GRUPO IUSACELL CELULAR, S.A. DE C.V. The RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES Party Hereto AND LAW DEBENTURE TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK, as TRUSTEE 10% SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECOND LIEN NOTES DUE 2012 INDENTURE Dated as of [●], 2007
GRUPO
IUSACELL CELULAR, S.A. DE C.V.
The
RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARIES Party Hereto
AND
LAW
DEBENTURE TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK,
as
TRUSTEE
10%
SENIOR SUBORDINATED SECOND LIEN NOTES DUE 2012
Dated
as of [●], 2007
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
I
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DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
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Section
1.1.
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Definitions
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1
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Section
1.2.
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Incorporation
by Reference of Trust Indenture Act
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Section
1.3.
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Rules
of Construction
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ARTICLE
II
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THE
NOTES
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Section
2.1.
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Form
and Dating
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26
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Section
2.2.
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Execution
and Authentication
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27
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Section
2.3.
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Registrar
and Paying Agent
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28
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Section
2.4.
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Paying
Agent to Hold Money in Trust
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28
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Section
2.5.
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Holder
Lists
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28
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Section
2.6.
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Global
Note Provisions
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28
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Section
2.7.
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Legends
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29
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Section
2.8.
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Transfer
and Exchange
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29
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Section
2.9.
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Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes
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31
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Section
2.10.
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Temporary
Notes
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31
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Section
2.11.
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Cancellation
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Section
2.12.
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Defaulted
Interest
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Section
2.13.
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Additional
Notes
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33
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Section
2.14.
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Additional
Interest Under Registration Rights Agreements
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33
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ARTICLE
III
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COVENANTS
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Section
3.1.
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Payment
of Notes
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Section
3.2.
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Maintenance
of Office or Agency
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34
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Section
3.3.
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Corporate
Existence
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34
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Section
3.4.
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Limitation
on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness
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35
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Section
3.5.
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Limitation
on Capital Expenditures
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36
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Section
3.6.
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Limitation
on Restricted Payments
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38
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Section
3.7.
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Limitation
on Asset Sales and Events of Loss
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40
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Section
3.8.
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Limitation
on Liens
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43
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Section
3.9.
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Limitation
on Transactions with Affiliates
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Section
3.10.
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Limitation
on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted
Subsidiaries
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45
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Section
3.11.
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Reports
to Holders and Compliance Certificate
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46
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Section
3.12.
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Payments
for Consents
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47
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Section
3.13.
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Hedging
Agreements
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47
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Section
3.14.
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Collection
Accounts
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47
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Section
3.15.
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Conduct
of Business
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47
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Section
3.16.
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Maintenance
of Government Approvals and Compliance with Laws
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47
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Section
3.17.
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Future
Restricted Subsidiaries
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48
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Section
3.18.
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Maintenance
and Perfection of Second Priority Security Interest
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48
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Section
3.19.
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Designation
of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries
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49
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Section
3.20.
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Limitation
of Applicability of Certain Covenants
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50
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Section
3.21.
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Payment
of Additional Amounts
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50
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Section
3.22.
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Change
of Control
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Section
3.23.
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Further
Instruments and Acts
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54
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Section
3.24.
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Waiver
of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws
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54
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ARTICLE
IV
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SURVIVING
ENTITY
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Section
4.1.
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Mergers,
Consolidations, Sales and Conveyances
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54
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ARTICLE
V
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REDEMPTION
AND MARKET PURCHASES OF NOTES
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Section
5.1.
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Optional
Redemption
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Section
5.2.
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Election
to Redeem
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56
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Section
5.3.
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Notice
of Redemption
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56
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Section
5.4.
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Selection
of Notes to Be Redeemed in Part
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57
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Section
5.5.
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Deposit
of Redemption Price
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57
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Section
5.6.
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Notes
Payable on Redemption Date
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58
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Section
5.7.
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Unredeemed
Portions of Partially Redeemed Note
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58
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Section
5.8.
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Mandatory
Redemption
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58
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Section
5.9.
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Market
Purchases
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58
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ARTICLE
VI
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DEFAULTS
AND REMEDIES
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Section
6.1.
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Events
of Default
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Section
6.2.
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Acceleration
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61
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Section
6.3.
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Other
Remedies
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61
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Section
6.4.
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Waiver
of Past Defaults
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62
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Section
6.5.
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Control
by Majority
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62
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Section
6.6.
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Limitation
on Suits
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62
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Section
6.7.
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Rights
of Holders to Receive Payment
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62
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Section
6.8.
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Collection
Suit by Trustee
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62
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Section
6.9.
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Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim, etc
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63
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Section
6.10.
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Priorities
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63
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Section
6.11.
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Undertaking
for Costs
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63
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ARTICLE
VII
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TRUSTEE
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Section
7.1.
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Duties
of Trustee
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Section
7.2.
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Rights
of Trustee
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65
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Section
7.3.
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Individual
Rights of Trustee
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66
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Section
7.4.
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Trustee’s
Disclaimer
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66
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Section
7.5.
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Notice
of Defaults
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66
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Section
7.6.
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Reports
by Trustee to Holders
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66
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Section
7.7.
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Compensation
and Indemnity
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66
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Section
7.8.
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Replacement
of Trustee
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67
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Section
7.9.
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Successor
Trustee by Merger
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68
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Section
7.10.
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Eligibility;
Disqualification
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68
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Section
7.11.
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Preferential
Collection of Claims Against Company
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69
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ARTICLE
VIII
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DEFEASANCE;
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
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Section
8.1.
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Legal
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance
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69
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Section
8.2.
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Conditions
to Defeasance
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70
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Section
8.3.
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Application
of Trust Money
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71
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Section
8.4.
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Repayment
to Company
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71
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Section
8.5.
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Indemnity
for U.S. Government Obligations
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71
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Section
8.6.
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Reinstatement
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71
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Section
8.7.
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Satisfaction
and Discharge
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72
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ARTICLE
IX
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AMENDMENTS
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Section
9.1.
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Without
Consent of Holders
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72
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Section
9.2.
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With
Consent of Holders
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73
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Section
9.3.
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Compliance
with Trust Indenture Act
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74
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Section
9.4.
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Waivers
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74
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Section
9.5.
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Revocation
and Effect of Consents and Waivers
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74
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Section
9.6.
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Notation
on or Exchange of Notes
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75
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Section
9.7.
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Trustee
to Sign Amendments and Supplements
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75
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ARTICLE
X
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SUBORDINATION
OF THE NOTES
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Section
10.1.
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Agreement
to Subordinate
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75
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Section
10.2.
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Liquidation,
Dissolution, Bankruptcy
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75
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Section
10.3.
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Default
on Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company
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76
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Section
10.4.
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Acceleration
of Payment of Notes
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77
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Section
10.5.
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When
Distribution Must Be Paid Over
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77
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Section
10.6.
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Subrogation
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77
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Section
10.7.
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Relative
Rights
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77
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Section
10.8.
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Subordination
May Not Be Impaired by Company
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77
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Section
10.9.
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Rights
of Trustee and Paying Agent
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77
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Section
10.10.
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Distribution
or Notice to Representative
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78
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Section
10.11.
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Article
X Not to Prevent Events of Default or Limit Right to
Accelerate
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78
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Section
10.12.
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Trust
Moneys Not Subordinated
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78
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Section
10.13.
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Trustee
Entitled to Rely
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78
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Section
10.14.
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Trustee
to Effectuate Subordination
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78
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Section
10.15.
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Trustee
Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness
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78
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Section
10.16.
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Reliance
by Holders of Senior Indebtedness on Subordination
Provisions
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78
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ARTICLE
XI
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NOTE
GUARANTEES
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Section
11.1.
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Note
Guarantees
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79
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Section
11.2.
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Termination,
Release and Discharge
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81
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Section
11.3.
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Right
of Contribution
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81
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Section
11.4.
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No
Subrogation
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81
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Section
11.5.
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Additional
Note Guarantees
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81
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ARTICLE
XII
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SUBORDINATION
OF THE NOTE GUARANTEES
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Section
12.1.
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Agreement
to Subordinate
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82
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Section
12.2.
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Liquidation,
Dissolution, Bankruptcy
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82
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Section
12.3.
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Default
on Designated Senior Indebtedness of Restricted
Subsidiaries
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82
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Section
12.4.
|
Demand
for Payment
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83
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Section
12.5.
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When
Distribution Must Be Paid Over
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83
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Section
12.6.
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Subrogation
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83
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Section
12.7.
|
Relative
Rights
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83
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Section
12.8.
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Subordination
May Not Be Impaired by Restricted Subsidiaries
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84
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Section
12.9.
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Rights
of Trustee and Paying Agent
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84
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Section
12.10.
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Distribution
or Notice to Representative
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84
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Section
12.11.
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Article
XII Not to Prevent Defaults Under the Note Guarantees or Limit Right
To
Demand Payment
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84
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Section
12.12.
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Trustee
Entitled to Rely
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84
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Section
12.13.
|
Trustee
to Effectuate Subordination
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85
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Section
12.14.
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Trustee
Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness of Restricted
Subsidiaries
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85
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Section
12.15.
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Reliance
by Holders of Senior Indebtedness on Subordination
Provisions
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85
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ARTICLE
XIII
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COLLATERAL
AND SECURITY
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Section
13.1.
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Collateral
Documents
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85
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Section
13.2.
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Suits
to Protect the Collateral
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86
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Section
13.3.
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Possession
of the Collateral
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86
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Section
13.4.
|
Authorization
of Actions To Be Taken by the Trustee Under the Collateral
Documents
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86
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Section
13.5.
|
Authorization
of Receipt and Distribution of Funds by the Trustee
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86
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Section
13.6.
|
Release
of Collateral; Termination of Security Interest
|
86
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Section
13.7.
|
Instructions
under the Collateral Documents
|
87
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Section
13.8.
|
Certificates
of the Company
|
87
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Section
13.9.
|
Execution
of Release by Trustee
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88
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Section
13.10.
|
Recording
and Opinions
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89
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ARTICLE
XIV
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MISCELLANEOUS
|
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Section
14.1.
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Trust
Indenture Act Controls
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89
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Section
14.2.
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Notices
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89
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Section
14.3.
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Communication
by Holders with Other Holders
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90
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Section
14.4.
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Certificate
and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent
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90
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Section
14.5.
|
Statements
Required in Certificate or Opinion
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90
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Section
14.6.
|
Rules
by Trustee, Paying Agent and Xxxxxxxxx
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Section
14.7.
|
Legal
Holidays
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91
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Section
14.8.
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Governing
Law, etc
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91
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Section
14.9.
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No
Recourse Against Others
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92
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Section
14.10.
|
Successors
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92
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Section
14.11.
|
Duplicate
and Counterpart Originals
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92
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Section
14.12.
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Severability
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93
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Section
14.13.
|
Conversion
of Currency
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93
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Section
14.14.
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Table
of Contents; Headings
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93
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EXHIBIT
A
|
FORM
OF FACE OF NOTE AND FORM OF REVERSE SIDE OF
NOTE
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EXHIBIT
B
|
FORM
OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FOR ADDITIONAL NOTE
GUARANTEE
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EXHIBIT
C
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SCHEDULE
A
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LIENS
IN EXISTENCE ON THE ISSUE
DATE
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INDENTURE,
dated as of [●], 2007, between Grupo Iusacell Celular, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican
sociedad
anónima de capital variable
(the
“Company”),
the
Restricted Subsidiaries party hereto and Law Debenture Trust Company of New
York
(the “Trustee”),
as
Trustee.
Each
party agrees as follows for the benefit of the other parties and for the equal
and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Company’s 10% Senior Subordinated
Second Lien Notes due 2012 issued hereunder.
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
Section
1.1. Definitions.
“2004
Notes”
means
the Company’s 10.00% senior notes due 2004.
“2006
Notes”
means
the 14.25% senior notes due 2006 of Grupo Iusacell.
“Acquired
Indebtedness”
means
Indebtedness of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time it merges or consolidates
with the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or is assumed in
connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person. Such Indebtedness
shall be deemed to have been Incurred at the time such Person becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary or at the time it merges or consolidates with the Company
or a Restricted Subsidiary or at the time such Indebtedness is assumed in
connection with the acquisition of assets from such Person.
“Additional
Amounts”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.21(a).
“Additional
Concessions”
means
the right of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to
provide cellular telephone service pursuant to concessions and authorizations
granted by the SCT in any region of Mexico other than regions 5 through 9
obtained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date.
“Additional
Note Board Resolutions”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.13(b).
“Additional
Note Guarantee”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
11.5.
“Additional
Note Supplemental Indenture”
means
a
supplement to this Indenture duly executed and delivered by the Company, each
Restricted Subsidiary and
the
Trustee pursuant to Article IX
providing for the issuance of Additional Notes.
“Additional
Notes”
means
the Company’s 10% Senior Subordinated Second Lien Notes due 2012 originally
issued after the Issue Date pursuant to Section 2.13,
including any replacement Notes as specified in the relevant Additional Note
Board Resolutions or Additional Note Supplemental Indenture issued therefor
in
accordance with this Indenture.
“Additional
Restricted Subsidiary”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
11.5.
“Additional
Taxing Jurisdiction”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.21(f).
1
“Affiliate”
means,
with respect to any Person, a Person that directly, or indirectly through one
or
more intermediate Persons, controls, or is controlled by, or is under common
control with such Person. For purposes of this definition, the term control
shall mean the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by
ownership of share capital, by contract, by the power to appoint or remove
a
majority of the members of the governing body of that Person or otherwise;
provided
that
beneficial ownership of 10% or more of the voting stock of a Person shall be
deemed to be control. For purposes of this definition, the terms “controlling”,
“controlled by” and “under common control with” have correlative
meanings.
“Affiliate
Transaction”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section 3.9(a).
“Agent
Members”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.6(b).
“Authenticating
Agent”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.2(d).
“Asset
Acquisition”
means:
(i) an
Investment by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any other Person
pursuant to which such Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary, or shall
be
merged with or into the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(ii) the
acquisition by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the assets of any
Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company) which constitute all or
substantially all of the assets of such Person or comprises any division or
line
of business of such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person
other than in the ordinary course of business; or
(iii) any
Revocation with respect to an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Asset
Sale”
means
any direct or indirect sale, disposition, issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease,
assignment or other transfer, including a Sale and Leaseback Transaction (each,
a “disposition”)
by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of:
(i) any
Capital Stock (other than directors’ qualifying shares); or
(ii) any
property or assets (other than cash and Cash Equivalents or Capital Stock)
of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Notwithstanding
the preceding, the following items shall not be deemed to be Asset
Sales:
(A) the
disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries as permitted under Article
IV;
(B) a
disposition in the ordinary course of business of inventory, or a disposition
in
the ordinary course of business of machinery, equipment, furniture, apparatus,
tools or implements or other similar property that may be defective or may
have
become worn out or obsolete or no longer used or useful in the operations of
the
Company;
(C) disposition
of assets in any fiscal year with a Fair Market Value not to exceed
U.S.$1,000,000 in the aggregate;
2
(D) a
disposition to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, including a Person that
is or shall become a Restricted Subsidiary immediately after the
disposition;
(E) the
disposition of Securitization Assets pursuant to a Qualified Securitization
Transaction;
(F) any
foreclosure by any creditor of a Lien permitted under Section
3.8
on any
assets subject thereto;
(G) the
creation of a Permitted Lien;
(H) for
purposes of Section
3.7
only,
the making of a Permitted Investment or Restricted Payment permitted under
Section
3.6;
and
(I) an
Event
of Loss.
“Asset
Sale Offer”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.7.
“Asset
Sale Offer Amount”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.7(c)(i).
“Asset
Sale Offer Payment Date”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.7(c)(ii).
“Asset
Sale Offer Trigger Date”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.7.
“Asset
Sale Transaction”
means
any Asset Sale and, whether or not constituting an Asset Sale, (i) any sale
or
other disposition of Capital Stock, (ii) any Designation with respect to an
Unrestricted Subsidiary and (iii) any sale or other disposition of property
or
assets excluded from the definition of Asset Sale by clause (i)
thereof.
“Attributable
Indebtedness”
in
respect of a Sale and Leaseback Transaction means, as at the time of
determination, the present value (discounted at the interest rate implicit
in
the transaction) 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),
determined in accordance with Mexican GAAP, provided that if such Sale and
Leaseback Transaction results in a Capitalized Lease Obligation, the amount
of
Indebtedness represented thereby shall be determined in accordance with the
definition of “Capitalized Lease Obligations.”
“Board
of Directors”
means
the Company’s Board of Directors or any committee of the Company’s Board of
Directors authorized to act on its behalf.
“Board
Resolution”
means,
with respect to any Person, a copy of a resolution certified by the Secretary
or
an Assistant Secretary of such Person to have been duly adopted by the Board
of
Directors of such Person and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
“Business
Day”
means
a
day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banking
institutions are authorized or required by law to close in New York City or
in
Mexico City.
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“Capital
Stock”
means:
(i) with
respect to any Person that is a corporation, any and all shares, interests,
participations or other equivalents (however designated and whether or not
voting) of corporate
stock,
including each
class of common stock and Preferred Stock, of such Person;
(ii) with
respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all partnership
or
other
equity or ownership interests
of such
Person; and
(iii) any
warrants, rights or options to purchase any of the instruments or interests
referred to in clauses (i) or (ii) or above.
“Capitalized
Lease Obligation”
means,
with respect to any Person, the obligation of such Person under a lease that,
in
conformity with Mexican GAAP, is required to be capitalized on the balance
sheet
of such Person.
“Cash
Equivalents”
means:
(i) U.S.
Government Obligations or certificates representing an ownership interest in
U.S. Government Obligations;
(ii) (A)
demand deposits, (B) time deposits and certificates of deposit with maturities
of one year or less from the date of acquisition, (C) bankers’ acceptances with
maturities not exceeding one year from the date of acquisition, and (D)
overnight bank deposits, in each case with any bank or trust company organized
or licensed under the laws of the United States or any state thereof or under
the laws of any member state of the European Union, or under the laws of any
country in which the Company has operations in each case whose head office’s
senior short term debt has an Investment Grade Rating by at least one nationally
recognized statistical rating organization as contemplated in Rule 436 under
the
Securities Act;
(iii) repurchase
obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities
of
the type described in clause (i) above entered into with any financial
institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (ii)
above;
(iv) commercial
paper rated with an Investment Grade Rating by at least one nationally
recognized statistical rating organization as contemplated in Rule 436 under
the
Securities Act and maturing within six months after the date of acquisition;
and
(v) money
market funds at least 95% of the assets of which consist of investments of
the
type described in clauses (i) through (iv) above.
“Central
Bank”
means
Banco
de México
(the
Central Bank of Mexico).
“Certificated
Note”
means
any Note issued in fully-registered certificated form (other than a Global
Note), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Change
of Control”
means
the occurrence of any of the following: (i) the Xxxxxxx Group ceases to be
the
“beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act),
directly or indirectly, of at least 30% in the aggregate of the total voting
power of the Voting Stock of the Company, (ii) the Xxxxxxx Group ceases to
possess, directly or indirectly, the power to elect a majority of the members
of
the Board of Directors, (iii) any person or group of persons other than the
Xxxxxxx Group shall be the beneficial owner, directly or indirectly, of more
of
the voting equity of the Company than the Xxxxxxx Group and such person or
group
of persons possesses or shall (in the future but prior to the Maturity Date)
possess (to the extent based on existing arrangements), directly or indirectly,
the power to elect a majority of the members of the Board of Directors or
(iv) the sale or disposition of substantially all of the assets of the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to any Person at least 30% in the
aggregate of the total voting power of the Voting Stock of which Person is
not
owned by the Xxxxxxx Group; provided,
that a
Change of Control shall not be deemed to exist as a result of a transaction
in
which a Person with a Rating of at least BB- or Ba3 that is an internationally
recognized telecommunications operator that had total annual revenues in its
most recent full fiscal year of at least U.S.$1,000,000,000 is the beneficial
owner of at least 30% in the aggregate of the total voting power of the Voting
Stock of the Company.
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“Change
of Control Notice”
means
notice of a Change of Control Offer made pursuant to Section 3.13,
which
shall be mailed first-class, postage prepaid, to each Holder at its address
as
shown on the Note Register within 45 days following the date upon which a Change
of Control occurred, with a copy to the Trustee, which notice shall govern
the
terms of the Change of Control Offer and shall state:
(i) that
a
Change of Control has occurred, the circumstances or events causing such Change
of Control and that a Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to
Section 3.13(b),
and
that all Notes that are timely tendered will be accepted for
payment;
(ii) the
Change of Control Payment, and the Change of Control Payment Date, which date
shall be the day that is 30 calendar days subsequent to the date such notice
is
mailed (other than as may be required by law);
(iii) that
any
Notes or portions thereof not tendered or accepted for payment will continue
to
accrue interest;
(iv) that,
unless the Company defaults in the payment of the Change of Control Payment
with
respect thereto, all Notes or portions thereof accepted for payment pursuant
to
the Change of Control Offer shall cease to accrue interest from and after the
Change of Control Payment Date;
(v) that
any
Holder electing to have any Notes or portions thereof purchased pursuant to
a
Change of Control Offer will be required to tender such Notes, with the form
entitled “Option of Holder to Elect Purchase” on the reverse of such Notes
completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice prior
to
the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control
Payment Date;
(vi) that
any
Holder shall be entitled to withdraw such election if the Paying Agent receives,
not later than the close of business on the second Business Day preceding the
Change of Control Payment Date, a facsimile transmission or letter, setting
forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of Notes delivered for
purchase, and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing such Holder’s election
to have such Notes or portions thereof purchased pursuant to the Change of
Control Offer;
(vii) that
any
Holder electing to have Notes purchased pursuant to the Change of Control Offer
must specify the principal amount that is being tendered for purchase, which
principal amount must be U.S.$1.00 or an integral multiple thereof;
(viii) that
any
Holder of Certificated Notes whose Certificated Notes are being purchased only
in part will be issued new Certificated Notes equal in principal amount to
the
unpurchased portion of the Certificated Note or Notes surrendered, which
unpurchased portion will be equal in principal amount to U.S.$1.00 or an
integral multiple thereof;
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(ix) that
the
Trustee will return to the Holder of a Global Note that is being purchased
in
part, such Global Note with a notation on Schedule A thereof adjusting the
principal amount thereof to be equal to the unpurchased portion of such Global
Note; and
(x) any
other
information necessary to enable any Holder to tender Notes and to have such
Notes purchased pursuant to Section 3.13.
“Change
of Control Offer”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.22(b).
“Change
of Control Payment”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.22(a).
“Change
of Control Payment Date”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.22(b).
“CNBV”
means
the Comisión
Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (the
Mexican National Banking and Securities Commission).
“Code”
means
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
“Collateral”
means
the assets or property, of any nature, of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, now owned or hereafter acquired, upon which a Lien is created
or
intended or purported to be created by any Collateral Document, whether at
the
date of this Indenture or in the future, and whether or not perfected or
registered.
“Collateral
and Intercreditor Agent”
means
Law Debenture Trust Company of New York.
“Collateral
Documents”
means
together with the Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, the security
agreements, pledge agreements, mortgages and other collateral assignment
documents pursuant to which the Liens on the Collateral are created, as the
same
may be amended, restated, supplemented or modified from time to
time.
“Concession”
means
the right of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to provide cellular
telephone service pursuant to concessions and authorizations granted by the
SCT
in regions 5 through 9 in Mexico,
as the
terms of any such concession or authorization may be amended from time to
time.
“Consolidated
Adjusted Net Income”
means,
for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss) of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined in accordance with Mexican
GAAP, adjusted by excluding, without duplication, (i) any net after-tax
extraordinary gains (less all fees and expenses relating thereto), (ii) any
net after-tax gains or losses (less all fees and expenses relating thereto)
attributable to asset sales other than in the ordinary course of business,
(iii) the portion of net income (or loss) of any Person (other than the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary), including Unrestricted Subsidiaries, in
which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has an ownership interest, except
to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other distributions actually
paid to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period,
(iv) the net income (or loss) of any Person combined with the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary on a “pooling of interests” basis attributable to any
period prior to the date of combination, (v) the net income of any
Restricted Subsidiary if the declaration or payment of dividends or similar
distributions by such Restricted Subsidiary was not for the relevant period
permitted, directly or indirectly, by operation of the terms of its charter
or
any agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule or
governmental regulation applicable to such Restricted Subsidiary or its
stockholders, except to the extent of the amount of cash dividends or other
distributions actually paid to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary during
such period, (vi) any non-cash items of the Company and any Restricted
Subsidiary (including monetary corrections and Consolidated Non-Cash Credits)
increasing Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period (other than items
that shall result in the receipt of Dollar payments), and (vii) any
extraordinary non-cash charges and non-cash charges related to inflation
accounting and to foreign exchange of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
decreasing Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period.
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“Consolidated
Capital Expenditures”
means,
for any period, the additions to property, plant and equipment and other capital
expenditures of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are (or would
be) set forth in a consolidated statement of changes in financial position
of
the Company for such period prepared in accordance with Mexican GAAP. For
purposes of calculating its Consolidated Capital Expenditures, the Company
shall
take “Purchases of Property and Equipment” as set forth in its consolidated
statements of changes in financial position, less (i) the capitalized interest
included in “Gross Purchases of Property and Equipment,” less (ii) the amount of
any trade-in credits that reduces the amount of Consolidated Capital
Expenditures otherwise paid or to be paid in cash, and less (iii) other items
for which no net cash outlay is required.
“Consolidated
EBITDA”
means,
for any relevant period, Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period
increased by (in each case to the extent included in computing Consolidated
Adjusted Net Income) without duplication (i) Consolidated Interest Expense
for the Company, (ii) Consolidated Income Tax Expense,
(iii) Consolidated Non-Cash Charges, and (iv) Proceeds from Qualified
Securitization Transactions.
“Consolidated
Gross Revenues”
means,
for any period, the gross revenues of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with Mexican
GAAP.
“Consolidated
Income Tax Expense”
means,
for any period, all Mexican national, local and foreign income taxes payable
by
the Company and all Restricted Subsidiaries for such period as determined on
a
consolidated basis in accordance with Mexican GAAP.
“Consolidated
Interest Expense”
means,
for any Person for any period, the total
interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with Mexican GAAP,
whether
paid or accrued, plus to the extent not included in such interest
expense:
(i) the
aggregate of cash and non-cash interest expense of such Person and its
Subsidiaries (Restricted Subsidiaries in the case of the Company) for such
period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with Mexican GAAP,
including, without limitation the following for such Person and its Subsidiaries
(Restricted Subsidiaries in the case of the Company) whether or not interest
expense in accordance with Mexican GAAP:
(A) any
amortization or accretion of debt discount or any interest paid on Indebtedness
of such Person and its Subsidiaries (Restricted Subsidiaries in the case of
the
Company) in the form of additional Indebtedness;
(B) any
amortization of deferred financing costs;
(C) the
net
costs under Hedging Contracts (including amortization of fees);
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(D) all
capitalized interest;
(E) the
interest portion of any deferred payment obligation;
(F) commissions,
discounts and other fees and charges Incurred in respect of letters of credit
or
bankers’ acceptances; and
(G) any
interest expense on Indebtedness of another Person that is Guaranteed by such
Person or one of its Subsidiaries (Restricted Subsidiaries in the case of the
Company) or secured by a Lien on the assets of such Person or one of its
Subsidiaries (Restricted Subsidiaries in the case of the Company), whether
or
not such Guarantee or Lien is called upon;
(ii) the
interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations, accrued and/or scheduled
to
be paid or accrued by such Person and its Subsidiaries (Restricted Subsidiaries
in the case of the Company) during such period
and the
interest portion of rent expense associated with Attributable Indebtedness
in
respect of the relevant lease giving rise thereto, determined as if such lease
were a capitalized lease and the interest component of any deferred payment
obligations; and
(iii) the
product of (A) all dividends paid or payable, in cash, Cash Equivalents or
Indebtedness or accrued during such period on any series of
Disqualified Capital Stock of
such
Person payable to a party other than the Company or a Wholly-Owned Restricted
Subsidiary, times (B) a fraction, the numerator of which is one and the
denominator of which is one minus the then current combined federal, state,
provincial and local statutory tax rate of such Person, expressed as a decimal,
in each case, on a consolidated basis and in accordance with Mexican
GAAP.
“Consolidated
Non-Cash Charges”
means,
for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other non-cash
expenses of the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary (including monetary
corrections) reducing Consolidated Adjusted Net Income for such period,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with Mexican GAAP excluding
items that shall require Dollar payments in future periods and for which an
accrual or reserve is, or under Mexican GAAP must be, made.
“Consolidated
Non-Cash Credits”
means,
for any period, revenues accrued during such period by the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of the Securitization Assets sold in any
Qualified Securitization Transaction, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with Mexican GAAP.
“Consolidated
Total Indebtedness”
means,
for any Person as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the aggregate
amount (without duplication) of all Indebtedness of such Person and its
Subsidiaries (Restricted Subsidiaries in the case of the Company) outstanding
at
such time, excluding Indebtedness Incurred under Section
3.4(b)(iv)
or
Section
3.4(b)(vii).
“Consolidated
Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio”
means,
for any Person as of any date of determination, the ratio of the aggregate
amount of Consolidated Total Indebtedness for such Person as of such date to
Consolidated EBITDA for such Person for the four most recent full fiscal
quarters for which financial statements are available ending prior to the date
of such determination (the “Four
Quarter Period”).
For
purposes of this definition, “Consolidated Total Indebtedness” and “Consolidated
EBITDA” shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis in
accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act for the period of such
calculation to:
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(i) the
Incurrence, repayment or redemption of any Indebtedness (including Acquired
Indebtedness) of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries (Restricted
Subsidiaries, in the case of the Company), and the application of the proceeds
thereof, including the Incurrence of any Indebtedness (including Acquired
Indebtedness), and the application of the proceeds thereof, giving rise to
the
need to make such determination, occurring during such Four Quarter Period
or at
any time subsequent to the last day of such Four Quarter Period and on or prior
to such date of determination, to the extent, in the case of an Incurrence,
such
Indebtedness is outstanding on the date of determination, as if such Incurrence,
and the application of the proceeds thereof, repayment or redemption occurred
on
the first day of such Four Quarter Period; and
(ii) any
Asset
Sale Transaction or Asset Acquisition by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries
(Restricted Subsidiaries, in the case of the Company), including any Asset
Sale
or Asset Acquisition giving rise to the need to make such determination,
occurring during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last
day of the Four Quarter Period and on or prior to such date of determination,
as
if such Asset Sale Transaction or Asset Acquisition occurred on the first day
of
the Four Quarter Period.
“Company”
means
the party named as such in the introductory paragraph to this Indenture and
its
successors and assigns, including any Surviving Entity that becomes such in
accordance with Article IV.
“Company
Order”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.2(c).
“Corporate
Trust Office”
means
the principal office of the Trustee at which at any time its corporate trust
business shall be administered, which office at the date hereof is located
at
000
Xxxxx
Xxxxxx, 00xx Xxxxx, Xxx Xxxx, Xxx Xxxx, 00000,
Attention: Corporate Trust Department, or such other address as the Trustee
may
designate from time to time by notice to the Holders and the Company, or the
principal corporate trust office of any successor Trustee (or such other address
as such successor Trustee may designate from time to time by notice to the
Holders and the Company).
“Covenant
Defeasance”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
8.1(c).
“Custodian”
means
any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, sequestrator or similar official
under any Insolvency Law.
“Default”
means
any event that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both,
would be an Event of Default.
“Defaulted
Interest”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in paragraph 1 of the Form of Reverse Side of Note
contained in Exhibit
A.
“Designated
Senior Indebtedness”
means:
(i) in
respect of the Company and any Senior Indebtedness of the Company which, at
the
date of determination, has an aggregate principal or accreted amount outstanding
of, or under which, at the date of determination, the holders thereof are
committed to lend up to, at least U.S.$15,000,000 and is specifically designated
by the Company in the instrument evidencing or governing such Senior
Indebtedness as “Designated Senior Indebtedness;” and
(ii)
in
respect of any Restricted Subsidiary and any Senior Indebtedness of any
Restricted Subsidiary which,
at
the date of determination, has an aggregate principal or accreted amount
outstanding of, or under which, at the date of determination, the holders
thereof are committed to lend up to, at least U.S.$15,000,000 and is
specifically designated by such Restricted Subsidiary in the instrument
evidencing or governing such Senior Indebtedness as “Designated Senior
Indebtedness.”
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“Designation”
and
“Designation
Amount”
have
the meanings assigned to them in Section
3.19.
“Disqualified
Capital Stock”
means,
with respect to any Person, any Capital Stock which, by its terms (or by the
terms of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event, carries the right to any
mandatory dividend or distribution payment (other than a right that is expressly
subject to compliance by the Company with its obligations under this Indenture),
matures or is mandatory redeemable, in whole or in part, pursuant to a sinking
fund obligation or otherwise, is exchangeable for Indebtedness, or is redeemable
at the option of the Holder thereof, in whole or in part, on or prior to the
91st day after the Maturity Date but shall exclude shares representing the
variable portion of the Capital Stock of such Person.
