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Exhibit 4.1
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MCMS, INC.
as Issuer
and
UNITED STATES TRUST COMPANY OF NEW YORK
as Trustee
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INDENTURE
Dated as of February 26, 1998
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up to $275,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008
and
Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities
("FIRSTS"(SM)*) due 2008
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* FIRSTS is a service mark of BT Alex. Brown Incorporated
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
TIA Indenture
Section Section
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310 (a)(1)......................................... 7.10
(a)(2)......................................... 7.10
(a)(3)......................................... N.A.
(a)(4)......................................... N.A.
(a)(5)......................................... 7.08; 7.10
(b)............................................ 7.08; 7.10;
11.02
(c)............................................ N.A.
311 (a)............................................ 7.11
(b)............................................ 7.11
(c)............................................ N.A.
312 (a)............................................ 2.05
(b)............................................ 11.03
(c)............................................ 11.03
313 (a)............................................ 7.06
(b)(1)......................................... N.A.
(b)(2)......................................... 7.06
(c)............................................ 7.06; 11.02
(d)............................................ 7.06
314 (a)............................................ 4.07; 4.08;
11.02
(b)............................................ N.A.
(c)(1)......................................... 11.04
(c)(2)......................................... 11.04
(c)(3)......................................... N.A.
(d)............................................ N.A.
(e)............................................ 11.05
(f)............................................ N.A.
315 (a)............................................ 7.01(b)
(b)............................................ 7.05; 11.02
(c)............................................ 7.01(a)
(d)............................................ 7.01(c)
(e)............................................ 6.11
316 (a)(last sentence)............................. 2.09
(a)(1)(A)...................................... 6.05
(a)(1)(B)...................................... 6.04
(a)(2)......................................... N.A.
(b)............................................ 6.07
(c)............................................ 9.05
317 (a)(1)......................................... 6.08
(a)(2)......................................... 6.09
(b)............................................ 2.04
318 (a)............................................ 11.01
(c)............................................ 11.01
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N.A. means Not Applicable
Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose, be deemed
to be a part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions......................................... 1
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of TIA................... 30
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction............................... 30
ARTICLE TWO
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating..................................... 31
SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication; Aggregate
Principal Amount................................... 32
SECTION 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent.......................... 34
SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust................ 34
SECTION 2.05. Noteholder Lists.................................... 35
SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange............................... 35
SECTION 2.07. Replacement Notes................................... 36
SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Notes................................... 36
SECTION 2.09. Treasury Notes...................................... 37
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Notes..................................... 37
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation........................................ 37
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest.................................. 38
SECTION 2.13. CUSIP Numbers....................................... 38
SECTION 2.14. Deposit of Moneys................................... 38
SECTION 2.15. Restrictive Legends................................. 39
SECTION 2.16. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Security........... 41
SECTION 2.17. Special Transfer Provisions......................... 42
ARTICLE THREE
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. Notices to Trustee.................................. 45
SECTION 3.02. Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed................... 45
SECTION 3.03. Notice of Redemption................................ 46
SECTION 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption...................... 47
SECTION 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price......................... 48
SECTION 3.06. Notes Redeemed in Part.............................. 48
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ARTICLE FOUR
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. Payment of Notes.................................... 48
SECTION 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency..................... 49
SECTION 4.03. Corporate Existence................................. 49
SECTION 4.04. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims................... 49
SECTION 4.05. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance............. 50
SECTION 4.06. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default........... 50
SECTION 4.07. Compliance with Laws................................ 51
SECTION 4.08. SEC Reports......................................... 52
SECTION 4.09. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws............. 53
SECTION 4.10. Limitation on Restricted Payments................... 53
SECTION 4.11. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates.......... 56
SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Incurrence of Additional
Indebtedness....................................... 58
SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment
Restrictions Affecting Subsidiaries................ 58
SECTION 4.14. Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior
Subordinated Debt.................................. 59
SECTION 4.15. Change of Control................................... 59
SECTION 4.16. Limitation on Asset Sales........................... 62
SECTION 4.17. Limitation on Preferred Stock of
Restricted Subsidiaries............................ 66
SECTION 4.18. Limitation on Liens................................. 66
SECTION 4.19. Limitation of Guarantees by Restricted
Subsidiaries....................................... 66
SECTION 4.20. Conduct of Business................................. 67
ARTICLE FIVE
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets............ 68
SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted................... 69
ARTICLE SIX
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default................................... 70
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration........................................ 71
SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies...................................... 73
SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults............................. 73
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SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority................................. 73
SECTION 6.06. Limitation on Suits................................. 74
SECTION 6.07. Rights of Holders To Receive Payment................ 74
SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee.......................... 74
SECTION 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.................... 75
SECTION 6.10. Priorities.......................................... 75
SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs............................... 76
ARTICLE SEVEN
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee................................... 76
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee................................... 78
SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee........................ 79
SECTION 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer................................ 79
SECTION 7.05. Notice of Default................................... 80
SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders....................... 80
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity.......................... 80
SECTION 7.08. Replacement of Trustee.............................. 82
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.................... 83
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification....................... 83
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company............................................ 83
ARTICLE EIGHT
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. Termination of the Company's Obligations............ 84
SECTION 8.02. Legal Defeasance and Covenant Defeasance............ 86
SECTION 8.03. Conditions to Legal Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance......................................... 87
SECTION 8.04. Application of Trust Money.......................... 89
SECTION 8.05. Repayment to the Company............................ 90
SECTION 8.06. Reinstatement....................................... 91
ARTICLE NINE
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of Holders.......................... 91
SECTION 9.02. With Consent of Holders............................. 92
SECTION 9.03. Effect on Senior Debt............................... 94
SECTION 9.04. Compliance with TIA................................. 94
SECTION 9.05. Revocation and Effect of Consents................... 94
SECTION 9.06. Notation on or Exchange of Notes.................... 95
SECTION 9.07. Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc..................... 95
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ARTICLE TEN
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 10.01. Notes Subordinated to Senior Debt................... 95
SECTION 10.02. No Payment on Notes in Certain
Circumstances...................................... 96
SECTION 10.03. Payment Over of Proceeds upon Dissolution,
Etc................................................ 97
SECTION 10.04. Payments May Be Paid Prior to Dissolution........... 99
SECTION 10.05. Subrogation......................................... 100
SECTION 10.06. Obligations of the Company Unconditional............ 100
SECTION 10.07. Notice to Trustee................................... 100
SECTION 10.08. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate
of Liquidating Agent............................... 101
SECTION 10.09. Trustee's Relation to Senior Debt................... 102
SECTION 10.10. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by Acts
or Omissions of the Company or Holders of
Senior Debt........................................ 102
SECTION 10.11. Noteholders Authorize Trustee To
Effectuate Subordination of Notes.................. 103
SECTION 10.12. This Article Ten Not To Prevent Events of
Default............................................ 104
SECTION 10.13. Trustee's Compensation Not Prejudiced............... 104
ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.01. TIA Controls........................................ 104
SECTION 11.02. Notices............................................. 104
SECTION 11.03. Communications by Holders with Other
Holders............................................ 105
SECTION 11.04. Certificate and Opinion as to Conditions
Precedent.......................................... 105
SECTION 11.05. Statements Required in Certificate or
Opinion............................................ 106
SECTION 11.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar........... 106
SECTION 11.07. Legal Holidays...................................... 107
SECTION 11.08. Governing Law....................................... 107
SECTION 11.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other
Agreements......................................... 107
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse Against Others.......................... 107
SECTION 11.11. Successors.......................................... 107
SECTION 11.12. Duplicate Originals................................. 108
SECTION 11.13. Severability........................................ 108
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SIGNATURES...............................................................109
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Exhibit A-1 - Form of Fixed Rate Note............................ A-1
Exhibit A-2 - Form of Floating Rate Note......................... A-2
Exhibit B-1 - Form of Series B Fixed Rate Note................... B-1
Exhibit B-2 - Form of Series B Floating Rate Note................ B-2
Exhibit C - Form of Certificate To Be Delivered in
Connection with Transfers to Non-QIB
Accredited Investors.............................. C-1
Exhibit D - Form of Certificate To Be Delivered in
Connection with Transfers Pursuant to
Regulations S..................................... D-1
Note: This Table of Contents shall not, for any purpose, be
deemed to be part of the Indenture.
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INDENTURE, dated as of February 26, 1998, between MCMS, Inc., an
Idaho corporation (the "Company"), and United States Trust Company of New York,
a New York corporation, as Trustee (the "Trustee").
The Company has duly authorized the creation of an issue of 9 3/4%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 and an issue of Floating Interest Rate
Subordinated Term Securities due 2008 and, when and if issued as provided in the
Registration Rights Agreement, 9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due
2008 and Series B Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities, and, to
provide therefor, the Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture. All things necessary to make the Notes, when duly issued and
executed by the Company, and authenticated and delivered hereunder, the valid
obligations of the Company, and to make this Indenture a valid and binding
agreement of the Company, have been done.
Each party hereto agrees as follows for the benefit of the other
party and for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Notes.
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.
"Acceleration Notice" has the meaning provided in Section 6.02(a).
"Acquired Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of a Person or any of its
Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company or at the time it merges or consolidates with the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries or assumed in connection with the acquisition of assets from
such Person and in each case not incurred by such Person in connection with, or
in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company or such acquisition, merger or consolidation.
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any specified Person, any other
Person who directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls,
or is controlled by, or is under common control with, such specified Person. The
term "control" means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to
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direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a Person,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative of the
foregoing. For purposes of this Indenture, BT Alex. Brown Incorporated, Bankers
Trust Company and their Affiliates shall not be deemed to be Affiliates of the
Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries.
"Affiliate Transaction" has the meaning provided in Section 4.11.
"Agent" means any Registrar, Paying Agent or co-Registrar.
"Agent Members" has the meaning provided in Section 2.16.
"Asset Acquisition" means (a) an Investment by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any other Person pursuant to which such
Person shall become a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company, or shall be merged with or into the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, or (b) the acquisition by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of the assets of any Person (other than
a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) which constitute all or substantially
all of the assets of such Person or comprise any division or line of business of
such Person or any other properties or assets of such Person other than in the
ordinary course of business.
"Asset Sale" means any direct or indirect sale, issuance,
conveyance, transfer, lease (other than operating leases entered into in the
ordinary course of business), assignment or other transfer for value by the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Sale and Leaseback
Transaction) to any Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company of (a) any Capital Stock of any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company or (b) any other property or assets of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company other than in the ordinary course of
business; provided, however, that Asset Sales shall not include (i) a
transaction or series of related transactions for which the Company or its
Restricted Subsidiaries receive aggregate consideration of less than $500,000,
(ii) the sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company as permitted under Section 5.01
or any disposition that constitutes a Change of Control, (iii) the sale or
discount, in each case without recourse, of accounts
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receivable arising in the ordinary course of business, but only in connection
with the compromise or collection thereof, (iv) the factoring of accounts
receivable arising in the ordinary course of business pursuant to arrangements
customary in the region, (v) the licensing of intellectual property, (vi)
disposals or replacements of obsolete equipment in the ordinary course of
business, and (vii) the sale, lease, conveyance, disposition or other transfer
by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of assets or property
in connection with Restricted Payments permitted by Section 4.10.
"Authenticating Agent" has the meaning provided in Section 2.02.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code or any similar Federal,
state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
"Blockage Period" has the meaning provided in Section 10.02.
"Board of Directors" means, as to any Person, the board of directors
of such Person or any duly authorized committee thereof.
"Board Resolution" means, with respect to any Person, a copy of a
resolution certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Person
to have been duly adopted by the Board of Directors of such Person and to be in
full force and effect on the date of such certification, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day that is not a Legal Holiday.
"Calculation Agent" means the person appointed by the Company to
calculate the interest on the Floating Rate Notes, which shall initially be the
Trustee.
"Capitalized Lease Obligation" means, as to any Person, the
obligations of such Person under a lease that are required to be classified and
accounted for as capital lease obligations under GAAP and, for purposes of this
definition, the amount of such obligations at any date shall be the capitalized
amount of such obligations at such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.
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"Capital Stock" means (i) with respect to any Person that is a
corporation, any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated and whether or not voting) of corporate stock, including
each class of Common Stock and preferred stock of such Person, and (ii) with
respect to any Person that is not a corporation, any and all partnership or
other equity interests of such Person.
"Cash Equivalents" means (i) marketable direct obligations issued
by, or unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States Government or issued by
any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States,
in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition thereof; (ii)
marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States of
America or any political subdivision of any such state or any public
instrumentality thereof maturing within one year from the date of acquisition
thereof and, at the time of acquisition, having one of the two highest ratings
obtainable from either Standard & Poor's Corporation ("S&P") or Moody's
Investors Service, Inc. ("Moody's"); (iii) commercial paper maturing no more
than one year from the date of creation thereof and, at the time of acquisition,
having a rating of at least A-1 from S&P or at least P-1 from Moody's; (iv)
certificates of deposit or bankers' acceptances maturing within one year from
the date of acquisition thereof issued by any bank organized under the laws of
the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia or
any U.S. branch of a foreign bank having at the date of acquisition thereof
combined capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000; (v) repurchase
obligations with a term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of
the types described in clause (i) above entered into with any bank meeting the
qualifications specified in clause (iv) above; and (vi) investments in money
market funds which invest substantially all their assets in securities of the
types described in clauses (i) through (v) above.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of one or more of the
following events: (i) any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one
transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of
the assets of the Company to any Person or group of related Persons for purposes
of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act (a "Group"), together with any Affiliates
thereof (whether or not otherwise in
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compliance with the provisions of this Indenture) other than to the Permitted
Holders; (ii) the approval by the holders of Capital Stock of the Company of any
plan or proposal for the liquidation or dissolution of the Company (whether or
not otherwise in compliance with the provisions of this Indenture); (iii) any
Person or Group (other than the Permitted Holders) shall become the beneficial
owner, directly or indirectly, of shares representing more than 50% of the
aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding
Capital Stock of the Company; or (iv) the first day on which a majority of the
members of the Board of Directors of the Company during the two-year period
immediately preceding such date are not Continuing Directors. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in the foregoing sentence, a "Change of
Control" shall not be deemed to occur upon consummation of (A) the
Recapitalization, (B) the merger of the Company with an Affiliate incorporated
solely for the purpose of reincorporating the Company in another jurisdiction or
(C) any transaction described in clause (i) or (iii) of the immediately
preceding sentence if, after giving effect to such transaction, (1) the
Permitted Holders shall beneficially own, directly or indirectly, shares of
Capital Stock representing at least 35% of the aggregate ordinary voting power
represented by the issued and outstanding Capital Stock of the Company and (2)
no Persons or Group shall beneficially own, directly or indirectly, a greater
percentage of such voting power than the Permitted Holders.
"Change of Control Date" has the meaning provided in Section 4.15.
"Change of Control Offer" has the meaning provided in Section 4.15.
"Change of Control Payment Date" has the meaning provided in Section
4.15.
"Common Stock" of any Person means any and all shares, interests or
other participations in, and other equivalents (however designated and whether
voting or non-voting) of such Person's common stock, whether outstanding on the
Issue Date or issued after the Issue Date, and includes, without limitation, all
series and classes of such common stock.
"Company" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it pursuant to this Indenture and thereafter means such
successor.
