, the Agent
shall (i) if the Purchase Contract Settlement Date has occurred, deliver the
shares of Common Stock issuable in respect of the Purchase Contracts forming a
part of the Securities evidenced by such Certificate, or (ii) if a Termination
Event shall have occurred prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
transfer the Preferred Securities or the Treasury Securities, as the case may
be, evidenced thereby, in each case subject to the applicable conditions and in
accordance with the applicable provisions of Article Five hereof.
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Upon the issuance of any new Certificate under this Section, the
Company and the Agent may require the payment by the Holder 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 Agent)
connected therewith.
Every new Certificate issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Certificate shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company and of the Holder in respect of the
Security evidenced thereby, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen
Certificate (and the Securities evidenced thereby) shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and be subject
to all the obligations of this Agreement equally and proportionately with any
and all other Certificates delivered hereunder.
The provisions of this Section 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 Certificates.
Section 3.11. Persons Deemed Owners.
Prior to due presentment of a Certificate for registration of
transfer, the Company and the Agent, and any agent of the Company or the Agent,
may treat the Person in whose name such Certificate is registered as the owner
of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES evidenced thereby, for the purpose of
receiving distributions on the Preferred Securities, receiving payments of
Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all
other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any distributions on the Preferred
Securities or the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of the
Purchase Contracts constituting a part of the Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES
evidenced thereby shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the
contrary, and neither the Company nor the Agent, nor any agent of the Company
or the Agent, shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Global Certificate,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company, the Agent or any agent of the Company
or the Agent, from giving effect to any written certification,
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proxy or other authorization furnished by any Clearing Agency (or its nominee),
as a Holder, with respect to such Global Certificate or impair, as between such
Clearing Agency and owners of beneficial interests in such Global Certificate,
the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of rights of such
Clearing Agency (or its nominee) as Holder of such Global Certificate.
Section 3.12. Cancellation.
All Certificates surrendered for delivery of shares of Common Stock on
or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, upon the transfer of Preferred
Securities or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, after the occurrence of
a Termination Event or pursuant to an Early Settlement, or upon the
registration of a transfer or exchange of a Security, or a Collateral
Substitution or the re-establishment of an Income PRIDES shall, if surrendered
to any Person other than the Agent, be delivered to the Agent and, if not
already cancelled, shall be promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any
time deliver to the Agent for cancellation any Certificates previously
authenticated, executed and delivered hereunder which the Company may have
acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Certificates so delivered shall,
upon Issuer Order, be promptly cancelled by the Agent. No Certificates shall
be authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holder and delivered in lieu of or
in exchange for any Certificates cancelled as provided in this Section, except
as expressly permitted by this Agreement. All cancelled Certificates held by
the Agent shall be destroyed by the Agent unless otherwise directed by Issuer
Order.
If the Company or any Affiliate of the Company shall acquire any
Certificate, such acquisition shall not operate as a cancellation of such
Certificate unless and until such Certificate is delivered to the Agent
cancelled or for cancellation.
Section 3.13. Substitution of Securities.
A Holder may separate Preferred Securities from the related Purchase
Contracts in respect of an Income PRIDES by substituting for such Preferred
Securities, Treasury Securities in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate Stated Amount of such Preferred Securities (a "Collateral
Substitution") at any time from and after the
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date of this Agreement and on or prior to the second Business Day immediately
preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date by (a) depositing with the
Collateral Agent Treasury Securities having an aggregate principal amount equal
to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Preferred Securities comprising part of
such Income PRIDES and (b) transferring the related Income PRIDES to the Agent
accompanied by a notice to the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D
hereto, stating that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount of Treasury
Securities to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent instruct the
Collateral Agent to release the Preferred Securities underlying such Income
PRIDES, whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to the
Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon receipt
of the Treasury Securities described in clause (a) above and the instruction
described in clause (b) above, in accordance with the terms of the Pledge
Agreement, the Collateral Agent will release to the Agent, on behalf of the
Holder, Preferred Securities having a corresponding aggregate Stated Amount
from the Pledge, free and clear of the Company's security interest therein, and
upon receipt thereof the Agent shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Income PRIDES;
(ii) transfer the Preferred Securities to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and
deliver a Growth PRIDES Certificate executed by the Company in
accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase
Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Income PRIDES
Certificates.
Holders who elect to separate the Preferred Security from the related
Purchase Contract and to substitute Treasury Securities for such Preferred
Securities shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable to the
Collateral Agent for its services as Collateral Agent in respect of the
substitution, and the Company shall not be responsible for any such fees or
expenses.
Holders may make Collateral Substitutions only in integral multiples
of 20 Income PRIDES.
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In the event a Holder making a Collateral Substitution pursuant to
this Section 3.13 fails to effect a book-entry transfer of the Income PRIDES or
fails to deliver an Income PRIDES Certificate(s) to the Agent after depositing
Treasury Securities with the Collateral Agent, the Preferred Security
constituting a part of such Income PRIDES, and any distributions on such
Preferred Security, shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in
trust for the benefit of such Holder, until such Income PRIDES is so
transferred or the Income PRIDES Certificate is so delivered, as the case may
be, or, with respect to an Income PRIDES Certificate, such Holder provides
satisfactory evidence that such Income PRIDES Certificate has been destroyed,
lost or stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent
and the Company.
Except as described in this Section 3.13, for so long as the Purchase
Contract underlying an Income PRIDES remains in effect, such Income PRIDES
shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights and
obligations of the Holder in respect of the Preferred Security and Purchase
Contract comprising such Income PRIDES may be acquired, and may be transferred
and exchanged, only as an Income PRIDES.
Section 3.14. Reestablishment of Income PRIDES.
A Holder of a Growth PRIDES may at any time on or prior to the second
Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
recreate Income PRIDES by (a) depositing with the Collateral Agent Preferred
Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to the aggregate principal
amount of the Treasury Securities comprising part of the Growth PRIDES to the
Collateral Agent and (b) transferring the related Growth PRIDES to the Agent
accompanied by a notice to the Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit D
hereto, stating that the Holder has transferred the relevant amount of
Preferred Securities to the Collateral Agent and requesting that the Agent
instruct the Collateral Agent to release the Treasury Securities underlying
such Growth PRIDES, whereupon the Agent shall promptly give such instruction to
the Collateral Agent, substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto. Upon
receipt of the Preferred Securities described in clause (a) above and the
instruction described in clause (b) above, in accordance with the
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terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Collateral Agent will effect the release of
the Treasury Securities having a corresponding aggregate principal amount from
the Pledge to the Agent free and clear of the Company's security interest
therein, and upon receipt thereof the Agent shall promptly:
(i) cancel the related Growth PRIDES;
(ii) transfer the Treasury Securities to the Holder; and
(iii) authenticate, execute on behalf of such Holder and
deliver an Income PRIDES Certificate executed by the Company in
accordance with Section 3.3 evidencing the same number of Purchase
Contracts as were evidenced by the cancelled Growth PRIDES.
Holders of Growth PRIDES may reestablish Income PRIDES only in
integral multiples of 20 Income PRIDES for each Growth PRIDES.
Except as provided in this Section 3.14, for so long as the Purchase
Contract underlying a Growth PRIDES remains in effect, such Growth PRIDES shall
not be separable into its constituent parts and the rights and obligations of
the Holder of such Growth PRIDES in respect of the Treasury Security and
Purchase Contract comprising such Growth PRIDES may be acquired, and may be
transferred and exchanged only as a Growth PRIDES.
Section 3.15. Transfer of Collateral upon Occurrence of Termination Event.
Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event and the transfer to the
Agent of the Preferred Securities or the Treasury Securities, as the case may
be, underlying the Income PRIDES and the Growth PRIDES, respectively, pursuant
to the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent shall request transfer
instructions with respect to such Preferred Securities and/or Treasury
Securities, as the case may be, from each Holder by written request mailed to
such Holder at its address as it appears in the Income PRIDES Register or the
Growth PRIDES Register, as the case may be. Upon book-entry transfer of the
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES or delivery of an Income PRIDES Certificate or
Growth PRIDES Certificate to the Agent
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with such transfer instructions, the Agent shall transfer the Preferred
Securities or Treasury Securities underlying such Income PRIDES or Growth
PRIDES, as the case may be, to such Holder by book-entry transfer, or other
appropriate procedures, in accordance with such instructions. In the event a
Holder of Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES fails to effect such transfer or
delivery, the Preferred Securities or Treasury Securities underlying such
Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES, as the case may be, and any distributions
thereon, shall be held in the name of the Agent or its nominee in trust for the
benefit of such Holder, until such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES are
transferred or the Income PRIDES Certificate or Growth PRIDES Certificate is
surrendered or such Holder provides satisfactory evidence that such Income
PRIDES Certificate or Growth PRIDES Certificate has been destroyed, lost or
stolen, together with any indemnity that may be required by the Agent and the
Company.
Section 3.16. No Consent to Assumption.
Each Holder of a Security, by acceptance thereof, shall be deemed
expressly to have withheld any consent to the assumption under Section 365 of
the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise, of the Purchase Contract by the Company or
its trustee in the event that the Company becomes the debtor under the
Bankruptcy Code.
ARTICLE IV
The Preferred Securities
Section 4.1. Payment of Distribution; Rights to Distributions Preserved.
A distribution on any Preferred Security which is paid on any Payment
Date shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent from the Collateral Agent
as provided by the terms of the Pledge Agreement, be paid to the Person in
whose name the Income PRIDES Certificate (or one or more Predecessor Income
PRIDES Certificates) of which such Preferred Security is a part is registered
at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
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Each Income PRIDES Certificate evidencing Preferred Securities
delivered under this Agreement upon registration of transfer of or in exchange
for or in lieu of any other Income PRIDES Certificate shall carry the rights to
distributions accrued and unpaid, and to accrue distributions, which were
carried by the Preferred Securities underlying such other Income PRIDES
Certificate.
In the case of any Income PRIDES with respect to which Cash Settlement
of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on a Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, or with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying
Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, or with respect to
which a Collateral Substitution is effected on a date, after any Record Date
and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, distributions on the
Preferred Securities underlying such Income PRIDES otherwise payable on such
Payment Date shall be payable on such Payment Date notwithstanding such Cash
Settlement or Early Settlement or Collateral Substitution, and such
distributions shall, subject to receipt thereof by the Agent, be paid to the
Person in whose name the Income PRIDES Certificate (or one or more Predecessor
Income PRIDES Certificates) is registered at the close of business on the
Record Date. Except as otherwise expressly provided in the immediately
preceding sentence, in the case of any Income PRIDES with respect to which Cash
Settlement or Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase Contract is effected
on a Purchase Contract Settlement Date or an Early Settlement Date, as the case
may be, or with respect to which a Collateral Substitution has been effected,
distributions on the related Preferred Securities that would otherwise be
payable after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or Early Settlement Date
shall not be payable hereunder to the Holder of such Income PRIDES; provided,
however, that to the extent that such Holder continues to hold the separated
Preferred Securities that formerly comprised a part of such Holder's Income
PRIDES, such Holder shall be entitled to receive the distributions on such
separated Preferred Securities.
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Section 4.2. Notice and Voting.
Under the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to
exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Preferred
Securities pledged with the Collateral Agent but only to the extent instructed
by the Holders as described below. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at
which holders of Preferred Securities are entitled to vote or upon any
solicitation of consents, waivers or proxies of holders of Preferred
Securities, the Agent shall, as soon as practicable thereafter, mail to the
Holders a notice (a) containing such information as is contained in the notice
or solicitation, (b) stating that each Holder on the record date set by the
Agent therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as the
record date for determining the holders of Preferred Securities entitled to
vote) shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the voting
rights pertaining to the Preferred Securities underlying their Income PRIDES
and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions may be given. Upon the
written request of the Holders on such record date, the Agent shall endeavor
insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be voted, in accordance with the
instructions set forth in such requests, the maximum number of Preferred
Securities as to which any particular voting instructions are received. In the
absence of specific instructions from the Holder of an Income PRIDES, the Agent
shall abstain from voting the Preferred Security underlying such Income PRIDES.
The Company hereby agrees, if applicable, to solicit Holders to timely instruct
the Agent in order to enable the Agent to vote such Preferred Securities or to
cause such Preferred Securities to be voted, and the Trust shall covenant in
the Declaration to take all action which may be deemed necessary by the Agent
in order to enable the Agent to vote such Preferred Securities or to cause such
Preferred Securities to be voted.
Section 4.3. Tax Event; Investment Company Event.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event or an Investment Company Event or a
liquidation of the Trust, a principal amount of Junior Subordinated Debentures
constituting the assets of the Trust and underlying the Preferred Securities
equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred Securities shall
be delivered to the Collateral
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Agent in exchange for the Pledged Preferred Securities. Thereafter, the Junior
Subordinated Debentures will be held by the Collateral Agent in accordance with
the terms of the Pledge Agreement to secure the obligations of each Holder of
an Income PRIDES to purchase the Common Stock of the Company under the Purchase
Contracts constituting a part of such Income PRIDES. Following the occurrence
of a Tax Event, an Investment Company Event or a liquidation of the Trust, the
Holders and the Collateral Agent shall have such security interests, rights and
obligations with respect to the Junior Subordinated Debentures as the Holders
and the Collateral Agent had in respect of the Preferred Securities subject to
the Pledge thereof as provided in Articles II, III, IV, V and VI of the Pledge
Agreement, and any reference herein to the Preferred Securities shall be deemed
to be a reference to the Junior Subordinated Debentures. The Company may cause
to be made in any Income PRIDES Certificates thereafter to be issued such
change in phraseology and form (but not in substance) as may be appropriate to
reflect the liquidation of the Trust and the substitution of Junior
Subordinated Debentures for Preferred Securities as Collateral.
