Any Outstanding Unregistered Notes so withdrawn will be deemed not to have been validly tendered for exchange for purposes of the Exchange Offer. Any Outstanding Unregistered Notes which have been tendered for exchange but which are not accepted for exchange for any reason will be returned to the Holder thereof without cost to such Holder (or, in the case of Outstanding Unregistered Notes tendered by book-entry transfer into the Exchange Agent’s account at DTC pursuant to the book-entry transfer procedures described above, such Outstanding Unregistered Notes will be credited to an account maintained with DTC for Outstanding Unregistered Notes) promptly following the expiration or termination of the Exchange Offer. Properly withdrawn Outstanding Unregistered Notes may be retendered by following one of the procedures described under the caption “The Exchange Offer—Procedures for Tendering Outstanding Unregistered Notes” in the Prospectus at any time prior to the Expiration Date.
Neither the Company, any affiliate or assigns of the Company, the Exchange Agent nor any other person will be under any duty to give any notification of any irregularities in any notice of withdrawal or incur any liability for failure to give such notification (even if such notice is given to other persons).
3. Beneficial Owner Instructions.
Only a Holder of Outstanding Unregistered Notes (i.e., a person in whose name Outstanding Unregistered Notes are registered or any other person who has obtained a properly completed bond power from the registered Holder or any person whose Outstanding Unregistered Notes are held of record by DTC), or the legal representative orattorney-in-fact of a Holder, may execute and deliver this Letter of Transmittal.
4. Signature on this Letter of Transmittal; Written Instruments and Endorsements; Guarantee of Signatures.
If this Letter of Transmittal is signed by the registered Holder(s) (which term, for the purposes described herein, shall include DTC) of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes tendered hereby, the signature must correspond exactly with the name(s) as written on the face of the Certificates (or on such security listing) without alteration, addition, enlargement or any change whatsoever.
If any of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes tendered hereby are owned of record by two or more joint owners, all such owners must sign this Letter of Transmittal.
If any tendered Outstanding Unregistered Notes are registered in different names, it will be necessary to complete, sign and submit as many separate copies of this Letter of Transmittal (or facsimiles thereof) as there are different registrations of Outstanding Unregistered Notes.
When this Letter of Transmittal is signed by the registered Holder(s) of Outstanding Unregistered Notes (which term, for the purposes described herein, shall include DTC) listed and tendered hereby, no endorsements of Certificates or separate written instruments of transfer or exchange are required. If, however, this Letter of Transmittal is signed by a person other than the registered Holder(s) of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes listed or the Exchange Notes are to be issued, or any untendered Outstanding Unregistered Notes are to be reissued, to a person other than the registered Holder(s) of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes, such Outstanding Unregistered Notes must be endorsed or accompanied by separate written instruments of transfer or exchange in form satisfactory to the Company and duly executed by the registered Holder, in each case signed exactly as the name or names of the registered Holder(s) appear(s) on the Outstanding Unregistered Notes and the signatures on such Certificates must be guaranteed by an Eligible Guarantor Institution. If this Letter of Transmittal, any Certificates or separate written instruments of transfer or exchange are signed by trustees, executors, administrators, guardians,attorneys-in-fact, officers of corporations or others acting in a fiduciary or representative capacity, such persons should so indicate when signing, and, unless waived by the Company, submit proper evidence satisfactory to the Company, in its sole discretion, of such persons’ authority to so act.
Endorsements on Certificates for the Outstanding Unregistered Notes or signatures on bond powers required by this Instruction 4 must be guaranteed by a member firm of a registered national securities exchange or of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., a commercial bank or trust company having an office or correspondent in the United States or another “eligible guarantor institution” within the meaning of Rule17Ad-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (an “Eligible Guarantor Institution”).
Signatures on this Letter of Transmittal must be guaranteed by an Eligible Guarantor Institution, unless Outstanding Unregistered Notes are tendered: (i) by a registered Holder (which term, for the purposes described herein, shall include the book-entry transfer facility whose name appears on a security listing as the owner of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes) who has not completed the box entitled “Special Registration Instructions” or “Special Delivery Instructions” on this Letter of Transmittal; or (ii) for the account of an Eligible Guarantor Institution.
5. Special Registration and Delivery Instructions.
Tendering Holders should indicate, in the applicable Box 6 or Box 7, the name and address in/to which the Exchange Notes and/or Certificates for Outstanding Unregistered Notes not tendered or not accepted for exchange are to be issued or sent, if different from the name(s) and address(es) of the person signing this Letter of Transmittal. In the case of issuance in a different name, the tax identification number or social security number of the person named must also be indicated. A Holder tendering the Outstanding Unregistered Notes by book-entry transfer may request that the Outstanding Unregistered Notes not exchanged be credited to such account maintained at the book-entry transfer facility as such Holder may designate by indicating such in Box 4.
If no such instructions are given, the Exchange Notes (and any Outstanding Unregistered Notes not tendered or not accepted) will be issued in the name of and sent to the Holder signing this Letter of Transmittal or deposited into such Holder’s account at DTC.
6. Transfer Taxes.
The Company shall pay all transfer taxes, if any, applicable to the transfer and exchange of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes to it or its order pursuant to the Exchange Offer. If, however, the Exchange Notes and/or substitute Outstanding Unregistered Notes not exchanged are delivered to, are to be registered or are to be issued in the name of any person other than the registered Holder of the Outstanding Unregistered Notes tendered hereby, or if tendered Outstanding Unregistered Notes are registered in the name of any person other than the person signing this Letter of Transmittal, or if a transfer tax is imposed for any reason other than the transfer and exchange of Outstanding Unregistered Notes to the Company or its order pursuant to the Exchange Offer, the amount of any such transfer taxes (whether imposed on the registered Holder or any other person) will be payable by the tendering Holder. If satisfactory evidence of payment of such taxes or exemption therefrom is not submitted herewith the amount of such transfer taxes will be billed directly to such tendering Holder.