"Consolidated EBITDA" means, with respect to any Person, for any
period, the sum (without duplication) of (i) Consolidated Net Income and (ii) to
the extent Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby, (A) all income
taxes and foreign withholding taxes of such Person and its Restricted
Sub-
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sidiaries paid or accrued in accordance with GAAP for such period (other than
income taxes attributable to extraordinary, unusual or nonrecurring gains or
losses or taxes attributable to sales or dispositions outside the ordinary
course of business), (B) Consolidated Interest Expense and (C) Consolidated
Non-cash Charges less, to the extent Consolidated Net Income has been increased
thereby, any non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period,
all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" means, with respect to
any Person, the ratio of Consolidated EBITDA of such Person during the four full
fiscal quarters (the "Four Quarter Period") ending on or prior to the date of
the transaction giving rise to the need to calculate the Consolidated Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio (the "Transaction Date") to Consolidated Fixed Charges of
such Person for the Four Quarter Period. In addition to and without limitation
of the foregoing, for purposes of this definition, "Consolidated EBITDA" and
"Consolidated Fixed Charges" shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro
forma basis for the period of such calculation to (i) the incurrence or
repayment of any Indebtedness of such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries (and the application of the proceeds thereof) giving rise to the
need to make such calculation and any incurrence or repayment of other
Indebtedness (and the application of the proceeds thereof), other than the
incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness in the ordinary course of business for
working capital purposes pursuant to working capital facilities, occurring
during the Four Quarter Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the
Four Quarter Period and on or prior to the Transaction Date, as if such
incurrence or repayment, as the case may be (and the application of the proceeds
thereof), occurred on the first day of the Four Quarter Period and (ii) any
Asset Sales or Asset Acquisitions (including, without limitation, any Asset
Acquisition giving rise to the need to make such calculation as a result of such
Person or one of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any Person who becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary as a result of the Asset Acquisition) incurring, assuming
or otherwise being liable for Acquired Indebtedness and also including any
Consolidated EBITDA (including any pro forma expense and cost reductions
calculated on a basis consistent with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act)
attributable to the assets which are the subject of the Asset Acquisition or
Asset Sale during the Four Quarter Period) occurring during the Four Quarter
Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Four Quarter Period and
on or prior to the Transaction Date, as
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if such Asset Sale or Asset Acquisition (including the incurrence, assumption or
liability for any such Indebtedness or Acquired Indebtedness) occurred on the
first day of the Four Quarter Period. If such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries directly or indirectly guarantees Indebtedness of a third Person,
the preceding sentence shall give effect to the incurrence of such guaranteed
Indebtedness as if such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person had
directly incurred or otherwise assumed such guaranteed Indebtedness.
Furthermore, in calculating "Consolidated Fixed Charges" for purposes of
determining the denominator (but not the numerator) of this "Consolidated Fixed
Charge Coverage Ratio," (1) interest on outstanding Indebtedness determined on a
fluctuating basis as of the Transaction Date and which will continue to be so
determined thereafter shall be deemed to have accrued at a fixed rate per annum
equal to the rate of interest on such Indebtedness in effect on the Transaction
Date and (2) notwithstanding clause (1) above, interest on Indebtedness
determined on a fluctuating basis, to the extent such interest is covered by
agreements relating to Interest Swap Obligations, shall be deemed to accrue at
the rate per annum resulting after giving effect to the operation of such
agreements.
"Consolidated Fixed Charges" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the sum, without duplication, of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense,
plus (ii) the amount of all dividend payments on any series of preferred stock
of such Person (other than dividends paid in Qualified Capital Stock or the
amortization of deferred financing costs relating to the issuance of the
Preferred Stock) paid, accrued or scheduled to be paid or accrued during such
period.
"Consolidated Interest Expense" means, with respect to any Person
for any period, the sum of, without duplication: (i) the aggregate of the
interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, including, without
limitation, (a) any amortization of debt discount and (b) the net costs under
Interest Swap Obligations, but excluding any amortization or write-off of
deferred financing costs; and (ii) the interest component of Capitalized Lease
Obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by such Person
and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period as determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, with respect to any Person, for any
period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period on
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a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that there
shall be excluded therefrom (a) after-tax gains and losses from Asset Sales
(without giving effect to the proviso therein) or abandonments or reserves
relating thereto, (b) after-tax items classified as extraordinary or
nonrecurring gains and losses, (c) the net income or loss of any Person acquired
in a "pooling of interests" transaction accrued prior to the date it becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person or is merged or consolidated with
the referent Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person, (d) the
net income (but not loss) of any Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person to
the extent that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that
Restricted Subsidiary of that income is restricted by a contract, operation of
law or otherwise, (e) the net loss of any Person other than a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company, (f) the net income of any Person, other than a
Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person, except to the extent of cash
dividends or distributions paid to the referent Person or to a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person by such Person, (g) income or loss
attributable to discontinued operations (including, without limitation,
operations disposed of during such period whether or not such operations were
classified as discontinued), (h) in the case of a successor to the referent
Person by consolidation or merger or as a transferee of the referent Person's
assets, any earnings of the successor corporation prior to such consolidation,
merger or transfer of assets, (i) non-cash, non-recurring charges reducing
Consolidated Net Income (excluding any such non-cash charge to the extent it
represents an accrual of or reserve for cash charges in any future period or
amortization of prepaid cash expense that was paid in a prior period not
included in the calculation), (j) non-cash compensation charges, including any
arising from stock options, (k) gains and losses due solely to fluctuations in
currency values and the related tax effects according to GAAP, (l) start-up
costs and duplicative costs incurred in connection with the transition services
agreements in effect on the Issue Date (as the same may be amended from time to
time), not to exceed $200,000, (m) costs relating to the implementation of the
Baan information technology system which have not been capitalized and (n)
expenses related to the Recapitalization.
"Consolidated Non-cash Charges" means, with respect to any Person,
for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization and other non-cash
expenses of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries reducing Consolidated
Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
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(excluding any such charges constituting an extraordinary item or loss or any
such charge which requires an accrual of or a reserve for cash charges for any
future period).
"Consolidated Tangible Assets" means, with respect to any Person, as
of any date of determination, the total assets, less goodwill, deferred
financing costs and other intangibles and less accumulated amortization, shown
on the most recent balance sheet of such Person, determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Continuing Directors" means, as of any date of determination, any
member of the Board of Directors of the Company who (i) was a member of such
Board of Directors on the first day of the two-year period immediately preceding
such date of determination or (ii) was nominated for election or elected to such
Board of Directors with, or whose election to such Board of Directors was
approved by, the affirmative vote of a majority of the Continuing Directors who
were members of such Board of Directors at the time of such nomination or
election or (iii) is any designee of the Principal or its Affiliates or was
nominated by the Principal or its Affiliates or any designees of the Principal
or its Affiliates on the Board of Directors.
"Covenant Defeasance" has the meaning provided in Section 8.02.
"Currency Agreement" means any foreign exchange contract, currency
swap agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to protect the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company against fluctuations in
currency values.
"Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator,
sequestrator or similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"Default" means an event or condition the occurrence of which is, or
with the lapse of time or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of
Default.
"Default Notice" has the meaning provided in Section 10.02.
"Depository" means The Depository Trust Company, its nominees and
successors.
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"Designated Senior Debt" means (i) Indebtedness under or in respect
of the New Revolving Credit Facility and (ii) any other Indebtedness
constituting Senior Debt which, at the time of determination, has an aggregate
principal amount of at least $25.0 million and is specifically designated in the
instrument evidencing such Senior Debt as "Designated Senior Debt" by the
Company.
"Disqualified Capital Stock" means that portion of any Capital Stock
which, by its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is
convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event
(other than upon the occurrence of a Change of Control), matures or is
mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or
is redeemable at the sole option of the holder thereof on or prior to the final
maturity date of the Notes.
"Event of Default" has the meaning provided in Section 6.01.
"Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, or any successor statute or statutes thereto.
"Exchange Debentures" means the 12 1/2% Subordinated Exchange
Debentures due 2010, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance
with the terms of the Exchange Indenture, that are issued pursuant to the
Exchange Indenture.
"Exchange Indenture" means the indenture, dated as of the Issue
Date, between the Company and United States Trust Company of New York, as
trustee, relating to the Exchange Debentures, as amended or supplemented from
time to time.
"Exchange Fixed Rate Notes" means the 9 3/4% Series B Senior
Subordinated Notes due 2008 (the terms of which are identical to the Initial
Fixed Rate Notes except that, unless any Exchange Fixed Rate Notes shall be
issued as Private Exchange Notes (as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement), the Exchange Fixed Rate Notes shall be registered under the
Securities Act, and shall not contain the restrictive legend on the face of the
form of the Initial Fixed Rate Notes), to be issued in exchange for the Initial
Fixed Rate Notes pursuant to the registered Exchange Offer and a Private
Exchange (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement).
"Exchange Floating Rate Notes" means the Floating Interest Rate
Subordinated Term Securities due 2008 (the terms of which are identical to the
Initial Floating Rate Notes except
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that, unless any Exchange Floating Rate Notes shall be issued as Private
Exchange Notes (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement), the Exchange
Floating Rate Notes shall be registered under the Securities Act, and shall not
contain the restrictive legend on the face of the form of the Initial Floating
Rate Notes), to be issued in exchange for the Initial Floating Rate Notes
pursuant to the registered Exchange Offer and a Private Exchange (as defined in
the Registration Rights Agreement).
"Exchange Notes" means the Exchange Fixed Rate Notes and the
Exchange Floating Rate Notes.
"Exchange Offer" means the registration by the Company under the
Securities Act pursuant to a registration statement of the offer by the Company
to each Holder of the Initial Notes to exchange all the Initial Notes held by
such Holder for the Exchange Notes in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
aggregate principal amount of the Initial Notes held by such Holder, all in
accordance with the terms and conditions of the Registration Rights Agreement.
"fair market value" means, with respect to any asset or property,
the price which could be negotiated in an arm's-length, free market transaction,
for cash, between a willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom
is under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the transaction. Fair market
value shall be determined by the Board of Directors of the Company acting
reasonably and in good faith and shall be evidenced by a Board Resolution of the
Board of Directors of the Company delivered to the Trustee.
"Fixed Rate Notes" means the Initial Fixed Rate Notes, the Exchange
Fixed Rate Notes and any other 9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 issued
after the Issue Date in accordance with clause (iii) of the fourth paragraph of
Section 2.02 treated as a single class of securities, as amended or supplemented
from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof, that are issued pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Floating Rate Notes" means the Initial Floating Rate Notes, the
Exchange Floating Rate Notes and any other Floating Interest Rate Subordinated
Term Securities due 2008 issued after the Issue Date in accordance with clause
(iii) of the fourth paragraph of Section 2.02 treated as a single class of
securities, as amended or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the
terms hereof, that are issued pursuant to this Indenture.
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"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles set forth in
the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board of the
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and
pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other
statements by such other entity as may be approved by a significant segment of
the accounting profession of the United States, which are in effect as of the
Issue Date. Except as otherwise set forth herein, all ratios and computations
based on GAAP contained in this Indenture shall be computed in conformity with
GAAP applied on a consistent basis.
"Global Note" has the meaning provided in Section 2.01.
"Guarantee" has the meaning provided in Section 4.19.
"Holder" or "Noteholder" means the Person in whose name a Note is
registered on the Registrar's books.
"incur" has the meaning provided in Section 4.12.
"Indebtedness" means with respect to any Person, without
duplication, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (ii) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other
similar instruments, (iii) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person,
(iv) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as the deferred purchase
price of property, all conditional sale obligations and all obligations under
any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable and other
accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business), (v) all
obligations of such Person for the reimbursement of any obligor on any letter of
credit, banker's acceptance or similar credit transaction, (vi) guarantees and
other contingent obligations of such Person in respect of Indebtedness referred
to in clauses (i) through (v) above and clause (viii) below, (vii) all
obligations of any other Person of the type referred to in clauses (i) through
(vi) which are secured by any lien on any property or asset of such Person, the
amount of such obligation being deemed to be the lesser of the fair market value
of such property or asset or the amount of the obligation so secured, (viii) all
obligations under currency agreements and interest swap agreements of such
Person and (ix) all Disqualified Capital Stock issued by such Person with the
amount of Indebtedness represented by such Disqualified Capital Stock being
equal to the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference and
its maximum fixed repurchase price, but ex-
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cluding accrued dividends, if any. For purposes hereof, the "maximum fixed
repurchase price" of any Disqualified Capital Stock which does not have a fixed
repurchase price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such
Disqualified Capital Stock as if such Disqualified Capital Stock were purchased
on any date on which Indebtedness shall be required to be determined pursuant to
this Indenture, and if such price is based upon, or measured by, the fair market
value of such Disqualified Capital Stock, such fair market value shall be
determined reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Directors of the issuer
of such Disqualified Capital Stock.
"Indenture" means this Indenture, as amended or supplemented from
time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.
"Independent Financial Advisor" means a firm (i) which does not, and
whose directors, officers and employees or Affiliates do not, have a direct or
indirect financial interest in the Company and (ii) which, in the judgment of
the Board of Directors of the Company, is otherwise independent and qualified to
perform the task for which it is to be engaged.
"Initial Fixed Rate Notes" means the 9 3/4% Senior Subordinated
Notes due 2008 of the Company issued on the Issue Date and authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture pursuant to Section 2.02 of this Indenture.
"Initial Floating Rate Notes" means the Floating Interest Rate
Subordinated Term Securities due 2008 issued on the Issue Date and authenticated
and delivered under this Indenture pursuant to Section 2.02 of this Indenture.
"Initial Notes" means the Initial Fixed Rate Notes and the Initial
Floating Rate Notes.
"Initial Purchaser" means BT Alex. Brown Incorporated.
"Interest Payment Date" means the stated maturity of an installment
of interest on the Notes.
"Interest Period" means semi-annual periods commencing September 1,
1998, for the period commencing on and including the immediately preceding
Interest Payment Date and ending on and including the date next preceding the
Interest Payment Date, with the exception that the first Interest Period shall
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commence on and include February 26, 1998 and end on and include August 31,
1998.
"Interest Swap Obligations" means the obligations of any Person,
pursuant to any arrangement with any other Person, whereby, directly or
indirectly, such Person is entitled to receive from time to time periodic
payments calculated by applying either a floating or a fixed rate of interest on
a stated notional amount in exchange for periodic payments made by such other
Person calculated by applying a fixed or a floating rate of interest on the same
notional amount and shall include, without limitation, interest rate swaps,
caps, floors, collars and similar agreements.
"Internal Revenue Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended to the date hereof and from time to time hereafter.
"Investment" means, with respect to any Person, any direct or
indirect loan or other extension of credit (including, without limitation, a
guarantee) or capital contribution to (by means of any transfer of cash or other
property to others or any payment for property or services for the account or
use of others), or any purchase or acquisition by such Person of any Capital
Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other securities or evidences of Indebtedness
issued by, any Person. "Investment" shall exclude extensions of trade credit by
the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries on commercially reasonable terms in
accordance with normal trade practices of the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be. For the purposes of Section 4.10, (i)
"Investment" shall include and be valued at the fair market value of the net
assets of any Restricted Subsidiary at the time that such Restricted Subsidiary
is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary and shall exclude the fair market value
of the net assets of any Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time that such
Unrestricted Subsidiary is designated a Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) the
amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus the
cost of all additional Investments by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, without any adjustments for increases or decreases in value, or
write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect to such Investment, reduced by
the payment of dividends or distributions in connection with such Investment or
any other amounts received in respect of such Investment; provided that no such
payment of dividends or distributions or receipt of any such other amounts shall
reduce the amount of any Investment if such payment of dividends or
distributions or receipt of any such amounts would be included in
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Consolidated Net Income. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company sells or otherwise disposes of any Common Stock of any direct or
indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the Company such that, after giving effect to
any such sale or disposition, the Company no longer owns, directly or
indirectly, 100% of the outstanding Common Stock of such Restricted Subsidiary,
the Company shall be deemed to have made an Investment on the date of any such
sale or disposition equal to the fair market value of the Common Stock of such
Restricted Subsidiary not sold or disposed of.
"Issue Date" means February 26, 1998.
"Legal Defeasance" has the meaning provided in Section 8.02.
"Legal Holiday" has the meaning provided in Section 11.07.
