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PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS, INC.,
as Issuer,
THE GUARANTORS
party hereto from time to time,
and
BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST COMPANY,
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as Trustee
INDENTURE
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Dated as of June 16, 1998
$1,000,000,000
9-1/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2006
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
Trust Indenture Act Indenture
Section Section
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310(a)(1)................................................... 7.10
(a)(2)................................................... 7.10
(a)(3)................................................... N.A.
(a)(4)................................................... N.A.
(a)(5)................................................... 7.10
(b)...................................................... 7.10
(c)...................................................... N.A.
311(a)...................................................... 7.11
(b)...................................................... 7.11
(c)...................................................... N.A.
312(a)...................................................... 2.05
(b)...................................................... 13.03
(c)...................................................... 13.03
313(a)...................................................... 7.06
(b)...................................................... 7.06
(c)...................................................... 7.06
(d)...................................................... 7.06
314(a)(1)................................................... 4.09
(a)(2)................................................... N.A.
(a)(3)................................................... 4.09
(a)(4)................................................... 4.08
(b)...................................................... 10.03
(c)(1)................................................... 13.04
(c)(2)................................................... 13.04
(c)(3)................................................... N.A.
(d)...................................................... 10.06
(e)...................................................... 13.05
(f)...................................................... N.A.
315(a)...................................................... 7.01
(b)...................................................... 7.05
(c)...................................................... 7.01
(d)...................................................... 7.01
(e)...................................................... 6.13
316(a)(1)(A)................................................ 6.11
(a)(1)(B)................................................ 6.12
(a)(2)................................................... N.A.
(b)...................................................... 6.08
(c)...................................................... N.A.
317(a)(1)................................................... 6.03
(a)(2)................................................... 6.04
(b)...................................................... 2.04
318(a)...................................................... 13.01
(b)...................................................... N.A.
(c)...................................................... N.A.
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N.A. means "Not Applicable"
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a
part of the Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions................................................1
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of the Trust Indenture
Act.....................................................25
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction.....................................25
ARTICLE 2
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating...........................................26
SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication..............................26
SECTION 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent................................28
SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust......................28
SECTION 2.05. Securityholder Lists......................................29
SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.....................................29
SECTION 2.07. Replacement Securities....................................36
SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Securities....................................36
SECTION 2.09. Treasury Securities.......................................37
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities......................................37
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation..............................................37
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest........................................37
ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. Optional Redemption.......................................39
SECTION 3.02. Notices to Trustee........................................40
SECTION 3.03. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed....................40
SECTION 3.04. Notice of Redemption......................................40
SECTION 3.05. Effect of Notice of Redemption............................41
SECTION 3.06. Deposit of Redemption Price...............................42
SECTION 3.07. Securities Redeemed in Part...............................42
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ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions.............43
SECTION 4.02. Payment of Securities.....................................43
SECTION 4.03. Maintenance of Office or Agency...........................43
SECTION 4.04. Limitation on Restricted Payments.........................44
SECTION 4.05. Corporate Existence.......................................45
SECTION 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.........................46
SECTION 4.07. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance...................46
SECTION 4.08. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default.................47
SECTION 4.09. Reports; Rule 144A Information Requirement................47
SECTION 4.10. Limitation on Status as Investment Company................48
SECTION 4.11. Limitation on Transactions with Related Persons...........48
SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Incurrence of Additional
Indebtedness............................................49
SECTION 4.13. Limitations on Restricting Subsidiary Dividends...........51
SECTION 4.14. Limitations on Liens; Impairment of Security
Interest................................................52
SECTION 4.15. Limitation on Asset Sales and Sales of Subsidiary
Stock...................................................53
SECTION 4.16. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws...................59
SECTION 4.17. [Reserved]................................................59
SECTION 4.18. Limitation on Lines of Business...........................60
SECTION 4.19. Restriction on Sale and Issuance of Subsidiary
Stock...................................................60
SECTION 4.20. Limitation on Guarantees..................................60
SECTION 4.21. Minimum Coverage Ratio....................................60
SECTION 4.22. Separate Account..........................................61
ARTICLE 5
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.01. Limitation on Merger, Sale or Consolidation...............62
SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted.........................63
ARTICLE 6
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default.........................................63
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration of Maturity Date; Rescission and
Annulment...............................................65
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SECTION 6.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee..................................66
SECTION 6.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim..........................67
SECTION 6.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities..............................................68
SECTION 6.06. Priorities................................................68
SECTION 6.07. Limitation on Suits.......................................69
SECTION 6.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest.........................69
SECTION 6.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative............................70
SECTION 6.10. Delay or Omission Not Waiver..............................70
SECTION 6.11. Control by Holders........................................70
SECTION 6.12. Waiver of Past Default....................................70
SECTION 6.13. Undertaking for Costs.....................................71
SECTION 6.14. Restoration of Rights and Remedies........................71
ARTICLE 7
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee.........................................72
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee.........................................73
SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee..............................74
SECTION 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer......................................74
SECTION 7.05. Notice of Default.........................................75
SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders.............................75
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity................................75
SECTION 7.08. Replacement of Trustee....................................76
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc..........................77
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification.............................78
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.........78
ARTICLE 8
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance..............................................78
SECTION 8.02. Legal Defeasance and Discharge............................78
SECTION 8.03. Covenant Defeasance.......................................79
SECTION 8.04. Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance................79
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SECTION 8.05. Deposited U.S. Legal Tender Equivalents and U.S.
Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust;
Other Miscellaneous Provisions..........................81
SECTION 8.06. Repayment to the Company..................................81
SECTION 8.07. Reinstatement.............................................81
ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders........82
SECTION 9.02. Amendments, Supplemental Indentures and Waivers
with Consent of Holders.................................82
SECTION 9.03. Compliance with TIA.......................................84
SECTION 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents.........................84
SECTION 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Securities.....................85
SECTION 9.06. Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc...........................85
ARTICLE 10
COLLATERAL AND SECURITY
SECTION 10.01. Security..................................................86
SECTION 10.02. Security Documents........................................86
SECTION 10.03. Recording and Opinions....................................86
SECTION 10.04. Reserved..................................................87
SECTION 10.05. Release of Collateral.....................................87
SECTION 10.06. Certificates of the Company...............................88
SECTION 10.07. Authorization of Actions To Be Taken by the
Trustee Under the Security Documents....................88
SECTION 10.08. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee
Under the Collateral Documents..........................88
ARTICLE 11
RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE
SECTION 11.01. Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder
upon a Change of Control................................89
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ARTICLE 12
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 12.01. Guarantee.................................................91
SECTION 12.02. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee.......................93
SECTION 12.03. Guarantee Unconditional, Etc..............................93
SECTION 12.04. Limitation of Guarantor's Liability.......................94
SECTION 12.05. Contribution..............................................95
SECTION 12.06. Release...................................................95
SECTION 12.07. Additional Guarantors.....................................95
SECTION 12.08. Successors and Assigns....................................95
SECTION 12.09. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws...................96
SECTION 12.10. No Personal Liability of Partners, Stockholders,
Officers, Directors.....................................96
ARTICLE 13
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 13.01. TIA Controls..............................................96
SECTION 13.02. Notices...................................................96
SECTION 13.03. Communications by Holders with Other Holders..............97
SECTION 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent........97
SECTION 13.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion.............98
SECTION 13.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar.................98
SECTION 13.07. Legal Holidays............................................98
SECTION 13.08. Governing Law.............................................98
SECTION 13.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements.............99
SECTION 13.10. No Recourse Against Others................................99
SECTION 13.11. Successors................................................99
SECTION 13.12. Duplicate Originals.......................................99
SECTION 13.13. Severability..............................................99
SECTION 13.14. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.........................100
SECTION 13.15. Qualification of Indenture...............................100
SECTION 13.16. Registration Rights......................................100
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Exhibit A Form of Security
Exhibit B Form of Guarantee
Exhibit C Form of Certificate to Be Delivered in
Connection with Transfers to Non-QIB
Accredited Investors
Exhibit D Form of Certificate to Be Delivered in
Connection with Transfers Pursuant to
Regulation S
Exhibit E Form of Security Agreement
Exhibit F Form of Intercreditor Agreement
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INDENTURE, dated as of June 16, 1998 between Price Communications
Wireless, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), the Guarantors party
hereto from time to time, and Bank of Montreal Trust Company, a New York banking
corporation (the "Trustee").
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of each other
party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company's
9-1/8% Series A Senior Secured Notes due 2006 and the 9-1/8% Series B Senior
Secured Notes due 2006 which may be exchanged for the 9-1/8% Series A Senior
Secured Notes due 2006:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.
"Acceptance Amount" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.15.
"Accumulated Amount" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.15.
"Acquired Person" shall have the meaning specified in the definition
of "Permitted Investment."
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, (i) any
other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under
direct or indirect common control with, such specified Person or (ii) any
officer, director, or controlling stockholder of such other Person. For purposes
of this definition, the term "control" means (a) the power to direct the
management and policies of a Person, directly or through one or more
intermediaries, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract,
or otherwise, or without limiting the foregoing, the beneficial ownership of 10%
or more of the voting power of the voting common equity of such Person (on a
fully diluted basis) or of warrants or other rights to acquire such equity
(whether or not presently exercisable).
"Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar.
"Annualized Operating Cash Flow" on any date means, with respect to
any Person, the Operating Cash Flow for the Reference Period multiplied by four.
"Annualized Operating Cash Flow Ratio" on any date (the "Transaction
Date") means, with respect to any Person and its Subsidiaries, the ratio of (i)
consolidated
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Indebtedness of such Person and its Subsidiaries on the Transaction Date (after
giving pro forma effect to the Incurrence of any Indebtedness on such
Transaction Date) divided by (ii) the aggregate amount of Annualized Operating
Cash Flow of such Person (determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to
all acquisitions or dispositions of businesses made by such Person and its
Subsidiaries from the beginning of the Reference Period through the Transaction
Date as if such acquisition or disposition had occurred at the beginning of such
Reference Period); provided that for purposes of such computation, in
calculating Annualized Operating Cash Flow and consolidated Indebtedness, (a)
the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Annualized Operating
Cash Flow Ratio will be assumed to have occurred (on a pro forma basis) on the
first day of the Reference Period; (b) the Incurrence of any Indebtedness during
the Reference Period or subsequent thereto and on or prior to the Transaction
Date (and the application of the proceeds therefrom to the extent used to retire
Indebtedness or to acquire businesses) will be assumed to have occurred (on a
pro forma basis) on the first day of such Reference Period; (c) Consolidated
Interest Expense attributable to any Indebtedness (whether existing or being
incurred) bearing a floating interest rate shall be computed as if the rate in
effect on the Transaction Date had been the applicable rate for the entire
period; (d) all members of the consolidated group of such Person on the
Transaction Date that were acquired during the Reference Period or thereafter
and on or prior to the Transaction Date shall be deemed to be members of the
consolidated group of such Person for the entire Reference Period; and (e)
consolidated Indebtedness shall include any Indebtedness constituting Permitted
Parent Securities to the extent that the aggregate outstanding amount thereof
exceeds $153.4 million; provided, however, that with respect to any such
Indebtedness, the amount thereof included pursuant to this clause (e) as of any
date shall be limited to the proportion of such Indebtedness, if any, that is
equal to the proportion of the interest on such Indebtedness that as of the most
recent interest payment date in respect thereof was paid with cash distributed
by the Company pursuant to clause (ii) of the second paragraph of Section 4.04.
When the foregoing definition is used in connection with the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries, references to a Person and its Subsidiaries in the
foregoing definition shall be deemed to refer to the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
"Applicable Premium" means, with respect to a Security at any
Redemption Date, the greater of (i) 1.0% of the principal amount of such
Security and (ii) the excess of (A) the present value at such time of (1) the
redemption price of such Security at June 15, 2002 (such redemption price being
described in Section 3.01), plus (2) all remaining required interest payments
(excluding accrued but unpaid interest) due on such Security through June 15,
2002, computed using a discount rate equal to the Treasury Rate plus 50 basis
points, over (B) the then outstanding principal amount of such Security.
"Asset Sale" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.15.
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"Asset Sale Offer" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.15.
"Asset Sale Offer Amount" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 4.15.
"Asset Sale Offer Period" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 4.15.
"Asset Sale Offer Price" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.15.
"Asset Sale Purchase Date" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 4.15.
"Attributable Debt" in respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction
means, as of the time of determination, the present value (discounted at the
interest rate borne by the Securities, compounded annually) of the total
obligations of the lessee for rental payments during the remaining term of the
lease included in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction (including any period for
which such lease has been extended).
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar Federal,
state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means, with respect to any Person, the Board of
Directors of such Person or any committee of the Board of Directors of such
Person authorized, with respect to any particular matter, to exercise the power
of the Board of Directors of such Person.
"Board Resolution" means, with respect to any Person, a duly adopted
resolution of the Board of Directors of such Person.
"Business Day" means a day that is not a Legal Holiday.
"Capitalized Lease Obligations" means obligations under a lease that
are required to be capitalized for financial reporting purposes in accordance
with GAAP, and the amount of Indebtedness represented by such obligations shall
be the capitalized amount of such obligations, as determined in accordance with
GAAP.
"Capital Stock" means, with respect to any Person, any capital stock
of such Person and shares, interests, participations or other ownership
interests (however designated) of any Person and any rights (other than debt
securities convertible into capital stock), warrants and options to purchase any
of the foregoing, including (without limitation) each class of common stock and
preferred stock of such Person if such Person is a corporation and each general
and limited partnership interest of such Person if such Person is a partnership.
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"Cash Equivalents" means (i) securities issued or directly and fully
guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality thereof (provided that the full faith and credit to the United
States of America is pledged in support thereof) in each case maturing within
one year after the date of acquisition, (ii) time deposits and certificates of
deposit and commercial paper issued by the parent corporation of any domestic
commercial bank of recognized standing having capital and surplus in excess of
$500 million and commercial paper issued by others rated at least A-2 or the
equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody's
and in each case maturing within one year after the date of acquisition and
(iii) investments in money market funds substantially all of whose assets
comprise securities of the types described in clauses (i) and (ii) above.
"Cellular System" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.21.
"Change of Control" means (i) other than any transaction in which
the resulting transferee Person need not assume the Securities as provided in
the proviso to clause (i)(b) of Section 5.01, any sale, transfer or other
conveyance, whether direct or indirect, of a majority of the fair market value
of the assets of the Company or Parent, on a consolidated basis, in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, if, immediately after giving
effect to such transaction, any "person" or "group" (as such terms are used for
purposes of Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, whether or not
applicable), other than an Excluded Person or Excluded Group, is or becomes the
"beneficial owner" (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 promulgated pursuant to
the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the equity of the
transferee, (ii) any person or "group" (as such terms are used for purposes of
Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act, whether or not applicable), other
than an Excluded Person or Excluded Group, is or becomes the "beneficial owner"
(as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 promulgated pursuant to the Exchange Act),
directly or indirectly, of more than 50% of the equity of the Company or Parent
then outstanding normally entitled to vote in elections of directors, or (iii)
during any period of 12 consecutive months after the Issue Date, individuals who
at the beginning of any such 12-month period constituted the Board of Directors
of the Company or Parent (together with any new directors whose election by such
Board or whose nomination for election by the shareholders of the Company or
Parent was approved by a vote of a majority of the directors then still in
office who were either directors at the beginning of such period or whose
election or nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any
reason to constitute at least a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Company or Parent then in office.
"Change of Control Offer" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 11.01.
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"Change of Control Offer Period" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 11.01.
"Change of Control Purchase Date" shall have the meaning specified
in Section 11.01.
"Change of Control Purchase Price" shall have the meaning specified
in Section 11.01.
"Change of Control Put Date" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 11.01.
"Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time, and any successor statute.
"Collateral" shall have the meaning specified in the Security
Agreement.
"Collateral Account" means an account maintained with the Trustee or
with any financial institution into which cash collateral and Eligible
Investments securing the Securities are deposited pursuant to the terms of the
Security Agreement.
"Collateral Pool" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.21.
"Company" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it pursuant to this Indenture, and thereafter means such
successor.
"Company Systems" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.15.
"Computation Period" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.04.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" of any Person means, for any period,
the aggregate amount (without duplication and determined in each case in
accordance with GAAP) of (i) interest expensed or capitalized, paid, accrued, or
scheduled to be paid or accrued (including, in accordance with the following
sentence, interest attributable to the Capitalized Lease Obligations) of such
Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries during such period, including (a)
original issue discount and non-cash interest payments or accruals on any
Indebtedness, (b) the interest portion of all deferred payment obligations, and
(c) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to
bankers' acceptances and letters of credit financings and currency and Interest
Swap and Hedging Obligations, in each case to the extent attributable to such
period, and (ii) the amount of dividends accrued or payable by such Person or
any of its consolidated Subsidiaries in respect of Preferred Stock (other than
by Restricted Subsidiaries of such Person to such Person or such
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Person's Wholly Owned Subsidiaries). For purposes of this definition, (x)
interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an
interest rate reasonably determined by the Company to be the rate of interest
implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP and (y)
interest expense attributable to any Indebtedness represented by the guaranty by
such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person of an obligation of another Person
shall be deemed to be the interest expense attributable to the Indebtedness
guaranteed. When the foregoing definition is used in connection with the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries, references to a Person and its Subsidiaries in
the foregoing definition shall be deemed to refer to the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries.
"Consolidated Net Income" of any Person for any period means the net
income (or loss) of such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such
period, determined (on a consolidated basis) in accordance with GAAP, adjusted
to exclude (only to the extent included in computing such net income (or loss)
and without duplication) (i) all extraordinary gains and losses and gains and
losses that are nonrecurring (including as a result of Asset Sales outside the
ordinary course of business), (ii) the net income, if positive, of any Person
that is not a Subsidiary in which such Person or any of its Subsidiaries has an
interest, except to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions
actually paid to such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person that both (a) are
actually paid in cash to such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person during such
period and (b) when taken together with all other dividends and distributions
paid during such period in cash to such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person,
are not in excess of such Person's pro rata share of such other Person's
aggregate net income earned during such period, (iii), except as provided in the
definition of "Annualized Operating Cash Flow Ratio" above, the net income (or
loss) of any Subsidiary acquired in a pooling of interests transaction for any
period prior to the date of such acquisition and (iv) the net income, if
positive, of any Subsidiary of such Person (other than a Non-Recourse Restricted
Subsidiary) to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or
similar distributions is not at the time permitted by operation of the terms of
its charter or any agreement or instrument applicable to such Subsidiary. When
the foregoing definition is used in connection with the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries, references to a Person and its Subsidiaries in the
foregoing definition shall be deemed to refer to the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the Trustee
at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which address as of the date hereof is 00 Xxxx Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx,
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000.
"Covenant Defeasance" shall have the meaning specified in Section
8.03.
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
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"Default" means any event or condition that is, or after notice or
passage of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" shall have the meaning specified in Section
2.12.
"Definitive Securities" means Securities that are in the form of
Security attached hereto as Exhibit A that do not include the information called
for by footnotes 1 and 3 thereof.
"Depository" means, with respect to the Securities issuable or
issued in whole or in part in global form, the Person specified in Section 2.03
as the Depository with respect to the Securities, until a successor shall have
been appointed and become such pursuant to the applicable provision of this
Indenture, and, thereafter, "Depository" shall mean or include such successor.
"Disqualified Capital Stock" means, with respect to any Person,
Capital Stock of such Person that, by its terms or by the terms of any security
into which it is convertible, exercisable or exchangeable, is, or upon the
happening of any event or the passage of time would be, required to be redeemed
or repurchased (including at the option of the holder thereof) by such Person or
any of its Subsidiaries, in whole or in part, on or prior to the Stated
Maturity; provided, however, that Capital Stock will not be deemed to be
Disqualified Capital Stock if it may only be so redeemed or repurchased solely
in consideration of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or Parent.
"DLJ Pop Book" means The Wireless Communications Industry survey
published by Xxxxxxxxx, Xxxxxx & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation.
"DTC" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.03.
"Eligible Investments" means (a) direct obligations of the United
States of America, or of any agency thereof, or obligations guaranteed as to
principal and interest by the United States of America, or by any agency
thereof, in either case maturing not more than one year from the date of
acquisition thereof by such Person; (b) time deposits, certificates of deposit
or bankers' acceptances (including eurodollar deposits) issued by any bank or
trust company organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
state thereof and having capital, surplus and undivided profits of at least $500
million and a deposit rating of investment grade; (c) commercial paper rated A-1
or better by S&P or P-1 or better by Moody's maturing not more than 180 days
from the date of acquisition thereof by such Person; (d) repurchase obligations
with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of the types
described in clause (a) above entered into with a bank meeting the
qualifications described in clause (b) above; (e) securities with maturities of
six months or
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less from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any state,
commonwealth or territory of the United States of America, or by any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof, and rated at least A by S&P or A by
Moody's; or (f) money market mutual funds that invest primarily in the foregoing
items.
"Equity Offering" means with respect to any Person, the sale or
offering of any Capital Stock of such Person that is not Disqualified Capital
Stock.
"ERISA" means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning specified in Section 6.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, from time to time, and the rules and regulations promulgated by the SEC
thereunder, and any successor statute.
"Exchange Capital Stock" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.15.
"Exchange Securities" means 9-1/8% Series B Senior Secured Notes due
2006 to be issued pursuant to this Indenture in connection with the offer to
exchange Exchange Securities for the Initial Securities or for additional 9-1/8%
Series A Secured Notes due 2006 issued pursuant to this Indenture that may be
made by the Company pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement or otherwise.
"Excluded Group" means a "group" (as such term is used in Sections
13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) that includes one or more Excluded Persons;
provided, however, that the voting power of the Capital Stock of the Company or
Parent "beneficially owned" (as such term is used in Rule 13d-3 promulgated
under the Exchange Act) by such Excluded Persons (without attribution to such
Excluded Persons of the ownership by other members of the "group") represents a
majority of the voting power of the Capital Stock "beneficially owned" (as such
term is used in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the Exchange Act) by such group.
"Excluded Person" means Xxxxxx Xxxxx, Parent (so long as not
controlled by anyone other than Xxxxxx Xxxxx) and any Affiliate of any of the
foregoing that is wholly owned by any of the foregoing
"Existing Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company and its
Subsidiaries in existence and outstanding on the Issue Date.
"Final Put Date" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.15.
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"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in
the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") or, if FASB
ceases to exist, any successor thereto; provided, however, that for purposes of
determining compliance with covenants in this Indenture, "GAAP" means such
generally accepted accounting principles as in effect as of the Issue Date.
"Global Security" means a Security that contains the paragraph
referred to in footnote 1 and the additional schedule referred to in footnote 3
to the form of Security attached hereto as Exhibit A.
"Guarantee" shall have the meaning specified in Section 12.01.
"Guarantors" means each Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (other
than a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary) that has executed and delivered the
Indenture or a supplement thereto to become a Guarantor, and "Guarantor" means
any of them.
"Holder" or "Securityholder" means a Person in whose name a Security
is registered. The Holder of a Security will be treated as the owner of such
Security for all purposes.
"Holdings" means Price Communications Cellular Holdings, Inc., a
Delaware corporation, and its successors and assigns.
"Incur" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.12.
"Indebtedness" of any Person means, without duplication, (i) all
liabilities and obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, (a) in
respect of borrowed money (whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the
whole of the assets of such Person or only to a portion thereof), (b) evidenced
by bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments, (c) representing the balance
deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property or services, except
(other than accounts payable or other obligations to trade creditors which have
remained unpaid for more than 90 days past their original due date or to
financial institutions, which obligations are not being contested in good faith
and for which appropriate reserves have not been established) those Incurred in
the ordinary course of its business that would constitute ordinarily a trade
payable to trade creditors, (d) evidenced by bankers' acceptances or similar
instruments issued or accepted by banks, (e) for the payment of money relating
to a Capitalized Lease Obligation, or (f) evidenced by a letter of credit or a
reimbursement obligation of such Person with respect to any letter of credit;
(ii) all obligations of such Person under Interest Swap and Hedging Obligations;
(iii) all liabilities of others of
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the kind described in the preceding clauses (i) or (ii) that such Person has
guaranteed or that is otherwise its legal liability or which are secured by any
assets or property of such Person and all obligations to purchase, redeem or
acquire any Capital Stock; (iv) all Disqualified Capital Stock of such Person
and all Preferred Stock of such Person's Subsidiaries; and (v) any and all
deferrals, renewals, extensions, refinancing and refundings (whether direct or
indirect) of, or amendments, modifications or supplements to, any liability of
the kind described in any of the preceding clauses (i), (ii), (iii), or (iv) or
this clause (v), whether or not between or among the same parties; provided that
the outstanding principal amount at any date of any Indebtedness issued with
original issue discount is the face amount of such Indebtedness less the
remaining unamortized portion of the original issue discount of such
Indebtedness at such date.
"Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from
time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
"Initial Purchasers" means NatWest Capital Markets Limited,
Xxxxxxxxx, Lufkin & Xxxxxxxx Securities Corporation, Xxxxxxx Xxxxx Securities
Inc., and Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxx Securities, Inc.
"Initial Securities" means the $525.0 million of 9-1/8% Series A
Senior Secured Notes due 2006 issued pursuant to this Indenture.
"Intercreditor Agreement" means an intercreditor agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto.
"Interest Payment Date" means the stated due date of an installment
of interest on the Securities.
"Interest Swap and Hedging Obligations" means any obligations of any
Person pursuant to any interest rate swaps, caps, collars and similar
arrangements providing protection against fluctuations in interest rates. For
purposes of this Indenture, the amount of such obligations shall be the amount
determined in respect thereof as of the end of the then most recently ended
fiscal quarter of such Person, based on the assumption that such obligation had
terminated at the end of such fiscal quarter, and in making such determination,
if any agreement relating to such obligation provides for the netting of amounts
payable by and to such Person thereunder or if any such agreement provides for
the simultaneous payment of amounts by and to such Person, then in each such
case, the amount of such obligations shall be the net amount so determined, plus
any premium due upon default by such Person.
