rights and claims against, every such incorporator, shareholder, officer or director, as such, because of the creation of the indebtedness hereby authorized, or under or by reason of the obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Indenture or in any Note or implied therefrom, are hereby expressly waived and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the issuance of the Exchange Notes.
Certain Definitions
Set forth below is a summary of certain of the defined terms used in the covenants and other provisions of the Indenture. Reference is made to the Indenture for the full definitions of all terms as well as any other capitalized term used herein for which no definition is provided.
“Affiliate” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with respect to any specified Person, means the power to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have the meanings correlative to the foregoing.
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy,” as now and hereinafter in effect, or any successor statute.
“Bankruptcy Law” means the Bankruptcy Code and any other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or similar law.
“Capital Distribution Amount” means 75% of the cumulative Net Profit for the period (taken as one accounting period) from the beginning of the fiscal quarter in which the Issue Date occurs to the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter for which financial statements are available, less the aggregate amount of Permitted Payments made, over the period beginning on the Issue Date and ending immediately before such payment, under clauses (b), (c), (e) and (f) of the definition of Permitted Payments, other than those payments under clause (e) that are funded entirely from the net cash proceeds of the issuance and sale by the Company of Common Stock of the Company and/or another series of Preferred Stock of the Company that is comparable to the Preferred Stock of the Company being retired, repurchased or redeemed.
“Capital Stock” of any Person means any and all shares, interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such Person, including Preferred Stock, but excluding any debt securities convertible into such equity.
“Cash and Cash Equivalents” means, as of a given date, the Company’s cash and cash equivalents as determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
“Clearstream” means Clearstream Banking SA or any successor securities clearing agency.
“Commission” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or, if at any time after the execution of the Indenture such Commission is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the TIA, then the body performing such duties at such time.
“Continuing Director” means a director who either was a member of the Board of Directors on the issue date of the Notes or who becomes a member of the Board of Directors subsequent to that date and whose election, appointment or nomination for election by the Company’s stockholders is duly approved by a majority of the continuing directors on the Board of Directors at the time of such approval, either by a specific vote or by approval of the proxy statement issued by the Company on behalf of the entire Board of Directors in which such individual is named as nominee for director.
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