"Lien" means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, security
interest, charge or encumbrance of any kind (including any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof and any
agreement to give any security interest).
"Management Services Agreement" means the Management Services
Agreement between the Company and the Principal as in effect on the Issue Date.
"Maturity Date" means March 1, 2008.
"Net Cash Proceeds" means, with respect to any Asset Sale, the
proceeds in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents including payments in respect
of deferred payment obligations when received in the form of cash or Cash
Equivalents (other than the portion of any such deferred payment constituting
interest) received by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from
such Asset Sale net of (a) out-of-pocket expenses and fees relating to such
Asset Sale (including, without limitation, legal, accounting and investment
banking fees and sales commissions), (b) taxes paid or payable after taking into
account any reduction in consolidated tax liability due to available tax credits
or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements, (c) repayment of Indebtedness
that is required to be repaid in connection with such Asset Sale and (d)
appropriate amounts to be provided by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary,
as the case may be, as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any
liabilities associated with
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such Asset Sale and retained by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the
case may be, after such Asset Sale, including, without limitation, post-closing
adjustments, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities, liabilities
related to environmental matters and liabilities under any indemnification
obligations associated with such Asset Sale.
"Net Proceeds Offer" has the meaning provided in Section 4.16.
"Net Proceeds Offer Payment Date" has the meaning provided in
Section 4.16.
"Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date" has the meaning provided in
Section 4.16.
"New Revolving Credit Facility" means the credit agreement dated as
of the Issue Date, among the Company, the lenders party thereto in their
capacities as lenders thereunder and Bankers Trust Company, as agent, together
with the related documents thereto (including, without limitation, any guarantee
agreements and security documents), in each case as such agreements may be
amended (including any amendment and restatement thereof), supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, including any agreement extending the
maturity of, refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring (including,
without limitation, increasing the amount of available borrowings thereunder or
adding Subsidiaries of the Company as additional borrowers or guarantors
thereunder) all or any portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or any
successor or replacement agreement and whether by the same or any other agent,
lender or group of lenders.
"Non-U.S. Person" means a person who is not a U.S. person, as
defined in Regulation S.
"Notes" means the Initial Notes and the Exchange Notes and any other
notes issued after the Issue Date in accordance with clause (iii) of the fourth
paragraph of Section 2.02 treated as a single class of securities, as amended or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof, that are
issued pursuant to this Indenture.
"Obligations" means all obligations for principal, premium,
interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other
liabilities payable under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
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"Offering Memorandum" means the Offering Memorandum dated February
19, 1998, pursuant to which the Initial Notes were offered, and any supplement
thereto.
"Officer" means, with respect to any Person, the Chairman of the
Board, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, any Vice President, the Chief
Financial Officer, the Treasurer, the Controller, or the Secretary of such
Person, or any other officer designated by the Board of Directors serving in a
similar capacity.
"Officers' Certificate" means, with respect to any Person, a
certificate signed by two Officers or by an Officer and either an Assistant
Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary of such Person and otherwise complying with
the requirements of Sections 11.04 and 11.05, as they relate to the making of an
Officers' Certificate.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from legal counsel, who
may be counsel for the Company, and who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee
and not rendered by any employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates or
Subsidiaries complying with the requirements of Sections 11.04 and 11.05, as
they relate to the giving of an Opinion of Counsel.
"Paying Agent" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03.
"Permitted Holders" means the Principal and its Affiliates.
"Permitted Indebtedness" means, without duplication, each of the
following:
(i) Indebtedness under the Notes and the Exchange Notes issued in
exchange therefor in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $175.0
million;
(ii) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to the New Revolving Credit
Facility in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not to
exceed the greater of (a) $40.0 million and (b) the excess of (1) the sum
of 50% of the book value of the inventory of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries and 65% of the book value of the accounts
receivable of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries over (2) the
amount of Indebtedness of foreign Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company
outstanding pursuant to clause (xiv) below;
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(iii) other Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries outstanding on the Issue Date reduced by the amount of any
scheduled amortization payments or mandatory prepayments when actually
paid or permanent reductions thereon;
(iv) Interest Swap Obligations of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries covering Indebtedness of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, however, that such Interest Swap
Obligations are entered into to protect the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries from fluctuations in interest rates on Indebtedness incurred
in accordance with this Indenture to the extent the notional principal
amount of such Interest Swap Obligation does not exceed the principal
amount of the Indebtedness to which such Interest Swap Obligation relates;
(v) Indebtedness under Currency Agreements; provided that in the
case of Currency Agreements which relate to Indebtedness, such Currency
Agreements do not increase the Indebtedness of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding other than as a result of fluctuations
in foreign currency exchange rates or by reason of fees, indemnities and
compensation payable thereunder;
(vi) Indebtedness of a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company to the Company or to a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company for so long as such Indebtedness is held by the Company or a
Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, in each case subject to
no Lien (other than Liens permitted pursuant to Section 4.18) held by a
Person other than the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company; provided that if as of any date any Person other than the
Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company owns or
holds any such Indebtedness or holds a Lien (other than Liens permitted
pursuant to Section 4.18) in respect of such Indebtedness, such date shall
be deemed the incurrence of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted
Indebtedness by the issuer of such Indebtedness;
(vii) Indebtedness of the Company to a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company for so long as such Indebtedness is held by a
Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that (a) any
Indebtedness of the Company to any Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company is unsecured and subordinated, pursuant to a
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written agreement, to the Company's obligations under this Indenture and
the Notes and (b) if as of any date any Person other than a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company owns or holds any such Indebtedness
or any Person holds a Lien (other than Liens permitted pursuant to Section
4.18) in respect of such Indebtedness, such date shall be deemed the
incurrence of Indebtedness not constituting Permitted Indebtedness by the
Company;
(viii) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other
financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument
inadvertently (except in the case of daylight overdrafts) drawn against
insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business; provided, however,
that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five business days of
incurrence;
(ix) Indebtedness of the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries represented by letters of credit for the account of the
Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, in order to
provide security for workers' compensation claims, payment obligations in
connection with self-insurance or similar requirements in the ordinary
course of business;
(x) Indebtedness represented by Capitalized Lease Obligations and
Purchase Money Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries
incurred in the ordinary course of business not to exceed the greater of
$7.5 million and 5% of Consolidated Tangible Assets of the Company at any
one time outstanding;
(xi) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Company or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company providing for indemnification,
adjustment of purchase price, earn out or other similar obligations, in
each case incurred or assumed in connection with the disposition of any
business, assets or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in a principal
amount not to exceed the gross proceeds actually received by the Company
or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such disposition;
(xii) obligations in respect of performance and surety bonds and
completion guarantees provided by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company in the ordinary course of business;
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(xiii) guarantees by the Company and its Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiaries of each other's Indebtedness; provided that such Indebtedness
is permitted to be incurred under this Indenture, including with respect
to Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company, pursuant to
Section 4.19;
(xiv) Indebtedness of foreign Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company
incurred to finance working capital of such foreign Restricted
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not
to exceed the sum of 50% of the book value of the inventory of such
foreign Restricted Subsidiaries and 65% of the book value of the accounts
receivable of such foreign Restricted Subsidiaries;
(xv) Refinancing Indebtedness; and
(xvi) additional Indebtedness of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $20.0 million
at any one time outstanding (which amount may, but need not, be incurred
in whole or in part under the New Revolving Credit Facility).
"Permitted Investments" means: (i) Investments by the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company in any Person that is or will become
immediately after such Investment a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the
Company or that will merge or consolidate into the Company or a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; (ii) Investments in the Company by any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; provided that any Indebtedness evidencing
such Investment is unsecured and subordinated, pursuant to a written agreement,
to the Company's obligations under the Notes and this Indenture; (iii)
Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents; (iv) loans and advances to employees
and officers of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary
course of business for bona fide business purposes not in excess of $500,000 at
any one time outstanding; (v) Currency Agreements and Interest Swap Obligations
entered into in the ordinary course of the Company's or its Restricted
Subsidiaries' businesses and otherwise in compliance with this Indenture; (vi)
Investments not to exceed the greater of $7.5 million and 5% of Consolidated
Tangible Assets of the Company at the time of such Investment at any one time
outstanding; (vii) Investments in securities of trade creditors or customers
received pursuant to any plan of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the
bankruptcy or insolvency of such trade creditors or customers; (viii)
Investments made by the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result
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of consideration received in connection with an Asset Sale made in compliance
with Section 4.16; (ix) accounts receivable created or acquired in the ordinary
course of business; (x) guarantees (a) by the Company of Indebtedness otherwise
permitted to be incurred by Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company under this
Indenture or (b) permitted by Section 4.19; and (xi) Investments the payment for
which consists exclusively of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company.
"Permitted Liens" means the following types of Liens:
(i) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges or claims
either (a) not delinquent or (b) contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and as to which the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries
shall have set aside on its books such reserves as may be required
pursuant to GAAP;
(ii) statutory Liens of landlords and Liens of carriers,
warehousemen, mechanics, suppliers, materialmen, repairmen and other Liens
imposed by law incurred in the ordinary course of business for sums not
yet delinquent or being contested in good faith, if such reserve or other
appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required by GAAP shall have
been made in respect thereof;
(iii) Liens incurred or deposits made in the ordinary course of
business in connection with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance
and other types of social security, including any Lien securing letters of
credit issued in the ordinary course of business consistent with past
practice in connection therewith, or to secure the performance of tenders,
statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, bids, leases, government
contracts, performance and return-of-money bonds and other similar
obligations (exclusive of obligations for the payment of borrowed money);
(iv) judgment Liens not giving rise to an Event of Default;
(v) easements, rights-of-way, zoning restrictions and other similar
charges or encumbrances in respect of real property not interfering in any
material respect with the ordinary conduct of the business of the Company
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
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(vi) any interest or title of a lessor under any Capitalized Lease
Obligation; provided that such Liens do not extend to any property or
assets which is not leased property subject to such Capitalized Lease
Obligation;
(vii) Liens upon specific items of inventory or other goods and
proceeds of any Person securing such Person's obligations in respect of
bankers' acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to
facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or other
goods;
(viii) Liens securing reimbursement obligations with respect to
commercial letters of credit which encumber documents and other property
relating to such letters of credit and products and proceeds thereof;
(ix) Liens encumbering deposits made to secure obligations arising
from statutory, regulatory, contractual, or warranty requirements of the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, including rights of offset
and set-off;
(x) Liens securing Interest Swap Obligations which Interest Swap
Obligations relate to Indebtedness that is otherwise permitted under this
Indenture;
(xi) Liens securing Capitalized Lease Obligations and Purchase Money
Indebtedness permitted pursuant to clause (x) of the definition of
"Permitted Indebtedness"; provided, however, that in the case of Purchase
Money Indebtedness (A) the Indebtedness shall not exceed the cost of such
property or assets and shall not be secured by any property or assets of
the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company other than the
property and assets acquired or constructed and (B) the Lien securing such
Indebtedness shall be created within 180 days of such acquisition or
construction or, in the case of a refinancing of any Purchase Money
Indebtedness, within 180 days of such refinancing;
(xii) Liens securing Indebtedness under Currency Agreements;
(xiii) Liens securing Acquired Indebtedness incurred in accordance
with Section 4.12; provided that (A) such Liens secured such Acquired
Indebtedness at the time of and prior to the incurrence of such Acquired
Indebtedness by
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the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and were not granted
in connection with, or in anticipation of, the incurrence of such Acquired
Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Company and
(B) such Liens do not extend to or cover any property or assets of the
Company or of any of its Restricted Subsidiaries other than the property
or assets that secured the Acquired Indebtedness prior to the time such
Indebtedness became Acquired Indebtedness of the Company or a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company and are no more favorable to the lienholders
than those securing the Acquired Indebtedness prior to the incurrence of
such Acquired Indebtedness by the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company;
(xiv) Liens securing Indebtedness of foreign Restricted Subsidiaries
of the Company which Indebtedness is permitted to be incurred pursuant to
this Indenture;
(xv) Liens incurred in the ordinary course of business of the
Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company with respect to
obligations that do not in the aggregate exceed $2.0 million at any one
time outstanding;
(xvi) leases or subleases granted to others that do not materially
interfere with the ordinary course of business of the Company and its
Restricted Subsidiaries;
(xvii) Liens arising from filing Uniform Commercial Code financing
statements regarding leases;
(xviii) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as
a matter of law to secure payment of custom duties in connection with the
importation of goods; and
(xix) Liens existing on the Issue Date, together with any Liens
securing Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in order to refinance the
Indebtedness secured by Liens existing on the Issue Date; provided that
the Liens securing the Refinancing Indebtedness shall not extend to
property other than that pledged under the Liens securing the Indebtedness
being refinanced.
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation,
unincorporated organization, trust or joint venture, or a governmental agency or
political subdivision thereof.
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"Physical Notes" has the meaning provided in Section 2.01.
"preferred stock" of any Person means any Capital Stock of such
Person that has preferential rights to any other Capital Stock of such Person
with respect to dividends or redemptions or upon liquidation.
"Preferred Stock" means the Company's 12 1/2% Senior Exchangeable
Preferred Stock.
"principal" of any Indebtedness (including the Notes) means the
principal amount of such Indebtedness plus the premium when due, if any, on such
Indebtedness.
"Principal" means Cornerstone Equity Investors, L.L.C.
"Private Placement Legend" means the legend initially set forth on
the Notes in the form set forth in the first paragraph of Section 2.15.
"Proceeds Purchase Date" has the meaning provided in Section 4.16.
"pro forma" means, with respect to any calculation made or required
to be made pursuant to the terms of this Indenture, a calculation in accordance
with Article 11 of Regulation S-X under the Securities Act, as determined by the
Board of Directors of the Company.
"Public Equity Offering" means an underwritten public offering of
Qualified Capital Stock of the Company pursuant to a registration statement
filed with the SEC in accordance with the Securities Act.
"Purchase Money Indebtedness" means Indebtedness of the Company and
its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred in the normal course of business for the
purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price, or the cost of
installation, construction or improvement, of property or equipment.
"Qualified Capital Stock" means any Capital Stock that is not
Disqualified Capital Stock.
"Qualified Institutional Buyer" or "QIB" shall have the meaning
specified in Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
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"Recapitalization" means the recapitalization of the Company on the
Issue Date pursuant to the Amended and Restated Recapitalization Agreement dated
as of February 1, 1998, as amended, by and among Micron Electronics, Inc., MEI
California, Inc. Cornerstone Equity Investors, IV, L.P. and the Company.
"Record Date" means the Record Dates specified in the Notes, whether
or not a Legal Holiday.
"Redemption Date," when used with respect to any Note to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption pursuant to this Indenture
and the Notes.
"Redemption Price," when used with respect to any Note to be
redeemed, means the price fixed for such redemption pursuant to this Indenture
and the Notes.
"Reference Date" has the meaning provided in Section 4.10.
"Refinance" means, in respect of any security or Indebtedness, to
refinance, extend, renew, refund, repay, prepay, redeem, defease or retire, or
to issue a security or Indebtedness in exchange or replacement for, such
security or Indebtedness in whole or in part. "Refinanced" and "Refinancing"
shall have correlative meanings.
"Refinancing Indebtedness" means any Refinancing by the Company or
any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company of (A) for purposes of clause (xv) of
the definition of Permitted Indebtedness, Indebtedness incurred in accordance
with Section 4.12 (other than pursuant to clauses (ii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii),
(viii), (ix), (x), (xi), (xii), (xiii), (xiv) or (xvi) of the definition of
"Permitted Indebtedness") or (B) for any other purpose, Indebtedness incurred in
accordance with Section 4.12, in each case that does not (1) result in an
increase in the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of such Person as of
the date of such proposed Refinancing (plus the amount of any premium required
to be paid under the terms of the instrument governing such Indebtedness and
plus the amount of reasonable expenses incurred by the Company in connection
with such Refinancing) except to the extent such increase is otherwise permitted
to be incurred under this Indenture or (2) create Indebtedness with a Weighted
Average Life to Maturity that is less than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity
of the Indebtedness being Refinanced; provided that (x) if such Indebtedness
being Refinanced is Indebtedness solely of the Company, then such Refinancing
Indebtedness shall be In-
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debtedness solely of the Company and (y) if such Indebtedness being Refinanced
is subordinate or junior to the Notes, then such Refinancing Indebtedness is
subordinate or junior to the Notes at least to the same extent and in the same
manner as the Indebtedness being Refinanced.