ARTICLE V
The Purchase Contracts
Section 5.1. Purchase of Shares of Common Stock.
Each Purchase Contract shall obligate the Holder of the related
Security to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount (the "Purchase Price"), a
number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on or
prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have occurred a
Termination Event, Cash Settlement or an Early Settlement with respect to the
Security of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is
equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or
greater than $35.38 (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), 1.4132 shares of
Common Stock per Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less
than the Threshold Appreciation Price, but is greater than $29, the number of
shares of Common Stock equal to the Stated Amount
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divided by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Value
is less than or equal to $29, 1.7241 shares of Common Stock per Purchase
Contract, in each case subject to adjustment as provided in Section 5.6 (and in
each case rounded upward or downward to the nearest 1/10,000th of a share). As
provided in Section 5.10, no fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued
upon settlement of Purchase Contracts.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Prices
per share of Common Stock on each of the twenty consecutive Trading Days ending
on the second Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date. The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of
determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is
reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York
Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed
for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite
transactions for the principal United States securities exchange on which the
Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United
States national or regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq
Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid
price for the Common Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the
National Quotation Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not
available, the market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a
nationally recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this
purpose by the Company. A "Trading Day" means a day on which the Common Stock
(A) is not suspended from trading on any national or regional securities
exchange or association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and
(B) has traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or
association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the
trading of the Common Stock.
Each Holder of an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance
thereof, irrevocably authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related
Purchase Contract on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact, agrees to be bound by
the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to perform its
obligations under such Purchase Contracts, and consents to the provisions
hereof, irrevo-
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cably authorizes the Agent as its attorney-in-fact to enter into and perform
the Pledge Agreement on its behalf as its attorney-in-fact, and consents to and
agrees to be bound by the Pledge of the Preferred Securities or the Treasury
Securities pursuant to the Pledge Agreement; provided that upon a Termination
Event, the rights of the Holder of such Security under the Purchase Contract
may be enforced without regard to any other rights or obligations. Each Holder
of an Income PRIDES or a Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance thereof, further
covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in Section
5.4 and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments in
respect of the Stated Amount of the Preferred Securities or the Proceeds of the
Treasury Securities on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by
the Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's
obligations under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no
right, title or interest in such payments.
Upon registration of transfer of a Certificate, the transferee shall
be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the part of such
transferee), under the terms of this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts
underlying such Certificate and the Pledge Agreement and the transferor shall
be released from the obligations under this Agreement, the Purchase Contracts
underlying the Certificates so transferred and the Pledge Agreement. The
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Certificate, by its
acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the
provisions of this paragraph.
Section 5.2. Contract Adjustment Payments.
Subject to Section 5.3, the Company shall pay, on each Payment Date,
the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of each Purchase Contract
to the Person in whose name a Certificate (or one or more Predecessor
Certificates) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date next
preceding such Payment Date. The Contract Adjustment Payments will be payable
at the office of the Agent in The City of New York maintained for that purpose
or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto at such Person's address as it appears on the Income PRIDES
Register or Growth PRIDES Register.
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Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, Contract Adjustment
Payments shall cease to accrue in respect of any period from and after the date
of such Termination Event (unless the Company defaults in the payment of
accrued Contract Adjustment Payments). The Company's obligations to pay any
accrued Contract Adjustment Payments shall be deemed to be fulfilled if the
Company deposits with the Agent funds necessary to pay accrued Contract
Adjustment Payments, in trust with irrevocable instructions and authorization
that such funds shall be delivered to the Holders.
Each Certificate delivered under this Agreement upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of (including as a result of a
Collateral Substitution or the re-establishment of an Income PRIDES) any other
Certificate shall carry the rights to Contract Adjustment Payments accrued and
unpaid, and to accrue Contract Adjustment Payments, which were carried by the
Purchase Contracts underlying such other Certificates.
In the case of any Security with respect to which Early Settlement of
the underlying Purchase Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, after
any Record Date and on or prior to the next succeeding Payment Date, Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on such Payment Date shall be payable on
such Payment Date notwithstanding such Early Settlement, and such Contract
Adjustment Payments shall be paid to the Person in whose name the Certificate
evidencing such Security (or one or more Predecessor Certificates) is
registered at the close of business on such Record Date. Except as otherwise
expressly provided in the immediately preceding sentence, in the case of any
Security with respect to which Early Settlement of the underlying Purchase
Contract is effected on an Early Settlement Date, Contract Adjustment Payments
that would otherwise be payable after the Early Settlement Date with respect to
such Purchase Contract shall not be payable.
The Company's obligations with respect to Contract Adjustment Payments
are subordinate and junior in right of payment to all liabilities of the
Company, other than the Yield Enhancement Payments payable by the Company in
respect of its 8 3/4% PRIDES and the Company's guarantee of its subordinated
debentures with which they rank pari passu.
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Section 5.3. Deferral of Payment Dates For Contract Adjustment Payments.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to
defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) at least ten Business
Days prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding Payment Date or (ii) the
date the Company is required to give notice of the Record Date or Payment Date
with respect to payment of such Contract Adjustment Payments to the New York
Stock Exchange or other applicable self-regulatory organization or to Holders
of the Securities, but in any event not less than two Business Days prior to
such Record Date. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred shall bear
additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of 8% per annum
(computed on the basis of 360 day year of twelve 30 day months), compounding on
each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred installments of
Contract Adjustment Payments together with the additional Contract Adjustment
Payments accrued thereon, being referred to herein as the "Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments shall be due on
the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent that payment is deferred
pursuant to this Section. No Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a
date that is after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or, with respect to
any particular Purchase Contract, Early Settlement thereof. If the Purchase
Contracts are terminated (upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the
Holder's right to receive Contract Adjustment Payments and Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments will terminate.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, each Holder will receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of shares of Common Stock (in
addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal to the Settlement Rate)
equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments
payable to a Holder divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value.
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No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued by the Company
with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date. In lieu of fractional shares otherwise
issuable with respect to such payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments,
the Holder will be entitled to receive an amount in cash as provided in Section
5.10.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments have been made, (a) the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on,
make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock (other than (i)
purchases or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plans
or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract
or security outstanding on the date of such event requiring the Company to
purchase shares of Common Stock, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the
Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of
the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's
capital stock or (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged) or make any
guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing), (b) the Company shall not
make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including guarantees) issued by the
Company that rank pari passu with such Contract Adjustment Payments and (c) the
Company shall not make any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing.
Section 5.4. Payment of Purchase Price.
(a) Unless a Holder settles the underlying Purchase Contract either
through the early delivery of cash to the Purchase Contract Agent in the manner
described in Section 5.9 or otherwise, the Purchase Price for the shares of
Common Stock purchased pursuant to a Purchase Contract shall be paid by
application of payments received by the Company on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date from the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Pledge Agreement,
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able at the office of the Collateral Agent in the City of New York maintained
for such purpose, as follows:
(i) A Holder may effect a "Cash Settlement" of a Purchase
Contract by (A) providing the Agent with notice of its election to
effect a Cash Settlement on or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York City time,
on the second Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date (B) concurrently making a payment of the Purchase
Price to the Collateral Agent prior to 9:00 a.m., New York City time,
on the Business Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date in lawful money of the United States by certified or
cashiers' check or wire transfer in immediately available funds
payable to or upon the order of the Company. Upon receipt of notice
from a Holder electing a Cash Settlement, the Agent promptly shall
notify the Collateral Agent of such Holder's election. Any cash
received by the Collateral Agent will be invested promptly by the
Collateral Agent in Permitted Investments and paid to the Company on
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date in settlement of the Purchase
Contract in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement. Any
funds received by the Collateral Agent in respect of the investment
earnings from the investment in such Permitted Investments, will be
distributed to the Agent when received for payment to the Holder.
(ii) A Holder of Income PRIDES who does not make an effective
Cash Settlement or an Early Settlement under Section 5.9 hereof shall
be deemed to have elected to pay for the shares of Common Stock to be
issued under the related Purchase Contract from the proceeds of the
related Preferred Securities underlying its Income PRIDES, which will
be applied automatically by the Collateral Agent to pay the Purchase
Price for the Purchase Contract to the Company on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date as provided in subparagraph (a)(i); and
(iii) A Holder of Growth PRIDES shall pay for the shares of
Common Stock to be issued under the Purchase Contract from the
Proceeds of the related Pledged Treasury Securities held by the
Collateral Agent, which will be applied automatically by the
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Collateral Agent to pay the Purchase Price for the Purchase Contract
to the Company on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date without
receiving any instruction from the Holder. Upon the maturity of the
Pledged Treasury Notes held by the Collateral Agent on the day
immediately prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, the
principal amount of the Treasury Securities received by the Collateral
Agent will be invested promptly in Permitted Investments. In the
event the sum of the proceeds from the related Pledged Treasury
Securities and the investment earnings earned from such investments is
in excess of the aggregate Purchase Price of the Purchase Contracts
being settled thereby, the Collateral Agent will distribute such
excess to the Agent for the benefit of the Holder of the related
Growth PRIDES when received.
Any distribution to Holders of excess funds and interest described in
subparagraph (i), (ii) or (iii) above, shall be payable at the office of the
Agent in The City of New York maintained for that purpose or, at the option of
the Holder, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at
such address as it appears on the Register.
(b) The Company shall not be obligated to issue any
shares of Common Stock in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any
certificate therefor to the Holder unless it shall have received payment in
full of the Purchase Price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased
thereunder in the manner herein set forth.
(c) Upon Cash Settlement of any Purchase Contract, (i)
the Collateral Agent will in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement
cause the Pledged Preferred Securities underlying the relevant Security to be
released from the Pledge by the Collateral Agent free and clear of any security
interest of the Company and transferred to the Agent for delivery to the Holder
thereof or its designee as soon as practicable and (ii) subject to the receipt
thereof from the Collateral Agent, the Agent shall, by book-entry transfer, or
other appropriate procedures, in accordance with instructions provided by the
Holder thereof, transfer the Pledged Preferred Security or the Pledged Treasury
Securities (or, if no such instructions are given to the Agent by the Holder,
the
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Agent shall hold the Pledged Preferred Security or the Pledged Treasury
Securities, and any distributions thereon, in the name of the Agent or its
nominee in trust for the benefit of such Holder).
Section 5.5. Issuance of Shares of Common Stock.
Unless a Termination Event shall have occurred on or prior to the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date, on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date,
upon its receipt of payment in full of the Purchase Price for the shares of
Common Stock purchased by the Holders pursuant to the foregoing provisions of
this Article, and in payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any,
owed by the Company to the Holders and subject to Section 5.6(b), the Company
shall issue and deposit with the Agent, for the benefit of the Holders of the
Outstanding Securities, one or more certificates representing the new shares of
Common Stock registered in the name of the Agent (or its nominee) as custodian
for the Holders (such certificates for shares of Common Stock, together with
any dividends or distributions with respect thereto, being hereinafter referred
to as the "Purchase Contract Settlement Fund") to which the Holders are
entitled hereunder. Subject to the foregoing, upon surrender of a Certificate
to the Agent on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, together with
settlement instructions thereon duly completed and executed, the Holder of such
Certificate shall be entitled to receive in exchange therefor a certificate
representing that number of whole shares of Common Stock which such Holder is
entitled to receive pursuant to the provisions of this Article Five (after
taking into account all Securities then held by such Holder) together with cash
in lieu of fractional shares as provided in Section 5.10 and any dividends or
distributions with respect to such shares constituting part of the Purchase
Contract Settlement Fund, but without any interest thereon, and the Certificate
so surrendered shall forthwith be cancelled. Such shares shall be registered
in the name of the Holder or the Holder's designee as specified in the
settlement instructions provided by the Holder to the Agent. If any shares of
Common Stock issued in respect of a Purchase Contract and in payment of any
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments are to be registered to a Person other
than the Person in whose name the Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract
is registered, no such registration shall be made unless the Person re-
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questing such registration has paid any transfer and other taxes required by
reason of such registration in a name other than that of the registered Holder
of the Certificate evidencing such Purchase Contract or has established to the
satisfaction of the Company that such tax either has been paid or is not
payable.
Section 5.6. Adjustment of Settlement Rate.
(a) Adjustments for Dividends, Distributions, Stock Splits, Etc.
(1) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other
distribution on any class of Common Stock of the Company in Common Stock, the
Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
dividend or other distribution shall be increased by dividing such Settlement
Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination and the denominator shall be the sum of such number of shares and
the total number of shares constituting such dividend or other distribution,
such increase to become effective immediately after the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination. For the purposes of
this paragraph (1), the number of shares of Common Stock at any time
outstanding shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company but
shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip certificates issued in lieu
of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The Company will not pay any dividend
or make any distribution on shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the
Company.
