account of principal, premium, if any, interest or otherwise, including any payment of cash in lieu of the issuance of fractional Common Shares, but excluding the issuance of Common Shares upon any conversion pursuant to Article IX, upon any redemption pursuant to Article X, or at maturity pursuant to Article X (collectively, the “Debenture Liabilities”), shall be subordinated, and, upon the occurrence of an event of default under the Senior Indebtedness, postponed, and subject in right of payment, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth in the following Sections of this Article XIII, to the full and final payment of all Senior Indebtedness, and each holder of any such 6.25% Debenture by its acceptance thereof agrees to and shall be bound by the provisions of this Article XIII.
Section 13.02 Order of Payment. In the event of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings, or any receivership, creditor enforcement, realization, liquidation, reorganization or other similar proceedings relative to the Company, or to its property or assets, whether voluntary or involuntary, partial or complete, or in the event of any proceedings for liquidation, dissolution or winding-up of the Company, whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy and whether voluntary or involuntary, partial or complete, or any marshalling of the assets and liabilities of the Company:
(a) all Senior Indebtedness shall first be paid in full, or provision made for such payment, before any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, which may be payable or deliverable on account of Debenture Liabilities;
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the holders of the 6.25% Debentures or the Trustees on behalf of such holders would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article XIII, shall be paid or delivered by the trustee in bankruptcy, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, or other liquidating agent making such payment or distribution, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, to the extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution, or provision therefor, to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness; and
(c) the Senior Creditors or a receiver or a receiver-manager of the Company or of all or part of its assets or any other enforcement agent may sell, mortgage, or otherwise dispose of the Company’s assets in whole or in part, free and clear of all Debenture Liabilities and without the approval of the 6.25% Debentureholders or the Trustees or any requirement to account to the Trustees or the 6.25% Debentureholders.
The rights and priority of the Senior Indebtedness and the subordination pursuant hereto shall not be affected by:
(i) whether or not the Senior Indebtedness is secured;
(ii) the time, sequence or order of creating, granting, executing, delivering of, or registering, perfecting or failing to register or perfect any security notice, caveat, financing statement or other notice in respect of the Senior Security;
(iii) the time or order of the attachment, perfection or crystallization of any security constituted by the Senior Security;
(iv) the taking of any collection, enforcement or realization proceedings pursuant to the Senior Security;
(v) the date of obtaining of any judgment or order of any bankruptcy court or any court administering bankruptcy, insolvency or similar proceedings as to the entitlement of the Senior Creditors, or any of them or the 6.25% Debentureholders or any of them to any money or property of the Company;
(vi) the failure to exercise any power or remedy reserved to the Senior Creditors under the Senior Security or to insist upon a strict compliance with any terms thereof;
(vii) whether any Senior Security is now perfected, hereafter ceases to be perfected, is avoidable by any trustee in bankruptcy or like official or is otherwise set aside, invalidated or lapses;
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