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"Investment" by any Person in any other Person means (without
duplication) (i) the acquisition (whether by purchase, merger, consolidation or
otherwise) by such Person (whether for cash, property, services, securities or
otherwise) of Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures, partnership or other
ownership interests or other securities of such other Person or any agreement to
make any such acquisition; (ii) the making by such Person of any deposit with,
or advance, loan or other extension of credit to, such other Person (including
the purchase of property from another Person subject to an understanding or
agreement, contingent or otherwise, to resell such property to such other
Person) or any commitment to make any such advance, loan or extension; (iii) the
entering into by such Person of any guarantee of, or other contingent obligation
with respect to, Indebtedness or other liability of such other Person; (iv) the
making of any capital contribution by such Person to such other Person; and (v)
the designation by the Board of Directors of the Company of any Person to be an
Unrestricted Subsidiary. For purposes of Section 4.04, (x) "Investment" shall
include and be valued at the fair market value of the net assets of any
Restricted Subsidiary at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary is designated
an Unrestricted Subsidiary and shall exclude the fair market value of the net
assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time that such Unrestricted
Subsidiary is designated a Restricted Subsidiary and (y) the amount of any
Investment shall be the fair market value of such Investment plus the fair
market value of all additional Investments by the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries at the time any such Investment is made; provided,
however that, for purposes of this sentence, the fair market value of net assets
in excess of $5,000,000 shall be as determined by an independent appraiser of
national reputation.
"Issue Date" means the time and date of the first issuance of the
Securities under this Indenture.
"Junior Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company that (i)
requires no payment of principal prior to or on the date on which all principal
of and interest on the Securities is paid in full and (ii) is subordinate and
junior in right of payment to the Securities in all respects.
"Legal Defeasance" shall have the meaning specified in Section 8.02.
"Legal Holiday" means a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking
institutions in New York, New York are authorized or obligated by law or
executive order to close.
"Lien" means any mortgage, lien, pledge, charge, security interest,
or other encumbrance of any kind, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise
perfected under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement and any lease
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deemed to constitute a security interest and any option or other agreement to
give any security interest).
"Maturity Date" means, when used with respect to any Security, the
date specified on such Security as the fixed date on which the final installment
of principal of such Security is due and payable (in the absence of any
acceleration thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture regarding
acceleration of Indebtedness or any Change of Control Offer, Proceeds Purchase
Offer or Asset Sale Offer).
"Minimum Accumulation Date" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 4.21.
"Minimum Collateral Value" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 4.21.
"Moody's" means Xxxxx'x Investors Service, Inc.
"MSA" shall have the meaning specified in the definition of "Pops".
"Net Cash Proceeds" means the aggregate amount of cash and Cash
Equivalents received by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect
of an Asset Sale (including upon the conversion to cash and Cash Equivalents of
(A) any note or installment receivable at any time, or (B) any other property as
and when any cash and Cash Equivalents are received in respect of any property
received in an Asset Sale but only to the extent such cash and Cash Equivalents
are received within one year after such Asset Sale), less the sum of (i) all
reasonable out-of-pocket fees, commissions and other expenses incurred in
connection with such Asset Sale, including the amount (estimated in good faith
by the Board of Directors of the Company) of income, franchise, sales and other
applicable taxes required to be paid by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company in connection with such Asset Sale and (ii) the aggregate amount
of cash so received which is used to retire any existing Senior Indebtedness of
the Company or Indebtedness of its Restricted Subsidiaries, as the case may be,
which is required to be repaid in connection with such Asset Sale or is secured
by a Lien on the property or assets of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, as the case may be; provided, however, that the provisions of this
clause (ii) shall not permit any non-pro rata application of the proceeds of any
Asset Sale to Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness to the disadvantage of
the Securities.
"Net Pops" of any Person with respect to any Cellular System means
the Pops of the MSA or RSA served by such Cellular System multiplied by the
direct and/or indirect percentage interest of such Person in the entity licensed
or designated to receive an
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authorization by the Federal Communications Commission to construct or operate a
Cellular System in that MSA or RSA.
"Net Proceeds" means the aggregate net proceeds (including the fair
market value of non-cash proceeds constituting equipment or other assets of a
type generally used in a Related Business, in an amount reasonably determined by
the Board of Directors of the Company for amounts less than or equal to
$5,000,000 and by a financial advisor or appraiser of national reputation for
greater amounts) received by a Person from any Equity Offering (other than to a
Subsidiary of such Person) after payment of out-of-pocket expenses, commissions
and discounts incurred in connection therewith.
"Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary" shall have the meaning
specified in the definition of "Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness".
"Obligation" means any principal, premium, interest (including
interest accruing subsequent to a bankruptcy or other similar proceeding whether
or not such interest is an allowed claim enforceable against the Company in a
bankruptcy case under Federal bankruptcy law), penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities payable pursuant
to the terms of the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
"Offering Memorandum" means that certain Offering Memorandum of the
Company, dated June 9, 1998 relating to the original issuance and sale of the
Initial Securities to the Initial Purchasers.
"Officer" means, with respect to the Company, the Chief Executive
Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief Financial Officer, the
Treasurer, the Controller, or the Secretary of the Company.
"Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to the Company or any
Parent, a certificate signed by two Officers or by an Officer and an Assistant
Secretary of the Company or such Parent, respectively, and otherwise complying
with the requirements of Sections 13.04 and 13.05.
"Operating Cash Flow" of any Person means (i) with respect to any
period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period, plus (ii)
the sum, without duplication (and only to the extent such amounts are deducted
from net revenues in determining such Consolidated Net Income), of (a) the
provisions for income taxes for such period for such Person and its consolidated
Subsidiaries, (b) depreciation, amortization and other non-cash charges of such
Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries and (c) Consolidated Interest Expense
of such Person for such period, determined, in each case, on a consolidated
basis for such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP,
less
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(iii) the amount of all cash payments made during such period by such Person and
its Subsidiaries to the extent such payments relate to non-cash charges that
were added back in determining Operating Cash Flow for such period or for any
prior period. When the foregoing definition is used in connection with the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, references to a Person and its
Subsidiaries in the foregoing definition shall be deemed to refer to the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel who
is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee complying with the requirements of
Sections 13.04 and 13.05.
"Parent" means PCC or any direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiary
of PCC that directly or indirectly wholly owns the Company.
"Parent Indenture" means the indenture dated as of August 7, 1997,
by and between Holdings and Bank of Montreal Trust Company, as trustee, under
which the Parent Notes were issued.
"Parent Notes" means the 13-1/2% Senior Secured Discount Notes due
2007 of Holdings.
"Paying Agent" shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.03.
"PCC" means Price Communications Corporation, a New York
corporation, and its successors and assigns.
"Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness" means, with respect to any
Person, Indebtedness Incurred in connection with the acquisition of property,
businesses or assets which, or Capital Stock of a Person all or substantially
all of whose assets, are of a type generally used in a Related Business;
provided, however, that, in the case of the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries, as applicable, (x) (i) the Company's Annualized Operating Cash
Flow Ratio, after giving effect to such acquisition and such Incurrence on a pro
forma basis, is no greater than such ratio prior to giving pro forma effect to
such acquisition and such Incurrence; (ii) the Company's consolidated
Indebtedness, divided by the Net Pops of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, in each case giving pro forma effect to the acquisition and such
Incurrence, does not exceed $175; and (iii) after giving effect to such
acquisition and such Incurrence the acquired property, businesses or assets or
such Capital Stock is owned directly by the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or (y) (i) under the terms of such Indebtedness and
pursuant to applicable law, no recourse could be had for the payment of
principal, interest or premium with respect to such Indebtedness or for any
claim based thereon against the Company or any Restricted
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Subsidiary of the Company other than the obligor of such Indebtedness and its
Subsidiaries or any of their property or assets other than the Capital Stock of
such obligor or its Subsidiaries, (ii) the obligor of such Indebtedness shall
have, immediately after giving effect to such acquisition and such Incurrence on
a pro forma basis, a ratio of Annualized Operating Cash Flow as of the date of
such acquisition and Incurrence to the product of Consolidated Interest Expense
for the Reference Period multiplied by four (but excluding from Consolidated
Interest Expense all amounts that are not required to be paid in cash on a
current basis) of at least 1.0 to 1, (iii) since the Issue Date no Permitted
Investment (other than as permitted by clause (viii) of the definition of
"Permitted Investment" below) shall have been made in such obligor or its
Subsidiaries and (iv) immediately subsequent to the Incurrence of such
Indebtedness, the obligor thereof shall be a Restricted Subsidiary and shall
have been designated by the Company (as evidenced by an Officers' Certificate
delivered promptly to the Trustee) to be a "Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary".
"Permitted Investment" means (i) Investments in Cash Equivalents;
(ii) Investments in the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than a
Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary); (iii) Investments in a Person substantially
all of whose assets are of a type generally used in a Related Business (an
"Acquired Person") if, as a result of such Investments, (a) the Acquired Person
immediately thereupon becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Non-Recourse
Restricted Subsidiary) or (b) the Acquired Person immediately thereupon either
(1) is merged or consolidated with or into the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries (other than a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary) and the surviving
Person is the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Non-Recourse
Restricted Subsidiary) or (2) transfers or conveys all or substantially all of
its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries (other than a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary); (iv) Investments
in accounts and notes receivable acquired in the ordinary course of business;
(v) any securities received in connection with an Asset Sale (other than those
of a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary) and any investment with the Net Cash
Proceeds from any Asset Sale in Capital Stock of a Person, all or substantially
all of whose assets are of a type used in a Related Business, that complies with
Section 4.15; (vi) any guarantee issued by a Restricted Subsidiary Incurred in
compliance with this Indenture; (vii) advances and prepayments for asset
purchases in the ordinary course of business in a Related Business of the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary; (viii) Investments in Non-Recourse
Restricted Subsidiaries with the proceeds of contributions irrevocably and
unconditionally received without restriction by the Company from any Parent; and
(ix) customary loans or advances made in the ordinary course of business to
officers, directors or employees of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries for travel, entertainment, and moving and other relocation
expenses.
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"Permitted Lien" means (a) Liens existing on the Issue Date; (b)
Liens imposed by governmental authorities for taxes, assessments or other
charges not yet subject to penalty or which are being contested in good faith
and by appropriate proceedings, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are
maintained on the books of the Company in accordance with GAAP; (c) statutory
liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, materialmen, landlords, repairmen or
other like Liens arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business;
provided, however, that (i) the underlying obligations are not overdue for a
period of more than 30 days, and (ii) such Liens are being contested in good
faith and by appropriate proceedings and adequate reserves with respect thereto
are maintained on the books of the Company in accordance with GAAP; (d) Liens
securing the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than borrowed money),
leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and
other obligations of a like nature Incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(e) easements, rights-of-way, zoning, similar restrictions and other similar
encumbrances or title defects which, singly or in the aggregate, do not in any
case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto (as such
property is used by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) or
interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries; (f) Liens arising by operation of law in connection
with judgments, only to the extent, for an amount and for a period not resulting
in an Event of Default with respect thereto; (g) pledges or deposits made in the
ordinary course of business in connection with workers' compensation,
unemployment insurance and other types of social security legislation; (h) Liens
in favor of the Trustee arising under this Indenture; (i) Liens securing
Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness, which either (A) were not Incurred or issued
in anticipation of such acquisition or (B) secure Permitted Acquisition
Indebtedness meeting the requirements set forth in clause (y) of the definition
thereof; (j) Liens securing Indebtedness of a Person existing at the time such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or is merged with or into the Company or
a Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however, that such Liens were in existence
prior to the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation, were not
incurred in anticipation thereof, and do not extend to any other assets; (k)
Liens arising from Purchase Money Indebtedness permitted under this Indenture;
(l) Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance any
Indebtedness that was previously so secured in a manner no more adverse to the
Holders than the terms of the Liens securing such refinanced Indebtedness; (m)
Liens in favor of the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary (other
than a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary); (n) Liens securing any Permitted
Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness Incurred in accordance with the provisions of
Section 4.12; provided, however, that (A) the aggregate principal amount of the
Secured Indebtedness as of the date of issuance of such series of Permitted Pari
Passu Secured Indebtedness on a pro forma basis is less than or equal to the
Minimum Collateral Value, (B) the indenture and the related documents for each
such series of Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness contain provisions with
respect to releases of Collateral that are substantially similar to and no more
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strictive on the Company than the provisions of this Indenture and the Security
Agreement and (C) the trustee for the holders of each series of Permitted Pari
Passu Secured Indebtedness executes and delivers a joinder supplement to the
Intercreditor Agreement; and (o) Liens on assets other than the Collateral
securing Indebtedness (other than Junior Indebtedness) permitted to be incurred
under Section 4.12.
"Permitted Parent Securities" means (i) the Parent Notes, (ii) any
refinancing of the Parent Notes that has a first scheduled cash interest payment
due and payable no earlier than the due date of the first scheduled cash
interest payment of the Indebtedness being refinanced as of the Issue Date and
(iii) any other Indebtedness of Holdings or Parent Incurred after the Issue
Date; provided, however, that (a) the gross proceeds of such Indebtedness do not
exceed $100 million in the aggregate, (b) such Indebtedness has a first
scheduled cash interest payment due and payable no earlier that the due date of
the first scheduled cash interest payment of the Indebtedness described in
clauses (i) or (ii) above and (c) the net proceeds of such Indebtedness are
contributed to the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries and applied in a
manner permitted by this Indenture. For purposes of this definition, the term
"first scheduled cash interest payment" shall not include any payment date on
which the Issuer (i) may elect to pay interest in cash or (ii) is required to
pay interest in cash as a result of such election.
"Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of
the Company or any Guarantor Incurred by the issuance of notes, which may (but
need not) be issued under this Indenture (subject to the limitations therein) as
one or more series of additional Securities and/or the related Guarantees;
provided, however, that such Indebtedness shall not mature or have any mandatory
redemption or required prepayment dates (other than a mandatory offer to
repurchase upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale) prior to
the final stated maturity date of the Securities and may be fixed rate or
floating rate obligations. The Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness will
constitute senior Indebtedness of the Company or any Guarantor pari passu with
the Securities and the related Guarantees. The Permitted Pari Passu Secured
Indebtedness may be secured by a first priority Lien on the Collateral pari
passu with the Lien for the benefit of the Holders if (i) the Secured
Indebtedness as of the date of issuance of such series of Permitted Pari Passu
Secured Indebtedness on a pro forma basis is less than or equal to the Minimum
Collateral Value, (ii) the indenture and the related documents for each such
series of Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness contains provisions with
respect to releases of Collateral that are substantially similar to and no more
restrictive on the Company than the provisions of this Indenture and the
Security Agreement and (iii) the trustee for the holders of each series of
Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness executes and delivers a joinder
supplement to the Intercreditor Agreement.
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"Person" means any corporation, individual, joint stock company,
joint venture, partnership, unincorporated association, governmental regulatory
entity, country, state or political subdivision thereof, trust, municipality or
other entity.
"Pops" means, as of any date of determination, the greater of the
estimate of the population of a Metropolitan Statistical Area ("MSA") or Rural
Service Area ("RSA") derived from (i) the most recent Xxxxxxxx Market Service
and (ii) the most recent DLJ Pop Book; provided, however, that (x) if such
statistics are no longer printed in either the Xxxxxxxx Market Service or the
DLJ Pop Book, or either such source is no longer published, the then currently
published source of the two containing such information shall be used; (y) if
such statistics are no longer printed in either such source, or both sources are
no longer published, the statistics in the most recent Rand XxXxxxx Commercial
Atlas shall be used; and (z) if such statistics are no longer printed in the
Rand XxXxxxx Commercial Atlas or the Rand XxXxxxx Commercial Atlas is no longer
published, another nationally recognized source of such information shall be
used.
"Preferred Stock" means Capital Stock, other than common stock of an
issuer having no preferences or privileges as to the payment of dividends or the
distribution of the issuer's assets over any other class of such issuer's
Capital Stock.
"principal" of any Indebtedness means the principal of such
Indebtedness plus, without duplication, applicable premium, if any, on such
Indebtedness.
"property" means any right or interest in or to property or assets
of any kind whatsoever, whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or
intangible.
"Purchase Agreement" means that certain Purchase Agreement dated
June 8, 1998 by and among the Company, the Guarantors as of the Issue Date and
the Initial Purchasers, as such agreement may be amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
"Purchase Money Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company or
its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurred in connection with the purchase of property
or assets for the business of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries,
provided that the recourse of the lenders with respect to such Indebtedness is
limited solely to the property or assets so purchased without further recourse
to either the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.
"Qualified Capital Stock" means any Capital Stock of a Person that
is not Disqualified Capital Stock.
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"Record Date" means a Record Date specified in the Securities
whether or not such Record Date is a Business Day.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to Article 3 of this
Indenture and Paragraph 5 in the form of Security.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the redemption price for such redemption pursuant to Article 3
of this Indenture and Paragraph 5 in the form of Security, which shall include,
without duplication, in each case, any accrued and unpaid interest to the
Redemption Date.
"Reference Period" with regard to any Person means the last full
fiscal quarter of such Person for which financial information (which the Company
shall use its best efforts to compile in a timely manner) in respect thereof is
available ended on or immediately preceding any date upon which any
determination is to be made pursuant to the terms of the Securities or this
Indenture.
"Refinancing Indebtedness" means Indebtedness or Disqualified
Capital Stock (a) issued in exchange for, or the proceeds from the issuance and
sale of which are used substantially concurrently to repay, redeem, defease,
refund, refinance, discharge or otherwise retire for value, in whole or in part,
or (b) constituting an amendment, modification or supplement to, or a deferral
or renewal of ((a) and (b) above are, collectively, a "Refinancing") any
Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock in a principal amount or, in the case
of Disqualified Capital Stock, liquidation preference (or if such Indebtedness
or Disqualified Capital Stock does not require cash payments prior to maturity
or is otherwise issued at a discount, the original issue price of such
Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock), not to exceed the sum of (x) the
lesser of (i) the principal amount or, in the case of Disqualified Capital
Stock, liquidation preference of the Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock
so Refinanced and (ii) if such Indebtedness being Refinanced was issued with an
original issue discount, the accreted value thereof (as determined in accordance
with GAAP) at the time of such Refinancing, (y) the amount of any premium
required to be paid in connection with such refinancing pursuant to the terms of
such Indebtedness and (z) all other customary fees and expenses of the Company
or such Restricted Subsidiary reasonably Incurred in connection with such
refinancing; provided, however that (A) Refinancing Indebtedness issued by any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company shall only be used to Refinance outstanding
Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary, (B)
Refinancing Indebtedness shall (x) not have a Weighted Average Life shorter than
the Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock to be so refinanced at the time
of such Refinancing and (y) in all respects, be no less subordinated or junior,
if applicable, to the rights of Holders than was the Indebtedness or
Disqualified Capital Stock to be refinanced and
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(C) such Refinancing Indebtedness shall have no installments of principal (or
redemption payment) scheduled to come due earlier than the scheduled maturity of
any installment of principal (or redemption payment) of the Indebtedness or
Disqualified Capital Stock to be so refinanced which was scheduled to come due
prior to the Stated Maturity.
"Registrar" means the office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan,
The City of New York, where the Securities may be presented for registration of
transfer or for exchange.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights
Agreement dated June 16, 1998, by and among the Company, the Guarantors as of
the Issue Date and the Initial Purchasers, as such agreement may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
"Related Business" means any business directly related to the
ownership, development, operation, and acquisition of wireless cellular
communications systems.
"Related Person" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any
Affiliate of such Person or any spouse, immediate family member, or other
relative who has the same principal residence of any Affiliate of such Person
and (ii) any trust in which any Person described in clause (i) above has a
beneficial interest.
"Related Person Transaction" shall have the meaning specified in
Section 4.11.
"Restricted Partnership" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.19.
"Restricted Payment" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any
dividend or other distribution on shares of Capital Stock of such Person, its
Parent, or any Subsidiary of such Person, (ii) any payment on account of the
purchase, redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value, or any
payment in respect of any amendment (in anticipation of or in connection with
any such retirement, acquisition or defeasance) in whole or in part, of any
shares of Capital Stock of such Person, its Parent, or any Subsidiary of such
Person held by Persons other than such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries (other than any Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary), (iii) any
defeasance, redemption, repurchase or other acquisition or retirement for value,
or any payment in respect of any amendment (in anticipation of or in connection
with any such retirement, acquisition or defeasance) in whole or in part, of any
Indebtedness of the Company (other than the scheduled repayment thereof at
maturity and any mandatory redemption or mandatory repurchase thereof pursuant
to the terms thereof) by such Person or a Subsidiary of such Person that is
subordinate in right of payment to, or ranks pari passu (other than the
Securities) with, the Securities (other than
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in exchange for Refinancing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred under this
Indenture and except for any such defeasance, redemption, repurchase, other
acquisition or payment in respect of Indebtedness held by any Restricted
Subsidiary) and (iv) any Investment (other than a Permitted Investment);
provided, however, that the term "Restricted Payment" does not include (i) any
dividend, distribution or other payment on shares of Capital Stock of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary solely in shares of Qualified Capital
Stock, (ii) any dividend, distribution or other payment to the Company, or any
dividend to any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any Non-Recourse
Restricted Subsidiary), by any of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) the purchase,
redemption or other acquisition or retirement for value of shares of Capital
Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Non-Recourse Restricted
Subsidiaries) held by Persons other than the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
"Restricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Company which at
the time of determination is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary. The Board of
Directors of the Company may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a
Restricted Subsidiary only if, immediately before and after giving effect to
such designation, there would exist no Default or Event of Default and the
Company could Incur at least $1.00 of Indebtedness pursuant to the Annualized
Operating Cash Flow Ratio test of the second paragraph of Section 4.12, on a pro
forma basis taking into account such designation.
"RSA" shall have the meaning specified in the definition of "Pops".
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a Division of The
XxXxxx-Xxxx Companies, Inc.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any direct or indirect
arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person is a party providing for
the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property, whether
owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary at the Issue Date or later
acquired, which has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds have
been or are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such property.
"Secured Indebtedness" shall have the meaning specified in Section
4.21.
"Securities" means, collectively, (A) the Initial Securities and,
when and if issued as provided in the Registration Rights Agreement, the
Exchange Securities issued upon valid surrender of such Initial Securities in
exchange therefor and (B) any additional securities issued hereunder (and any
Exchange Securities issued upon valid surrender of
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such additional securities in exchange therefor) that is Permitted Pari Passu
Secured Indebtedness.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from
time to time, and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder,
and any successor statute.
"Securities Custodian" means the Trustee, as custodian for the
Depository with respect to the Securities in global form, or any successor
entity thereto.
"Security Agreement" means the Security Agreement dated June 16,
1998, by and among the Company, the Guarantors as of the Issue Date, and the
Initial Purchasers, as such agreement may be amended, modified or supplemented
from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.
"Security Documents" means the Security Agreement, the Intercreditor
Agreement and any other document from time to time entered into by the Company
or any Guarantor to pledge Collateral to the Trustee for its benefit and the
benefit of the Holders.
"Senior Indebtedness" means any Indebtedness of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary including the Securities, other than Indebtedness of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary as to which the instrument creating or
evidencing the same, or pursuant to which the same is outstanding, provides that
such Indebtedness shall be subordinated or junior in right of payment to the
Securities or the Guarantees, as applicable.
"Senior Subordinated Notes" means the Company's 11-3/4% Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2007.
"Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture" means the indenture dated as
of July 10, 1997, by and between the Company and Bank of Montreal Trust Company,
as trustee, under which the Senior Subordinated Notes were issued.
"Significant Restricted Subsidiary" at any date of measurement,
means one or more Restricted Subsidiaries having an aggregate net book value of
assets in excess of 5% of the net book value of the assets of the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
"Special Rights" shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.19.
"Stated Maturity" means the date fixed for the payment of any
principal or premium pursuant to this Indenture and the Securities, including
the Maturity Date, upon redemption, acceleration, Asset Sale Offer, Change of
Control Offer or otherwise.
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"Subsidiary" with respect to any Person, means (i) a corporation at
least fifty percent of whose Capital Stock with voting power, under ordinary
circumstances, to elect directors is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned
by such Person, by such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person or by
one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) a partnership in which such
Person or a Subsidiary of such Person is, at the time, a general partner of such
partnership, or (iii) any Person in which such Person, one or more Subsidiaries
of such Person, or such Person and one or more Subsidiaries of such Person,
directly or indirectly, at the date of determination thereof has (x) at least a
fifty percent ownership interest or (y) the power to elect or direct the
election of the directors or other governing body of such Person.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended from time to
time.
"Transfer Restricted Security" means a Security, unless or until it
has been (i) disposed of in a transaction effectively registered under the
Securities Act or (ii) distributed to the public pursuant to Rule 144 (or any
similar provision then in force) under the Securities Act; provided that in no
case shall an Exchange Security issued in accordance with this Indenture and the
terms and provisions of the Registration Rights Agreement be a Transfer
Restricted Security.
"Treasury Rate" means the yield to maturity at the time of
computation of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as
compiled and published in the most recent Federal Reserve Statistical Release
H.15(519) which has become publicly available at least two Business Days prior
to the Redemption Date (or, if such Statistical Release is no longer published,
any publicly available source of similar market data)) most nearly equal to the
period from the Redemption Date to June 15, 2002; provided, however, that if the
period from the Redemption Date to June 15, 2002 is not equal to the constant
maturity of a United States Treasury security for which a weekly average yield
is given, the Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation calculated
to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United
States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the
period from the Redemption Date to June 15, 2002 is less than one year, the
weekly average yield on actually traded United States Treasury securities
adjusted to a constant maturity of one year shall be used.