(2) In case the Company shall issue rights, options or warrants to all
holders of its Common Stock (not being available on an equivalent basis to
Holders of the Securities upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts underlying
such Securities) entitling them, for a period expiring within 45 days after the
record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such
rights, options or warrants, to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock on the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled
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to receive such rights, options or warrants (other than pursuant to a dividend
reinvestment plan), the Settlement Rate in effect at the opening of business on
the day following the date fixed for such determination shall be increased by
dividing such Settlement Rate by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the
date fixed for such determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock
which the aggregate of the offering price of the total number of shares of
Common Stock so offered for subscription or purchase would purchase at such
Current Market Price and the denominator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding at the close of business on the date fixed for such
determination plus the number of shares of Common Stock so offered for
subscription or purchase, such increase to become effective immediately after
the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for such
determination. For the purposes of this paragraph (2), the number of shares of
Common Stock at any time outstanding shall not include shares held in the
treasury of the Company but shall include shares issuable in respect of scrip
certificates issued in lieu of fractions of shares of Common Stock. The
Company shall not issue any such rights, options or warrants in respect of
shares of Common Stock held in the treasury of the Company.
(3) In case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall be subdivided or
split into a greater number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in
effect at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
subdivision or split becomes effective shall be proportionately increased, and,
conversely, in case outstanding shares of Common Stock shall each be combined
into a smaller number of shares of Common Stock, the Settlement Rate in effect
at the opening of business on the day following the day upon which such
combination becomes effective shall be proportionately reduced, such increase
or reduction, as the case may be, to become effective immediately after the
opening of business on the day following the day upon which such subdivision,
split or combination becomes effective.
(4) In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to
all holders of its Common Stock evidences of its indebtedness or assets
(including securities, but excluding any rights or warrants referred to
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in paragraph (2) of this Section, any dividend or distribution paid exclusively
in cash and any dividend or distribution referred to in paragraph (1) of this
Section), the Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal
the rate determined by dividing the Settlement Rate in effect immediately prior
to the close of business on the date fixed for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such distribution by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on
the date fixed for such determination less the then fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution filed with the Agent) of the portion of the
assets or evidences of indebtedness so distributed applicable to one share of
Common Stock and the denominator shall all be such Current Market Price per
share of the Common Stock, such adjustment to become effective immediately
prior to the opening of business on the day following the date fixed for the
determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution. In any
case in which this paragraph (4) is applicable, paragraph (2) of this Section
shall not be applicable.
(5) In case the Company shall, (I) by dividend or otherwise,
distribute to all holders of its Common Stock cash (excluding any cash that is
distributed in a Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies or as
part of a distribution referred to in paragraph (4) of this Section) in an
aggregate amount that, combined together with (II) the aggregate amount of any
other distributions to all holders of its Common Stock made exclusively in cash
within the 12 months preceding the date of payment of such distribution and in
respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (5) or paragraph (6)
of this Section has been made and (III) the aggregate of any cash plus the fair
market value (as determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be conclusive and described in a Board Resolution) of consideration
payable in respect of any tender or exchange offer by the Company or any of its
subsidiaries for all or any portion of the Common Stock concluded within the 12
months preceding the date of payment of the distribution described in clause
(I) above and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to this paragraph (5)
or paragraph (6) of this Section has been made, exceeds 15% of the product of
the Current Market Price per share of the
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Common Stock on the date for the determination of holders of shares of Common
Stock entitled to receive such distribution times the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding on such date, then, and in each such case, immediately
after the close of business on such date for determination, the Settlement Rate
shall be increased so that the same shall equal the rate determined by dividing
the Settlement Rate in effect immediately prior to the close of business on the
date fixed for determination of the stockholders entitled to receive such
distribution by a fraction (i) the numerator of which shall be equal to the
Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for such
determination less an amount equal to the quotient of (x) the combined amount
distributed or payable in the transactions described in clauses (I), (II) and
(III) above and (y) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on such
date for determination and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the
Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on such date for
determination.
(6) In case (I) a tender or exchange offer made by the Company or any
subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common Stock shall
expire and such tender or exchange offer (as amended upon the expiration
thereof) shall require the payment to stockholders (based on the acceptance (up
to any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of
Purchased Shares) of an aggregate consideration having a fair market value (as
determined by the Board of Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive
and described in a Board Resolution) that combined together with (II) the
aggregate of the cash plus the fair market value (as determined by the Board of
Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a Board
Resolution), as of the expiration of such tender or exchange offer, of
consideration payable in respect of any other tender or exchange offer, by the
Company or any subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the Common
Stock expiring within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such tender or
exchange offer and in respect of which no adjustment pursuant to paragraph (5)
of this Section or this paragraph (6) has been made and (III) the aggregate
amount of any distributions to all holders of the Company's Common Stock made
exclusively in cash within the 12 months preceding the expiration of such
tender or exchange offer and in respect of which no adjustment
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pursuant to paragraph (5) of this Section or this paragraph (6) has been made,
exceeds 15% of the product of the Current Market Price per share of the Common
Stock as of the last time (the "Expiration Time") tenders could have been made
pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it may be amended) times the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) on
the Expiration Time, then, and in each such case, immediately prior to the
opening of business on the day after the date of the Expiration Time, the
Settlement Rate shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the rate
determined by dividing the Settlement Rate immediately prior to the close of
business on the date of the Expiration Time by a fraction (i) the numerator of
which shall be equal to (A) the product of (I) the Current Market Price per
share of the Common Stock on the date of the Expiration Time and (II) the
number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered shares) on
the Expiration Time less (B) the amount of cash plus the fair market value
(determined as aforesaid) of the aggregate consideration payable to
stockholders based on the transactions described in clauses (I), (II) and (III)
above (assuming in the case of clause (I) the acceptance, up to any maximum
specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer, of Purchased Shares),
and (ii) the denominator of which shall be equal to the product of (A) the
Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock as of the Expiration Time
and (B) the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding (including any
tendered shares) as of the Expiration Time less the number of all shares
validly tendered and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time (the shares deemed
so accepted, up to any such maximum, being referred to as the "Purchased
Shares").
(7) The reclassification of Common Stock into securities including
securities other than Common Stock (other than any reclassification upon a
Reorganization Event to which Section 5.6(b) applies) shall be deemed to
involve (a) a distribution of such securities other than Common Stock to all
holders of Common Stock (and the effective date of such reclassification shall
be deemed to be "the date fixed for the determination of stockholders entitled
to receive such distribution" and the "date fixed for such determination"
within the meaning of paragraph (4) of this Section), and (b) a subdivision,
split or combination, as the case may be, of the number of shares of Common
Stock outstanding immediately prior
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to such reclassification into the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
immediately thereafter (and the effective date of such reclassification shall
be deemed to be "the day upon which such subdivision or split becomes
effective" or "the day upon which such combination becomes effective", as the
case may be, and "the day upon which such subdivision, split or combination
becomes effective" within the meaning of paragraph (3) of this Section).
(8) The "Current Market Price" per share of Common Stock on any day
means the average of the daily Closing Prices for the 5 consecutive Trading
Days selected by the Company commencing not more than 20 Trading Days before,
and ending not later than, the earlier of the day in question and the day
before the "ex date" with respect to the issuance or distribution requiring
such computation. For purposes of this paragraph, the term "ex date", when
used with respect to any issuance or distribution, shall mean the first date on
which the Common Stock trades regular way on such exchange or in such market
without the right to receive such issuance or distribution.
(9) All adjustments to the Settlement Rate shall be calculated to the
nearest 1/10,000th of a share of Common Stock (or if there is not a nearest
1/10,000th of a share to the next lower 1/10,000th of a share). No adjustment
in the Settlement Rate shall be required unless such adjustment would require
an increase or decrease of at least one percent therein; provided, however,
that any adjustments which by reason of this subparagraph are not required to
be made shall be carried forward and taken into account in any subsequent
adjustment. If an adjustment is made to the Settlement Rate pursuant to
paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (10) of this Section 5.6(a), an
adjustment shall also be made to the Applicable Market Value solely to
determine which of clauses (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of Settlement Rate
in Section 5.1 will apply on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date. Such
adjustment shall be made by multiplying the Applicable Market Value by a
fraction of which the numerator shall be the Settlement Rate immediately after
such adjustment pursuant to paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (10)
of this Section 5.6(a) and the denominator shall be the Settlement Rate
immediately before such adjustment.
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(10) The Company may make such increases in the Settlement Rate, in
addition to those required by this Section, as it considers to be advisable in
order to avoid or diminish any income tax to any holders of shares of Common
Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of stock or issuance of
rights or warrants to purchase or subscribe for stock or from any event treated
as such for income tax purposes or for any other reasons.
(b) Adjustment for Consolidation, Merger or Other Reorganization
Event. In the event of (i) any consolidation or merger of the Company, with or
into another Person (other than a merger or consolidation in which the Company
is the continuing corporation and in which the Common Stock outstanding
immediately prior to the merger or consolidation is not exchanged for cash,
securities or other property of the Company or another corporation), (ii) any
sale, transfer, lease or conveyance to another Person of the property of the
Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety, (iii) any statutory
exchange of securities of the Company with another Person (other than in
connection with a merger or acquisition) or (iv) any liquidation, dissolution
or winding up of the Company other than as a result of or after the occurrence
of a Termination Event (any such event, a "Reorganization Event"), the
Settlement Rate will be adjusted to provide that each Holder of Securities will
receive on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date with respect to each Purchase
Contract forming a part thereof, the kind and amount of securities, cash and
other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event by a Holder of the
number of shares of Common Stock issuable on account of each Purchase Contract
if the Purchase Contract Settlement Date had occurred immediately prior to such
Reorganization Event, assuming such Holder of Common Stock is not a Person with
which the Company consolidated or into which the Company merged or which merged
into the Company or to which such sale or transfer was made, as the case may be
("Constituent Person"), or an Affiliate of a constituent Person, and failed to
exercise his rights of election, if any, as to the kind or amount of
securities, cash and other property receivable upon such Reorganization Event
(provided that if the kind or amount of securities, cash and other property
receivable upon such Reorganization Event is not the same for each share of
Common Stock held immediately prior to such Reorganization Event by other than
a constituent Person or an Affiliate thereof and in
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respect of which such rights of election shall not have been exercised
("non-electing share"), then for the purpose of this Section the kind and
amount of securities, cash and other property receivable upon such
Reorganization Event by each non-electing share shall be deemed to be the kind
and amount so receivable per share by a plurality of the non-electing shares).
In the event of such a Reorganization Event, the Person formed by such
consolidation, merger or exchange or the Person which acquires the assets of
the Company or, in the event of a liquidation or dissolution of the Company,
the Company or a liquidating trust created in connection therewith, shall
execute and deliver to the Agent an agreement supplemental hereto providing
that the Holders of each Outstanding Security shall have the rights provided by
this Section 5.6. Such supplemental agreement shall provide for adjustments
which, for events subsequent to the effective date of such supplemental
agreement, shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the
adjustments provided for in this Section. The above provisions of this Section
shall similarly apply to successive Reorganization Events.
Section 5.7. Notice of Adjustments and Certain Other Events.
(a) Whenever the Settlement Rate is adjusted as herein provided,
the Company shall:
(i) forthwith compute the adjusted Settlement Rate in
accordance with Section 5.6 and prepare and transmit to the Agent an
Officers' Certificate setting forth the Settlement Rate, the method
of calculation thereof in reasonable detail, and the facts requiring
such adjustment and upon which such adjustment is based; and
(ii) within 10 Business Days following the occurrence of an
event that permits or requires an adjustment to the Settlement Rate
pursuant to Section 5.6 (or if the Company is not aware of such
occurrence, as soon as practicable after becoming so aware), provide a
written notice to the Holders of the Securities of the occurrence of
such event and a statement in reasonable detail setting forth the
method by which the adjustment to the Settlement
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Rate was determined and setting forth the adjusted Settlement Rate.
(b) The Agent shall not at any time be under any duty or
responsibility to any holder of Securities to determine whether any facts exist
which may require any adjustment of the Settlement Rate, or with respect to the
nature or extent or calculation of any such adjustment when made, or with
respect to the method employed in making the same. The Agent shall not be
accountable with respect to the validity or value (or the kind or amount) of
any shares of Common Stock, or of any securities or property, which may at the
time be issued or delivered with respect to any Purchase Contract; and the
Agent makes no representation with respect thereto. The Agent shall not be
responsible for any failure of the Company to issue, transfer or deliver any
shares of Common Stock pursuant to a Purchase Contract or to comply with any of
the duties, responsibilities or covenants of the Company contained in this
Article.
Section 5.8. Termination Event; Notice.
The Purchase Contracts and the obligations and rights of the Company
and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the
Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract
Adjustment Payments, shall immediately and automatically terminate, without the
necessity of any notice or action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if,
on or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall
have occurred. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event, the
Securities shall thereafter represent the right to receive the Preferred
Securities forming a part of such Securities in the case of Income PRIDES, or
Treasury Securities in the case of Growth PRIDES, in accordance with the
provisions of Section 4.2 and the Pledge Agreement, as applicable. Upon the
occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event
later than two Business Days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the
Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the
Register.
Section 5.9. Early Settlement.
