pari passu with or subordinate to the Notes; provided, however, that Senior Indebtedness does not include: (i) the Company’s junior subordinated debentures or related guarantees issued to the Company’s statutory trusts, (ii) the Company’s 6.50% subordinated notes due 2042 issued pursuant to the Base Indenture, or (iii) any indebtedness the terms of which expressly provide that such indebtedness ranks equally with, or junior to, the Notes, including guarantees of such indebtedness.
“Tax Event” means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of independent tax counsel to the effect that as a result of:
(a) an amendment to or change (including any announced prospective amendment or change) in any law or treaty, or any regulation thereunder, of the United States or any of its political subdivisions or taxing authorities;
(b) a judicial decision, administrative action, official administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure, regulation, notice or announcement, including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt or promulgate any ruling, regulatory procedure or regulation (any of the foregoing, an “administrative or judicial action”); or
(c) an amendment to or change in any official position with respect to, or any interpretation of, an administrative or judicial action or a law or regulation of the United States that differs from the previously generally accepted position or interpretation;
in each case, which change or amendment becomes effective or which administrative or judicial action is announced on or after the Issue Date, with respect to which there is more than an insubstantial risk that interest payable by the Company on the Notes is not, or, within 90 days of the date of such opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States federal income tax purposes.
“Tier 2 Capital Event” means the Company’s good faith determination that, as a result of:
(a) any amendment to, or change in, the laws, rules or regulations of the United States (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any agency or instrumentality of the United States, including the Federal Reserve Board and other federal bank regulatory agencies) or any political subdivision of or in the United States that is enacted or becomes effective after the Issue Date;
(b) any proposed change in those laws, rules or regulations that is announced or becomes effective after the Issue Date; or
(c) any official administrative decision or judicial decision or administrative action or other official pronouncement interpreting or applying those laws, rules, regulations, policies or guidelines with respect thereto that is announced after the Issue Date;
in each case, there is more than an insubstantial risk that the Company will not be entitled to treat the Notes then outstanding as “Tier 2 Capital” (or its equivalent) for purposes of the capital adequacy rules or regulations of the Federal Reserve Board (or, as and if applicable, the capital adequacy rules or regulations of any successor appropriate federal banking agency) as then in effect and applicable to the Company, for so long as any Notes are outstanding.
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