"Trustee" means Bank of Montreal Trust Company or any successor
appointed pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
"Trust Officer" means any officer within the corporate trust
division (or any successor group) of the Trustee or any other officer of the
Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the
Persons who at that time shall be such officers,
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and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter, any other
officer of the Trustee to whom such trust matter is referred because of his
knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Unrestricted Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Company that,
at the time of determination, shall be an Unrestricted Subsidiary (as designated
by the Board of Directors of the Company, as provided below). The Board of
Directors of the Company may designate any Subsidiary of the Company (including
any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary at or prior to the time it is so
formed or acquired) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary so long as (i) no Default
or Event of Default is existing or will occur as a consequence thereof, (ii)
such Subsidiary does not own any Capital Stock of, or own or hold any Lien on
any property or asset of, the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a
Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated, (iii) such Subsidiary and each
of its Subsidiaries has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter,
create, incur, issue, assume, guarantee, or otherwise become directly or
indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender
has recourse to any property or assets of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries (except that such Subsidiary and its Subsidiaries may guarantee the
Securities), and (iv) such Subsidiary is at the time of designation also
designated as an unrestricted subsidiary pursuant to the Senior Subordinated
Notes Indenture and the Parent Indenture; provided, however, that either (A) the
Subsidiary to be so designated has total assets of $1,000 or less or (B) if such
Subsidiary has assets greater than $1,000, that such designation would be
permitted under Section 4.04. Any Subsidiary of the Company that is designated
on the Issue Date as an unrestricted subsidiary pursuant to the Senior
Subordinated Notes Indenture and the Parent Indenture shall be designated to be
an Unrestricted Subsidiary. Each such designation shall be evidenced by filing
with the Trustee a certified copy of the resolution giving effect to such
designation and an Officers' Certificate certifying that such designation
complied with the foregoing conditions.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means direct non-callable obligations
of, or noncallable obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America for
the payment of which obligation or guarantee the full faith and credit of the
United States of America is pledged.
"U.S. Legal Tender Equivalents" means securities issued or directly
and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality thereof with a maturity of 90 days or less (provided that the
full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support
thereof).
"Weighted Average Life" means, as of the date of determination, with
respect to any debt instrument, the quotient obtained by dividing (i) the sum of
the products of the numbers of years from the date of determination to the dates
of each successive
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scheduled principal payment of such debt instrument multiplied by the amount of
each such respective principal payment by (ii) the sum of all such principal
payments.
"Wholly Owned" means, with respect to a Subsidiary of the Company,
(i) a Subsidiary that is a corporation, of which not less than 99% of the
Capital Stock (except for directors' qualifying shares or certain minority
interests owned by other Persons solely due to local law requirements that there
be more than one stockholder, but which interest is not in excess of what is
required for such purpose) is owned directly by such Person or through one or
more other Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person, or (ii) any entity other
than a corporation in which such Person, directly or indirectly, owns not less
than 99% of the Capital Stock of such entity.
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of the Trust Indenture Act.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such provision is
incorporated by reference in and made a part of this Indenture. The following
TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"Commission" means the SEC.
"indenture securities" means the Securities.
"indenture securityholder" means a Holder or a Securityholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee.
"obligor" on the indenture securities means the Company and any
other obligor on the Securities.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them thereby.
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction. Unless the context otherwise
requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with GAAP;
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(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the
plural include the singular;
(5) provisions apply to successive events and transactions;
(6) "herein," "hereof" and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other subdivision;
(7) references to Sections or Articles means reference to such
Section or Article in this Indenture, unless stated otherwise; and
(8) whenever in this Indenture or the Securities it is provided that
the principal amount with respect to a Security shall be paid, such
provision shall be deemed to require (whether or not so expressly stated)
the simultaneous payment of any accrued and unpaid interest to the date of
payment on such Security payable pursuant to paragraph 1 of the
Securities.
ARTICLE 2
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating. The Securities and the Trustee's
certificate of authentication in respect thereof shall be substantially in the
form of Exhibit A hereto, which Exhibit is part of this Indenture. The
Securities may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law, stock
exchange rule or usage. The Company shall approve the form of the Securities and
any notation, legend or endorsement on them. Any such notations, legends or
endorsements not contained in the form of Security attached as Exhibit A hereto
shall be delivered in writing to the Trustee. Each Security shall be dated the
date of its authentication.
The terms and provisions contained in the forms of Securities shall
constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the
extent applicable, the Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery
of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound
thereby.
SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication. Each Security shall be
signed by at least one Officer for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.
The
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Company's seal may be impressed, affixed, imprinted or reproduced on the
Securities and may be in facsimile form.
If an Officer whose signature is on a Security was an officer at the
time of such execution but no longer holds that office at the time the Trustee
authenticates the Security, the Security shall be valid nevertheless and the
Company shall nevertheless be bound by the terms of the Securities and this
Indenture.
A Security shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Security but
such signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Security has been
authenticated pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
The Trustee shall authenticate Securities from time to time for
original issue in the aggregate principal amount of up to $1,000,000,000 and
shall authenticate Exchange Securities for original issue in the aggregate
principal amount of up to $1,000,000,000, in each case upon a written order of
the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate; provided that such Exchange
Securities shall be issuable only upon the valid surrender for cancellation of
Securities of a like aggregate principal amount. The Officers' Certificate shall
specify the amount of Securities to be authenticated and the date on which the
Securities are to be authenticated. The terms of such Securities shall be the
same in all respects as the Initial Securities (or in all respects except for
the payment of interest (i) scheduled and paid prior to the date of issuance of
such Securities or (ii) payable on the first Interest Payment Date following
such date of issuance). The Initial Securities and any additional Securities
issued under the Indenture shall be treated as a single class for all purposes
of the Indenture. The aggregate principal amount of Securities outstanding at
any time may not exceed $1,000,000,000, except as provided in Section 2.07. Upon
the written order of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate, the
Trustee shall authenticate Securities in substitution of Securities originally
issued to reflect any name change of the Company.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent acceptable to the
Company to authenticate Securities. Unless otherwise provided in the
appointment, an authenticating agent may authenticate Securities whenever the
Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to authentication by the
Trustee includes authentication by such agent. An authenticating agent has the
same rights as an Agent to deal with the Company, any Affiliate of the Company,
or any of their respective Subsidiaries.
Securities shall be issuable only in fully registered form, without
coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
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SECTION 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent. The Company shall maintain
an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, where
Securities may be presented for registration of transfer or for exchange (the
"Registrar") and an office or agency where Securities may be presented for
payment ("Paying Agent") and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities may be served. The Company may act as Registrar or
Paying Agent, except that, for the purposes of Articles 3, 8, 10, 11, Section
4.15 and as otherwise specified in this Indenture, neither the Company nor any
Affiliate of the Company shall act as Paying Agent. The Registrar shall keep a
register of the Securities and of their transfer and exchange. The Company may
have one or more co-Registrars and one or more additional Paying Agents. The
term "Paying Agent" includes any additional Paying Agent. The Company hereby
initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar and Paying Agent, and the Trustee
hereby agrees so to act.
The Company shall enter into an appropriate written agency agreement
with any Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall implement
the provisions of this Indenture that relate to such Agent. The Company shall
promptly notify the Trustee in writing of the name and address of any such
Agent. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee
shall act as such.
The Company initially appoints The Depository Trust Company ("DTC")
to act as Depository with respect to the Global Securities.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Securities
Custodian with respect to the Global Securities.
SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent to Hold Assets in Trust. The Company
shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee to agree in writing that
each Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of the Holders or the
Trustee all assets held by the Paying Agent for the payment of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest on, the Securities (whether such assets have been
distributed to it by the Company or any other obligor on the Securities), and
shall notify the Trustee in writing of any Default in making any such payment.
If either of the Company or a Subsidiary of the Company acts as Paying Agent, it
shall segregate such assets and hold them as a separate trust fund for the
benefit of the Holders or the Trustee. The Company at any time may require a
Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and account for
any assets disbursed and the Trustee may at any time during the continuance of
any payment Default, upon written request to a Paying Agent, require such Paying
Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and to account for any
assets distributed. Upon distribution to the Trustee of all assets that shall
have been delivered by the Company to the Paying Agent, the Paying Agent (if
other than the Company) shall have no further liability for such assets.
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SECTION 2.05. Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve in as
current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available to it
of the names and addresses of Holders and shall otherwise comply with TIA ss.
312(a). If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee on or before the third Business Day preceding each Interest Payment Date
and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list in such
form and as of such date as the Trustee reasonably may require of the names and
addresses of Holders.
SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.
(a) Transfer and Exchange of Definitive Securities. When Definitive
Securities are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request:
(x) to register the transfer of such Definitive Securities; or
(y) to exchange such Definitive Securities for an equal principal
amount of Definitive Securities of other authorized denominations,
the Registrar or co-Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange
as requested if its reasonable requirements for such transaction are met;
provided, however, that the Definitive Securities surrendered for transfer or
exchange:
(i) shall be duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of
transfer in form reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar
or co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly
authorized in writing; and
(ii) in the case of Transfer Restricted Securities that are
Definitive Securities, shall be accompanied by the following additional
information and documents, as applicable:
(A) if such Transfer Restricted Securities are being delivered
to the Registrar by a Holder for registration in the name of such
Holder, without transfer, a certification from such Holder to that
effect (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the
Security); or
(B) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred
to a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under
the Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act, a certification to that effect (in substantially the
form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
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(C) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred
pursuant to any exemption from registration in accordance with
Regulation S under the Securities Act, a certification to that
effect (in substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the
Security); or
(D) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred
to an institutional investor that is an "accredited investor" within
the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1),(2),(3) or (7) under the Securities
Act which delivers a certificate in the form of Exhibit B to this
Indenture to the Trustee; or
(E) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred
in reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements
of the Securities Act, a certification to that effect (in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security)
accompanied by a customary opinion of counsel substantially to the
effect that such transfer may be effected in reliance upon such
exemption.
(b) Restrictions on Transfer of a Definitive Security for a
Beneficial Interest in a Global Security. A Definitive Security may not be
exchanged for a beneficial interest in a Global Security except upon
satisfaction of the requirements set forth below. Upon receipt by the Trustee of
a Definitive Security, duly endorsed or accompanied by appropriate instruments
of transfer, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, together with:
(i) if such Definitive Security is a Transfer Restricted Security,
certification, substantially in the form set forth on the reverse of the
Security, that such Definitive Security is being transferred to a
"qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act; and
(ii) whether or not such Definitive Security is a Transfer
Restricted Security, written instructions directing the Trustee to make,
or to direct the Securities Custodian to make, an endorsement on the
Global Security to reflect an increase in the aggregate principal amount
of the Securities represented by the Global Security,
then the Trustee shall cancel such Definitive Security and cause, or direct the
Securities Custodian to cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and
procedures existing between the Depository and the Securities Custodian, the
aggregate principal amount of Securities represented by the Global Security to
be increased accordingly. If no Global Securities are then outstanding, the
Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a new Global Security in
the appropriate principal amount.
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(c) Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities. The transfer and
exchange of Global Securities or beneficial interests therein shall be effected
through the Depository, in accordance with this Indenture (including the
restrictions on transfer set forth herein) and the procedures of the Depository
therefor.
(d) Transfer of a Beneficial Interest in a Global Security for a
Definitive Security.
(i) Upon receipt by the Trustee of written instructions or such
other form of instructions as is customary for the Depository from the
Depository or its nominee on behalf of any Person having a beneficial
interest in a Global Security and upon receipt by the Trustee of a written
order or such other form of instructions as is customary for the
Depository or the Person designated by the Depository as having such a
beneficial interest in a Transfer Restricted Security only, the following
additional information and documents (all of which may be submitted by
facsimile):
(A) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to the
Person designated by the Depository as being the beneficial owner, a
certification from such person to that effect (in substantially the
form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(B) if such beneficial interest is being transferred to a
"qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the
Securities Act) in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities
Act, a certification to that effect from the transferor (in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(C) if such beneficial interest is being transferred pursuant
to any exemption from registration in accordance with Regulation S
under the Securities Act, a certification to that effect (in
substantially the form set forth on the reverse of the Security); or
(D) if such Transfer Restricted Security is being transferred
to an institutional investor that is an "accredited investor" within
the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities
Act which delivers a certificate in the form of Exhibit B to this
Indenture to the Trustee; or
(E) if such beneficial interest is being transferred in
reliance on another exemption from the registration requirements of
the Securities Act, a certification to that effect from the
transferee or transferor (in substantially the form set forth on the
reverse of the Security) accompanied by a custom-
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ary opinion of counsel substantially to the effect that such
transfer may be effected in reliance upon such exemption,
then the Trustee or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee,
will cause, in accordance with the standing instructions and procedures existing
between the Depository and the Securities Custodian, the aggregate principal
amount of the Global Security to be reduced and, following such reduction, the
Company will execute and, upon receipt of an authentication order in the form of
an Officers' Certificate, the Trustee will authenticate and deliver to the
transferee a Definitive Security.
(ii) Definitive Securities issued in exchange for a beneficial
interest in a Global Security pursuant to this Section 2.06(d) shall be
registered in such names and in such authorized denominations as the
Depository, pursuant to instructions from its direct or indirect
participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall
deliver such Definitive Securities to the persons in whose names such
Securities are so registered.
(e) Restrictions on Transfer and Exchange of Global Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture (other than the
provisions set forth in subsection (f) of this Section 2.06), a Global Security
may not be transferred as a whole except by the Depository to a nominee of the
Depository or by a nominee of the Depository to the Depository or another
nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or any such nominee to a
successor Depository or a nominee of such successor Depository.
(f) Authentication of Definitive Securities in Absence of
Depository. If at any time:
(i) the Depository for the Securities notifies the Company that the
Depository is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository for the Global
Securities and a successor Depository for the Global Securities is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days after delivery of such notice; or
(ii) the Company, in its sole discretion, notifies the Trustee in
writing that it elects to cause the issuance of Definitive Securities
under this Indenture,
then the Company will execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers'
Certificate requesting the authentication and delivery of Definitive Securities,
will authenticate and deliver Definitive Securities, in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of the Global Securities, in exchange for
such Global Securities.
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(g) Legends.
(i) Except as permitted by the following paragraph (ii), each
Security certificate evidencing the Global Securities and the Definitive
Securities (and all Securities issued in exchange therefor or substitution
thereof) shall bear a legend in substantially the following form:
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE
OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT
OR BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING
SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT
(A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED
INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7) OF
REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN "INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED
INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE
IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD
REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(k) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AS IN EFFECT ON
THE DATE OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH TRANSFER,
RESALE OR OTHERWISE, TRANSFER THIS NOTE EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY OR
ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL
ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE
TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND
AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE
(THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE) AND IF
SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN
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AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES AT THE TIME OF TRANSFER OF LESS
THAN $250,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY THAT
SUCH TRANSFER IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) OUTSIDE
THE UNITED STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE
904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM
REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF
AVAILABLE) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH
PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO
THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS
NOTE WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO ABOVE, THE HOLDER MUST CHECK
THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE REVERSE HEREOF RELATING TO THE
MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THIS CERTIFICATE TO THE TRUSTEE.
IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR
PURCHASING PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (2)(C) ABOVE, THE HOLDER MUST, PRIOR
TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH
CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF
THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING
MADE PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT
TO, THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED
HEREIN, THE TERMS "OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S.
PERSON" HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A PROVISION REQUIRING THE
TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE IN VIOLATION
OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.
(ii) Upon any sale or transfer of a Transfer Restricted Security
(including any Transfer Restricted Security represented by a Global
Security) pursuant to Rule
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144 under the Securities Act or an effective registration statement under
the Securities Act:
(A) in the case of any Transfer Restricted Security that is a
Definitive Security, the Registrar shall permit the Holder thereof
to exchange such Transfer Restricted Security for a Definitive
Security that does not bear the legend set forth above and rescind
any restriction on the transfer of such Transfer Restricted Security
in the case of a Rule 144 Transfer, after delivery of a customary
opinion of counsel; and
(B) any such Transfer Restricted Security represented by a
Global Security shall not be subject to the provisions set forth in
(i) above (such sales or transfers being subject only to the
provisions of Section 2.06(c) hereof); provided, however, that with
respect to any request for an exchange of a Transfer Restricted
Security that is represented by a Global Security for a Definitive
Security that does not bear a legend, which request is made in
reliance upon Rule 144, the Holder thereof shall certify in writing
(to be accompanied by a customary opinion of counsel) to the
Registrar that such request is being made pursuant to Rule 144 (such
certification to be substantially in the form set forth on the
reverse of the Security).
(h) Cancellation and/or Adjustment of Global Security. At such time
as all beneficial interests in a Global Security have either been exchanged for
Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or cancelled, such Global Security
shall be returned to or retained and cancelled by the Trustee. At any time prior
to such cancellation, if any beneficial interest in a Global Security is
exchanged for Definitive Securities, redeemed, repurchased or canceled, the
principal amount of Securities represented by such Global Security shall be
reduced and an endorsement shall be made on such Global Security, by the Trustee
or the Securities Custodian, at the direction of the Trustee, to reflect such
reduction.
(i) Obligations with Respect to Transfers and Exchanges of
Definitive Securities.
(i) To permit registrations of transfers and exchanges, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive Securities and
Global Securities at the Registrar's or co-Registrar's request.
(ii) No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum
sufficient to cover any transfer tax, assessments, or similar governmental
charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer
taxes, assessments, or similar governmental
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charge payable upon exchanges or transfers pursuant to Section 2.02
(fourth paragraph), 2.10, 3.07, 4.15(8), 9.05, or 11.01 (final
paragraph)).
(iii) The Registrar or co-Registrar shall not be required to
register the transfer of or exchange of (a) any Definitive Security
selected for redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article 3, except
the unredeemed portion of any Definitive Security being redeemed in part,
or (b) any Security for a period beginning 15 Business Days before the
mailing of a notice of an offer to repurchase pursuant to Article 11 or
Section 4.15 hereof or the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities
pursuant to Article 3 hereof and ending at the close of business on the
day of such mailing.
SECTION 2.07. Replacement Securities. If a mutilated Security is
surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder of a Security claims and submits an
affidavit or other evidence, satisfactory to the Trustee, to the Trustee to the
effect that the Security has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the
Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Security if
the Trustee's requirements are met. If required by the Trustee or the Company,
such Holder must provide an indemnity bond or other indemnity, sufficient in the
judgment of both the Company and the Trustee, to protect the Company, the
Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them may suffer if a Security is
replaced. The Company may charge such Holder for its reasonable, out-of-pocket
expenses in replacing a Security.
Every replacement Security is an additional obligation of the
Company.
SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Securities. Securities outstanding at any
time are all the Securities that have been authenticated by the Trustee
(including any Security represented by a Global Security) except those cancelled
by it, those delivered to it for cancellation, those reductions in the interest
in a Global Security effected by the Trustee hereunder and those described in
this Section 2.08 as not outstanding. A Security does not cease to be
outstanding because the Company or an Affiliate of the Company holds the
Security, except as provided in Section 2.09.
If a Security is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 (other than a
mutilated Security surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding
unless the Trustee receives proof satisfactory to it that the replaced Security
is held by a bona fide purchaser. A mutilated Security ceases to be outstanding
upon surrender of such Security and replacement thereof pursuant to Section
2.07.
If on a Redemption Date or the Maturity Date the Paying Agent (other
than the Company or an Affiliate of a Company) holds cash sufficient to pay all
of the principal
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and interest due on the Securities payable on that date and payment of the
Securities called for redemption or payable on such Maturity Date is not
otherwise prohibited pursuant to this Indenture, then on and after that date
such Securities cease to be outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.
SECTION 2.09. Treasury Securities. In determining whether the
Holders of the required principal amount of Securities have concurred in any
direction, amendment, supplement, waiver or consent, Securities owned by the
Company or Affiliates of the Company shall be disregarded, except that, for the
purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any
such direction, amendment, supplement, waiver or consent, only Securities that
the Trustee knows are so owned shall be disregarded.
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Securities. Until definitive Securities are
ready for delivery, the Company may prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate
temporary Securities. Temporary Securities shall be substantially in the form of
Definitive Securities but may have variations that the Company reasonably and in
good faith considers appropriate for temporary Securities. Without unreasonable
delay, the Company shal1 prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate Definitive
Securities in exchange for temporary Securities. Until so exchanged, the
temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits
under this Indenture as permanent Securities authenticated and delivered
hereunder.
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver
Securities to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent
shall forward to the Trustee any Securities surrendered to them for transfer,
exchange or payment. The Trustee, or at the direction of the Trustee, the
Registrar or the Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the
Company), and no one else, shall cancel and, at the written direction of the
Company, shall dispose of all Securities surrendered for transfer, exchange,
payment or cancellation. Subject to Section 2.07, the Company may not issue new
Securities to replace Securities that have been paid or delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation. No Securities shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange
for any Securities cancelled as provided in this Section 2.11, except as
expressly permitted in the form of Securities and as permitted by this
Indenture.
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest. Interest on any Security which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the person in whose name that Security (or one or more
predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on Record Date
for such interest.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date plus, to the extent
lawful, any interest
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payable on the defaulted interest (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the registered holder on the relevant Record
Date, and such Defaulted Interest may be paid by the Company, at its election in
each case, as provided in clause (1) or (2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest
to the persons in whose names the Securities (or their respective
predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which
shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company shall notify the
Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid
on each Security and the date of the proposed parent, and at the same time
the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of cash equal to the
aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest
or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such cash when deposited to be
held in trust for the benefit of the persons entitled to such Defaulted
Interest as provided in this clause (1). Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a
Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall
be not more than 15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of
the proposed payment and not less than 10 days after the receipt by the
Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment. The Trustee shall promptly
notify the Company of such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the
expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the Special Record Date therefor to be mailed,
first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder at his address as it appears
in the Security register not less than 10 days prior to such Special
Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and
the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the persons in whose names the
Securities (or their respective predecessor Securities) are registered on
such Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the
following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in any
other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause,
such manner shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
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ARTICLE 3
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. Optional Redemption.
(a) Right of Redemption. Redemption of Securities, as permitted by
any provision of this Indenture, shall be made in accordance with such provision
and this Article 3. Except as provided below, the Company will not have the
right to redeem any Securities prior to June 15, 2002. On or after June 15,
2002, the Company will have the right to redeem all or any part of the
Securities in cash at the Redemption Prices specified in the form of Security
attached as Exhibit A set forth therein under the caption "Redemption," in each
case, including accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to the applicable
Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of record on the relevant
regular Record Date to receive interest due on an Interest Payment Date that is
on or prior to the Redemption Date).
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, prior to June 15, 2002, in
the event that the Company or any Parent consummates one or more Equity
Offerings, other than in any circumstances resulting in, or as a series of
transactions that result in, directly or indirectly, a Change of Control, on or
before the third anniversary of the Issue Date, the Company may at its option,
use all or a portion of the cash received by it or contributed to it from such
Equity Offerings to redeem up to 35% of the originally issued aggregate
principal amount of the Securities at a cash redemption price equal to 109.125%
of the principal amount of the Securities so redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided, however, that (x) at
least 65% of the original aggregate principal amount of the Securities remains
outstanding thereafter (excluding any Securities owned by the Company or any of
its Affiliates), and (y) any such net cash proceeds of such Equity Offering by
any Parent to be used for such a redemption shall be contributed to the Company
in an amount in cash sufficient to redeem the Securities to be redeemed at the
then current redemption price. Notice of any such redemption must be given
within 60 days after the date of the last Equity Offering the proceeds of which
are to be so contributed.
(b) Change of Control Redemption. Notwithstanding subsection (a) of
this Section 3.01, at any time on or prior to June 15, 2002, the Securities may
also be redeemed as a whole at the option of the Company upon the occurrence of
a Change of Control (but in no event more than 90 days after the occurrence of
such Change of Control) at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal
amount thereof, plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid
interest, if any, to, the Redemption Date (subject to the
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right of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive interest due
on the relevant interest payment date).
SECTION 3.02. Notices to Trustee. If the Company elects or is
required to redeem Securities pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Securities, it
shall notify the Trustee in writing of the Redemption Date and the principal
amount of Securities to be redeemed and whether it wants the Trustee to give
notice of redemption to the Holders.
If the Company elects to reduce the principal amount of Securities
to be redeemed pursuant to Paragraph 5 of the Securities by crediting against
any such redemption Securities it has not previously delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation, it shall so notify the Trustee of the amount of the reduction
and deliver such Securities with such notice, provided that no Securities
received by the Company in exchange for Exchange Securities may be made the
basis for such credit.
The Company shall give each notice to the Trustee provided for in
this Section 3.02 with respect to any optional redemption pursuant to Section
3.01(a) at least 45 days before the Redemption Date (unless a shorter notice
shall be satisfactory to the Trustee). Any such notice may be cancelled at any
time prior to notice of such redemption being mailed to any Holder and shall
thereby be void and of no effect.
SECTION 3.03. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed. If less than
all of the Securities are to be redeemed pursuant to Paragraph 5(a) thereof, the
Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed on a pro rata basis or by
such other method as the Trustee shall determine to be fair and appropriate and
in such manner as complies with any applicable Depository, legal and stock
exchange requirements.
The Trustee shall make the selection from the Securities outstanding
and not previously called for redemption and shall promptly notify the Company
in writing of the Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any
Security selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed. Securities in denominations of $1,000 may be redeemed only in whole.
The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to $1,000 or any integral
multiple thereof) of the principal of Securities that have denominations larger
than $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Securities called for
redemption also apply to portions of Securities called for redemption.