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(a) Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this
Section 5.9, at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts underlying
Securities, having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral
multiple thereof, may be settled early ("Early Settlement") as provided herein.
In order to exercise the right to effect Early Settlement with respect to any
Purchase Contracts, the Holder of the Certificate evidencing such Purchase
Contracts shall deliver such Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust
Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of
Election to Settle Early on the reverse thereof duly completed and accompanied
by payment in the form of a certified or cashier's check payable to the order
of the Company in an amount (the "Early Settlement Amount") equal to (i) the
product of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts
with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the
period from the close of business on any Record Date next preceding any Payment
Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the
sum of (x) the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with
respect to such Purchase Contracts plus (y) in the case of Income PRIDES
Certificate, the distributions on the related Preferred Securities payable on
such Payment Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding sentence
and subject to the second to last paragraph of Section 5.2, no payment or
adjustment shall be made upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contract on
account of any Contract Adjustment Payments accrued on such Purchase Contract
or on account of any dividends on the Common Stock issued upon such Early
Settlement. If the foregoing requirements are first satisfied with respect to
Purchase Contracts underlying any Securities at or prior to 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on a Business Day, such day shall be the "Early Settlement Date"
with respect to such Securities and if such requirements are first satisfied
after 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day or on a day that is not
a Business Day, the "Early Settlement Date" with respect to such Securities
shall be the next succeeding Business Day.
(b) Upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the
related Securities, the Company shall issue, and the Holder shall be entitled
to receive, a
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number of new shares of Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract as to
which Early Settlement is effected equal to the Early Settlement Rate;
provided, however, that upon the Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts,
the Holder of such related Securities will forfeit the right to receive any
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments. The Early Settlement Rate shall
initially be equal to and shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same
time as the Settlement Rate is adjusted. As promptly as practicable after
Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts in accordance with the provisions of
this Section 5.9, the Company shall issue and shall deliver to the Agent at the
Corporate Trust Office a certificate or certificates for the full number of
shares of Common Stock issuable upon such Early Settlement together with
payment in lieu of any fraction of a share, as provided in Section 5.10.
(c) The Company shall cause the shares of Common Stock issuable
upon Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts, and the related Preferred
Securities, in the case of Income PRIDES, or the related Treasury Securities,
in the case of Growth PRIDES, deliverable, to be issued and delivered, in the
case of such shares of Common Stock, and released from the Pledge by the
Collateral Agent and transferred, in the case of such Preferred Securities or
Treasury Securities, to the Agent, for delivery to the Holder thereof or its
designee, no later than the third Business Day after the applicable Early
Settlement Date.
(d) Upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts, and subject
to receipt of shares of Common Stock from the Company and Preferred Securities
or Treasury Securities, as the case may be, from the Collateral Agent, as
applicable, the Agent shall, in accordance with the instructions provided by
the Holder thereof on the applicable form of Election to Settle Early on the
reverse of the Certificate evidencing the related Securities, (i) transfer to
the Holder the Preferred Securities or Treasury Securities, as the case may be,
forming a part of such Securities, and (ii) deliver to the Holder a certificate
or certificates for the full number of shares of Common Stock issuable upon
such Early Settlement together with payment in lieu of any fraction of a share,
as provided in Section 5.10.
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(e) In the event that Early Settlement is effected with respect to
Purchase Contracts underlying less than all the Securities evidenced by a
Certificate, upon such Early Settlement the Company shall execute and the Agent
shall authenticate, countersign and deliver to the Holder thereof, at the
expense of the Company, a Certificate evidencing the Securities as to which
Early Settlement was not effected.
(f) Holders may settle Securities early only in integral multiples
of 20 Income PRIDES or one GROWTH PRIDES.
Section 5.10. No Fractional Shares.
No fractional shares or scrip representing fractional shares of Common
Stock shall be issued or delivered upon settlement on the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date or upon Early Settlement of any Purchase Contracts or with
respect to the payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if any, on the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date. If Certificates evidencing more than one
Purchase Contract shall be surrendered for settlement at one time by the same
Holder, the number of full shares of Common Stock which shall be delivered upon
settlement shall be computed on the basis of the aggregate number of Purchase
Contracts evidenced by the Certificates so surrendered. Instead of any
fractional share of Common Stock which would otherwise be deliverable upon
settlement of any Purchase Contracts on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date
or upon Early Settlement or with respect to the payment of any Deferred
Contract Adjustment Payments, the Company, through the Agent, shall make a cash
payment in respect of such fractional interest in an amount equal to the value
of such fractional shares times the Applicable Market Value. The Company shall
provide the Agent from time to time with sufficient funds to permit the Agent
to make all cash payments required by this Section 5.10 in a timely manner.
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Section 5.11. Charges and Taxes.
The Company will pay all stock transfer and similar taxes attributable
to the initial issuance and delivery of the shares of Common Stock pursuant to
the Purchase Contracts and in payment of any Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay any
such tax or taxes which may be payable in respect of any exchange of or
substitution for a Certificate evidencing a Purchase Contract or any issuance
of a share of Common Stock in a name other than that of the registered Holder
of a Certificate surrendered in respect of the Purchase Contracts evidenced
thereby, other than in the name of the Agent, as custodian for such Holder, and
the Company shall not be required to issue or deliver such share certificates
or Certificates unless or until the Person or Persons requesting the transfer
or issuance thereof shall have paid to the Company the amount of such tax or
shall have established to the satisfaction of the Company that such tax has
been paid.
ARTICLE VI
Remedies
Section 6.1. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Contract Adjustment
Payments and to Purchase Common Stock.
The Holder of any Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES shall have the right,
which is absolute and unconditional (subject to the right of the Company to
defer payment thereof pursuant to Section 5.3 and subject to the forfeiture of
any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments upon Early Settlement pursuant to
Section 5.9(b) or upon the occurrence of a Termination Event), to receive
payment of each installment of the Contract Adjustment Payments with respect to
the Purchase Contract constituting a part of such Security on the respective
Payment Date for such Security and to purchase Common Stock pursuant to such
Purchase Contract and, in each such case, to institute suit for the enforcement
of any such payment and right to purchase Common Stock, and such rights shall
not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
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Section 6.2. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.
If any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or
remedy under this Agreement and such proceeding has been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to such Holder, then
and in every such case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the
Company and such Holder shall be restored severally and respectively to their
former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of such
Holder shall continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 6.3. Rights and Remedies Cumulative.
Except as otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or
payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Certificates in the last
paragraph of Section 3.10, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved
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 6.4. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.
No delay or omission of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy
upon a default shall impair any such right or remedy or constitute a waiver of
any such right. Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed
expedient, by such Holders.
Section 6.5. Undertaking for Costs.
All parties to this Agreement agree, and each Holder of Income PRIDES
or Growth PRIDES, by its acceptance of such Income PRIDES or Growth PRIDES
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 Agreement, or
in any suit against the Agent for any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
as
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Agent, 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; provided that the provisions of
this Section shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit
instituted by the Agent, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of
Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% of the Outstanding Securities,
or to any suit instituted by any Holder for the enforcement of distributions on
any Preferred Securities or Contract Adjustment Payments on any Purchase
Contract on or after the respective Payment Date therefor in respect of any
Security held by such Holder, or for enforcement of the right to purchase
shares of Common Stock under the Purchase Contracts constituting part of any
Security held by such Holder.
Section 6.6. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws.
The Company 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 Agreement; and the Company (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 Agent or the Holders, but will suffer and
permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
ARTICLE VII
The Agent
Section 7.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities.
(a)(1) The Agent undertakes to perform, with respect to the
Securities, such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Agree-
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ment and the Pledge Agreement, and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Agreement against the Agent; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith or negligence on its part, the
Agent may, with respect to the Securities, conclusively rely, as to
the truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions
expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished to the
Agent and conforming to the requirements of this Agreement, but in the
case of any certificates or opinions which by any provision hereof are
specifically required to be furnished to the Agent, the Agent shall be
under a duty to examine the same to determine whether or not they
conform to the requirements of this Agreement.
(b) No provision of this Agreement shall be construed to relieve
the Agent from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act, or its own wilful misconduct, except that
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Agent shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved
that the Agent was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
and
(3) no provision of this Agreement shall require the Agent 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 adequate indemnity is not
provided to it.
(c) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision
of this Agreement relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Agent shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
(d) The Agent is authorized to execute and deliver the Pledge
Agreement in its capacity as Agent.
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Section 7.2. Notice of Default.
Within 30 days after the occurrence of any default by the Company
hereunder, of which a Responsible Officer of the Agent has actual knowledge,
the Agent shall transmit by mail to the Company and the Holders of Securities,
as their names and addresses appear in the Register, notice of such default
hereunder, unless such default shall have been cured or waived.
Section 7.3. Certain Rights of Agent.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.1:
(a) the Agent 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 an Officers' Certificate, Issuer Order or Issuer
Request, and any resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company may be
sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Agreement the Agent
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking,
suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Agent (unless other evidence be
herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on its part,
rely upon an Officers' Certificate of the Company;
(d) the Agent may consult with counsel and the written advice of
such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization
and protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it
hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Agent 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,
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debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or document, but
the Agent, in its discretion, may make reasonable further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters related to the execution, delivery and
performance of the Purchase Contracts as it may see fit, and, if the Agent
shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally
or by agent or attorney; and
(f) the Agent may execute any of the powers hereunder or perform
any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents or attorneys or an
Affiliate and the Agent shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney or an Affiliate appointed with
due care by it hereunder.
Section 7.4. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities.
The recitals contained herein and in the Certificates shall be taken
as the statements of the Company and the Agent assumes no responsibility for
their accuracy. The Agent makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of either this Agreement or of the Securities, or of the Pledge
Agreement or the Pledge. The Agent shall not be accountable for the use or
application by the Company of the proceeds in respect of the Purchase
Contracts.
Section 7.5. May Hold Securities.
Any Registrar or any other agent of the Company, or the Agent and its
Affiliates, in their individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Securities and may otherwise deal with the Company, the Collateral
Agent or any other Person with the same rights it would have if it were not
Registrar or such other agent, or the Agent.
Section 7.6. Money Held in Custody.
Money held by the Agent in custody hereunder need not be segregated
from the other funds except to the extent required by law. The Agent shall be
under no obligation to invest or pay interest on any money re-
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ceived by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
Section 7.7. Compensation and Reimbursement.
The Company agrees:
(1) to pay to the Agent from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder;
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to
reimburse the Agent upon its request for all reasonable expenses,
disbursements and advances incurred or made by the Agent in accordance
with any provision of this Agreement (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
(3) to indemnify the Agent and any predecessor Agent for, and
to hold it harmless against, any loss, liability or expense incurred
without negligence or bad faith on its part, arising out of or in
connection with the acceptance or administration of its duties
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.
Section 7.8. Corporate Agent Required; Eligibility.
There shall at all times be an Agent hereunder which shall 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, having (or being a member of a bank
holding company having) a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority and having
a Corporate Trust Office in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, if
there be such a corporation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York
qualified and eligible under this Article and willing to act on reasonable
terms. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursu-
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ant 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 Agent
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.
Section 7.9. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor.
(a) No resignation or removal of the Agent and no appointment of a
successor Agent pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Agent in accordance with the
applicable requirements of Section 7.10.
(b) The Agent may resign at any time by giving written notice
thereof to the Company 60 days prior to the effective date of such resignation.
If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Agent required by Section 7.10
shall not have been delivered to the Agent within 30 days after the giving of
such notice of resignation, the resigning Agent may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Agent.
(c) The Agent may be removed at any time by Act of the Holders of
a majority in number of the Outstanding Securities delivered to the Agent and
the Company.
(d) if at any time
(1) the Agent fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the TIA,
as if the Agent were an indenture trustee under an indenture qualified
under the TIA, 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, or
(2) the Agent shall cease to be eligible under Section 7.8
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
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(3) the Agent shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Agent or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Agent or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution may remove the
Agent, or (ii) any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Agent and
the appointment of a successor Agent.
(e) If the Agent shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Agent for any cause, the
Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Agent and
shall comply with the applicable requirements of Section 7.10. If no successor
Agent shall have been so appointed by the Company and accepted appointment in
the manner required by Section 7.10, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder
of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and all others
similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the
appointment of a successor Agent.
(f) The Company shall give, or shall cause such successor Agent to
give, notice of each resignation and each removal of the Agent and each
appointment of a successor Agent by mailing written notice of such event by
first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders as their names and addresses
appear in the applicable Register. Each notice shall include the name of the
successor Agent and the address of its Corporate Trust Office.
Section 7.10. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor.
(a) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Agent,
every such successor Agent so appointed shall execute, acknowledge and deliver
to the Company and to the retiring Agent an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Agent
shall become effective and such successor Agent, without any further act, deed
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ance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, agencies and duties of
the retiring Agent; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Agent,
such retiring Agent shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Agent all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Agent and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Agent all property and money held by such retiring Agent
hereunder.
(b) Upon request of any such successor Agent, the Company shall
execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and
confirming to such successor Agent all such rights, powers and agencies
referred to in paragraph (a) of this Section.
(c) No successor Agent shall accept its appointment unless at the
time of such acceptance such successor Agent shall be qualified and eligible
under this Article.