"Registrar" has the meaning provided in Section 2.03.
"Registration Rights Agreement" means the Registration Rights
Agreement dated February 26, 1998 between the Company and the Initial Purchaser,
as the same may be amended or modified from time to time in accordance with the
terms thereof.
"Regulation S" means Regulation S under the Securities Act.
"Replacement Assets" has the meaning provided in Section 4.16.
"Representative" means the indenture trustee or other trustee, agent
or representative in respect of any Designated Senior Debt; provided that if,
and for so long as, any Designated Senior Debt lacks such a representative, then
the Representative for such Designated Senior Debt shall at all times constitute
the holders of a majority in outstanding principal amount of such Designated
Senior Debt in respect of any Designated Senior Debt.
"Restricted Payment" has the meaning provided in Section 4.10.
"Restricted Security" has the meaning assigned to such term in Rule
144(a)(3) under the Securities Act; provided that the Trustee shall be entitled
to request and conclusively rely on an Opinion of Counsel with respect to
whether any Note constitutes a Restricted Security.
"Restricted Subsidiary" of any Person means any Subsidiary of such
Person which at the time of determination is not an Unrestricted Subsidiary.
"Rule 144A" means Rule 144A under the Securities Act.
"Sale and Leaseback Transaction" means any direct or indirect
arrangement with any Person or to which any such Person is a party, providing
for the leasing to the Company or a Restricted Subsidiary of any property,
whether owned by the
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Company or any Restricted Subsidiary at the Issue Date or later acquired, which
has been or is to be sold or transferred by the Company or such Restricted
Subsidiary to such Person or to any other Person from whom funds have been or
are to be advanced by such Person on the security of such Property.
"SEC" means the Securities and Exchange Commission.
"Securities Act" means, the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or
any successor statute or statutes thereto.
"Senior Debt" means the principal of, premium, if any, and interest
(including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition of
bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with respect thereto,
whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under applicable law) on any
Indebtedness of the Company, whether outstanding on the Issue Date or thereafter
created, incurred or assumed, unless, in the case of any particular
Indebtedness, the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding expressly provides that such Indebtedness shall
not be senior in right of payment to the Notes. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, "Senior Debt" shall also include the principal of, premium, if
any, interest (including any interest accruing subsequent to the filing of a
petition of bankruptcy at the rate provided for in the documentation with
respect thereto, whether or not such interest is an allowed claim under
applicable law) on, and all other amounts owing in respect of, (x) all monetary
obligations (including guarantees thereof) of every nature of the Company under
the New Revolving Credit Facility, including, without limitation, obligations to
pay principal and interest, reimbursement obligations under letters of credit,
fees, expenses and indemnities, (y) all Interest Swap Obligations (including
guarantees thereof) and (z) all obligations (including guarantees thereof) under
Currency Agreements, in each case whether outstanding on the Issue Date or
thereafter incurred. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Senior Debt shall not
include (i) any Indebtedness of the Company to a Subsidiary of the Company or
any Affiliate of the Company or any of such Affiliate's Subsidiaries, (ii)
Indebtedness to, or guaranteed on behalf of, any shareholder, director, officer
or employee of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company (including, without
limitation, amounts owed for compensation), (iii) Indebtedness to trade
creditors and other amounts incurred in connection with obtaining goods,
materials or services, (iv) Indebtedness represented by Disqualified Capital
Stock, (v) any liability for federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing
by the Company, (vi) that portion of
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any Indebtedness incurred in violation of the provisions set forth under Section
4.12 (but, as to any such obligation, no such violation shall be deemed to exist
for purposes of this clause (vi) if the holder(s) of such obligation or their
representative and the Trustee shall have received an Officers' Certificate of
the Company to the effect that the incurrence of such Indebtedness does not (or,
in the case of revolving credit indebtedness, that the incurrence of the entire
committed amount thereof at the date on which the initial borrowing thereunder
is made would not) violate such provisions of this Indenture), (vii)
Indebtedness which, when incurred and without respect to any election under
Section 1111(b) of Title 11, United States Code, is without recourse to the
Company and (viii) any Indebtedness which is, by its express terms, subordinated
in right of payment to any other Indebtedness of the Company including the
Exchange Debentures.
"Significant Subsidiary", with respect to any Person, means any
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person that satisfies the criteria for a
"significant subsidiary" set forth in Rule 1.02(w) of Regulation S-X under the
Securities Act.
"Subsidiary", with respect to any Person, means (i) any corporation
of which the outstanding Capital Stock having at least a majority of the votes
entitled to be cast in the election of directors under ordinary circumstances
shall at the time be owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or (ii) any
other Person of which at least a majority of the voting interest under ordinary
circumstances is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by such Person.
"Surviving Entity" has the meaning provided in Section 5.01.
"TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. ss.ss.
77aaa-77bbbb), as amended, as in effect on the date of this Indenture, except as
otherwise provided in Section 9.04.
"Trust Officer" means any officer of the Trustee assigned by the
Trustee to administer this Indenture, or in the case of a successor trustee, an
officer assigned to the department, division or group performing the corporation
trust work of such successor and assigned to administer this Indenture.
"Trustee" means the party named as such in this Indenture until a
successor replaces it in accordance with the
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provisions of this Indenture and thereafter means such successor.
"Unrestricted Subsidiary" of any Person means (i) any Subsidiary of
such Person that at the time of determination shall be or continue to be
designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of such Person
in the manner provided below and (ii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted
Subsidiary. The Board of Directors may designate any Subsidiary (including any
newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary) to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary
unless such Subsidiary owns any Capital Stock of, or owns or holds any Lien on
any property of, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company that is not
a Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so designated; provided that (x) the
Company certifies to the Trustee that such designation complies with Section
4.10 and (y) each Subsidiary to be so designated and each of its Subsidiaries
has not at the time of designation, and does not thereafter, create, incur,
issue, assume, guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable with
respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of
the assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries. The Board of
Directors may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted
Subsidiary only if (x) immediately after giving effect to such designation, the
Company is able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than
Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.12 and (y) immediately
before and immediately after giving effect to such designation, no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing. Any such designation by
the Board of Directors shall be evidenced to the Trustee by promptly filing with
the Trustee a copy of the Board Resolution giving effect to such designation and
an Officers' Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the
foregoing provisions.
"U.S. Government Obligations" means direct obligations of, and
obligations guaranteed by, the United States of America for the payment of which
the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged.
"U.S. Legal Tender" means such coin or currency of the United States
of America as at the time of payment shall be legal tender for the payment of
public and private debts.
"Weighted Average Life to Maturity" means, when applied to any
Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (a) the then
outstanding aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness into (b) the sum of
the total of
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the products obtained by multiplying (i) the amount of each then remaining
installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment of
principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (ii) the
number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) which will elapse
between such date and the making of such payment.
"Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary" of any Person means any
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person of which all the outstanding voting
securities (other than in the case of a foreign Restricted Subsidiary,
directors' qualifying shares or an immaterial amount of shares required to be
owned by other Persons pursuant to applicable law) are owned by such Person or
any Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of such Person.
SECTION 1.02. Incorporation by Reference of TIA.
Whenever this Indenture refers to a provision of the TIA, such
provision is incorporated by reference in, and made a part of, this Indenture.
The following TIA terms used in this Indenture have the following meanings:
"indenture securities" means the Notes.
"indenture security holder" means a Holder or a Noteholder.
"indenture to be qualified" means this Indenture.
"indenture trustee" or "institutional trustee" means the Trustee.
"obligor" on the Notes means the Company or any other obligor on the
Notes.
All other TIA terms used in this Indenture that are defined by the
TIA, defined by TIA reference to another statute or defined by SEC rule and not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to them therein.
SECTION 1.03. Rules of Construction.
Unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) a term has the meaning assigned to it;
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(2) an accounting term not otherwise defined has the meaning
assigned to it in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof;
(3) "or" is not exclusive;
(4) words in the singular include the plural, and words in the
plural include the singular; and
(5) "herein," "hereof" and other words of similar import refer to
this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or
other subdivision.
ARTICLE TWO
THE NOTES
SECTION 2.01. Form and Dating.
The Initial Notes and the Trustee's certificate of authentication
relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibits A-1 and A-2
hereto. The Exchange Notes and the Trustee's certificate of authentication
relating thereto shall be substantially in the form of Exhibits B-1 and B-2
hereto. The Notes may have notations, legends or endorsements required by law,
stock exchange rule or depository rule or usage. The Company and the Trustee
shall approve the form of the Notes and any notation, legend or endorsement on
them. Each Note shall be dated the date of its issuance and shall show the date
of its authentication.
The terms and provisions contained in the Notes, annexed hereto as
Exhibits A-1 and A-2, and B-1 and B-2, shall constitute, and are hereby
expressly made, a part of this Indenture and, to the extent applicable, the
Company and the Trustee, by their execution and delivery of this Indenture,
expressly agree to such terms and provisions and to be bound thereby.
Notes offered and sold in reliance on Rule 144A shall be issued
initially in the form of one or more permanent global Notes in registered form,
substantially in the form set forth in Exhibits A-1 and A-2 (the "Global
Notes"), deposited with the Trustee, as custodian for the Depository, duly
executed by the Company and authenticated by the Trustee as hereinafter provided
and shall bear the legends set forth in Section 2.15.
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The aggregate principal amount of the Global Notes may from time to time be
increased or decreased by adjustments made on the records of the Trustee, as
custodian for the Depository, as hereinafter provided.
Notes issued in exchange for interests in the Global Notes pursuant
to Section 2.16 may be issued in the form of permanent certificated Notes in
registered form (the "Physical Notes") and shall bear the first legend set forth
in Section 2.15. All Notes offered and sold in reliance on Regulation S shall
remain in the form of a Global Note until the consummation of the Exchange Offer
pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement.
SECTION 2.02. Execution and Authentication; Aggregate Principal
Amount.
Two Officers, or an Officer and an Assistant Secretary, shall sign,
or one Officer shall sign and one Officer or an Assistant Secretary (each of
whom shall, in each case, have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate
actions) shall attest to, the Notes for the Company by manual or facsimile
signature. The Company's seal shall also be reproduced on the Notes.
If an Officer or Assistant Secretary whose signature is on a Note
was an Officer or Assistant Secretary at the time of such execution but no
longer holds that office or position at the time the Trustee authenticates the
Note, the Note shall nevertheless be valid.
A Note shall not be valid until an authorized signatory of the
Trustee manually signs the certificate of authentication on the Note. The
signature shall be conclusive evidence that the Note has been authenticated
under this Indenture.
The Trustee shall authenticate (i) Initial Notes for original issue
on the Issue Date in the aggregate principal amount not to exceed $175,000,000,
(ii) on or prior to the date of the Exchange Offer, Exchange Notes from time to
time for issue only in exchange for a like principal amount of Initial Notes and
(iii) one or more series of 9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 and one or
more series of Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities due 2008 for
original issue after the Issue Date (such Notes to be substantially in the form
of Exhibits A-1 or A-2, as the case may be or Exhibits B-1 or B-2, as the case
may be) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $100,000,000, (and if in
the form of Ex-
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hibit A-1 or A-2, as the case may be, the same principal amount of Notes in
exchange therefor upon consummation of a registered exchange offer) in each case
upon written orders of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate. In
each case, the Officers' Certificate shall specify the amount of Notes to be
authenticated, the date on which the Notes are to be authenticated and the
aggregate principal amount of Notes outstanding on the date of authentication,
whether the Notes are to be Initial Notes, Exchange Notes or Notes issued under
clause (iii) of the preceding sentence, and shall further specify the amount of
such Notes to be issued as a Global Note or Physical Notes. The aggregate
principal amount of Notes outstanding at any time may not exceed $275,000,000,
except as provided in Section 2.07 and 2.08. The maximum denomination of a
Global Note certificate shall be $100,000,000.
In the event that the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall
authenticate any Notes issued under this Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date
pursuant to clause (ii) or (iii) of the first sentence of the immediately
preceding paragraph, the Company shall use its reasonable efforts to obtain the
same "CUSIP" number for such Notes as is printed on the Notes outstanding at
such time; provided, however, that if any series of Notes issued under this
Indenture subsequent to the Issue Date is either determined, pursuant to an
Opinion of Counsel of the Company in a form reasonably satisfactory to the
Trustee or deemed under standard practices to be a different class of security
than the Notes outstanding at such time for federal income tax purposes, the
Company shall obtain a "CUSIP" number for such Notes that is different than the
"CUSIP" number printed on the Notes then outstanding.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, all Notes issued under this Indenture
shall vote and consent together on all matters (as to which any of such Notes
may vote or consent) as one class and no series of Notes will have the right to
vote or consent as a separate class on any matter.
The Trustee may appoint an authenticating agent (the "Authenticating
Agent") reasonably acceptable to the Company to authenticate Notes. Unless
otherwise provided in the appointment, an Authenticating Agent may authenticate
Notes whenever the Trustee may do so. Each reference in this Indenture to
authentication by the Trustee includes authentication by such Authenticating
Agent. An Authenticating Agent has the same rights as an Agent to deal with the
Company or with any Affiliate of the Company.
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The Notes shall be issuable in fully registered form only, without
coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof.
SECTION 2.03. Registrar and Paying Agent.
The Company shall maintain an office or agency (which shall be
located in the Borough of Manhattan in the City of New York, State of New York)
where (a) Notes may be presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
for exchange ("Registrar"), (b) Notes may be presented or surrendered for
payment ("Paying Agent") and (c) notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Notes and this Indenture may be served. The Registrar shall keep
a register of the Notes and of their transfer and exchange. The Company, upon
prior written notice to the Trustee, may have one or more co-Registrars and one
or more additional paying agents reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. The term
"Paying Agent" includes any additional Paying Agent. Neither the Company nor any
Affiliate of the Company may act as Paying Agent.
The Company shall enter into an appropriate agency agreement with
any Agent not a party to this Indenture, which agreement shall incorporate the
provisions of the TIA and implement the provisions of this Indenture that relate
to such Agent. The Company shall notify the Trustee, in advance, of the name and
address of any such Agent. If the Company fails to maintain a Registrar or
Paying Agent, or fails to give the foregoing notice, the Trustee shall act as
such.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee as Registrar, Paying
Agent, Calculation Agent and agent for service of demands and notices in
connection with the Notes, until such time as the Trustee has resigned or a
successor has been appointed. The Paying Agent or Registrar may resign upon 30
days notice to the Company.
SECTION 2.04. Paying Agent To Hold Assets in Trust.
The Company shall require each Paying Agent other than the Trustee
to agree in writing that each Paying Agent shall hold in trust for the benefit
of the Holders or the Trustee all assets held by the Paying Agent for the
payment of principal of, or interest on, the Notes (whether such assets have
been distributed to it by the Company or any other obligor on the Notes), and
the Company and the Paying Agent shall notify the Trustee of any Default by the
Company (or any other
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obligor on the Notes) in making any such payment. The Company at any time may
require a Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and
account for any assets disbursed and the Trustee may at any time during the
continuance of any payment Default, upon written request to a Paying Agent,
require such Paying Agent to distribute all assets held by it to the Trustee and
to account for any assets distributed. Upon distribution to the Trustee of all
assets that shall have been delivered by the Company to the Paying Agent, the
Paying Agent shall have no further liability for such assets.
SECTION 2.05. Noteholder Lists.