“Dollars”
and
the
sign “U.S.$”
mean
such coin or currency of the United States of America as at the time of payment
shall be legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
“DTC”
means
The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and their respective successors
and
assigns, or such other depositary institution hereinafter appointed by the
Company that is a clearing agency registered under the Exchange
Act.
“E.U.
Country”
means
any member country of the European Union.
“Event
of Default”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
6.1.
“Event
of Loss”
means
(i) the loss of, destruction of, or damage to any property, (ii) the
condemnation, expropriation, rescate,
seizure, confiscation, requisition of the use or taking by exercise of the
power
of eminent domain or otherwise of any property (other than a Concession or
Additional Concession) or (iii) the condemnation, expropriation, rescate,
seizure, confiscation, requisition of the use or taking by exercise of the
power
of eminent domain or otherwise of any Concession or Additional
Concession.
“Exchange
Act”
means
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Fair
Market Value”
means,
at the time of such determination with respect to any (i) asset, the price
(after taking into account any liabilities relating to such assets) which could
be negotiated in an arm’s-length free market transaction, for cash, between a
willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of which is under any
undue
pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction, and (ii) service rendered,
the price for such services which could be negotiated in an arm’s-length free
market transaction between a willing service provider and a willing and able
service recipient, neither of which is under any undue pressure or compulsion
to
render or receive the services. The Fair Market Value of any such asset, assets
or service shall be determined conclusively (i) if such asset or service has
a
Fair Market Value equal to or less than U.S.$5,000,000, by the Company’s Officer
acting in good faith and (ii) if such asset or service has a Fair Market Value
in excess of U.S.$5,000,000, by a Board Resolution passed in good
faith.
“First
Lien Notes”
means
the Company’s senior floating rate first lien notes due 2011 to be issued
pursuant to the First Lien Notes Indenture.
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“First
Lien Notes Indenture”
means
that certain indenture to be entered into in connection with the issuance of
the
Company’s senior floating rate first lien notes due 2011 with The Law Debenture
Trust Company of New York as Trustee.
“First
Priority Lien Obligations”
means
all Obligations under the First Lien Notes, and any obligations secured on
a
pari
passu basis
with the First Lien Notes so long as such obligations and pari
passu Liens
are
permitted under the provisions of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents,
together with any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness with respect
thereto.
“Fitch”
means
Fitch Ratings Ltd. and its successors and assigns.
“Global
Note”
means
any Note issued in fully-registered certificated form to DTC (or its nominee),
as depositary for the beneficial owners thereof, which shall be substantially
in
the form of Exhibit A,
with
the appropriate legends as specified in Section
2.7
and
Exhibit
A.
“Government
Authority”
means
the federal government of Mexico, any state or other political subdivision
thereof, any entity or branch of power exercising executive, legislative,
judicial or regulatory functions, any legislative authority and any judicial
authority of Mexico.
“Grupo
Iusacell”
means
Grupo Iusacell, S.A. de C.V.
“Guarantee”
means
any obligation, contingent or otherwise (including an aval),
of any
Person directly or indirectly guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other financial
obligation of any other Person and, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, any obligation, direct or indirect, contingent or otherwise, of
such
Person (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase
or
payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation of such other Person (whether
arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, or by agreement to keep well,
to
purchase assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay, or to maintain
financial statement conditions or otherwise) or (ii) entered into for purposes
of assuring in any other manner the obligee of such Indebtedness or other
obligation of the payment thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in
respect thereof, in whole or in part; provided,
that
the term “Guarantee” does not include endorsements for collection or deposit in
the ordinary course of business or guarantees of performance that do not include
any contingent payment obligation. The term “Guarantee” used as a verb has a
corresponding meaning.
“Hedging
Contract”
means
(i) any interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement or other
agreement designed to protect against fluctuations in interest rates or (ii)
any
foreign exchange forward contract, currency swap agreement or other agreement
designed to protect against fluctuations in foreign exchange rates, in each
case
entered into in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative
purposes.
“Holder”
means
the Person in whose name a Note is registered in the Note Register.
“Incur”
means,
with respect to any Indebtedness or other obligation of any Person, to issue,
incur (by conversion, exchange or otherwise), assume, Guarantee or otherwise
become liable in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation.
“Indebtedness”
means,
with respect to any Person, without duplication,
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(ii) the
principal of and premium (if any) in respect of obligations of such Person
evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other similar instruments other than
(A)
promissory notes or similar instruments issued in the ordinary course of
business to Guarantee the payment of Trade Payables, and (B) obligations entered
into in the ordinary course of business to the extent not drawn upon, or if
drawn, such drawing is reimbursed no later than the third Business Day following
payment;
(iii) all
Capitalized Lease Obligations and Attributable Indebtedness of such
Person;
(iv) all
obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of property or
services, except Trade Payables, which purchase price is due more than six
months after the date of placing such property in service or taking delivery
and
title thereto or the completion of such services;
(v) all
obligations of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers'
acceptances, surety bonds or other similar instruments (including reimbursement
agreements with respect thereto), excluding obligations in respect of trade
letters of credit or surety bonds issued in respect of Trade
Payables;
(vi) all
obligations of such Person under Hedging Contracts;
(vii) Disqualified
Capital Stock of such Person;
(viii) all
Indebtedness of others secured by any Lien on any asset of such Person, whether
or not such Indebtedness is assumed by such Person; and
(ix) all
Indebtedness of other Persons Guaranteed by such Person to the extent so
Guaranteed.
The
amount of Indebtedness of any Person shall be deemed to be:
(A) with
respect to Indebtedness secured by a Lien on an asset of such Person but not
otherwise the obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person, the lesser
of
(x) the Fair Market Value of such asset on the date the Lien attached or (y)
the
amount of such Indebtedness;
(B) with
respect to any Indebtedness issued with original issue discount, the face amount
of such Indebtedness less the remaining unamortized portion of the original
issue discount of such Indebtedness;
(C) with
respect to any Hedging Contract, the net amount payable if such Hedging Contract
terminated at that time due to default by such Person;
(D) with
respect to any sale of Securitization Assets, the amount of the unrecovered
capital or principal investment of the purchase excluding amounts representative
of yield or interest earned on such investment; and
(E) otherwise,
the outstanding principal amount thereof.
The
outstanding principal amount of any particular Indebtedness shall be counted
only once and any obligations arising under any Guarantee, Lien, letter of
credit or similar instrument supporting such Indebtedness shall not be double
counted.
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“Indenture”
means
this Indenture as amended or supplemented from time to time, including the
Exhibits hereto.
“Independent
Financial Advisor”
means
an accounting firm, appraisal firm, investment banking firm or consultant of
internationally recognized standing that is, in the judgment of the Board of
Directors, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged and
which
is independent in connection with the relevant transaction.
“Information
Memorandum”
means
the information memorandum of the Company relating to the Restructuring dated
May 25, 2006, as supplemented on June 29, 2006 and July 14, 2006.
“Insolvency
Law”
means
any law (together with the rules and regulations made pursuant thereto) of
any
jurisdiction (including any political subdivision thereof) relating to
bankruptcy, insolvency, winding up, liquidation, concurso
mercantil,
quiebra,
reorganization, or any other similar procedure relating to the relief of
debtors.
“Intercreditor
and Collateral Agency Agreement”
means
the intercreditor and collateral agency agreement dated as of [●], 2007 among
the Trustee, the trustee under the First Lien Notes and the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent, as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or
modified from time to time.
“Interest
Payment Date”
means
the stated due date of an installment of interest on the Notes as specified
in
the Form of Face of Note contained in Exhibit A.
“Investment”
means,
with respect to any Person, any:
(i) direct
or
indirect advance, loan or other extension of credit (including, without
limitation, a Guarantee) to any another Person;
(ii) capital
contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other property to others
or
any payment for property or services for the account or use of others) to any
other Person; or
(iii) purchase
or acquisition by such Person of any Capital Stock, bonds, notes, debentures
or
other securities or evidences of Indebtedness issued by, any other
Person.
If
the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary sells or otherwise disposes of any Capital
Stock of any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary so that, after giving
effect to that sale or disposition, such Person is no longer a Subsidiary of
the
Company, or designates any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary
in accordance with the provisions of this Indenture, all remaining Investments
of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in such Person shall be deemed
to
have been made at that time. “Investment” shall exclude accounts receivable or
deposits arising in the ordinary course of business. “Invest,”
“Investing”
and
“Invested”
shall
have corresponding meanings.
“Investment
Grade Rating”
means
a
Rating of BBB-/Baa3 or higher or such similar equivalent or higher Rating from
S&P, Fitch or Moody’s.
“Investment
Return”
means,
in respect of any Investment (other than a Permitted Investment) made after
the
Issue Date by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary:
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(i) the
cash
proceeds received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary upon the sale,
liquidation or repayment of such Investment or, in the case of a Guarantee,
the
amount of the Guarantee upon the unconditional release of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries in full, less any payments previously made by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such Guarantee;
(ii) in
the
case of the Revocation of the Designation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, an
amount equal to the lesser of:
(A) the
Company’s direct or indirect Investment in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the
time of such Revocation;
(B) that
portion of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such Unrestricted
Subsidiary at the time of Revocation that is proportionate to the Company’s and
Restricted Subsidiaries’ equity interest in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the
time of Revocation; and
(C) the
Designation Amount with respect to such Unrestricted Subsidiary upon its
Designation which was treated as a Restricted Payment; and
(iii) in
the
event the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary makes any Investment in a Person
that, as a result of or in connection with such Investment, becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary, the existing Investment of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in such Person,
in
the
case of each of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this definition of “Investment
Return,” up to the amount of such Investment that was treated as a Restricted
Payment under Section
3.6
less the
amount of any previous Investment Return in respect of such
Investment.
“Issue
Date”
means
[●], 2007.
“Judgment”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
6.1(a)(viii).
“Judgment
Currency”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
14.13(b).
“Legal
Defeasance”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
8.1(b).
“Legal
Holiday”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
14.7.
“Lien”
means,
with respect to any asset or property, any mortgage, security interest, pledge,
lien, encumbrance or charge of any kind (including any conditional sale or
other
title retention agreement or lease in the nature thereof) with respect to such
asset or property.
“Market
Purchase”
means
the purchase of any Notes available for sale in the secondary market through
broker dealers or similar intermediaries.
“Material
Adverse Effect”
means
a
material adverse effect on the ability of the Company to meets its Obligations
under the Notes.
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“Material
Default”
means
any one or more of the following: (i) any payment Default or Event of
Default under the Notes or (ii) any Default or Event of Default under
Section
3.4,
Section
3.6,
Section
3.7,
Section
3.8,
Section
3.9,
Section
3.18
or
Article
IV.
“Maturity
Date”
means
March 31, 2012.
“Mexican
Business Reorganization Act”
means
the Ley
de Concursos Mercantiles
of
Mexico, as amended from time to time, and any successor thereto.
“Mexican
GAAP”
means
generally accepted accounting principles in Mexico in effect on the Issue
Date.
“Mexican
Government Obligations”
means
obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by Mexico or
by
any agent or instrumentality thereof; provided,
that the
full faith and credit of Mexico is pledged in support thereof.
“Mexican
Taxes”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.21(a).
“Mexico”
means
the United Mexican States.
“Ministry
of Finance and Public Credit”
means
the Secretaría
de Hacienda y Crédito Público
(the
Mexican Ministry of Finance and Public Credit).
“Moody’s”
means
Xxxxx’x Investors Service, Inc. and its successors and assigns.
“Net
Cash Proceeds”
means,
with respect to any Person and any transaction, the proceeds in the form of
cash
and cash equivalents, including payments in respect of deferred payment
obligations when received in the form of cash or cash equivalents, received
by
such Person from such transaction, net of:
(i) reasonable
out-of-pocket fees and expenses relating to such transaction (including, without
limitation, legal, accounting, underwriting, placement, brokerage and investment
banking fees, discounts and sales commissions);
(ii) taxes
paid or payable in respect of such transaction after taking into account any
reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangements; and
(iii) appropriate
amounts to be provided by such Person as a reserve, in accordance with Mexican
GAAP, against any liabilities associated with such transaction and retained
by
such Person after such transaction, but excluding any reserves with respect
to
Indebtedness.
“Note
Custodian”
means
the custodian with respect to any Global Note appointed by DTC, or any successor
Person thereto, and shall initially be the Trustee.
“Note
Guarantee”
means
any guarantee of the Company’s Obligations under the Notes and this Indenture
provided by each Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Article
XI.
“Note
Register”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.3(a).
“Notes”
means
any of the Company’s 10% Senior Subordinated Second Lien Notes due 2012 issued
and authenticated pursuant to this Indenture.
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“Obligations”
means,
with respect to any Indebtedness, any principal, interest (including, without
limitation, Post-Petition Interest), penalties, fees, indemnifications,
reimbursements, damages, and other liabilities payable under the documentation
governing such Indebtedness, including in the case of the Notes and the Note
Guarantees, this Indenture.
“Officer”
means,
when used with respect to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, as the case
may be, the president, general manager, chief financial officer, chief
accountant or treasurer of the Company or such Subsidiary or any member of
the
Board of Directors acting
under duly granted powers-of-attorney pursuant to Mexican law or any other
applicable law, with sufficient authority for the relevant action.
“Officers’
Certificate”
means,
when used in connection with any action to be taken by the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, a certificate signed by two Officers
and delivered to the Trustee. One of the officers executing an Officers’
Certificate in accordance with Section
3.11(c)
hereof
shall be the chief executive, financial or operating officer of the
Company.
“Opinion
of Counsel”
means
an opinion in writing signed by legal counsel who may be an employee of or
counsel for the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary and who shall be reasonably
acceptable to the Trustee.
“Outstanding”
means,
as of the date of determination, all Notes theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Notes
theretofore canceled by the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation;
(ii) Notes,
or
portions thereof, for the payment, redemption or, in the case of a Change of
Control Offer, purchase of which money in the necessary amount has been
theretofor deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other than the
Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the
Company is acting as Paying Agent) for the Holders of such Notes; provided
that,
if
Notes (or portions thereof) are to be redeemed or purchased, notice of such
redemption or purchase has been duly given pursuant to this Indenture or
provision therefor satisfactory to the Trustee has been made;
(iii) Notes
which have been surrendered pursuant to Section
2.9 or
in exchange for or in lieu of which other Notes have been authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any such Notes in respect
of
which there shall have been presented to the Trustee proof satisfactory to
it
that such Notes are held by a protected purchaser
in whose hands such Notes are valid obligations of the Company; and
(iv) solely
to
the extent provided in Article VIII,
Notes
which are subject to Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance as provided in
Article VIII;
provided,
however, that
in
determining whether the Holders of the requisite aggregate principal amount
of
the Outstanding Notes have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, the Trustee shall disregard and deem not
to
be Outstanding Notes held by Persons not permitted to be used in such
determination as and to the extent provided in TIA § 316.
“Paying
Agent”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.3(a).
“Payment
Blockage Notice”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section 10.3.
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“Payor”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.21.
“Permitted
Asset Swap”
means
a
sale, transfer, assignment, disposition or other conveyance by the Company
or
any Restricted Subsidiary of all or any portion of its rights in a Concession
and/or Additional Concession that has been approved by the SCT and which relates
to radio spectrum of no more than 10.5 megahertz in the Cellular A-Band in
Region 5 in Mexico and no more than 8.0 megahertz in the Cellular A-Band in
Regions 6, 7 and 8 in Mexico in exchange for the rights of a Person in radio
spectrum of at least 8.0 megahertz in the Cellular A-Band in Regions 1, 2,
3 and
4 in Mexico pursuant to concessions and authorizations granted to such Person
by
the SCT and, if applicable, other consideration.
“Permitted
Business”
means
any business conducted by the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of
the
Issue Date and any business ancillary or complementary thereto.
“Permitted
Indebtedness”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.4(b).
“Permitted
Investments”
means:
(i) any
Investment in cash and Cash Equivalents;
(ii) any
Investment by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the Company or
a
Restricted Subsidiary or in any other Person, if as a result of such
Investment:
(A) such
Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or
(B) such
Person is merged or consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys
substantially all its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Company or one
of
its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(iii) investments
received as non-cash consideration in an Asset Sale made pursuant to and in
compliance with Section
3.7;
(iv) (A)
receivables owing to the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries created
or acquired in the ordinary course of business and payable or dischargeable
in
accordance with customary trade terms, (B) Hedging Contracts and any cash and
Cash Equivalents or other cash management investments or liquid or portfolio
securities pledged on collateral pursuant to Hedging Contracts, (C) endorsements
for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business, (D) securities,
instruments or other obligations (and related Hedging Contracts) received in
compromise or settlement of debts created in the ordinary course of business,
or
by reason of a composition or readjustment of debts or reorganization of another
Person, or in satisfaction of claims or judgments and (E) securities,
instruments or other obligations received solely in the ordinary course of
business (and related Hedging Contracts) received solely in connection with
mandatory or voluntary exchange offers set up by the federal, provincial or
municipal government of Mexico;
(v) payroll,
travel and other loans or advances to, or Guarantees issued to support the
obligations of, officers and employees, in each case in the ordinary course
of
business;
(vi) Mexican
Government Obligations (including those of the Central Bank), or
quasi-currencies, bonds and other obligations issued, guaranteed or insured
by
any state or municipality of Mexico, or certificates representing an ownership
interest in any of the foregoing, any of which shall have an Investment Grade
Rating;
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(vii) investments
in debt securities of corporate issuers with a Rating of at least AA or Aa
that
are accounted for as marketable securities;
(viii) any
repurchases of the Notes and the First Lien Notes; and
(ix) in
addition to Investments listed above, Investments in a Permitted Business in
an
aggregate amount, taken together with all other Investments made in reliance
on
this clause (ix), not to exceed U.S.$100,000,000 (or its equivalent in other
currencies) (net of, with respect to the Investment in any particular Person
made pursuant to this clause, the cash return thereon received after the Issue
Date as a result of any sale for cash, repayment, redemption, liquidating
distribution or other cash realization not to exceed the amount of such
Investments in such Person made after the Issue Date in reliance on this
clause).
“Permitted
Junior Securities”
means
any securities of the Company or any other Person that are:
(i) equity
securities without special covenants; or
(ii) unsecured
debt securities expressly subordinated in right of payment to all Senior
Indebtedness that may at the time be outstanding, to substantially the same
extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Notes are subordinated as provided
in this Indenture, and that have a final maturity date and a Weighted Average
Life to Maturity which is at least six months greater than the final maturity
of
such Senior Indebtedness (as modified or issued in exchange for Senior
Indebtedness by the plan of reorganization or other court order pursuant to
which such securities are issued).
“Permitted
Liens”
means:
(i) Liens
created pursuant to the Collateral Documents, including Liens securing the
Notes, Senior Indebtedness, the First Lien Notes, the Note Guarantees and the
Guarantees in respect of the First Lien Notes;
(ii) Liens
securing Senior Subordinated Indebtedness that are pari
passu
with the
Liens securing the Notes or the Note Guarantees, or that are expressly junior
to
the Liens created in favor of the Notes and First Lien Notes pursuant to the
Collateral Documents (including, without limitation, Liens securing Subordinated
Indebtedness);
(iii) Liens
in
existence on the Issue Date and as set forth in Schedule
A1 to
this
Indenture, and any renewals or extensions thereof, so long as (A) such renewal
or extension Lien does not extend to any property other than that originally
subject to the Liens being renewed or extended and (B) the principal amount
of
the Indebtedness secured by such Lien, if applicable, is not increased;
(iv) rights
of
set-off or similar rights and remedies as to deposit accounts or other funds
maintained with a creditor depository institution;
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(v) Liens
for
taxes not yet due or payable or subject to penalties for non-payment and which
are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(vi) Liens
in
favor of issuers of surety bonds, performance bonds, bankers’ acceptances or
letters of credit pursuant to the request or and for the account of such Person
in the ordinary course of its business and good faith deposits in connection
with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the payment of Indebtedness)
or
leases to which the Company is a party or deposits to secure the Company’s
public or statutory obligations;
(vii) leases,
subleases, survey exceptions, encumbrances, easement or reservations of, or
right of others for, licenses, rights of way, sewers, electric lines, telegraph
and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning and other restrictions
as to the use of real properties or Liens incidentally to the conduct of the
Company’s business or to the ownership of its properties which were not Incurred
in connection with Indebtedness and which do not in the aggregate materially
adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair their use
in
the operation of the business of such Person;
(viii) Liens
securing Purchase Money Indebtedness
Incurred
to finance the acquisition or leasing of property of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary used in a Permitted Business; provided
that:
(A) the
related Purchase Money Indebtedness does not exceed the cost of such property
together with the cost of the construction thereof and improvements thereto,
and
shall not be secured by any property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
other than the property so acquired or constructed and improvements
thereto;
and
(B) the
Lien
securing such Indebtedness shall be created within 180 days of such acquisition
or construction;
(ix) Liens
arising by reason of (A) any judgment, decree or order of any court, so long
as
such Lien is being contested in good faith and any appropriate legal proceedings
which may have been duly initiated for the review of such judgment, decree
or
order shall not have been finally terminated or the period within which such
proceedings may be initiated shall not have expired; (B) any interlocutory
or
temporary attachment order or measure in connection with an action or proceeding
during the pendency of such action or proceeding; (C) security for payment
of workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance laws or similar legislation;
and (D) operation of law in favor of warehousemen, landlords, mechanics,
material men, laborers, employees or suppliers or other similar liens imposed
by
law or by contract Incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums which
are not yet delinquent or are being contested in good faith by negotiations
or
by appropriate proceedings;
(x) Liens
created or established to comply with any applicable law, rule, regulation,
order, resolution, decree, directive or instruction of any federal, provincial
or municipal government of Mexico, or any agency or instrumentality thereof,
in
connection with the conduct of a Permitted Business that does not constitute
an
Event of Default specified in clause (ix) thereof;
(xi) Liens
securing any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness which is Incurred to refinance
any Indebtedness which has been secured by a Lien permitted under Section
3.8,
provided, that such new Liens are not materially more favorable to the
lienholders with respect to such Liens than the Liens in respect of the
Indebtedness being refinanced and do not extend to any property or assets other
than property or assets securing the Indebtedness refinanced by such Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness;
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(xii) Liens
in
favor of the Company or any Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary;
(xiii) any
interest or title of a lessor under a lease in respect a Sale and Leaseback
Transaction or giving rise to a Capitalized Lease Obligation;
(xiv) Liens
created pursuant to Qualified Securitization Transactions;
(xv) Liens
of
a bank, broker or securities intermediary on whose records a deposit account
or
a securities account of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is maintained
securing the payment of customary fees and commissions to the bank, broker
or
securities intermediary or, with respect to an deposit account, items deposited
but returned unpaid and other unexercised bankers Liens, which Liens (to the
extent not created by applicable law) are consistent with market terms and
do
not extend to assets other than assets maintained in any accounts maintained
by
such bank, broker or securities intermediary; and
(xvi) Liens
securing Indebtedness or other obligations in an amount not exceeding
U.S.$1,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currencies) at any one time
outstanding.
“Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness”
means
an extension or renewal of, replacement of, or substitution for, or issue of
Indebtedness in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to repay,
redeem, repurchase, refinance, extend or refund, including by way of defeasance
(all of the above, for purposes of this clause, “refinance”) other Indebtedness;
provided
that:
(i) (A)
Indebtedness so Incurred does not exceed the amount so refinanced (plus the
amount of any reasonable fees, expenses, premium, defeasance costs and accrued
but unpaid interest Incurred by the Company in connection with such
refinancing); or (B) the Indebtedness so Incurred is used exclusively to
refinance scheduled amortization payments up to the amount of the scheduled
amortization payments being refinanced;
(ii) such
Indebtedness is Incurred by the same Person (or, if such Person is a Restricted
Subsidiary, by such Person or the Company) which Incurred the Indebtedness
which
is being refinanced, and no additional security, collateral Guarantees or other
support is provided;
(iii) such
Indebtedness shall have a Weighted Average Life to Maturity that is equal to
or
greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Indebtedness being
refinanced as of the date of Incurrence of such Indebtedness; and
(iv) such
Indebtedness is subject to the terms and conditions of the Intercreditor and
Collateral Agency Agreement if the Indebtedness being so refinanced was subject
to them.
“Person”
means
any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, joint
venture, association, trust, unincorporated organization or government or any
agency or political subdivision thereof.
“Post-Petition
Interest”
means
all interest accrued or accruing after the commencement of any insolvency or
liquidation proceeding (and interest that would accrue but for the commencement
of any insolvency or liquidation proceeding) in accordance with and at the
contract rate (including, without limitation, any rate applicable upon default)
specified in the agreement or instrument creating, evidencing or governing
any
Indebtedness, whether or not, pursuant to applicable law or otherwise, the
claim
for such interest is allowed as a claim in such insolvency or liquidation
proceeding.
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“Preferred
Stock”
of
any
Person means any Capital Stock of such Person that has preferential rights
over
any other Capital Stock of such Person with respect to dividends, distributions
or redemptions or upon liquidation.
“Proceeds
from Qualified Securitization Transactions”
means,
for any period, the sum of (i) the Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company
or
any Restricted Subsidiary from any Qualified Securitization Transactions and
(ii) the
initial balance of the receivable of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
relating to the initial collateral (“aforo”)
of
Securitization Assets in such Qualified Securitization Transactions.
“Process
Agent”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
14.8.
“Purchase
Money Indebtedness”
means
Indebtedness Incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the
purchase price or cost of construction of any property; provided,
that
the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed the lesser
of the Fair Market Value of such property or such purchase price or cost,
including any refinancing of such Indebtedness that does not increase the
aggregate principal amount (or accreted amount, if less) thereof as of the
date
of refinancing.
“Qualified
Capital Stock”
means
all Capital Stock of a Person other than Disqualified Capital
Stock.
“Qualified
Securitization Transaction”
means
any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to which the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary may sell, convey, assign or otherwise transfer to a
Securitization Entity any Securitization Assets to obtain funding for subscriber
acquisition costs of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries and/or the
prepayment, repayment, redemption or repurchase of the Notes or First Lien
Notes
or for the payment of any amount due thereunder, in an aggregate principal
outstanding amount not to exceed U.S.$130,000,000 at any time:
(i) for
which
no term of any portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent
or otherwise) or securities Incurred or issued by any Person in connection
therewith:
(A) directly
or indirectly provides for recourse of any nature to, or any obligation of,
the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in any way, whether pursuant to a Guarantee
or otherwise, except for Standard Undertakings;
(B) directly
or indirectly subjects any property or asset of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary (other than Capital Stock of a Subsidiary) to the satisfaction
thereof, except for Standard Undertakings; or
(C) results
in such Indebtedness, other obligations or securities constituting Indebtedness
of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, including following a default
thereunder; and
(ii) for
which
the terms of any Affiliate Transaction between the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary, on the one hand, and any Securitization Entity, on the other, other
than Standard Undertakings and Permitted Investments, are no less favorable
than
those that could reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable
transaction at such time on an arm’s length basis from a Person that is not an
Affiliate of the Company.
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“Rating”
means
a
credit rating by any of S&P, Fitch or Xxxxx’x or any internationally
recognized statistical rating organization, including a statistical rating
organization recognized by the SEC as a “nationally recognized statistical
rating organization.”
“Record
Date”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in the Form of Face of Note contained in Exhibit A.
“Redemption
Date”
means,
with respect to any redemption of Notes, the date fixed for such redemption
pursuant to this Indenture and the Notes.
“Registrar”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.3(a).
“Related
Proceeding”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
14.8.
“Replacement
Assets”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.7.
“Replacement
Collateral”
means,
at any relevant date in connection with an Asset Sale or Event of Loss, assets
to be used in the business of the Company or its Subsidiaries, which on such
date (i) shall be upon receipt or purchase free and clear of all Liens other
than Permitted Liens, and (ii) are or shall become upon receipt or purchase
subject to Collateral Documents to which the owner of the Replacement Collateral
is or becomes a party.
“Representative”
means
any trustee, agent or representative (if any),
acting
for the benefit of holders or creditors, for
an
issue of Senior Indebtedness of the Company.
“Restricted
Payment”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.6.
“Restricted
Subsidiary”
means
any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company, other than an Unrestricted
Subsidiary.
“Restructured
2006 Notes”
means
the senior notes to be issued by Grupo Iusacell to restructure the 2006
Notes.
“Restructured
2006 Notes Payment”
means
the payment in cash to be made on the issue date of the Restructured 2006 Notes
in an amount not to exceed the amount of interest that would have accrued on
such Restructured 2006 Notes had they accrued interest at a rate of 10.00%
per
annum from January 1, 2006 through their issue date.
“Restructuring”
means
the restructuring of the Company’s (i) Tranche A Loans, (ii) Tranche B Loans and
(iii) 2004 Notes which was effected by means of the filing of a plan of
reorganization with a Mexican federal district court pursuant to the Mexican
Business Reorganization Act.
“Reversion
Date”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.20(a).
“Revocation”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.19.
“S&P”
means
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and its successors and
assigns.
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“Sale
and Leaseback Transaction”
means,
with respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, any transaction or
series of related transactions (excluding, however, any such transaction between
the Company and one or more Restricted Subsidiaries or between or among any
two
or more Restricted Subsidiaries) pursuant to which the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary sells or transfers any property in connection with the leasing,
or
the resale against installment payments, or as part of an arrangement involving
the leasing or resale against installment payments of such property to the
seller or transferor.
“Xxxxxxx
Group”
means
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx together with his parents, brothers, sisters, spouse,
and any former spouses, and any lineal descendants and spouses or former spouses
of any of the foregoing, any estate, guardian, custodian and other legal
representative of any of the foregoing, and Persons (including any trust or
similar legal entity) controlled by him or them.
“SCT”
means
the Secretaría
de Comunicaciones y Transportes of
Mexico,
and any
successor thereto.
“SEC”
means
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Second
Priority Lien Obligations”
means
all Obligations under the Notes, and any obligations in respect of Senior
Subordinated Indebtedness secured on a pari
passu basis
with the Notes so long as such obligations and pari
passu Liens
are
permitted under the provisions of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents,
together with any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness with respect thereto.
“Securities
Act”
means
the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Securitization
Assets”
means:
(i) accounts
receivable arising from the following: (A) Planes
Viva Control and
any
successor or comparable plans pursuant to which notes are issued and are, as
a
result, available for securitization; (B) Planes
a Tu Medida
and any
successor or comparable plans pursuant to which notes are issued and are, as
a
result, available for securitization; (C) “calling party pays” interconnections;
(D) national and international roaming services; and (E) national and
international long distance services;
(ii) leases,
conditional sale agreements, instruments, chattel paper, installment sale
contracts, obligations, general intangibles, and other similar assets, in each
case relating to inventory or services of the Company and its
Subsidiaries;
(iii) equipment
and equipment residuals relating to any of the foregoing;
(iv) contractual
rights, Guarantees, letters of credit, Liens, insurance proceeds, collections
and other similar assets, in each case related to the foregoing;
and
(v) proceeds
of all of the foregoing.
“Securitization
Entity”
means
a
Subsidiary or any other Person not an Affiliate of the Company, in each case
whose sole business activity is to engage in Qualified Securitization
Transactions, including to issue securities or other interests in connection
with a Qualified Securitization Transaction.
“Security
Currency”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
14.13(b).
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“Senior
Executive Officer”
means,
when used with respect to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries, the chief
executive officer, chief financial officer, chief administrative officer or
chief operating officer.
“Senior
Indebtedness”
means
any First Priority Lien Obligations.
“Senior
Subordinated Indebtedness”
means,
with respect to the Company, the Notes and, with respect to any Restricted
Subsidiary, such Restricted Subsidiary’s Note Guarantee, and any other
Indebtedness of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be,
that specifically provides that such Indebtedness ranks equal in right of
payment with the Notes or such Restricted Subsidiary’s Note Guarantee, as the
case may be, and that is subject to the terms of the Intercreditor and
Collateral Agency Agreement and is expressly subordinated in right of payment
to
the First Lien Notes, or the relevant Guarantees of the First Lien Notes, as
the
case may be.
“Special
Record Date”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
2.12(a).
“Standard
Undertakings”
means
representations, warranties, covenants, indemnities and similar obligations
entered into by the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in connection
with
a Qualified Securitization Transaction, which are customary in similar
non-recourse receivables securitization transactions and which do not cause
any
Indebtedness Incurred in connection therewith to constitute Indebtedness of
the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or a liability on the balance sheet of
the
Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries prepared in accordance with Mexican
GAAP,
including following a default thereunder.
“Subordinated
Indebtedness”
means,
with respect to the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, any Indebtedness
of
the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, which is subject
to the terms of the Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement and is
expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Notes and the First Lien
Notes
or the relevant Note Guarantees and the Guarantees of the First Lien Notes,
as
the case may be.
“Subsidiary,”
with
respect to any Person, means any other Person of which such Person owns,
directly or indirectly, more than 50% of the voting power of the Person’s
outstanding voting stock.