Section 7.11. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.
Any corporation into which the 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 the Agent shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all the corporate trust business
of the Agent, shall be the successor of the Agent 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 Certificates shall have been
authenticated and executed on behalf of the Holders, but not delivered, by the
Agent then in office, any successor by merger, conversion or consolidation to
such Agent may adopt such authentication and execution and deliver the
Certificates so authenticated and executed with the same effect as if such
successor Agent had itself authenticated and executed such Securities.
Section 7.12. Preservation of Information; Communications to Holders.
(a) The Agent shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of
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Holders received by the Agent in its capacity as Registrar.
(b) If three or more Holders (herein referred to as "applicants")
apply in writing to the Agent, and furnish to the Agent reasonable proof that
each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of at least six months
preceding the date of such application, and such application states that the
applicants desire to communicate with other Holders with respect to their
rights under this Agreement or under the Securities and is accompanied by a
copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose
to transmit, then the Agent shall, within five Business Days after the receipt
of such application, afford such applicants access to the information preserved
at the time by the Agent in accordance with Section 7.12(a).
(c) Every Holder agrees with the Company and the Agent that none
of the Company, the Agent nor any agent of any 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 7.12(b), regardless of
the source from which such information was derived.
Section 7.13. No Obligations of Agent.
Except to the extent otherwise provided in this Agreement, the Agent
assumes no obligations and shall not be subject to any liability under this
Agreement, the Pledge Agreement or any Purchase Contract in respect of the
obligations of the Holder of any Security thereunder. The Company agrees, and
each Holder of a Certificate, by his acceptance thereof, shall be deemed to
have agreed, that the Agent's execution of the Certificates on behalf of the
Holders shall be solely as agent and attorney-in-fact for the Holders, and that
the Agent shall have no obligation to perform such Purchase Contracts on behalf
of the Holders, except to the extent expressly provided in Article Five hereof.
Section 7.14. Tax Compliance.
(a) The Agent, on its own behalf and on behalf of the Company,
will comply with all applicable certification, information reporting and
withholding (including
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"backup" withholding) requirements imposed by applicable tax laws, regulations
or administrative practice with respect to (i) any payments made with respect
to the Securities or (ii) the issuance, delivery, holding, transfer, redemption
or exercise of rights under the Securities. Such compliance shall include,
without limitation, the preparation and timely filing of required returns and
the timely payment of all amounts required to be withheld to the appropriate
taxing authority or its designated agent.
(b) The Agent shall comply with any written direction received
from the Company with respect to the application of such requirements to
particular payments or Holders or in other particular circumstances, and may
for purposes of this Agreement rely on any such direction in accordance with
the provisions of Section 7.1(a)(2) hereof.
(c) The Agent shall maintain all appropriate records documenting
compliance with such requirements, and shall make such records available, on
written request, to the Company or its authorized representative within a
reasonable period of time after receipt of such request.
ARTICLE VIII
Supplemental Agreements
Section 8.1. Supplemental Agreements Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holders, the Company and the Agent, at any
time and from time to time, may enter into one or more agreements supplemental
hereto, in form satisfactory to the Company and the Agent, for any of the
following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Certificates; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of
the Holders, or to surrender any
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right or power herein conferred upon the Company; or
(3) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Agent; or
(4) to make provision with respect to the rights of Holders
pursuant to the requirements of Section 5.6(b); or
(5) except as provided for in Section 5.6, to cure any
ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provisions herein which may be
inconsistent with any other provisions herein, or to make any other
provisions with respect to such matters or questions arising under
this Agreement, provided such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the Holders.
Section 8.2. Supplemental Agreements with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than 66 2/3% of the
outstanding Purchase Contracts voting together as one Class, by Act of said
Holders delivered to the Company and the Agent, the Company when authorized by
a Board Resolution, and the Agent may enter into an agreement or agreements
supplemental hereto for the purpose of modifying in any manner the terms of the
Purchase Contracts, or the Pledge Agent provisions of this Agreement or the
rights of the Holders in respect of the Securities; provided, however, that no
such supplemental agreement shall, without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) change any Payment Date;
(2) change the amount or the type of Collateral required to be
Pledged to secure a Holder's Obligations under the Purchase Contract,
impair the right of the Holder of any Purchase Contract to receive
distributions on the related Collateral (except for the rights of
Holders of Income PRIDES to substitute the Treasury Securities for the
Pledge Preferred Securities or the rights of holders of Growth PRIDES
to substitute Preferred Securities for the Pledged Treasury
Securities) or otherwise adversely affect
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the Holder's rights in or to such Collateral or adversely alter the
rights in or to such Collateral;
(3) reduce any Contract Adjustment Payments or any Deferred
Contract Adjustment Payment, or change any place where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Contract Adjustment Payments is payable;
(4) impair the right to institute suit for the enforcement of
any Purchase Contract;
(5) reduce the number of shares of Common Stock to be
purchased pursuant to any Purchase Contract, increase the price to
purchase shares of Common Stock upon settlement of any Purchase
Contract, change the Purchase Contract Settlement Date or otherwise
adversely affect the Holder's rights under any Purchase Contract; or
(6) reduce the percentage of the outstanding Purchase
Contracts the consent of whose Holders is required for any such
supplemental agreement;
provided, that if any amendment or proposal referred to above would adversely
affect only the Income PRIDES or the Growth PRIDES, then only the affected
class of Holder will be entitled to vote on such amendment or proposal and such
amendment or proposal shall not be effective except with the consent of Holders
of not less than 66 2/3% of such class.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this Section to
approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental agreement, but it
shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 8.3. Execution of Supplemental Agreements.
In executing, or accepting the additional agencies created by, any
supplemental agreement permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby
of the agencies created by this Agreement, the Agent shall be entitled to
receive and (subject to Section 7.1) shall be fully protected in relying upon,
an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental agreement
is authorized or permitted by this Agreement. The Agent may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such
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supplemental agreement which affects the Agent's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Agreement or otherwise.
Section 8.4. Effect of Supplemental Agreements.
Upon the execution of any supplemental agreement under this Article,
this Agreement shall be modified in accordance therewith, and such supplemental
agreement shall form a part of this Agreement for all purposes; and every
Holder of Certificates theretofore or thereafter authenticated, executed on
behalf of the Holders and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby.
Section 8.5. Reference to Supplemental Agreements.
Certificates authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental agreement pursuant to this
Article may, and shall if required by the Agent, bear a notation in form
approved by the Agent as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
agreement. If the Company shall so determine, new Certificates so modified as
to conform, in the opinion of the Agent and the Company, to any such
supplemental agreement may be prepared and executed by the Company and
authenticated, executed on behalf of the Holders and delivered by the Agent in
exchange for Outstanding Certificates.
ARTICLE IX
Consolidation, Merger, Sale or Conveyance
Section 9.1. Covenant Not to Merge, Consolidate, Sell or Convey Property
Except Under Certain Conditions.
The Company covenants that it will not merge or consolidate with any
other Person or sell, assign, transfer, lease or convey all or substantially
all of its properties and assets to any Person or group of affiliated Persons
in one transaction or a series of related transactions, unless (i) either the
Company shall be the continuing corporation, or the successor (if other than
the Company) shall be a corporation organized and exist-
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ing under the laws of the United States of America or a State thereof or the
District of Columbia and such corporation shall expressly assume all the
obligations of the Company under the Purchase Contracts, this Agreement and the
Pledge Agreement by one or more supplemental agreements in form satisfactory to
the Agent and the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered to the Agent and the
Collateral Agent by such corporation, and (ii) the Company or such successor
corporation, as the case may be, shall not, immediately after such merger or
consolidation, or such sale, assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, be in
default in the performance of any covenant or condition hereunder, under any of
the Securities or under the Pledge Agreement.
Section 9.2. Rights and Duties of Successor Corporation.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance and upon any such assumption by the successor corporation
in accordance with Section 9.1, such successor corporation shall succeed to and
be substituted for the Company with the same effect as if it had been named
herein as the Company. Such successor corporation thereupon may cause to be
signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of MCN Corporation,
any or all of the Certificates evidencing Securities issuable hereunder which
theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the
Agent; and, upon the order of such successor corporation, instead of the
Company, and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Agreement prescribed, the Agent shall authenticate and execute on behalf of the
Holders and deliver any Certificates which previously shall have been signed
and delivered by the officers of the Company to the Agent for authentication
and execution, and any Certificate evidencing Securities which such successor
corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Agent for
that purpose. All the Certificates so issued shall in all respects have the
same legal rank and benefit under this Agreement as the Certificates
theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms of this Agreement
as though all of such Certificates had been issued at the date of the execution
hereof.
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In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance such change in phraseology and form (but not in substance)
may be made in the Certificates evidencing Securities thereafter to be issued
as may be appropriate.
Section 9.3. Opinion of Counsel to Agent.
The Agent, subject to Sections 7.1 and 7.3, shall receive an Opinion
of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any such consolidation, merger, sale,
assignment, transfer, lease or conveyance, and any such assumption, complies
with the provisions of this Article and that all conditions precedent to the
consummation of any such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer,
lease or conveyance have been met.
ARTICLE X
Covenants
Section 10.1. Performance Under Purchase Contracts.
The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the Holders from
time to time of the Securities that it will duly and punctually perform its
obligations under the Purchase Contracts in accordance with the terms of the
Purchase Contracts and this Agreement.
Section 10.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company will maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New
York an office or agency where Certificates may be presented or surrendered for
acquisition of shares of Common Stock upon settlement of the Purchase Contracts
or Early Settlement and for transfer of Collateral upon occurrence of a
Termination Event, where Certificates may be surrendered for registration of
transfer or exchange, for a Collateral Substitution or re-establishment of an
Income PRIDES and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect
of the Securities and this Agreement may be served. The Company will give
prompt written notice to the Agent of the location, and any change in the
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to
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maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Agent
with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands
may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office, and the Company hereby
appoints the Agent 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 Certificates 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 the
Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York for such purposes. The Company will
give prompt written notice to the Agent of any such designation or rescission
and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The
Company hereby designates as the place of payment for the Securities the
Corporate Trust Office and appoints the Agent at its Corporate Trust Office as
paying agent in such city.
Section 10.3. Company to Reserve Common Stock.
The Company shall at all times prior to the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date reserve and keep available, free from preemptive rights, out of
its authorized but unissued Common Stock the full number of shares of Common
Stock issuable (x) against tender of payment in respect of all Purchase
Contracts constituting a part of the Securities evidenced by Outstanding
Certificates and (y) in payment of Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, if
any, owed by the Company to the Holders.
Section 10.4. Covenants as to Common Stock.
The Company covenants that all shares of Common Stock which may be
issued against tender of payment in respect of any Purchase Contract
constituting a part of the Outstanding Securities and in payment of any
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments will, upon issuance, be duly authorized,
validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable.
Section 10.5. Statements of Officers of the Company as to Default.
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The Company will deliver to the Agent, within 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year of the Company ending after the date hereof, an Officers'
Certificate, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers
thereof the Company is in default in the performance and observance of any of
the terms, provisions and conditions hereof, and if the Company shall be in
default, specifying all such defaults and the nature and status thereof of
which they may have knowledge.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed as of the day and year first above written.
MCN CORPORATION
Attested by
/s/ Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx By: /s/ Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
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Senior Vice President, Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
General Counsel and Title: Senior Vice President and
Secretary Treasurer
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF
CHICAGO
Attested by
/s/ X.X. Xxxxxxx By: /s/ X. Xxxxxx
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Vice President and Name: X. Xxxxxx
Senior Counsel Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
This Certificate is a Global Certificate within the meaning of the
Purchase Contract Agreement (as hereinafter defined) and is registered in the
name of the Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof. This Certificate may not be
exchanged in whole or in part for a Certificate registered, and no transfer of
this Certificate in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any
person other than such Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof, except in the
limited circumstances described in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx) to the
Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any
Certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name
as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company,
and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE
HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
No. _____ Number of Income PRIDES ___ Cusip No. ______
Form of Face of Income PRIDES Certificate
_____% Income PRIDES
This Income PRIDES Certificate certifies that ___________ is the
registered Holder of the number of Income PRIDES set forth above. Each Income
PRIDES represents (i) beneficial ownership by the Holder of one __% Trust
Originated Preferred Security (the "Preferred Security") of MCN Financing III,
a Delaware statutory business trust (the "Trust"), having a liquidation amount
of $50, subject to the Pledge of such Preferred Security by such Holder
pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and (ii) the rights and obligations of the
Holder under one Purchase Contract with MCN Corporation, a Michigan
corporation, doing business as MCN Energy Group Inc. (the "Company"). All
capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the Purchase Contract
Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
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Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Preferred Securities
constituting part of each Income PRIDES evidenced hereby have been pledged to
the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations
of the Holder under the Purchase Contract comprising a portion of such Income
PRIDES.