The Trustee shall preserve in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable the most recent list available to it of the names and addresses of
the Holders. If the Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish or
cause the Registrar to furnish to the Trustee five (5) Business Days before each
Record Date and at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing a list
as of such date and in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require of the
names and addresses of the Holders, which list may be conclusively relied upon
by the Trustee.
SECTION 2.06. Transfer and Exchange.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 2.15 and 2.16, when Notes are
presented to the Registrar or a co-Registrar with a request to register the
transfer of such Notes or to exchange such Notes for an equal principal amount
of Notes of other authorized denominations, the Registrar or co-Registrar shall
register the transfer or make the exchange as requested if its requirements for
such transaction are met; provided, however, that the Notes presented or
surrendered for registration of transfer or exchange shall be duly endorsed or
accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the
Company and the Registrar or co-Registrar, duly executed by the Holder thereof
or his attorney duly authorized in writing. To permit registrations of transfer
and exchanges, the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate
Notes at the Registrar's or co-Registrar's request. No service charge shall be
made for any registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require
payment of a sum sufficient to cover any transfer tax or similar governmental
charge payable in connection therewith (other than any such transfer taxes or
similar governmental charge payable upon exchanges or transfers pursuant to
Sections 2.10, 3.06, 4.15, 4.16 or 9.06,
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in which event the Company shall be responsible for the payment of such taxes).
The Registrar or co-Registrar shall not be required to register the
transfer of or exchange of any Note (i) during a period beginning at the opening
of business 15 days before the mailing of a notice of redemption of Notes and
ending at the close of business on the day of such mailing and (ii) selected for
redemption in whole or in part pursuant to Article Three, except the unredeemed
portion of any Note being redeemed in part.
Any Holder of the Global Note shall, by acceptance of such Global
Note, agree that transfers of beneficial interests in such Global Notes may be
effected only through a book entry system maintained by the Holder of such
Global Note (or its agent), and that ownership of a beneficial interest in the
Note shall be required to be reflected in a book entry.
SECTION 2.07. Replacement Notes.
If a mutilated Note is surrendered to the Trustee or if the Holder
of a Note claims that the Note has been lost, destroyed or wrongfully taken, the
Company shall issue and the Trustee shall authenticate a replacement Note if the
Trustee's requirements are met. If required by the Trustee or the Company, such
Holder must provide an affidavit of lost certificate and an indemnity bond or
other indemnity, sufficient in the judgment of both the Company and the Trustee,
to protect the Company, the Trustee or any Agent from any loss which any of them
may suffer if a Note is replaced. The Company may charge such Holder for its
reasonable, out-of-pocket expenses in replacing a Note, including reasonable
fees and expenses of counsel. Every replacement Note shall constitute an
additional obligation of the Company.
SECTION 2.08. Outstanding Notes.
Notes outstanding at any time are all the Notes that have been
authenticated by the Trustee except those canceled by it, those delivered to it
for cancellation and those described in this Section as not outstanding. Subject
to the provisions of Section 2.09, a Note does not cease to be outstanding
because the Company or any of its Affiliates holds the Note.
If a Note is replaced pursuant to Section 2.07 (other than a
mutilated Note surrendered for replacement), it ceases to be outstanding unless
the Trustee receives an Opinion of
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Counsel that the replaced Note is held by a bona fide purchaser. A mutilated
Note ceases to be outstanding upon surrender of such Note and replacement
thereof pursuant to Section 2.07.
If on a Redemption Date or the Maturity Date the Paying Agent holds
U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations sufficient to pay all of the
principal and interest due on the Notes payable on that date and is not
prohibited from paying such money to the Holders thereof pursuant to the terms
of this Indenture, then on and after that date such Notes cease to be
outstanding and interest on them ceases to accrue.
SECTION 2.09. Treasury Notes.
In determining whether the Holders of the required principal amount
of Notes have concurred in any direction, waiver, consent or notice, Notes owned
by the Company or any of its Affiliates shall be considered as though they are
not outstanding, except that for the purposes of determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying on any such direction, waiver or consent, only
Notes which a Trust Officer of the Trustee actually knows are so owned shall be
so considered. The Company shall notify the Trustee, in writing, when it or any
of its Affiliates repurchases or otherwise acquires Notes, of the aggregate
principal amount of such Notes so repurchased or otherwise acquired.
SECTION 2.10. Temporary Notes.
Until definitive Notes are ready for delivery, the Company may
prepare and the Trustee shall authenticate temporary Notes upon receipt of a
written order of the Company in the form of an Officers' Certificate. The
Officers' Certificate shall specify the amount of temporary Notes to be
authenticated and the date on which the temporary Notes are to be authenticated.
Temporary Notes shall be substantially in the form of definitive Notes but may
have variations that the Company considers appropriate for temporary Notes.
Without unreasonable delay, the Company shall prepare and the Trustee shall
authenticate upon receipt of a written order of the Company pursuant to Section
2.02 definitive Notes in exchange for temporary Notes.
SECTION 2.11. Cancellation.
The Company at any time may deliver Notes to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Registrar and the Paying Agent
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shall forward to the Trustee any Notes surrendered to them for transfer,
exchange or payment. The Trustee, or at the direction of the Trustee, the
Registrar or the Paying Agent, and no one else, shall cancel and, at the written
direction of the Company, shall dispose of all Notes surrendered for transfer,
exchange, payment or cancellation. Subject to Section 2.07, the Company may not
issue new Notes to replace Notes that it has paid or delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation. If the Company shall acquire any of the Notes, such
acquisition shall not operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the
Indebtedness represented by such Notes unless and until the same are surrendered
to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to this Section 2.11.
SECTION 2.12. Defaulted Interest.
If the Company defaults in a payment of interest on the Notes, it
shall pay the defaulted interest, plus (to the extent lawful) any interest
payable on the defaulted interest at the rate of interest then borne by the
Fixed Rate Notes or Floating Rate Notes, as the case may be, to the Persons who
are Holders on a subsequent special record date, which date shall be the
fifteenth day next preceding the date fixed by the Company for the payment of
defaulted interest or the next succeeding Business Day if such date is not a
Business Day. At least 15 days before the subsequent special record date, the
Company shall mail to each Holder, as of a recent date selected by the Company,
with a copy to the Trustee, a notice that states the subsequent special record
date, the payment date and the amount of defaulted interest, and interest
payable on such defaulted interest, if any, to be paid.
SECTION 2.13. CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Notes may use one or more "CUSIP"
numbers, and if so, the Trustee shall use the CUSIP numbers in notices of
redemption or exchange as a convenience to Holders; provided that no
representation is hereby deemed to be made by the Trustee as to the correctness
or accuracy of the CUSIP number printed in the notice or on the Notes, and that
reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed on the
Notes. The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the CUSIP
numbers.
SECTION 2.14. Deposit of Moneys.
Prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each Interest Payment Date
and on the Maturity Date, the Company shall
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have deposited with the Paying Agent in immediately available funds money
sufficient to make cash payments, if any, due on such Interest Payment Date or
Maturity Date, as the case may be, in a timely manner which permits the Paying
Agent to remit payment to the Holders on such Interest Payment Date or Maturity
Date, as the case may be.
SECTION 2.15. Restrictive Legends.
Each Global Note and Physical Note that constitutes a Restricted
Security or is sold in compliance with Regulation S shall bear the following
legend (the "Private Placement Legend") on the face thereof until after the
second anniversary of the later of the Issue Date and the last date on which the
Company or any Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such Note (or any
predecessor security) (or such shorter period of time as permitted by Rule
144(k) under the Securities Act or any successor provision thereunder) (or such
longer period of time as may be required under the Securities Act or applicable
state securities laws in the opinion of counsel for the Company, unless
otherwise agreed by the Company and the Holder thereof):
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE U.S. SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE
OFFERED OR SOLD WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OR
BENEFIT OF, U.S. PERSONS EXCEPT AS SET FORTH BELOW. BY ITS ACQUISITION
HEREOF, THE HOLDER (1) REPRESENTS THAT (A) IT IS A "QUALIFIED
INSTITUTIONAL BUYER" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) OR
(B) IT IS AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3)
or (7) UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR") OR (C) IT IS
NOT A U.S. PERSON AND IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY IN AN OFFSHORE
TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (2)
AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS TWO YEARS AFTER THE
ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF THIS SECURITY RESELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER THIS
SECURITY EXCEPT (A) TO THE COMPANY THEREOF OR ANY SUBSIDIARY THEREOF, (B)
INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER IN COMPLIANCE
WITH RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT, (C) INSIDE THE UNITED STATES TO
AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" (AS DEFINED IN RULE 501(a)(1), (2), (3) OR (7)
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT) (AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR") THAT, PRIOR TO SUCH
TRANSFER, FURNISHES (OR HAS FURNISHED ON ITS BEHALF BY A U.S.
BROKER-DEALER) TO THE TRUSTEE A SIGNED
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LETTER CONTAINING CERTAIN REPRESENTATIONS AND AGREEMENTS RELATING TO THE
RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY (THE FORM OF WHICH LETTER CAN BE
OBTAINED FROM THE TRUSTEE FOR THIS SECURITY), (D) OUTSIDE THE UNITED
STATES IN AN OFFSHORE TRANSACTION IN COMPLIANCE WITH RULE 904 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT, (E) PURSUANT TO THE EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION PROVIDED
BY RULE 144 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT (IF AVAILABLE), OR (F) PURSUANT TO AN
EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT AND (3) AGREES
THAT IT WILL GIVE TO EACH PERSON TO WHOM THIS SECURITY IS TRANSFERRED A
NOTICE SUBSTANTIALLY TO THE EFFECT OF THIS LEGEND. IN CONNECTION WITH ANY
TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY WITHIN TWO YEARS AFTER THE ORIGINAL ISSUANCE OF
THIS SECURITY, IF THE PROPOSED TRANSFEREE IS AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, THE
HOLDER MUST, PRIOR TO SUCH TRANSFER, FURNISH TO THE TRUSTEE AND THE
COMPANY SUCH CERTIFICATIONS, LEGAL OPINIONS OR OTHER INFORMATION AS EITHER
OF THEM MAY REASONABLY REQUIRE TO CONFIRM THAT SUCH TRANSFER IS BEING MADE
PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. AS USED HEREIN, THE TERMS
"OFFSHORE TRANSACTION," "UNITED STATES" AND "U.S. PERSON" HAVE THE MEANING
GIVEN TO THEM BY REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT.
Each Global Note shall also bear the following legend on the face
thereof:
UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES
IN DEFINITIVE FORM, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE
BY THE DEPOSITORY TO A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITORY, OR BY ANY SUCH NOMINEE
OF THE DEPOSITORY, OR BY THE DEPOSITORY OR NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITORY OR ANY SUCH NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY OR A NOMINEE OF
SUCH SUCCESSOR DEPOSITORY. UNLESS THIS CERTIFICATE IS PRESENTED BY AN
AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DEPOSITORY TRUST COMPANY, A NEW YORK
CORPORATION ("DTC"), TO THE COMPANY OR ITS AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF
TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY CERTIFICATE ISSUED IS REGISTERED IN
THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR SUCH OTHER NAME AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED
REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE & CO. OR TO
SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC),
ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
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OTHERWISE BY OR TO ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL INASMUCH AS THE REGISTERED OWNER
HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN INTEREST HEREIN.
TRANSFERS OF THIS GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS IN
WHOLE, BUT NOT IN PART, TO NOMINEES OF CEDE & CO. OR TO A SUCCESSOR
THEREOF OR SUCH SUCCESSOR'S NOMINEE AND TRANSFERS OF PORTIONS OF THIS
GLOBAL SECURITY SHALL BE LIMITED TO TRANSFERS MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
RESTRICTIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION 2.17 OF THE INDENTURE GOVERNING THIS
NOTE.
SECTION 2.16. Book-Entry Provisions for Global Security.
(a) The Global Note initially shall (i) be registered in the name of
the Depository or the nominee of such Depository, (ii) be delivered to the
Trustee as custodian for such Depository and (iii) bear legends as set forth in
Section 2.15.
Members of, or participants in, the Depository ("Agent Members")
shall have no rights under this Indenture with respect to any Global Note held
on their behalf by the Depository, or the Trustee as its custodian, or under the
Global Note, and the Depository may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and
any agent of the Company or the Trustee as the absolute owner of the Global Note
for all purposes whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall
prevent the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company or the Trustee from
giving effect to any written certification, proxy or other authorization
furnished by the Depository or impair, as between the Depository and its Agent
Members, the operation of customary practices governing the exercise of the
rights of a holder of any Note.
(b) Transfers of the Global Note shall be limited to transfers in
whole, but not in part, to the Depository, its successors or their respective
nominees. Interests of beneficial owners in the Global Note may be transferred
or, subject to Section 2.01, exchanged for Physical Notes in accordance with the
rules and procedures of the Depository and the provisions of Section 2.17. In
addition, Physical Notes shall be transferred to all beneficial owners in
exchange for their beneficial interests in the Global Note if (i) the Depository
notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depository
for the Global Note and a successor depositary is not appointed by the Company
within 90 days of such notice or
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(ii) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the Registrar has
received a written request from the Depository to issue Physical Notes.
(c) In connection with any transfer or exchange of a portion of the
beneficial interest in the Global Note to beneficial owners pursuant to
paragraph (b), the Registrar shall (if one or more Physical Notes are to be
issued) reflect on its books and records the date and a decrease in the
principal amount of the Global Note in an amount equal to the principal amount
of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be transferred, and the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, one or more
Physical Notes of like tenor and amount.
(d) In connection with the transfer of the entire Global Note to
beneficial owners pursuant to paragraph (b), the Global Note shall be deemed to
be surrendered to the Trustee for cancellation, and the Company shall execute,
and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, to each beneficial owner
identified by the Depository in exchange for its beneficial interest in the
Global Note, an equal aggregate principal amount of Physical Notes of authorized
denominations.
(e) Any Physical Note constituting a Restricted Security delivered
in exchange for an interest in the Global Note pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c)
shall, except as otherwise provided by paragraphs (a)(i)(x) and (c) of Section
2.17, bear the legend regarding transfer restrictions applicable to the Physical
Notes set forth in Section 2.15.
(f) The Holder of the Global Note may grant proxies and otherwise
authorize any person, including Agent Members and persons that may hold
interests through Agent Members, to take any action which a Holder is entitled
to take under this Indenture or the Notes.
SECTION 2.17. Special Transfer Provisions.
(a) Transfers to Non-QIB Institutional Accredited Investors and
Non-U.S. Persons. The following provisions shall apply with respect to the
registration of any proposed transfer of a Note constituting a Restricted
Security to any Institutional Accredited Investor which is not a QIB or to any
Non-U.S. Person:
(i) the Registrar shall register the transfer of any Note
constituting a Restricted Security, whether or not
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such Note bears the Private Placement Legend, if (x) the transferee is not
an Affiliate of the Company and the requested transfer is after the second
anniversary of the later of the (a) Issue Date and (b) the last date on
which the Company or an Affiliate of the Company was the owner of such
Note (or any predecessor security) or such shorter period of time as
permitted by Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act or any successor
provision thereunder or (y) (1) in the case of a transfer to an
Institutional Accredited Investor which is not a QIB (excluding Non-U.S.
Persons), the proposed transferee has delivered to the Registrar a
certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit C hereto or (2) in the
case of a transfer to a Non-U.S. Person, the proposed transferor has
delivered to the Registrar a certificate substantially in the form of
Exhibit D hereto and such other information that the Trustee may
reasonably request in order to confirm that such transaction is being made
pursuant to an exemption from or in a transaction not subject to the
registration requirements of the Securities Act; and
(ii) if the proposed transferor is an Agent Member holding a
beneficial interest in the Global Note, the Registrar shall register the
transfer of any Note constituting a Restricted Security, whether or not
such Note bears a Private Placement Legend upon receipt by the Registrar
of (x) the certificate, if any, required by paragraph (i) above and (y)
instructions given in accordance with the Depository's and the Registrar's
procedures,
whereupon (a) the Registrar shall reflect on its books and records the date and
(if the transfer does not involve a transfer of outstanding Physical Notes) a
decrease in the principal amount of the Global Note in an amount equal to the
principal amount of the beneficial interest in the Global Note to be
transferred, and (b) the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall
authenticate and deliver one or more Physical Notes of like tenor and amount.