“Surviving
Entity”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
4.1.
“Suspended
Covenants”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.20(a).
“Suspended
Period”
has
the
meaning assigned to it in Section
3.20(a).
“Taxes”
means
any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, assessments
or
fees of any nature that are imposed by any government or other taxing
authority.
“TIA”
or
“Trust
Indenture Act”
means
the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended, as in effect on the date of this
Indenture (except as otherwise provided in this Indenture).
“Trade
Payables”
means,
with respect to any Person, any accounts payable or obligation or other accrued
liability to trade creditors created, assumed or Guaranteed by such Person
arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with the acquisition
of
such goods or services.
“Tranche
A Loans”
and
“Tranche
B Loans”
mean,
respectively, the Company’s U.S.$189,805,000 and U.S.$75,816,454 loans made, in
each case, pursuant to an amended and restated credit agreement dated as of
March 29, 2001 among the Company, XX Xxxxxx as sole bookrunner and lead
arranger, the arrangers party thereto and the Chase Manhattan Bank as
administrative and collateral agent.
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“Trustee”
means
the party named as such in the introductory paragraph of this Indenture until
a
successor replaces it in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and,
thereafter, means the successor.
“Trust
Officer”
means,
when used with respect to the Trustee, any officer within the corporate trust
department of the Trustee, who shall have direct responsibility for the
administration of this Indenture, or to whom any corporate trust matter is
referred because of such person’s knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
“UCC”
means
the Uniform Commercial Code in effect in the State of New York.
“Unrestricted
Subsidiary”
means
(i) Iusatelecomunicaciones, S.A. de C.V., (ii) Iusatel, S.A. de C.V.,
(iii) Iusatel USA, Inc., (iv) Punto a Punto Iusacell, S.A. de C.V., (v)
Infotelecom, S.A. de C.V., and (6) any other Subsidiary of the Company that
at
the time of determination has been designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary and
such designation has not been revoked in accordance with Section
3.19.
“U.S.”
and
“United
States”
mean
the United States of America.
“U.S.
Government Obligations”
means
obligations issued or directly and fully Guaranteed or insured by the United
States of America or by any agent or instrumentality thereof, provided,
that
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support
thereof.
“Voting
Stock”
with
respect to any Person, means securities of any class of Capital Stock of such
Person entitling the holders thereof (whether at all times or only so long
as no
senior class of stock has voting power by reason of any contingency) to vote
in
the election of members of the board of directors (or equivalent governing
body)
of such Person.
“Weighted
Average Life to Maturity”
means,
when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years (calculated
to
the nearest one-twelfth) obtained by dividing:
(i) the
then
outstanding aggregate principal amount or liquidation preference, as the case
may be, of such Indebtedness into
(ii) the
sum
of the products obtained by multiplying:
(A) the
amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or
other required payment of principal or liquidation preference, as the case
may
be, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by
(B) the
number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) which will elapse
between such date and the making of such payment.
“Wholly-Owned
Restricted Subsidiary”
means
any Restricted Subsidiary of which all of the outstanding Capital Stock (other
than in the case of a Restricted Subsidiary not organized in the United States,
directors’ qualifying shares or an immaterial amount of shares required to be
owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law) are owned by the Company
or
any other Person that satisfies this definition in respect of the
Company.
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Section
1.2. Incorporation
by Reference of Trust Indenture Act.
If any
provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties
that
would be imposed by any of Sections 310 to 317 of the TIA through
operation of Section 318(c) thereof on any person if this Indenture were
qualified under the TIA, such imposed duties shall control.
“obligor”
on
the
indenture securities means the Company and any other obligor on the indenture
securities.
All
other
TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the TIA, defined in the
TIA
by reference to another statute or defined by Rules or Regulations of the SEC
have the meanings assigned to them by such definitions.
Section
1.3. Rules
of Construction.
Unless
the context otherwise requires:
(a) a
term
has the meaning assigned to it;
(b) an
accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning assigned to it in
accordance with Mexican GAAP;
(c) “or”
is
not exclusive;
(d) “including”
means including without limitation;
(e) words
in
the singular include the plural and words in the plural include the
singular;
(f) references
to the payment of principal of the Notes shall include applicable premium,
if
any; and
(g) references
to payments on the Notes shall include Additional Amounts, if any.
ARTICLE
II
THE
NOTES
Section
2.1. Form
and Dating.
(a) The
Notes
will be issued in fully-registered certificated form without coupons, and only
in denominations of U.S.$1.00 and any integral multiple thereof. The Notes
and
the Trustee’s certificate of authentication shall be substantially in the form
of Exhibit A.
(b) The
terms
and provisions of the Notes, the form of which is in Exhibit A,
shall
constitute, and are hereby expressly made, a part of this Indenture, and, to
the
extent applicable, the Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries and the Trustee,
by
their execution and delivery of this Indenture, expressly agree to such terms
and provisions and to be bound thereby.
(c) The
Notes
may have notations, legends or endorsements as specified in Section
2.7 or
as otherwise required by law, stock exchange rule or DTC rule or usage. The
Company and the Trustee shall approve the form of the Notes and any notation,
legend or endorsement on them. Each Note shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
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Section
2.2. Execution
and Authentication.
(a) Two
Officers shall sign the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile signature.
If an Officer whose signature is on a Note no longer holds that office at the
time the Trustee authenticates the Note, the Note shall be valid nevertheless.
(b) A
Note
shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee manually
authenticates the Note. The signature of the Trustee on a Note shall be
conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such Note has been duly and
validly authenticated and issued under this Indenture.
(c) At
any
time and from time to time after the execution and delivery of this Indenture,
the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery Notes upon a
written order of the Company signed by two Officers or by an Officer and either
an Assistant Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary of the Company (the
“Company
Order”).
A
Company Order shall specify the amount of the Notes to be authenticated and
the
date on which the original issue of Notes is to be authenticated.
The
aggregate principal amount of Notes that may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture is limited to U.S.$[●]2 plus
the
amount of any Additional Notes and the amount of interest that is capitalized
pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
(d) The
Trustee may appoint an agent (the “Authenticating
Agent”)
reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate the Notes. Unless limited
by the terms of such appointment, any such Authenticating Agent may authenticate
Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to
authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by the Authenticating
Agent.
(e) In
case a
Surviving Entity has executed an indenture supplemental hereto with the Trustee
pursuant to Article IV,
any of
the Notes authenticated or delivered prior to such transaction may, from time
to
time, at the request of the Surviving Entity, be exchanged for other Notes
executed in the name of the Surviving Entity with such changes in phraseology
and form as may be appropriate, but otherwise identical to the Notes surrendered
for such exchange and of like principal amount; and the Trustee, upon Company
Order of the Surviving Entity, shall authenticate and deliver Notes as specified
in such order for the purpose of such exchange. If Notes shall at any time
be
authenticated and delivered in any new name of a Surviving Entity pursuant
to
this Section
2.2 in
exchange or substitution for or upon registration of transfer of any Notes,
such
Surviving Entity, at the option of the Holders but without expense to them,
shall provide for the exchange of all Notes at the time Outstanding for Notes
authenticated and delivered in such new name.
2
|
Note
to draft: Amount issued on Issue Date after taking into account
the Second
Lien Notes Restructuring Payment as described in the Information
Memorandum.
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Section
2.3. Registrar
and Paying Agent.
(a) The
Company shall maintain an office or agency in the Borough of Manhattan, City
of
New York, where Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of
transfer or for exchange (the “Registrar”),
where
Notes may be presented for payment (the “Paying
Agent”)
and
for the service of notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the
Notes and this Indenture. The Registrar shall keep a register of the Notes
and
of their transfer and exchange (the “Note
Register”).
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.
(b) The
Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with any Registrar,
Paying Agent or co-Registrar not a party to this Indenture, which shall
incorporate the terms of the TIA. The agreement shall implement the provisions
of this Indenture that relate to such agent. The Company shall notify the
Trustee of the name and address of each such agent. If the Company fails to
maintain a Registrar or Paying Agent, the Trustee shall act as such and shall
be
entitled to appropriate compensation therefor pursuant to Section
7.7.
The
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may act as Paying Agent, Registrar,
co-Registrar or transfer agent.
(c) The
Company initially appoints the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office as
Registrar and Paying Agent in connection with the Notes and this Indenture,
until such time as another Person is appointed as such.
Section
2.4. Paying
Agent to Hold Money in Trust.
The
Company shall require each Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to agree in
writing that such Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit of Holders
or
the Trustee all money held by such Paying Agent for the payment of principal
of
or interest on the Notes and shall notify the Trustee in writing of any Default
by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in making any such payment. If
the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or an Affiliate of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary acts as Paying Agent, it shall segregate the money held
by
it as Paying Agent and hold it as a separate trust fund. The Company at any
time
may require a Paying Agent (other than the Trustee) to pay all money held by
it
to the Trustee and to account for any funds disbursed by such Paying Agent.
Upon
complying with this Section
2.4,
the
Paying Agent (if other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) shall have
no further liability for the money delivered to the Trustee. Upon any proceeding
under any Insolvency Law with respect to the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary or any Affiliate of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, if
the
Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or such Affiliate is then acting as Paying
Agent, the Trustee shall replace the Company, such Restricted Subsidiary or
such
Affiliate as Paying Agent.
Section
2.5. Holder
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. If
the
Trustee is not the Registrar, or to the extent otherwise required under the
TIA,
the Company shall furnish to the Trustee, in writing at least seven Business
Days before 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
may reasonably require of the names and addresses of Holders.
Section
2.6. Global
Note Provisions.
(a) The
Notes
will be issued in the form of one or more permanent Global Notes. Each Global
Note initially shall: (i) be registered in the name of DTC or the nominee
of DTC, (ii) be delivered to the Note Custodian, and (iii) bear the
appropriate legend, as set forth in Section
2.7 and
Exhibit A.
Any
Global Note may be represented by more than one certificate. The aggregate
principal amount of each Global Note may from time to time be increased or
decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Note Custodian, as provided
in this Indenture.
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(b) Members
of, or participants in, DTC (“Agent
Members”)
shall
have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held on
their behalf by DTC or by the Note Custodian under such Global Note, and DTC
may
be treated by the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent and the Registrar
and
any of their agents as the absolute owner of such Global Note for all purposes
whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent or the Registrar or any of their agents
from giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization
furnished by DTC or impair, as between DTC and its Agent Members, the operation
of customary practices of DTC governing the exercise of the rights of an owner
of a beneficial interest in any Global Note. The registered Holder of a Global
Note may grant proxies and otherwise authorize any person, including Agent
Members and persons that may hold interests through Agent Members, to take
any
action that a Holder is entitled to take under this Indenture or the
Notes.
(c) Except
as
provided below, owners of beneficial interests in Global Notes will not be
entitled to receive Certificated Notes. Certificated Notes shall be issued
to
all owners of beneficial interests in a Global Note in exchange for such
interests if:
(i) DTC
notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as depositary
for such Global Note or DTC ceases to be a clearing agency registered under
the
Exchange Act, at a time when DTC is required to be so registered in order to
act
as depositary, and in each case a successor depositary is not appointed by
the
Company within 90 days of such notice;
(ii) the
Company executes and delivers to the Trustee and Registrar an Officers’
Certificate stating that such Global Note shall be so exchangeable;
or
(iii) an
Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has received a
request from DTC.
In
connection with the exchange of an entire Global Note for Certificated Notes
pursuant to this Section
2.6(c),
such
Global Note shall be deemed to be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation,
and the Company shall execute, and upon Company Order the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner identified by DTC in exchange
for its beneficial interest in such Global Note, an equal aggregate principal
amount of Certificated Notes of authorized denominations.
Section
2.7. Legends.
Each
Global Note shall bear the legend specified therefor in Exhibit A
on the
face thereof.
Section
2.8. Transfer
and Exchange.
(a) Transfers
of a Global Note shall be limited to transfers of such Global Note in whole,
but
not in part, to nominees of DTC or to a successor of DTC or such successor’s
nominee.
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(b) When
Notes are presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to
register the transfer of such Notes or to exchange such Notes for an equal
principal amount of Notes of other authorized denominations, the Registrar
or
co-Registrar shall register the transfer or make the exchange as requested
if
its requirements for such transaction are met; provided
that any
Notes presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall
be
duly endorsed or accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Registrar or co-Registrar, duly executed
by
the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit
registrations of transfers and exchanges and subject to the other terms and
conditions of this Article II,
the
Company will execute and upon Company Order the Trustee will authenticate Notes
at the Registrar’s or co-Registrar’s written request.
(i) No
service charge shall be made to a Holder for any registration of transfer or
exchange, but the Company or the Trustee 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 charges payable upon exchange or transfer pursuant to
Section
3.7,
Section 3.22,
Section
5.1
or Section
9.6).
(ii) The
Registrar or co-Registrar shall not be required to register the transfer of
or
exchange of any Note for a period beginning: (1) 15 days before the mailing
of a notice of an offer to repurchase or redeem Notes and ending at the close
of
business on the day of such mailing or (2) 15 days before an Interest
Payment Date and ending on such Interest Payment Date.
(iii) Prior
to
the due presentation for registration of transfer of any Note, the Company,
the
Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any co-Registrar may deem and treat
the person in whose name a Note is registered as the absolute owner of such
Note
for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of and interest on such Note
and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Note is overdue,
and
none of the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar or any
co-Registrar shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
(iv) All
Notes
issued upon any registration of transfer or exchange pursuant to the terms
of
this Indenture shall evidence the same debt and shall be entitled to the same
benefits under this Indenture as the Notes surrendered upon such registration of
transfer or exchange.
(c) The
Trustee shall have no responsibility or obligation to any beneficial owner
of an
interest in a Global Note, a member of, or a participant in, DTC or other Person
with respect to the accuracy of the records of DTC or its nominee or of any
participant or member thereof, with respect to any ownership interest in the
Notes or with respect to the delivery to any participant, member, beneficial
owner or other Person (other than DTC) of any notice (including any notice
of
redemption) or the payment of any amount or delivery of any Notes (or other
security or property) under or with respect to such Notes. All notices and
communications to be given to the Holders and all payments to be made to Holders
in respect of the Notes shall be given or made only to or upon the order of
the
registered Holders (which shall be DTC or its nominee in the case of a Global
Note). The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in relying upon
information furnished by DTC with respect to its members, participants and
any
beneficial owners.
(d) The
Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other written
communications received pursuant to this Article
II.
The
Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters,
notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving
of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.
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Section
2.9. Mutilated,
Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Notes.
(a) If
a
mutilated Note is surrendered to the Registrar or if the Holder of a Note claims
that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the Company shall
execute and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement
Note
if the requirements of Section 8-405 of the UCC are met and the Holder
satisfies any other reasonable requirements of the Trustee and the Company.
If
required by the Trustee or the Company, such Holder shall furnish an affidavit
of loss and indemnity bond sufficient in the judgment of the Company and the
Trustee to protect the Company, the Trustee, the Paying Agent, the Registrar
and
any co-Registrar from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Note is
replaced, and, in the absence of notice to the Company or the Trustee that
such
Note has been acquired by a protected purchaser, the Company shall execute
and
upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, in exchange for any such mutilated Note or in lieu of any such
destroyed, lost or stolen Note, a new Note of like tenor and principal amount,
bearing a number not contemporaneously Outstanding.
(b) Upon
the
issuance of any new Note under this Section
2.9,
the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses of the Company (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee and
counsel) in connection therewith.
(c) Every
new
Note issued pursuant to this Section
2.9
in
exchange for any mutilated Note, or in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Note, shall constitute an original additional contractual obligation of the
Company, any Restricted Subsidiary and any other obligor upon the Notes, whether
or not the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Note shall be at any time
enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all benefits of this Indenture
equally and proportionately with any and all other Notes duly issued
hereunder.
(d) The
provisions of this Section
2.9
are
exclusive and shall preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and
remedies with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed,
lost or stolen Notes.
Section
2.10. Temporary
Notes.
Until
definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may execute and upon
Company Order the Trustee will authenticate temporary Notes. Temporary Notes
will be substantially in the form of definitive Notes but may have variations
that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes. Without unreasonable
delay, the Company will prepare and execute and upon Company Order the Trustee
will authenticate definitive Notes. After the preparation of definitive Notes,
the temporary Notes will be exchangeable for definitive Notes upon surrender
of
the temporary Notes at any office or agency maintained by the Company for that
purpose and such exchange shall be without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender
for cancellation of any one or more temporary Notes, the Company will execute
and upon Company Order the Trustee will authenticate and make available for
delivery in exchange therefor one or more definitive Notes representing an
equal
principal amount of Notes. Until so exchanged, the Holder of temporary Notes
shall in all respects be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture
as a
Holder of definitive Notes.
Section
2.11. Cancellation.
The
Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for cancellation. The
Registrar and the Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Notes
surrendered to them for registration of transfer, exchange or payment. The
Trustee and no one else shall cancel and dispose of cancelled Notes in
accordance with its policy of disposal or return to the Company all Notes
surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment or cancellation.
The
Company may not issue new Notes to replace Notes it has paid or delivered to
the
Trustee for cancellation for any reason other than in connection with a transfer
or exchange upon Company Order.
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Section
2.12. Defaulted
Interest.
When
any installment of interest becomes Defaulted Interest, such installment shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders in whose names the Notes were
registered on the Record Date applicable to such installment of interest.
Defaulted Interest (including any interest on such Defaulted Interest) may
be
paid by the Company, at its election, as provided in Section
2.12(a)
or Section
2.12(b).
(a) The
Company may elect to make payment of any Defaulted Interest (including any
interest on such Defaulted Interest) to the Holders in whose names the Notes
are
registered at the close of business on a special record date for the payment
of
such Defaulted Interest (a “Special
Record Date”),
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 and the date
of
the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company shall deposit with the
Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid
in
respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory
to
the Trustee for such deposit prior to the date of the proposed payment, such
money when deposited to be held in trust for the benefit of the Holders entitled
to such Defaulted Interest as provided in this Section
2.12(a).
The
Trustee shall then fix a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be not more than 15 calendar days and not less than ten
calendar days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than ten
calendar 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 sent, first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder at such
Holder’s address as it appears in the registration books of the Registrar, not
less than ten calendar 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
Holders in whose names the Notes are registered at the close of business on
such
Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to Section
2.12(b).
(b) Alternatively,
the Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest (including any interest
on such Defaulted Interest) in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with
the
requirements of any securities exchange on which the Notes 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 Section
2.12(b),
such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
(c) The
Company in issuing the Notes may use “CUSIP” numbers (if then generally in use)
and, if so, the Trustee shall use “CUSIP” numbers in notices of redemption as a
convenience to Holders; provided,
however, that neither the Company nor the Trustee shall have any responsibility
for any defect in the “CUSIP” number that appears on any Note, check, advice of
payment or redemption notice, and any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed
on the Notes or as contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance
may
be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the Notes, and
any
such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such
numbers. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change
in the CUSIP number.
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Section
2.13. Additional
Notes
(a)
The
Company may, from time to time, subject to compliance with any other applicable
provisions of this Indenture, without the consent of the Holders, create and
issue pursuant to this Indenture additional notes (“Additional
Notes”)
that
shall have terms and conditions identical to those of the other Outstanding
Notes, except with respect to:
(i)
the
issue date;
(ii)
the
amount of interest payable on the first Interest Payment Date
therefor;
(iii)
the
issue price;
(iv)
any
adjustments necessary in order to conform to and ensure compliance with the
Securities Act (or other applicable securities laws) and any registration rights
or similar agreement applicable to such Additional Notes, which are not adverse
in any material respect to the Holder of any Outstanding Notes (other than
such
Additional Notes); and
(v)
any
additional interest payable as provided in Section
2.14.
The
Notes
issued on the Issue Date and any Additional Notes shall be treated as a single
class for all purposes under this Indenture.
(b)
With
respect to any Additional Notes, the Company will set forth in an Officers’
Certificate pursuant to a resolution of the Board of Directors of the Company
(the “Additional
Note Board Resolutions”),
copies of which will be delivered to the Trustee, the following
information:
(i)
the
aggregate principal amount of such Additional Notes to be authenticated and
delivered pursuant to this Indenture;
(ii)
the
issue date and the issue price of such Additional Notes; provided
that no
Additional Notes may be issued at a price that would cause such Additional
Notes
to have an amount of "original issue discount" (within the meaning of Section
1273 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended) that differs from that
of
the Notes; and
(iii)
whether such Additional Notes will be subject to transfer restrictions under
the
Securities Act (or other applicable securities laws).
Section
2.14. Additional
Interest Under Registration Rights Agreements.
Under
certain circumstances, the Company may be obligated to pay additional interest
or liquidated damages to Holders, all as and to the extent set forth in any
registration rights agreement applicable to Additional Notes. The terms thereof
are hereby incorporated herein by reference and such additional interest or
liquidated damages is deemed to be interest for purposes of this
Indenture.
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ARTICLE
III
COVENANTS
Section
3.1. Payment
of Notes.
(a) The
Company shall pay the principal of and interest (including Defaulted Interest)
on the Notes in Dollars on the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes
and
in this Indenture. Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each Interest
Payment Date and the Maturity Date, the Company shall deposit with the Paying
Agent in immediately available funds Dollars sufficient to make Dollar payments
due on such Interest Payment Date or Maturity Date, as the case may be. If
the
Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or an Affiliate of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary is acting as Paying Agent, the Company, such Restricted Subsidiary
or
such Affiliate shall, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each
Interest Payment Date and the Maturity Date, segregate and hold in trust Dollars
sufficient to make Dollar payments due on such Interest Payment Date or Maturity
Date, as the case may be. Principal and interest shall be considered paid on
the
date due if on such date the Trustee or the Paying Agent (other than the
Company, a Restricted Subsidiary or an Affiliate of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary) holds in accordance with this Indenture Dollars designated for
and
sufficient to pay all principal and interest then due and the Trustee or the
Paying Agent, as the case may be, is not prohibited from paying such money
to
the Holders on that date pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture, the Company may, to the
extent it is required to do so by law, deduct or withhold income or other
similar taxes imposed by the United States of America from principal or interest
payments hereunder.
Section
3.2. Maintenance
of Office or Agency.
(a) The
Company shall maintain each office or agency required under Section
2.3.
The
Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any change in the
location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail
to
maintain any such required office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee
with the address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands
may be made or served at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee as its agent to receive all such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands.
(b) The
Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or
agencies (in or outside of The City of New York) where the Notes may be
presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time to
time
rescind any such designation; 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 City of New York for such
purposes. The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
such designation or rescission and any change in the location of any such other
office or agency.
Section
3.3. Corporate
Existence.
Subject
to Article IV,
the
Company shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and keep
in full force and effect its corporate existence.
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Section
3.4. Limitation
on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.
(a) The
Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, incur any Indebtedness, including
Acquired Indebtedness, except that the Company and any Restricted Subsidiary
may
Incur Indebtedness, including Acquired Indebtedness, if:
(i) at
the
time of and immediately after giving pro forma effect to the Incurrence thereof
and the application of proceeds therefrom, the Consolidated Total Indebtedness
to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio of the Company is less than or equal to
4.25:1;
(ii) at
the
time of and immediately after giving pro forma effect to the Incurrence thereof
and the application of proceeds therefrom, no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing;
(iii) other
than Capitalized Lease Obligations or Attributable Indebtedness in respect
of a
Sale and Leaseback Transaction, such Indebtedness is Senior Subordinated
Indebtedness or Subordinated Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, as applicable;
(iv) the
Indebtedness does not require scheduled or other payments of principal prior
to
the Maturity Date; and
(v) the
Indebtedness has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity greater than the Weighted
Average Life to Maturity of the Notes as of the date of such
Incurrence.
(b) Notwithstanding
Section
3.4(a),
the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable, may Incur the following
Indebtedness (“Permitted
Indebtedness”):
(i) Indebtedness
Incurred in connection with the Restructuring;
(ii) Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness;
(iii) Purchase
Money Indebtedness, Capitalized Lease Obligations and Attributable Indebtedness
in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions not to exceed U.S.$120,000,000
in
an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding (or its equivalent in
other currencies);
(iv) Indebtedness
in respect of Hedging Contracts;
(v) Indebtedness
not at any time in excess of an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (1)
U.S.$15,000,000 in respect of surety bonds provided by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business to secure rental
payments in connection with the lease of any cell site, repeater, microwave
and/or antennae tower structures or any space on such tower structures or any
other lease of real property (including ground leases and the lease of
buildings), (2) U.S.$20,000,000 in respect of surety bonds provided by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business
to
secure their telecommunications concessions or bids for telecommunications
concessions (and any payments due to Government Authorities thereunder), permits
and similar governmental instruments with respect to concessions, payments
under
interconnection agreements with other telecommunication carriers and payments
under other agreements with other telecommunications carriers, and (3)
U.S.$10,000,000 in respect of performance bonds, bankers’ acceptances, letters
of credit and surety bonds which constitute Indebtedness provided by the Company
or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of their business and which
do not secure other Indebtedness;
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(vi) Indebtedness
arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check,
draft or similar instrument inadvertently (including daylight overdrafts paid
in
full by the close of business on the day such overdraft was Incurred) drawn
against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided,
that
such Indebtedness is extinguished within two business days of
Incurrence;
(vii) Indebtedness
owed to the Company or any of its Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries so long
as such Indebtedness continues to be owed to the Company or any Wholly-Owned
Restricted Subsidiary;
(viii) Guarantees
by any Restricted Subsidiary of Indebtedness of the Company or any other
Restricted Subsidiary permitted under this Indenture; provided,
that if
any such Guarantee is of Subordinated Indebtedness, then the Note Guarantee
of
such Restricted Subsidiary shall be senior to such Restricted Subsidiary’s
Guarantee of such Subordinated Indebtedness;
(ix) Indebtedness
arising out of a Qualified Securitization Transaction;
(x) Subordinated
Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred
on or
after the Issue Date not otherwise permitted in an aggregate principal amount
at
any time outstanding not to exceed U.S.$20,000,000 (or its equivalent in other
currencies); and
(xi) Senior
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness outstanding under sub-clauses (i) through
(x) of this clause (b), but including Indebtedness in respect of the First
Lien
Notes) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed U.S.$189,805,000 at any
one time outstanding; provided
that the
First Lien Notes are not outstanding at the time of (or after giving effect
to
the application of proceeds from) the Incurrence of Indebtedness pursuant to
this clause (xi).
(c) For
purposes of determining compliance with, and the outstanding principal amount
of
any particular Indebtedness Incurred pursuant to and in compliance with, this
Section
3.4,
the
amount of Indebtedness issued at a price that is less than the principal amount
thereof shall be equal to the amount of the liability in respect thereof
determined in accordance with Mexican GAAP. The accrual of interest, the
accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the payment of regularly
scheduled interest in the form of additional Indebtedness of the same instrument
or the payment of regularly scheduled dividends on Disqualified Capital Stock
in
the form of additional Disqualified Capital Stock with the same terms shall
not
be deemed to be an Incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section
3.4.
Section
3.5. Limitation
on Capital Expenditures.
(a) The
Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary
to,
directly or indirectly, make Consolidated Capital Expenditures in any fiscal
year to the extent that the aggregate Consolidated Capital Expenditures of
the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries made in such fiscal year would exceed
the following amounts (or in each case their equivalents in other
currencies):
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Fiscal
Year
|
Maximum
Consolidated Capital Expenditures (Greater of)
|
|
2006
|
U.S.$70,000,000
or 9% of Consolidated Gross Revenues for such fiscal
year
|
|
2007
|
U.S.$115,000,000
or 13% of Consolidated Gross Revenues for such fiscal
year
|
|
2008
|
U.S.$120,000,000
or 12% of Consolidated Gross Revenues for such fiscal
year
|
|
2009
|
U.S.$110,000,000
or 10% of Consolidated Gross Revenues for such fiscal
year
|
|
2010
|
U.S.$110,000,000
or 9% of Consolidated Gross Revenues for such fiscal
year
|
|
2011
and thereafter
|
U.S.$95,000,000
or 8% of Consolidated Gross Revenues for such fiscal
year.
|
(b) Notwithstanding
Section
3.5(a),
the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be entitled to make the following
Consolidated Capital Expenditures, which shall not be considered Consolidated
Capital Expenditures subject to Section
3.5(a):
(i) in
an
amount equal to the amount of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary after the Issue Date from any
(1) contribution to the equity capital of the Company not representing an
interest in Disqualified Capital Stock or that represents an issuance and sale
of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company, in each case, subsequent to the
Issue
Date and, in each case, to the extent such Net Cash Proceeds are not required
to
be applied to the redemption of the Notes and/or First Lien Notes or (2) to
the
extent otherwise permitted under this Indenture, Asset Sales by the Company
or a
Restricted Subsidiary of long-term assets (as determined in accordance with
Mexican GAAP), Sale and Leaseback Transactions of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary (whose lease obligations are Indebtedness permitted under
Section
3.4)
or
Incurrence of Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary,
provided
that, in
the case and at the time of such an Asset Sale, Sale and Leaseback Transaction
or Incurrence of Indebtedness, no Material Default has occurred and is
continuing;
(ii) in
an
amount up to U.S.$15,000,000 per fiscal year to the extent required as a result
of a change in any concession, law or regulation that requires expenditures
by
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary on a mandatory basis and for which
the
Company provides an Officers’ Certificate and reasonable supporting
documentation evidencing such new requirement to the Trustee; and
(iii) in
any
subsequent fiscal year in an amount equal to the percentage set forth in the
following table of the maximum Consolidated Capital Expenditures permitted
to be
made in any prior fiscal year pursuant to Section
3.5(a)
but not
made during such year, which percentage is calculated based on the Consolidated
Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio of the Company as of the end
of
such prior fiscal year:
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Consolidated
Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio
|
Carry
Forward Amount
|
||
>
4.0:1
|
0%
|
||
>3.5
and ≤ 4.0:1
|
25%
|
||
>3.0:1
and ≤ 3.5:1
|
50%
|
||
≤
3.0:1
|
100%
|
Section
3.6. Limitation
on Restricted Payments.
(a) The
Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, take any of the following actions
(each, a “Restricted
Payment”):
(i) declare
or pay any dividend or return of capital or make any distribution (whether
in cash, securities or other property) on
or in
respect of shares of Capital Stock of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary
(including any payment in connection with any merger or consolidation involving
the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries)
other
than (A) any dividends or distributions in the form of Qualified Capital Stock
of the Company, (B) dividends, distributions or returns of capital payable
to
the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary, and (C) dividends, distributions or
returns of capital made on a pro rata basis to the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries on the one hand, and minority holders of Capital Stock of a
Restricted Subsidiary on the other hand (or on a less than a pro rata basis
to
any minority holder);
(ii) purchase,
redeem or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the
Company;
(iii) repay,
prepay, redeem, repurchase, defease or otherwise acquire or retire for value,
or
make any principal payment on or with respect to, any Subordinated Indebtedness
prior to any scheduled maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund
payment, other than any intercompany Indebtedness between or among the Company
and/or any Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries; or
(iv) make
any
Investments (other than Permitted Investments);
if
at the
time of the Restricted Payment and immediately after giving effect
thereto:
(A) a
Default
or an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(B) the
Consolidated Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio of the Company
is
greater than 4.0:1;
(C) the
cash
and Cash Equivalents of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries is less
than
U.S.$5,000,000; or
(D) the
aggregate amount (the amount expended for these purposes, if other than in
cash,
being the Fair Market Value of the relevant property) of the proposed Restricted
Payment and all other Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date
up
to the date thereof, less any Investment Return calculated as of the date
thereof, shall exceed the sum of:
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(aa) 65%
of
cumulative Consolidated Adjusted Net Income of the Company or, if cumulative
Consolidated Adjusted Net Income of the Company is a loss, minus 100% of the
loss, accrued during the period, treated as one accounting period, beginning
on
the first full fiscal quarter after the Issue Date to the end of the most recent
fiscal quarter for which consolidated financial information of the Company
is
available; plus
(bb) 100%
of
the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds received by the Company from any Person from
any:
(i) contribution
to the equity capital of the Company that represents an issuance and sale of
Qualified Capital Stock of the Company, in each case, subsequent to the Issue
Date; or
(ii) issuance
and sale subsequent to the Issue Date (and, in the case of Indebtedness of
a
Restricted Subsidiary, at such time as it was a Restricted Subsidiary) of any
Indebtedness of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that has been converted
into or exchanged for Qualified Capital Stock of the Company;
excluding,
in each case, any Net Cash Proceeds:
(AA) received
from a Subsidiary of the Company;
(BB) used
to
redeem Indebtedness under Section
5.8;
(CC)
used
to
acquire Capital Stock or other assets from an Affiliate of the Company;
or
(DD) applied
in accordance with Section
3.6(b)(iii)
or
Section
3.6(b)(iv).