The Pledge Agreement provides that all payments of the Stated Amount
of, or cash distributions on, any Pledged Preferred Securities (as defined in
the Pledge Agreement) constituting part of the Income PRIDES received by the
Collateral Agent shall be paid by the Collateral Agent by wire transfer in same
day funds (i) in the case of (A) cash distributions with respect to Pledged
Preferred Securities and (B) any payments of the Stated Amount with respect to
any Preferred Securities that have been released from the Pledge pursuant to
the Pledge Agreement, to the Agent to the account designated by the Agent, no
later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day such payment is
received by the Collateral Agent (provided that in the event such payment is
received by the Collateral Agent on a day that is not a Business Day or after
12:30 p.m., New York City time, on a Business Day, then such payment shall be
made no later than 10:30 a.m., New York City time, on the next succeeding
Business Day) and (ii) in the case of payments of the Stated Amount of any
Pledged Preferred Securities, to the Company on the relevant Payment Date (as
defined herein) in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement, in full
satisfaction of the respective obligations of the Holders of the Income PRIDES
of which such Pledged Preferred Securities are a part under the Purchase
Contracts forming a part of such Income PRIDES. Distributions on any Preferred
Security forming part of an Income PRIDES evidenced hereby which are payable
quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 each
year, commencing June 30, 1997 (a "Payment Date"), shall, subject to receipt
thereof by the Agent from the Collateral Agent, be paid to the Person in whose
name this Income PRIDES Certificate (or a Predecessor Income PRIDES
Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such
Payment Date.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Income PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on May 16, 2000
(the "Purchase Contract Settlement Date"), at a price equal to $50 (the
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"Stated Amount"), a number of shares of Common Stock, par value $.01 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company, equal to the Settlement Rate, unless on or
prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date there shall have occurred a
Termination Event, a Cash Settlement or an Early Settlement with respect to the
Income PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof.
The purchase price (the "Purchase Price") for the shares of Common Stock
purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby, if not paid
earlier, shall be paid on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date by application
of payment received in respect of the Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred
Securities pledged to secure the obligations under such Purchase Contract of
the Holder of the Income PRIDES of which such Purchase Contract is a part. A
Holder may cause the Preferred Security pledged to secure the obligations under
the Purchase Contract of the Holder of the Income PRIDES of which such Purchase
Contract is a part to be repaid and the proceeds therefrom to be used to pay
the Purchase Price of the shares of Common Stock of the Company.
The Company shall pay, on each Payment Date, in respect of each
Purchase Contract forming part of an Income PRIDES evidenced hereby an amount
(the "Contract Adjustment Payments") equal to 3/4% per annum of the Stated
Amount, computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months,
subject to deferral at the option of the Company as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof. Such
Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the Person in whose name this
Income PRIDES Certificate (or a Predecessor Income PRIDES Certificate) is
registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such Payment Date.
Distributions on the Preferred Securities and Contract Adjustment
Payments will be payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York or,
at the option of the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person
entitled thereto as such address appears on the Income PRIDES Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions set forth on the
reverse hereof, which further provisions
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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 Agent by manual signature, this Income PRIDES Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract
Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
MCN CORPORATION
By:
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President and
Treasurer
By:
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary
Attest:
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Name:
Title:
HOLDER SPECIFIED ABOVE (as to
obligations of such Holder under the
Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby)
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, not
individually but solely as
Attorney-in-Fact of such Holder
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Income PRIDES Certificates referred to in the
within mentioned Purchase Contract Agreement.
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF CHICAGO as Agent
By:
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Authorized Officer
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(Form of Reverse of Income PRIDES Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase
Contract Agreement, dated as of March __, 1997 (as supplemented from time to
time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement"), between the Company and The First
National Bank of Chicago, as Purchase Contract Agent (herein called the
"Agent"), to which Purchase Contract Agreement and supplemental agreements
thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the
Agent, the Company, and the Holders and of the terms upon which the Income
PRIDES Certificates are, and are to be, executed and delivered.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Income PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount, a number of
shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on
or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have occurred a
Termination Event, a Cash Settlement or an Early Settlement with respect to the
Security of which such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is
equal to (a) if the Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or
greater than $35.38 (the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), 1.4132 shares of
Common Stock per Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less
than the Threshold Appreciation Price but is greater than $29, the number of
shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated Amount divided
by the Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Amount is less
than or equal to $29, 1.7241 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, in
each case subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase
Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Prices
per share of Common Stock on each of the twenty consecutive Trading Days ending
on the second Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date. The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of
determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is
reported, the last reported sale price) of the
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Common Stock on the New York Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such date or, if
the Common Stock is not listed for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as
reported in the composite transactions for the principal United States
securities exchange on which the Common Stock is so listed, or if the Common
Stock is not so listed on a United States national or regional securities
exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if the Common Stock is
not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common Stock in the
over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or similar
organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the market value of the
Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally recognized independent
investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the Company. A "Trading
Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not suspended from trading on
any national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter
market at the close of business and (B) has traded at least once on the
national or regional securities exchange or association or over-the-counter
market that is the primary market for the trading of the Common Stock.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the
Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the
shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced
hereby by effecting a Cash Settlement on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date
or an Early Settlement. A Holder of an Income PRIDES who fails to make an
effective Cash Settlement or an Early Settlement in respect of a Purchase
Contract prior to a Purchase Contract Settlement Date will be deemed to have
elected to have requested the Trust to deliver to the Company a principal
amount of the Junior Subordinated Debenture, underlying the Preferred Security
equal to the Stated Amount of the Purchase Contract for application to the
Purchase Price of the Common Stock.
The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock
in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the
Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate purchase
price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner
herein set forth.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby and the obligations and rights
of the Company and the Holder thereunder shall terminate if a Termination Event
shall have occurred.
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Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall give written
notice to the Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in
the Income PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination
Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Preferred Security (as
defined in the Pledge Agreement) forming a part of each Income PRIDES, or the
Liquidation Distribution received in respect of such Pledged Preferred
Security, from the Pledge. An Income PRIDES shall thereafter represent the
right to receive the Preferred Security forming a part of such Income PRIDES,
or the Liquidation Distribution received in respect of such Preferred Security,
and any accrued Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract forming a
part of such Income PRIDES in accordance with the terms of the Purchase
Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Contract Adjustment Payments
shall cease to accrue in respect of any period from and after the date of a
Termination Event.
Under the terms of the Pledge Agreement, the Agent will be entitled to
exercise the voting and any other consensual rights pertaining to the Pledged
Preferred Securities. Upon receipt of notice of any meeting at which holders
of Preferred Securities are entitled to vote or solicitation of consents,
waivers or proxies of holders of Preferred Securities, the Agent shall, as soon
as practicable thereafter, mail to the Income PRIDES holders a notice (a)
containing such information as is contained in the notice or solicitation, (b)
stating that each Income PRIDES holder on the record date set by the Agent
therefor (which, to the extent possible, shall be the same date as the record
date for determining the holders of Preferred Securities entitled to vote)
shall be entitled to instruct the Agent as to the exercise of the voting rights
pertaining to the Preferred Securities constituting a part of such holder's
Income PRIDES and (c) stating the manner in which such instructions may be
given. Upon the written request of the Income PRIDES holders on such record
date, the Agent shall endeavor insofar as practicable to vote or cause to be
voted, in accordance with the instructions set forth in such requests, the
maximum number of Preferred Securities as to which any particular voting
instructions are received. In the absence of specific instructions from the
Holder of an Income PRIDES, the Agent shall abstain from voting the Preferred
Security evidenced by such Income PRIDES.
Upon the occurrence of a Tax Event, Investment Company Event or
liquidation of the Trust, a principal amount of the
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Junior Subordinated Debentures constituting the assets of the Trust and
underlying the Preferred Securities equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the
Pledged Preferred Securities shall be delivered to the Collateral Agent in
exchange for Pledged Preferred Securities. Thereafter, the Junior Subordinated
Debentures shall be held by the Collateral Agent to secure the obligations of
each Holder of Income PRIDES to purchase shares of Common Stock under the
Purchase Contracts constituting a part of such Income PRIDES. Following the
liquidation of the Trust, the Holders and the Collateral Agent shall have such
security interests, rights and obligations with respect to the Junior
Subordinated Debentures as the Holders and the Collateral Agent had in respect
of the Pledged Preferred Securities, and any reference in the Purchase Contract
Agreement or Pledge Agreement to the Preferred Securities shall be deemed to be
a reference to the Junior Subordinated Debentures.
The Income PRIDES Certificates are issuable only in registered form
and only in denominations of a single Income PRIDES and any integral multiple
thereof. The transfer of any Income PRIDES Certificate will be registered and
Income PRIDES Certificates may be exchanged as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement. The Income PRIDES Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents
permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be
required for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and
the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith. A holder who elects to
substitute a Treasury Security for Preferred Securities, thereby creating
Growth PRIDES, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses payable in
connection therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement,
for so long as the Purchase Contract underlying an Income PRIDES remains in
effect, such Income PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts,
and the rights and obligations of the Holder of such Income PRIDES in respect
of the Preferred Security and Purchase Contract constituting such Income PRIDES
may be transferred and exchanged only as an Income PRIDES. The holder of an
Income PRIDES may substitute for the Pledged Preferred Securities securing its
obligation under the related Purchase Contract Treasury Securities in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Pledged
Preferred Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and after
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such Collateral Substitution, the Security for which such Pledged Treasury
Securities secures the holder's obligation under the Purchase Contract shall be
referred to as a "Growth PRIDES." A Holder may make such Collateral
Substitution only in integral multiples of 20 Income PRIDES for each Growth
PRIDES. Such Collateral Substitution may cause the aggregate principal amount
of this Certificate to be increased or decreased; provided, however, the
aggregate principal amount outstanding under this Income PRIDES Certificate
shall not exceed $_____. All such adjustments to the aggregate principal
amount of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall be duly recorded by placing an
appropriate notation on the Schedule attached hereto.
A Holder of a Growth PRIDES may recreate Income PRIDES by delivering
to the Collateral Agent Preferred Securities with a Stated Amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Pledged Treasury Securities in exchange for
the release of such Pledged Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of
the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall pay, on
each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of each
Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name the Income PRIDES Certificate
evidencing such Purchase Contract is registered at the close of business on the
Record Date for such Payment Date. Contract Adjustment Payments will be
payable at the office of the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of
the Company, by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at
such address as it appears on the Income PRIDES Register.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to
defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred
shall bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of 8%
per annum (computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months),
compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred
installments of Contract Adjustment Payments together with the additional
Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, are referred to herein as the
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"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent
that payment is deferred pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement. No
Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate will receive on
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of
shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal
to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments payable to the Holder of the Income PRIDES Certificate of
Securities divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of
Common Stock will be issued with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, as provided in
the Purchase Contract Agreement.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments have been paid, (a) the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on,
make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock (other than (i)
purchase or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plans
or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations pursuant to any contract
or security outstanding on the date of such event requiring the Company to
purchase shares of Common Stock, (ii) as a result of a reclassification of the
Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of
the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's
capital stock or (iii) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the
Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of
such capital stock or the security being converted or exchanged) or make any
guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing), (b) the Company shall not
make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if any, on or repay,
repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including guarantees) issued by the
Company that rank pari passu with such Contract
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Adjustment Payments and (c) the Company shall not make any guarantee payments
with respect to the foregoing.
The Purchase Contracts and the obligations and rights of the Company
and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the
Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract
Adjustment Payments or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, shall
immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or
action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the
occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event
after two business days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the
Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the
Income PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event,
the Collateral Agent shall release the Preferred Securities from the Pledge in
accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Purchase
Contract Agreement at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts
underlying Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof may be settled early ("Early Settlement") as provided
in the Purchase Contract Agreement. In order to exercise the right to effect
Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Income PRIDES Certificate, the Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate shall
deliver this Income PRIDES Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust
Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of
Election to Settle Early set forth below duly completed and accompanied by
payment in the form of a certified or cashier's check payable to the order of
the Company in an amount (the "Early Settlement Amount") equal to (i) the
product of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number of Purchase Contracts
with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect Early Settlement, plus
(ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any Purchase Contracts during the
period from the close of business on any Record Date for any Payment Date to
the opening of business on such Payment Date, an amount equal to the sum of (x)
the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date with respect to
such Purchase Contracts plus from the period from, but not including the Early
Settlement Date, to the Payment Date (y) the distributions with respect to the
relat-
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ed Pledged Preferred Securities payable on such Payment Date from the period
from, but not including the Early Settlement Date, to the Payment Date. Upon
Early Settlement of Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Securities,
the Pledged Preferred Securities underlying such Securities shall be released
from the Pledge as provided in the Pledge Agreement and the Holder shall be
entitled to receive, a number of shares of Common Stock on account of each
Purchase Contract forming part of a Income PRIDES as to which Early Settlement
is effected equal to the Early Settlement Rate; provided however, that upon the
Early Settlement of the Purchase Contracts, the Holder thereof will forfeit the
right to receive any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on such Purchase
Contracts. The Early Settlement Rate shall initially be equal to 1.4132 shares
of Common Stocks and shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time
as the Settlement Rate is adjusted as provided in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Income PRIDES Certificate, the
transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the
part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the
Purchase Contract Agreement), under the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall
be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Income PRIDES Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder,
by his acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the
provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate, by his acceptance
hereof, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Income PRIDES evidenced hereby on his behalf as
his attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e.,
affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the
event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code,
agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to
perform his obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the
provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter
into and perform the Pledge Agreement on his behalf as his attorney-in-fact,
and consents to the Pledge of the Preferred Securities underlying this Income
PRIDES Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement. The Holder further
covenants and
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agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms thereof, payments
in respect to the Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred Securities on the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by the Collateral Agent to the
Company in satisfaction of such Holder's obligations under such Purchase
Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or interest in such
payments.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract
Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of at least 66 2/3% of
the Purchase Contracts.