(b) Transfers to QIBs. The following provisions shall apply with
respect to the registration of any proposed transfer of a Note constituting a
Restricted Security to a QIB (excluding transfers to Non-U.S. Persons):
(i) the Registrar shall register the transfer if such transfer is
being made by a proposed transferor who has checked the box provided for
on the form of Note stating, or has otherwise advised the Company and the
Regis-
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trar in writing, that the sale has been made in compliance with the
provisions of Rule 144A to a transferee who has signed the certification
provided for on the form of Note stating, or has otherwise advised the
Company and the Registrar in writing, that it is purchasing the Note for
its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a QIB within the
meaning of Rule 144A, and is aware that the sale to it is being made in
reliance on Rule 144A and acknowledges that it has received such
information regarding the Company as it has requested pursuant to Rule
144A or has determined not to request such information and that it is
aware that the transferor is relying upon its foregoing representations in
order to claim the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144A; and
(ii) if the proposed transferee is an Agent Member, and the Notes to
be transferred consist of Physical Notes which after transfer are to be
evidenced by an interest in the Global Note, upon receipt by the Registrar
of instructions given in accordance with the Depository's and the
Registrar's procedures, the Registrar shall reflect on its books and
records the date and an increase in the principal amount of the Global
Note in an amount equal to the principal amount of the Physical Notes to
be transferred, and the Trustee shall cancel the Physical Notes so
transferred.
(c) Private Placement Legend. Upon the transfer, exchange or
replacement of Notes not bearing the Private Placement Legend, the Registrar
shall deliver Notes that do not bear the Private Placement Legend. Upon the
transfer, exchange or replacement of Notes bearing the Private Placement Legend,
the Registrar shall deliver only Notes that bear the Private Placement Legend
unless (i) the circumstance contemplated by paragraph (a)(i)(x) of this Section
2.17 exist or (ii) there is delivered to the Registrar an Opinion of Counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee to the effect that
neither such legend nor the related restrictions on transfer are required in
order to maintain compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act.
(d) General. By its acceptance of any Note bearing the Private
Placement Legend, each Holder of such a Note acknowledges the restrictions on
transfer of such Note set forth in this Indenture and in the Private Placement
Legend and agrees that it will transfer such Note only as provided in this
Indenture.
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The Registrar shall retain copies of all letters, notices and other
written communications received pursuant to Section 2.16 or this Section 2.17.
The Company shall have the right to inspect and make copies of all such letters,
notices or other written communications at any reasonable time upon the giving
of reasonable written notice to the Registrar.
ARTICLE THREE
REDEMPTION
SECTION 3.01. Notices to Trustee.
If the Company elects to redeem Notes pursuant to Paragraph 6 of the
Notes, it shall notify the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of the
Redemption Date and the principal amount of the Notes to be redeemed.
The Company shall give each notice provided for in this Section 3.01
at least 30 days, but not more than 60 days, before the Redemption Date (unless
a shorter notice period shall be satisfactory to the Trustee, as evidenced in a
writing signed on behalf of the Trustee), together with an Officers' Certificate
stating that such redemption shall comply with the conditions contained herein
and in the Notes.
If the Company is required to make an offer to redeem Notes pursuant
to the provisions of Section 4.15 or 4.16 hereof, it shall furnish to the
Trustee at least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date (or
such shorter period as may be agreed to by the Trustee in writing), an Officers'
Certificate setting forth (i) the Section of this Indenture pursuant to which
the redemption shall occur, (ii) the Redemption Date, (iii) the principal amount
of Notes to be redeemed, (iv) the redemption price and (v) a statement to the
effect that (a) the Company or one of its Subsidiaries has effected an Asset
Sale and the conditions set forth in Section 4.16 have been satisfied or (b) a
Change of Control has occurred and the conditions set forth in Section 4.15 have
been satisfied, as applicable.
SECTION 3.02. Selection of Notes To Be Redeemed.
If fewer than all of the Fixed Rate Notes or Floating Rate Notes, as
the case may be, are to be redeemed, selection
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of the Fixed Rate Notes or Floating Rate Notes, as the case may be, to be
redeemed will be made by the Trustee in compliance with the requirements of the
principal national securities exchange, if any, on which the Fixed Rate Notes or
Floating Rate Notes, as the case may be, are listed or, if the Fixed Rate Notes
or Floating Rate Notes, as the case may be, are not then listed on a national
securities exchange, on a pro rata basis within such type of Notes, by lot or in
such other fair and reasonable manner chosen at the discretion of the Trustee;
provided, however, that if a partial redemption is made with the proceeds of a
Public Equity Offering, selection of the Fixed Rate Notes or portion thereof for
redemption shall be made by the Trustee only on a pro rata basis or as nearly on
a pro rata basis as is practicable (subject to the Depository's procedures),
unless such method is otherwise prohibited. The Company shall promptly notify
the Trustee and the Paying Agent in writing of the date of listing and the name
of the securities exchange if and when the Fixed Rate Notes or Floating Rate
Notes, as the case may be, are listed on a principal national securities
exchange. The Trustee shall make the selection from the Fixed Rate Notes or
Floating Rate Notes, as the case may be, outstanding and not previously called
for redemption and shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Fixed
Rate Notes or Floating Rate Notes, as the case may be, selected for redemption
and, in the case of any Fixed Rate Notes or Floating Rate Notes, as the case may
be, selected for partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be
redeemed. Notes in denominations of $1,000 or less may be redeemed only in
whole. The Trustee may select for redemption portions (equal to $1,000 or any
integral multiple thereof) of the principal of Notes that have denominations
larger than $1,000. Provisions of this Indenture that apply to Notes called for
redemption also apply to portions of Notes called for redemption. On and after
the date of redemption, interest will cease to accrue on the Notes or portions
thereof called for redemption as long as the Company has deposited with the
Paying Agent funds in satisfaction of the applicable redemption price pursuant
to this Indenture.
SECTION 3.03. Notice of Redemption.
At least 30 days but not more than 60 days before a Redemption Date,
the Company shall mail or cause to be mailed a notice of redemption by first
class mail, postage prepaid, to each Holder whose Notes are to be redeemed, with
a copy to the Trustee and any Paying Agent. At the Company's written request,
the Trustee shall give the notice of redemption in the Company's name and at the
Company's expense.
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Each notice for redemption shall identify the Notes to be redeemed
and shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price and the amount of accrued interest, if any,
to be paid;
(3) the name and address of the Paying Agent;
(4) the subparagraph of the Notes pursuant to which such redemption
is being made;
(5) that Notes called for redemption must be surrendered to the
Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if
any;
(6) that, unless the Company defaults in making the redemption
payment, interest on Notes called for redemption ceases to accrue on and
after the Redemption Date, and the only remaining right of the Holders of
such Notes is to receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued
interest, if any, upon surrender to the Paying Agent of the Notes
redeemed;
(7) if any Note is being redeemed in part, the portion of the
principal amount of such Note to be redeemed and that, after the
Redemption Date, and upon surrender of such Note, a new Note or Notes in
the aggregate principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof
will be issued; and
(8) if fewer than all the Notes are to be redeemed, the
identification of the particular Notes (or portion thereof) to be
redeemed, as well as the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be
redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Notes to be outstanding
after such partial redemption.
SECTION 3.04. Effect of Notice of Redemption.
Once notice of redemption is mailed in accordance with Section 3.03,
Notes called for redemption become due and payable on the Redemption Date and at
the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any. Upon surrender to the
Trustee or Paying Agent, such Notes called for redemption shall be paid at the
Redemption Price (which shall include accrued interest
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thereon to the Redemption Date, except that installments of interest, the
maturity of which is on or prior to the Redemption Date, shall be payable to
Holders of record at the close of business on the relevant record dates referred
to in the Notes).
SECTION 3.05. Deposit of Redemption Price.
On or before 10:00 a.m. New York City time on the Redemption Date,
the Company shall deposit with the Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to
pay the Redemption Price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Notes to be
redeemed on that date. The Paying Agent shall promptly return to the Company any
U.S. Legal Tender so deposited which is not required for that purpose, except
with respect to monies owed as obligations to the Trustee pursuant to Article
Seven.
If the Company complies with the preceding paragraph, then, unless
the Company defaults in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued
interest, if any, interest on the Notes to be redeemed will cease to accrue on
and after the applicable Redemption Date, whether or not such Notes are
presented for payment.
SECTION 3.06. Notes Redeemed in Part.
Upon surrender of a Note that is to be redeemed in part, the Company
shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate for the Holder a new Note or
Notes equal in principal amount to the unredeemed portion of the Note
surrendered.
ARTICLE FOUR
COVENANTS
SECTION 4.01. Payment of Notes.
The Company shall pay the principal of and interest on the Notes on
the dates and in the manner provided in the Notes and in this Indenture. An
installment of principal of or interest on the Notes shall be considered paid on
the date it is due if the Trustee or Paying Agent (other than the Company or an
Affiliate of the Company) holds on that date U.S. Legal Tender designated for
and sufficient to pay the installment in full and is not prohibited from paying
such money to the Holders pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
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The Company shall pay, to the extent such payments are lawful,
interest on overdue principal and on overdue installments of interest (without
regard to any applicable grace periods) from time to time on demand at the rate
borne by the Notes. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year
comprised of twelve 30-day months.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this
Indenture, the Company may, to the extent it is required to do so by law, deduct
or withhold income or other similar taxes imposed by the United States of
America from principal, premium, if any, or interest payments hereunder.
SECTION 4.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency.
The Company shall maintain the office or agency required under
Section 2.03. The Company shall give prior written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any
time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency or
shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the address of the
Trustee set forth in Section 11.02.
SECTION 4.03. Corporate Existence.
Except as otherwise permitted by Article Five and Section 4.16, the
Company shall do or cause to be done, at its own cost and expense, all things
necessary to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence
and the corporate existence of each of its Restricted Subsidiaries in accordance
with the respective organizational documents of each such Restricted Subsidiary
and the material rights (charter and statutory) and franchises of the Company
and each such Restricted Subsidiary.
SECTION 4.04. Payment of Taxes and Other Claims.
The Company shall pay or discharge or cause to be paid or
discharged, before the same shall become delinquent, (i) all material taxes,
assessments and governmental charges (including withholding taxes and any
penalties, interest and additions to taxes) levied or imposed upon it or any of
its Subsidiaries or properties of it or any of its Subsidiaries and (ii) all
lawful claims for labor, materials and supplies that,
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if unpaid, might by law become a Lien upon the property of it or any of its
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to pay
or discharge or cause to be paid or discharged any such tax, assessment, charge
or claim whose amount, applicability or validity is being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings properly instituted and diligently conducted
for which adequate reserves, to the extent required under GAAP, have been taken.
SECTION 4.05. Maintenance of Properties and Insurance.
(a) The Company shall, and shall cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, maintain its material properties in good working order and
condition (subject to ordinary wear and tear) and make all necessary repairs,
renewals, replacements, additions, betterments and improvements thereto, all as
in the judgment of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary may be appropriate
in order to conduct and carry on its business; provided, however, that nothing
in this Section 4.05 shall prevent the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries from discontinuing the operation and maintenance of any of its
properties, if such discontinuance is, in the good faith judgment of the Board
of Directors of the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be,
desirable in the conduct of their respective businesses.
(b) The Company shall provide or cause to be provided, for itself
and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries, insurance (including appropriate
self-insurance) against loss or damage of the kinds that, in the good faith
judgment of the Board of Directors of the Company, are adequate and appropriate
for the conduct of the business of the Company and such Restricted Subsidiaries,
with reputable insurers or with the government of the United States of America
or an agency or instrumentality thereof, in such amounts, with such deductibles,
and by such methods as shall be customary, in the good faith judgment of the
Board of Directors of the Company, for companies similarly situated in the
industry.
SECTION 4.06. Compliance Certificate; Notice of Default.
(a) The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, (i) within 90 days
after the end of the Company's fiscal year and (ii) within 15 days after the
Trustee's written request stating that the Trustee has a reasonable basis to
believe an Event of Default has occurred, an Officers' Certificate stating
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that a review of its activities and the activities of its Subsidiaries during
the preceding fiscal year, in the case of Section 4.06(a)(i), or the preceding
four fiscal quarters in the case of Section 4.06(a)(ii), has been made under the
supervision of the signing Officers with a view to determining whether the
Company has complied with its obligations under this Indenture and further
stating, as to each such Officer signing such certificate, that to the best of
such Officer's knowledge the Company during such preceding fiscal year has
complied with each and every such covenant and no Default or Event of Default
occurred during such year and at the date of such certificate there is no
Default or Event of Default that has occurred and is continuing or, if such
signers do know of such Default or Event of Default, the certificate shall
describe the Default or Event of Default and its status with particularity. The
Officers' Certificate shall also notify the Trustee should the Company elect to
change the manner in which it fixes its fiscal year end.
(b) The annual financial statements delivered pursuant to Section
4.08 shall be accompanied by a written report of the Company's independent
accountants (who shall be a firm of established national reputation) that in
conducting their audit of such financial statements nothing has come to their
attention that would lead them to believe that the Company has violated any
provisions of Article Four, Five or Six of this Indenture insofar as they relate
to accounting matters or, if any such violation has occurred, specifying the
nature and period of existence thereof, it being understood that such
accountants shall not be liable directly or indirectly to any Person for any
failure to obtain knowledge of any such violation.
(c) (i) If any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or (ii) if any Holder seeks to exercise any remedy hereunder with
respect to a claimed Default under this Indenture or the Notes, the Company
shall deliver to the Trustee, at its address set forth in Section 11.02 hereof,
by registered or certified mail or by telegram, telex or facsimile transmission
followed by hard copy by registered or certified mail an Officers' Certificate
specifying such event, notice or other action within five Business Days of its
becoming aware of such occurrence.
SECTION 4.07. Compliance with Laws.
The Company shall comply, and shall cause each of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to comply, with all applicable statutes, rules, regulations, orders
and restrictions of the United
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States of America, all states and municipalities thereof, and of any
governmental department, commission, board, regulatory authority, bureau, agency
and instrumentality of the foregoing, in respect of the conduct of their
respective businesses and the ownership of their respective properties, except
for such noncompliances as are not in the aggregate reasonably likely to have a
material adverse effect on the financial condition or results of operations of
the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
SECTION 4.08. SEC Reports.
(a) Upon consummation of the Exchange Offer (as defined in the
Registration Rights Agreement) and for so long as the Notes remain outstanding,
the Company (at its own expense) shall file with the SEC and shall file with the
Trustee within 15 days after it files them with the SEC copies of the quarterly
and annual reports and of the information, documents, and other reports (or
copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the SEC may by rules and
regulations prescribe) to be filed pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Exchange Act (without regard to whether the Company is subject to the
requirements of such Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act); provided that
prior to the consummation of the Exchange Offer and the issuance of the Exchange
Notes, the Company (at its own expense) will mail to the Trustee and Holders in
accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section 4.08 substantially the same
information that would have been required by the foregoing documents within 15
days of when any such document would otherwise have been required to be filed
with the SEC. Upon qualification of this Indenture under the TIA, the Company
shall also comply with the provisions of TIA ss. 314(a).
(b) At the Company's expense, the Company shall cause an annual
report if furnished by it to stockholders generally and each quarterly or other
financial report if furnished by it to stockholders generally to be filed with
the Trustee and mailed to the Holders at their addresses appearing in the
register of Notes maintained by the Registrar at the time of such mailing or
furnishing to stockholders.