SECTION 3.04. Notice of Redemption. At least 30 days but not more
than 60 days before a Redemption Date, the Company shall mail a notice of
redemption by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Trustee and each Holder
whose Securities are to be redeemed to such Holder's last address as then shown
upon the books of the Registrar. At the Company's request, the Trustee shall
give the notice of redemption in the Company's
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name and at the Company's expense. Each notice for redemption shall identify the
Securities to be redeemed and shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date;
(b) the Redemption Price, including the amount of accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to be paid upon such redemption;
(c) the name, address and telephone number of the Paying Agent;
(d) that Securities called for redemption must be surrendered to the
Paying Agent at the address specified in such notice to collect the
Redemption Price;
(e) that, unless (i) with respect to a redemption pursuant to
Paragraph 5(a) of the Securities, the Company defaults in its obligation
to deposit cash with the Paying Agent in accordance with Section 3.06
hereof or (ii) such redemption payment is prohibited pursuant to Article
12 hereof or other laws, the interest on securities (or portion thereof)
called for redemption ceases to accrue on and after the Redemption Date
and the only remaining right of the Holders of such Securities is to
receive payment of the Redemption Price, as the case may be, including any
accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, upon surrender to the
Paying Agent of the Securities called for redemption and to be redeemed;
(f) if any Security is being redeemed in part, the portion of the
principal amount, equal to $1,000 or any integral multiple thereof, of
such Security to be redeemed and that, on or after the Redemption Date,
and upon surrender of such Security, a new Security or Securities in a
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued;
(g) if less than all the Securities are to be redeemed, the
identification of the particular Securities (or portion thereof) to be
redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of such Securities to
be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be
outstanding after such partial redemption;
(h) the CUSIP number of the Securities to be redeemed; and
(i) that the notice is being sent pursuant to this Section 3.04 and
pursuant to the optional redemption provisions of Paragraph 5(a) of the
Securities or the special redemption provisions of Paragraph 5(b) of the
Securities, as the case may be.
SECTION 3.05. Effect of Notice of Redemption. Once notice of
redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.04, Securities called for
redemption
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become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at the Redemption Price
including any accrued and unpaid interest to the Redemption Date, if any. Upon
surrender to the Trustee or Paying Agent, such Securities called for redemption
shall be paid at the Redemption Price, including interest, if any, accrued and
unpaid to the Redemption Date; provided that if the Redemption Date is after a
regular Record Date and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date, the accrued
interest shall be payable to the Holder of the redeemed Securities registered on
the relevant Record Date; and provided, further, that if a Redemption Date is a
Legal Holiday payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day and no
interest shall accrue for the period from such Redemption Date to such
succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 3.06. Deposit of Redemption Price. On or prior to any
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent (other than the
Company or an Affiliate of the Company) cash sufficient to pay the Redemption
Price of, including any accrued and unpaid interest on, all Securities to be
redeemed on such Redemption Date (other than Securities or portions thereof
called for redemption on that date that have been delivered by the Company to
the Trustee for cancellation). The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the
Company any cash so deposited which is not required for that purpose upon the
written request of the Company.
If the Company complies with the other provisions of this Article 3
and payment of the Securities called for redemption is not prohibited under this
Indenture, interest on the Securities to be redeemed will cease to accrue on the
applicable Redemption Date, whether or not such Securities are presented for
payment. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if any Security
surrendered for redemption in the manner provided in the Securities shall not be
so paid upon surrender for redemption because of the failure of the Company to
comply with the preceding paragraph, interest shall continue to accrue and be
paid from the Redemption Date until such payment is made on the unpaid
principal, and, to the extent lawful, on any interest not paid on such unpaid
principal, in each case at the rate and in the manner provided in Section 4.02
hereof and the Securities.
SECTION 3.07. Securities Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a
Security that is to be redeemed in part, the Company shall execute and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the Holder, without service charge to
the Holder, a new Security or Securities equal in principal amount to the
unredeemed portion of the Security surrendered.
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ARTICLE 4
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. Limitation on Sale and Leaseback Transactions. The
Company will not, and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, enter into
any Sale and Leaseback Transaction; provided, however, that the Company may
enter into a Sale and Leaseback Transaction if (i) the Company could have (a)
Incurred Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness described in the third paragraph
(other than clause (vi) thereof) of Section 4.12) in an amount equal to the
Attributable Debt relating to such Sale and Leaseback Transaction in compliance
with Section 4.12 and (b) Incurred a Lien to secure such Indebtedness in
compliance with the Section 4.14, (ii) the gross cash proceeds of such Sale and
Leaseback Transaction are at least equal to the fair market value (as determined
in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee) of the property that is the
subject of such Sale and Leaseback Transaction and (iii) the transfer of assets
in such Sale and Leaseback Transaction is permitted by, and the Company applies
the proceeds of such transaction in compliance with, the provisions of Section
4.15.
SECTION 4.02. Payment of Securities. The Company shall pay the
principal of and interest on the Securities on the dates and in the manner
provided in the Securities. An installment of principal of or interest on the
Securities shall be considered paid on the date it is due if the Trustee or
Paying Agent (other than the Company or an Affiliate of the Company) holds for
the benefit of the Holders, on or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on that
date, cash deposited and designated for and sufficient to pay the installment.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest at the rate specified in the Securities compounded
semi-annually, to the extent lawful.
SECTION 4.03. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company shall
maintain in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, an office or agency
where Securities may be presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities
may be surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange and where notices
and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Securities and this
Indenture may be served. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the
Trustee of the location, and any change in the location, of such office or
agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required
office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof,
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such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
address of the Trustee set forth in Section 13.02.
The Company may also, from time to time, designate one or more other
offices or agencies where the Securities 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 shall
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission
and of any change in the location of any such other office or agency. The
Company hereby initially designates the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee as
such office.
SECTION 4.04. Limitation on Restricted Payments. After the Issue
Date, the Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, make any Restricted Payment, if,
immediately prior or after giving effect thereto:
(a) a Default or an Event of Default would exist;
(b) the Company's Annualized Operating Cash Flow Ratio for the
Reference Period would exceed 8.5 to 1; or
(c) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made by the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, including such proposed
Restricted Payment (if not made in cash, then the fair market value of any
property used therefor, as determined in good faith by the Board of
Directors of the Company) from and after the Issue Date and on or prior to
the date of such Restricted Payment, shall exceed the sum of (i) the
amount determined by subtracting (x) 2.0 times the aggregate Consolidated
Interest Expense of the Company for the period (taken as one accounting
period) from the Issue Date to the last day of the last full fiscal
quarter prior to the date of the proposed Restricted Payment (the
"Computation Period") from (y) Operating Cash Flow of the Company for the
Computation Period, plus (ii) the aggregate Net Proceeds received by the
Company from (x) Equity Offerings (other than to a Subsidiary of the
Company) after the Issue Date and on or prior to the date of such
Restricted Payment or (y) capital contributions to the Company after the
Issue Date, plus (iii) to the extent not otherwise included in clauses (i)
or (ii), above, an amount equal to the net reduction in Investments in
Unrestricted Subsidiaries resulting from payments of dividends, repayment
of loans or advances, or other transfers of assets, in each case to the
Company or any Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company from
Unrestricted Subsidiaries, or from redesignations of Unrestricted
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Subsidiaries as Restricted Subsidiaries (valued in each case as provided
in the definition of "Investments"), not to exceed, in the case of any
Unrestricted Subsidiary, the amount of Investments previously made by the
Company and any Restricted Subsidiary in such Unrestricted Subsidiary.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, the provisions set forth in
clauses (b) and (c) thereof will not prohibit (i) the use of an aggregate of
$10,000,000 to be used for Restricted Payments not otherwise permitted by this
Section 4.04, (ii) the distribution of amounts to Holdings sufficient to pay the
scheduled interest or dividends, as applicable, owed by Holdings on the
Permitted Parent Securities as such interest or dividends become due and payable
so long as Holdings (or any other direct or indirect Wholly Owned Subsidiary of
PCC) is the direct Parent of the Company owning 100% of the Capital Stock of the
Company and (iii) any dividend, distribution or other payment by any Restricted
Subsidiary on shares of its Capital Stock that is paid pro rata to all holders
of such Capital Stock, and notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, the
provisions set forth in clauses (a), (b) and (c) thereof will not prohibit (x)
the payment of any dividend within 60 days after the date of its declaration if
such dividend could have been made on the date of its declaration in compliance
with the foregoing provisions, or (y) the redemption, defeasance, repurchase or
other acquisition or retirement of any Indebtedness or Capital Stock of the
Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries either in exchange for or out of the Net
Proceeds of any substantially concurrent Equity Offering (in the case of any
redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other acquisition or retirement of any
Junior Indebtedness or Capital Stock of the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries and other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) or sale of Junior
Indebtedness (in the case of any redemption, defeasance, repurchase or other
acquisition or retirement of any Indebtedness of the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries) of the Company.
In determining the aggregate amount expended for Restricted Payments
in accordance with clause (c) of the first paragraph of this Section 4.04, 100%
of the amounts expended under clauses (i) through (iii) and (x) and (y) of the
immediately preceding paragraph shall be included as Restricted Payments from
and after the Issue Date.
SECTION 4.05. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 5, the Company
shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep in full
force and effect its corporate existence and the corporate or other existence of
each of its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance with the respective
organizational documents of each of them and the rights (charter and statutory)
and corporate franchises of the Company and each of the Company's Restricted
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to
preserve, with respect to itself, any right or franchise, and with respect to
any Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, any such existence, right or
franchise, if (a) the Board of Directors of the Company shall determine that the
preservation thereof is no
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longer desirable in the conduct of the business of such entity and (b) the loss
thereof is not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
SECTION 4.06. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims. Except with respect
to immaterial items, the Company shall, and shall cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, pay or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged, before the
same shall become delinquent, (i) all taxes, assessments and governmental
charges (including withholding taxes and any penalties, interest and additions
to taxes) levied or imposed upon the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries or any of their respective properties and assets and (ii) all
lawful claims, whether for labor, materials, supplies, services or anything
else, which have become due and payable and which by law have or may become a
Lien upon the property and assets of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay
or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge
or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings and for which disputed amounts adequate
reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP.
SECTION 4.07. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance. The Company
shall cause all material properties used or useful to the conduct of its
business and the business of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries to be
maintained and kept in good condition, repair and working order (reasonable wear
and tear excepted) and shall cause to be made all necessary repairs, renewals,
replacements, betterments and improvements thereof, all as in its reasonable
judgment may be necessary, so that the business carried on in connection
therewith may be properly conducted at all times; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section 4.07 shall prevent the Company from discontinuing any
operation or maintenance of any of such properties, or disposing of any of them,
if such discontinuance or disposal is (a) in the judgment of the Board of
Directors of the Company, desirable in the conduct of the business of such
entity and (b) not disadvantageous in any material respect to the Holders.
The Company shall provide, or cause to be provided, for itself and
each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, insurance (including appropriate
self-insurance) against loss or damage of the kinds that, in the reasonable,
good faith opinion of the Company is adequate and appropriate for the conduct of
the business of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries in a prudent
manner, with (except for self-insurance) reputable insurers or with the
government of the United States of America or an agency or instrumentality
thereof, in such amounts, with such deductibles, and by such methods as shall be
customary, in the reasonable, good faith opinion of the Board of Directors of
the Company and adequate and appropriate for the conduct of the business of the
Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries in a prudent manner for entities
similarly situated in the industry, unless failure to provide such insurance
(together with all other such failures) would not have a material adverse ef-
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fect on the financial condition or results of operations of the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary. The Company shall provide, or cause to be provided, the
insurance required under the Security Documents.
SECTION 4.08. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default. The Company
shall deliver to the Trustee within 120 days after the end of its fiscal year an
Officers' Certificate complying with ss. 314(a)(4) of the TIA and stating that a
review of its activities and the activities of its Subsidiaries during the
preceding fiscal year has been made under the supervision of the signing
Officers with a view to determining whether the Company has kept, observed,
performed and fulfilled their obligations under this Indenture and further
stating, as to each such officer signing such certificate, whether the signer
knows of any failure by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company to comply
with any conditions or covenants in this Indenture and, if such signer does know
of such a failure to comply, the certificate shall describe such failure with
particularity. The Officers' Certificate shall also notify the Trustee should
the relevant fiscal year end on any date other than the current fiscal year end
date.
The Company shall, so long as any of the Securities are outstanding,
deliver to the Trustee, promptly upon becoming aware of any Default, Event of
Default or fact which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the
Trustee in respect of the Securities, an Officers' Certificate specifying such
Default, Event of Default or fact and what action the Company is taking or
proposes to take with respect thereto. The Trustee shall not be deemed to have
knowledge of any Default, any Event of Default or any such fact unless one of
its trust officers receives notice thereof from the Company or any of the
Holders.
SECTION 4.09. Reports; Rule 144A Information Requirement. Whether or
not the Company is subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15 (d)
of the Exchange Act, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee and to each
Holder, within 15 days after it is or would have been required to file such with
the SEC, annual and quarterly financial statements substantially equivalent to
financial statements that would have been included in reports filed with the
SEC, if the Company was subject to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of
the Exchange Act, including, with respect to annual information only, a report
thereon by the Company's certified independent public accountants as such would
be required in such reports to the SEC, and in each case, together with a
management's discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of
operations which would be so required. In addition, for so long as any
Securities remain outstanding, the Company will furnish to the Holders and to
securities analysts and prospective investors, upon their request, the
information required to be delivered pursuant to Rule 144A(d)(4) under the
Securities Act, and, to any beneficial holder of the Securities, if not
obtainable from the SEC,
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information of the type that would be filed with the SEC pursuant to the
foregoing provisions, upon the request of any such holder.
SECTION 4.10. Limitation on Status as Investment Company. The
Company shall not become, nor shall it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
to become, an "investment company" (as that term is defined in the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended), or otherwise become subject to regulation
under the Investment Company Act.
SECTION 4.11. Limitation on Transactions with Related Persons. After
the Issue Date, the Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, enter into any contract, agreement, arrangement or transaction
with any Related Person (each a "Related Person Transaction"), or any series of
Related Person Transactions, except for transactions made in good faith, the
terms of which are (i) fair and reasonable to the Company or such Subsidiary, as
the case may be, and (ii) at least as favorable as the terms that could be
obtained by the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in a comparable
transaction made on an arm's length basis with Persons who are not Related
Persons.
Without limiting the foregoing, (a) any Related Person Transaction
or series of Related Person Transactions with an aggregate value in excess of
$1,000,000 must first be approved by a majority of the Board of Directors of the
Company who are disinterested in the subject matter of the transaction pursuant
to a Board Resolution, and (b) with respect to any Related Person Transaction or
series of Related Person Transactions with an aggregate value in excess of
$5,000,000, the Company must first obtain a favorable written opinion from an
independent financial advisor of national reputation as to the fairness from a
financial point of view of such transaction to the Company or such Subsidiary,
as the case may be.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the following shall not constitute
Related Person Transactions: (i) reasonable and customary payments on behalf of
directors, officers or employees of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, or in reimbursement of reasonable and customary payments or
reasonable and customary expenditures made or Incurred by such Persons, as
directors, officers or employees, (ii) any contract, agreement, arrangement or
transaction solely between or among the Company and any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries or between or among Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, (iii)
any Restricted Payment not prohibited by Section 4.04, (iv) any loan or advance
by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary to employees of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business, in an aggregate amount
at any one time outstanding not to exceed $500,000, and (v) any payment pursuant
to a tax-sharing agreement between the Company and any other Person with which
the Company is required or permitted to file a consolidated tax return or with
which the Company is or could be part of a consolidated
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group for tax purposes, which payments are not in excess of the tax liabilities
attributable solely to the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as a
consolidated group).
SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.
After the Issue Date, the Company will not, and will not permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, issue, create, incur,
assume, guarantee or otherwise directly or indirectly become liable for
(including as a result of an acquisition), or otherwise become responsible for,
contingently or otherwise (individually or collectively, to "Incur" or, as
appropriate, an "Incurrence"), any Indebtedness. Neither the accrual of interest
(including the issuance of "pay in kind" securities or similar instruments in
respect of such accrued interest) pursuant to the terms of Indebtedness Incurred
in compliance with this covenant, nor the accretion of original issue discount,
nor the mere extension of the maturity of any Indebtedness shall be deemed to be
an Incurrence of Indebtedness.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if there exists no Default or Event
of Default immediately prior and subsequent thereto, the Company may Incur
Indebtedness if, after giving effect to the Incurrence of such Indebtedness, the
Company's Annualized Operating Cash Flow Ratio would have been less than 8.0 to
1.
In addition, if there exists no Default or Event of Default
immediately prior and subsequent thereto, the foregoing limitations will not
apply to the Incurrence of:
(i) Indebtedness by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries constituting Existing Indebtedness, reduced by repayments of
and permanent reductions in commitments in satisfaction of the Net Cash
Proceeds application requirement under Section 4.15 and by repayments and
permanent reductions in amounts outstanding pursuant to scheduled
amortization and mandatory prepayments in accordance with the terms
thereof;
(ii) unsecured Indebtedness Incurred by the Company or any Guarantor
in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed
$100,000,000 reduced by amounts Incurred pursuant to clause (x) below, so
long as such amounts Incurred pursuant to clause (x) remain outstanding;
(iii) Indebtedness Incurred by the Company evidenced by the Initial
Securities and the Exchange Securities therefor and the guarantees thereof
by Restricted Subsidiaries;
(iv) (a) Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness by the Company that
satisfies the provisions of clause (x) of the definition thereof or (b)
Permitted Acquisition In-
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debtedness by any Restricted Subsidiary that satisfies the provisions of
clause (y) of the definition thereof;
(v) Indebtedness between the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company or between Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company;
provided, however, that, in the case of Indebtedness of the Company, such
obligations shall be unsecured and subordinated in all respects to the
Holders' rights pursuant to the Securities, and the date of any event that
causes a Restricted Subsidiary no longer to be a Restricted Subsidiary
shall be an Incurrence Date with respect to such Indebtedness;
(vi) Capitalized Lease Obligations and Purchase Money Indebtedness
in an aggregate amount or aggregate principal amount, as the case may be,
outstanding at any time not to exceed in the aggregate $15,000,000;
provided, however, that in the case of Purchase Money Indebtedness, such
Indebtedness shall not constitute less than 75% nor more than 100% of the
cost (determined in accordance with GAAP) to the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary of the property purchased or leased with the
proceeds thereof;
(vii) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
arising from agreements providing for indemnification, adjustment of
purchase price or similar obligations, or from guarantees or letters of
credit, surety bonds or performance bonds securing any obligations of the
Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to such agreements, in any
case Incurred in connection with the disposition of any business, assets
or Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to the extent none of the
foregoing results in the obligation to repay an obligation for money
borrowed by any Person and are limited in aggregate amount to no greater
than 10% of the fair market value of such business, assets or Restricted
Subsidiary so disposed of;
(viii) any guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary of any
Indebtedness Incurred in compliance with Section 4.20;
(ix) Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under
standby letters of credit or reimbursement obligations with respect
thereto issued in the ordinary course of business and consistent with
industry practices limited in aggregate amount to $5,000,000 at any one
time outstanding; and
(x) Refinancing Indebtedness Incurred to extend, renew, replace or
refund Indebtedness permitted under clauses (i) (as so reduced in amount),
(ii) (as so reduced in amount), (iii), (iv) and (x) of this paragraph.
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For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 4.12, in
the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of
the categories described above or is entitled to be incurred pursuant to the
second paragraph of this Section 4.12, the Company shall, in its sole
discretion, classify such item of Indebtedness in any manner that complies with
this Section 4.12 and such item of Indebtedness will be treated as having been
incurred pursuant to only one of such clauses or pursuant to the second
paragraph of this Section 4.12. In addition, the Company may, at any time,
change the classification of an item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) to
any other clause or to the second paragraph of this Section, provided that the
Company would be permitted to incur such item of Indebtedness (or such portion
thereof) pursuant to such other clause or the second paragraph of this Section,
as the case may be, at such time of reclassification.
Indebtedness of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company (or that is a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary designated to be a
Restricted Subsidiary, but no longer a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary),
which Indebtedness is outstanding at the time such Person becomes such a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or is merged with or into or consolidated
with the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company shall be deemed to
have been Incurred, as the case may be, at the time such Person becomes such a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or is merged with or into or consolidated
with the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company.
SECTION 4.13. Limitations on Restricting Subsidiary Dividends. The
Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to,
with respect to securities issued directly thereby or with respect to which they
are obligors, directly or indirectly, create, assume or suffer to exist any
consensual encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company to pay dividends or make other distributions on the
Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or pay or satisfy any
obligation to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or otherwise
transfer assets or make or pay loans or advances to the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries, except encumbrances and restrictions existing under
(i) this Indenture, the Securities and any Permitted Pari Passu
Secured Indebtedness;
(ii) any Existing Indebtedness;
(iii) any applicable law or any governmental or administrative
regulation or order;
(iv) Refinancing Indebtedness permitted under this Indenture;
provided, however, that the restrictions contained in the instruments
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nancing Indebtedness are no more restrictive in the aggregate than those
contained in the instruments governing the Indebtedness (in the good faith
judgment of the Company's Board of Directors) being refinanced immediately
prior to such refinancing;
(v) restrictions with respect solely to a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company imposed pursuant to a binding agreement which has been entered
into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all of the
Capital Stock or assets of such Restricted Subsidiary; provided, however,
that such restrictions apply solely to the Capital Stock or assets (in the
good faith judgment of the Company's Board of Directors) being sold of
such Restricted Subsidiary;
(vi) restrictions contained in any agreement relating to the
financing of the acquisition of a Person or property, business or assets,
after the Issue Date which are not applicable to any Person or property,
business or assets, other than the Person or property so acquired and
which either (a) were not put in place in anticipation of or in connection
with such acquisition or (b) constituted Permitted Acquisition
Indebtedness of a Person satisfying the provisions of clause (y) of the
definition thereof; or
(vii) any agreement (other than those referred to in clause (vi)) of
a Person acquired by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company, which restrictions existed at the time of acquisition and were
not put in place in anticipation of or in connection with such
acquisition.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, neither (A) customary provisions
restricting subletting or assignment of any lease entered into the ordinary
course of business, consistent with past practices nor (B) Permitted Liens shall
in and of themselves be considered a restriction on the ability of the
applicable Restricted Subsidiary to transfer such agreement or assets, as the
case may be.
SECTION 4.14. Limitations on Liens; Impairment of Security Interest.
The Company will not and will not permit any Restricted Subsidiary, directly or
indirectly, to Incur or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property or
assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than Permitted Liens.
Neither the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries will take
or omit to take any action which action or omission would have the result of
adversely affecting or impairing the security interest in favor of the Trustee,
on behalf of itself and the Holders, with respect to the Collateral. Neither the
Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries will enter into any agreement or
instrument that by its terms requires the proceeds received from any sale of
Collateral to be applied to repay, redeem, defease or otherwise acquire or
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retire any Indebtedness of any Person, other than pursuant to this Indenture,
the Securities and the Security Documents.
SECTION 4.15. Limitation on Asset Sales and Sales of Subsidiary
Stock. After the Issue Date, the Company will not, and will not permit any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries to, in one or a series of related transactions,
convey, sell, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly,
any of its property, businesses or assets, including by merger or consolidation,
and including any sale or other transfer or issuance of any Capital Stock of any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, whether by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary (any such transaction an "Asset Sale"), unless
(1) (a) within 360 days after the date of such Asset Sale, an amount
equal to the Net Cash Proceeds therefrom (the "Asset Sale Offer Amount")
is applied to the optional redemption of the Securities in accordance with
the terms of Section 3.01 and other Senior Indebtedness of the Company
(including any Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness) from time to
time outstanding with similar provisions requiring the Company to make an
offer to purchase or to redeem such Indebtedness with the proceeds from
asset sales, pro rata in proportion to the respective principal amounts
(or accreted values in the case of Indebtedness issued with an original
issue discount) of the Securities and such other Indebtedness then
outstanding or to the repurchase of the Securities and such other
Indebtedness pursuant to an irrevocable, unconditional offer (pro rata in
proportion to the respective principal amounts (or accreted values in the
case of Indebtedness issued with an original issue discount) of the
Securities and such other Indebtedness then outstanding) (the "Asset Sale
Offer") to repurchase such Indebtedness at a purchase price (the "Asset
Sale Offer Price") of 100% of the principal amount of Securities to be
repurchased or redeemed in the case of the Securities or 100% of the
principal amount of such other Indebtedness to be repurchased or redeemed
(or accreted value in the case of Indebtedness issued with an original
issue discount) plus, in each case, accrued interest to the date of
payment, made within 330 days of such Asset Sale, or (b) within 330 days
of such Asset Sale, the Asset Sale Offer Amount is (i) invested (or
committed, pursuant to a binding commitment subject only to reasonable,
customary closing conditions, to be invested, and in fact is so invested,
within an additional 90 days) in assets and property (other than notes,
obligations or securities), which in the good faith reasonable judgment of
the Board of Directors of the Company are of a type used in a Related
Business, or Capital Stock of a Person (which, if such Person becomes a
Subsidiary of the Company by virtue of such Asset Sale, shall initially be
designated a Restricted Subsidiary) all or substantially all of whose
assets and property (in the good faith reasonable judgment of the Board of
Directors of the Company) are of a type used in a Related Business
(provided, however, that, with respect
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to such Capital Stock, all of the requirements of the last proviso of
clause (v) of the following paragraph shall have been satisfied), or (ii)
used to retire permanently any Senior Indebtedness of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary (other than a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary);
(2) with respect to any transaction or related series of
transactions of securities, property or assets with an aggregate fair
market value in excess of $1,000,000, at least 75% of the value of
consideration for the assets disposed of in such Asset Sale (excluding (a)
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness which by its terms is subordinated
to the Securities) (and any Refinancing Indebtedness issued to refinance
any such Indebtedness) or the Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary
assumed by a transferee which assumption permanently reduces the amount of
Indebtedness outstanding on the Issue Date and permitted to have been
Incurred pursuant to Section 4.12 (including that in the case of a
revolver or similar arrangement that makes credit available, such
commitment is permanently reduced by such amount), (b) Purchase Money
Indebtedness secured exclusively by the assets subject to such Asset Sale
which is assumed by a transferee and (c) marketable securities that are
promptly converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) consists of cash or Cash
Equivalents; provided, however, that any cash or Cash Equivalents received
within 12 months following any such Asset Sale upon conversion of any
property or assets (other than in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents)
received in consideration of such Asset Sale shall be applied promptly in
the manner required of Net Cash Proceeds of any such Asset Sale as set
forth above, and the other conditions to such release of Collateral, if
applicable, are satisfied;
(3) no Default or Event of Default shall occur or be continuing
after giving effect to, on a pro forma basis, such Asset Sale, unless such
Asset Sale is in consideration solely of cash or Cash Equivalents and such
consideration is applied immediately to the permanent reduction of the
principal amount of Indebtedness outstanding pursuant to Senior
Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(4) the Board of Directors of the Company determines in good faith
that the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, would
receive fair market value in consideration of such Asset Sale; and
(5) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such Asset Sale,
the Company would be in compliance with the provisions of Section 4.21.