The Purchase Contracts shall for all purposes be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company
or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Income PRIDES Certificate
is registered as the owner of the Income PRIDES evidenced hereby for the
purpose of receiving payments of distributions payable quarterly on the
Preferred Securities, receiving payments of Contract Adjustment Payments and
any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, performance of the Purchase
Contracts and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not any payments in
respect thereof be overdue and notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and
neither the Company, the Agent nor any such agent shall be affected by notice
to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof,
entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection
at the offices of the Agent.
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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
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ------------Custodian------------
(cust) (minor)
Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s)
and transfer(s) unto
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Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or other
Identifying Number of Assignee
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of Assignee the within Income PRIDES Certificates and all rights
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thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
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attorney to transfer said Income PRIDES Certificates on the books of MCN
Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature
NOTICE: The signature to this
assignment must correspond with the name
as it appears upon the face of the
within Income PRIDES Certificates in
every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever.
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SETTLEMENT INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common
Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Income PRIDES evidenced
by this Income PRIDES Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered,
together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned
at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been
indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other
than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable
incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
If shares are to be registered
in the name of and delivered to REGISTERED HOLDER
a Person other than the Holder,
please print such Person's name
and address:
Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Income PRIDES Certificate hereby
irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with
the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase
Contracts underlying the number of Income PRIDES evidenced by this Income
PRIDES Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may
be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Income PRIDES
with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of
Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name
of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share
and any Income PRIDES Certificate representing any Income PRIDES evidenced
hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not
effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different
name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Preferred Securities
deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with
the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in
the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any
transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
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Number of Securities evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of
the related Purchase Contracts is being elected:
If shares of Common Stock REGISTERED HOLDER
or Income PRIDES Certificates
are to be registered in the name of
and delivered to and Pledged
Preferred Securities are to be
transferred to a Person other than
the Holder, please print such Person's
name and address:
Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any ---------------------------------
Transfer Instructions for Pledged Preferred Securities Transferable Upon Early
Settlement or a Termination Event:
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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES]
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OF DECREASED IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
The following increases or decreases in this Global
Certificate have been made:
Principal Amount
Amount of Amount of of this Global
decrease in Principal increase in Principal Certificate Signature of authorized
Amount of this Global Amount of this Global following such officer of Trustee or
Date Certificate Certificate decrease or increase Securities Custodian
EXHIBIT B
This Certificate is a Global Certificate within the meaning of the
Purchase Contract Agreement (as hereinafter defined) and is registered in the
name of the Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof. This Certificate may not be
exchanged in whole or in part for a Certificate registered, and no transfer of
this Certificate in whole or in part may be registered, in the name of any
person other than such Clearing Agency or a nominee thereof,
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except in the limited circumstances described in the Purchase Contract
Agreement.
Unless this Certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company (55 Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx) to the
Company or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange or payment, and any
Certificate issued is registered in the name of Cede & Co., or such other name
as requested by an authorized representative of The Depository Trust Company,
and any payment hereon is made to Cede & Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE
HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL since the registered
owner hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.
No. ______ Number of Growth PRIDES _______ Cusip No. _______
Form of Face of Growth PRIDES Certificate
This Growth PRIDES Certificate certifies that __________ is the
registered Holder of the number of Growth PRIDES set forth above. Each Growth
PRIDES represents (i) beneficial ownership, of a Treasury Security having a
principal amount at maturity equal to $1,000, subject to the Pledge of such
Preferred security by such Holder pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, and (ii)
the rights and obligations of the Holder under 20 Purchase Contracts with MCN
Corporation, a Michigan Corporation, doing business as MCN Energy Group Inc.
(the "Company"). All capitalized terms used herein which are defined in the
Purchase Contract Agreement have the meaning set forth therein.
Pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, the Treasury Securities constituting
part of each Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby have been pledged to the Collateral
Agent, for the benefit of the Company, to secure the obligations of the Holder
under the Purchase Contract comprising a portion of such Growth PRIDES.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Growth PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company, to sell, on May 16,
2000 (the "Purchase Contract Settlement Date"), at a price equal to $50 (the
"Stated Amount"), a number of shares of Common stock, par value $.01 per share
("Common Stock"), of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless on or
prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date there shall have occurred a
Termination Event or an Early Settlement with respect to the Growth PRIDES of
which such Purchase Contract is a part, all as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement and more fully described on the reverse hereof. The
purchase price for the shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each
Purchase
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Contract evidenced hereby will be paid by application of the Proceeds from the
Treasury Securities pledged to secure the obligations under such Purchase
Contract in accordance with the terms of the Pledge Agreement.
The Company shall pay on each Payment Date in respect of each
Purchase Contract evidenced hereby an amount (the "Contract Adjustment
Payments") equal to 3/4% per annum of the Stated Amount, computed on the basis
of the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 day year of twelve 30 day
months, as the case may be, subject to deferral at the option of the Company as
provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement and more fully described on the
reverse hereof. Such Contract Adjustment Payments shall be payable to the
Person in whose name this Growth PRIDES Certificate (or a Predecessor Growth
PRIDES Certificate) is registered at the close of business on the Record Date
for such Payment Date.
Contract Adjustment Payments will be payable at the office of the
Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check mailed
to the address of the Person entitled thereto as such address appears on the
Growth PRIDES Register.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions 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 Agent by manual signature, this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall not be
entitled to any benefit under the Pledge Agreement or the Purchase Contract
Agreement or be valid or obligatory for any purpose.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be duly
executed.
MCN CORPORATION
By:
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Name: Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Secretary
By:
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Name: Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President and
Treasurer
Attest:
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Name:
Title:
HOLDER SPECIFIED ABOVE (as to
obligations of such Holder under the
Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby)
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO
not individually but solely as
Attorney-in-Fact of such Holder
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated:
AGENT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Growth PRIDES referred to in the within-mentioned
Purchase Contract Agreement.
By: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF CHICAGO as Agent
By:
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Authorized Officer
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(Form of Reverse of
Growth PRIDES Certificate)
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby is governed by a Purchase
Contract Agreement, dated as of March 25, 1997 (as supplemented from time to
time, the "Purchase Contract Agreement") between the Company and The First
National Bank of Chicago, as Purchase Contract Agent (including its successors
thereunder, herein called the "Agent"), to which the Purchase Contract
Agreement and supplemental agreements thereto reference is hereby made for a
description of the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations,
duties and immunities thereunder of the Agent, the Company and the Holders and
of the terms upon which the Growth PRIDES Certificates are, and are to be,
executed and delivered.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby obligates the Holder of this
Growth PRIDES Certificate to purchase, and the Company to sell, on the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date at a price equal to the Stated Amount, a number of
shares of Common Stock of the Company equal to the Settlement Rate, unless, on
or prior to the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, there shall have occurred a
Termination Event or an Early Settlement with respect to the Security of which
such Purchase Contract is a part. The "Settlement Rate" is equal to (a) if the
Applicable Market Value (as defined below) is equal to or greater than $35.38
(the "Threshold Appreciation Price"), 1.4132 shares of Common Stock per
Purchase Contract, (b) if the Applicable Market Value is less than the
Threshold Appreciation Price but is greater than $29, _____ shares of Common
Stock per Purchase Contract equal to the Stated Amount divided by the
Applicable Market Value and (c) if the Applicable Market Amount is less than or
equal to $29, 1.7241 shares of Common Stock per Purchase Contract, in each case
subject to adjustment as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement. No
fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued upon settlement of Purchase
Contracts, as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
The "Applicable Market Value" means the average of the Closing Prices
per share of Common Stock on each of the twenty consecutive Trading Days ending
on the second Trading Day immediately preceding the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date. The "Closing Price" of the Common Stock on any date of
determination means the closing sale price (or, if no closing price is
reported, the last reported sale price) of the Common Stock on the New York
Stock Exchange (the "NYSE") on such date or, if the Common Stock is not listed
for trading on the NYSE on any such date, as reported in the composite
transactions for the principal United States securities exchange on which the
Common Stock is so
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listed, or if the Common Stock is not so listed on a United States national or
regional securities exchange, as reported by The Nasdaq Stock Market, or, if
the Common Stock is not so reported, the last quoted bid price for the Common
Stock in the over-the-counter market as reported by the National Quotation
Bureau or similar organization, or, if such bid price is not available, the
market value of the Common Stock on such date as determined by a nationally
recognized independent investment banking firm retained for this purpose by the
Company. A "Trading Day" means a day on which the Common Stock (A) is not
suspended from trading on any national or regional securities exchange or
association or over-the-counter market at the close of business and (B) has
traded at least once on the national or regional securities exchange or
association or over-the-counter market that is the primary market for the
trading of the Common Stock.
In accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement, the
Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall pay the Purchase Price for the
shares of Common Stock purchased pursuant to each Purchase Contract evidenced
hereby by effecting either an Early Settlement of each such Purchase Contract
or by applying a principal amount of the Pledged Treasury Securities underlying
such Holder's Growth PRIDES equal to the Stated Amount of such Purchase
Contract to the purchase of the Common Stock.
The Company shall not be obligated to issue any shares of Common Stock
in respect of a Purchase Contract or deliver any certificates therefor to the
Holder unless it shall have received payment in full of the aggregate purchase
price for the shares of Common Stock to be purchased thereunder in the manner
herein set forth.
Each Purchase Contract evidenced hereby and the obligations and rights
of the Company and the Holder thereunder shall terminate if a Termination Event
shall have occurred. Upon the occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company
shall give written notice to the Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses
as they appear in the Growth PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of
a Termination Event, the Collateral Agent shall release the Pledged Treasury
Securities (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) forming a part of each Growth
PRIDES. A Growth PRIDES shall thereafter represent the right to receive any
accrued Contract Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract forming a part of
such Growth PRIDES in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. Contract Adjustment Payments shall cease
to accrue in respect of any period from and after the date of a Termination
Event.
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The Growth PRIDES Certificates are issuable only in registered form
and only in denominations of a single Growth PRIDES and any integral multiple
thereof. The transfer of any Growth PRIDES Certificate will be registered and
Growth PRIDES Certificates may be exchanged as provided in the Purchase
Contract Agreement. The Growth PRIDES Registrar may require a Holder, among
other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents
permitted by the Purchase Contract Agreement. No service charge shall be
required for any such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company and
the Agent may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in connection therewith. A holder who elects to
substitute Preferred Securities for a Treasury Security, thereby creating
Income PRIDES, shall be responsible for any fees or expenses associated
therewith. Except as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement, for so long
as the Purchase Contract underlying a Growth PRIDES remains in effect, such
Growth PRIDES shall not be separable into its constituent parts, and the rights
and obligations of the Holder of such Growth PRIDES in respect of the Treasury
Security and Purchase Contract constituting such Growth PRIDES may be
transferred and exchanged only as a Growth PRIDES. The holder of a Growth
PRIDES may substitute for the Pledged Treasury Securities securing its
obligations under the related Purchase Contract Preferred Securities with an
aggregate Stated Amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the Pledged
Treasury Securities in accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Pledge Agreement. From and after such substitution, the
Holder's Security shall be referred to as an "Income PRIDES." Such
substitution may cause the aggregate principal amount of this Certificate to be
increased or decreased; provided, however, the aggregate principal amount
outstanding under this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall not exceed $______. All
such adjustments to the aggregate principal amount of this Growth PRIDES
Certificate shall be duly recorded by placing an appropriate notation on the
Schedule attached hereto.
A Holder of an Income PRIDES may recreate a Growth PRIDES by
delivering to the Collateral Agent Treasury Securities in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate Stated Amount of the Pledged Preferred
Securities in exchange for the release of such Pledged Preferred Securities in
accordance with the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge
Agreement. Any such recreation of a Growth PRIDES may be effected only in
multiples of 20 Income PRIDES for each Growth PRIDES.
Subject to the next succeeding paragraph, the Company shall pay, on
each Payment Date, the Contract Adjustment Payments payable in respect of each
Purchase Contract to the Person in whose name the Growth PRIDES Certificate
evidencing such Purchase
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Contract is registered at the close of business on the Record Date for such
Payment Date. Contract Adjustment Payments will be payable at the office of
the Agent in The City of New York or, at the option of the Company, by check
mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto at such address as it
appears on the Growth PRIDES Register.
The Company shall have the right, at any time prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, to defer the payment of any or all of the Contract
Adjustment Payments otherwise payable on any Payment Date, but only if the
Company shall give the Holders and the Agent written notice of its election to
defer such payment (specifying the amount to be deferred) as provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement. Any Contract Adjustment Payments so deferred
shall bear additional Contract Adjustment Payments thereon at the rate of ____%
per annum (computed on the basis of a 360 day year of twelve 30 day months),
compounding on each succeeding Payment Date, until paid in full (such deferred
installments of Contract Adjustment Payments together with the additional
Contract Adjustment Payments accrued thereon, are referred to herein as the
"Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments"). Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments shall be due on the next succeeding Payment Date except to the extent
that payment is deferred pursuant to the Purchase Contract Agreement. No
Contract Adjustment Payments may be deferred to a date that is after the
Purchase Contract Settlement Date.