(c) Prior to the effectiveness of the registration statement
relating to the Exchange Offer, the Company shall provide to any Holder any
information reasonably requested by such Holder concerning the Company
(including financial statements) necessary in order to permit such Holder to
sell or transfer Notes in compliance with Rule 144A under the Securi-
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ties Act, as presently required by Rule 144A(d)(4) under the Securities Act.
SECTION 4.09. Waiver of Stay, Extension or Usury Laws.
The Company covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so)
that it will not at any time insist upon, plead, or in any manner whatsoever
claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law or any
usury law or other law that would prohibit or forgive the Company from paying
all or any portion of the principal of or interest on the Notes as contemplated
herein, wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, or which may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and (to the extent
that it may lawfully do so) the Company hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer
and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
SECTION 4.10. Limitation on Restricted Payments.
The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, (a) declare or pay any
dividend or make any distribution (other than dividends or distributions payable
in Qualified Capital Stock of the Company) on or in respect of shares of the
Company's Capital Stock to holders of such Capital Stock, (b) purchase, redeem
or otherwise acquire or retire for value any Capital Stock of the Company or any
warrants, rights or options to purchase or acquire shares of any class of such
Capital Stock, (c) make any principal payment on, purchase, defease, redeem,
prepay, decrease or otherwise acquire or retire for value, prior to any
scheduled final maturity, scheduled repayment or scheduled sinking fund payment,
any Indebtedness of the Company that is subordinate or junior in right of
payment to the Notes or (d) make any Investment (other than Permitted
Investments) (each of the foregoing actions set forth in clauses (a), (b), (c)
and (d) being referred to as a "Restricted Payment"), if at the time of such
Restricted Payment or immediately after giving effect thereto, (i) a Default or
an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (ii) the Company is
not able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than
Permitted Indebtedness) in compliance with Section 4.12 or (iii) the aggregate
amount of Restricted Payments (including such proposed Restricted Payment)
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made subsequent to the Issue Date (the amount expended for such purposes, if
other than in cash, being the fair market value of such property as determined
reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Directors of the Company) shall
exceed the sum of: (w) 50% of the cumulative Consolidated Net Income (or if
cumulative Consolidated Net Income shall be a loss, minus 100% of such loss) of
the Company earned subsequent to February 26, 1998 and on or prior to the date
the Restricted Payment occurs (the "Reference Date") (treating such period as a
single accounting period); plus (x) 100% of the aggregate net cash proceeds
received by the Company from any Person (other than a Subsidiary of the Company)
from the issuance and sale subsequent to the Issue Date and on or prior to the
Reference Date of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company; plus (y) without
duplication of any amounts included in clause (iii)(x) above, 100% of the
aggregate net cash proceeds of any equity contribution received by the Company
from a holder of the Company's Capital Stock (excluding, in the case of clauses
(iii)(x) and (y), any net cash proceeds from a Public Equity Offering to the
extent used to redeem the Fixed Rate Notes in accordance with the provisions
under paragraph 6(b) of the Fixed Rate Note); plus (z) without duplication, the
sum of (1) the aggregate amount returned in cash on or with respect to
Investments (other than Permitted Investments) made subsequent to the Issue Date
whether through interest payments, principal payments, dividends or other
distributions or payments, (2) the net cash proceeds received by the Company or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries from the disposition of all or any portion of
such Investments (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) and (3) upon
redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the fair
market value of such Subsidiary; provided, however, that the sum of clauses (1),
(2) and (3) above shall not exceed the aggregate amount of all such Investments
made subsequent to the Issue Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the provisions set forth in the
immediately preceding paragraph do not prohibit: (1) the payment of any dividend
or the consummation of any irrevocable redemption within 60 days after the date
of declaration of such dividend or notice of such redemption if the dividend or
the payment of the redemption price, as the case may be, would have been
permitted on the date of declaration or notice; (2) if no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the acquisition of any shares of
Capital Stock of the Company, either (i) solely in exchange for shares of
Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (ii) through the application of net
proceeds of a substantially concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary
of the Company) of shares
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of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company; (3) if no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, the acquisition of any Indebtedness of
the Company that is subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Notes
either (i) solely in exchange for shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the
Company, or (ii) through the application of net proceeds of a substantially
concurrent sale for cash (other than to a Subsidiary of the Company) of (A)
shares of Qualified Capital Stock of the Company or (B) Refinancing
Indebtedness; (4) payments for the purpose of and in an amount equal to the
amount required to permit the Company to redeem or repurchase its equity or
options in respect thereof, in each case in connection with the terms of any
employee stock option or stock purchase agreements or other agreements to
compensate management or other employees; provided that such redemptions or
repurchases pursuant to this clause (4) shall not exceed $3.0 million (which
amount shall be increased by the amount of any net cash proceeds to the Company
from (x) sales of Capital Stock of the Company to management or other employees
subsequent to the Issue Date to the extent such amounts have not been included
in clause (iii) in the foregoing paragraph and (y) any "key-man" life insurance
policies which are used to make such redemptions or repurchases) in the
aggregate; provided, further, that the cancellation of Indebtedness owing to the
Company from management or other employees of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Capital Stock of the
Company will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment under the
Indenture; (5) repurchases of Capital Stock deemed to occur upon the exercise of
stock options if such Capital Stock represents a portion of the exercise price
thereof; (6) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing, payments not to exceed $500,000 in the aggregate to enable the
Company to make payments to holders of its Capital Stock in lieu of issuance of
fractional shares of its Capital Stock; (7) payments or other distributions made
in connection with the Recapitalization; (8) if no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing, the declaration and payment of cash
dividends to holders of the Preferred Stock commencing with the first scheduled
dividend payment due subsequent to March 1, 2003; (9) prior to March 1, 2003,
the Company's withholding and payment to any taxing authority of any cash
amounts required to be withheld with respect to dividends paid to foreign
holders of the Preferred Stock to the extent required by law; (10) the exchange
of the Preferred Stock for the Exchange Debentures, provided that such exchange
is permitted by Section 4.12; and (11) if no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, other Restricted Payments in
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an aggregate amount not to exceed $10.0 million. In determining the aggregate
amount of Restricted Payments made subsequent to the Issue Date in accordance
with clause (iii) of the immediately preceding paragraph, (a) amounts expended
(to the extent such expenditure is in the form of cash) pursuant to clauses (1),
(2)(ii), (4), (8), (9) and (11) shall be included in such calculation; provided
that such expenditures pursuant to clause (4) shall not be included to the
extent of cash proceeds received by the Company from any "key-man" life
insurance policies and (b) amounts expended pursuant to clauses (2)(i), (3),
(5), (6), (7) and (10) shall be excluded from such calculation.
SECTION 4.11. Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates.
(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into or permit to exist any
transaction or series of related transactions (including, without limitation,
the purchase, sale, lease or exchange of any property or the rendering of any
service) with, or for the benefit of, any of its Affiliates (each an "Affiliate
Transaction"), other than (x) Affiliate Transactions permitted under paragraph
(b) below and (y) Affiliate Transactions on terms that are not materially less
favorable than those that might reasonably have been obtained in a comparable
transaction at such time on an arm's-length basis from a Person that is not an
Affiliate of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary. All Affiliate
Transactions (and each series of related Affiliate Transactions which are
similar or part of a common plan) involving aggregate payments or other property
with a fair market value in excess of $1.0 million shall be approved by the
Board of Directors of the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be, such approval to be evidenced by a Board Resolution stating that such Board
of Directors has determined that such transaction complies with the foregoing
provisions. If the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company enters
into an Affiliate Transaction (or a series of related Affiliate Transactions
related to a common plan) that involves an aggregate fair market value of more
than $10.0 million, the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may
be, shall, prior to the consummation thereof, obtain a favorable opinion as to
the fairness of such transaction or series of related transactions to the
Company or the relevant Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from a
financial point of view, from an Independent Financial Advisor and file the same
with the Trustee.
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(b) The restrictions set forth in clause (a) shall not apply to (i)
reasonable fees and compensation paid to and indemnity provided on behalf of
officers, directors, employees or consultants of the Company or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company as determined in good faith by the Company's Board of
Directors or senior management (including, without limitation, fees and
compensation under the Management Services Agreement with the Principal as in
effect on the Issue Date); (ii) transactions exclusively between or among the
Company and any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or exclusively between or among
such Restricted Subsidiaries, provided such transactions are not otherwise
prohibited by this Indenture; (iii) any agreement as in effect as of the Issue
Date or any amendment thereto or any transaction contemplated thereby (including
pursuant to any amendment thereto) in any replacement agreement thereto so long
as any such amendment or replacement agreement is not more disadvantageous to
the Holders in any material respect than the original agreement as in effect on
the Issue Date; (iv) Restricted Payments permitted by this Indenture; (v) the
existence of, or the performance by the Company or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries of its obligations under the terms of, any stockholders agreement
(including any registration rights agreement or purchase agreement related
thereto) to which it is a party as of the Issue Date and any similar agreements
which it may enter into thereafter; provided, however, that the existence of, or
the performance by the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of
obligations under, any future amendment to any such existing agreement or under
any similar agreement entered into after the Issue Date shall only be permitted
by this clause (v) to the extent that the terms of any such amendment or new
agreement are not otherwise disadvantageous to the Holders of the Notes in any
material respect; (vi) transactions permitted by, and complying with, the
provisions of Article Five; (vii) the Recapitalization and the transactions
contemplated by the Recapitalization Agreement; and (viii) transactions with
customers, clients, suppliers, joint venture partners or purchasers or sellers
of goods or services, in each case in the ordinary course of business
(including, without limitation, pursuant to joint venture agreements) and
otherwise in compliance with the terms of this Indenture, which are fair to the
Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries, in the reasonable determination of the
Board of Directors of the Company or the senior management thereof, or are on
terms at least as favorable as might reasonably have been obtained at such time
from an unaffiliated party.
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SECTION 4.12. Limitation on Incurrence of Additional Indebtedness.
The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume, guarantee,
acquire, become liable, contingently or otherwise, with respect to, or otherwise
become responsible for payment of (collectively, "incur") any Indebtedness
(other than Permitted Indebtedness); provided, however, that if no Default or
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of or as a
consequence of the incurrence of any such Indebtedness, the Company may incur
Indebtedness (including, without limitation, Acquired Indebtedness) and
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company may incur Acquired Indebtedness, in each
case if on the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, after giving effect
to the incurrence thereof, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of the
Company is greater than 2.0 to 1.0.
SECTION 4.13. Limitation on Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions
Affecting Subsidiaries.
The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or
permit to exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on
the ability of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to (a) pay dividends or
make any other distributions on or in respect of its Capital Stock; (b) make
loans or advances or to pay any Indebtedness or other obligation owed to the
Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; or (c) transfer any
of its property or assets to the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of
the Company, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by
reason of: (1) applicable law; (2) this Indenture and the New Revolving Credit
Facility; (3) non-assignment provisions of any contract or any lease; (4) any
instrument governing Acquired Indebtedness, which encumbrance or restriction is
not applicable to any Person, or the properties or assets of any Person, other
than the Person or the properties or assets of the Person so acquired; (5)
agreements existing on the Issue Date to the extent and in the manner such
agreements are in effect on the Issue Date; (6) restrictions on the transfer of
assets subject to any Lien permitted under this Indenture imposed by the holder
of such Lien; (7) restrictions imposed by any agreement to sell assets or
Capital Stock permitted under this Indenture to any Person pending the closing
of such sale; (8) any agreement or instru-
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ment governing Capital Stock of any Person that is acquired; (9) any agreement
or instrument governing Indebtedness (whether or not outstanding) of foreign
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company permitted to be incurred pursuant to this
Indenture; (10) other Indebtedness permitted to be incurred subsequent to the
Issue Date pursuant to the provisions of Section 4.12; provided that any such
restrictions are ordinary and customary with respect to the type of Indebtedness
being incurred (under the relevant circumstances); (11) restrictions on cash or
other deposits or net worth imposed by customers under contracts entered into in
the ordinary course of business; and (12) any encumbrances or restrictions
imposed by any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases,
supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings of the contracts,
instruments or obligations referred to in clauses (2) through (11) above;
provided that such amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals, increases,
supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings are, in the good faith
judgment of the Company's Board of Directors, no more restrictive with respect
to such dividend and other payment restrictions than those contained in the
dividend or other payment restrictions prior to such amendment, modification,
restatement, renewal, increase, supplement, refunding, replacement or
refinancing.
SECTION 4.14. Prohibition on Incurrence of Senior Subordinated Debt.
The Company shall not incur or suffer to exist Indebtedness that is
senior in right of payment to the Notes and subordinate in right of payment to
any other Indebtedness of the Company.
SECTION 4.15. Change of Control.
(a) Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Company shall
make an offer to purchase all outstanding Notes pursuant to the offer described
in paragraph (b) below (the "Change of Control Offer") at a purchase price equal
to 101% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued interest, if any, to the
date of purchase. Prior to the mailing of the notice referred to below, but in
any event within 30 days following any Change of Control, the Company shall (i)
repay in full and terminate all commitments under Indebtedness under the New
Revolving Credit Facility and all other Senior Debt the terms of which require
repayment upon a Change of Control or offer to repay in full and terminate all
commitments under all Indebtedness under the New Revolving Credit Facility and
all other such Senior Debt and to repay the Indebtedness owed to each lender
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which has accepted such offer or (ii) obtain the requisite consents under the
New Revolving Credit Facility and all other Senior Debt to permit the repurchase
of the Notes as provided below. The Company shall first comply with the covenant
in the immediately preceding sentence before it shall be required to repurchase
Notes pursuant to the provisions described in this Section 4.15. The Company's
failure to comply with the immediately preceding two sentences shall constitute
an Event of Default under Section 6.01(3) and not under Section 6.01(2).
(b) Within 30 days following the date upon which the Change of
Control occurred (the "Change of Control Date"), the Company shall send, by
first class mail, a notice to each Holder, with a copy to the Trustee, which
notice shall govern the terms of the Change of Control Offer. The notice to the
Holders shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to enable such
Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Change of Control Offer. Such notice
shall state:
(1) that the Change of Control Offer is being made pursuant to this
Section 4.15 and that all Notes tendered and not withdrawn will be
accepted for payment;
(2) the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest)
and the purchase date (which shall be no earlier than 30 days nor later
than 45 days from the date such notice is mailed, other than as may be
required by law) (the "Change of Control Payment Date");
(3) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor,
any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Change of Control Offer
shall cease to accrue interest after the Change of Control Payment Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a
Change of Control Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the
form entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the
Note completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice
prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the
Change of Control Payment Date;
(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Paying Agent receives, not later than five Business Days prior to the
Change of Control Payment Date,
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a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or letter setting forth the name
of the Holder, the principal amount of the Notes the Holder delivered for
purchase and a statement that such Holder is withdrawing his election to
have such Notes purchased;
(7) that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be
issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered; provided that each Note purchased and each new Note
issued shall be in an original principal amount of $1,000 or integral
multiples thereof; and
(8) the circumstances and relevant facts regarding such Change of
Control.
On or before the Change of Control Payment Date, the Company shall
(i) accept for payment Notes or portions thereof validly tendered pursuant to
the Change of Control Offer, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent U.S. Legal
Tender sufficient to pay the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, of
all Notes so tendered and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted
together with an Officers' Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof
being purchased by the Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the
Holders of Notes so accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price
plus accrued interest, if any, and the Trustee shall promptly authenticate and
mail to such Holders new Notes equal in principal amount to any unpurchased
portion of the Notes surrendered. Any Notes not so accepted shall be promptly
mailed by the Company to the Holder thereof. For purposes of this Section 4.15,
the Trustee shall act as the Paying Agent.