Each Asset Sale Offer shall remain open for 20 Business Days
following its commencement and no longer, except as otherwise required by
applicable law (the "Asset
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Sale Offer Period"). Upon expiration of the Asset Sale Offer Period, the Company
shall apply the Asset Sale Offer Amount, plus an amount equal to accrued
interest, to the purchase of all Indebtedness properly tendered (on a pro rata
basis as described above if the Asset Sale Offer Amount is insufficient to
purchase all Indebtedness so tendered) at the Asset Sale Offer Price (together
with accrued interest).
Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of the second preceding
paragraph:
(i) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary
course of business, convey, sell, lease, transfer, assign or otherwise
dispose of assets acquired and held for resale in the ordinary course of
business;
(ii) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may convey, sell,
lease, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of assets pursuant to and in
accordance with Article 5;
(iii) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may sell or
dispose of damaged, worn out or other obsolete property in the ordinary
course of business so long as such property is no longer necessary for the
proper conduct of the business of the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as applicable;
(iv) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may convey, sell,
lease, transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of assets (other than FCC
licenses) to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries other than
to any Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary if, with respect to any such
conveyance, sale, lease, transfer, assignment or other disposition to any
Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor or the stock of which has
not been pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement, immediately after
giving pro forma effect thereto the Company would be in compliance with
the provisions of Section 4.21; and
(v) the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries may, in the ordinary
course of business (or, if otherwise than in the ordinary course of
business, upon receipt of a favorable written opinion by an independent
financial advisor of national reputation as to the fairness from a
financial point of view to the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary of
the proposed transaction), exchange all or a portion of its property,
businesses or assets for property, businesses or assets which are, or
Capital Stock of a Person all or substantially all of whose assets are, of
a type used in a Related Business (provided that such Person shall
initially be designated a Restricted Subsidiary if such Person becomes a
Subsidiary of the Company by virtue of such Asset Sale), or a combination
of any such property, businesses or assets, or Capital Stock of such a
Person and cash or Cash Equivalents; provided, however, that
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(a) there shall not exist immediately prior or subsequent thereto a
Default or an Event of Default; (b) a majority of the independent
directors of the Board of Directors of the Company shall have approved a
Board Resolution that such exchange is fair to the Company or such
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be; (c) any cash or Cash
Equivalents received pursuant to any such exchange shall be applied in the
manner applicable to Net Cash Proceeds from an Asset Sale as set forth
pursuant to the provisions of the immediately preceding paragraph of this
Section 4.15; (d) immediately after giving pro forma effect thereto, the
Company would be in compliance with the provisions of Section 4.21; and
(e) any Capital Stock of a Person received in an Asset Sale pursuant to
this clause (v) shall be owned directly by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary, and, when combined with the Capital Stock of such Person
already owned by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, shall
constitute a majority of the voting power and Capital Stock of such
Person, unless (A) (I) the Company has received a binding commitment from
such Person (or the direct or indirect parent of such Person) that such
Person (or the direct or indirect parent of such Person) will distribute
to the Company in cash an amount equal to the Company's Annualized
Operating Cash Flow (determined as of the date of such Asset Sale)
attributable to the property, business or assets of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries exchanged in connection with such Asset Sale
during each consecutive 12-month period subsequent to such Asset Sale
(unless and until the Company shall have sold all of such Capital Stock,
provided that the provisions of clause (B) below, if applicable, shall
have been satisfied), (II) immediately after such Asset Sale the aggregate
number of Net Pops of the Cellular Systems in which the Company or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries has ownership interests ("Company Systems")
that are owned directly by a Person or Persons a majority of whose voting
power and Capital Stock is owned directly or indirectly by the Company is
no less than 80% of the aggregate number of Net Pops of Company Systems
immediately prior to such Asset Sale and (III) upon consummation of such
Asset Sale, on a pro forma basis, the ratio of such Person's Annualized
Operating Cash Flow to the product of Consolidated Interest Expense for
the Reference Period multiplied by four (but excluding from Consolidated
Interest Expense all amounts that are not required to be paid in cash on a
current basis) shall be at least 1.0 to 1, or (B) in the case of Capital
Stock of a Person that is not a Subsidiary of the Company owned by the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary that is exchanged (the "Exchanged
Capital Stock") for Capital Stock of another Person all or substantially
all of whose assets are of a type used in a Related Business, either (i)
the Exchanged Capital Stock shall not have been acquired prior to such
Asset Sale in reliance upon clause (A) of this proviso or (ii) the
requirements of subclauses (A) (I) (based on the original guaranteed cash
flow) and (A) (III) shall be satisfied with respect to any Capital Stock
acquired in consideration of the Exchanged Capital Stock.
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Restricted Payments that are made in compliance with, and are
counted against amounts available to be made as Restricted Payments pursuant to
clause (c) of Section 4.04, without giving effect to clause (i) of the second
paragraph thereof, shall not be deemed to be Asset Sales.
Any Asset Sale Offer shall be made in compliance with all applicable
laws, rules, and regulations, including, if applicable, Regulation 14E of the
Exchange Act and the rules and regulations thereunder and all other applicable
Federal and state securities laws.
The Company shall accumulate all Net Cash Proceeds and the aggregate
amount of such accumulated Net Cash Proceeds not used for the purposes permitted
and within the time provided by clause (1)(b) of the first paragraph of this
Section 4.15 is referred to as the "Accumulated Amount."
For purposes of this Section 4.15, "Minimum Accumulation Date" means
each date on which the Accumulated Amount exceeds $5,000,000. Not later than 10
Business Days after each Minimum Accumulation Date, the Company will commence an
Asset Sale Offer, which shall be consummated on a date (the "Asset Sale Purchase
Date") which shall be no later than 40 Business Days after the Minimum
Accumulation Date related thereto. Notice of an Asset Sale Offer will be sent 20
Business Days prior to the close of business on the earlier of (a) the third
Business Day prior to the Asset Sale Purchase Date and (b) the third Business
Day following the expiration of the Asset Sale Offer (such earlier date being
the "Final Put Date"), by first-class mail, by the Company to each Holder at its
registered address, with a copy to the Trustee. The notice to the Holders will
contain all information, instructions and materials required by applicable law
or otherwise material to such Holders' decision to tender Securities pursuant to
the Asset Sale Offer. The notice to Holders, which (to the extent consistent
with this Indenture) shall govern the terms of the Asset Sale Offer, shall
state:
(1) that the Asset Sale Offer is being made pursuant to such notice
and this Section 4.15;
(2) the Asset Sale Offer Amount, the Asset Sale Offer Price
(including the amount of accrued and unpaid interest), the Final Put Date,
and the Asset Sale Purchase Date, which Asset Sale Purchase Date shall be
on or prior to 40 Business Days following the Minimum Accumulation Date;
(3) that any Security or portion thereof not tendered or accepted
for payment will continue to accrue interest;
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(4) that, unless the Company defaults in depositing cash with the
Paying Agent in accordance with the penultimate paragraph of this Section
4.15 or such payment is otherwise prevented, any Security, or portion
thereof, accepted for payment pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer shall cease
to accrue interest after the Asset Sale Purchase Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have a Security, or portion thereof
purchased pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer will be required to surrender
the Security, with the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase"
on the reverse of the Security completed, to the Paying Agent (which may
not for purposes of this Section 4.15, notwithstanding anything in this
Indenture to the contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company)
at the address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on
the Final Put Date;
(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their elections, in
whole or in part, if the Paying Agent (which may not for purposes of this
Section, notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, be the
Company or any Affiliate of the Company) receives, up to the close of
business on the Final Put Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission
or letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of
the Securities the Holder is withdrawing and a statement that such Holder
is withdrawing his election to have such principal amount of Securities
purchased;
(7) that if Indebtedness in a principal amount in excess of the
principal amount of Securities to be acquired pursuant to the Asset Sale
Offer is tendered and not withdrawn, the Company shall purchase
Indebtedness on a pro rata basis in proportion to the respective principal
amounts (or accreted values in the case of Indebtedness issued with an
original issue discount) thereof (with such adjustments as may be deemed
appropriate by the Company so that only Securities in denominations of
$1,000 or integral multiples of $1,000 shall be acquired);
(8) that Holders whose Securities were purchased only in part will
be issued new Securities equal in principal amount to the unpurchased
portion of the Securities surrendered; and
(9) a brief description of the circumstances and relevant facts
regarding such Asset Sales.
Any such Asset Sale Offer shall comply with all applicable
provisions of applicable Federal and state laws, rules and regulations,
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fers, if applicable, and any provisions of this Indenture that conflict with
such laws shall be deemed to be superseded by the provisions of such laws.
On or before an Asset Sale Purchase Date, the Company shall (i)
accept for payment Securities or portions thereof properly tendered and not
properly withdrawn pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer on or before the Final Put
Date (on a pro rata basis if required pursuant to paragraph (7) hereof), (ii)
deposit with the Paying Agent cash sufficient to pay the Asset Sale Offer Price
for all Securities or portions thereof so tendered and accepted and (iii)
deliver to the Trustee Securities so accepted together with an Officers'
Certificate stating the Securities or portions thereof being purchased by the
Company. The Paying Agent shall on each Asset Sale Purchase Date mail or deliver
to Holders of securities so accepted payment in an amount equal to the Asset
Sale Offer Price for such Securities, and the Trustee shall promptly
authenticate and mail or deliver to such Holders a new Security equal in
principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Security surrendered. Any
Security not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company to
the Holder thereof.
If the amount required to acquire all Indebtedness properly tendered
by Holders pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer (the "Acceptance Amount") made
pursuant to this Section 4.15 is less than the Asset Sale Offer Amount, the
excess of the Asset Sale Offer Amount over the Acceptance Amount may be used by
the Company for general corporate purposes without restriction, unless otherwise
restricted by the other provisions of this Indenture. Upon consummation of an
Asset Sale offer made in accordance with the terms of this Indenture, the
Accumulated Amount will be reduced to zero irrespective of the amount of
Indebtedness tendered pursuant to the Asset Sale Offer.
SECTION 4.16. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws. The Company
covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not at any
time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the benefit
or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other law which
would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying all or any portion of the
principal of, premium of, or interest on the Securities as contemplated herein,
wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may affect the
covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all benefit or advantage of
any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or impede the
execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer and permit
the execution of every such power as though no such law had been enacted.
SECTION 4.17. [Reserved].
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SECTION 4.18. Limitation on Lines of Business. The Company shall
not, nor shall it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, engage directly
or indirectly in any line or lines of business activity other than that which,
in the reasonable, good faith judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company,
is a Related Business.
SECTION 4.19. Restriction on Sale and Issuance of Subsidiary Stock.
The Company will not sell, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to issue or sell, any shares of Capital Stock of any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company to any Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, except for shares of common stock with no
preferences or special rights or privileges and with no redemption or prepayment
provisions ("Special Rights"); provided, however, that, in the case of a
Restricted Subsidiary that is a partnership or joint venture partnership (a
"Restricted Partnership") the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries may
sell or such Restricted Partnership may issue or sell Capital Stock of such
Restricted Partnership with Special Rights no more favorable than those held by
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in such Restricted Partnership.
SECTION 4.20. Limitation on Guarantees. The Company will not permit
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that is not a Guarantor to guarantee the
payment of any Indebtedness of the Company unless such Restricted Subsidiary (i)
executes and delivers a supplemental indenture in a form reasonably satisfactory
to the Trustee pursuant to which such Restricted Subsidiary shall
unconditionally guarantee all of the Company's obligations under the Securities
and this Indenture on the terms set forth in Article 12 of this Indenture and
(ii) delivers to the Trustee an opinion of counsel that such supplemental
indenture has been duly authorized, executed and delivered by such Restricted
Subsidiary and constitutes a legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligation of
such Restricted Subsidiary subject to customary exceptions. Thereafter, such
Restricted Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor for all purposes of this Indenture
unless and until its Guarantee is released in accordance with this Indenture.
SECTION 4.21. Minimum Coverage Ratio. So long as any of the
Securities remain outstanding, neither the Company nor any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries may make any Asset Sale (other than any Asset Sale described in
clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) of the second paragraph of Section 4.15) or issue any
Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness that is secured by the Collateral
unless immediately after giving effect to any such Asset Sale or issuance, on a
pro forma basis, the sum of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities
plus the aggregate principal amount (or the aggregate accreted amount in the
case of Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness, if any, with an original
issue discount) of any Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness that is secured
by the Collateral then outstanding (such sum, the "Secured Indebtedness") shall
be less than or equal to the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of cash collateral
and Eligible Investments held
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in the Collateral Account and (ii) the product of (a) the aggregate number of
Net Pops of the MSAs and RSAs in the Collateral Pool and (b) $175 (the sum of
the items described in clauses (i) and (ii), the "Minimum Collateral Value").
The term "Collateral Pool" shall mean as of any date each MSA or RSA
for which the Company or any Guarantor (other than a Non-Recourse Restricted
Subsidiary) has obtained a license from the FCC to operate a domestic public
cellular mobile radio telecommunications system (each, a "Cellular System");
provided, however, that (a) to the extent that a Lien thereon can be perfected
solely by filing a financing statement in the applicable jurisdictions, the
Company has granted to the Trustee pursuant to the Security Agreement as of the
Issue Date and not released a perfected Lien (subject to any Permitted Liens) on
all of its property located in such MSA or RSA and (b) in the event that such
license has been granted to a Guarantor (other than a Non-Recourse Restricted
Subsidiary), (1) the Company and such Guarantor, as applicable, have granted to
the Trustee pursuant to the Security Agreement and not released a perfected Lien
(subject to any Permitted Liens) on all of the issued and outstanding shares of
Capital Stock of such Guarantor owned by the Company or any of the Restricted
Subsidiaries, and (2) to the extent that a Lien thereon can be perfected solely
by filing a financing statement in the applicable jurisdictions, such Guarantor
has granted to the Trustee pursuant to the Security Agreement and not released a
perfected Lien (subject to any Permitted Liens) on all of its property and
assets located in such MSA or RSA in each case to the extent contemplated by the
Security Agreement; provided that there shall be excluded from the Collateral
Pool any MSA or RSA for which the FCC license to operate a Cellular System was
acquired by the Company or a Guarantor after the Issue Date and for which the
average annual per capita income was less than $15,000 at the time of such
acquisition (as most recently reported at the time of acquisition by the
applicable source cited in the definition of "Pops").
SECTION 4.22. Separate Account. On the Issue Date, the Company will
deposit $80,000,000 of cash into a separate account (which may but need not be
the Collateral Account), which amount may only be used by the Company (i) for
acquisitions or (ii) to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for
value or make any payment of principal, interest or premium in respect of the
Securities or any Permitted Pari Passu Secured Indebtedness.
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ARTICLE 5
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.01. Limitation on Merger, Sale or Consolidation. The
Company will not consolidate with or merge with or into another Person, or sell,
lease, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its
and its Restricted Subsidiaries' assets (computed on a consolidated basis),
whether in a single transaction or a series of related transactions, to another
Person or group of affiliated Persons, unless
(i) either (a) the Company is the continuing entity or (b) the
resulting surviving or transferee entity is a corporation organized under
the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of
Columbia and expressly assumes by supplemental indenture all of the
obligations of the Company in connection with the Securities, this
Indenture and the Security Documents; provided, however, that in the case
of a sale, lease, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of all or
substantially all of the Company's and its Restricted Subsidiaries'
assets, the provisions of this clause (i)(b) need not be met if all of the
consideration in respect of such transaction is received by the Company
and its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than any Non-Recourse Restricted
Subsidiary);
(ii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or shall occur
immediately after giving effect on a pro forma basis to such transaction;
(iii) (a) immediately after giving pro forma effect to such
transaction, the consolidated resulting surviving or transferee entity
(or, in the case contemplated by the proviso to clause (i)(b), the
Company) would immediately thereafter be permitted to Incur at least $1.00
of additional Indebtedness pursuant to the Annualized Operating Cash Flow
Ratio provision set forth in the second paragraph of Section 4.12 or (b),
if the requirement of clause (a) is not satisfied, (x) any Indebtedness of
the resulting surviving or transferee entity (or, in the case contemplated
by the proviso to clause (i)(b), the Company) in excess of the amount of
the Company's Indebtedness immediately prior to such transaction is
Permitted Acquisition Indebtedness and (y) the requirement of clause (a)
is not satisfied solely due to the Incurrence of such Permitted
Acquisition Indebtedness;
(iv) immediately after giving pro forma effect thereto the Secured
Indebtedness of the consolidated resulting surviving or transferee entity
(or, in the case contemplated by the proviso to clause (i)(b), of the
Company) would either (x) not exceed the Minimum Collateral Value of the
consolidated resulting surviving or
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transferee entity (or, in the case contemplated by the proviso to clause
(i)(b), of the Company) or (y) not exceed such Minimum Collateral Value by
an amount greater than the Secured Indebtedness of the Company exceeded
the Minimum Collateral Value of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries immediately prior to such transaction; and
(v) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an opinion of counsel, if applicable, confirming
compliance with the requirements of this Section 5.01.
SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any
consolidation or merger or any transfer of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company in accordance with the foregoing, the successor
corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or
to which such transfer is made, shall (other than as provided in the proviso to
clause (i)(b) of the preceding paragraph) succeed to, and be substituted for,
and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with
the same effect as if such successor corporation had been named therein as the
Company, and the Company shall be released from the obligations under the
Securities and this Indenture.
ARTICLE 6
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default," wherever used
herein, means any one of the following events (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be caused voluntarily or involuntarily or
effected, without limitation, by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment,
decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body):
(a) the failure by the Company to pay any installment of interest on
the Securities as and when the same becomes due and payable and the
continuance of any such failure for 30 days;
(b) the failure by the Company to pay all or any part of the
principal, or premium, if any, on the Securities when and as the same
become due and payable at maturity, redemption, by acceleration or
otherwise, including, without limitation, payment of the Change of Control
Purchase Price or the Asset Sale Offer Price;
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(c) the failure by the Company or any Guarantor to observe or
perform any other covenant or agreement contained in the Securities or
this Indenture and, subject to certain exceptions, the continuance of such
failure for a period of 30 days after written notice is given to the
Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the Holders of
at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities outstanding;
(d) a decree, judgment, or order by a court of competent
jurisdiction shall have been entered adjudging the Company or any of its
Significant Restricted Subsidiaries as bankrupt or insolvent, or approving
as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization of the Company or any
of its Significant Restricted Subsidiaries under any bankruptcy or similar
law, and such decree or order shall have continued undischarged and
unstayed for a period of 60 days; or a decree or order of a court of
competent jurisdiction over the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
trustee, or assignee in bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company, any of
its Significant Restricted Subsidiaries, or of the property of any such
Person, or for the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of any such
Person, shall have been entered, and such decree, judgment, or order shall
have remained in force undischarged and unstayed for a period of 60 days;
(e) the Company or any of its Significant Restricted Subsidiaries
shall institute proceedings to be adjudicated a voluntary bankrupt, or
shall consent to the filing of a bankruptcy proceeding against it, or
shall file a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization under
any bankruptcy or similar law or similar statute, or shall consent to the
filing of any such petition, or shall consent to the appointment of a
Custodian in bankruptcy or insolvency of it or any of its assets or
property, or shall make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors,
or shall admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they
become due, or shall, within the meaning of any Bankruptcy Law, become
insolvent, fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or takes
any corporate action in furtherance of or to facilitate, conditionally or
otherwise, any of the foregoing;
(f) the failure to pay at final stated maturity (giving effect to
any applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) the principal
amount of any Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company or the acceleration of the final stated maturity of any
Indebtedness if the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness,
together with the principal amount of any other such Indebtedness in
default for failure to pay principal at final maturity or which has been
accelerated, aggregates $15,000,000 or more at any time, except that such
dollar amount shall not apply to any Permitted Pari Passu Secured
Indebtedness that is secured by the Collateral;
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(g) final unsatisfied judgments not covered by insurance aggregating
in excess of $5,000,000, at any one time rendered against the Company or
any of the Company's Restricted Subsidiaries and not stayed, bonded or
discharged within 60 days;
(h) the failure of any Guarantee to be in full force and effect or
declaration of any Guarantee to be null and void and unenforceable or
finding of any Guarantee to be invalid or denial by any Guarantor of its
liability under its Guarantee (other than by reason of release of such
Guarantor in accordance with the terms of this Indenture); or
(i) the failure of any of the Security Documents to be in full force
and effect or to give the Trustee the Liens, rights, powers and privileges
purported to be created thereby.
If a Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee must, within 90
days after the occurrence of such default, give to the Holders notice of such
default.
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration of Maturity Date; Rescission and
Annulment. If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event
of Default specified in clause (d) or (e) of Section 6.01 relating to the
Company or any Significant Restricted Subsidiary), then in every such case,
unless the principal of all of the Securities shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount
of the Securities then outstanding, by notice in writing to the Company (and to
the Trustee if given by Holders) may declare all principal and accrued interest
thereon to be due and payable and the same shall become immediately due and
payable. If an Event of Default specified in clause (d) or (e) of Section 6.01,
relating to the Company or any Significant Restricted Subsidiary, occurs, all
principal and accrued interest thereon will be immediately due and payable on
all outstanding Securities without any declaration or other act on the part of
Trustee or the Holders.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made
and before a judgment or decree for payment of the money due has been obtained
by the Trustee as hereinafter provided in this Article 6, the Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of then-outstanding Securities, by
written notice to the Company and the Trustee, may rescind, on behalf of all
Holders, any such declaration of acceleration if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee cash
sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue interest on all Securities,
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(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, applicable to any
Securities which would become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration, and interest thereon at the
rate borne by the Securities,
(C) to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
interest upon overdue interest at the rate borne by the
Securities,
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and
the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and
(2) all Events of Default, other than the non-payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on Securities which have
become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or
waived as provided in Section 6.12, including, if applicable, any Event of
Default relating to the covenants contained in Section 11.01.
Notwithstanding the previous sentence of this Section 6.02, no waiver shall be
effective against any Holder for any Event of Default or event which with notice
or lapse of time or both would be an Event of Default with respect to any
covenant or provision which cannot be modified or amended without the consent of
the Holder of each outstanding Security affected thereby, unless all such
affected Holders agree, in writing, to waive such Event of Default or other
event. No such waiver shall cure or waive any subsequent Default or impair any
right consequent thereon.
In the event of a declaration of acceleration of the Securities
because an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as a result of the
acceleration of any Indebtedness described in Section 6.01(f), the declaration
of acceleration of the Securities shall be automatically annulled if the holders
of all Indebtedness described in Section 6.01 (f) (without any payment to any
holders of any such Indebtedness) have rescinded the declaration of acceleration
in respect of such Indebtedness within 30 days of the date of such declaration
and if (i) the annulment of the acceleration of the Securities would not
conflict with any judgment or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction and
(ii) all Events of Default, except nonpayment of principal interest on the
Securities that became due solely because of the acceleration of the Securities,
have been cured or waived.
SECTION 6.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement
by Trustee. The Company covenants that if an Event of Default in payment of
principal, premium, or interest specified in clause (a) or (b) of Section 6.01
occurs and is continuing, the Company shall, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to
it, for the benefit of the Holders of
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such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable on such Securities for
principal, premium (if any) and interest, and, to the extent that payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue principal
(and premium, if any) and on any overdue interest, at the rate borne by the
Securities, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient
to cover the reasonable costs and expenses of collection, including Compensation
to, and expenses, disbursements and advances of, the Trustee, its agents and
counsel.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such demand,
the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust in favor of the
Holders, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so
due and unpaid, may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree and
may enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the
manner provided by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor
upon the Securities, wherever situated.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in
its discretion proceed to protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the
Holders by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effective to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or the Security
Documents or in aid of the exercise of any power granted herein or therein, or
to enforce any other proper remedy.
Each Holder, by accepting a Security, acknowledges that the exercise
of remedies by the Trustee with respect to the Collateral is subject to the
terms and conditions of the Security Documents and the proceeds received upon
realization of the Collateral shall be applied by the Trustee in accordance with
the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement.
SECTION 6.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors, the
Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the Securities shall then be
due and payable as therein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and
irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company
for the payment of overdue principal or interest) shall be entitled and
empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise to take any and all
actions under the TIA, including
(1) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary
or advisable in order to have
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the claims of the Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agent and counsel) and of the Holders allowed in such judicial proceeding,
and
(2) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any Custodian in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the Trustee
shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to
the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 7.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, or composition affecting the securities
or the rights of any Holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to vote in
respect of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.05. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust in favor of the Holders, and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of compensation to,
and expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel,
be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which
such judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 6.06. Priorities. Any money collected by the Trustee
pursuant to this Article 6 shall be applied in the following order, at the date
or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on
account of principal, premium (if any) or interest, upon presentation of the
Securities and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and
upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
FIRST: To the Trustee in payment of all amounts due pursuant to
Section 7.07;
SECOND: To the Holders in payment of the amounts then due and unpaid
for principal of, premium (if any) and interest on, the Securities in
respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has been
collected, ratably, without prefer-
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ence or priority of any kind, according to the amounts due and payable on
such Securities for principal, premium (if any) and interest,
respectively; and
THIRD: To whomsoever may be lawfully entitled thereto, the
remainder, if any.
SECTION 6.07. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Security shall
have any right to order or direct the Trustee to institute any proceeding,
judicial or otherwise, with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of
a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(A) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default;
(B) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of
then-outstanding Securities shall have made written request to the Trustee
to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default in its own
name as Trustee hereunder;
(C) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred or reasonably probable to be incurred in compliance with such
request;
(D) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(E) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities;
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders shall have any
right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing of, any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any other Holders,
or to obtain or to seek to obtain priority or preference over any other Holders
or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein
provided and for the equal and ratable benefit of all the Holders.
