REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENTRegistration Rights Agreement • May 9th, 2003 • Placer Dome Inc • Gold and silver ores • New York
This Agreement is made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement dated March 6, 2003 between the Company and the Representatives (the “Purchase Agreement”), which provides for the sale by the Company to the Initial Purchasers of an aggregate of U.S.$200,000,000 principal amount of the Company’s 6 3/8% Debentures due 2033 (the “Securities”). In order to induce the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement, the Company has agreed to provide to the Initial Purchasers and their direct and indirect transferees the registration rights set forth in this Agreement. The execution of this Agreement is a condition to the closing under the Purchase Agreement.
FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURE (this “First Supplemental Indenture”) dated as of March 6, 2003 between PLACER DOME INC., a corporation duly organized and existing under the Canada Business Corporations Act (the “Company”), and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST...First Supplemental Indenture • May 9th, 2003 • Placer Dome Inc • Gold and silver ores • New York
We understand that the Debentures are being offered in a transaction not involving any public offering within the United States within the meaning of the Securities Act and that the Debentures have not been registered under the Securities Act, and we agree, on our own behalf and on behalf of each account for which we acquire any Debentures, that if in the future we decide to offer, resell, pledge or otherwise transfer such Debentures, such Debentures may be offered, resold, pledged or otherwise transferred only (i) to the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) to a person whom we reasonably believe is a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act) in compliance with Rule 144A, (iii) to a person whom we reasonably believe is an Institutional Accredited Investor purchasing for its own account or for the account of one or more other Institutional Accredited Investors over which it exercises sole investment discretion and that, prior to the transfer,