In the event that the Company elects to defer the payment of Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contracts until the Purchase Contract
Settlement Date, the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate will receive on
the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, in lieu of a cash payment, a number of
shares of Common Stock (in addition to a number of shares of Common Stock equal
to the Settlement Rate) equal to (x) the aggregate amount of Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments payable to the Holder of the Growth PRIDES Certificate of
Securities divided by (y) the Applicable Market Value. No fractional shares of
Common Stock will be issued with respect to the payment of Deferred Contract
Adjustment Payments on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date, as provided in
the Purchase Contract Agreement.
In the event the Company exercises its option to defer the payment of
Contract Adjustment Payments, then, until the Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments have been paid, (a) the Company shall not declare or pay dividends on,
make distributions with respect to, or redeem, purchase or acquire, or make a
liquidation payment with respect to, any of its capital stock (other than (i)
purchase or acquisitions of shares of Common Stock in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any
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employee benefit plans or the satisfaction by the Company of its obligations
pursuant to any contract or security outstanding on the date of such event
requiring the Company to purchase shares of Common Stock, (ii) as a result of a
reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion
of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or
series of the Company's capital stock or (iii) the purchase of fractional
interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the conversion
or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being converted or
exchanged) or make any guarantee payments with respect to the foregoing), (b)
the Company shall not make any payment of interest, principal or premium, if
any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities (including
guarantees) issued by the Company that rank pari passu with or junior to such
Contract Adjustment Payments and (c) the Company shall not make any guarantee
payments with respect to the foregoing.
The Purchase Contracts and the obligations and rights of the Company
and the Holders thereunder, including, without limitation, the rights of the
Holders to receive and the obligation of the Company to pay any Contract
Adjustment Payments or any Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments, shall
immediately and automatically terminate, without the necessity of any notice or
action by any Holder, the Agent or the Company, if, on or prior to the Purchase
Contract Settlement Date, a Termination Event shall have occurred. Upon the
occurrence of a Termination Event, the Company shall promptly but in no event
after two business days thereafter give written notice to the Agent, the
Collateral Agent and to the Holders, at their addresses as they appear in the
Growth PRIDES Register. Upon and after the occurrence of a Termination Event,
the Collateral Agent shall release the Treasury Securities from the Pledge in
accordance with the provisions of the Pledge Agreement.
Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of the Purchase
Contract Agreement at the option of the Holder thereof, Purchase Contracts
underlying Securities having an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an
integral multiple thereof may be settled early ("Early Settlement") as provided
in the Purchase Contract Agreement. In order to exercise the right to effect
Early Settlement with respect to any Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Growth PRIDES Certificate, the Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate shall
deliver this Growth PRIDES Certificate to the Agent at the Corporate Trust
Office duly endorsed for transfer to the Company or in blank with the form of
Election to Settle Early set forth below duly completed and accompanied by
payment in the form of a certified or cashier's check payable to the order of
the Company in an amount (the "Early Settlement
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Amount") equal to (i) the product of (A) the Stated Amount times (B) the number
of Purchase Contracts with respect to which the Holder has elected to effect
Early Settlement, plus (ii) if such delivery is made with respect to any
Purchase Contracts during the period from the close of business on any Record
Date for any Payment Date to the opening of business on such Payment Date, an
amount equal to the Contract Adjustment Payments payable on such Payment Date
with respect to such Purchase Contracts from the period from, but not including
the Early Settlement Date, to the Payment Date. Upon Early Settlement of
Purchase Contracts by a Holder of the related Securities, the Pledged Treasury
Securities underlying such Securities shall be released from the Pledge as
provided in the Pledge Agreement and the Holder shall be entitled to receive, a
number of shares of Common Stock on account of each Purchase Contract forming
part of a Growth PRIDES as to which Early Settlement is effected equal to the
Early Settlement Rate; provided however, that upon the Early Settlement of the
Purchase Contracts, the Holder thereof will forfeit the right to receive any
Deferred Contract Adjustment Payments on such Purchase Contracts. The Early
Settlement Rate shall initially be equal to 28.2646 shares of Common Stock per
Growth PRIDES and shall be adjusted in the same manner and at the same time as
the Settlement Rate is adjusted as provided in the Purchase Contract Agreement.
Upon registration of transfer of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, the
transferee shall be bound (without the necessity of any other action on the
part of such transferee, except as may be required by the Agent pursuant to the
Purchase Contract Agreement), under the terms of the Purchase Contract
Agreement and the Purchase Contracts evidenced hereby and the transferor shall
be released from the obligations under the Purchase Contracts evidenced by this
Growth PRIDES Certificate. The Company covenants and agrees, and the Holder,
by his acceptance hereof, likewise covenants and agrees, to be bound by the
provisions of this paragraph.
The Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate, by his acceptance
hereof, authorizes the Agent to enter into and perform the related Purchase
Contracts forming part of the Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby on his behalf as
his attorney-in-fact, expressly withholds any consent to the assumption (i.e.,
affirmance) of the Purchase Contracts by the Company or its trustee in the
event that the Company becomes the subject of a case under the Bankruptcy Code,
agrees to be bound by the terms and provisions thereof, covenants and agrees to
perform his obligations under such Purchase Contracts, consents to the
provisions of the Purchase Contract Agreement, authorizes the Agent to enter
into and perform the Pledge Agreement on his behalf as his attorney-
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in-fact, and consents to the Pledge of the Treasury Securities underlying this
Growth PRIDES Certificate pursuant to the Pledge Agreement. The Holder further
covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner provided in the
Purchase Contract Agreement and the Pledge Agreement, but subject to the terms
thereof, payments in respect to the Stated Amount of the Pledged Treasury
Securities on the Purchase Contract Settlement Date shall be paid by the
Collateral Agent to the Company in satisfaction of such Holder's obligations
under such Purchase Contract and such Holder shall acquire no right, title or
interest in such payments.
Subject to certain exceptions, the provisions of the Purchase Contract
Agreement may be amended with the consent of the Holders of at least 66 2/3% of
the Purchase Contracts.
The Purchase Contracts shall for all purposes be governed by, and
construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York.
The Company, the Agent and its Affiliates and any agent of the Company
or the Agent may treat the Person in whose name this Growth PRIDES Certificate
is registered as the owner of the Growth PRIDES evidenced hereby for the
purpose of receiving payments of interest on the Treasury Securities, receiving
payments of Contract Adjustment Payments and any Deferred Contract Adjustment
Payments, performance of the Purchase Contracts and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not any payments in respect thereof be overdue and
notwithstanding any notice to the contrary, and neither the Company, the Agent
nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Purchase Contracts shall not, prior to the settlement thereof,
entitle the Holder to any of the rights of a holder of shares of Common Stock.
A copy of the Purchase Contract Agreement is available for inspection
at the offices of the Agent.
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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
UNIF GIFT MIN ACT - ------------Custodian------------
(cust) (minor)
Under Uniform Gifts to Minors Act
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(State)
TEN ENT - as tenants by the entireties
JT TEN - as joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common
Additional abbreviations may also be used though not in the above list.
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned hereby sell(s), assign(s)
and transfer(s) unto
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Please insert Social Security or Taxpayer I.D. or other
Identifying Number of Assignee
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Please Print or Type Name and Address Including Postal Zip Code
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of Assignee the within Growth PRIDES Certificates and all rights
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thereunder, hereby irrevocably constituting and appointing
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attorney to transfer said Growth PRIDES Certificates on the books of MCN
Corporation with full power of substitution in the premises.
Dated:
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Signature
NOTICE: The signature to this
assignment must correspond with the
name as it appears upon the face of the
within Growth PRIDES Certificates in
every particular, without alteration or
enlargement or any change whatsoever.
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XXXXXXXXXX INSTRUCTIONS
The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of Common
Stock deliverable upon settlement on or after the Purchase Contract Settlement
Date of the Purchase Contracts underlying the number of Growth PRIDES evidenced
by this Growth PRIDES Certificate be registered in the name of, and delivered,
together with a check in payment for any fractional share, to the undersigned
at the address indicated below unless a different name and address have been
indicated below. If shares are to be registered in the name of a Person other
than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any transfer tax payable
incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
If shares are to be registered
in the name of and delivered to REGISTERED HOLDER
a Person other than the Holder,
please print such Person's name
and address:
Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any -------------------------------------
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ELECTION TO SETTLE EARLY
The undersigned Holder of this Growth PRIDES Certificate hereby
irrevocably exercises the option to effect Early Settlement in accordance with
the terms of the Purchase Contract Agreement with respect to the Purchase
Contracts underlying the number of Growth PRIDES evidenced by this Growth
PRIDES Certificate specified below. The option to effect Early Settlement may
be exercised only with respect to Purchase Contracts underlying Growth PRIDES
with an aggregate Stated Amount equal to $1,000 or an integral multiple
thereof. The undersigned Holder directs that a certificate for shares of
Common Stock deliverable upon such Early Settlement be registered in the name
of, and delivered, together with a check in payment for any fractional share
and any Growth PRIDES Certificate representing any Growth PRIDES evidenced
hereby as to which Early Settlement of the related Purchase Contracts is not
effected, to the undersigned at the address indicated below unless a different
name and address have been indicated below. Pledged Treasury Securities
deliverable upon such Early Settlement will be transferred in accordance with
the transfer instructions set forth below. If shares are to be registered in
the name of a Person other than the undersigned, the undersigned will pay any
transfer tax payable incident thereto.
Dated:
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Signature
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Number of Securities evidenced hereby as to which Early Settlement of
the related Purchase Contracts is being elected:
If shares of Common Stock REGISTERED HOLDER
or Growth PRIDES Certifi-
xxxxx are to be registered
in the name of and delivered
to and Pledged Treasury
Securities are to be
transferred to a Person
other than the Holder, please
print such Person's name and
address:
Please print name and address of
Registered Holder:
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Name Name
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Address Address
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Social Security or other
Taxpayer Identification
Number, if any -------------------------------------
Transfer Instructions for Pledged Treasury Securities Transferable Upon Early
Settlement or a Termination Event:
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[TO BE ATTACHED TO GLOBAL CERTIFICATES]
SCHEDULE OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL CERTIFICATE
The following increases or decreases in this Global
Certificate have been made:
Principal Amount
Amount of Amount of of this Global
decrease in Principal increase in Principal Certificate Signature of authorized
Amount of this Global Amount of this Global following such officer of Trustee or
Date Certificate Certificate decrease or increase Securities Custodian
EXHIBIT C
INSTRUCTION FROM PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT TO COLLATERAL AGENT
The Chase Manhattan Bank
000 Xxxx 00xx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration Department
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Re: FELINE PRIDES of MCN Corporation, doing business as
MCN Energy Group Inc. (the "Company"), and MCN
Financing III
We hereby notify you in accordance with Section 4.1 of the
Pledge Agreement, dated as of March 25, 1997, among the Company, yourselves, as
Collateral Agent, and ourselves, as Purchase Contract Agent and as
attorney-in-fact for the holders of [Income PRIDES] [Growth PRIDES] from time
to time, that the holder of securities listed below (the "Holder") has elected
to substitute [$_____ aggregate principal amount of Treasury Securities]
[$_______Stated Amount of Preferred Securities] in exchange for the [Pledged
Preferred Securities] [Pledged Treasury Securities] held by you in accordance
with the Pledge Agreement and has delivered to us a notice stating that the
Holder has Transferred [Treasury Securities] [Preferred Securities] to you, as
Collateral Agent. We hereby instruct you, upon receipt of such [Pledged
Treasury Securities] [Pledged Preferred Securities], to release the Preferred
Securities] [Treasury Securities] related to such [Income PRIDES] [Growth
PRIDES] to us in accordance with the Holder's instructions.
Date: THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO
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By:
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Name:
Title:
Please print name and address of Registered Holder electing to substitute
[Treasury Securities] [Preferred Securities] for the [Pledged Preferred
Securities] [Pledged Treasury Securities]:
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Name Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any
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Address
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EXHIBIT D
INSTRUCTION TO PURCHASE CONTRACT AGENT
The First National Bank of Chicago
Xxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxxxx 0000
Xxxxxxx, XX 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust
Administration Department
Re: FELINE PRIDES of MCN Corporation, doing business as
MCN Energy Group Inc. (the "Company"), and MCN
Financing III
The undersigned Holder hereby notifies you that it has
delivered to The Chase Manhattan Bank, as Collateral Agent, $_______ aggregate
principal amount of [Treasury Securities] [Preferred Securities] in exchange
for the [Pledged Preferred Securities] [Pledged Treasury Securities] held by
the Collateral Agent, in accordance with Section 4.1 of the Pledge Agreement,
dated March 25, 1997, between you, the Company and the Collateral Agent. The
undersigned Holder hereby instructs you to instruct the Collateral Agent to
release to you on behalf of the undersigned Holder the [Pledged Preferred
Securities] [Pledged Treasury Securities] related to such [Income PRIDES]
[Growth PRIDES].
Dated:
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Signature
Please print name and address of Registered Holder:
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Name Social Security or other Taxpayer
Identification Number, if any
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Address
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