SECTION 6.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive Principal,
Premium and Interest. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the
Holder of any Security shall have the right, which is absolute and
unconditional, to receive payment of the principal of, and premium (if any) and
accrued interest on, such Security on the Maturity Date of such payments as
expressed in such Security (in the case of redemption, the Redemption Price on
the applicable Redemption Date, in the case of a Change of Control Payment, on
the applicable Change of Control Payment Date, and, in the case of an
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Asset Sale Offer, the Asset Sale Offer Price on the Asset Sale Purchase Date)
and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment after such
respective dates, and such rights shall not be impaired without the consent of
such Holder.
SECTION 6.09. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as otherwise
provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Securities in Section 2.07, no right or remedy herein conferred
upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Holders is intended to be exclusive of
any other right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent
permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy
given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise.
The assertion or employment of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise,
shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 6.10. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or omission by
the Trustee or by any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy
arising upon any Event of Default shall impair the exercise of any such right or
remedy or constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default. Every right and
remedy given by this Article 6 or by law to the Trustee or to the Holders may be
exercised from time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the
Trustee or by the Holders, as the case may be.
SECTION 6.11. Control by Holders. The Holder or Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding Securities will have
the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for
any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, provided that
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of law or
with this Indenture,
(2) the Trustee shall not determine that the action so directed
would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in such
direction, and
(3) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
SECTION 6.12. Waiver of Past Default. Subject to Section 6.08, the
Holder or Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the outstanding Securities may, on behalf of all Holders, prior to the
declaration of the acceleration of the maturity of the Securities, waive any
past default hereunder and its consequences, except a default
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(A) in the payment of the principal of, or interest on, any Security
as specified in clauses (a) and (b) of Section 6.01, or
(B) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which, under
Article 9, cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder
of a greater specified percentage of the aggregate principal amount of the
Notes then outstanding without the consent of such greater percentage.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair the exercise of any right arising therefrom.
SECTION 6.13. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall he deemed
to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for
the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit
against the Trustee for any action taken, suffered or omitted to be taken by it
as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to
pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess
reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys fees, against any party
litigant in such suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this
Section 6.13 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the Company, to any suit
instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group of
Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 100% in aggregate principal amount
of the outstanding Securities, or to any suit instituted by any Holder for
enforcement of the payment of principal of, or premium (if any) or interest on,
any Security on or after the Maturity Date expressed in such Security
(including, in the case of redemption, on or after the Redemption Date).
SECTION 6.14. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the Trustee or
any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy under
this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for any
reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to such Holder, then
and in every case, subject to any determination in such proceeding, the Company,
the Trustee and the Holders shall be restored severally and respectively to
their former positions hereunder and thereafter all rights and remedies of the
Trustee and the Holders shall continue as though no such proceeding had been
instituted.
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ARTICLE 7
TRUSTEE
The Trustee hereby accepts the trust imposed upon it by this
Indenture and covenants and agrees to perform the same, as herein expressed.
SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee. (a) If a Default or an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the
rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care
and skill in their exercise as a prudent Person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(b) Except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of
Default:
(1) The Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically
set forth in this Indenture and no others, and no covenants or obligations
shall be implied in or read into this Indenture which are adverse to the
Trustee.
(2) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness
of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or opinions furnished
to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture.
However, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and opinions to
determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of this
Indenture.
(c) The Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own
negligent action, its own negligent failure to act, or its own willful
misconduct, except that:
(1) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of
this Section 7.01.
(2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 6.11.
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(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder or to take or omit to take any action
under this Indenture or at the request, order or direction of the Holders or in
the exercise of any of its rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds
for believing that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such
risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.
(e) Every provision of this Indenture that in any way relates to the
Trustee is subject to paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d) and (f) of this Section
7.01.
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any assets
received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.
Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other assets
except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee. Subject to Section 7.01:
(a) The Trustee may rely on any document believed by it to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The
Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may consult
with counsel and may require an Officers' Certificate or an Opinion of
Counsel, which shall conform to Sections 13.04 and 13.05. The Trustee
shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith
in reliance on such certificate or advice of counsel.
(c) The Trustee may act through its attorneys and agents and shall
not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent appointed
with due care.
(d) The Trustee will not be liable for any action it takes or omits
to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or within its
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
(e) The Trustee will not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture, or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion,
may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters
as it may see fit.
(f) The Trustee will be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Holders, pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Holders shall have
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offered to the Trustee reasonable security or indemnity against the costs,
expenses and liabilities which may be incurred therein or thereby.
(g) Unless otherwise specifically provided for in this Indenture,
any demand, request, direction or notice from the Company shall be
sufficient if signed by an Officer of the Company.
(h) The Trustee shall have no duty to inquire as to the performance
of the covenants in Article 4 hereof. In addition, the Trustee shall not
be deemed to have knowledge of any Default or Event of Default except (i)
any Event of Default occurring pursuant to Sections 6.01(a), 6.01(b) and
4.02, or (ii) any Default or Event of Default of which the Trustee shall
have received written notification or obtained actual knowledge.
(i) Subject to Section 9.02 hereof, the Trustee may (but shall not
be obligated to), without the consent of the Holders, give any consent,
waiver or approval required under the Security Documents or by the terms
hereof with respect to the Collateral, but shall not without the consent
of the Holders of not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount
of the Securities at the time outstanding (i) give any consent, waiver or
approval or (ii) agree to any amendment or modification of the Security
Documents, in each case, that shall have a material adverse effect on the
interests of any Holder. The Trustee shall be entitled to request and
conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel with respect to whether any
consent, waiver, approval, amendment or modification shall have a material
adverse effect on the interests of any Holder.
SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee. The Trustee in its
individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and may otherwise deal with the Company or any of the Company's Subsidiaries, or
their respective Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like rights. However, the Trustee must
comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
SECTION 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the
Securities and it shall not be accountable for the Company's use of the proceeds
from the Securities, and it shall not be responsible for any statement in the
Securities, other than the Trustee's certificate of authentication, or the use
or application of any funds received by a Paying Agent other than the Trustee.
The Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation
as to the value or condition of the Collateral or any part thereof, or as to the
title of the Company
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or its Restricted Subsidiaries thereto, or as to the security afforded thereby
or hereby, or as to the validity or genuineness of any Collateral pledged and
deposited with the Trustee. The Trustee makes no representations with respect to
the effectiveness or adequacy of the Security Documents, or the validity or
perfection, if any, of Liens granted under this Indenture or the Security
Documents. The Trustee shall not be responsible for independently ascertaining
or maintaining such validity or perfection, if any, and shall be fully protected
in relying upon certificates and opinions delivered to it in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture or the Security Documents.
SECTION 7.05. Notice of Default. If a Default or an Event of Default
occurs and is continuing and if it is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall
mail to each Securityholder notice of the uncured Default or Event of Default
within 90 days after such Default or Event of Default occurs. Except in the case
of a Default or an Event of Default in payment of principal (or premium, if any)
of, or interest on, any Security (including the payment of the Change of Control
Purchase Price on the Change of Control Payment Date, the payment of the
Redemption Price on the Redemption Date and the payment of the Offer Price on
the Purchase Date), the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as a
Trust Officer in good faith determines that withholding the notice is in the
interest of the Securityholders.
SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days after
each December 15 beginning with the December 15 following the date of this
Indenture, the Trustee shall, if required by law, mail to each Securityholder a
brief report dated as of such December 15 that complies with TIA ss. 313(a). The
Trustee also shall comply with TIA ss. 313(b) and ss. 313(c).
The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing if the
Securities become listed on any stock exchange or automatic quotation system.
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Securityholders
shall be mailed to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock exchange,
if any, on which the Securities are listed, in accordance with and to the extent
required by TIA ss. 313(d).
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity. The Company agrees to pay
to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation for its services. The
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon
request for all reasonable disbursements, expenses and advances incurred or made
by it. Such expenses shall include the reasonable compensation, disbursements
and expenses of the Trustee's agents, accountants, experts and counsel.
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The Company agrees to indemnify the Trustee (in its capacity as
Trustee) and each of its officers, directors, attorneys-in-fact and agents for,
and hold it harmless against, any claim, demand, expense (including but not
limited to reasonable compensation, disbursements and expenses of the Trustee's
agents and counsel), loss or liability incurred by it without negligence or bad
faith on its part, arising out of or in connection with the administration of
this trust and its rights or duties hereunder and under the Security Documents
including the reasonable 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 and under the Security Documents. The Trustee shall
notify the Company promptly of any claim asserted against the Trustee for which
it may seek indemnity. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall
provide reasonable cooperation at the Company's expense in the defense. The
Trustee may have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the reasonable fees
and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Company will not be required to
pay such fees and expenses if they assume the Trustee's defense and there is no
conflict of interest between the Company and the Trustee in connection with such
defense. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without their written
consent. The Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any
loss or liability to the extent incurred by the Trustee through its negligence,
bad faith or willful misconduct.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07,
the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities on all assets held or
collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except assets held in
trust to pay principal and premium, if any, of or interest on particular
Securities, including, without limitation, assets held in the Collateral
Account.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event
of Default specified in Section 6.01(e) or (f) occurs, the expenses and the
compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under any Bankruptcy Law.
The Company's obligations under this Section 7.07 and any lien
arising hereunder shall survive the resignation or removal of the Trustee, the
discharge of the Company's obligations pursuant to Article 8 of this Indenture
and any rejection or termination of this Indenture under any Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 7.08. Replacement of Trustee. The Trustee may resign by so
notifying the Company in writing. The Holder or Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the outstanding Securities may remove the Trustee by so
notifying the Company and the Trustee in writing and may appoint a successor
trustee with the Company's consent. The Company may remove the Trustee if:
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(a) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(b) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(c) a receiver, Custodian, or other public officer takes charge of
the Trustee or its property; or
(d) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee. Within one year after the successor Trustee takes office, the Holder or
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Securities may appoint a
successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee appointed by the Company.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that
and provided that all sums owing to the Trustee provided for in Section 7.07
have been paid, the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as
trustee (including the Collateral Account) to the successor Trustee, subject to
the lien provided in Section 7.07, the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective, and the successor Trustee shall have all the
rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this Indenture. A successor
Trustee shall mail notice of its succession to each Holder.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the
Holder or Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment
of a successor Trustee.
If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Securityholder
may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee
and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustees pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 all continue for the benefit
of the retiring Trustee.
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc. If the Trustee
consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or substantially
all of its corporate trust business to, another corporation, the resulting,
surviving or transferee corporation without any further act shall, if such
resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is otherwise eligible hereunder,
be the successor Trustee.
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SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification. The Trustee shall at
all times satisfy the requirements of TIA ss. 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The
Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $10,000,000 as set
forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee shall
comply with TIA ss. 310(b).
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company. The
Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee hereunder and in its capacity as Collateral
Agent under the Security Documents, shall comply with TIA ss. 311(a), excluding
any creditor relationship listed in TIA ss. 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned
or been removed shall be subject to TIA ss. 311(a) to the extent indicated.
ARTICLE 8
LEGAL DEFEASANCE AND COVENANT DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. Option to Effect Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance. The Company may, at its option and at any time, elect to have
Section 8.02 or Section 8.03 applied to al1 outstanding Securities and Security
Documents upon compliance with the conditions set forth below in this Article 8.
SECTION 8.02. Legal Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's
exercise under Section 8.01 of the option applicable to this Section 8.02, the
Company and the Guarantors shall be deemed to have been discharged from their
obligations with respect to all outstanding Securities and Security Documents on
the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "Legal
Defeasance"). For this purpose, such Legal Defeasance means that the Company
shall be deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented
by the outstanding Securities, which shall thereafter be deemed to be
"outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 8.05 and the other Sections of
this Indenture referred to in (a) and (b) below, and this Indenture, Guarantees
and Security Documents shall cease to be of further effect (and the Trustee, on
demand of and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), except for the following which shall survive until
otherwise terminated or discharged hereunder: (a) the rights of Holders of
outstanding Securities to receive solely from the trust fund described in
Section 8.04, and as more fully set forth in such Section 8.04, payments in
respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Securities
when such payments are due, (b) the Company's obligations with respect to such
Securities under Sections 2.04, 2.06, 2.07, 2.10 and 4.03, (c) the rights,
powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the Company's
obligations in connection therewith and (d) this Article 8. Subject to
compliance with this Article 8, the Company may
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exercise its option under this Section 8.02 notwithstanding the prior exercise
of its option under Section 8.03 with respect to the Securities.
SECTION 8.03. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise under
Section 8.01 of the option applicable to this Section 8.03, the Company shall be
released from its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 4.04,
4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.09, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14, 4.15, 4.18, 4.19, 4.20, 4.21,
Article 5 (other than the obligation of any successor to assume the obligations
of the Company hereunder) and Article 11 with respect to the outstanding
Securities on and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied
(hereinafter, "Covenant Defeasance"), and the Securities shall thereafter be
deemed not "outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or
declaration or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in
connection with such covenants, but shall continue to be deemed "outstanding"
for all other purposes hereunder. For this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance
means that, with respect to the outstanding Securities, the Company need not
comply with and shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or
limitation set forth in any such covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by
reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such covenant or by reason of
any reference in any such covenant to any other provision herein or in any other
document, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and
such Securities shall be unaffected thereby.
SECTION 8.04. Conditions to Legal or Covenant Defeasance. The
following shall be the conditions to the application of either Section 8.02 or
Section 8.03 to the outstanding Securities:
(a) The Company must irrevocably deposit or caused to be deposited
with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 7.10 who shall agree to comply with the provisions of this Article
8 applicable to it) as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
following payments, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated
solely to, the benefit of the Holders of such Securities, (a) U.S. Legal
Tender, or (b) non-callable government securities, or (c) a combination
thereof, in such amounts, as in each case will be sufficient, in the
opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to
pay and discharge and which shall be applied by the Trustee (or other
qualifying trustee) to pay and discharge (i) the principal of, premium, if
any, and interest on the outstanding Securities on the Stated Maturity or
on the applicable Redemption Date, as the case may be, of such principal
or installment of principal, premium, if any, or interest and the Holders
of Securities shall have a valid, perfected, exclusive security interest
in the assets of such trust; provided that the Trustee shall have been
irrevocably instructed to apply
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such cash and the proceeds of such U.S. Government Obligations or U.S.
Legal Tender Equivalents to said payments with respect to the Securities;
(b) In the case of an election under Section 8.02, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (i) the Company has
received from, or there has been published by, the Internal Revenue
Service a ruling or (ii) since the date hereof, there as been a change in
the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that,
and based thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of the
outstanding Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal Defeasance had
not occurred;
(c) In the case of an election under Section 8.03, the Company shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the United States
reasonably acceptable to such Trustee confirming that the Holders of the
outstanding Securities will not recognize income gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be
subject to Federal income tax in the same amount, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance
had not occurred;
(d) No Default or Event of Default (other than a Default or Event of
Default resulting from the borrowing of funds to be applied to such
deposit or such deposit) shall have occurred and be continuing on the date
of such deposit or, insofar as Section 6.01(e) or 6.01(f) is concerned, at
any time during the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such
deposit (it being understood that this condition is a condition subsequent
which shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such period,
but in the case of Covenant Defeasance, the covenants which are defeased
under Section 8.03 will cease to be in effect unless an Event of Default
under Section 6.01(e) or 6.01(f) occurs during such period);
(e) Such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of or constitute a default under any other material
agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of its Subsidiaries is
a party or by which any of them is bound;
(f) In the case of an election under either Section 8.02 or 8.03,
the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
stating that the deposit made by the Company pursuant to its election
under Section 8.02 or 8.03 was not made by the Company with the intent of
preferring the Holders over any other
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creditors of the Company or with the intent of defeating, hindering,
delaying or defrauding creditors of the Company or others; and
(g) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate stating that all conditions precedent provided for or relating
to either the Legal Defeasance under Section 8.02 or the Covenant
Defeasance under Section 8.03 (as the case may be) have been complied with
as contemplated by this Section 8.04.
SECTION 8.05. Deposited U.S. Legal Tender Equivalents and U.S.
Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust; Other Miscellaneous Provisions.
Subject to Section 8.06, all cash, U.S. Legal Tender Equivalents and U.S.
Government Obligations (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the
Trustee (or other qualifying trustee, collectively for purposes of this Section
8.05, the "Trustee") pursuant to Section 8.04 in respect of the outstanding
Securities shall be held in trust and applied by the Trustee, in accordance with
the provisions of such Securities and this Indenture, to the payment, either
directly or through any Paying Agent as the Trustee may determine, to the
Holders of such Securities of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect
of principal, premium, if any, and interest, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 8.06. Repayment to the Company. Subject to any applicable
escheat or abandoned property laws, any money deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent, or then held by the Company, in trust for the payment, of the
principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any Security and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal, and premium, if any, or interest
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on its request; and the
Holder of such Security shall thereafter look only to the Company for payment
thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to
such trust money shall thereupon cease.
SECTION 8.07. Reinstatement. If the Trustee or Paying Agent is
unable to apply any cash, U.S. Legal Tender Equivalents or U.S. Government
Obligations in accordance with Section 8.02 or 8.03, as the case may be, by
reason of any order or judgment of any court or governmental authority
enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such application, then the
Company's obligations under this Indenture and the Securities shall be revived
and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Section 8.02 or
8.03 until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply such
money in accordance with Sections 8.02 and 8.03, as the case may be; provided,
however, that, if the Company makes any payment of principal of, premium, if
any, or interest on any Security following the reinstatement of its obligations,
the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Securities
to receive such payment from the cash held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
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ARTICLE 9
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.
Without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Guarantors, when
authorized by Board Resolutions, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect, or inconsistency, or to make any
other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this
Indenture which shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this
Indenture, provided such action pursuant to this clause (1) shall not
adversely affect the interests of any Holder in any respect;
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the
Holders, or to surrender any right or power conferred upon the Company
herein or in the Security Documents or to make any other change hereto or
thereto that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder, provided
that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
stating that such change does not adversely affect the rights of any
Holder;
(3) to provide for additional collateral or guarantors for the
Securities;
(4) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company, and
the assumption by any such successor of the obligations of the Company,
herein and in the Securities in accordance with Article 5;
(5) to comply with the TIA; or
(6) to provide for the issuance and authorization of the Exchange
Securities.
SECTION 9.02. Amendments, Supplemental Indentures and Waivers with
Consent of Holders. Subject to Section 6.08, with the consent of the Holders of
not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount of then outstanding
Securities, by written act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the
Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors, when authorized by Board Resolutions,
and the Trustee may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Securities or
enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of
adding any provisions to or changing in any manner
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or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or the Securities or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders under this Indenture or the
Securities. Subject to Section 6.08, the Holder or Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of then outstanding Securities may waive compliance
by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Securities.
Notwithstanding any of the above, however, no such amendment, supplemental
indenture or waiver shall, without the consent of each Holder affected thereby:
(1) reduce the percentage of principal amount of Securities whose
Holders must consent to an amendment, supplement, supplemental indenture
or waiver of any provision of this Indenture or the Securities;
(2) reduce the rate or extend the time for payment of interest on
any Security or any premium payable upon the redemption thereof;
(3) reduce the principal amount of any Security, the Change of
Control Purchase Price, the Asset Sale Offer Price or the Redemption
Price;
(4) change the Stated Maturity of any Security;
(5) alter the redemption provisions of Article 3 or paragraph 5 of
the Securities or the terms or provisions (or the definitions related
thereto) of Article 11, in any case, in a manner adverse to any Holder;
(6) make any changes in Section 6.08, 6.12 or this Section 9.02
except to increase any required percentage or to provide that certain
other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified without the consent
of each Holder affected thereby;
(7) make the Principal of, or the interest on, any Security payable
with anything or in any manner other than as provided for in this
Indenture (including changing the place of payment where, or the coin or
currency in which, any Security or any premium or the interest thereon is
payable and the Securities as in effect on the date hereof); or
(8) make the Securities subordinated in right of payment to any
extent or under any circumstances to any other indebtedness.
With the consent of Holders of 66 2/3% of the aggregate principal
amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, the Company and the Trustee
may change the Change of Control Purchase Date and the Asset Sale Offer Period.
In addition, no such amendment, supplemental indenture or waiver shall permit
(x) a release of Collateral (not otherwise permitted under the Security
Documents) that relates to more than 25% of the fair
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market value (as determined in good faith by the Company's Board of Directors)
of the Collateral at the date of release, without the consent of the Holders of
66 2/3% of the aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding or
(y) a release (not otherwise permitted under the Security Documents) of all or
substantially all of the Collateral or any amendment of or modification to this
Indenture or the Security Documents that has the substantial effect thereof
without the consent of Holders of 75% of the aggregate principal amount of
Securities then outstanding.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment,
supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the
substance thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02
becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a
notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of
the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in
any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture or
waiver.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02 or
Section 9.04 becomes effective, it shall bind each Holder.
In connection with any amendment, supplement or waiver under this
Article 9, the Company may, but shall not be obligated to, offer to any Holder
who consents to such amendment, supplement or waiver, or to all Holders,
consideration for such Holder's consent to such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 9.03. Compliance with TIA. Every amendment, waiver or
supplement of this Indenture or the Securities shall comply with the TIA as then
in effect.
SECTION 9.04. Revocation and Effect of Consents. Until an amendment,
waiver or supplement becomes effective, a consent to it by a Holder is a
continuing consent by the Holder and every subsequent Holder of a Security or
portion of a Security that evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder's
Security, even if notation of the consent is not made on any Security. However,
any such Holder or subsequent Holder may revoke the consent as to his Security
or portion of his Security by written notice to the Company or the Person
designated by the Company as the Person to whom consents should be sent if such
revocation is received by the Company or such Person before the date on which
the Trustee receives an Officers' Certificate certifying that the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of Securities have consented (and not theretofore
revoked such consent) to the amendment, supplement or waiver.
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The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date
for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
supplement or waiver, which record date shall be the date so fixed by the
Company notwithstanding the provisions of the TIA. If a record date is fixed,
then notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph,
those Persons who were Holders at such record date, and only those Persons (or
their duly designated proxies), shall be entitled to revoke any consent
previously given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such
record date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days
after such record date.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall
bind every Securityholder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses
(1) through (8) of Section 9.02, in which case, the amendment, supplement or
waiver shall bind only each Holder of a Security who has consented to it and
every subsequent Holder of a Security or portion of a Security that evidences
the same debt as the consenting Holder's Security; provided that any such waiver
shall not impair or affect the right of any Holder to receive payment of
principal and premium of and interest on a Security, on or after the respective
dates set for such amounts to become due and payable expressed in such Security,
or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates.
SECTION 9.05. Notation on or Exchange of Securities. If an
amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Security, the Trustee may
require the Holder of the Security to deliver it to the Trustee or require the
Holder to put an appropriate notation on the Security. The Trustee may place an
appropriate notation on the Security about the changed terms and return it to
the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the
Company in exchange for the Security shall issue and the Trustee shall
authenticate a new Security that reflects the changed terms. Any failure to make
the appropriate notation or to issue a new Security shall not affect the
validity of such amendment, supplement or waiver.
SECTION 9.06. Trustee to Sign Amendments, Etc. The Trustee shall
execute any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized pursuant to this Article
9; provided that the Trustee may, but shall not be obligated to, execute any
such amendment, supplement or waiver which affects the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture. The Trustee shall be entitled to
receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel
stating that the execution of any amendment, supplement or waiver authorized
pursuant to this Article 9 is authorized or permitted by this Indenture.
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ARTICLE 10
COLLATERAL AND SECURITY
SECTION 10.01. Security. The Securities will be secured by the
Collateral as and to the extent provided in the Security Agreement. Upon the
acceleration of the maturity of the Securities as provided in Article 6, the
Trustee shall foreclose upon the Collateral as provided in the Security
Documents.
The Lien in favor of the Trustee with respect to substantially all
of the Collateral will be perfected to the extent contemplated by the Security
Agreement on the Issue Date or the date of acquisition thereof by the Company or
the applicable Guarantor.
SECTION 10.02. Security Documents. The due and punctual payment of
the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities when and as
the same shall be due and payable, whether on an interest payment date, at
maturity, by acceleration, repurchase, redemption or otherwise, and interest on
the overdue principal of and interest (to the extent permitted by law), if any,
on the Securities and performance of all other Obligations of the Company and
the Guarantors to the Securityholders or the Trustee under this Indenture, the
Securities and the Guarantees, according to the terms hereunder or thereunder,
shall be secured as provided in the Security Documents. Each Securityholder, by
its acceptance of a Security, consents and agrees to the terms of the Security
Documents (including, without limitation, the provisions providing for
foreclosure and release of Collateral) as the same may be in effect or may be
amended from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and hereof and
authorizes and directs the Trustee as collateral agent to enter into each of the
Security Documents and to perform its respective obligations and exercise its
respective rights thereunder in accordance therewith.
Anything in the Security Documents to the contrary notwithstanding,
none of the Company or any Guarantor will be required to grant Liens on any
property acquired after the Securities are issued if such Lien on such property
is expressly prohibited from being pledged pursuant to another contractual
obligations binding on any such Person, such prohibition was not incurred by
such Person with the intent of negating the requirements of this Section 10.02,
and such Person, after using reasonable efforts, has been unable to terminate or
modify such prohibition in order to permit such pledge and such property is not
pledged to any other Person.
SECTION 10.03. Recording and Opinions. (a) The Company shall furnish
to the Trustee, promptly after the execution and delivery of this Indenture or
any Security Documents , other than the Intercreditor Agreement, executed and
delivered after the
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date of this Indenture, an Opinion of Counsel either (i) stating that, in the
opinion of such counsel, all action has been taken with respect to the
recording, registering and filing of this Indenture, the Security Documents,
financing statements or other instruments necessary to make effective the Liens
intended to be created by the Security Documents, and reciting the details of
such action or (ii) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, no such action
is necessary to make such Liens effective.
