| • | | the date of the Change of Control Triggering Event; |
| • | | the date on which the Change of Control Redemption Period expired or was waived; |
| • | | the last date on which the holders of Series E Preference Shares may exercise their Change of Control Conversion Right; |
| • | | the method and period for calculating the Common Share Price; |
| • | | the Change of Control Conversion Date; |
| • | | if applicable, the type and amount of Alternative Conversion Consideration entitled to be received per Series E Preference Share; and |
| • | | the procedure that the holders of Series E Preference Shares must follow to exercise the Change of Control Conversion Right. |
The Company will issue a press release for publication through a news or press organization as is reasonably expected to broadly disseminate the relevant information to the public, or post notice on its website, in any event prior to the opening of business on the first Business Day following any date on which the Company provides the Conversion Notice to the holders of Series E Preference Shares.
Holders of Series E Preference Shares that choose to exercise their Change of Control Conversion Right will be required prior to the close of business on the third Business Day preceding the Change of Control Conversion Date, to notify the Company of the number of Series E Preference Shares to be converted and otherwise to comply with any applicable procedures contained in the Conversion Notice or otherwise required by the Securities Depository for effecting the conversion.
“Change of Control Conversion Right” means the right of a holder of Series E Preference Shares to convert some or all of the Series E Preference Shares held by such holder on the Change of Control Conversion Date into a number of Common Shares per Series E Preference Share pursuant to the conversion provisions in this Section 5 with respect to the Series E Preference Shares.
“Change of Control Conversion Date” means the date fixed by the Board, in its sole discretion, as the date the Series E Preference Shares are to be converted, which will be a Business Day that is no fewer than 20 days nor more than 35 days after the date on which the Company provides the Conversion Notice to holders of the Series E Preference Shares.
“Common Share Price” means (i) the amount of cash consideration per Common Share, if the consideration to be received in the Change of Control by the holders of the Common Shares is solely cash; and (ii) the average of the closing prices for the Common Shares on the NYSE for the ten consecutive trading days immediately preceding, but not including, the Change of Control Conversion Date, if the consideration to be received in the Change of Control by the holders of the Common Shares is other than solely cash.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the holders of Series E Preference Shares will not have a conversion right upon a Change of Control if (i) the acquiror has shares listed or quoted on the NYSE, the NYSE American or NASDAQ or listed or quoted on an exchange or quotation system that is a successor to the NYSE, the NYSE American or NASDAQ, and (ii) the Series E Preference Shares remain continuously listed or quoted on the NYSE, the NYSE American or NASDAQ or listed or quoted on an exchange or quotation system that is a successor to the NYSE, the NYSE American or NASDAQ.
Section 6. Status of Acquired Shares. All Series E Preferred Shares redeemed and cancelled by the Company in accordance with Section 4 hereof, or otherwise acquired by the Company, shall be restored to the status of authorized but unissued shares of undesignated preference shares of the Company.
Section 7. Ranking. The Series E Preference Shares will, with respect to anticipated quarterly dividends and distributions upon the liquidation, winding-up and dissolution of the Company’s affairs, rank: (i) senior to the Company’s Common Shares and to each other class or series of capital stock established after the original issue date of the Series E Preference Shares that is not expressly made senior to, or on parity with, the Series E Preference Shares as to the payment of dividends and amounts payable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, whether voluntary or involuntary (“Junior Securities”); (ii) equal to the “8.50% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preference Shares, par value $0.01 per share” (the “Series A Preference Shares”), the “8.00% Series B Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preference Shares, par value $0.01 per share” (the “Series B Preference Shares”), the “7.375% Series C Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preference Shares, par value $0.01 per share” (the “Series C Preference Shares”), the “6.875% Series D Cumulative Redeemable Perpetual Preference Shares, par value $0.01 per share” (the “Series D Preference Shares”) and any other class or series of capital stock established after the original issue date of the Series E Preference Shares that is expressly made equal to the Series E Preference Shares as to the payment of dividends and amounts payable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, whether voluntary or involuntary (“Parity Securities”); and (iii) junior to any class or series of capital stock established after the original issue date of the Series E Preference Shares that is expressly made senior to the Series E Preference Shares as to the payment of dividends and amounts payable upon liquidation, dissolution or winding up, whether voluntary or involuntary (“Senior Securities”).
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