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, and for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this Section
3.6
shall be
deemed to prohibit:
(i) if
no
Material Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the payment of any
dividend or the making of any distribution to permit the timely payment of
(A)
the Restructured 2006 Notes Payment, and (B) the timely payment of cash interest
(including any additional amounts with respect thereto), trustee’s fees and
other amounts (including any customary expenses) payable in cash under or in
respect of any agreement governing (x) the 2006 Notes and/or any Indebtedness
of
Grupo Iusacell following the restructuring of the 2006 Notes (including, in
each
case, any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness for such Indebtedness); and (y)
additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any
time
not to exceed U.S.$10,000,000 and with an annual interest rate not to exceed
10%, in each such case as long as no dividends are paid in respect of interest
payments that are capitalized by Grupo Iusacell;
(ii) the
payment of any dividend within 60 days after the date of declaration of such
dividend if the dividend would have been permitted on the date of declaration
pursuant to Section
3.6(a);
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(iii) if
no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the
acquisition of any shares of Capital Stock of the Company,
(A) in
exchange for Qualified Capital Stock of the Company; or
(B) through
the application of the net cash proceeds received by the Company from a
substantially concurrent sale of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or
a
contribution to the equity capital of the Company not representing an interest
in Disqualified Capital Stock, in each case not received from a Subsidiary
of
the Company;
provided,
that
the value of any such Qualified Capital Stock issued in exchange for such
acquired Capital Stock and any such net cash proceeds shall be excluded from
Section
3.6(a)(D)(bb)
(and
were not included therein at any time);
(iv) if
no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the voluntary
prepayment, purchase, defeasance, redemption or other acquisition or retirement
for value of any Subordinated Indebtedness solely in exchange for, or through
the application of net cash proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale, other
than to a Subsidiary of the Company, of:
(A) Qualified
Capital Stock of the Company; or
(B) Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness for such Subordinated Indebtedness;
provided,
that
the value of any Qualified Capital Stock issued in exchange for Subordinated
Indebtedness and any net cash proceeds referred to above shall be excluded
from
Section
3.6(a)(D)(bb)
(and
were not included therein at any time); and
(v) any
payments permitted to be made pursuant to Section
3.9(b)(ii)
through
Section
3.9(b)(v).
(c) In
determining the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made subsequent to
the
Issue Date, amounts expended pursuant to Section
3.6(b)(ii)
without
duplication for the declaration of the relevant dividend shall be included
in
such calculation and amounts expended pursuant to Section
3.6(b)(iii)
and
Section
3.6(b)(iv)
shall
not be included in such calculation.
Section
3.7. Limitation
on Asset Sales and Events of Loss.
(a) Asset
Sales.
(i) The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
to,
consummate an Asset Sale unless:
(A) the
Company or the applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives
consideration at the time of the Asset Sale at least equal to the Fair Market
Value of the assets sold or otherwise disposed of; and
(B) except
in
the case of a Permitted Asset Swap, at least 80% of the consideration received
for the assets sold by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case
may
be, in the Asset Sale shall be in the form of cash and Cash
Equivalents.
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(ii) The
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, may apply the Net
Cash Proceeds of any such Asset Sale within 365 days of the receipt thereof
to:
(A) purchase
property, plant or equipment (excluding working capital for the avoidance of
doubt) to be used by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary in a Permitted
Business (“Replacement
Assets”);
(B) purchase
Capital Stock of a Person engaged solely in a Permitted Business from a Person
other than the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, which Person shall
not
have any Liens on its assets or property upon purchase other than Permitted
Liens and which Person shall become, upon purchase, a Restricted Subsidiary;
or
(C) prepay,
repay, redeem, repurchase or retire any Indebtedness for borrowed money or
constituting a Capitalized Lease Obligation or Attributable Indebtedness in
respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions (other than Subordinated
Indebtedness) and permanently reduce the commitments, if any, with respect
thereto;
provided,
that
the Company shall deposit, or shall cause the Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case
may be, to deposit, any Net Cash Proceeds from an Asset Sale in excess of
U.S.$20,000,000 in
a
blocked,
interest
bearing cash collateral account subject
to a second-priority Lien securing the Notes
pending
application of it in accordance with this Section
3.7
and
upon
application of any Net Cash Proceeds from an Asset Sale of Collateral shall
cause any
Replacement Collateral received or purchased in connection with such an Asset
Sale of Collateral to
be
subject to a second-priority Lien securing the Notes and
constitute Collateral for all purposes hereunder. Any Net Cash Proceeds in
the
interest bearing cash collateral account shall be maintained in the form of
cash
and Cash Equivalents, and any interest thereon shall be payable to the Company
or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be.
(iii) Any
Net
Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale that are not applied by the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, within the 365-day period from the
receipt thereof shall be applied to make an Asset Sale Offer in accordance
with
the terms set forth below in Section
3.7(c).
(iv) Notwithstanding
Section
3.7(a),
the
Company shall cause any assets or property received by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary in respect of a Permitted Asset Swap to be Replacement
Collateral subject to a second-priority Lien securing the Notes and constitute
Collateral for all purposes hereunder.
(b) Events
of
Loss.
(i) If
the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary suffers an Event of Loss, any Net Cash
Proceeds therefrom in excess of U.S.$20,000,000 shall be deposited by the
Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in an interest bearing
cash collateral account subject
to a second-priority Lien securing the Notes
pending
application of it in accordance with this Section
3.7.
Any Net
Cash Proceeds in
the
interest bearing cash collateral account shall
be
maintained in the form of cash and Cash Equivalents, and any interest thereon
shall be payable to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be. Any Net Cash Proceeds from an Event of Loss that is described in clause
(iii) of the definition thereof shall be applied by the Company to make an
Asset
Sale Offer in accordance with the terms set
forth
in
Section
3.7(c).
Any Net
Cash Proceeds from an Event of Loss that is described in clauses (i) or (ii)
of
the definition thereof may be applied by the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary within 365 days of the receipt thereof to (A) purchase
Replacement Assets from a Person other than the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries or (B) prepay, repay, redeem, repurchase or retire any Indebtedness
for borrowed money or constituting a Capitalized Lease Obligation or
Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Sale and Leaseback Transactions (other
than Subordinated Indebtedness) and permanently reduce the commitments, if
any,
with respect thereto.
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(ii) Any
Net
Cash Proceeds from any Event of Loss that is described in clauses (i) or (ii)
of
the definition thereof that are not applied by the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, within the 365-day period from the receipt
thereof shall be applied to make an Asset Sale Offer in accordance with the
terms set forth in Section
3.7(c).
(c) Asset
Sale Offer.
(i) To
the
extent all or a portion of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale or Event
of
Loss required to be applied are not applied as described in the foregoing
paragraphs of this Section
3.7
on or
prior to last day (the “Asset
Sale Offer Trigger Date”)
for
the application of such proceeds therefor, the Company shall make an offer
to
purchase Notes (the “Asset
Sale Offer”),
at a
purchase price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be
purchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, to the date of purchase
(the “Asset
Sale Offer Amount”).
The
Company shall purchase pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer from all tendering
Holders on a pro rata basis, that principal amount of Notes to be purchased
equal to such unapplied Net Cash Proceeds.
(ii) Each
notice of an Asset Sale Offer shall be mailed first class, postage prepaid,
to
the Holders as of a date within 60 days following such Asset Sale Offer Trigger
Date, with a copy to the Trustee, offering to purchase the Notes as described
above. Each notice of an Asset Sale Offer shall state, among other things,
the
purchase date, which must be no earlier than 30 days nor later than 60 days
from
the date the notice is mailed, other than as may be required by law (the
“Asset
Sale Offer Payment Date”).
Upon
receiving notice of an Asset Sale Offer, Holders may elect to tender their
Notes
in whole or in part in integral multiples of U.S.$1,000 in exchange for
cash.
(iii) On
the
Asset Sale Offer Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent
lawful:
(A) accept
for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered pursuant to the
Asset Sale Offer;
(B) deposit
with the Paying Agent funds in an amount equal to the Asset Sale Offer Amount
in
respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered; and
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(C) deliver
or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes so accepted together with
an
Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or
portions thereof being purchased by the Issuer.
(iv) To
the
extent Holders that are the subject of an Asset Sale Offer properly tender
and
do not withdraw Notes in an aggregate amount exceeding the available amount
of
unapplied Net Cash Proceeds, the Company shall purchase the Notes on a pro
rata
basis (based on amounts tendered). If only a portion of a Note is purchased
pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer, a Note in a principal amount equal to the
portion thereof not purchased shall be issued in the name of the Holder thereof
upon cancellation of the original Note (or appropriate adjustments to the amount
and beneficial interests in a Global Note shall be made, as appropriate). Notes
(or portions thereof) purchased pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer shall be
cancelled and cannot be reissued.
(v) Upon
completion of an Asset Sale Offer, the amount of Net Cash Proceeds shall be
reset at zero. To the extent that the aggregate amount of Notes tendered
pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer is less than the aggregate amount of unapplied
Net Cash Proceeds the Company may use any remaining Net Cash Proceeds for
general corporate purposes of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
(vi) The
Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange
Act
and any other applicable securities laws in connection with the purchase of
Notes pursuant to an Asset Sale Offer. To the extent that the provisions of
any
applicable securities laws or regulations conflict with Section
3.7(c),
the
Company shall comply with these laws and regulations and shall not be deemed
to
have breached its obligations under this Section
3.7(c)
by doing
so.
(vii) In
the
event of the transfer of substantially all (but not all) of the property and
assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as an entirety to a Person
(other than the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary) in a transaction permitted
under Article
IV,
the
Surviving Entity shall be deemed to have sold the properties and assets of
the
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries not so transferred for purposes of
this
Section
3.7,
and
shall comply with the provisions of this Section
3.7
with
respect to the deemed sale as if it were an Asset Sale. In addition, the Fair
Market Value of properties and assets of the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries so deemed to be sold shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds for
purposes of this Section
3.7.
(viii) If
at any
time any non-cash consideration received by the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, in connection with any Asset Sale or Event
of
Loss is converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash (other than
interest received with respect to any non-cash consideration), the conversion
or
disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale or an Event of Loss
hereunder and the Net Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance
with
this Section
3.7
within
the applicable time period from such conversion or disposition as set forth
above.
Section
3.8. Limitation
on Liens.
The
Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any Restricted Subsidiary
to,
directly or indirectly, Incur any Liens securing any obligation against or
upon
any assets or property whether
owned on the Issue Date or acquired after the Issue Date, or
any
proceeds therefrom (except, in each case, for Permitted Liens) unless, to the
extent such assets or property is not already Collateral, contemporaneously
therewith effective provision is made to secure the Notes, or in the case of
a
Restricted Subsidiary, the relevant Note Guarantee, and all other amounts due
under this Indenture equally and ratably with such obligation (or, in the event
that such obligation is subordinated in right of payment to the Notes or the
relevant Note Guarantee, as the case may be, prior to such obligation) with
a
Lien on the same properties and assets securing such obligation for so long
as
such obligation is secured by such Lien.
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Section
3.9. Limitation
on Transactions with Affiliates.
(a) The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
to,
directly or indirectly, enter into, renew or extend any transaction or
arrangement including the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or
assets, or the rendering of any service, with any Affiliate of the Company
(each
an “Affiliate
Transaction”),
unless:
(i) the
terms
of such Affiliate Transaction are no less favorable than those that could
reasonably be expected to be obtained in a comparable transaction at such time
on an arms’-length basis from a Person that is not an Affiliate of the
Company;
(ii) in
the
event that such Affiliate Transaction involves aggregate payments, or transfers
of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of U.S.$5,000,000,
the terms of such Affiliate Transaction shall be approved by a majority of
the
members of the Board of Directors (including a majority of the disinterested
members thereof), the approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating
that the Board of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with
the preceding provisions; and
(iii) in
the
event that such Affiliate Transaction (other than a Qualified Securitization
Transaction) involves aggregate payments, or transfers of property or services
with a Fair Market Value, in excess of U.S.$15,000,000, the Company shall obtain
a favorable opinion as to the fairness of such Affiliate Transaction to the
Company and the relevant Restricted Subsidiary (if any) from a financial point
of view from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same with the
Trustee.
(b) Section
3.9(a)
shall
not apply to:
(i) Affiliate
Transactions between the Company and any of its Wholly-Owned Restricted
Subsidiaries or between Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries of the
Company;
(ii) any
payment of reasonable and customary fees to directors of the Company for their
services in such capacity;
(iii) Affiliate
Transactions or other payments pursuant to any employee, officer or director
compensation or benefit plans or arrangements entered into in the ordinary
course of business, each of which shall be consistent with past practice and
shall be approved by the compensation committee of the board of directors of
Grupo Iusacell;
(iv) Affiliate
Transactions undertaken pursuant to any contractual obligations or rights in
existence on the Issue Date (as in effect on the Issue Date with modifications
and extensions thereof not materially adverse to the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries); provided
that (1)
such contractual obligations or rights are on terms no less favorable than
those
that could have reasonably been expected to be obtained in a comparable
transaction at the time entered into on an arms’-length basis from a Person that
is not an Affiliate of the Company and (2) in the event such contractual
obligations or rights involved at the time entered into aggregate payments,
or
transfers of property or services with a Fair Market Value, in excess of
U.S.$5,000,000, the terms of such Affiliate Transactions were approved by a
majority of the disinterested members of the Board of Directors;
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(v) payments
to Grupo Iusacell of customary tax sharing payments and reasonable transaction
costs related to financings (including fees and expenses related to the
restructuring of its Indebtedness); or
(vi) any
Restricted Payments made in compliance with Section
3.6.
Section
3.10. Limitation
on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries.
(a) Except
as
provided in Section
3.10(b),
the
Company shall not, and shall not cause or permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or permit
to
exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of
any
Restricted Subsidiary to:
(i) pay
dividends or make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock
to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary or pay any Indebtedness owed
to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary;
(ii) make
loans or advances to, or Guarantee any Indebtedness or other obligations of,
or
make any Investment in, the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary;
or
(iii) transfer
any of its property or assets to the Company or any other Restricted
Subsidiary.
(b) Section
3.10(a)
shall
not apply to encumbrances or restrictions existing as of the Issue Date or
otherwise under or by reason of:
(i) applicable
law;
(ii) the
Collateral Documents;
(iii) any
agreements governing any First Priority Lien Obligations or Second Priority
Lien
Obligations (including this Indenture and the First Lien Notes
Indenture);
(iv) customary
non-assignment provisions of any contract and customary provisions restricting
assignment or subletting in any lease governing a leasehold interest of any
Restricted Subsidiary, or any customary restriction on the ability of a
Restricted Subsidiary to dividend, distribute or otherwise transfer any asset
which secures Indebtedness secured by a Lien, in each case permitted to be
Incurred under this Indenture;
(v) existing
with respect to any Person, or to the property or assets of any Person, at
the
time the Person is acquired by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, which encumbrances or restrictions (1) are not applicable to
any
other Person or the property or assets of any other Person and (2) were not
put
in place in anticipation of such event and any extensions, renewals,
replacements or refinancings of any of the foregoing; provided
that the
encumbrances and restrictions in the extension, renewal, replacement or
refinancing are, taken as a whole, no less favorable in any material respect
to
the Holders than the encumbrances or restrictions being extended, renewed,
replaced or refinanced;
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(vi) restrictions
with respect to one of the Company’s Subsidiaries and imposed pursuant to an
agreement that has been entered into for the sale or disposition of the Capital
Stock of, or property and assets of, such Subsidiary that is permitted by
Section
3.7;
(vii) customary
restrictions imposed on the transfer of copyrighted or patented materials;
or
(viii) an
agreement governing Indebtedness Incurred to refinance the Indebtedness issued,
assumed or Incurred pursuant to Section
3.10(b)(iii);
provided,
that
such refinancing agreement is not materially more restrictive with respect
to
such encumbrances or restrictions than those contained in the agreements
governing the Indebtedness referred to in Section
3.10(b)(iii).
Section
3.11. Reports
to Holders and Compliance Certificate.
(a) The
Company shall deliver to the Trustee and the Holders:
(i) as
soon
as available, but in any event within 180 days after the end of each fiscal
year, a copy of the Company’s consolidated balance sheet as of the end of such
year and the related consolidated statements of income and changes in financial
position for such fiscal year, audited by independent accountants selected
by
the Company;
(ii) as
soon
as available, but in any event within 75 days after the end of each of the
first
three fiscal quarters of the Company, a copy of the Company’s unaudited
consolidated balance sheet as of the end of each such quarter and the related
unaudited consolidated statements of income and changes in the financial
position of the Company for such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year
through such date;
(iii) concurrently
with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section
3.11(a)(i),
an
Officers’ Certificate that complies with TIA § 314(a)(4) stating whether, to the
best of such Officers’ knowledge, anything came to his or her attention to cause
him or her to believe that there existed on the date of such statements a
Default or Event of Default, and if so, specifying the nature and period of
existence thereof;
and
(iv) copies
(including English translations of filings prepared in another language) of
public filings of relevant events (hechos
relevantes)
which
reasonably would be material to the Holders made with any securities exchange
or
securities regulatory agency or authority within 10 days of such filing;
provided,
that
the Company shall not be required to so provide copies of public filings which
may be obtained from (A) the SEC via the XXXXX System or (B) the CNBV, or their
respective successors.
(b) In
case
the Company is not subject to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act or exempt
from reporting pursuant
to Rule
12g3-2(b) of the Exchange Act, the Company shall make available, upon request,
to any holder and any prospective purchaser of Notes the information required
pursuant to Rule 144(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
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(c) The
Company shall deliver to the Trustee such additional information, documents
and
other reports as is required by TIA § 314.
(d) All
of
the financial statements referred to in Section
3.11(a)(i)
and
Section
3.11(a)(ii)
are to
be complete and correct in all material respects, to be prepared in reasonable
detail and in accordance with Mexican GAAP applied consistently throughout
the
periods reflected therein and to be delivered in both the
English and Spanish languages. Delivery of such reports, information and
documents to the Trustee is for informational purposes only and the Trustee’s
receipt of such reports shall not constitute constructive notice of any
information contained therein or determinable from information contained
therein, including the Company’s compliance with any of its covenants hereunder
(as to which the Trustee is entitled to rely exclusively on Officers’
Certificate).
Section
3.12. Payments
for Consents.
Neither
the Company nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall, directly or
indirectly, pay or cause to be paid any consideration, whether by way of
interest, fee or otherwise, to any Holder for or as an inducement to any
consent, waiver or amendment of any terms or provisions of the Notes, unless
the
consideration is offered to be paid or agreed to be paid to all Holders which
so
consent, waive or agree to amend in the time frame set forth in the solicitation
documents relating to such consent, waiver or agreement.
Section
3.13. Hedging
Agreements.
The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
to,
directly or indirectly, enter into any Hedging Contract, other than Hedging
Contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business to hedge or mitigate
risks to which the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary is exposed in the
conduct of its business or the management of its liabilities, and not for
speculative purposes.
Section
3.14. Collection
Accounts.
The
Company shall not, and shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
to,
directly or indirectly, deposit any revenues obtained by it or any of them
from
their respective operations conducted pursuant to the Concessions or Additional
Concessions in any bank account other than bank accounts held in the name of
the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary which constitutes Collateral pursuant
to
any of the Collateral Documents.
Section
3.15. Conduct
of Business.
The
Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not engage in any business other
than a Permitted Business.
Section
3.16. Maintenance
of Government Approvals and Compliance with Laws.
The
Company shall obtain from time to time and maintain such government licenses,
concessions, authorizations, consents, permits and approvals as may be required
and shall comply with all laws, rules, regulations and orders of any Government
Authority applicable to it or its property and shall comply, and shall cause
each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to comply, with its obligations under the
Concessions and the Additional Concessions, in each case to the extent that
a
failure to so maintain or obtain or failure to so comply (a) has been judicially
determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a judgment order that is
no
longer subject to appeal and (b) constitutes a Material Adverse
Effect.
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Section
3.17. Future
Restricted Subsidiaries.
After
the Issue Date, the Company shall notify the Trustee within ten days of the
acquisition or the formation of any Restricted Subsidiary. Within five days
of
the delivery of such notice:
(a) the
Company shall cause such Restricted Subsidiary to enter into Collateral
Documents with terms and conditions no less favorable in any material respect,
taken as a whole, to the Holders than the terms and conditions in the Collateral
Documents in effect on the Issue Date and otherwise reasonably
satisfactory to the Collateral and Intercreditor Agent
to the
extent necessary (including as may be required by applicable law) to create
in
favor of the Collateral and Intercreditor Agent for the benefit of the Holders,
as security for the Obligations, Liens on any
assets owned by it that are covered by the definition of Collateral;
and
(b) the
Company shall cause all shares of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary
owned by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to be pledged pursuant to
the
Collateral Documents and shall create in favor of the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent for the benefit of the Holders, as security for the
Obligations, perfected (inscritas)
pledges
of and security interests in all such Capital Stock with the priorities set
forth in the Collateral Documents.
Section
3.18. Maintenance
and Perfection of Second Priority Security Interest.
(a) No
later
than the Issue Date, the Company shall file with the appropriate registry in
Mexico, which shall include the public registries of commerce of the domicile
of
each of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries that grant Collateral, evidence
of any Liens created or intended to be created under the Collateral Documents
on
the Issue Date.
(b) The
Company shall, and shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, use best
reasonable commercial efforts and act diligently to effect any registration
and
execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and
instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and
recording of financing statements, mortgages, deeds of trust and other documents
with any party deemed appropriate, including with the SCT and any public
registry), which may be required under applicable law, or which the Trustee
may
reasonably request, to effectuate the transactions contemplated by this
Indenture and the Collateral Documents or to grant, preserve, protect or perfect
(inscribir),
as a
second-priority Lien, the Liens created or intended to be created by this
Indenture and the Collateral Documents. The Company also agrees to provide
to
the Trustee, from time to time upon request, evidence reasonably satisfactory
to
the Trustee as to the perfection (inscripción)
(to the
extent perfected (inscrito)
at such
time), as a second-priority Lien, and priority of the Liens created or intended
to be created by this Indenture and the Collateral Documents.
(c) After
the
Issue Date, if any assets that would otherwise constitute Collateral (including
any real property or improvements thereto or any interest therein) are acquired
by or become assets of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, the Company
shall promptly notify the Trustee and, to the extent not otherwise subject
to a
Lien securing the Obligations, cause such assets to become subject to a
second-priority Lien securing the Notes and shall take, and cause each
Restricted Subsidiaries to take, such actions as shall be necessary to create
such Liens, including actions described in Section
3.18(b).
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Section
3.19. Designation
of Restricted and Unrestricted Subsidiaries.
(a) After
the
Issue Date, the Company shall only be permitted to designate a Subsidiary of
the
Company as an “Unrestricted
Subsidiary”
(a
“Designation”)
if:
(i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time
of
or after giving effect to such Designation and any transactions between the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and such Unrestricted Subsidiary
are in compliance with Section
3.9;
(ii) the
Company would be permitted to make an Investment at the time of Designation
(assuming the effectiveness of such Designation and treating such Designation
as
an Investment at the time of Designation) as a Restricted Payment pursuant
to
Section
3.6(a)
in an
amount (the “Designation
Amount”)
equal
to the amount of the Company’s Investment in such Subsidiary on such
date.
(b) Neither
the Company nor any Restricted Subsidiary shall at any time:
(i) provide
credit support for, subject any of its property or assets (other than the
Capital Stock of any Unrestricted Subsidiary) to the satisfaction of, or
Guarantee, any Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary (including any
undertaking, agreement or instrument evidencing such Indebtedness);
(ii) be
directly or indirectly liable for any Indebtedness of any Unrestricted
Subsidiary; or
(iii) be
directly or indirectly liable for any Indebtedness which provides that the
holder thereof may (upon notice, lapse of time or both) declare a default
thereon or cause the payment thereof to be accelerated or payable prior to
its
final scheduled maturity upon the occurrence of a default with respect to any
Indebtedness of any Unrestricted Subsidiary,
except:
(1) in
the
case of Section
3.19(b)(i),
Section
3.19(b)(ii)
or
Section
3.19(b)(iii),
any
pledge by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Capital Stock of
any
Unrestricted Subsidiary for which recourse to the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary is limited to such Capital Stock;
(2) in
the
case of Section
3.19(b)(i)
or
Section
3.19(b)(ii),
to the
extent treated and permitted as a Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment
in
accordance with Section
3.6
and as
an Incurrence of Indebtedness permitted under Section
3.4;
and
(3) in
the
case of Section
3.19(b)(iii),
to the
extent that the ability to declare a default or accelerate the payment is
limited to a default or acceleration on the obligation or instrument of the
Company or a Restricted Subsidiary treated as a Restricted Payment or Permitted
Investment and Incurrence of Indebtedness incurred in accordance with
Section
3.19(b)(1).
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(c) The
Company may revoke any Designation of a Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary
(a “Revocation”)
only
if:
(i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time
of
and after giving effect to such Revocation; and
(ii) all
Liens
and Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary outstanding immediately
following such Revocation would, if Incurred at such time, have been permitted
to be Incurred hereunder.
(d) The
Designation of a Subsidiary of the Company as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall
be deemed to include the Designation of all of the Subsidiaries of such
Subsidiary. All Designations and Revocations must be evidenced by resolutions
of
the Board of Directors, delivered to the Trustee certifying compliance with
the
preceding provisions.
Section
3.20. Limitation
of Applicability of Certain Covenants.
(a) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the obligations of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
to
comply with the covenants described above under Section
3.4,
Section
3.5,
Section
3.6,
Section
3.7,
Section
3.9,
Section
3.10,
Section
3.13,
Section
3.14,
Section
3.15,
Section
3.16,
Section
3.17,
Section
3.18,
Section
3.19,
Section
4.1(a)(iii),
and
Section
5.8
(collectively, the “Suspended
Covenants”)
shall
be suspended and cease to have any further effect during the period (the
“Suspended
Period”)
from
and after the first date that the Notes attain an Investment Grade Rating from
either S&P or Xxxxx’x (or Fitch, if either of S&P or Xxxxx’x ceases to
rate the Notes for reasons outside of the control of the Company) and until
the
date (the “Reversion
Date”)
on
which none of S&P, Fitch or Xxxxx’x provide the Notes an Investment Grade
Rating.
(b) On
the
Reversion Date, the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries’ obligation to
comply with the Suspended Covenants shall be reinstated; provided,
however,
that the
Suspended Covenants shall not be of any effect with regard to actions of the
Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries taken during the Suspended Period, and
no
Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of a failure
to
comply with the Suspended Covenants during the Suspended Period.
(c) On
the
Reversion Date, all Indebtedness incurred while the Suspended Covenants were
suspended shall be classified to have been incurred pursuant to one of the
paragraphs set forth in Section
3.4
(to the
extent such Indebtedness would be permitted to be incurred thereunder as of
the
Reversion Date and after giving effect to Indebtedness outstanding on the
Reversion Date). To the extent such Indebtedness would not be so permitted
to be
incurred pursuant to Section
3.4,
such
Indebtedness shall be deemed to have been outstanding on the Issue Date so
that
it is classified as permitted under clause (b)(i) of Section
3.4.
Section
3.21. Payment
of Additional Amounts.
(a) The
Company is required by Mexican law to deduct and to withhold certain Taxes
from
payments of interest and amounts deemed interest to investors who are not
residents of Mexico for tax purposes, and shall pay to any Holder such
additional amounts (“Additional
Amounts”)
on
those payments to the extent described in this Section
3.21.
To the
extent Taxes imposed by Mexico or any political subdivision or taxing authority
thereof or therein (“Mexican
Taxes”)
are
required to be withheld or deducted from any payments under the Notes or the
Note Guarantees, the Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries (the
“Payor,”
as
applicable) shall pay such Additional Amounts as may be necessary to ensure
that
the net amount actually received by such Holder after any such withholding
or
deduction of Mexican Taxes is equal to the amount that the Holder would have
received had no such withholding or deduction been required.
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(b) The
Payor
shall not pay Additional Amounts to any Holder for or on account of any of
the
following:
(i) any
Taxes
imposed solely because of the existence of any present or former connection
between such Holder and Mexico (other than the mere receipt of a payment or
the
ownership or holding of a Note or enforcement of rights in respect of the Notes);
(ii) any
estate, inheritance, gift, sales, transfer or similar tax, assessment or other
governmental charge imposed with respect to the Notes;
(iii) any
Taxes
imposed solely because the Holder or any other Person fails to comply with
any
certification, identification, information, documentation or other similar
reporting requirement if (A) such compliance is required by law, regulation,
or
administrative practice, or an applicable treaty in effect as a precondition
to
exemption from, or reduction in the rate of, deduction or withholding of any
Taxes for which the Payor is required to pay Additional Amounts, (B) the Holder
or such other Person is legally entitled to comply with such reporting
requirement and (C) at least 30 days prior to the first Interest Payment Date
or
Change of Control Payment Date with respect to which the Payor shall apply
this
Section
3.21(b)(iii),
the
Company or the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have notified the Holder that
the
Holder shall be required to comply with such requirement;
(iv) any
Taxes
that are payable otherwise than by deduction or withholding from payments on
the
Notes;
(v) any
Taxes
with respect to such Note presented for payment more than 30 days after the
date
on which the payment became due and payable or the date on which payment thereof
is duly provided for and notice thereof given to Holders, whichever occurs
later, except to the extent that the Holders of such Note would have been
entitled to such Additional Amounts on presenting such Note for payment on
any
date during such 30-day period; and
(vi) any
payment on the Note to a Holder that is a fiduciary or partnership or a person
other than the sole beneficial owner of any such payment, to the extent that
a
beneficiary or settlor with respect to such fiduciary, a member of such a
partnership or the beneficial owner of the payment would not have been entitled
to the Additional Amounts had the beneficiary, settlor, member or beneficial
owner been the Holder.
(c) Upon
request, the Payor shall provide the Trustee with documentation reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee evidencing the payment of any Taxes deducted or
withheld (including certified copies of any of returns submitted). The Payor
shall make copies of such documentation available to the Holders or the Paying
Agent upon request.
(d) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the exceptions to a Payor’s obligation to pay Additional Amounts
set forth in Section
3.21(b)(iii)
shall
not apply if (i) the provision of information, certification, documentation
or
other evidence described in Section
3.21(b)(iii)
would be
substantially more onerous, in form, in procedure or in the substance of
information disclosed, to a Holder or beneficial owner of a Note (taking into
account any relevant differences between U.S. law, rules, regulations or
administrative practice and those of the relevant
taxing jurisdiction
(Mexico, or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or
therein))
than
comparable information or other reporting requirements imposed under U.S. tax
law, regulation and administrative practice (such as IRS Forms W-8BEN and W-9)
or (ii) with respect to Taxes imposed by Mexico or any political sub-division
or
taxing authority thereof, (A) Article 195, Section II, of the Mexican income
tax
law (or a substantially similar successor of such provision) is in effect,
unless the provision of the information, certification, documentation or other
similar evidence described in Section
3.21(b)(iii)
is
expressly required by statute, rule or regulation, or an order of a competent
authority based upon any such law or regulation, in order to apply Article
195,
Section II, of the Mexican income tax law (or a substantially similar successor
of such provision), (B) the Payor cannot obtain such information, certification,
documentation or other similar evidence on its own through reasonable diligence
and (C) the Payor otherwise would meet the requirements for application of
Article 195, Section II, of the Mexican income tax law (or such successor of
such provision). In addition, Section
3.21(b)(iii)
shall
not be construed to require that a non-Mexican pension or retirement fund or
a
non-Mexican financial institution or any other Holder register with the Ministry
of Finance and Public Credit for the purpose of establishing eligibility for
an
exemption from or reduction of Mexican withholding tax or to require that a
Holder or beneficial owner of a Note certify or provide information concerning
whether it is or is not a tax-exempt pension or retirement fund.
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(e) In
the
event that Additional Amounts actually paid with respect to the Notes pursuant
to the preceding paragraphs are based on rates of deduction or withholding
of
withholding taxes in excess of the appropriate rate applicable to the Holder
of
such Notes, and, as a result thereof, such Holder is entitled to make a claim
for a refund or credit of such excess from the authority imposing such
withholding tax, then such Holder shall, by accepting such Notes, be deemed
to
have assigned and transferred all right, title and interest to any such claim
for a refund or credit of such excess to the Payor. However, by making such
assignment, the Holder makes no representation or warranty that the Payor shall
be entitled to receive such claim for a refund or credit and Incurs no other
obligation with respect thereto (including Incurring any expenses whatsoever
necessary to obtain such refund or taking any other action).
(f) In
the
event a
Payor
conducts business in any jurisdiction (an “Additional
Taxing Jurisdiction”)
other
than Mexico
or any
political subdivision thereof
and, as a result, is required by the law of such Additional Taxing Jurisdiction
to deduct or withhold any amount on account of taxes imposed by such Additional
Taxing Jurisdiction from payments under the Notes or the relevant Note
Guarantee, as the case may be, which would not have been required to be so
deducted or withheld but for such conduct of business in such Additional Taxing
Jurisdiction,
then all
references to Mexico, Mexican law or regulations, and Mexican taxing authorities
under this Section
3.21
shall be
deemed to also include such
Additional Taxing Jurisdiction
and any
political subdivision thereof,
the
laws
or
regulations
of such
Additional Taxing Jurisdiction
and any
taxing authority of such
Additional Taxing Jurisdiction,
respectively.