(b) The Company shall furnish to the Trustee, within three months
after each anniversary of the date of this Indenture, an Opinion of Counsel,
dated as of such date, stating either that (i) in the opinion of such counsel,
all action has been taken with respect to the recording, registering, filing,
re-recording, re-registering and refiling of all supplemental indentures,
financing statements, continuation statements or other instruments of further
assurance as is necessary to maintain the Liens to the extent required by the
Security Documents and reciting the details of such action or (ii) in the
opinion of such counsel, no such action is necessary to maintain such Liens.
SECTION 10.04. Reserved.
SECTION 10.05. Release of Collateral. (a) Subject to subsection (c)
of this Section 10.05 and Section 10.06, Collateral may be released from the
Lien and security interest created by the Security Documents at any time or from
time to time at the sole cost and expense of the Company (x) upon payment in
full of the Securities in accordance with the terms thereof and of this
Indenture and all other Obligations of the Company and the Guarantors then due
and owing under this Indenture, the Securities, the Guarantees and the Security
Documents, including any defeasance pursuant to Article 8 and (y) as otherwise
expressly permitted by the Security Documents. In addition, the Lien and
security interests created by the Security Documents in any asset shall
terminate and be released immediately without any further action upon the
disposition of such asset in any transaction permitted under the Indenture. Upon
compliance with the above provisions and the provisions of Section 13.04 hereof,
the Trustee shall execute, deliver or acknowledge any necessary or proper
instruments or termination, satisfaction or release provided by or on behalf of
the Company to evidence the release of any Collateral permitted to be released
pursuant to this Indenture or the Security Documents.
(b) Each other release of Collateral must comply with Section 9.02.
(c) At any time when a Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing and the maturity of the Securities shall have been
accelerated (whether by declaration or otherwise) and the Trustee shall have
delivered a notice of acceleration to the Company, no release of Collateral
pursuant hereto shall be effective as against the Securities.
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(d) No purchaser or grantee of any property or rights purporting to
be released herefrom shall be bound to ascertain the authority of the Trustee to
execute the release or to inquire as to the existence of any conditions herein
prescribed for the exercise of such authority; nor shall any purchaser or
grantee of any property or rights permitted by this Indenture to be sold or
otherwise disposed of by the Company and the Subsidiary Guarantors be under any
obligation to ascertain or inquire into the authority of the Company or any
Subsidiary Guarantor to make such sale or other disposition.
SECTION 10.06. Certificates of the Company. To the extent
applicable, the Company and the Guarantors shall comply with (a) TIA ss. 314(b),
relating to Opinions of Counsel regarding the Lien of the Security Documents and
(b) TIA ss. 314(d), relating to the release of Collateral from the Lien of the
Security Documents and Officers' Certificates or other documents regarding fair
value of the Collateral. Any certificate or opinion required by TIA ss. 314(d)
may be made by an Officer of or an engineer, appraiser or other expert employed
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities, as applicable, to the
extent permitted by TIA ss. 314(d).
SECTION 10.07. Authorization of Actions To Be Taken by the Trustee
Under the Security Documents. The Trustee may, in its sole discretion and
without the consent of the Securityholders, on behalf of the Securityholders,
take all actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to (a) enforce any
of the terms of the Security Documents and (b) collect and receive any and all
amounts payable in respect of the Obligations of the Company and the Guarantors
hereunder. The Trustee shall have the power to institute and to maintain such
suits and proceedings (subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement) as
it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral by any acts
that may be unlawful or in violation of the Security Documents or this
Indenture, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may deem expedient to
preserve or protect its interest and the interests of the Securityholders in the
Collateral (including power to institute and maintain suits or proceedings to
restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative or other
governmental enactment, rule or order that may be unconstitutional or otherwise
invalid if the enforcement of, or compliance with, such enactment, rule or order
would impair the security interest hereunder or be prejudicial to the interests
of the Securityholders or of the Trustee).
SECTION 10.08. Authorization of Receipt of Funds by the Trustee
Under the Collateral Documents. The Trustee is authorized to receive any funds
for the benefit of the Securityholders distributed under the Security Documents,
and to make further distributions of such funds to the Securityholders according
to the provisions of this Indenture and the Security Documents.
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ARTICLE 11
RIGHT TO REQUIRE REPURCHASE
SECTION 11.01. Repurchase of Securities at Option of the Holder upon
a Change of Control. (a) In the event that a Change of Control occurs, unless
the Company has elected to redeem all of the Securities upon the occurrence of a
Change of Control as set forth in Article 3, each Holder will have the right, at
such Holder's option, to require the Company to repurchase all or any part of
such Holder's Securities (provided that the principal amount of such securities
at stated maturity must be $1,000 or an integral multiple thereof) pursuant to
an unconditional, irrevocable offer by the Company (the "Change of Control
Offer") on a date that is no later than 45 Business Days after the occurrence of
such Change of Control (the "Change of Control Purchase Date"), at a cash price
(the "Change of Control Purchase Price") equal to 101% of the aggregate
principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest, if any, to and
including the Change of Control Purchase Date.
(b) In the event that pursuant to this Section 11.01 the Company
shall be required to commence a Change of Control Offer, the Company shall
follow the procedures set forth in this Section 11.01 as follows:
(1) the Change of Control Offer shall commence within 20 Business
Days following the Change of Control date;
(2) the Change of Control Offer shall remain open for 20 Business
Days, except to the extent that a longer period is required by applicable
law (the "Change of Control Offer Period");
(3) upon the expiration of a Change of Control Offer Period, the
Company shall purchase all of the properly tendered and not properly
withdrawn Securities in response to the Change of Control Offer;
(4) the Company shall provide the Trustee with notice of the Change
of Control Offer at least five Business Days before the commencement of
any Change of Control Offer; and
(5) on or before the commencement of any Change of Control Offer,
the Company or the Trustee (upon the request and at the expense of the
Company) shall send, by first-class mail, a notice to each of the
Securityholders, which (to the extent consistent with this Indenture)
shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer and shall state:
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(i) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to
such notice and this Section 11.01 and that all Securities, or
portions thereof, tendered will be accepted for payment;
(ii) the Change of Control Purchase Price (including the
amount of accrued and unpaid interest), the Change of Control
Purchase Date and the Change of Control Put Date (as defined below);
(iii) that any Security, or portion thereof, not tendered or
accepted for payment will continue to accrue interest;
(iv) that, unless the Company defaults in depositing cash with
the Paying Agent in accordance with the last paragraph of this
clause (b) or such payment is prevented, any Security, or portion
thereof, accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control
Offer shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control
Purchase Date;
(v) that Holders electing to have a Security, or portion
thereof, purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer will be
required to surrender the Security, with the form entitled "Option
of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Security
completed, to the Paying Agent (which may not for purposes of this
Section 11.01, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to the
contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company) at the
address specified in the notice prior to the close of business on
the earlier of (a) the third Business Day prior to the Change of
Control Purchase Date and (b) the third Business Day following the
expiration of the Change of Control Offer (such earlier date being
the "Change of Control Put Date");
(vi) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election,
in whole or in part, if the Paying Agent (which may not for purposes
of this Section 11.01, notwithstanding anything in this Indenture to
the contrary, be the Company or any Affiliate of the Company)
receives, up to the close of business on the Change of Control Put
Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting
forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the Securities
the Holder is withdrawing and a statement that such Holder is
withdrawing his election to have such principal amount of Securities
purchased; and
(vii) a brief description of the events resulting in such
Change of Control.
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Any such Change of Control Offer shall comply with all applicable
provisions of Federal and state securities laws, rules and regulations,
including those regulating tender offers, if applicable, and any provisions of
this Indenture which conflict with such laws shall be deemed to be superseded by
the provisions of such laws.
On or before the Change of Control Purchase Date, the Company will
(i) accept for payment Securities or portions thereof properly tendered and not
properly withdrawn pursuant to the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with
the Paying Agent cash sufficient to pay the Change of Control Purchase Price
(including accrued and unpaid interest) for all Securities or portions thereof
so tendered and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Securities so accepted together
with an Officers' Certificate listing the Securities or portions thereof being
purchased by the Company. The Paying Agent will on the Change of Control
Purchase Date promptly deliver to Holders of Securities so accepted payment in
an amount equal to the Change of Control Purchase Price for such Securities,
together with any accrued but unpaid interest, and the Trustee shall promptly
authenticate and mail or deliver to such Holders a new Security equal in
principal amount to any unpurchased portion of the Security surrendered. Any
Securities not so accepted shall be promptly mailed or delivered by the Company
to the Holder thereof. The Company will announce publicly the results of the
Change of Control Offer on or as soon as practicable after the Change of Control
Purchase Date.
ARTICLE 12
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 12.01. Guarantee. (a) Each Guarantor, jointly and severally,
irrevocably and unconditionally, guarantees, as a primary obligor and not as a
surety, to each Holder of a Security now or hereafter authenticated and
delivered by the Trustee and to the Trustee and its successors and assigns,
irrespective of the validity and enforceability of this Indenture, the
Securities or the obligations of the Company hereunder or thereunder, (i) the
due and punctual payment of the principal, premium, if any, interest (including
post-petition interest in any proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law whether or not
an allowed claim in such proceeding) on overdue principal, premium, if any, and
interest, if lawful on such Security, and (ii) all other monetary Obligations
payable by the Company under this Indenture (including under Section 7.07
hereof) and the Securities (all of the foregoing being hereinafter collectively
called the "Guarantees"), when and as the same shall become due and payable,
whether by acceleration thereof, call for redemption or otherwise (including
amounts that would become due but for the operation of the automatic stay under
Section 362(a) of the Bankruptcy Code), in accordance with the terms of any such
Security
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and of this Indenture, subject, however, in the case of (i) and (ii) above, to
the limitations set forth in Section 9.04 hereof. The Guarantees will rank pari
passu with all other senior indebtedness of each Guarantor and senior in right
of payment to all subordinated indebtedness of each Guarantor. Each Guarantor
hereby agrees that its Obligations hereunder shall be absolute and
unconditional, irrespective of, and shall be unaffected by, any failure to
enforce the provisions of any such Security or this Indenture, any waiver,
modification or indulgence granted to the Company with respect thereto, the
recovery of any judgment against the Company, any action to enforce the same, by
the Securityholders or the Trustee, the recovery of any judgment against the
Company, any action to enforce the same, or any other circumstances which may
otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a surety or guarantor.
Each Guarantor hereby waives diligence, presentment, filing of claims with a
court in the event of a merger or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to
require a proceeding first against the Company, the benefit of discussion,
protest or notice with respect to any such Security or the Indebtedness
evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that its Guarantee
shall not be discharged as to any such Security except by payment in full of the
principal thereof, premium, if any, and all accrued interest thereon.
(b) Each Guarantor further agrees that its Guarantee herein
constitutes a guarantee of payment, performance and compliance when due (and not
a guarantee of collection) and waives any right to require that any resort be
had by any Securityholder or the Trustee to any security held for payment of the
Guarantees.
(c) Each Guarantor agrees that it shall not be entitled to, and
hereby irrevocably waives, any right of subrogation in relation to the
Securityholders or the Trustee in respect of any Guarantee. Each Guarantor
further agrees that, as between such Guarantor, on the one hand, and the
Securityholders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (x) the maturity of the
Guarantee may be accelerated as provided in Article 6 for the purposes of such
Guarantor's Guarantee herein, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other
prohibition preventing such acceleration in respect of the Guarantees, and (y)
in the event of any Declaration of Acceleration of such Guarantees as provided
in Article 6 hereof, such Guarantees (whether or not due and payable) shall
forthwith become due and payable by such Guarantor for the purpose of this
Article 12.
(d) Each Guarantor also agrees to pay any and all costs and expenses
(including reasonable attorneys' fees) incurred by the Trustee or any
Securityholder in enforcing any rights under this Article 12.
(e) Each Guarantor also agrees that, as the Securities, the
Guarantees will be secured pursuant to Article 10.
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(f) Each Guarantor agrees to become a party to the Collateral
Documents whereby the Guarantees will be secured in the manner set forth in such
Security Documents.
(g) The Guarantee set forth in this Article 12 shall not be valid or
become obligatory for any purpose with respect to a Security until the
certificate of authentication on such Security shall have been signed by or on
behalf of the Trustee.
SECTION 12.02. Execution and Delivery of Guarantee. (a) To evidence
each Guarantor's Guarantee set forth in this Article 12, each Guarantor hereby
agrees that a notation of such Guarantee (the form of which is attached hereto
as Exhibit B) shall be attached to each Security authenticated and delivered by
the Trustee.
(b) This Indenture shall be executed on behalf of each Guarantor,
and an Officer of each Guarantor shall sign the notation of the Guarantee on the
Security, by manual or facsimile signature. If an Officer whose signature is on
this Indenture or the notation of Guarantee no longer holds that office at the
time the Trustee authenticates the Security on which the Guarantee is endorsed,
the Guarantee shall be valid nevertheless. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that the
Guarantee set forth in Section 12.01 hereof shall remain in full force and
effect notwithstanding any failure to endorse on each Security a notation of the
Guarantee.
(c) The delivery of any Security by the Trustee, after the
authentication thereof hereunder, shall constitute due delivery of the Guarantee
set forth in this Indenture on behalf of each Guarantor.
SECTION 12.03. Guarantee Unconditional, Etc. Upon failure of payment
when due of any Guarantee for whatever reason, each Guarantor will be obligated
to pay the same immediately. Each Guarantor hereby agrees that its obligations
hereunder shall be continuing, absolute and unconditional, irrespective of: the
recovery of any judgment against the Company or any Guarantor; any extension,
renewal, settlement, compromise, waiver or release in respect of any obligation
of the Company under this Indenture or any Security, by operation of law or
otherwise; any modification or amendment of or supplement to this Indenture or
any Security; any change in the corporate existence, structure or ownership of
the company, or any insolvency, bankruptcy, reorganization or other similar
proceeding affecting the Company or its assets or any resulting release or
discharge of any obligation of the Company contained in this Indenture or any
Security; the existence or any claim, set-off or other rights which any
Guarantor may have at any time against the Company, the Trustee, any
Securityholder or any other Person, whether in connection herewith or any
unrelated transactions; provided, that nothing herein shall prevent the
assertion of any such claim by separate suit or compulsory counterclaim; any
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invalidity or unenforceability relating to or against the Company for any reason
of this Indenture or any Security, or any provision of applicable law or
regulation purporting to prohibit the payment by the Company of the principal,
premium, if any, or interest on any Security or any other Guarantee; or any
other act or omission to act or delay of any kind by the Company, the Trustee,
any Securityholder or any other Person or any other circumstance whatsoever
which might, but for the provisions of this paragraph, constitute a legal or
equitable discharge of the Guarantors' obligations hereunder. Each Guarantor
hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a
court in the event of insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to
require a proceeding first against the Company, protest, notice and all demand
whatsoever and covenants that this Guarantee will not be discharge except by the
complete performance of the obligations contained in the Securities, this
Indenture and in this Article 12. Each Guarantor's obligations hereunder shall
remain in full force and effect until this Indenture shall have terminated and
the principal of and interest on the Securities and all other Guarantees shall
have been paid in full. If at any time any payment of the principal of or
interest on any Security or any other payment in respect of any Guarantee is
rescinded or must be otherwise restored or returned upon the insolvency,
bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise, each Guarantor's
obligations hereunder with respect to such payment shall be reinstated as though
such payment had been due but not made at such time, and this Article 12, to the
extent theretofore discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect.
Each Guarantor irrevocably waives any and all rights to which it may be
entitled, by operation of the law or otherwise, upon making any payment
hereunder to be subrogated to the rights of the payee against the Company with
respect to such payment or otherwise to be reimbursed, indemnified or exonerated
by the Company in respect thereof.
SECTION 12.04. Limitation of Guarantor's Liability. Each Guarantor,
and by its acceptance of a Security, each Securityholder, hereby confirms that
it is the intention of all such parties that the guarantee by such Guarantor
pursuant to its Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for
purposes of the Bankruptcy Law, Federal and state fraudulent conveyance laws or
other legal principles. To effectuate the foregoing intention, the
Securityholders and each Guarantor hereby irrevocably agree that the obligations
of such Guarantor under the Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as
will, after giving effect to all other contingent and fixed liabilities of such
Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections from or payments made by or
on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the obligations of such other
Guarantor under this Guarantee or pursuant to Section 12.05 hereof, result in
the obligations of such Guarantor under the Guarantee not constituting such
fraudulent transfer or conveyance under federal or state law.
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SECTION 12.05. Contribution. In order to provide for just and
equitable contribution amount the Guarantors, the Guarantors agree, inter se,
that in the event any payment or distribution is made by a Guarantor (a "Funding
Guarantor") under the Guarantee, such Funding Guarantor shall be entitled to a
contribution from all other Guarantors in a pro rata amount based on the
Adjusted Net Assets of each Guarantor (including the Funding Guarantor) for all
payments, damages and expenses incurred by that Funding Guarantor in discharging
the Company's obligations with respect to the Securities or any other
Guarantor's obligations with respect to the Guarantees.
SECTION 12.06. Release. Upon the sale, exchange or other transfer of
all of the outstanding Capital Stock, or all or substantially all of the assets,
of a Guarantor owned by the Company or by any other Restricted Subsidiary (other
than a Non-Recourse Restricted Subsidiary) to a Person that is not an Affiliate
of the Company, which is otherwise in compliance with this Indenture, the
Guarantee of such Guarantor shall be automatically and unconditionally released
and discharged without any further action required on the part of the Trustee or
any Securityholder. The Trustee shall execute an appropriate instrument prepared
by the Company evidencing such release upon receipt of a request by the Company
accompanied by an Officers' Certificate certifying as to the compliance with
this Section 12.06. Any Guarantor not so released remains liable for the full
amount of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities as provided
in this Article 12.
SECTION 12.07. Additional Guarantors. Any Person that was not a
Guarantor on the date of this Indenture may become a Guarantor by executing and
delivering to the Trustee (a) a supplemental indenture in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee, which subjects such Person to the provisions of
this Indenture as a Guarantor and (b) an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that
such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized and executed by such Person
and constitutes the legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligation of such
Person (subject to such customary exceptions concerning creditors' rights and
equitable principles as may be acceptable to the Trustee in its discretion). The
Guarantee of each Person described in this Section 12.07 shall apply to all
Securities theretofore executed and delivered, notwithstanding any failure of
such Securities to contain a notation of such Guarantee thereon.
SECTION 12.08. Successors and Assigns. This Article 12 shall be
binding upon each Guarantor and its successors and assigns and shall inure to
the benefit of the successors and assigns of the Trustee and the Securityholders
and, in the event of any transfer or assignment of rights by any Securityholder
or the Trustee, the rights and privileges conferred upon that party in this
Indenture and in the Securities shall automatically extend to and be vested in
such transferee or assignee, all subject to the terms and conditions of this
Indenture.
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SECTION 12.09. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws. Each
Guarantor covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will not
at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take the
benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any usury law or other law
that would prohibit or forgive each such Guarantor from performing its Guarantee
as contemplated herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force,
or which may affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and (to
the extent that it may lawfully do so) each Guarantor hereby expressly waives
all benefit or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder,
delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but
will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law
had been enacted.
SECTION 12.10. No Personal Liability of Partners, Stockholders,
Officers, Directors. No direct or indirect stockholder, partner, employee,
officer or director, as such, past, present or future of any Guarantor or any
successor entity shall have any personal liability in respect of the obligations
of any Guarantor or any successor entity under this Agreement by reason of his
or its status as such stockholder, partner, employee, officer or director.
ARTICLE 13
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 13.01. TIA Controls. If any provision of this Indenture
limits, qualifies, or conflicts with the duties imposed by operation of the TIA,
the imposed duties, upon qualification of this Indenture under the TIA, shall
control.
SECTION 13.02. Notices. Any notices or other communications to the
Company or the Trustee required or permitted hereunder shall be in writing, and
shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery, by telex, by telecopier or
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested,
addressed as follows:
if to the Company:
Price Communications Wireless, Inc.
00 Xxxxxxxxxxx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
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if to the Trustee:
Bank of Montreal Trust Company
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
Telecopy: (000) 000-0000
Any party by notice to each other party may designate additional or
different addresses as shall be furnished in writing by such party. Any notice
or communication to any party shall be deemed to have been given or made as of
the date so delivered, if personally delivered; when answered back, if telexed;
when receipt is acknowledged, if telecopied; and five Business Days after
mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage prepaid (except that a
notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have been given until
actually received by the addressee).
Any notice or communication mailed to a Securityholder shall be
mailed to him by first class mail or other equivalent means at his address as it
appears on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently
given to him if so mailed within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Securityholder or any
defect in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other
Securityholders. If a notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided
above, it is duly given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
SECTION 13.03. Communications by Holders with Other Holders.
Securityholders may communicate pursuant to TIA ss. 312(b) with other
Securityholders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the
Securities. The Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall
have the protection of TIA ss. 312(c).
SECTION 13.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take any action
under this Indenture, such Person shall furnish to the Trustee:
(1) an Officers' Certificate (in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee) stating that, in the opinion of the signers,
all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating
to the proposed action have been complied with; and
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(2) an opinion of Counsel (in form and substance reasonably
Satisfactory to the Trustee) stating that, in the opinion of such counsel,
all such conditions precedent have been complied with.
SECTION 13.05. Statements Required in Certificate or Opinion. Each
certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture shall include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition;
(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 such Person, he has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express
an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has
been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of each such
Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with; provided,
however, that with respect to matters of fact an Opinion of Counsel may
rely on an Officers' Certificate or certificates of public officials.
SECTION 13.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar. The
Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by or at a meeting of
Securityholders. The Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its
functions.
SECTION 13.07. Legal Holidays. If a payment date is a Legal Holiday
at such place, payment may be made at such place on the next succeeding day that
is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.
SECTION 13.08. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES
SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF
NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS MADE AND PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW
YORK. THE COMPANY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF ANY NEW YORK
STATE COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK OR ANY
FEDERAL COURT SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK IN
RESPECT OF ANY SUIT, ACTION
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OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES,
AND IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND
UNCONDITIONALLY, JURISDICTION OF THE AFORESAID COURTS. THE COMPANY IRREVOCABLY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT IT MAY EFFECTIVELY DO SO UNDER APPLICABLE LAW, ANY
OBJECTION WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF THE VENUE OF ANY
SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT AND ANY CLAIM THAT ANY
SUCH SUIT, ACTION OR PROCEEDING BROUGHT IN ANY SUCH COURT HAS BEEN BROUGHT IN AN
INCONVENIENT FORUM. NOTHING HEREIN SHALL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF THE TRUSTEE OR ANY
SECURITYHOLDER TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY LAW OR TO
COMMENCE LEGAL PROCEEDINGS OR OTHERWISE PROCEED AGAINST THE COMPANY IN ANY OTHER
JURISDICTION.
SECTION 13.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other Agreements. This
Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan or debt agreement
of the Company or any of its respective Subsidiaries. Any such indenture, loan
or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 13.10. No Recourse Against Others. No direct or indirect
employee, stockholder, director or officer, as such, past, present or future of
the Company, or any successor entity, shall have any personal liability in
respect of the obligations of the Company under the Securities or this indenture
by reason of his or its status as such stockholder, employee director or
officer. Each Securityholder by accepting a Security waives and releases all
such liability. Such waiver an release are part of he consideration for the
issuance of the Securities.
SECTION 13.11. Successors. All agreements of the Company in this
Indenture and the Securities shall bind its successor. All agreements of the
Trustee in this Indenture shall bind its successor.
SECTION 13.12. Duplicate Originals. All parties may sign any number
of copies or counterparts of this Indenture. Each signed copy or counterpart
shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the same
agreement.
SECTION 13.13. Severability. In case any one or more of the
provisions in this Indenture or in the Securities shall be held invalid, illegal
or unenforceable, in any respect for any reason, the validity, legality and
enforceability of any such provision in every other respect and of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or
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impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions hereof shall be
enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.
SECTION 13.14. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc. The Table of
Contents, Cross-Reference Table and headings of the Articles and the Sections of
this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not to
be considered a part hereof and shall in no way modify or restrict any of the
terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 13.15. Qualification of Indenture. The Company shall qualify
this Indenture under the TIA in accordance with the terms and conditions of the
Registration Rights Agreement and shall pay all costs and expenses (including
attorneys' fees for the Company and the Trustee) incurred in connection
therewith, including, but not limited to, costs and expenses of qualification of
the Indenture and the Securities and printing this Indenture and the Securities.
The Trustee shall be entitled to receive from the Company any such Officers'
Certificates, Opinions of Counsel or other documentation as it may reasonably
request in connection with any such qualification of this Indenture under the
TIA.
SECTION 13.16. Registration Rights. Certain Holders of the
Securities are entitled to certain registration rights with respect to such
Securities pursuant to, and subject to the terms of, the Registration Rights
Agreement.
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SIGNATURES
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed as of the date first written above.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS,
INC., a Delaware corporation
By:
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Name:
Title:
ALBANY CELLULAR PARTNERS
By: Xxxxxx Wireless Holdings, Inc.,
its managing partner
By:
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Name:
Title:
COLUMBUS CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY
By: Xxxxxx Wireless Holdings, Inc.,
its managing partner
By:
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Name:
Title:
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MACON CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS
LIMITED PARTNERSHIP
By: CEI Communications, Inc., its
general partner
By:
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Name:
Title:
SAVANNAH CELLULAR LIMITED
PARTNERSHIP
By: Xxxxxx Wireless Holdings, Inc.,
its general partner
By:
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Name:
Title:
PANAMA CITY CELLULAR TELEPHONE
COMPANY, LTD.
By: Panama City Communications, Inc.,
its general partner
By:
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Name:
Title:
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PANHANDLE CELLULAR PARTNERSHIP
By: Xxxxxx Wireless Holdings, Inc.,
its managing partner
By:
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Name:
Title:
XXXXXX WIRELESS HOLDINGS, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS II, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS III, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS IV, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS V, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS VI, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS VII, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS VIII, INC.
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS IX, INC.
CEI COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
CELLULAR DYNAMICS TELEPHONE COMPANY
CELLULAR SYSTEMS OF SOUTHEAST ALABAMA, INC.