(g) The
Company (or, failing which, the relevant Restricted Subsidiaries) shall pay
any
present or future stamp, court or documentary taxes, or any other excise or
property taxes, charges or similar levies which arise in any jurisdiction from
the execution, delivery or registration of the Notes, the Note Guarantees or
any
other document or instrument referred to therein (other than a transfer of
the
Notes), or the receipt of any payments with respect to the Notes or the Note
Guarantees, excluding any such taxes, charges or similar levies imposed by
any
jurisdiction other than Mexico or any political subdivision thereof, other
than
those resulting from, or required to be paid in connection with, the enforcement
of the Notes, the Note Guarantees or any other such document or instrument
following the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect to the
Notes.
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(h) The
foregoing paragraphs in this Section
3.21
shall
survive any termination, defeasance or discharge of the Indenture and shall
apply mutatis
mutandis
to any
jurisdiction in which any successor Person to a Payor is organized or any
political subdivision or taxing authority or agency thereof or
therein.
Section
3.22. Change
of Control.
(a) Not
later
than 75 days following the occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder shall
have the right to require that the Company purchase all or a portion (in
integral multiples of U.S.$1.00) of the Holder’s Notes at a purchase price equal
to 101.50% of the principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest
thereon through the date of the purchase (the “Change
of Control Payment”).
(b) Within
45
days following the date upon which the Change of Control occurred, the Company
shall mail, by first-class mail, to each Holder a Change of Control Notice,
with
a copy to the Trustee, offering to purchase the Notes as described above (a
“Change
of Control Offer”).
The
Change of Control Notice shall state, in addition to the things specified in
the
definition thereof, the purchase date, which shall be 30 calendar days from
the
date the Change of Control Notice is mailed, other than as may be required
by
law (the Change
of Control Payment Date”).
(c) On
the
Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall, to the extent lawful:
(i) accept
for payment all Notes or portions thereof properly tendered and not withdrawn
pursuant to the Change of Control Offer;
(ii) deposit
with the Paying Agent funds in an amount equal to the Change of Control Payment
in respect of all Notes or portions thereof so tendered and not withdrawn;
and
(iii) deliver
or cause to be delivered to the Trustee the Notes so accepted together with
an
Officers’ Certificate stating the aggregate principal amount of Notes or
portions thereof being purchased by the Company.
If
only a
portion of a Note is purchased pursuant to a Change of Control Offer, a new
Note
in a principal amount equal to the portion thereof not purchased shall be issued
in the name of the Holder thereof upon cancellation of the original Note (or
appropriate adjustments to the amount and beneficial interests in a Global
Note
shall be made, as appropriate). Notes (or portions thereof) purchased pursuant
to a Change of Control Offer shall be cancelled and cannot be
reissued.
(d) The
Company shall not be required to make a Change of Control Offer upon a Change
of
Control if a third party makes the Change of Control Offer in the manner, at
the
times and otherwise in compliance with the requirements set forth in this
Indenture applicable to a Change of Control Offer made by the Company and
purchases all Notes validly tendered and not withdrawn under such Change of
Control Offer.
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(e) Holders
shall not be entitled to require the Company to purchase their Notes in the
event of a takeover, recapitalization, leveraged buyout or similar transaction
which is not a Change of Control.
(f) The
Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under the Exchange
Act and any other applicable securities laws and regulations thereunder in
connection with the purchase of Notes in connection with a Change of Control
Offer. To the extent that the provisions of any applicable securities laws
or
regulations conflict with the Change of Control provisions of this Indenture,
the Company shall comply with such securities laws and regulations and shall
not
be deemed to have breached its obligations under this Indenture by doing so.
(g) The
Company’s obligation to make an offer to purchase the Notes as a result of the
occurrence of a Change of Control may be waived or modified at any time prior
to
the occurrence of such Change of Control with the written consent of Holders
holding in the aggregate at least a majority of the outstanding principal amount
of the Notes.
Section
3.23. Further
Instruments and Acts.
The
Company and each Restricted Subsidiary shall execute and deliver such further
instruments and do such further acts as may be required by applicable law or
may
be reasonably necessary or proper to carry out more effectively the purpose
of
this Indenture.
Section
3.24. Waiver
of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
The
Company and each Restricted Subsidiary covenants (to the extent that it may
lawfully do so) that will not have and
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 the Company
or such
Restricted
Subsidiary
from
paying all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes 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. The
Company
and each
Restricted
Subsidiary
hereby
expressly waives (to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law) all benefit
or advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay
or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer
and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
ARTICLE
IV
SURVIVING
ENTITY
Section
4.1. Mergers,
Consolidations, Sales and Conveyances.
(a) The
Company shall not merge into or consolidate with any Person (whether or not
the
Company is the surviving or continuing Person) or sell, assign, transfer, lease
or otherwise convey or dispose of all or substantially all of its and its
Restricted Subsidiaries’ assets, taken as a whole, whether by one transaction or
a series of transactions, to any Person unless:
(i) the
Board
of Directors has approved such transaction;
(ii) either
(1) the Company is the surviving or continuing Person or (2) the surviving
or
continuing Person (the “Surviving
Entity”):
(A) is
a
company, corporation, limited partnership or limited liability company organized
and validly existing under (x) the laws of Mexico, (y) the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia or (z) any E.U.
Country; and
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(B) expressly
assumes, by supplemental indenture (in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Trustee), executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due
and
punctual payment of the Company’s Obligations under the Notes and the Collateral
Documents and the performance and observance of the covenants of the Notes,
this
Indenture and the Collateral Documents on the part of the Company to be
performed or observed;
(iii) immediately
after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions, (1) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, (2) the
Consolidated Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio of the Company,
or
the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall be equal to or lower than 3.25:1
and (3) the Consolidated Total Indebtedness to Consolidated EBITDA Ratio of
Grupo Iusacell for the most recent four quarters immediately ending as of the
most recent quarterly balance sheet available is equal or lower than
6.5:1;
(iv) the
Company or the Surviving Entity, as the case may be, has delivered to the
Trustee an Officers’ Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that
the consolidation, merger, sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or
other disposition and, if required in connection with such transaction, the
supplemental indenture, comply with the applicable provisions of this Indenture
and that all conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to the transaction
have been satisfied;
(v) if
the
Surviving Entity is the surviving or continuing Person, each Restricted
Subsidiary (including Persons that become Restricted Subsidiaries as a result
of
the transaction) has confirmed by supplemental indenture that its Note Guarantee
shall apply for the Obligations of the Surviving Entity in respect of this
Indenture and the Notes; and
(vi) if
the
Surviving Entity is the surviving or continuing Person, it has delivered to
the
Trustee an Opinion of Counsel from Mexican counsel and U.S. or relevant E.U.
Country counsel to the effect that, as applicable:
(A) the
Holder shall not recognize income, gain or loss for U.S. or relevant E.U.
Country or Mexican income tax purposes as a result of the transaction and shall
be taxed in the Holder’s home jurisdiction in the same manner and on the same
amounts (assuming solely for this purpose that no Additional Amounts are
regarded to be paid on the Notes) and at the same times as would have been
the
case if the transaction had not occurred;
and
(B) no
other
taxes on income, including capital gains, shall be payable by Holders under
the
laws of Mexico, the United States or the relevant E.U. Country relating to
the
acquisition, ownership or disposition of the Notes, including the receipt of
interest or principal thereon; provided
that the
Holder is not subject to such taxes because at any time there is or was a
connection between the Holder and Mexico, the United States or the relevant
E.U.
Country (other than the mere receipt of a payment on or the ownership or holding
of a Note).
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(b) Upon
the
occurrence of any of the transactions permitted by the preceding paragraphs,
the
Surviving Entity (if not the Company) shall succeed to and become substituted
for the Company, and may exercise every right and power of the Company, with
the
same effect as if it had been named in the Notes and this Indenture. Following
such transaction, the Company shall be released from its liability as obligor
on
the Notes and under this Indenture.
(c) In
the
event of any such sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or disposition,
the Company, as the predecessor entity, may be dissolved, wound-up or liquidated
at any time thereafter.
ARTICLE
V
REDEMPTION
AND MARKET PURCHASES OF NOTES
Section
5.1. Optional
Redemption.
The
Company may redeem the Notes, as a whole or from time to time in part, subject
to the conditions and at the redemption prices specified in the form of Notes
in
Exhibit A.
Section
5.2. Election
to Redeem.
The
Company shall evidence its election to redeem any Notes pursuant to Section
5.1
by a
Board Resolution.
Section
5.3. Notice
of Redemption.
(a) The
Company shall give or cause the Trustee to give notice of redemption, in the
manner provided for in Section
14.2,
not
less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each Holder
of Notes to be redeemed. If the Company itself gives the notice, it shall also
deliver a copy to the Trustee.
(b) If
either
(i) the Company is not redeeming all Outstanding Notes, or (ii) the
Company elects to have the Trustee give notice of redemption, then the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee, at least 45 days prior to the Redemption Date
(unless the Trustee is satisfied with a shorter period), an Officers’
Certificate requesting that the Trustee select the Notes to be redeemed and/or
give notice of redemption and setting forth the information required by
Section
5.3(c)
(with
the exception of the identification of the particular Notes, or portions of
the
particular Notes, to be redeemed in the case of a partial redemption). If the
Company elects to have the Trustee give notice of redemption, the Trustee shall
give the notice in the name of the Company and at the Company’s
expense.
(c) All
notices of redemption shall state:
(i)
the
Redemption Date;
(ii)
the
redemption price and the amount of any accrued interest payable as provided
in
Section
5.6;
(iii)
whether
or not the Company is redeeming all Outstanding Notes;
(iv)
if
the
Company is not redeeming all Outstanding Notes, the aggregate principal amount
of Notes that the Company is redeeming and the aggregate principal amount of
Notes that will be Outstanding after the partial redemption, as well as the
identification of the particular Notes, or portions of the particular Notes,
that the Company is redeeming;
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(v)
if
the
Company is redeeming only part of a Note, the notice that relates to that Note
will state that on and after the Redemption Date, upon surrender of that Note,
the Holder shall receive, without charge, a new Note or Notes of authorized
denominations for the principal amount of the Note remaining
unredeemed;
(vi)
that
on
the Redemption Date the redemption price and any accrued interest payable to
the
Redemption Date as provided in Section
5.6
will
become due and payable in respect of each Note, or the portion of each Note,
to
be redeemed, and, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption payment,
that interest on each Note, or the portion of each Note, to be redeemed, will
cease to accrue on and after the Redemption Date;
(vii)
the
place
or places where a Holder must surrender the Holder’s Notes for payment of the
redemption price; and
(viii)
the
CUSIP
or ISIN number, if any, listed in the notice or printed on the Notes, and that
no representation is made as to the accuracy or correctness of such CUSIP or
ISIN number.
Section
5.4. Selection
of Notes to Be Redeemed in Part.
(a) If
the
Company is not redeeming all Outstanding Notes, the Trustee shall select the
Notes to be redeemed in compliance with the requirements of the principal
national securities exchange, if any, on which the Notes are listed or, if
the
Notes are not then listed on a national securities exchange, by lot or in
another fair and reasonable manner chosen at the discretion of the Trustee.
The
Trustee shall make the selection from the Outstanding Notes not previously
called for redemption. The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing
of the Notes selected for redemption and, in the case of any Notes selected
for
partial redemption, the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed. In the
event of a partial redemption by lot, the Trustee shall select the particular
Notes to be redeemed not less than 30 nor more than 60 days prior to the
relevant Redemption Date from the Outstanding Notes not previously called for
redemption. The Company may redeem Notes in denominations of U.S.$1.00 only
in
whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to U.S.$1.00 or
any
integral multiple of U.S.$1.00) of the principal of Notes that have
denominations larger than U.S.$1.00.
(b) For
all
purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise requires, all
provisions relating to redemption of Notes shall relate, in the case of any
Note
redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal amount
of that Note which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section
5.5. Deposit
of Redemption Price.
Prior
to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the relevant Redemption Date, the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying Agent (or, if the
Company is acting as Paying Agent, segregate and hold in trust as provided
in
Section
2.4)
an
amount of Dollars in immediately available funds sufficient to pay the
redemption price of, and accrued interest on, all the Notes that the Company
is
redeeming on that date.
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Section
5.6. Notes
Payable on Redemption Date.
If the
Company, or the Trustee on behalf of the Company, gives notice of redemption
in
accordance with this Article V,
the
Notes, or the portions of Notes, called for redemption, shall, on the Redemption
Date, become due and payable at the redemption price specified in the notice
(together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date), and from
and
after the Redemption Date (unless the Company shall default in the payment
of
the redemption price and accrued interest) the Notes or the portions of Notes
shall cease to bear interest. Upon surrender of any Note for redemption in
accordance with the notice, the Company shall pay the Notes at the redemption
price, together with accrued interest, if any, to the Redemption Date (subject
to the rights of Holders of record on the relevant record date to receive
interest due on the relevant Interest Payment Date). If the Company shall fail
to pay any Note called for redemption upon its surrender for redemption, the
principal shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the
rate
borne by the Notes.
Section
5.7. Unredeemed
Portions of Partially Redeemed Note.
Upon
surrender of a Note that is to be redeemed in part, the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to the Holder
of the Note at the expense of the Company, a new Note or Notes, of any
authorized denomination as requested by the Holder, in an aggregate principal
amount equal to, and in exchange for, the unredeemed portion of the principal
of
the Note surrendered, provided
that
each new Note will be in a principal amount of U.S.$1.00 or integral multiple
of
U.S.$1.00.
Section
5.8. Mandatory
Redemption.
The
Company shall apply 15% of the Net Cash Proceeds from any offering of Capital
Stock of the Company to the redemption of the Notes, without payment of any
premium or penalty, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding
principal amount thereof, within 60 days of the receipt of such Net Cash
Proceeds; provided
that,
if
a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of
such
offering with respect to the First Lien Notes under and as defined in the First
Lien Notes Indenture, such 15% of Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied towards
the
redemption of the First Lien Notes in accordance with the First Lien Notes
Indenture (as and to the extent amounts remain outstanding thereunder) and
shall
not be applied towards the redemption of the Notes. Any redemption pursuant
to
this Section
5.8
shall be
made pursuant to the provisions of Section
5.2
through
Section
5.7
hereof.
Section
5.9. Market
Purchases.
The
Company and its Subsidiaries may at any time and from time to time purchase
Notes pursuant to Market Purchases; provided
that
any
Notes so purchased and not sold or reissued and held by the Company or its
Subsidiaries on the 30th
date
after purchase shall be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation on such
date.
ARTICLE
VI
DEFAULTS
AND REMEDIES
Section
6.1. Events
of Default.
(a) The
following are “Events
of Default”
with
respect to the Notes:
(i) the
default in the payment when due of the principal or premium, if any, on the
Notes, including the failure to make a required payment to purchase Notes
tendered pursuant to an optional redemption, mandatory redemption in accordance
with Section
5.8,
Change
of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer;
(ii) the
default for 30 calendar days or more in the payment when due of interest or
Additional Amounts on the Notes;
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(iii) the
failure to make a Change of Control Offer when required under Section
3.22;
(iv) the
failure to perform or comply with any of the provisions described under
Section
3.4,
Section
3.6,
Section
3.7,
Section
3.8,
Section
3.9,
Section
3.18
or
Article
IV
for 30
days or more after the date on which written notice thereof requiring the
Company to remedy the same shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee
or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Notes;
(v) the
failure by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to deposit in a cash
collateral account any Net Cash Proceeds in respect of an Asset Sale or Event
of
Loss required to be deposited for a period of more than 10 days after the date
on which written notice thereof requiring the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary to remedy the same shall have been given to the Company by the
Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes;
(vi) the
failure by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to duly observe or perform
any of the covenants or agreements of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary
under this Indenture (other than those referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii),
(iv) and (v) above) for a period of more than 45 days after the date on which
written notice thereof requiring the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary
to
remedy the same shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee or the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Notes;
(vii) the
default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under any Indebtedness,
the
principal amount outstanding of which is in excess of U.S.$15,000,000 (or its
equivalent in other currencies), which default results in the acceleration
of
such Indebtedness prior to its stated maturity;
(viii) there
shall have been entered against the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary a
final
judgment, decree or order by a court of competent jurisdiction from which no
appeal may be taken or, within the applicable period to appeal, is taken for
the
payment of money, or the forfeiture of property with an aggregate value in
excess of U.S.$15,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currencies) and 60 days
shall have passed since the entry of the order without it being satisfied,
discharged or stayed (a “Judgment”);
(ix) (A)
the
Lien created or intended to be created on the Issue Date by any of the
Collateral Documents fails to be registered with the appropriate registry in
Mexico, which shall include the public registries of commerce of the domicile
of
each of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries that grant Collateral, by the
21st
month
anniversary of the Issue Date, if the Company shall have provided the Trustee
no
later than the 12th
month
anniversary of the Issue Date with an Officers’ Certificate stating that the
Company has used its best reasonable commercial efforts and has acted diligently
to obtain the registration of the mortgage at
the
public registry of commerce in Mexico City
(or, if
such Officers’ Certificate has not been so provided, the Lien created fails to
be registered with
the
appropriate registry in Mexico
by the
12th
month
anniversary of the Issue Date), or (B) the Lien created by any of the Collateral
Documents at any time fails to constitute a valid Lien on the Collateral,
except, in each of the cases of (A) and (B) above, for any failure that (1)
is
cured by the Company within 30 days after the date on which written notice
thereof requiring the Company to remedy the same shall have been given to the
Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes, (2) is as a result of the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any instruments
delivered to it under the Collateral Documents, or (3) relates to an immaterial
portion of the Collateral;
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(x) except
as
permitted by this Indenture and the Collateral Documents, any Note Guarantee
or
Collateral Document is held to be unenforceable or invalid in a judicial
proceeding or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect, or any
Restricted Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Note
Guarantee, or the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary denies or disaffirms
its
obligations under any of the Collateral Documents;
(xi) there
shall have been a condemnation or expropriation of the assets of the Company
or
a Restricted Subsidiary that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect;
(xii) entry
by
a court having jurisdiction of (A) a decree or order for
relief
in respect of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary in an involuntary case
or
proceeding under any applicable Insolvency Law, suspension of payments,
concurso
mercantil,
quiebra,
reorganization or other similar law, or (B) a decree or order adjudging the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary bankrupt or insolvent, or suspending
payments, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary under any applicable Insolvency Law, or appointing a
custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, síndico, conciliador, sequestrator
or other similar official of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary or of
any
substantial part of the property of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary,
or
ordering the winding up or liquidation of the affairs of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary, and (in the case of both (A) and (B) above) the
continuance of any such decree or order for relief or any such other decree
or
order unstayed and in effect for a period of 180 consecutive days;
and
(xiii) the
commencement by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of a voluntary case
or
proceeding under any applicable Insolvency Law, concurso
mercantil,
quiebra
or other
similar law or of any other case or proceeding to be adjudicated a bankrupt
or
insolvent, or the consent by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to the
entry of a decree or order for relief in respect of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary in an involuntary case or proceeding under any applicable
Insolvency Law, suspension of payments, reorganization or other similar law
or
to the commencement of any bankruptcy or insolvency case or proceeding against
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, or the filing by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization
or relief under any applicable law or the consent by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary to the filing of such petition or to the appointment
of or
taking possession by a custodian, receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
síndico,
conciliador,
sequestrator or similar official of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
or
of any substantial part of the property of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary, or the making by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by the Company or
any
Restricted Subsidiary in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally
as
they become due, or the taking of corporate action by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary in furtherance of any such action (evidenced by the
adoption of a corporate resolution in favor of any such actions or an action
of
any of the officers of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that similarly
binds the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary).
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(b) The
Company shall, and shall cause each Restricted Subsidiary to, upon a Senior
Executive Officer of the Company becoming aware of any Default or Event of
Default, deliver to the Trustee written notice of such Default or Event of
Default within five days of becoming aware of such Default or Event of Default,
the status thereof and what action it is taking or proposes to take in respect
thereof.
Section
6.2. Acceleration.
(a) If
an
Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified in Section
6.1(a)(xii)
and
Section
6.1(a)(xiii))
occurs
and is continuing with respect to the Notes, the Trustee may and, at the
direction or request of the Holders of not less than 25% of the then Outstanding
aggregate principal amount of the Notes shall, by notice in writing to the
Company, declare the principal amount of, and interest accrued on, the Notes
to
be due and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall
become and shall be immediately due and payable upon the date that such written
notice is received by or on behalf of the Company; provided
that the
Trustee shall be under no obligation to take any action if any Event of Default
specified in Section
6.1(a)(xi)
has
occurred unless first instructed to do so in writing by the Holders of at least
25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes.
If an
Event of Default specified in Section
6.1(a)(xii)
or
Section
6.1(a)(xiii)
occurs
with respect to the Company, then the unpaid principal of (and premium, if
any)
and accrued and unpaid interest on all the Notes will become immediately due
and
payable without any declaration or other act on the part of the Trustee or
any
Holder.
(b) At
any
time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to the Notes as set forth
in Section
6.2(a),
the Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Notes
may
rescind and cancel such declaration and its consequences:
(i) if
the
rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree;
(ii) if
all
existing Events of Default have been cured or waived, except nonpayment of
principal or interest that has become due solely because of the
acceleration;
(iii) to
the
extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue installments
of interest and overdue principal which has become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration, has been paid; and
(iv) if
the
Company has paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the
Trustee for its reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances.
No
rescission will affect any subsequent Default or impair any rights relating
thereto.
Section
6.3. Other
Remedies.
(a) If
an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, subject to the provisions of the
Intercreditor and Collateral Agency Agreement, the Trustee may pursue any
available remedy to collect the payment of principal of and interest on the
Notes or to enforce the performance of any provision of the Notes or this
Indenture.
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(b) The
Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess any of the Notes
or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or omission by the
Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing upon an Event
of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a waiver of or
acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any other
remedy. All available remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by
law.
Section
6.4. Waiver
of Past Defaults.
Subject
to Section
6.2(b)(iv),
the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Notes may waive any existing
Default or Event of Default under this Indenture, and its consequences, except
a
default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest on
any
Notes.
Section
6.5. Control
by Majority.
The
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may direct
the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available
to the Trustee or of exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee.
Subject to Section
7.1
and
Section
7.2,
however, the Trustee may refuse to follow any direction that conflicts with
law
or this Indenture; provided,
however,
that
the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the Trustee that is
not
inconsistent with such direction.
Section
6.6. Limitation
on Suits.
(a) No
Holder
shall have any right to institute any proceeding with respect to this Indenture
for any remedy thereunder, unless:
(i) such
Holder gives the Trustee written notice of a continuing Event of
Default;
(ii) Holders
of not less than 25% of the principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes
make
a written request to the Trustee to institute such action or proceedings in
its
own name as Trustee and offer to the Trustee a customary indemnity against
the
costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby;
(iii) the
Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity has failed to institute any such action or proceeding and no direction
inconsistent with such written request have been given to the Trustee pursuant
to this Indenture; and
(iv) Holders
of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes have not given the
Trustee a written direction that, in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent
with such request within such 60-day period;
Section
6.7. Rights
of Holders to Receive Payment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture (including, without
limitation, Section
6.6),
the
right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of or interest on the Notes
held by such Holder, on or after the respective due dates, Redemption Dates
or
repurchase dates expressed in this Indenture or the Notes, or to bring suit
for
the enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall
not
be impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section
6.8. Collection
Suit by Trustee.
If an
Event of Default specified in Section
6.1(a)(i) and
Section
6.1(a)(ii)
occurs
and is continuing, the Trustee may recover judgment in its own name and as
trustee of an express trust against the Company and each Restricted Subsidiary
for the whole amount then due and owing (together with applicable interest
on
any overdue principal and, to the extent lawful, interest on overdue interest)
and the amounts provided for in Section
7.7.
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Section
6.9. Trustee
May File Proofs of Claim, etc.
(a) The
Trustee may (irrespective of whether the principal of the Notes is then
due):
(i) file
such
proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may be necessary or advisable
in order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders under this Indenture
and the Notes allowed in any bankruptcy, insolvency, liquidation or other
judicial proceedings relative to the Company, any Restricted Subsidiary or
any
Subsidiary of the Company or their respective creditors or properties;
and
(ii) collect
and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable in respect
of
any such claims and distribute them in accordance with this
Indenture.
Any
receiver, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) in
any
such 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 to it
for
the reasonable compensation, expenses, taxes, disbursements and advances of
the
Trustee, its agent and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Trustee
pursuant to Section
7.7.
(b) Nothing
in this Indenture 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 Notes
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
6.10. Priorities.
If the
Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this Article VI,
it
shall pay out the money or property in the following order:
FIRST:
to
the Trustee for amounts due under Section
7.7;
SECOND:
if the Holders proceed against the Company directly without the Trustee in
accordance with this Indenture, to Holders for their collection
costs;
THIRD:
to
Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for principal and interest,
ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on the Notes for principal and interest, respectively;
and
FOURTH:
to the Company or, to the extent the Trustee collects any amount pursuant to
Article IX from any Restricted Subsidiary, to such Restricted Subsidiary, or
to
such party as a court of competent jurisdiction shall direct.
The
Trustee may, upon notice to the Company, fix a record date and payment date
for
any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section
6.10.
Section
6.11. Undertaking
for Costs.
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 or omitted by it as Trustee,
a
court in its discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the
suit
of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion
may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys’ fees, against any
party litigant in the suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith
of
the claims or defenses made by the party litigant. This Section
6.11
does not
apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by the Company, a suit by a Holder
pursuant to Section
6.7
or a
suit by Holders of more than 10% in principal amount of Outstanding
Notes.
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ARTICLE
VII
TRUSTEE
Section
7.1. Duties
of Trustee.
(a) If
a
Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee
shall
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture and use the same
degree of care and skill in their exercise as a prudent man would exercise
or
use under the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs.
(b) Except
during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default:
(i)
the
Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are
specifically set forth in this Indenture and no implied covenants or obligations
shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii)
in
the
absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to
the
truth of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein,
upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the
requirements of this Indenture. However, in the case of any such certificates
or
opinions which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine such 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:
(i)
this
paragraph (c) does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of this
Section
7.1;
(ii)
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; and
(iii)
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
6.2,
Section
6.4
or
Section
6.5.
(d) The
Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money received by it except
as
the Trustee may agree in writing with the Company.
(e) Money
held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other funds except
to
the extent required by law.
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(f) No
provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to expend or risk its
own
funds or otherwise Incur financial liability in the performance of any of its
duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its rights or powers, if it shall
have reasonable grounds to believe that repayment of such funds or adequate
indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it.
(g) Every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions
of
this Article VII
and to
the provisions of the TIA.
(h) Unless
otherwise specifically provided in this Indenture, any demand, request,
direction or notice from the Company shall be sufficient if signed by an Officer
of the Company.
(i) The
Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights or powers
vested in it by this Indenture at the request or direction of any of the Holders
unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses (including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
expenses) and liabilities that might be Incurred by it in compliance with such
request or direction.
Section
7.2. Rights
of Trustee.
Subject
to Section
7.1:
(a) The
Trustee may rely on any document reasonably 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 at the direction of the Company, it
may
require an Officers’ Certificate or an Opinion of Counsel. The Trustee shall not
be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in good faith in reliance
on
an Officers’ Certificate or Opinion 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 shall 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;
provided,
however,
that
the Trustee’s conduct does not constitute willful misconduct or
negligence.
(e) The
Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection, and the advice or opinion
of
counsel with respect to legal matters relating to this Indenture and the Notes
shall be full and complete authorization and protection from liability in
respect to any action taken, omitted or suffered by it hereunder in good faith
and in accordance with the advice or opinion of such counsel.
(f) If
the
Trustee shall determine, it shall be entitled to examine the books, records
and
premises of the Company, personally or by agent or attorney.
(g) The
Trustee shall not be deemed to have notice of any Default or Event of Default
unless a Trust Officer of the Trustee has actual knowledge thereof or unless
written notice of any event which is in fact such a default is received by
the
Trustee at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and such notice references
the Notes and this Indenture.
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(h) The
rights, privileges, protections, immunities and benefits given to the Trustee,
including, without limitation, its right to be indemnified, are extended to,
and
shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each of its capacities hereunder, and
to
each agent, custodian and other Person employed to act hereunder.
(i) The
Trustee may request that the Company deliver an Officers’ Certificate setting
forth the names of individuals and/or titles of officers authorized at such
time
to take specified actions pursuant to this Indenture, which Officers’
Certificate may be signed by any person authorized to sign an Officers’
Certificate, including any person specified as so authorized in any such
certificate previously delivered and not superseded.
(j) The
Trustee shall at no time have any responsibility or liability for or with
respect to the legality, validity or enforceability of any Collateral or any
arrangement or agreement between the Company and any Person with respect
thereto, or the perfection or priority of any security interest created in
any
of the Collateral or the maintenance of any such perfection and priority, or
for
or with respect to the sufficiency of the Collateral following an Event of
Default.
(k) The
permissive rights of the Trustee enumerated herein shall not be construed as
duties.
Section
7.3. Individual
Rights of Trustee.
The
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the owner or pledgee
of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries
or
any of their Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee. Any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar may do the same with like
rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Section
7.10
and
Section
7.11.
Section
7.4. Trustee’s
Disclaimer.
The
Trustee shall not be responsible for and makes no representation as to the
validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the Notes, and it shall not be
responsible for any statement of the Company in this Indenture or in any
document issued in connection with the sale of the Notes or in the Notes other
than the Trustee’s certificate of authentication.
Section
7.5. Notice
of Defaults.
If
a
Default
or Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if a Trust Officer has actual
knowledge thereof, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder notice of the Default
or Event of Default within 90 days after the occurrence thereof. Except in
the
case of a Default or Event of Default in payment of principal of or interest
on
any Note (including payments pursuant to the optional redemption or required
repurchase provisions of such Note, if any), the Trustee may withhold the notice
if and so long as a committee of its Trust Officers in good faith determines
that withholding the notice is in the interests of the Holders.
Section
7.6. Reports
by Trustee to Holders.
The
Trustee shall comply with TIA § 313. The Company agrees to notify promptly
the Trustee whenever the Notes become listed on any stock exchange and of any
delisting thereof.
Section
7.7. Compensation
and Indemnity.
(a) The
Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable compensation
for
its acceptance of this Indenture and services hereunder as the Company and
the
Trustee shall from time to time agree in writing. 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
out-of-pocket expenses Incurred or made by it, including costs of collection,
costs of preparing and reviewing reports, certificates and other documents,
costs of preparation and mailing of notices to Holders and reasonable costs
of
counsel retained by the Trustee in connection with the delivery of an Opinion
of
Counsel or otherwise, in addition to the compensation for its services. Such
expenses shall include the reasonable compensation and expenses, disbursements
and advances of the Trustee’s agents, counsel, accountants and
experts.
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(b) The
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall jointly and severally indemnify
the Trustee against any and all loss, liability or expense (including reasonable
attorneys’ fees and expenses) Incurred by it without negligence, willful
misconduct or bad faith on its part in connection with the acceptance and
administration of this trust and the performance of its duties hereunder,
including the costs and expenses of enforcing this Indenture (including this
Section
7.7)
and of
defending itself against any claims (whether asserted by any Holder, the
Company, any Restricted Subsidiary or otherwise). The Trustee shall notify
the
Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek indemnity. Failure by the
Trustee to so notify the Company shall not relieve the Company of its
obligations hereunder. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee may
have separate counsel and the Company shall pay the fees and expenses of such
counsel, provided
that the
Company shall not be required to pay such fees and expenses if it assumes the
Trustee’s defense, and, in the reasonable judgment of outside counsel to the
Trustee, there is no conflict of interest between the Company and the Trustee
in
connection with such defense. The Company need not reimburse any expense or
indemnify against any loss, liability or expense Incurred by the Trustee through
the Trustee’s own negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.
(c) To
secure
the Company’s payment obligations in this Section
7.7,
the
Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes on all money or property held
or
collected by the Trustee other than money or property held in trust to pay
principal of and interest on particular Notes. The Trustee’s right to receive
payment of any amounts due under this Section
7.7
shall
not be subordinate to any other liability or Indebtedness of the
Company.
(d) The
Company’s payment obligations pursuant to this Section
7.7
shall
survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture and the resignation
or
removal of the Trustee. When the Trustee Incurs expenses after the occurrence
of
an event described in Section
6.1(a)(xii)
or
Section
6.1(a)(xiii),
the
expenses are intended to constitute expenses of administration under any
Insolvency Law; provided,
however,
that
this shall not affect the Trustee’s rights as set forth in this Section
7.7
or
Section
6.10.
Section
7.8. Replacement
of Trustee.
(a) The
Trustee may resign at any time by so notifying the Company. The Holders of
a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee
by
so notifying the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee reasonably
acceptable to the Company. The Company shall remove the Trustee if:
(i)
the
Trustee fails to comply with Section
7.10;
(ii)
the
Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(iii)
a
receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee or its property;
or
(iv)
the
Trustee otherwise becomes incapable of acting.
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(b) If
the
Trustee resigns or is removed by the Company or by the Holders of a majority
in
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes and such Holders do not reasonably
promptly appoint a successor Trustee, or if a vacancy exists in the office
of
the Trustee for any reason (the Trustee in such event being referred to herein
as the retiring Trustee), the Company shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee.
(c) A
successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its appointment to
the
retiring Trustee and to the Company. Thereupon 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. The
successor Trustee shall mail a notice of its succession to Holders. The retiring
Trustee shall promptly transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the
successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided for in Section
7.7.
(d) If
a
successor Trustee does not take office within 30 days after the retiring Trustee
resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee or the Holders of 10% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes may petition, at the Company’s expense, any
court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
(e) If
the
Trustee fails to comply with Section
7.10,
any
Holder may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of
the
Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(f) Notwithstanding
the replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.8,
the
Company’s obligations under Section
7.7
shall
continue for the benefit of the retiring Trustee.
Section
7.9. Successor
Trustee by Merger.
(a) If
the
Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or transfers all or
substantially all its corporate trust business or assets to, another corporation
or banking association, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation
or
banking association without any further act shall be the successor
Trustee.
(b) In
case
at the time such successor or successors to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture, any of the Notes shall have been authenticated
but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate
of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Notes so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Notes shall not have been
authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Notes either
in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor to
the
Trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force
which
it is anywhere in the Notes or in this Indenture provided that the certificate
of the Trustee shall have.
Section
7.10. Eligibility;
Disqualification.
The
Trustee shall at all times satisfy the requirements of TIA § 310(a). The
Trustee shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least U.S.$50,000,000
as
set forth in its most recent published annual report of condition. The Trustee
shall comply with TIA § 310(b); provided,
however,
that
there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA § 310(b)(1) any indenture
or indentures under which other securities or certificates of interest or
participation in other securities of the Company are outstanding if the
requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA § 310(b)(1) are
met.
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Section
7.11. Preferential
Collection of Claims Against Company.
The
Trustee shall comply with TIA § 311(a), excluding any creditor relationship
listed in TIA § 311(b). A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be
subject to TIA § 311(a) to the extent indicated.
ARTICLE
VIII
DEFEASANCE;
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
Section
8.1. Legal
Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance.
(a) The
Company may, at its option by the resolution of its Board of Directors, at
any
time, elect to have either paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section
8.1
be
applied to all Outstanding Notes upon compliance with the conditions set forth
in Section
8.2.
(b) Upon
the
Company’s exercise under paragraph (a) of this Section
8.1
of the
option applicable to this paragraph (b), the Company shall, subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section
8.2,
be
deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to all
Outstanding Notes on the date all of the conditions set forth in Section
8.2
are
satisfied (hereinafter, “Legal
Defeasance”).
For
this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the Outstanding
Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be Outstanding only for the purposes
of Section
8.3
and the
other Sections of this Indenture referred to in clause (i) or (ii) of
this paragraph (b), and to have satisfied all its other obligations under
such Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of and at the expense
of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except
for the following provisions, which shall survive until otherwise terminated
or
discharged hereunder:
(i) the
rights of Holders of Outstanding Notes to receive solely from the trust fund
described in Section
8.3,
and as
more fully set forth in Section
8.3,
payments in respect of the principal of and interest on such Notes when such
payments are due;
(ii) the
Company’s obligations with respect to such Notes under Article II
and
Section
3.2;
(iii) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and
the
Company’s obligations in connection therewith; and
(iv) this
Article VIII.
Subject
to compliance with this Article VIII,
the
Company may exercise its option under this paragraph (b) notwithstanding
the prior exercise of its option under paragraph (c) of this Section
8.1.
(c) Upon
the
Company’s exercise under paragraph (a) of this Section
8.1
of the
option applicable to this paragraph (c), the Company shall, subject to the
satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section
8.2,
be
released from its obligations under the covenants contained in Section
3.4,
Section
3.5,
Section
3.6,
Section
3.7,
Section
3.8,
Section
3.9,
Section
3.10,
Section
3.11,
Section
3.12,
Section
3.13,
Section
3.14,
Section
3.15,
Section
3.16,
Section
3.17,
Section
3.18, Section
3.19,
Section
3.20,
Section
3.21,
Section
3.22,
Section
4.1(a)(i),
Section
4.1(a)(iii),
Section
4.1(a)(iv),
Section
5.8,
and
Article
XIII
with
respect to the Outstanding Notes on and after the date the conditions set forth
below are satisfied (hereinafter, “Covenant
Defeasance”),
and
the Notes 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 Outstanding for all other purposes hereunder (it being understood
that such Notes shall not be deemed Outstanding for accounting purposes). For
this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the
Outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to 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 and such omission to
comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event or Default under or in respect
of Section
6.1(a)(iii),
(a)(iv)
(except
with respect to Section
4.1(a)(ii),
(a)(v)
and
(a)(vi)), (a)(v),
(a)(vi),
(a)(vii),
(a)(viii),
(a)(ix)
or
(a)(x),
but,
except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Notes shall
be unaffected thereby.
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Section
8.2. Conditions
to Defeasance.
The
Company may exercise its Legal Defeasance option or its Covenant Defeasance
option only if:
(a) the
Company shall irrevocably have deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee funds in trust, for the benefit of Holders, Dollars or U.S. Government
Obligations, or a combination thereof, sufficient, in the opinion of a
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants, to pay and
discharge the principal of and each installment of interest (and Additional
Amounts) on such Notes on the stated maturity of such principal or installment
of interest in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and of the
Notes;
(b) in
the
case of Legal Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Opinion of Counsel stating that (i) the Company has received from, or there
has
been published by, the United States Internal Revenue Service a ruling; or
(ii)
since the Issue Date, there has been a change in the applicable United States
federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based thereon
such Opinion of Counsel shall state that, the Holders will not recognize income,
gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such
Legal Defeasance and will be subject to United States federal income tax on
the
same amount, 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 Covenant Defeasance, the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee
an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the Holders will not recognize income,
gain or loss for United States federal income tax purposes as a result of such
deposit and covenant defeasance and will be subject to United States federal
income tax on 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 shall have occurred and be continuing on the date
of
such deposit or will occur as a result of such deposit or, insofar as Events
of
Default resulting from bankruptcy or insolvency events are concerned, at any
time during the period ending on the 121st day after the date of such deposit
(it being understood that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until
the
expiration of such period);
(e) such
Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not cause the Trustee to have
a
conflicting interest as defined in this Indenture and for purposes of the Trust
Indenture Act with respect to any of the Company’s securities;
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(f) such
Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in a breach or
violation of, or constitute a default under, any other agreement or instrument
to which the Company is a party or by which it is bound;
(g) the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating
that all conditions precedent provided for relating to either Legal Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be, have been complied with and no
violations under instruments or agreements governing any of the Company’s other
outstanding Indebtedness would result as a consequence of such Legal Defeasance
or Covenant Defeasance, as the case may be;
(h) the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel (subject
to
customary assumptions and exclusions) to the effect that after two years
following the deposit, the trust funds deposited in accordance will not be
subject to the effect of any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization
or similar laws affecting creditors’ rights generally under the laws of Mexico;
and
(i) the
Company shall have paid or duly provided for payment of all amounts then due
to
the Trustee pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
Section
8.3. Application
of Trust Money.
The
Trustee shall hold in trust Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations deposited
with it pursuant to this Article VIII.
It
shall apply the deposited money and the Dollars from U.S. Government Obligations
through the Paying Agent and in accordance with this Indenture to the payment
of
principal of and interest on the Notes.
Section
8.4. Repayment
to Company.
(a) The
Trustee and the Paying Agent shall promptly turn over to the Company upon
request any excess money or securities held by them upon payment of all the
obligations under this Indenture.
(b) Subject
to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and the Paying Agent
shall
pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of
principal of or interest on the Notes that remains unclaimed for two years,
and,
thereafter, Holders entitled to the money must look to the Company for payment
as general creditors.
Section
8.5. Indemnity
for U.S. Government Obligations.
The
Company shall pay and shall indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or other
charge imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations
or
the principal and interest received on such U.S. Government
Obligations.
Section
8.6. Reinstatement.
If the
Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any Dollars or U.S. Government
Obligations in accordance with this Article VIII
by
reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any
court or governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting
such application, the obligations of the Company under this Indenture and the
Notes shall be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant
to this Article VIII
until
such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all such Dollars
or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this Article VIII;
provided,
however,
that,
if the Company has made any payment of principal of or interest on any Notes
because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the Company shall be subrogated
to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to receive such payment from the
Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations held by the Trustee or Paying
Agent.
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Section
8.7. Satisfaction
and Discharge.
This
Indenture will be discharged and will cease to be of further effect (except
as
to surviving rights or registration of transfer or exchange of the Notes, as
expressly provided for in this Indenture) as to all Outstanding Notes
when:
(a) either:
(i)
all
the
Notes theretofore executed, authenticated and delivered (except lost, stolen
or
destroyed Notes which have been replaced or paid and Notes for whose payment
money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated and held in trust
by
the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or discharged from such trust)
have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation; or
(ii)
all
Notes
not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation have become due and
payable, and the Company has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited
with the Trustee Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire Indebtedness on the Notes not theretofore delivered to
the
Trustee for cancellation, for principal of and interest on the Notes to the
date
of deposit, together with irrevocable instructions from the Company directing
the Trustee to apply such funds to the payment;
(b) the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary has paid all other sums payable under
this
Indenture and the Notes by the Company; and
(c) the
Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate stating that all
conditions precedent under this Indenture relating to the satisfaction and
discharge of this Indenture have been complied with.
ARTICLE
IX
AMENDMENTS
Section
9.1. Without
Consent of Holders.
(a) The
Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries, the Trustee, and the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent (in the case of the Collateral Documents only) may amend
this Indenture, the Notes and the Collateral Documents without notice to or
consent of any Holder:
(i)
to
cure
any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency;
(ii)
to
comply
with Article IV
in
respect of the assumption by a Surviving Entity of the obligations of the
Company under the Notes, this Indenture and the Collateral
Documents;
(iii)
to
conform any provision in this Indenture, the Notes or the Collateral Documents
to the Information Memorandum;
(iv) to
provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated
Notes; provided,
however,
that
the uncertificated Notes are issued in registered form for purposes of
Section 163(f) of the Code;
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(v)
to
add
Guarantees with respect to the Notes or to add additional Collateral or to
add
additional grantors or pledgors of Collateral;
(vi)
to
add to
the covenants of the Company for the benefit of the Holders or to surrender
any
right or power herein conferred upon the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary;
(vii) to
comply
with any requirements of the SEC in connection with qualifying this Indenture
under the TIA;
(viii) to
provide for the issuance of Additional Notes as permitted by 2.13,
which
will have terms substantially identical to the other Outstanding Notes except
as
specified in Section 2.13,
or
Section
2.14,
and
which will be treated, together with any other Outstanding Notes, as a single
issue of securities; or
(ix)
to
make
any change that does not, in the opinion of the Trustee, adversely affect the
rights of any Holder in any material respect, including, without limitation,
in
the case of Collateral Documents, as contemplated therein.
(b) After
an
amendment under this Section
9.1
becomes
effective, the Company shall mail to Holders a notice briefly describing such
amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect
therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment under this
Section
9.1.
Section
9.2. With
Consent of Holders.
(a) The
Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries, the Trustee and the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent (in the case of the Collateral Documents only) may amend
this Indenture, the Notes or the Collateral Documents without notice to any
Holder but with the written consent of the Holders of at least a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes (including, without limitation,
consents obtained in connection with a purchase of, or tender offer or exchange
offer for, Notes). However, without the consent of each Holder affected, an
amendment may not:
(i)
reduce
the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an amendment or
waiver;
(ii)
reduce
the rate of or change or have the effect of changing the time for payment of
interest, including Defaulted Interest, on any Notes or reduce the obligation
in
this Indenture to pay Additional Amounts in respect of any Note (other than
a
postponement of such interest payments for a period not to exceed three years,
which may be made with the consent of the Holders of at least 75% in principal
amount of the then Outstanding Notes issued under this Indenture);
(iii)
reduce
the principal of or change or have the effect of changing the fixed maturity
of
any Notes, or change the date on which any Notes may be subject to redemption
(including mandatory redemption), or reduce the redemption price
therefor;
(iv)
make
any
change in the provisions of this Indenture entitling each Holder to receive
payment of principal of, premium, if any, and interest on such Notes on or
after
the due date thereof or to bring suit to enforce such payment, or permitting
Holders of a majority in principal amount of Outstanding Notes to waive Defaults
or Events of Default;
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(v)
change
the currency of payment of principal of, or any premium or interest on, any
Note;
(vi)
waive
or
amend any provision in this Indenture in a manner that affects the ranking
of
the Notes in a manner adverse to the Holders;
(vii)
change
any pro rata sharing of payments among the Holders;
(viii) make
any
change to the rights of the Holders under Article
X
or
XII,
which
adversely affects the Holders in any material respect, except as otherwise
provided for in this Indenture; or
(ix)
release
all or any material portion of the Collateral or any material Restricted
Subsidiary, other than to the extent expressly permitted by this Indenture
and
the Collateral Documents.
(b) It
shall
not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this Section
9.2
to
approve the particular form of any proposed amendment, but it shall be
sufficient if such consent approves the substance thereof.
(c) After
an
amendment under this Section
9.2
becomes
effective, the Company shall mail to Holders a notice briefly describing such
amendment. The failure to give such notice to all Holders, or any defect
therein, shall not impair or affect the validity of an amendment, supplement
or
waiver under this Section
9.2.
(d) An
amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.2
may not
make any change that adversely affects the rights under Article X
or
Article XII
of any
holder of Senior Indebtedness then outstanding unless the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness (or any Representative thereof authorized to give a consent)
consent to such change.
Section
9.3. Compliance
with Trust Indenture Act.
Every
amendment to this Indenture or the Notes shall comply with the TIA as then
in
effect.
Section
9.4. Waivers.
The
Company may omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or
condition contained in this Indenture if before the time for such compliance
the
Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of Outstanding
Notes shall, by act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such
instance or generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but
no
such waiver shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to
the
extent so expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective,
the
Company’s obligations and the duties of the Trustee in respect of any such
covenant or condition shall remain in full force and effect.
Section
9.5. Revocation
and Effect of Consents and Waivers.
(a) A
consent
to an amendment, supplement or waiver by a Holder of a Note shall bind the
Holder and every subsequent Holder of that Note or portion of the Note that
evidences the same debt as the consenting Holder’s Note, even if notation of the
consent or waiver is not made on the Note. However, any such Holder or
subsequent Holder may revoke the consent or waiver as to such Holder’s Note or
portion of the Note if the Trustee receives the notice of revocation before
the
date the amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective. After an amendment,
supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall bind every Holder, except
as
otherwise provided in this Article IX.
An
amendment, supplement or waiver shall become effective upon receipt by the
Trustee of the requisite number of written consents under Section
9.2.
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(b) The
Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date, which need not
be
the date provided in TIA § 316(c) to the extent it would otherwise be
applicable, for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to give their
consent or take any other action described above or required or permitted to
be
taken pursuant to this Indenture. If a record date is fixed, then
notwithstanding the immediately preceding paragraph, those Persons who were
Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those
Persons, shall be entitled to give such consent or to revoke any consent
previously given or to take any such action, 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.
Section
9.6. Notation
on or Exchange of Notes.
If an
amendment or supplement changes the terms of a Note, the Trustee may require
the
Holder of the Note to deliver it to the Trustee. The Trustee may place an
appropriate notation on the Note regarding the changed terms and return it
to
the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee so determines, the
Company in exchange for the Note will execute and upon Company Order the Trustee
will authenticate a new Note that reflects the changed terms. Failure to make
the appropriate notation or to issue a new Note shall not affect the validity
of
such amendment or supplement.
Section
9.7. Trustee
to Sign Amendments and Supplements.
The
Trustee shall sign any amendment or supplement authorized pursuant to this
Article IX
if the
amendment or supplement does not adversely affect the rights, duties,
liabilities or immunities of the Trustee. If it does, the Trustee may but need
not sign it. In signing such amendment or supplement the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it and to receive,
in
addition to the documents required by Section
14.4,
and
(subject to Section
7.1
and
Section
7.2)
shall
be fully protected in relying upon, such evidence as it deems appropriate,
including, without limitation, solely on an Opinion of Counsel stating that
such
amendment or supplement is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture.
ARTICLE
X
SUBORDINATION
OF THE NOTES
Section
10.1. Agreement
to Subordinate.
The
Company agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note agrees, that the
Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes is subordinated in right of payment, to
the
extent and in the manner provided in this Article X,
to the
prior payment in full, in cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Indebtedness
of
the Company and that the subordination is for the benefit of and enforceable
by
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. Only Senior Indebtedness of the Company
shall rank senior to the Notes in accordance with the provisions set forth
herein. The Notes shall in all respects rank pari
passu with,
or
be senior to, all other Indebtedness of the Company. All provisions of this
Article X
shall be
subject to Section 10.12.
Section
10.2. Liquidation,
Dissolution, Bankruptcy.
Upon
any payment or distribution of the assets of the Company to creditors upon
a
total or partial liquidation or dissolution of the Company, in a bankruptcy,
reorganization, insolvency, receivership, concurso
mercantil,
quiebra
or
similar proceeding relating to the Company or its property, an assignment by
the
Company for the benefit of its creditors or the marshaling or any form of
attachment of the assets and liabilities of the Company:
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(a)
holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall be entitled to receive
payment in full of all Obligations due in respect thereof before Holders shall
be entitled to receive any payment of principal of, premium or interest on
the
Notes; and
(b)
until
such Senior Indebtedness is paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, any
distribution to which Holders would be entitled but for this Article X
shall be
made to holders of such Senior Indebtedness as their interests may appear;
except
that Holders may receive (i) Permitted Junior Securities and
(ii) payments and other distributions made from any defeasance trust
created pursuant to Article VIII.
Section
10.3. Default
on Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company.
(a) The
Company may not directly or indirectly pay the principal of, premium or interest
on the Notes or directly or indirectly make any deposit pursuant to Section 8.1
and may
not repurchase, redeem or otherwise retire any Notes (collectively,
“pay
the Notes”),
other
than payments and other distributions in the form of Permitted Junior Securities
or from any defeasance trust created pursuant to Section 8.1
if:
(i)
a
payment default on Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company occurs and
is
continuing; or
(ii)
any
other default occurs and is continuing on Designated Senior Indebtedness of
the
Company that permits the holders thereof to accelerate its maturity and the
Trustee receives a notice of that default (a “Payment
Blockage Notice”)
from
the Company or the holders of such Designated Senior Indebtedness.
(b)
Payments on the Notes may and shall be resumed:
(i)
in
the case of a payment default, upon the date on which it is cured or waived;
and
(ii)
in
case of a Payment Blockage Notice relating to a nonpayment default, the earlier
of the date on which it is cured or waived or 179 days after the date on which
such Payment Blockage Notice is received, unless the maturity of the relevant
Designated Senior Indebtedness of the Company has been accelerated.
(c)
No
new Payment Blockage Notice may be delivered unless and until:
(i)
360
days have elapsed since the effectiveness of the immediately prior Payment
Blockage Notice; and
(ii)
all
scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Notes that have come
due
have been paid in full in cash.
(d)
No
nonpayment default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of
any
Payment Blockage Notice to the Trustee shall be, or be made, the basis for
a
subsequent Payment Blockage Notice unless that default shall have been cured
or
waived for a period of not less than 180 days.
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Section
10.4. Acceleration
of Payment of Notes.
If
payment of the Notes is accelerated because of an Event of Default, the Company
or the Trustee shall promptly notify the holders of the Designated Senior
Indebtedness of the Company (or their Representative) of the
acceleration.
Section
10.5. When
Distribution Must Be Paid Over.
If a
distribution is made to Holders that because of this Article
X
should
not have been made to them, the Holders who receive the distribution shall
hold
it in trust for holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company and pay it over
to
them (or their Representative) as their interests may appear.
Section
10.6. Subrogation.
After
all Senior Indebtedness of the Company is paid in full in cash or Cash
Equivalents and until the Notes are paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents,
Holders shall be subrogated to the rights of holders of such Senior Indebtedness
to receive distributions applicable to such Senior Indebtedness. A distribution
made under this Article X to holders of such Senior Indebtedness which otherwise
would have been made to Holders is not, as between the Company and Holders,
a
payment by the Company on such Senior Indebtedness.
Section
10.7. Relative
Rights.
This
Article X defines the relative rights of Holders and holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company. Nothing in this Indenture shall:
(a)
impair, as between the Company and Holders, the obligation of the Company,
which
is absolute and unconditional, to pay its Obligations in respect of this
Indenture and the Notes in accordance with their terms; or
(b)
prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising its available remedies upon
a
Default, subject to the rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company
to receive distributions otherwise payable to Holders as provided in this
Article
X.
Section
10.8. Subordination
May Not Be Impaired by Company.
No
right of any holder of Senior Indebtedness of the Company to enforce the
subordination of the Indebtedness evidenced by the Notes shall be impaired
by
any act or failure to act by the Company or by its failure to comply with this
Indenture.
Section
10.9. Rights
of Trustee and Paying Agent.
(a)
Notwithstanding Section
10.3,
the
Trustee or Paying Agent may continue to make payments on the Notes and shall
not
be charged with knowledge of the existence of facts that would prohibit the
making of any such payments unless, not less than two Business Days prior to
the
date of such payment, a Trust Officer of the Trustee receives notice
satisfactory to it that payments may not be made under this Article
X.
The
Company, the Registrar or co-registrar, the Paying Agent, a Representative
or a
holder of Senior Indebtedness may give the notice; provided,
however,
that,
if the holders of an issue of Senior Indebtedness of the Company have a
Representative, only the Representative may give the notice.
(b)
The
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Indebtedness
of
the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. The
Registrar and co-registrar and the Paying Agent may do the same with like
rights. The Trustee, the Registrar, co-Registrar and Paying Agent shall be
entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article
X
with
respect to any Senior Indebtedness of the Company which may at any time be
held
by them, to the same extent as any other holder of such Senior Indebtedness,
and
nothing in Article
VII
shall
deprive any of them of any of their rights as such holders. Nothing in this
Article
X
shall
apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to
Section
7.7.
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Section
10.10. Distribution
or Notice to Representative.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company, the distribution may be made and the notice given
to their Representative (if any).
Section
10.11. Article
X Not to Prevent Events of Default or Limit Right to Accelerate.
The
failure to make a payment pursuant to the Notes by reason of any provision
in
this Article
X
shall
not be construed as preventing the occurrence of a Default. Nothing in this
Article
X
shall
have any effect on the right of the Holders or the Trustee to accelerate the
maturity of the Notes.
Section
10.12. Trust
Moneys Not Subordinated.
Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, payments from money
or the proceeds of U.S. Government Obligations held in trust under Article
VIII
by the
Trustee for the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes shall not
be
subordinated to the prior payment of any Senior Indebtedness or subject to
the
restrictions set forth in this Article
X,
and
none of the Holders shall be obligated to pay over any such amount to the
Company or any holder of Senior Indebtedness of the Company or any other
creditor of the Company.
Section
10.13. Trustee
Entitled to Rely.
Upon
any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article
X,
the
Trustee and the Holders shall be entitled to rely (a) upon any order or decree
of a court of competent jurisdiction in which any proceedings of the nature
referred to in Section
10.2
are
pending, (b) upon a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other
Person making such payment or distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders
or
(c) upon the Representative for the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the
Company for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled to participate
in
such payment or distribution, the holders of such Senior Indebtedness and other
Indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount
or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto
or
to this Article
X.
In the
event that the Trustee determines, in good faith, that evidence is required
with
respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness of the
Company to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article
X,
the
Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness held
by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in
such
payment or distribution and other facts pertinent to the rights of such Person
under this Article
X,
and, if
such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment. The provisions of Sections
7.1 and 7.2
shall be
applicable to all actions or omissions of actions by the Trustee pursuant to
this Article
X.
Section
10.14. Trustee
to Effectuate Subordination.
Each
Holder by accepting a Note authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Holder’s
behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge
or
effectuate the subordination between the Holders and the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company as provided in this Article
X
and
appoints the Trustee as attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
Section
10.15. Trustee
Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The
Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness and shall not be liable to any such holders if it shall mistakenly
pay over or distribute to Holders or the Company or any other Person, money
or
assets to which any holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company shall be
entitled by virtue of this Article
X
or
otherwise.
Section
10.16. Reliance
by Holders of Senior Indebtedness on Subordination Provisions.
Each
Holder by accepting a Note acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing
subordination provisions are, and are intended to be, an inducement and a
consideration to each holder of any Senior Indebtedness of the Company, whether
such Senior Indebtedness was created or acquired before or after the issuance
of
the Notes, to acquire and continue to hold, or to continue to hold, such Senior
Indebtedness and such holder of such Senior Indebtedness shall be deemed
conclusively to have relied on such subordination provisions in acquiring and
continuing to hold, or in continuing to hold, such Senior
Indebtedness.
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ARTICLE
XI
NOTE
GUARANTEES
Section
11.1. Note
Guarantees.
(a)
Each
Restricted Subsidiary hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees,
as primary obligor and not merely as surety, jointly and severally with each
other Restricted Subsidiary, to each Holder and the Trustee the full and
punctual payment when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by redemption
or otherwise, of the Obligations (such guaranteed Obligations, the “Guaranteed
Obligations”).
Each
Restricted Subsidiary further agrees (to the extent permitted by law) that
the
Obligations may be extended or renewed, in whole or in part, without notice
or
further assent from it, and that it shall remain bound under this Article
XI
notwithstanding any extension or renewal of any Obligation. Each Restricted
Subsidiary hereby agrees to pay, in addition to the amounts stated above, any
and all expenses (including reasonable counsel fees and expenses) incurred
by
the Trustee or the Holders in enforcing any rights under any Note
Guarantee.
(b)
Each
Restricted Subsidiary waives presentation to, demand of payment from and protest
to the Company of any of the Obligations and also waives notice of protest
for
nonpayment. Each Restricted Subsidiary waives notice of any default under the
Notes or the Obligations. The obligations of each Restricted Subsidiary
hereunder shall not be affected by (i) the failure of any Holder to assert
any claim or demand or to enforce any right or remedy against the Company or
any
other Person under this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement or
otherwise; (ii) any extension or renewal of any thereof; (iii) any
rescission, waiver, amendment or modification of any of the terms or provisions
of this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement; (iv) the release of
any security held by any Holder or the Trustee for the Obligations or any of
them; (v) the failure of any Holder to exercise any right or remedy against
any other Restricted Subsidiary; or (vi) any change in the ownership of the
Company.
(c)
Each
Restricted Subsidiary expressly waives, irrevocably and
unconditionally:
(i) any
right
to require the Trustee or any Holder to first proceed against, initiate any
actions before a court or any other judge or authority, or enforce any other
rights or security or claim payment from the Company or any other person, before
claiming any amounts due from any Restricted Subsidiary hereunder;
(ii) any
right
to which it may be entitled to have the assets of the Company or any other
person first be used, applied or depleted as payment of the Company’s or the
Restricted Subsidiaries’ obligations hereunder, prior to any amount being
claimed from or paid by any Restricted Subsidiary hereunder;
(iii) any
right
to which it may be entitled to have claims against it, or assets to be used
or
applied as payment, divided among different Restricted Subsidiaries;
and
(iv) the
benefits of orden,
excusión,
division,
quita
and
espera
and
any
right specified in Articles 2814, 2815, 2817, 2818, 2819, 2820, 2821, 2822,
2823, 2826, 2837, 2829, 2840, 2845, 2846, 2847 and any other related or
applicable Articles that are not explicitly set forth herein because of the
Company’s and each Restricted Subsidiary’s knowledge thereof, of the
Código
Civil Federal of
Mexico
and the Código
Civil
of each
State of the Mexican Republic and the Federal District of Mexico.
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(d) Each
Restricted Subsidiary further agrees that its Note Guarantee herein constitutes
a guarantee of payment when due (and not a guarantee of collection) and waives
any right to require that any resort be had by any Holder to any security held
for payment of the Obligations.
(e)
The
obligations of each Restricted Subsidiary hereunder shall not be subject to
any
reduction, limitation, impairment or termination for any reason (other than
payment of the Obligations in full), including any claim of waiver, release,
surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to any defense
of
setoff, counterclaim, recoupment or termination whatsoever or by reason of
the
invalidity, illegality or unenforceability of the Obligations or otherwise.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations of each
Restricted Subsidiary herein shall not be discharged or impaired or otherwise
affected by the failure of any Holder to assert any claim or demand or to
enforce any remedy under this Indenture, the Notes or any other agreement,
by
any waiver or modification of any thereof, by any default, failure or delay,
willful or otherwise, in the performance of the Obligations, or by any other
act
or thing or omission or delay to do any other act or thing which may or might
in
any manner or to any extent vary the risk of such Restricted Subsidiary or
would
otherwise operate as a discharge of such Restricted Subsidiary as a matter
of
law or equity.
(f)
Each
Restricted Subsidiary further agrees that its Note Guarantee herein shall
continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time
payment, or any part thereof, of principal of or interest on any of the
Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be restored by any Holder upon the
bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or otherwise.
(g)
In
furtherance of the foregoing and not in limitation of any other right which
any
Holder has at law or in equity against each Restricted Subsidiary by virtue
hereof, upon the failure of the Company to pay any of the Obligations when
and
as the same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by
redemption or otherwise, each
Restricted Subsidiary hereby promises to and shall, upon receipt of written
demand by the Trustee, forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, in cash, to the
Holders an amount equal to the sum of:
(i)
the
unpaid amount of such Obligations then due and owing; and
(ii)
accrued
and unpaid interest on such Obligations then due and owing (but only to the
extent not prohibited by law).
(h)
Each
Restricted Subsidiary further agrees that, as between such Restricted
Subsidiary, on the one hand, and the Holders, on the other hand:
(i)
the
maturity of the Obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated as provided
in
this Indenture for the purposes of its Note Guarantee herein, notwithstanding
any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such acceleration in
respect of the Obligations guaranteed hereby; and
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(ii)
in
the
event of any such declaration of acceleration of such Obligations, such
Obligations (whether or not due and payable) shall forthwith become due and
payable by such Restricted Subsidiary for the purposes of its Note
Guarantee.
(i)
Each
Note
Guarantee is, to the extent and in the manner set forth in Article XII,
subordinated and subject in right of payment to the prior payment in full in
cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Indebtedness of such Note Guarantor
and
is made subject to such provisions of this Indenture.
Section
11.2. Termination,
Release and Discharge.
(a)
A
Restricted Subsidiary shall be released and relieved of its obligations under
its Note Guarantee and any Collateral Documents to which it is a party in the
event that:
(i)
there
is
a Legal Defeasance of the Notes as described in Section
8.2;
(ii)
there
is
a sale or other disposition of Capital Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary
following which such Restricted Subsidiary is no longer a direct or indirect
Subsidiary of the Company; or
(iii)
such
Restricted Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in accordance
with Section
3.19;
provided,
that
the transaction is carried out pursuant to and in accordance with all other
applicable provisions of this Indenture.
Section
11.3. Right
of Contribution.
Each
Restricted Subsidiary that makes a payment or distribution under a Note
Guarantee shall be entitled to a contribution from each other Restricted
Subsidiary in a pro rata amount, based on the net assets of each Restricted
Subsidiary determined in accordance with Mexican GAAP but may not exercise
any
right to such contribution unless and until the Trustee and all Holders of
Notes
have been paid in full. The provisions of this Section 11.3 shall in no respect
limit the obligations and liabilities of each Restricted Subsidiary to the
Trustee and the Holders and each Restricted Subsidiary shall remain liable
to
the Trustee and the Holders for the full amount guaranteed by such Restricted
Subsidiary hereunder.
Section
11.4. No
Subrogation.
Each
Restricted Subsidiary agrees that it shall not be entitled to any right of
subrogation in respect of any Guaranteed Obligations until payment in full
of
all Obligations and all obligations to which the Obligations are subordinated.
If any amount shall be paid to any Restricted Subsidiary on account of such
subrogation rights at any time when all of the Obligations and all obligations
to which the Obligations are subordinated shall not have been paid in full,
such
amount shall be held by such Restricted Subsidiary in trust for the Trustee
and
the Holders, segregated from other funds of such Restricted Subsidiary, and
shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Restricted Subsidiary, be turned over
to
the Trustee in the exact form received by such Restricted Subsidiary (duly
endorsed by such Restricted Subsidiary to the Trustee, if required), to be
applied against the Obligations or obligations to which the Obligations are
subordinated.
Section
11.5. Additional
Note Guarantees.