DOTHAN CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
MONTGOMERY CELLULAR HOLDING CO., INC.
MONTGOMERY CELLULAR TELEPHONE COMPANY, INC.
PANAMA CITY COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
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Accepted and agreed to as of the date first above written:
NATWEST CAPITAL MARKETS LIMITED, on
behalf of and as Representative of
the Purchasers
By:
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Name:
Title:
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BANK OF MONTREAL TRUST
COMPANY, Trustee
By:
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Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT A
{FORM OF SECURITY}
9-1/8% SERIES {A/B} SENIOR SECURED NOTE DUE 2006
No.
CUSIP No.
Price Communications Wireless, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(hereinafter called the "Company," which term includes any successors under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), for value received, hereby promises to pay
to CEDE & CO., or registered assigns, the principal sum of $_________ Dollars,
on December 15, 2006.
Interest Payment Dates: December 15 and June 15 of each year;
commencing December 15, 1998.
Record Dates: December 1 and June 1.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security on the
reverse side, which will, for all purposes, have the same effect as if set forth
at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Instrument to be
duly executed.
Dated:
PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS,
INC., a Delaware corporation
By: _____________________________________
Name:
Title:
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{FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION}
This is one of the Securities described in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
Bank of Montreal Trust Company,
as Trustee
By:______________________________
Authorized Signatory
Dated:
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PRICE COMMUNICATIONS WIRELESS, INC.
9-1/8% Series {A/B} Senior Secured Note due 2006
Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities
in definitive form, this Security may not be transferred except as a whole by
the Depository to a nominee of the Depository or by a nominee of the Depository
to the Depository or another nominee of the Depository or by the Depository or
any such nominee to a successor Depository or a nominee of such successor
Depository. Unless this certificate is presented by an authorized representative
of The Depository Trust Company, a New York corporation, ("DTC"), 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 in such other name
as is requested by an authorized representative of DTC (and any payment is made
to Cede & Co. or to such other entity as is requested by an authorized
representative of DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein.(1)
THIS NOTE HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED OR
SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR BENEFIT OF, UNITED
STATES PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE. BY ITS ACQUISITION
HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR (B) IT IS AN
INSTITUTIONAL "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR
(7) OF REGULATION D UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN "INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED
INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS NOTE IN AN
OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT,
(2) AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT, WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD REFERRED TO IN RULE 144(k)
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AS IN EFFECT ON THE DATE OF THE TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE
WITH RESPECT TO SUCH TRANSFER, RESALE OR OTHERWISE, TRANSFER THIS NOTE EXCEPT
(A) TO THE COMPANY OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES
ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO AN INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITED INVESTOR THAT
PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISHES TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED LETTER CONTAINING
CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS
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(1) This paragraph should only be added if the Security is issued in global
form.
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RELATING TO THE RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER
CAN BE OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE) AND IF SUCH TRANSFER IS IN RESPECT OF AN
AGGREGATE PRINCIPAL AMOUNT OF NOTES AT THE TIME OF TRANSFER OF LESS THAN
$250,000, AN OPINION OF COUNSEL ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES IN AN
OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (E)
PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED BY RULE 144 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE) OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION
STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES THAT IT WILL DELIVER TO EACH
PERSON TO WHOM THIS NOTE IS TRANSFERRED A NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF
THIS LEGEND. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE WITHIN THE TIME PERIOD
REFERRED TO ABOVE, THE HOLDER MUST CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX SET FORTH ON THE
REVERSE HEREOF RELATING TO THE MANNER OF SUCH TRANSFER AND SUBMIT THIS
CERTIFICATE TO THE TRUSTEE. IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN INSTITUTIONAL
ACCREDITED INVESTOR PURCHASING PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (2)(C) ABOVE, THE HOLDER MUST,
PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE COMPANY SUCH
CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER OF THEM MAY
REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE PURSUANT TO AN
EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS "OFFSHORE
TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "UNITED STATES PERSON" HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN
TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT. THE INDENTURE CONTAINS A
PROVISION REQUIRING THE TRUSTEE TO REFUSE TO REGISTER ANY TRANSFER OF THIS NOTE
IN VIOLATION OF THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS
1. Interest.
Price Communications Wireless, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(hereinafter called the "Company," which term includes any successors under the
Indenture hereinafter referred to), promises to pay interest on the principal
amount of this Security at the rate and in the manner specified below. Interest
will accrue at 9-1/8% per annum and will be payable semi-annually in cash on
each December 15 and June 15, commencing December 15, 1998, or if any such day
is not a Business Day on the next succeeding Business Day (each an "Interest
Payment Date") to Holders of record of the Securities at the close of business
on the immediately preceding December 1 or June 1, whether or not a Business
Day. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30-day months. Interest shall accrue from the most recent date to which
interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from the date of
issuance. To the extent lawful, the Company shall pay interest on overdue
principal at the rate of the then applicable interest rate on the Securities; it
shall pay interest on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any
applicable grace periods) at the same rate to the extent lawful.
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2. Method of Payment.
The Company shall pay interest on the Securities (except defaulted
interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business
on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date. Holders must
surrender Securities to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. Except as
provided below, the Company shall pay principal and interest in such coin or
currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment shall be
legal tender for payment of public and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender").
However, the Company may pay principal and interest by wire transfer of Federal
funds, or interest by its check payable in such U.S. Legal Tender. The Company
may deliver any such interest payment to the Paying Agent or the Company may
mail any such interest payment to a Holder at the Holder's registered address.
3. Paying Agent and Registrar.
Initially, Bank of Montreal Trust Company (the "Trustee") will act
as Paying Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent,
Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to Note Holders. The Company or any of
its Subsidiaries may, subject to certain exceptions, act as Paying Agent,
Registrar or co-Registrar.
4. Indenture.
The Company issued the Securities under an Indenture, dated as of
June 16, 1998 (the "Indenture"), between the Company, the Guarantors and the
Trustee. Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Securities include those stated in
the Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act, as in effect on the date of the Indenture. The Securities are
subject to all such terms, and Holders of Securities are referred to the
Indenture and said Act for a statement of them. The Securities are secured
obligations of the Company limited in aggregate principal amount to
$1,000,000,000.
5. Redemption.
(a) Except as set forth below, the Company will not have the right
to redeem any Securities prior to June 15, 2002. On or after June 15, 2002, the
Company will have the right to redeem all or any part of the Securities in cash
at the redemption prices (expressed as a percentage of the aggregate principal
amount thereof) set forth below, in each case including accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the applicable Redemption Date (subject to the right of
Holders of record on the relevant regular Record Date to receive interest due on
an Interest Payment Date that is on or prior to the Redemption Date) if redeemed
during the 12-month period beginning June 15 of the years indicated below:
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Year Redemption Price
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2002 104.56250%
2003 102.28125%
2004 and thereafter 100.00000%
Notwithstanding the optional redemption provisions described in the
preceding paragraph (a), prior to June 15, 2002, in the event that the Company
or any Parent consummates one or more Equity Offerings, other than in an
circumstances resulting in, or as part of a series of transactions resulting in,
directly or indirectly, a Change of Control, on or before the third anniversary
of the date of the issuance of the Securities, the Company may at its option,
use all or a portion of the cash received by it or contributed to it from such
offerings to redeem up to 35% of the originally issued aggregate principal
amount of the Securities at a cash redemption price equal to 109.125% of the
principal amount of the Securities so redeemed, plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon, if any, to the Redemption Date; provided that (x) at least 65% of the
original aggregate principal amount of the Notes remains outstanding thereafter
(excluding any Securities owned by the Company or any of its Affiliates), and
(y) any such net cash proceeds of such Equity Offering by any Parent to be used
for such a redemption shall be contributed to the Company in an amount in cash
sufficient to redeem the Securities to be redeemed at the then current
redemption price. Notice of any such redemption must be given within 60 days
after the date of the last Equity Offering the proceeds of which are to be so
contributed.
In the case of a partial redemption, the Trustee shall select the
Securities or portions thereof for redemption on a pro rata basis or in such
other manner as it deems appropriate and fair. The Securities may be redeemed in
part in multiples of $1,000 only.
The Securities will not have the benefit of a sinking fund.
Any such redemption will comply with Article 3 of the Indenture.
(b) In addition, notwithstanding the optional redemption provisions
described above, at any time on or prior to June 15, 2002, the Securities may
also be redeemed as a whole at the option of the Company upon the occurrence of
a Change of Control (but in no event more than 90 days after the occurrence of
such Change of Control) at a redemption price equal to 100% of the principal
amount thereof, plus the Applicable Premium as of, and accrued but unpaid
interest, if any, to, the Redemption Date (subject to the right of Holders of
record on the relevant record date to receive interest due on the relevant
interest payment date).
6. Notice of Redemption.
Notice of redemption will be sent by first class mail, at least 30
days and not more than 60 days prior to a Redemption Date, to the Holder of each
Security to be re-
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deemed at such Holder's last address as then shown upon the registry books of
the Registrar.
Any notice which relates to a Security to be redeemed in part only
must state the portion of the principal amount to be redeemed and must state
that on and after the date fixed for redemption, upon surrender of such
Security, a new Security or Securities in a principal amount equal to the
unredeemed portion thereof will be issued. On and after the date fixed for
redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the portions of the Securities
called for redemption.
7. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange.
The Securities are in registered form, without coupons, in
denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of $1,000. A Holder may register
the transfer of, or exchange Securities in accordance with, the Indenture. The
Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate
endorsements and transfer documents and to pay any taxes and fees required by
law or permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer
of or exchange any Securities selected for redemption prior to 15 days after the
notice of redemption.
8. Persons Deemed Owners.
The registered Holder of a Security may be treated as the owner of
it for all purposes.
9. Unclaimed Money.
If money for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed
for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent(s) will pay the money back to
the Company at its written request. After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent(s) with respect to such money shall cease.
10. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if the Company irrevocably
deposits with the Trustee, in trust, for the benefit of the Holders, cash, U.S.
Legal Tender Equivalents, U.S. Government Obligations or a combination thereof,
in such amounts as will be sufficient in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants selected by the Trustee, to pay the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on the Securities to redemption or
maturity and comply with the other provisions of the Indenture relating thereto,
the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture and the
Securities (including the financial covenants, but excluding their obligation to
pay the principal of and interest on the Securities). Upon satisfaction of
certain additional condi-
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tions set forth in the Indenture, the Company may elect to have its obligations
discharged with respect to outstanding Securities.
11. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver.
Subject to certain exceptions, the Indenture or the Securities may
be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders of at least a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding, and
any existing Default or Event of Default or compliance with any provision may be
waived with the consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities then outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any
Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture or the
Securities to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency,
or make any other change that does not adversely affect the rights of any Holder
of a Security.
12. Restrictive Covenants.
The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other things, incur additional
Indebtedness, pay dividends or make certain other restricted payments, enter
into certain transactions with Affiliates, incur Liens, sell assets, merge or
consolidate with any other Person or transfer (by lease, assignment or
otherwise) substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company. The
limitations are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions.
The Company must periodically report to the Trustee on compliance with such
limitations.
13. Ranking.
Payment of principal, premium, if any, and interest on the
Securities is (i) senior in the right of payment to all subordinated
Indebtedness of the Company and (ii) effectively senior in right of payment to
all unsecured Indebtedness of the Company to the extent of the value of the
Collateral (as defined in the Indenture) available for payment of the
Securities.
14. Repurchase at Option of Holder.
(a) If there is a Change of Control, unless the Company has elected
to redeem all of the Securities as set forth under Section 3.01(b) of the
Indenture, the Company shall be required to offer to purchase on the Change of
Control Payment Date all outstanding Securities at a purchase price equal to
101% of the aggregate principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid
interest, if any, to the Change of Control Payment Date. Holders of Securities
will receive a Change of Control Offer from the Company prior to any related
Change of Control Payment Date and may elect to have such Securities purchased
by completing the form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" appearing
below.
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(b) The Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to sell assets. In the event the
proceeds from a permitted Asset Sale exceed certain amounts, as specified in the
Indenture, the Company will be required either to reinvest the proceeds of such
Asset Sale as described in the Indenture or to make an offer to purchase each
Holder's Securities at 100% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued
interest, if any, to the purchase date.
15. Successors.
When a successor assumes all the obligations of its predecessor
under the Securities and the Indenture, the predecessor will be released from
those obligations.
16. Defaults and Remedies.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than as Event
of Default relating to certain events of bankruptcy, insolvency or
reorganization), then in every such case, unless the principal of all of the
Securities shall have already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the
Holders of 25% in aggregate principal amount of Securities then outstanding may
declare all the Securities to be due and payable immediately in the manner and
with the effect provided in the Indenture. The Holders of Securities may not
enforce the Indenture or the Securities except as provided in the Indenture. The
Trustee may require indemnity satisfactory to it before it enforces the
Indenture or the Securities. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then outstanding may
direct the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may
withhold from Holders of Securities notice of any continuing Default or Event of
Default (except a Default in payment of principal or interest), if it determines
that withholding notice is in their interest.
17. Trustee Dealings with Company.
The Trustee under the Indenture, in its individual or any other
capacity, may make loans to, accept deposits from, and perform services for the
Company or its Affiliates, and may otherwise deal with the Company or its
Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
18. No Recourse Against Others.
No stockholder, director, officer or employee, as such, past,
present or future, of the Company or any successor corporation shall have any
personal liability in respect of the obligations of the Company under the
securities or the Indenture by reason of his or its status as such stockholder,
director, officer or employee. Each Holder of a Security by accepting a Security
waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the
consideration for the issuance of the Securities.
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19. Authentication.
This Security shall not be valid until the Trustee or authenticating
agent signs the certificate of authentication on the other side of this
Security.
20. Abbreviations and Defined Terms.
Customary abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder of a
Security or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (= tenants in common), TEN ENT (=
tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint tenants with right of survivorship
and not as tenants in common), CUST (= Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts
to Minors Act).
21. CUSIP Numbers.
Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform
Security Identification Procedures, the Company will cause CUSIP numbers to be
printed on the Securities as a convenience to the Holders of the Securities. No
representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed on the
Securities and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
22. Additional Rights of Holders of Transfer Restricted Securities.
In addition to the rights provided to Holders of Securities under
the Indenture, Holders of Securities shall have all the rights set forth in the
Registration Rights Agreement.
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{FORM OF} ASSIGNMENT
I or we assign this Security to
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Print or type name, address and zip code of assignee)
Please insert Social Security or other identifying number of assignee
________________________________________________________________________________
and irrevocably appoint _________ agent to transfer this Security on the books
of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him.
Date: _______________ Signed:_______________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Sign exactly as name appears on the other side of this Security)
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OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If you want to elect to have this Security purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.15 or Article 11 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
{_} Section 4.15 {_} Article 11
If you want to elect to have only part of this Security purchased by
the Company pursuant to Section 4.15 or Article 11 of the Indenture, as the case
may be, state the principal amount you want to be purchased: $_____________
Date:_________________ Signature:___________________________________
(Sign exactly as your name appears
on the other side of this security)
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SCHEDULE OF EXCHANGES OF DEFINITIVE SECURITIES(2)
The following exchanges of a part of this Global Security for
Definitive Securities have been made:
Amount of
increase
Amount of in Principal Amount Signature of
decrease in Principal of this Global authorized
Principal Amount of Security officer of
Amount of this following such Trustee or
Date of this Global Global decrease (or Securities
Exchange Security Security increase) Custodian
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(2) This schedule should only be added if the Security is issued in global
form.
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CERTIFICATE TO BE DELIVERED UPON EXCHANGE OR
REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER OF SECURITIES(3)
Re: 9-1/8% SERIES A SENIOR SECURED NOTES DUE 2006 OF PRICE COMMUNICATIONS
WIRELESS, INC.
This Certificate relates to $ principal amount of Securities held in
4__________ book-entry or(4) __________ definitive form by (the "Transferor").
1. The Transferor:*
{_} (a) has requested the Trustee by written order to deliver in exchange or its
beneficial interest in the Global Security held by the Depository a Security or
Securities in definitive, registered form of authorized denominations and an
aggregate principal amount equal to its beneficial interest in such Global
Security (or the portion thereof indicated above); or
{_} (b) has requested the Trustee by written order to exchange or register the
transfer of a Security or Securities.
2. In connection with any such request prior to the date which is
two years after the later of the issuance of this Security (or any predecessor
Security) and the sale hereof by an Affiliate (as defined in Rule 144 under the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act")) of the Company
(computed in accordance with paragraph (d) of Rule 144 under the Securities Act)
or by a Transferor that was at the date of such transfer or during the three
months preceding such date of transfer an Affiliate of the Company, and in
respect of each such Security, the Transferor does hereby certify that
Transferor is familiar with the Indenture relating to the above-captioned
Securities and as provided in Section 2.06 of such Indenture, the transfer of
this Security does not require registration under the Securities Act because:*
{_} (a) Such Security is being acquired for the Transferor's own account,
without transfer (in satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(A) or Section
2.06(d)(i)(A) of the Indenture).
{_} (b) Such Security is being transferred to a person who the Transferor
reasonably believes is a "qualified institutional buyer" (as defined in Rule
144A under the Securities Act) purchasing for its own account or for the account
of a qualified institutional buyer over which it exercises sole investment
discretion that is aware that the transfer is being made in
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(3) The following should be included only for Initial Securities.
(4) Check applicable box.
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reliance on Rule 144A (in satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(B), Section
2.06(b)(i) or Section 2.06(d)(i)(B) of the Indenture).
{_} (c) Such Security is being transferred pursuant to an exemption from
registration in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act (in
satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(C) or Section 2.06(d)(i)(C) of the
Indenture).
{_} (d) Such Security is being transferred to an institutional investor that is
an "accredited investor" within the meaning of Rule 501(a)(1),(2),(3) or (7)
under the Securities Act which delivers a certificate in the form of Exhibit B
to the Indenture to the Trustee (in satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(D) or
Section 2.06(d)(i)(D) of the Indenture).
{_} (e) Such Security is being transferred in reliance on and in compliance with
another exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. An
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such transfer does not require
registration under the Securities Act accompanies this Certificate (in
satisfaction of Section 2.06(a)(ii)(E) or Section 2.06(d)(i)(E) of the
Indenture).
_________________________________
{INSERT NAME OF TRANSFEROR}
By:______________________________
Date:_______________
3. Affiliation with the Company {check if applicable}
{_} (a) The undersigned represents and warrants that it is, or at some time
during which it held this Security was, an Affiliate of the Company.
(b) If 3(a) above is checked and if the undersigned was not an Affiliate
of the Company at all time during which it held this Security, indicate the
periods during which the undersigned was an Affiliate of the Company:
__________________________.
(c) If 3(a) above is checked and if the Transferee will not pay the full
purchase price for the transfer of this Security on or prior to the date of
transfer, indicate when such purchase price will be paid:
__________________________.
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TO BE COMPLETED BY TRANSFEREE IF 2(b) ABOVE IS CHECKED AND THE TRANSFEROR IS NOT
A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER:
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is a "qualified
institutional buyer" as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933,
as amended, and acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the
Company as the undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined
not to request such information.
Dated:_________________ ________________________________________
NOTICE: To be executed by an officer.
TO BE COMPLETED BY TRANSFEREE IF 2(c) ABOVE IS CHECKED:
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is not a "U.S.
Person" (as defined in Regulation S under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended).
Dated:_________________ ________________________________________
NOTICE: To be executed by an officer.
If none of the boxes under Section 2 of this certificate is checked or if any of
the above representations required to be made by the Transferee is not made, the
Registrar shall not be obligated to register this Security in the name of any
person other than the Holder hereof.
THE UNDERSIGNED HEREBY AGREES THAT, UNLESS THE BOX ABOVE UNDER ITEM 3(a) IS
CHECKED, THE UNDERSIGNED SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED THAT IT IS NOT NOR
HAS IT BEEN AT ANY TIME DURING WHICH IT HELD THIS SECURITY AN AFFILIATE, AS
DEFINED IN RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OF THE
COMPANY.
Dated:_________________ _________________________________________
NOTICE: The signature of the Holder to this
assignment must correspond with the name as
written upon the face of this Security
particular, without alteration or enlargement
or any change whatsoever.
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EXHIBIT B
[FORM OF GUARANTEE]
For value received, the undersigned hereby fully and unconditionally
guarantees to the Holder of this Security the cash payments, in U.S. dollars, of
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on, this Security in the amounts and
at the time when due and interest on the overdue principal, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on this Security, if lawful, and the payment or performance of
all other obligations of the Company under the Indenture or the Securities, to
the Holder of this Security and the Trustee, all in accordance with and subject
to the terms and limitations of this Security, Article Twelve of the Indenture
and this Guarantee. This Guarantee will become effective in accordance with
Article Twelve of the Indenture and its terms shall be evidenced therein. The
validity and enforceability of any Guarantee shall not be affected by the fact
that it is not affixed to any particular Security. Capitalized terms used but
not defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Indenture
dated as of June 16, 1998, by and among Price Communications Wireless, Inc.,
each of the Guarantors party thereto, the undersigned and Bank of Montreal Trust
Company, as Trustee, as amended or supplemented (the "Indenture").
The obligations of the undersigned to the Holders of Securities and
to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set
forth in Article Twelve of the Indenture and reference is hereby made to the
Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee and all of the other provisions
of the Indenture to which this Guarantee relates.
No direct or indirect stockholder, partner, employee, officer or
director, as such, past, present or future of any Guarantor or any successor
entity shall have any personal liability in respect of the obligations of any
Guarantor or any successor entity under this Agreement by reason of his or its
status as such stockholders, partner, employee, officer or director.
THIS NOTE GUARANTEE WILL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF
CONFLICTS OF LAW. THE GUARANTOR HEREUNDER AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE NON-EXCLUSIVE
JURISDICTION OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF
OR RELATING TO THE INDENTURE, THE NOTES OR THIS NOTE GUARANTEE.
This Guarantee is subject to release upon the terms set forth in the
Indenture.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Guarantor has caused this
Guarantee to be duly executed.
Dated:
[NAME OF GUARANTOR]
By: ________________________________
Name:
Title:
By: ________________________________
Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT C
[Form of Certificate to Be
Delivered in Connection with
Transfers to Non-QIB Accredited Investors]
Bank of Montreal Trust Company
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
Re: Price Communications Wireless, Inc.
9-1/8% Senior Secured Notes due 2006
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of 9-1/89% Senior Secured
Notes due 2006 (the "Securities") of Price Communications Wireless, Inc. (the
"Company"), we confirm that:
1. We have received a copy of the Offering Memorandum (the "Offering
Memorandum"), dated June 16, 1998 relating to the Securities and such other
information as we deem necessary in order to make our investment decision. We
acknowledge that we have read and agreed to the matters stated on pages (i),
(ii), (iii), and (iv) of the Offering Memorandum and in the section entitled
"Transfer Restrictions on the Notes" of the Offering Memorandum including the
restrictions on duplication and circulation of the Offering Memorandum.
2. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Securities is
subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the Indenture
relating to the Securities (as described in the Offering Memorandum) and the
undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge or otherwise
transfer the Securities except in compliance with, such restrictions and
conditions and the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
3. We understand that the offer and sale of the Securities have not
been registered under the Securities Act, and that the Securities may not be
offered or sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree, on our
own behalf and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as hereinafter
stated, that if we should sell or otherwise transfer any Securities prior to the
date which is two years after the original issuance of the Securities, we will
do so only (i) to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) inside the United
States in accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act to a "qualified
in-
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stitutional buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act), (iii)
inside the United States to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined
below) that, prior to such transfer, furnishes (or has furnished on its behalf
by a U.S. broker-dealer) to the Trustee (as defined in the Indenture relating to
the Securities), a signed letter containing certain representations and
agreements relating to the restrictions on transfer of the Securities, (iv)
outside the United States in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the
Securities Act, (v) pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule
144 under the Securities Act (if available), or (vi) pursuant to an effective
registration statement under the Securities Act, and we further agree to provide
to any person purchasing any of the Securities from us a notice advising such
purchaser that resales of the Securities are restricted as stated herein.
4. We are not acquiring the Securities for or on behalf of, and will
not transfer the Securities to, any pension or welfare plan (as described in
Section 3 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), except as
permitted in the section entitled "Transfer Restrictions on the Notes" of the
Offering Memorandum.
5. We understand that, on any proposed resale of any Securities, we
will be required to furnish to the Trustee and the Company such certification,
legal opinions and other information as the Trustee and the Company may
reasonably require to confirm that the proposed sale complies with the foregoing
restrictions. We further understand that the Securities purchased by us will
bear a legend to the foregoing effect.
6. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and have
such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable
of evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Securities, and we
and any accounts for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic risk
of our or their investment, as the case may be.
7. We are acquiring the Securities purchased by us for our account
or for one or more accounts (each of which is an institutional "accredited
investor") as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion.
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You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are
irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested
party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect
to the matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By: ________________________________
Name:
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EXHIBIT D
[Form of Certificate to Be
Delivered in Connection with
Transfers Pursuant to Regulation S]
Bank of Montreal Trust Company
00 Xxxx Xxxxxx
00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx 00000
Attention: Corporate Trust Department
Re: Price Communications Wireless, Inc.
(the "Company") 9 1/8% Senior Secured
Notes due 2006 (the "Securities")
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed sale of $_________ aggregate
principal amount of the Securities, we confirm that such sale has been effected
pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act of
1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and, accordingly, we represent that:
(1) the offer of the Securities was not made to a Person in the
United States;
(2) either (a) at the time the buy offer was originated, the
transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on
our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United
States, or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the
facilities of a designated off-shore securities market and neither we nor
any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been
pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States;
(3) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States
in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of
Regulation S, as applicable;
(4) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
registration requirements of the Securities Act; and
(5) we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions
applicable to the Securities.
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You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are
irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested
party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with
respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the
meanings set forth in Regulation S.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]
By: ________________________________
Authorized Signature
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EXHIBIT E
[Form of Security Agreement]
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EXHIBIT F
[Form of Increditor Agreement]
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