The
Company shall cause any Person that shall become a Restricted Subsidiary (an
“Additional
Restricted Subsidiary”)
to
concurrently grant a guarantee (an “Additional
Note Guarantee”)
of the
Company’s obligations under this Indenture and the Notes to the same extent that
the Restricted Subsidiaries have guaranteed the Company’s obligations under this
Indenture and the Notes by executing a supplemental indenture substantially
in the form of Exhibit
B,
expressly assuming any and all Obligations hereunder and waiving any rights
waived hereunder by any Restricted Subsidiary,
and
providing the Trustee with an Officers’ Certificate and Opinion of Counsel and
by executing such documents described in Section
3.17;
it
being understood that such Additional Note Guarantee shall be subordinated
in
right of payment to Senior Indebtedness of such Additional Restricted
Subsidiary, including guarantees constituting Senior Indebtedness as provided
in
Article XII;
provided, however,
that
each Additional Restricted Subsidiary shall be automatically and unconditionally
released and discharged from its obligations under such Additional Note
Guarantee only in accordance with Section
11.2.
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ARTICLE
XII
SUBORDINATION
OF THE NOTE GUARANTEES
Section
12.1. Agreement
to Subordinate.
Each
Restricted Subsidiary agrees, and each Holder by accepting a Note agrees, that
the obligations of such Restricted Subsidiary are subordinated in right of
payment, to the extent and in the manner provided in this Article XII,
to the
prior payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Indebtedness
of
such Restricted Subsidiary and that the subordination is for the benefit of and
enforceable by the holders of such Senior Indebtedness. Only Senior Indebtedness
of such Restricted Subsidiary shall rank senior to the obligations of such
Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with the provisions set forth herein. The
obligations of each Restricted Subsidiary under this Indenture and the Notes
shall in all respects rank pari
passu with,
or
be senior to, all other Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary.
Section
12.2. Liquidation,
Dissolution, Bankruptcy.
Upon
any payment or distribution of the assets of any Restricted Subsidiary to
creditors upon a total or partial liquidation or dissolution of such Restricted
Subsidiary, in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership,
concurso
mercantil,
quiebra
or
similar proceeding relating to such Restricted Subsidiary or its property,
an
assignment by such Restricted Subsidiary for the benefit of its creditors or
the
marshaling of the assets and liabilities of such Restricted
Subsidiary:
(1)
holders of Senior Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary shall be entitled
to receive payment in full of all Obligations due in respect thereof before
Holders shall be entitled to receive any payment pursuant to the Note Guarantee
of such Restricted Subsidiary; and
(2)
until
such Senior Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary is paid in full in cash
or Cash Equivalents, any distribution to which Holders would be entitled but
for
this Article XII
shall be
made to holders of such Senior Indebtedness as their interests may
appear,
except
that Holders may receive (a) Permitted Junior Securities and
(b) payments and other distributions made from any defeasance trust created
pursuant to Article VIII.
Section
12.3. Default
on Designated Senior Indebtedness of Restricted Subsidiaries.
(a)
Each Restricted Subsidiary may not directly or indirectly pay the principal
of,
premium or interest on the Notes or directly or indirectly make any deposit
pursuant to Section 8.1
and may
not repurchase, redeem or otherwise retire any Notes (collectively,
“pay
its Note Guarantee”),
other
than payments and other distributions in the form of Permitted Junior Securities
or from any defeasance trust created pursuant to Section 8.1
if:
(i)
a
payment default on Designated Senior Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary
occurs and is continuing; or
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(ii)
any
other default occurs and is continuing on Designated Senior Indebtedness of
the
Restricted Subsidiary that permits the holders thereof to accelerate its
maturity and the Trustee receives a Payment Blockage Notice from such Restricted
Subsidiary, the Company or the holders of such Designated Senior
Indebtedness.
(b)
Payments on such Note Guarantee may and shall be resumed:
(i)
in
the case of a Payment Blockage Notice relating to a payment default, upon the
date on which it is cured or waived; and
(ii)
in
the case of a Payment Blockage Notice relating to a nonpayment default, the
earlier of the date on which it is cured or waived or 179 days after the date
on
which such Payment Blockage Notice is received, unless the maturity of the
relevant Designated Senior Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary has been
accelerated.
(c)
No
new Payment Blockage Notice may be delivered unless and until:
(i)
360
days have elapsed since the effectiveness of the immediately prior Payment
Blockage Notice; and
(ii)
all
scheduled payments of principal of and interest on the Notes that have come
due
have been paid in full in cash.
(d)
No
nonpayment default that existed or was continuing on the date of delivery of
any
Payment Blockage Notice to the Trustee shall be, or be made, the basis for
a
subsequent Payment Blockage Notice unless that default shall have been cured
or
waived for a period of not less than 180 days.
Section
12.4. Demand
for Payment.
If a
demand for payment is made on any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Article
XI,
the
Trustee shall promptly notify the holders of the Designated Senior Indebtedness
(or their Representatives) of such Restricted Subsidiary of such
demand.
Section
12.5. When
Distribution Must Be Paid Over.
If a
distribution is made to Holders that because of this Article XII
should
not have been made to them, the Holders who receive the distribution shall
hold
it in trust for holders of the relevant Senior Indebtedness of such Restricted
Subsidiary and pay it over to them (or their Representative) as their interests
may appear.
Section
12.6. Subrogation.
After
all Senior Indebtedness of each Restricted
Subsidiary is paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents and until the Notes
are
paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, Holders shall be subrogated to the
rights of holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive distributions
applicable to such Senior Indebtedness. A distribution made under this
Article XII
to
holders of such Senior Indebtedness which otherwise would have been made to
Holders is not, as between each Restricted Subsidiary and Holders, a payment
by
such Restricted Subsidiary on such Senior Indebtedness.
Section
12.7. Relative
Rights.
This
Article XII
defines
the relative rights of Holders and holders of Senior Indebtedness of each
Restricted Subsidiary. Nothing in this Indenture shall:
(a)
impair, as between each Restricted Subsidiary and the Holders, the obligation
of
such Restricted Subsidiary, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay its
Obligations in respect of this Indenture and the Notes to the extent set forth
in Article
XI;
or
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(b)
prevent the Trustee or any Holder from exercising its available remedies upon
a
default by any Restricted Subsidiary under its obligations, subject to the
rights of holders of Senior Indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary to
receive distributions otherwise payable to Holders as provided in this
Article
XII.
Section
12.8. Subordination
May Not Be Impaired by Restricted Subsidiaries.
No
right of any holder of Senior Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary to
enforce the subordination of the obligations of such Restricted Subsidiary
shall
be impaired by any act or failure to act by such Restricted Subsidiary or by
its
failure to comply with this Indenture.
Section
12.9. Rights
of Trustee and Paying Agent.
(a)
Notwithstanding Section 12.3, the Trustee or Paying Agent may continue to make
payments on each Note Guarantee and shall not be charged with knowledge of
the
existence of facts that would prohibit the making of any such payments unless,
not less than two Business Days prior to the date of such payment, a Trust
Officer of the Trustee receives written notice satisfactory to it that payments
may not be made under this Article
XII.
The
Company, each Restricted Subsidiary, the Registrar or co-registrar, the Paying
Agent, a Representative or a holder of Senior Indebtedness of any Restricted
Subsidiary may give the notice; provided,
however,
that,
if any Senior Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary has a Representative,
only the Representative may give the notice.
(b)
The
Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may hold Senior Indebtedness
with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee. The Registrar and
co-registrar and the Paying Agent may do the same with like rights. The Trustee,
the Registrar, co-Registrar and Paying Agent shall be entitled to all the rights
set forth in this Article
XII
with
respect to any Senior Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary which may at
any
time be held by any of them, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in Article
VII
shall
deprive any of them of any of their rights as such holders. Nothing in this
Article
XII
shall
apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or pursuant to
Section
7.7.
Section
12.10. Distribution
or Notice to Representative.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders of Senior
Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary, the distribution may be made and
the
notice given to their Representative (if any).
Section
12.11. Article
XII Not to Prevent Defaults Under the Note Guarantees or Limit Right To Demand
Payment.
The
failure to make a payment pursuant to any Note Guarantee by reason of any
provision in this Article
XII
shall
not be construed as preventing the occurrence of a Default under such Note
Guarantee. Nothing in this Article
XII
shall
have any effect on the right of the Holders or the Trustee to make a demand
for
payment on any Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Article
XI.
Section
12.12. Trustee
Entitled to Rely.
Upon
any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article
XII,
the
Trustee and the Holders shall be entitled to rely (a) upon any order or decree
of a court of competent jurisdiction in which any proceedings of the nature
referred to in Section
12.2
are
pending, (b) upon a certificate of the liquidating trustee or agent or other
Person making such payment or distribution to the Trustee or to the Holders
or
(c) upon the Representative for the holders of Senior Indebtedness of any
Restricted Subsidiary for the purpose of ascertaining the Persons entitled
to
participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness and other indebtedness of such Restricted Subsidiary, the amount
thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon
and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
XII.
In the
event that the Trustee determines, in good faith, that evidence is required
with
respect to the right of any Person as a holder of Senior Indebtedness of such
Restricted Subsidiary to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant
to
this Article
XII,
the
Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of Senior Indebtedness of such
Restricted Subsidiary held by such Person, the extent to which such Person
is
entitled to participate in such payment or distribution and other facts
pertinent to the rights of such Person under this Article
XII,
and, if
such evidence is not furnished, the Trustee may defer any payment to such Person
pending judicial determination as to the right of such Person to receive such
payment. The provisions of Sections
7.1
and
7.2
shall be
applicable to all actions or omissions of actions by the Trustee pursuant to
this Article
XII.
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Section
12.13. Trustee
to Effectuate Subordination.
Each
Holder by accepting a Note authorizes and directs the Trustee on his behalf
to
take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate
the subordination between the Holders and the holders of Senior Indebtedness
of
any Restricted Subsidiary as provided in this Article
XII
and
appoints the Trustee as attorney-in-fact for any and all such
purposes.
Section
12.14. Trustee
Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Indebtedness of Restricted
Subsidiaries.
The
Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of any Restricted Subsidiary and shall not be liable to any such
holders if it shall mistakenly pay over or distribute to Holders or the Company
or any other Person, money or assets to which any holders of such Senior
Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article
XII
or
otherwise.
Section
12.15. Reliance
by Holders of Senior Indebtedness on Subordination Provisions.
Each
Holder by accepting a Note acknowledges and agrees that the foregoing
subordination provisions are, and are intended to be, an inducement and a
consideration to each holder of any Senior Indebtedness of any Restricted
Subsidiary, whether such Senior Indebtedness was created or acquired before
or
after the issuance of the Note, to acquire and continue to hold, or to continue
to hold, such Senior Indebtedness and such holder of Senior Indebtedness shall
be deemed conclusively to have relied on such subordination provisions in
acquiring and continuing to hold, or in continuing to hold, such Senior
Indebtedness.
ARTICLE
XIII
COLLATERAL
AND SECURITY
Section
13.1. Collateral
Documents.
The due
and punctual payment of the principal of, interest and additional interest,
if
any, on and Additional Amounts with respect to the Notes 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, interest and additional interest, if any, on and Additional
Amounts with respect to the Notes and performance of all other Obligations
of
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries to the Holders or the Trustee under
this Indenture and the Notes, according to the terms hereunder or thereunder,
are and will be secured as provided in the Collateral Documents which define
the
terms of the Lien that secures the Obligations under this Indenture and the
Notes and provide that the Lien granted thereunder secures the Obligations
under
this Indenture and the Notes on a second-priority basis subject to the terms
of
the Collateral Documents. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Note, consents
and
agrees to all of the terms of the Collateral Documents (including the provisions
providing for the exercise of remedies and release of Collateral) as the same
may be in effect or may be amended from time to time in accordance with its
terms, and authorizes and directs the Trustee to enter into the Intercreditor
and Collateral Agency Agreement, to perform or cause to be performed obligations
and exercise rights thereunder in accordance therewith, to bind the Holders
as
set forth therein and to appoint any other agent to act on behalf of the Trustee
and Holders of Notes. Each Holder, by its acceptance of a Note, consents and
agrees to the
Collateral
and Intercreditor Agent
acting
as its agent for purposes and under the terms of each of the Collateral
Documents, and agrees to the terms thereof and permits the Collateral
and Intercreditor Agent
to
appoint any other agent to act on behalf of the Collateral
and Intercreditor Agent
and the
Holders of Notes.
To the
extent permitted by, and subject to the terms of, the Collateral Documents,
the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee copies of all documents delivered from
time
to time to the Collateral and Intercreditor Agent pursuant to the Intercreditor
and Collateral Agency Agreement, and will do or cause to be done all such acts
and things as may be required by the next sentence of this Section
13.1,
to
assure and confirm to the Trustee the Liens upon the Collateral contemplated
hereby, by the Collateral Documents or any part thereof, as from time to time
constituted, so as to render the same available for the security and benefit
of
this Indenture and of the Obligations secured hereby, according to the intent
and purposes herein and therein expressed. The Trustee, Company and the
Restricted Subsidiaries hereby acknowledge and agree that the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent holds the Collateral for the ratable benefit of, and as
agent for, the Holders and the Trustee subject to the terms of the Collateral
Documents.
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Section
13.2. Suits
to Protect the Collateral.
Subject
in all respects to the terms and conditions of the Collateral Documents, the
Trustee shall have the power to institute and to maintain such suits and
proceedings as it may deem expedient to prevent any impairment of the Collateral
by any acts which may be unlawful or in violation of this Indenture or any
of
the Collateral Documents, and such suits and proceedings as the Trustee may
deem
expedient to preserve or protect its interests and the interests of the Holders
in the Collateral,
to
maintain the Collateral and, generally, to exercise any rights in respect of
the
Collateral, or any part thereof,
and in
the principal, interest, issues, profits, rents, revenues and other income
arising therefrom, including power to institute and maintain suits or
proceedings to restrain the enforcement of or compliance with any legislative
or
other governmental enactment, action, rule or order, whether or not it may
be
unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, if the enforcement of, or compliance
with, such enactment, action, rule or order would impair the security hereunder
or under any of the Collateral Documents, the Collateral or the status thereof
or be prejudicial to the interests of the Holders or the Trustee.
Section
13.3. Possession
of the Collateral.
Subject
to the terms and conditions of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents,
the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be entitled, unless an
Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing and the Collateral and Intercreditor
Agent has given contrary instructions pursuant to the terms of the Collateral
Documents, to receive all cash dividends, interest and other payments made
upon
or in respect of the Collateral, and to exercise any rights (including voting
rights) in respect thereof and generally to remain in possession of and to
retain exclusive control over the Collateral, to freely operate the Collateral,
to replace machinery and equipment and to sell or otherwise dispose of
Collateral, including cash constituting Collateral, to
make
any filings or submit any claims, to
pay
dividends, to make investments and loans and to collect, invest and dispose
of
any income in respect of any Collateral, in each case in the ordinary course
of
business.
Section
13.4. Authorization
of Actions To Be Taken by the Trustee Under the Collateral
Documents.
(a)
Subject to the provisions of Section
6.6 and
Article IX
hereof
and the Collateral Documents, the Trustee may, in its sole discretion and
without the consent of the Holders, take, on behalf of the Holders, or direct,
on behalf of the Holders, the Collateral and Intercreditor Agent to take, all
actions it deems necessary or appropriate in order to: (i) enforce any of the
terms of the Collateral Documents
(and
rights arising therefrom);
and
(ii) collect and receive any and all amounts payable in respect of the
Obligations of the Company.
Section
13.5. Authorization
of Receipt and Distribution of Funds by the Trustee.
The
Trustee is authorized to receive any funds for the benefit of the Holders
distributed under the Collateral Documents, and to make further distributions
of
such funds to the Holders according to the provisions of this
Indenture.
Section
13.6. Release
of Collateral; Termination of Security Interest.
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(a)
Collateral
may be released from the Liens and security interest created by the Collateral
Documents at any time or from time to time in accordance with the provisions
of
this Indenture and the Collateral Documents. Upon the written request of the
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate and
an Opinion of Counsel delivered to the Trustee certifying that all conditions
precedent hereunder have been met (including that all obligations of the Company
and the Restricted Subsidiaries have been fully performed (to the extent
required to be performed prior thereto and in respect thereof)) and the
compliance with the applicable provisions of the Collateral Documents and this
Indenture and without the consent of any Holder, the Company, the Restricted
Subsidiaries and the Trustee will be entitled to releases of assets included
in
the Collateral from the Liens securing the Notes pursuant to the Collateral
Documents under any one or more of the following circumstances:
(i) in
connection with any direct or indirect sale, disposition, conveyance, transfer,
lease, assignment or other disposition, including a Sale-Leaseback Transaction,
by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary that is permitted or not prohibited
by Section
3.7
(including those items not deemed to be Asset Sales pursuant to the second
sentence of the definition thereof);
(ii) in
respect of assets subject to a Permitted Lien;
(iii) if
the
assets to be released have been taken by eminent domain, termination,
expropriation, rescate,
revocation, condemnation or in similar circumstances;
(iv) if
any
Restricted Subsidiary is released from its Note Guarantee in accordance with
the
terms of this Indenture, such Restricted Subsidiary’s assets will also be
released; or
(v) pursuant
to an amendment, waiver or supplement in accordance with Article
IX
hereof.
(b) The
Trustee shall, at the written request of the Company and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, deliver a certificate to the Collateral and Intercreditor Agent
stating that the Obligations of the Company hereunder have been satisfied in
full, and instruct the Collateral and Intercreditor Agent to release the Liens
securing the Obligations pursuant to this Indenture and the Collateral Documents
upon a satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture as described in Section 8.7
or a
Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance as described in Article
VIII.
In
connection with such instruction, the Trustee shall request the Collateral
and
Intercreditor Agent to execute, deliver or acknowledge any necessary or proper
instruments of termination, satisfaction or release to evidence the release
of
all such Liens.
(c) The
release of any Collateral from the terms of the Collateral Documents and the
Liens created thereby shall not be deemed to impair the security under this
Indenture in contravention of the provisions hereof if and to the extent the
Collateral is released pursuant to the terms of the Collateral Documents and
this Indenture.
Section
13.7. Instructions
under the Collateral Documents.
Directions or instructions under the Collateral Documents may be made by the
Trustee acting at the written direction or with the written consent of the
Holders of at least a majority in principal amount of the then Outstanding
Notes
issued under this Indenture.
Section
13.8. Certificates
of the Company.
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(a) To
the
extent applicable, the Company shall comply (or cause compliance) with Section
313(b) of the TIA, relating to reports, and Section 314(d) of the TIA, relating
to the release of property or securities from the Lien and security interest
of
the Collateral Documents and relating to the substitution therefor of any
property or securities to be subjected to the Lien and security interest of
the
Collateral Documents. Any certificate or opinion required by Section 314(d)
of
the TIA may be made as an Officers’ Certificate except in cases where Section
314(d) of the TIA requires that such certificate or opinion be made by an
independent Person, which Person shall be an independent engineer, appraiser
or
other expert selected or approved by the Trustee in the exercise of reasonable
care.
(b) Notwithstanding
Section
13.8(a)
or
Section
13.6(a),
so long as such transaction would not violate this
Indenture, the Company may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, without
any action or consent sent by the Trustee, (i) conduct ordinary course
activities with respect to inventory and accounts receivable, including
disposing of inventory and accounts receivable and utilizing the proceeds
therefrom and collecting accounts receivable and utilizing the proceeds
therefrom; (ii) dispose of, in any transaction or series of related transactions,
any property subject to the Lien of the Collateral Documents which has become
worn out, defective or obsolete or not used or useful in the operations of
the
Company or its Subsidiaries, (iii) make ordinary course payments from cash that
is at any time Collateral as
permitted hereunder and under the Collateral Documents
and
(iv) conduct Qualified Securitization Transactions. The Company shall deliver
to the Trustee, within 30 calendar days following June 30 and December 31,
an
Officers’ Certificate to the effect that all releases and withdrawals during the
preceding six-month period in which no release or consent of the Trustee was
obtained were in the ordinary course of the Company’s business and were not
prohibited hereby and that all proceeds therefrom were used by the Company
or
such Restricted Subsidiary as permitted herein.
(c) The
fair
value of Collateral released from the Liens of the Collateral Documents as
to
which opinions or certificates are not delivered prior to the applicable date
of
determination in reliance upon Section
13.8(b)
shall
not be considered in determining whether the aggregate fair value of Collateral
released from the Liens of the Collateral Documents in any calendar year exceeds
the 10% threshold specified in Section 314(d)(l) of the TIA; provided
that
the
Company’s right to rely on this sentence at any time is conditioned upon the
Company having furnished to the Trustee the Officers’ Certificates described in
Section
13.8(b)
that was
required to be furnished to the Trustee at or prior to such time.
(d) It
is
expressly understood that Section
13.8(b)
and
Section
13.8(c)
relate
only to the Company’s and each Restricted Subsidiary’s obligations under the TIA
and shall not affect the Company’s and its Restricted Subsidiaries’ rights or
abilities to release Collateral.
Section
13.9. Execution
of Release by Trustee.
In the
event that the Company wishes the Trustee to execute a release of any Collateral
from the Lien of the Collateral Documents in accordance with this Indenture
and
the Collateral Documents, it shall furnish the Trustee an Officers’ Certificate
complying with Section
14.4(a)
certifying that all conditions precedent have been met and that no consent
of
the Holders is required together with any documents required by Section
3.7,
Section
13.8
or any
other provision of this Indenture and deliver as required by this Indenture,
an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that such accompanying documents constitute
all
the documents required by this Indenture and by Section 314(d) of the TIA or
that no such documents are so required. Upon the receipt of such documents
the
Trustee shall execute a release of the Collateral. The Trustee, however, shall
have no duty to confirm the legality or validity of such documents, its sole
duty being to certify that it has received such documentation which on its
face
conforms to Section 314(d) of the TIA.
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Section
13.10. Recording
and Opinions
(a) As
required by the provisions of the Collateral Documents, the Company and, if
applicable, the Guarantors shall take or cause to be taken all action required
to perfect, maintain, preserve and protect the Lien on and security interest
in
the Collateral granted by the Collateral Documents (subject only to Permitted
Liens), including, without limitation, the filing of financing statements,
continuation statements, mortgages and any instruments of further assurance,
the
filing of any documents or deeds with any public registry or other registry
provided by law, in
such
manner and in such places as may be required by law fully to perfect, preserve
or protect the rights of the Holders and the Trustee under this Indenture and
the Collateral Documents to all property comprising the Collateral. The Company
and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall from time to time promptly pay all
financing statement, continuation statement and, registration and/or filing
fees, charges and taxes relating to this Indenture and the Collateral Documents,
any amendments thereto and any other instruments of further assurance required
hereunder or pursuant to the Collateral Documents. The Trustee shall have no
obligation to, nor shall it be responsible for any failure to, so register,
file
or record.
(b) The
Company shall furnish to the Trustee within three months after each anniversary
of the Issue Date, an Opinion of Counsel, dated as of such date, stating either
that (i) in the opinion of such counsel, all action has been taken (and stating
what actions, if any, are necessary to be taken within the next calendar year)
with respect to the recording, registering, filing, re-recording, re-registering
and refiling of this Indenture and the Collateral Documents, financing
statements, continuation statements or other instruments of further assurance
as
is necessary to maintain the Liens intended to be created by the Collateral
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.
ARTICLE
XIV
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
14.1. Trust
Indenture Act Controls.
If any
provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with another
provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the TIA, the
provision required by the TIA shall control. Each
Restricted Subsidiary in addition to performing its obligations under its Note
Guarantee shall perform such other obligations as may be imposed upon it with
respect to this Indenture under the TIA.
Section
14.2. Notices.
(a) Any
notice or communication shall be in writing and delivered in person or by
facsimile or mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed as
follows:
if
to the
Company:
Grupo
Iusacell Celular, S.A. de X.X.
Xxxxxx
Urales Xx. 000, Xxxx 0
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx xx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Delegación
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, 11000
México,
D.F.
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Phone:
x00-00-0000-0000
Facsimile:
x00-00-0000-0000
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if
to the
Trustee:
Law
Debenture Trust Company of New York
000
Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx, 0xx
Xxxxx
Xxx
Xxxx,
XX 00000
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxx
Phone:
x0-000-000-0000
Facsimile:
x0-000-000-0000
The
Company or the Trustee by notice to the other may designate additional or
different addresses for subsequent notices or communications.
(b) Any
notice or communication mailed to a registered Holder shall be mailed to the
Holder at the Holder’s address as it appears on the registration books of the
Registrar and shall be sufficiently given if so mailed within the time
prescribed.
(c) Failure
to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect in it shall not
affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a notice or
communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly given, whether
or not the addressee receives it.
(d) Any
notice or communication delivered to the Company under the provisions herein
shall constitute notice to the Restricted Subsidiaries.
Section
14.3. Communication
by Holders with Other Holders.
Holders
may communicate pursuant to TIA § 312(b) with other Holders with respect to
their rights under this Indenture (including the Note Guarantees) or the Notes.
The Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries, the Trustee, the Registrar and anyone
else shall have the protection of TIA § 312(c).
Section
14.4. Certificate
and Opinion as to Conditions Precedent.
Upon
any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to take or refrain
from
taking any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the
Trustee:
(a) 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
(b) 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
14.5. Statements
Required in Certificate or Opinion.
Each
certificate or opinion, including each Officers’ Certificate or Opinion of
Counsel with respect to compliance with a covenant or condition provided for
in
this Indenture shall include:
(a) a
statement that the individual making such certificate or opinion has read such
covenant or condition;
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(b) a
brief
statement as to the nature and scope of the examination or investigation upon
which the statements or opinions contained in such certificate or opinion are
based;
(c) a
statement that, in the opinion of such individual, he has made such examination
or investigation as is necessary to enable him to express an informed opinion
as
to whether or not such covenant or condition has been complied with;
and
(d) a
statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of such individual, such covenant
or condition has been complied with.
In
giving
an Opinion of Counsel, counsel may rely as to factual matters on an Officers’
Certificate or on certificates of public officials.
Section
14.6. Rules
by Trustee, Paying Agent and Registrar.
The
Trustee may make reasonable rules for action by, or a meeting of, Holders.
The
Registrar and the Paying Agent may make reasonable rules for their
functions.
Section
14.7. Legal
Holidays.
A
“Legal
Holiday”
is
a
Saturday, a Sunday or other day on which commercial banking institutions are
authorized or required to be closed in New York City or Mexico. If a payment
date is a Legal Holiday, payment shall be made on the next succeeding day that
is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the intervening period.
If a regular record date is a Legal Holiday, the record date shall not be
affected.
Section
14.8. Governing
Law, etc.
(a) THIS
INDENTURE (INCLUDING EACH NOTE GUARANTEE) AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY,
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. THE PARTIES
HERETO EACH HEREBY WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION, PROCEEDING
OR
COUNTERCLAIM ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE OR THE NOTES OR ANY
TRANSACTION RELATED HERETO OR THERETO TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY
APPLICABLE LAW.
(b) Each
of
the parties hereto hereby:
(i) agrees
that any suit, action or proceeding against it arising out of or relating to
this Indenture (including the Note Guarantees) or the Notes, as the case may
be,
may be instituted in any Federal or state court sitting in the Borough of
Manhattan in The City of New York, or in the courts of its corporate domicile
in
respect of actions brought against it as a defendant;
(ii) waives
to
the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any objection which it may
now
or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any such suit, action or proceeding,
any claim that any suit, action or proceeding in such a court has been brought
in an inconvenient forum, and any right to which it may be entitled on account
of its place of residence or domicile;
(iii) irrevocably
submits to the jurisdiction of such courts in any suit, action or
proceeding;
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(iv) agrees
that final judgment in any such suit, action or proceeding brought in such
a
court shall be conclusive and binding may be enforced in the courts of the
jurisdiction of which it is subject by a suit upon judgment; and
(v) agrees
that service of process by mail to the addresses specified herein shall
constitute personal service of such process on it in any such suit, action
or
proceeding.
(c) The
Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries have agreed that service of all writs,
claims, process and summonses in any related proceeding brought against it
in
the State of New York (collectively referred to as a “Related
Proceeding”)
may be
made upon Law Debenture Corporate Services (the “Process
Agent”),
and
the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries irrevocably appointed the Process
Agent as their agent and true and lawful attorney in fact in its name, place
and
stead to accept such service of any and all such writs, claims, process and
summonses, and have agreed that the failure of the Process Agent to give any
notice to them of any such service of process shall not impair or affect the
validity of such service or of any judgment based thereon. The Company and
the
Restricted Subsidiaries have agreed to maintain at all times an agent with
offices in New York City to act as their Process Agent.
(d) To
the
extent that the Company or any of its revenues, assets or properties shall
be
entitled, with respect to any Related Proceeding any time brought against it
or
any of its revenues, assets or properties in the courts identified in this
Section
14.8,
to any
immunity from suit, from the jurisdiction of any such court, from attachment
prior to judgment, from attachment in aid of execution of judgment, from
execution of a judgment or from any other legal or judicial process or remedy,
and to the extent that in any such jurisdiction there shall be attributed such
an immunity, the Company has irrevocably agreed not to claim and has irrevocably
waived such immunity to the fullest extent permitted by law (including, without
limitation, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 of the United States).
The Company has agreed that final judgment in any such suit, action or
proceeding brought in such a court shall be conclusive and binding on it and
may
be enforced in any court to the jurisdiction of which it is subject by a suit
upon such judgment, provided
that
service of process is effected upon it in the manner specified in this Indenture
or as otherwise permitted by law.
(e) Nothing
in this Section
14.8
shall
affect the right of the Trustee or any Holder of the Notes to serve process
in
any other manner permitted by law.
Section
14.9. No
Recourse Against Others.
An
incorporator, director, officer, employee, stockholder or controlling person,
as
such, of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not have any liability
for any Obligations of the Company under the Notes, this Indenture or the Note
Guarantees or for any claim based on, in respect of or by reason of such
obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each Holder shall waive
and
release all such liability. The waiver and release shall be part of the
consideration for the issue of the Notes.
The
waiver may not be effective to waive liabilities under the federal securities
laws of the United States and it is the view of the SEC that such a waiver
is
against public policy.
Section
14.10. Successors.
All
agreements of the Company and the Restricted Subsidiaries in this Indenture
and
the Notes shall bind their respective successors. All agreements of the Trustee
in this Indenture shall bind its successors.
Section
14.11. Duplicate
and Counterpart Originals.
The
parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. One signed copy is
enough to prove this Indenture. This Indenture may be executed in any number
of
counterparts, each of which so executed shall be an original, but all of them
together represent the same agreement.
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Section
14.12. Severability.
In case
any provision in this Indenture or in the Notes shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section
14.13. Conversion
of Currency.
The
Company covenants and agrees that the following provisions shall apply to
conversion of currency in the case of the Notes and this Indenture:
(a) If,
for
the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert
a sum
due under this Indenture or under the Notes from one currency into another
currency, the Company has agreed and each Holder agrees, to the fullest extent
that the Company and each Holder may effectively do so, that the rate of
exchange used shall be the rate at which, in accordance with normal banking
procedures, such Holder could purchase the first currency with such other
currency in the city that is the principal financial center of the country
of
issue of the first currency on the day, two Business Days preceding the day
on
which final judgment is given, which is also a day on which banks are open
in
Mexico.
(b) To
the
extent permitted by applicable law, the Company’s obligation in respect of any
sum payable by the Company to a Holder shall, notwithstanding any judgment
in a
currency, (the “Judgment
Currency”),
other
than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, (the “Security
Currency”),
be
discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by
such
Holder of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, such Holder
may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Security Currency
with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Security Currency so purchased
is less than the sum originally due to such Holder in the Security Currency,
determined in the manner set forth above, the Company has agreed, as a separate
obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify such Holder
against such loss, and if the amount of the Security Currency so purchased
exceeds the sum originally due to such Holder, such Holder agrees to remit
to
the Company such excess; provided
that
such Holder shall have no obligation to remit any such excess as long as the
Company shall have failed to pay such Holder any obligation due and payable
under this Indenture in which case any such excess may be applied to such
obligations of the Company under this Indenture or the Notes.
Section
14.14. Table
of Contents; Headings.
The
table of contents and headings of the Articles and Sections of this Indenture
have been inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be
considered a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms
or
provisions hereof.
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of Page Intentionally Left Blank]
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IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have caused this Indenture to be duly executed
as
of the date first written above.
GRUPO IUSACELL CELULAR, S.A. DE C.V. | ||
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SOS
TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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IUSACELL,
S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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SISTECEL,
S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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COMUNICACIONES
CELULARES DE OCCIDENTE, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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Title: |
SISTEMAS
TELEFONICOS PORTATILES CELULARES, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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TELECOMUNICACIONES
DEL GOLFO,
S.A.
DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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INMOBILIARIA
XXXXXX URALES 460,
S.A.
DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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MEXICAN
CELLULAR INVESTMENTS, INC.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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IUSANET,
S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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PORTATEL
DEL SURESTE, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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GRUPO
PORTATEL, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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Name: |
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Title: |
LAW
DEBENTURE TRUST COMPANY
OF
NEW YORK
as
Trustee
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EXHIBIT
A
FORM
OF NOTE
[Include
the following legend for Global Notes only:
“THIS
IS
A GLOBAL NOTE WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO
HEREINAFTER.
UNLESS
THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY
TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK CORPORATION (“DTC”), NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 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.
TRANSFERS
OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN WHOLE, BUT NOT IN
PART,
TO NOMINEES OF DTC OR TO A SUCCESSOR THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR’S NOMINEE AND
TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS
MADE
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN THE INDENTURE REFERRED TO
ON
THE REVERSE HEREOF.”]
THIS
NOTE HAS BEEN ISSUED WITH ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT FOR U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX
PURPOSES. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT XXXXXXXX XXXXXXX COLORADO,
CORPORATE COUNSEL, AT x00-00-0000-0000.
FORM
OF FACE OF NOTE
No.
[___]
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Principal
Amount U.S.$[______________]
|
[If
the Note is a Global Note include the following two lines:
as
revised by the Schedule of Increases and
Decreases
in Global Note attached hereto]
CUSIP
NO.
____________
Grupo
Iusacell Celular, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican sociedad
anónima de capital variable,
promises to pay to [___________], or registered assigns, the principal sum
of
[__________________] Dollars [If
the Note is a Global Note, add the following,
as
revised by the Schedule of Increases and Decreases in Global Note attached
hereto], on March 31, 2012.
Interest
Payment Dates: June
30
and December 31
Record
Dates: June
15
and December 15
Additional
provisions of this Note are set forth on the other side of this
Note.
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TRUSTEE’S
CERTIFICATE OF
AUTHENTICATION
Law
Debenture Trust Company of New York,
as
Trustee, certifies
that
this
is one of
the
Notes
referred
to
in the
Indenture.
By:
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FORM
OF REVERSE SIDE OF NOTE
10%
Senior Subordinated Second Lien Notes Due 2012
Capitalized
terms used herein but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such
terms in the Indenture.
1. Interest
Grupo
Iusacell Celular, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican sociedad
anónima de capital variable
(together with its successors and assigns under the Indenture, the “Company”),
promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per
annum shown above.
The
Company will pay interest semiannually in arrears on each Interest Payment
Date
of each year commencing [December 31, 2006][June 30, 2007]3.
Payments will be made to the persons who are Holders at the close of business
on
June 15 and December 15, respectively, immediately preceding the applicable
Interest Payment Date (the “Record
Date”),
except that, in the case of the first such payment, if the Issue Date occurs
between June 15 and June 30 or between December 15 and December 31, then the
Record Date for such first payment will be the Issue Date and such first payment
will be made to the persons who are Holders at the close of business on the
Issue Date. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date to
which
interest has been paid on the Notes or, if no interest has been paid, from
and
including the Issue Date.
The
Company shall pay interest on overdue principal (plus interest on such interest
to the extent lawful), at the rate borne by the Notes to the extent lawful.
Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day
months.
For
any
Interest Payment Date, the Company may, at its option, elect to:
1) pay
interest on the Notes entirely in Cash; or
2) capitalize
up to 30% of the interest due on any Interest Payment Date that is not otherwise
paid on such date because of the election to so capitalize, in which case the
principal amount of the Outstanding Notes will be increased by the capitalized
amount on a pro
rata
basis.
The
Company must elect the form of interest payment with respect to each interest
period by delivering a written notice to the Trustee on or before the date
that
is 15 days prior to the applicable Record Date, except that, in the case of
the
first such payment, the Company must make such election on or before the Issue
Date. The Trustee will promptly deliver a corresponding notice to the Holders.
In the absence of a timely delivered notice of election, interest on the
Outstanding Notes will be payable entirely in Cash.
Following
an increase in the principal amount of the Outstanding Notes as a result of
a
capitalization of interest (1) capitalized interest on the Outstanding Notes
will be payable by increasing the principal amount of the Outstanding Notes
in
an amount equal to the amount of capitalized interest for the applicable period
(rounded to the nearest U.S.$1.00); and (2) the Outstanding Notes shall bear
interest on such increased principal amount from and after the date of such
capitalization of interest.
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Date.
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The
Company shall pay interest (including post-petition interest in any proceeding
under any Insolvency Law) on overdue principal and, to the extent such payments
are lawful, interest on overdue installments of interest (“Defaulted
Interest”)
without regard to any applicable grace periods at the rate of 2.0% per annum
in
excess of the rate shown on this Note, as provided in the
Indenture.
To
the
extent Mexican Taxes are required to be withheld or deducted from any such
payment, the Company shall pay, as provided for in and subject to the exceptions
set forth in the Indenture, such Additional Amounts as may be necessary to
ensure that the net amount actually received by the Holder after such
withholding or deduction is equal to the amount that the Holder would have
received had no such withholding or deduction been required.
2. Method
of Payment
Prior
to
10:00 a.m. New York City time on the date on which any principal of or
interest on any Note is due and payable, the Company shall irrevocably deposit
with the Trustee or the Paying Agent money sufficient to pay such principal
and/or interest (subject to any capitalization of interest permitted pursuant
to
the Indenture). The Company will pay interest (except Defaulted Interest) to
the
Persons who are registered Holders of Notes at the close of business on the
Record Date preceding the Interest Payment Date even if Notes are canceled,
repurchased or redeemed after the Record Date and on or before the relevant
Interest Payment Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect
principal payments. The Company will pay principal and interest in
Dollars.
Payments
in respect of Notes represented by a Global Note (including principal and
interest) will be made by the transfer of immediately available funds to the
accounts specified by DTC. The Company will make all payments in respect of
a
Certificated Note (including principal and interest) at
the
office or agent of the Paying Agent in New York City unless the Company elects
to make interest payments
by
mailing a check to the registered address of each Holder thereof; provided,
however, that payments on the Notes may also be made, in the case of a Holder
of
at least U.S.$1,000,000 aggregate principal amount of Notes, by wire transfer
to
a U.S. dollar account maintained by the payee with a bank in the United States
if such Holder elects payment by wire transfer by giving written notice to
the
Trustee or the Paying Agent to such effect designating such account no later
than 15 days immediately preceding the relevant due date for payment (or such
other date as the Trustee may accept in its discretion).
3. Paying
Agent and Registrar
Initially,
Law Debenture Trust Company of New York (the “Trustee”)
will
act as Trustee, Paying Agent and co-Registrar. The Company may appoint and
change any Paying Agent, Registrar or co-Registrar without notice to any Holder.
The Company or any Restricted Subsidiary may act as Paying Agent, Registrar
or
co-Registrar.
4. Indenture
The
Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of [Date
of Indenture]
(as it
may be amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms
thereof, the “Indenture”),
between the Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries and the Trustee. The terms
of
the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the
Indenture by reference to the TIA. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined
herein have the meanings ascribed thereto in the Indenture. The Notes are
subject to all such terms, and Holders are referred to the Indenture and the
TIA
for a statement of those terms. Each Holder by accepting a Note, agrees to
be
bound by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as amended or
supplemented from time to time.
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The
Notes
are general secured obligations of the Company limited to U.S.$[●]4 aggregate
principal amount plus the amount of any Additional Notes and the amount of
interest that is capitalized pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. Subject
to
the conditions set forth in the Indenture and without the consent of the
Holders, the Company may issue Additional Notes. The Notes are secured as set
forth in the Indenture and the Collateral Documents.
The
Indenture imposes certain limitations on, among other things, the ability of
the
Company to: Incur Indebtedness, make Consolidated Capital Expenditures, make
Restricted Payments, make Asset Sales, Incur Liens, enter into transactions
with
Affiliates, make distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries, enter into Hedging
Contracts or consolidate or merge or transfer or convey all or substantially
all
of the Company’s assets.
To
guarantee the due and punctual payment of the principal of and interest on
the
Notes and all other amounts payable by the Company under the Indenture and
the
Notes when and as the same shall be due and payable, whether at maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise, according to the terms of the Notes and the
Indenture, Grupo Iusacell Celular, S.A. de C.V., SOS Telecomunicaciones, S.A.
de
C.V., Iusacell, S.A. de C.V., Sistecel, S.A. de C.V., Comunicaciones Celulares
de Occidente, S.A. de C.V., Sistemas Telefónicos Portátiles Celulares, S.A. de
C.V., Telecomunicaciones del Golfo, S.A. de C.V., Inmobiliaria Xxxxxx Urales
460, S.A. de C.V., Mexican Cellular Investments, Inc., Iusanet, S.A. de C.V.,
Portatel del Sureste, S.A. de C.V., and Grupo Portatel, S.A. de C.V. have
unconditionally guaranteed (and certain future Additional Restricted
Subsidiaries shall unconditionally guarantee), jointly and severally, such
obligations pursuant to the terms of the Indenture. Each Note Guarantee shall
be
subject to release as provided in the Indenture. Each
Restricted Subsidiary, in connection with its Note Guarantee, has waived certain
rights to which it is entitled under applicable law pursuant to the terms of
the
Indenture.
5. Redemption
Optional
Redemption. The
Company may redeem the Notes, at its option, in whole or in part, at any time
and from time to time prior to their maturity at a redemption price equal to
(but without duplication):
1) 100%
of
the unpaid principal amount of the Notes, including any capitalized interest,
plus
2) the
interest on such principal amount accrued and unpaid through the date of
redemption, plus
3) Additional
Amounts, if any, payable in respect of such Notes.
Mandatory
Redemption. The
Company shall apply 15% of the Net Cash Proceeds from any offering of Capital
Stock of the Company to the redemption of the Notes, without payment of any
premium or penalty, at a redemption price equal to 100% of the outstanding
principal amount thereof, within 60 days of the receipt of such Net Cash
Proceeds; provided
that, if
a Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of
such
offering with respect to the First Lien Notes under and as defined in the First
Lien Notes Indenture, such 15% of Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied towards
the
redemption of the First Lien Notes in accordance with the First Lien Notes
Indenture (as and to the extent amounts remain outstanding thereunder) and
shall
not be applied towards the redemption of the Notes.
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to draft: Amount issued on Issue Date after taking into account
the Second
Lien Notes Restructuring Payment as described in the Information
Memorandum.
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In
the
case of any partial redemption, selection of the Notes for redemption will
be
made in accordance with Article V of the Indenture. On and after the
redemption date, interest will cease to accrue on Notes or portions thereof
called for redemption as long as the Company has deposited with the Paying
Agent
funds in satisfaction of the applicable redemption price pursuant to the
Indenture.
6. Repurchase
Provisions
Change
Of Control Offer. Upon
the
occurrence of a Change of Control, each Holder of Notes will have the right
to
require that the Company purchase all or a portion (in integral multiples of
U.S.$1.00) of the Holder's Notes at a purchase price equal to 101.5% of the
principal amount thereof, plus accrued and unpaid interest through the date
of
purchase. Within 45 days following the date upon which the Change of Control
occurred, the Company must make a Change of Control Offer pursuant to a Change
of Control Notice. As more fully described in the Indenture, the Change of
Control Notice shall state, among other things, the Change of Control Payment
Date, which shall be the day that is 30 days from the date the notice is mailed,
other than as may be required by applicable law.
Asset
Sale Offer.
The
Indenture imposes certain limitations on the ability of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries to make Asset Sales. In the event the proceeds from
a
permitted Asset Sale are not applied as specified in the Indenture, the Company
shall be required to make an Asset Sale Offer to purchase Notes at a purchase
price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes purchased, plus accrued
and unpaid interest thereon, to the date of purchase, as more fully set forth
in
the Indenture.
Event
of Loss.
The
Indenture provides that if the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary suffers an
Event of Loss, the Net Cash Proceeds therefrom in excess of U.S.$20,000,000
shall be deposited by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case
may be, in an interest bearing cash collateral account subject
to a second-priority Lien securing the Notes
pending
application of it as specified in the Indenture. Such Net Cash Proceeds shall
be
maintained in the form of cash and Cash Equivalents, and any interest thereon
shall be payable to the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be. Any Net Cash Proceeds from the
condemnation, expropriation, rescate,
seizure, confiscation, requisition of the use or taking by exercise of the
power
of eminent domain or otherwise of any Concession or Additional
Concession
shall be
applied by the Company to make an Asset Sale Offer as specified in the
Indenture. Any Net Cash Proceeds from (i)
the
loss of, destruction of, or damage to any property or (ii) the
condemnation, expropriation, rescate,
seizure, confiscation, requisition of the use or taking by exercise of the
power
of eminent domain or otherwise of any property (other than a Concession or
Additional Concession)
may be
applied by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary within 365 days of the
receipt thereof to purchase
Replacement Assets from a Person other than the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
Any
such
Net Cash Proceeds that the Company does not apply within such 365-day period
shall be applied to make an Asset Sale Offer as specified in the
Indenture.
7. Subordination
This
Note
and the Note Guarantees are subordinated in right of payment, as set forth
in
the Indenture, to the prior payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents of
all
existing and future Senior Indebtedness of the Company or the relevant
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be. This Note and the Note Guarantees
in
all respects rank pari
passu
with, or
senior to, all other Indebtedness of the Company or the relevant Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be. By accepting a Note, each Holder agrees to
the
subordination provisions set forth in the Indenture, authorizes the Trustee
to
acknowledge such subordination provisions and give them effect and appoints
the
Trustee as attorney-in-fact for such purpose.
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8. Collateral
and Intercreditor Agent
The
Holder of this Note by its acceptance of this Note is deemed to have appointed
the Trustee as its agent for the purpose of appointing, designating and
authorizing Law Debenture Trust Company of New York to act as Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent pursuant to and in accordance with the terms and conditions
set forth in respect of the Collateral in
the
Collateral and
Intercreditor Agreement
and in each of the
Collateral Documents.
9. Denominations;
Transfer; Exchange
The
Notes
are in fully registered form without coupons, and only in denominations of
principal amounts of U.S.$1.00 and any integral multiple thereof. A Holder
may
transfer or exchange Notes in accordance with the Indenture. The Registrar
may
require a Holder, among other things, to furnish appropriate endorsements or
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
(i) any Notes selected for redemption (except, in the case of a Note to be
redeemed in part, the portion of the Note not to be redeemed) for a period
beginning 15 days before the mailing of a notice of Notes to be redeemed and
ending on the date of such mailing or (ii) any Notes for a period beginning
15 days before an Interest Payment Date and ending on such Interest Payment
Date.
10. Persons
Deemed Owners
The
registered holder of this Note may be treated as the owner of it for all
purposes.
11. Unclaimed
Money
If
money
for the payment of principal or interest remains unclaimed for three years,
the
Trustee or Paying Agent shall pay the money back to the Company at its request
unless an abandoned property law designates another Person. After any such
payment, Holders entitled to the money must look only to the Company and not
to
the Trustee for payment.
12. Discharge
Prior to Redemption or Maturity
Subject
to certain conditions set forth in the Indenture, the Company at any time may
terminate some or all of its obligations under the Notes and the Indenture
if
the Company deposits with the Trustee Dollars or U.S. Government Obligations
for
the payment of principal of and interest on the Notes to redemption or maturity,
as the case may be.
13. Amendment,
Waiver
Subject
to certain exceptions set forth in the Indenture, (a) the Indenture or the
Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written consent of the Holders
of
at least a majority in principal amount of the then Outstanding Notes and
(b) any default (other than with respect to nonpayment or in respect of a
provision that cannot be amended or supplemented without the written consent
of
each Holder affected) or noncompliance with any provision may be waived with
the
written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount
of
the then Outstanding Notes. Subject to certain exceptions set forth in the
Indenture, without the consent of any Holder, the Company and the Trustee may
amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure
any
ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency, or to comply with Article IV
of the Indenture, or to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or
in
place of certificated Notes, or to add Guarantees with respect to the Notes
or
to secure the Notes, or to add additional covenants or surrender rights and
powers conferred on the Company, or to comply with any request of the SEC in
connection with qualifying the Indenture under the TIA, or to provide for the
issuance of Additional Notes, or to make any change that does not, in the
opinion of the Trustee, adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any
material respect.
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14. Defaults
and Remedies
The
following are “Events
of Default”
with
respect to the Notes:
(a) the
default in the payment when due of the principal or premium, if any, on the
Notes, including the failure to make a required payment to purchase Notes
tendered pursuant to an optional redemption, mandatory redemption in accordance
with Section
5.8
of the
Indenture, Change of Control Offer or an Asset Sale Offer;
(b) the
default for 30 calendar days or more in the payment when due of interest or
Additional Amounts on the Notes;
(c) the
failure to make a Change of Control Offer when required under the Change of
Control covenant;
(d) the
failure to perform or comply with covenants limiting (i) the Incurrence of
Additional Indebtedness, (ii) Restricted Payments, (iii) Asset Sales and Events
of Loss, (iv) Liens, (v) Transactions with Affiliates, (vi) Maintenance and
Perfection of Second Priority Security Interest, or (vii) Mergers,
Consolidations, Sales and Conveyances for 30 days or more after the date on
which written notice thereof requiring the Company to remedy the same shall
have
been given to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;
(e) the
failure by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to deposit in a cash
collateral account any Net Cash Proceeds in respect of an Asset Sale or Event
of
Loss required to be deposited for a period of more than 10 days after the date
on which written notice thereof requiring the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary to remedy the same shall have been given to the Company by the
Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Notes;
(f) the
failure by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary to duly observe or perform
any of the covenants or agreements of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary
under the Indenture (other than those referred to in clauses (a), (b), (c),
(d)
and (e) above) for a period of more than 45 days after the date on which written
notice thereof requiring the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to remedy
the
same shall have been given to the Company by the Trustee or the Holders of
at
least 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Notes;
(g)
the
default by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary under any Indebtedness,
the
principal amount outstanding of which is in excess of U.S.$15,000,000 (or its
equivalent in other currencies), which default results in the acceleration
of
such Indebtedness prior to its stated maturity;
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(h) a
Judgment shall have been entered against the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary;
(i) (A)
the
Lien created or intended to be created on the Issue Date by any of the
Collateral Documents fails to be registered with the appropriate registry in
Mexico, which shall include the public registries of commerce of the domicile
of
each of the Company and Restricted Subsidiaries that grant Collateral, by the
21st
month
anniversary of the Issue Date, if the Company shall have provided the Trustee
no
later than the 12th
month
anniversary of the Issue Date with an Officers’ Certificate stating that the
Company has used its best reasonable commercial efforts and has acted diligently
to obtain the registration of the mortgage at
the
public registry of commerce in Mexico City
(or, if
such Officers’ Certificate has not been so provided, the Lien created fails to
be registered with the appropriate registry in Mexico by the 12th
month
anniversary of the Issue Date), or (B) the Lien created by any of the Collateral
Documents at any time fails to constitute a valid Lien on the Collateral,
except, in each of the cases of (A) and (B) above, for any failure that (1)
is
cured by the Company within 30 days after the date on which written notice
thereof requiring the Company to remedy the same shall have been given to the
Company by the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Notes, (2) is as a result of the Collateral and
Intercreditor Agent’s failure to maintain possession of any instruments
delivered to it under the Collateral Documents, or (3) relates to an immaterial
portion of the Collateral;
(j) except
as
permitted by the Indenture and the Collateral Documents, any Note Guarantee
or
Collateral Document is held to be unenforceable or invalid in a judicial
proceeding or ceases for any reason to be in full force and effect, or any
Restricted Subsidiary denies or disaffirms its obligations under its Note
Guarantee, or the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary denies or disaffirms
its
obligations under any of the Collateral Documents;
(k) there
shall have been a condemnation or expropriation of the assets of the Company
or
a Restricted Subsidiary that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect;
(l) certain
events of bankruptcy or insolvency with respect to the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary.
If
an
Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may and, at the direction
or request of the Holders of not less than 25% of the then outstanding principal
amount of the Notes shall, declare all the Notes to be due and payable. Certain
events of bankruptcy or insolvency are Events of Default which shall result
in
the Notes being due and payable immediately upon the occurrence of such Events
of Default.
Holders
may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided in the Indenture.
The Trustee may refuse to enforce the Indenture or the Notes unless it receives
reasonable indemnity or security. Subject to certain limitations, Holders of
a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Notes may direct the Trustee
in
its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from Holders notice
of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a Default or Event of
Default in payment of principal or interest) if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest. The exercise of remedies is also subject to the
limitations contained in the Collateral Documents.
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15. Trustee
Dealings with the Company
Subject
to certain limitations set forth in the Indenture, the Trustee under the
Indenture, in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or
pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with and collect obligations owed to
it
by the Company or its Affiliates and may otherwise deal with the Company or
its
Affiliates with the same rights it would have if it were not
Trustee.
16. No
Recourse Against Others
An
incorporator, director, officer, employee, stockholder or controlling person,
as
such, of the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary shall not have any liability
for any Obligations of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary under the
Notes
or the Indenture or any Note Guarantee for any claim based on, in respect of
or
by reason of such obligations or their creation. By accepting a Note, each
Holder waives and releases all such liability. The waiver and release are part
of the consideration for the issue of the Notes.
17. Authentication
This
Note
shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the Trustee (or an
authenticating agent acting on its behalf) manually signs the certificate of
authentication on the other side of this Note.
18. Abbreviations
Customary
abbreviations may be used in the name of a Holder or an assignee, such as TEN
COM (=tenants in common), TEN ENT (=tenants by the entirety), JT TEN (=joint
tenants with rights of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST
(=custodian) and U/G/M/A (=Uniform Gift to Minors Act).
19. CUSIP
or ISIN Numbers
Pursuant
to a recommendation promulgated by the Committee on Uniform Security
Identification Procedures the Company has caused CUSIP or ISIN numbers to be
printed on the Notes and has directed the Trustee to use CUSIP or ISIN numbers
in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders. No representation is
made
as to the accuracy of such numbers either as printed on the Notes or as
contained in any notice of redemption and reliance may be placed only on the
other identification numbers placed thereon.
20. Governing
Law
This
Note
shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State
of
New York.
21. Currency
of Account; Conversion of Currency.
Dollars
are the sole currency of account and payment for all sums payable by the Company
under or in connection with the Notes or the Indenture, including damages.
The
Company will indemnify the Holders as provided in respect of the conversion
of
currency relating to the Notes and the Indenture.
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22. Agent
for Service; Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Immunities.
The
Company (and other parties to the Indenture) have agreed that any suit, action
or proceeding against the Company brought by any Holder or the Trustee arising
out of or based upon the Indenture or the Notes may be instituted in any state
or federal court in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York, and in
the
courts of its corporate domicile in respect of actions brought against it as
a
defendant. The Company has irrevocably submitted to the jurisdiction of such
courts for such purpose and waived, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
trial by jury, any objection it may now or hereafter have to the laying of
venue
of any such proceeding, any claim it may now or hereafter have that any
proceeding in any such court is brought in an inconvenient forum, and any right
to which it may be entitled on account of its place of residence or domicile.
The Company has appointed Law Debenture Corporate Services as its process agent
upon whom all writs, process and summonses may be served in any suit, action
or
proceeding arising out of or based upon the Indenture or the Notes which may
be
instituted in any state or federal court in The City of New York, New York.
To
the extent that the Company has or hereafter may acquire any immunity (sovereign
or otherwise) from any legal action, suit or proceeding, from jurisdiction
of
any court or from set-off or any legal process (whether service or notice,
attachment in aid or otherwise) with respect to itself or any of its property,
the Company has irrevocably waived and agreed not to plead or claim such
immunity in respect of its obligations under the Indenture or the
Notes.
The
Company will furnish to any Holder upon written request and without charge
to
the Holder a copy of the Indenture which has in it the text of this Note in
larger type. Requests may be made to:
Grupo
Iusacell Celular, S.A. de X.X.
Xxxxxx
Urales Xx. 000, Xxxx 0
Xxxxxxx
Xxxxx xx Xxxxxxxxxxx
Delegación
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx, 11000
México,
D.F.
Attention:
Xxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
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ASSIGNMENT
FORM
To
assign
this Note, fill in the form below:
I
or we
assign and transfer this Note to
(Print
or
type assignee’s name, address and zip code)
(Insert
assignee’s Social Security or Tax I.D. Number)
and
irrevocably appoint agent to transfer this Note on the books of the Company.
The
agent may substitute another to act for him.
Date:____________________ | Your Signature:___________________ |
Signature
Guarantee:______________________________
(Signature
must be guaranteed)
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
Sign
exactly as your name appears on the other side of this Note.
The
signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership
in
an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Exchange Act
Rule 17Ad-15.
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[To
be attached to Global Notes only:
SCHEDULE
OF INCREASES OR DECREASES IN GLOBAL NOTE
The
following increases or decreases in this Global Note have been
made:
Date of Exchange |
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Amount of decrease in Principal Amount of this Global Note
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Amount of increase in Principal Amount of this Global Note
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Principal Amount of this Global Note following such decrease or increase
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Signature of authorized signatory of Trustee or Note Custodian
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OPTION
OF
HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE
If
you
want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.7
or Section 3.22
of the
Indenture, check either box:
o Section
3.7
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o Section 3.22 |
If
you
want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the Company pursuant
to Section 3.7
or Section 3.22
of
the
Indenture, state the principal amount (which must be an integral multiple of
U.S.$1.00) that you want to have purchased by the Company: U.S.$
Date: __________ | Your Signature ____________________________ |
(Sign
exactly as your name appears on the
other
side of the Note)
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Signature Guarantee: | _______________________________________ |
(Signature must be guaranteed) |
The
signature(s) should be guaranteed by an eligible guarantor institution (banks,
stockbrokers, savings and loan associations and credit unions with membership
in
an approved signature guarantee medallion program), pursuant to Exchange Act
Rule 17Ad-15.
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EXHIBIT
B
FORM
OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE FOR ADDITIONAL NOTE GUARANTEE
This
Supplemental Indenture, dated as of ______________ (this “Supplemental
Indenture Note”),
among
[name of Additional Restricted Subsidiary], a ________________ [corporation]
[limited liability company] (the “New
Restricted Subsidiary”),
Grupo
Iusacell Celular, S.A. de C.V., a Mexican sociedad
anónima de capital variable
(together with its successors and assigns, the “Company”),
each
other Restricted Subsidiary under the Indenture referred to below, and Law
Debenture Trust Company of New York, as Trustee under the Indenture referred
to
below.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS,
the Company, the Restricted Subsidiaries and the Trustee have heretofore
executed and delivered an Indenture, dated as of ______________ (as amended,
supplemented, waived or otherwise modified, the “Indenture”),
providing for the issuance of 10% Senior Subordinated Second Lien Notes due
2012
of the Company (the “Notes”);
WHEREAS,
pursuant to Section
11.5
of the
Indenture, the Company is required to cause each Additional Restricted
Subsidiary created or acquired by the Company to execute and deliver to the
Trustee an Additional Note Guarantee; and
WHEREAS,
pursuant to Section 9.1
of the
Indenture, the Trustee and the Company and the existing Restricted Subsidiaries
are authorized to execute and deliver this Supplemental Indenture to supplement
the Indenture, without the consent of any Holder;
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, the New Restricted
Subsidiary, the Company, each other Restricted Subsidiary and
the
Trustee mutually covenant and agree for the equal and ratable benefit of the
holders of the Notes as follows:
ARTICLE
I
DEFINITIONS
Section
1.1. Defined
Terms.
Unless
otherwise defined in this Supplemental Indenture, terms defined in the Indenture
are used herein as therein defined.
ARTICLE
II
AGREEMENT
TO BE BOUND; GUARANTEE
Section
2.1. Agreement
to be Bound.
The New
Restricted Subsidiary hereby becomes a party to the Indenture as a Restricted
Subsidiary and as such will have all of the rights and be subject to all of
the
obligations and agreements of a Restricted Subsidiary under the Indenture.
The
New Restricted Subsidiary agrees to be bound by all of the provisions of the
Indenture applicable to a Restricted Subsidiary and to perform all of the
obligations and agreements of a Restricted Subsidiary under the Indenture.
The
New
Restricted Subsidiary expressly waives any and all rights to which it is
entitled as and to the extent set forth in Section 11.1(c) of the
Indenture.
Section
2.2. Guarantee.
The New
Restricted Subsidiary hereby fully, unconditionally and irrevocably guarantees,
as primary obligor and not merely as surety, jointly and severally with each
other Restricted Subsidiary, to each Holder of the Notes and the Trustee, the
full and punctual payment when due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, by
redemption or otherwise, of the Obligations, all as more fully set forth in
Article
XI
of the
Indenture, subject to Article
XII
of the
Indenture.
ARTICLE
III
MISCELLANEOUS
Section
3.1. Notices.
Any
notice or communication delivered to the Company under the provisions of the
Indenture shall constitute notice to the New Restricted Subsidiary.
Section
3.2. Parties.
Nothing
expressed or mentioned herein is intended or shall be construed to give any
Person, firm or corporation, other than the Holders and the Trustee, any legal
or equitable right, remedy or claim under or in respect of this Supplemental
Indenture or the Indenture or any provision herein or therein
contained.
Section
3.3. Governing
Law etc.
This
Supplemental Indenture shall be governed by the provisions set forth in
Section
14.8
of the
Indenture. Without limiting the previous sentence, each of the parties hereto
agrees that any suit, action or proceeding against it arising out of or relating
to this Supplemental Indenture or the Indenture (including the Note Guarantees)
or the Notes, as the case may be, may be instituted in any Federal or state
court sitting in the Borough of Manhattan in The City of New York, or in the
courts of its corporate domicile in respect of actions brought against it as
a
defendant.
Section
3.4. Severability.
In case
any provision in this Supplemental Indenture shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby and such
provision shall be ineffective only to the extent of such invalidity, illegality
or unenforceability.
Section
3.5. Ratification
of Indenture; Supplemental Indenture Part of Indenture.
Except
as expressly amended hereby, the Indenture is in all respects ratified and
confirmed and all the terms, conditions and provisions thereof shall remain
in
full force and effect. This Supplemental Indenture shall form a part of the
Indenture for all purposes, and every Holder of Notes heretofore or hereafter
authenticated and delivered shall be bound hereby. The Trustee makes no
representation or warranty as to the validity or sufficiency of this
Supplemental Indenture.
Section
3.6. Duplicate
and Counterpart Originals.
The
parties may sign any number of copies of this Supplemental Indenture. One signed
copy is enough to prove this Supplemental Indenture. This Supplemental Indenture
may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall
be an original, but all of them together represent the same agreement.
Section
3.7. Headings.
The
headings of the Articles and Sections in this Supplemental Indenture have been
inserted for convenience of reference only, are not intended to be considered
as
a part hereof and shall not modify or restrict any of the terms or provisions
hereof.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Supplemental Indenture
to
be duly executed as of the date first above written.
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GRUPO IUSACELL CELULAR, S.A. DE C.V. | ||
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
[NAME
OF NEW
RESTRICTED SUBSIDIARY],
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
SOS
TELECOMUNICACIONES, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
IUSACELL,
S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
3
SISTECEL,
S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
COMUNICACIONES
CELULARES DE OCCIDENTE, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
SISTEMAS
TELEFONICOS PORTATILES CELULARES, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
TELECOMUNICACIONES
DEL GOLFO,
S.A.
DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
4
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
INMOBILIARIA
XXXXXX URALES 460,
S.A.
DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
MEXICAN
CELLULAR INVESTMENTS, INC.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
IUSANET,
S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
PORTATEL
DEL SURESTE, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
5
GRUPO
PORTATEL, S.A. DE C.V.
as
a Restricted Subsidiary
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
LAW
DEBENTURE TRUST COMPANY
OF
NEW YORK
as
Trustee
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By: | ||
Name: |
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Title: |
6
EXHIBIT
C
RECONCILIATION
AND TIE BETWEEN
THE
TRUST INDENTURE ACT OF 1939 AND THE INDENTURE
Trust
Indenture
Act
Section
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Indenture
Section
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§310
(a)
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7.10
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(b)
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7.10
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(c)
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Not
Applicable
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§311
(a)
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7.11
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(b)
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7.11
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(c)
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Not
Applicable
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§312
(a)
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2.5
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(b)
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14.3
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(c)
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14.3
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§313
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7.6
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§314
(a)
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3.12
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(b)
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13.10
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(c)
(1)
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14.4
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(a)
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(c)
(2)
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14.4
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(b)
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(c)
(3)
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Not
Applicable
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(d)
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13.8,
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13.9 | ||
(e)
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14.5
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§315
(a)
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7.1
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(b)
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(b)
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7.5
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(c)
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7.1
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(a)
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(d)
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7.1
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(c)
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(e)
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6.11,
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7.1
(f), 7.1 (i)
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§316
(a) (1) (A)
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6.5
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(a)
(1) (B)
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6.4
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(a)
(2)
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9.2
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(a)(ii)
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(b)
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6.6,
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6.7,
9.2 (a)
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(c)
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9.5
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(b)
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§317
(a) (1)
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6.8
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(a)
(2)
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6.9
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(a)
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(b)
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2.4
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§318
(a)
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1.2
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NOTE:
This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be a part
of the Indenture.
SCHEDULE
A
LIENS
IN EXISTENCE ON THE ISSUE DATE
[To
be
provided]