Any amounts remaining after the purchase of Notes pursuant to a
Change of Control Offer shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company.
The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under
the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
repurchase of Notes pursuant to a Change of Control Offer. To the extent the
provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section
4.15, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and
regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this
Section 4.15 by virtue thereof.
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SECTION 4.16. Limitation on Asset Sales.
(a) The Company will not, and will not permit any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to, consummate an Asset Sale unless (i) the Company or the
applicable Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, receives consideration at
the time of such Asset Sale at least equal to the fair market value of the
assets sold or otherwise disposed of (as determined in good faith by the
Company's Board of Directors), (ii) at least 75% of the consideration received
by the Company or the Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, from such Asset
Sale shall be in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents and is received at the
time of such disposition; and (iii) upon the consummation of an Asset Sale, the
Company shall apply, or cause such Restricted Subsidiary to apply, the Net Cash
Proceeds relating to such Asset Sale within 365 days of receipt thereof either
(A) to prepay any Senior Debt (and, in the case of any Senior Debt under any
revolving credit facility, including the New Revolving Credit Facility, effect a
permanent reduction in the availability under such revolving credit facility),
(B) to make an investment in properties and assets that replace the properties
and assets that were the subject of such Asset Sale or in properties and assets
of a kind used or usable in the business of the Company and its Restricted
Subsidiaries as conducted in accordance with Section 4.20 ("Replacement
Assets"), or (C) a combination of prepayment and investment permitted by the
foregoing clauses (iii)(A) and (iii)(B). On the 366th day after an Asset Sale or
such earlier date, if any, as the Board of Directors of the Company or of such
Restricted Subsidiary determines not to apply the Net Cash Proceeds relating to
such Asset Sale as set forth in clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B) and (iii)(C) of the
next preceding sentence (each, a "Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date"), such
aggregate amount of Net Cash Proceeds which have not been applied on or before
such Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date as permitted in clauses (iii)(A), (iii)(B)
and (iii)(C) of the next preceding sentence (each a "Net Proceeds Offer Amount")
shall be applied by the Company or such Restricted Subsidiary to make an offer
to purchase (the "Net Proceeds Offer") on a date (the "Net Proceeds Offer
Payment Date") not less than 30 nor more than 60 days following the applicable
Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date (or if the Net Proceeds Offer has been deferred
as described in the last sentence of this paragraph, the date that the
unutilized Net Proceeds Offer Amount equals or exceeds $7.5 million), from all
Holders on a pro rata basis, that amount of Notes equal to the Net Proceeds
Offer Amount at a price equal to 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be
purchased, plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the date of
purchase; provided, however, that if at any time
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any non-cash consideration received by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary
of the Company, as the case may be, in connection with any Asset Sale is
converted into or sold or otherwise disposed of for cash (other than interest
received with respect to any such non-cash consideration), then such conversion
or disposition shall be deemed to constitute an Asset Sale hereunder and the Net
Cash Proceeds thereof shall be applied in accordance with this covenant. The
Company may defer the Net Proceeds Offer until there is an aggregate unutilized
Net Proceeds Offer Amount equal to or in excess of $7.5 million resulting from
one or more Asset Sales (at which time, the entire unutilized Net Proceeds Offer
Amount, and not just the amount in excess of $7.5 million, shall be applied as
required pursuant to this paragraph).
In the event of the transfer of substantially all (but not all) of
the property and assets of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries as an
entirety to a Person in a transaction permitted under Article Five, the
successor corporation shall be deemed to have sold the properties and assets of
the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries not so transferred for purposes of
this covenant, and shall comply with the provisions of this covenant with
respect to such deemed sale as if it were an Asset Sale. In addition, the fair
market value of such properties and assets of the Company or its Restricted
Subsidiaries deemed to be sold shall be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds for
purposes of this covenant.
Each Net Proceeds Offer will be mailed to the record Holders as
shown on the register of Holders within 25 days following the Net Proceeds Offer
Trigger Date (or if the Net Proceeds Offer has been deferred as described in the
first paragraph of this Section 4.16, the date that the aggregate unutilized Net
Proceeds Offer Amount equals or exceeds $7.5 million), with a copy to the
Trustee, and shall comply with the procedures set forth in this Indenture. Upon
receiving notice of the Net Proceeds Offer, Holders may elect to tender their
Notes in whole or in part in integral multiples of $1,000 in exchange for cash.
To the extent Holders properly tender Notes in an amount exceeding the Net
Proceeds Offer Amount, Notes of tendering Holders will be purchased on a pro
rata basis (based on amounts tendered). A Net Proceeds Offer shall remain open
for a period of at least 20 and not more than 30 Business Days or such longer
period as may be required by law. To the extent that the aggregate amount of
Notes tendered pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer is less than the Net Proceeds
Offer Amount, the Company may use any remaining Net Proceeds Offer Amount for
general corporate purposes. Upon completion of any such Net
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Proceeds Offer, the Net Proceeds Offer Amount shall be reset at zero.
(b) Subject to the deferral of the Net Proceeds Offer Trigger Date
contained in the first paragraph of subsection (a) above, each notice of a Net
Proceeds Offer pursuant to this Section 4.16 shall be mailed or caused to be
mailed, by first class mail, by the Company not more than 25 days after the Net
Proceeds Offer Trigger Date to all Holders at their last registered addresses as
of a date within 15 days of the mailing of such notice, with a copy to the
Trustee. The notice shall contain all instructions and materials necessary to
enable such Holders to tender Notes pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer and shall
state the following terms:
(1) that the Net Proceeds Offer is being made pursuant to Section
4.16 and that all Notes tendered will be accepted for payment; provided,
however, that if the aggregate principal amount of Notes tendered in a Net
Proceeds Offer exceeds the aggregate amount of the Net Proceeds Offer, the
Company shall select the Notes to be purchased on a pro rata basis based
on the amounts tendered (with such adjustments as may be deemed
appropriate by the Company so that only Notes in denominations of $1,000
or multiples thereof shall be purchased);
(2) the purchase price (including the amount of accrued interest)
and the purchase date (which shall be at least 20 and not more than 30
Business Days from the date of mailing of notice of such Net Proceeds
Offer, or such longer period as required by law) (the "Proceeds Purchase
Date");
(3) that any Note not tendered will continue to accrue interest;
(4) that, unless the Company defaults in making payment therefor,
any Note accepted for payment pursuant to the Net Proceeds Offer shall
cease to accrue interest after the Proceeds Purchase Date;
(5) that Holders electing to have a Note purchased pursuant to a Net
Proceeds Offer will be required to surrender the Note, with the form
entitled "Option of Holder to Elect Purchase" on the reverse of the Note
completed, to the Paying Agent at the address specified in the notice
prior to the close of business on the third Business Day prior to the
Proceeds Purchase Date;
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(6) that Holders will be entitled to withdraw their election if the
Paying Agent receives, not later than five Business Days prior to the
Proceeds Purchase Date, a telegram, telex, facsimile transmission or
letter setting forth the name of the Holder, the principal amount of the
Notes the Holder delivered for purchase and a statement that such Holder
is withdrawing his election to have such Note purchased; and
(7) that Holders whose Notes are purchased only in part will be
issued new Notes in a principal amount equal to the unpurchased portion of
the Notes surrendered; provided that each Note purchased and each new Note
issued shall be in an original principal amount of $1,000 or integral
multiples thereof;
On or before the Proceeds Purchase Date, the Company shall (i)
accept for payment Notes or portions thereof validly tendered pursuant to the
Net Proceeds Offer which are to be purchased in accordance with item (b)(1)
above, (ii) deposit with the Paying Agent U.S. Legal Tender sufficient to pay
the purchase price plus accrued interest, if any, of all Notes to be purchased
and (iii) deliver to the Trustee Notes so accepted together with an Officers'
Certificate stating the Notes or portions thereof being purchased by the
Company. The Paying Agent shall promptly mail to the Holders of Notes so
accepted payment in an amount equal to the purchase price plus accrued interest,
if any. For purposes of this Section 4.16, the Trustee shall act as the Paying
Agent.
Any amounts remaining after the purchase of Notes pursuant to a Net
Proceeds Offer shall be returned by the Trustee to the Company.
The Company shall comply with the requirements of Rule 14e-1 under
the Exchange Act and any other securities laws and regulations thereunder to the
extent such laws and regulations are applicable in connection with the
repurchase of Notes pursuant to a Net Proceeds Offer. To the extent that the
provisions of any securities laws or regulations conflict with this Section
4.16, the Company shall comply with the applicable securities laws and
regulations and shall not be deemed to have breached its obligations under this
Section 4.16 by virtue thereof.
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SECTION 4.17. Limitation on Preferred Stock of Restricted
Subsidiaries.
The Company shall not permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to
issue any preferred stock (other than to the Company or to a Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) or permit any Person (other than the
Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company) to own any
preferred stock of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company.
SECTION 4.18. Limitation on Liens.
The Company will not, and will not cause or permit any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create, incur, assume or
permit or suffer to exist any Liens of any kind against or upon any property or
assets of the Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries whether owned on the
Issue Date or acquired after the Issue Date, or any proceeds therefrom, or
assign or otherwise convey any right to receive income or profits therefrom
unless (i) in the case of Liens securing Indebtedness that is expressly
subordinate or junior in right of payment to the Notes, the Notes are secured by
a Lien on such property, assets or proceeds that is senior in priority to such
Liens and (ii) in all other cases, the Notes are equally and ratably secured,
except for (A) Liens existing as of the Issue Date and any extensions, renewals
or replacements thereof; (B) Liens securing Senior Debt and Liens on assets of
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Company securing guarantees of Senior Debt; (C)
Liens of the Company or a Wholly Owned Restricted Subsidiary of the Company on
assets of any Restricted Subsidiary of the Company; (D) Liens securing the
Notes; (E) Liens securing Refinancing Indebtedness which is incurred to
Refinance any Indebtedness which has been secured by a Lien permitted under this
Indenture and which has been incurred in accordance with the provisions of this
Indenture; provided, however, that such Liens (i) are no less favorable to the
Holders and are not more favorable to the lienholders with respect to such Liens
than the Liens in respect of the Indebtedness being Refinanced and (ii) do not
extend to or cover any property or assets of the Company or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries not securing the Indebtedness so Refinanced; and (F)
Permitted Liens.
SECTION 4.19. Limitation of Guarantees by Restricted Subsidiaries.
The Company will not permit any of its domestic Restricted
Subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, by way of the
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pledge of any intercompany note or otherwise, to guarantee any Indebtedness of
the Company or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Company (other than (A)
Indebtedness under Currency Agreements in reliance on clause (v) of the
definition of Permitted Indebtedness, or (B) Interest Swap Obligations incurred
in reliance on clause (iv) of the definition of Permitted Indebtedness), unless,
in any such case, (a) such Restricted Subsidiary executes and delivers a
supplemental indenture to this Indenture providing a guarantee of payment of the
Notes by such Restricted Subsidiary (the "Guarantee") and (b) (x) if any such
guarantee of such Restricted Subsidiary is provided in respect of Senior Debt,
the guarantee or other instrument provided by such Restricted Subsidiary in
respect of such Senior Debt may be superior to the Guarantee pursuant to
subordination provisions no less favorable to the Holders of the Notes than
those contained in this Indenture and (y) if any such guarantee of such
Restricted Subsidiary is provided in respect of Indebtedness that is expressly
subordinated to the Notes, the guarantee or other instrument provided by such
Restricted Subsidiary in respect of such subordinated Indebtedness shall be
subordinated to the Guarantee pursuant to subordination provisions no less
favorable to the Holders of the Notes than those contained in this Indenture.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any such Guarantee by a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Notes shall provide by its terms that it shall be
automatically and unconditionally released and discharged, without any further
action required on the part of the Trustee or any Holder, upon: (i) the
unconditional release of such Restricted Subsidiary from its liability in
respect of the Indebtedness in connection with which such Guarantee was executed
and delivered pursuant to the preceding paragraph; or (ii) any sale or other
disposition (by merger or otherwise) to any Person which is not a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Company of all of the Company's Capital Stock in, or all or
substantially all of the assets of, such Restricted Subsidiary; provided that
(a) such sale or disposition of such Capital Stock or assets is otherwise in
compliance with the terms of the Indenture and (b) such assumption, guarantee or
other liability of such Restricted Subsidiary has been released by the holders
of the other Indebtedness so guaranteed.
SECTION 4.20. Conduct of Business.
The Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries will not engage in any
businesses which are not the same, similar, reasonably related, ancillary or
complementary to the businesses
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in which the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries are engaged on the Issue
Date.
ARTICLE FIVE
SUCCESSOR CORPORATION
SECTION 5.01. Merger, Consolidation and Sale of Assets.
The Company will not, in a single transaction or series of related
transactions, consolidate or merge with or into any Person, or sell, assign,
transfer, lease, convey or otherwise dispose of (or cause or permit any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company to sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of) all or substantially all of the Company's assets
(determined on a consolidated basis for the Company and the Company's Restricted
Subsidiaries) whether as an entirety or substantially as an entirety to any
Person unless: (i) either (1) the Company shall be the surviving or continuing
corporation or (2) the Person (if other than the Company) formed by such
consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which acquires
by sale, assignment, transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition the
properties and assets of the Company and of the Company's Restricted
Subsidiaries substantially as an entirety (the "Surviving Entity") (x) shall be
a corporation organized and validly existing under the laws of the United States
or any State thereof or the District of Columbia and (y) shall expressly assume,
by supplemental indenture (in form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee),
executed and delivered to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment of the
principal and interest on all of the Notes and the performance of every covenant
of the Notes, the Indenture and the Registration Rights Agreement on the part of
the Company to be performed or observed; (ii) immediately after giving effect to
such transaction and the assumption contemplated by clause (i)(2)(y) above
(including giving effect to any Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness incurred
or anticipated to be incurred in connection with or in respect of such
transaction), the Company or such Surviving Entity, as the case may be, shall be
able to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness (other than Permitted
Indebtedness) pursuant to Section 4.12; (iii) immediately before and immediately
after giving effect to such transaction and the assumption contemplated by
clause (i)(2)(y) above (including, without limitation, giving effect to any
Indebtedness and Acquired Indebtedness in-
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curred or anticipated to be incurred and any Lien granted in connection with or
in respect of the transaction), no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred or be continuing; and (iv) the Company or the Surviving Entity shall
have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, sale, assignment,
transfer, lease, conveyance or other disposition and, if a supplemental
indenture is required in connection with such transaction, such supplemental
indenture comply with the applicable provisions of this Indenture and that all
conditions precedent in this Indenture relating to such transaction have been
satisfied. Notwithstanding clause (ii) of the preceding sentence, (a) any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company may consolidate with, merge into or
transfer all or part of its properties and assets to the Company and (b) the
Company may merge with an Affiliate incorporated solely for the purpose of
reincorporating the Company in another jurisdiction.
For purposes of the foregoing, the transfer (by lease, assignment,
sale or otherwise, in a single transaction or series of transactions) of all or
substantially all of the properties or assets of one or more Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Company the Capital Stock of which constitutes all or
substantially all of the properties and assets of the Company, shall be deemed
to be the transfer of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of
the Company.
SECTION 5.02. Successor Corporation Substituted.
Upon any consolidation, combination or merger or any transfer of all
or substantially all of the assets of the Company in accordance with the
foregoing, in which the Company is not the continuing corporation, the successor
Person formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or to
which such conveyance, lease or transfer is made shall succeed to, and be
substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company under
this Indenture and the Notes with the same effect as if such surviving entity
had been named as such.
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ARTICLE SIX
DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
SECTION 6.01. Events of Default.
An "Event of Default" occurs if:
(1) the Company fails to pay interest on any Notes when the same
becomes due and payable and the Default continues for a period of 30 days
(whether or not such payment shall be prohibited by Article Ten of this
Indenture); or
(2) the Company fails to pay the principal on any Notes when such
principal becomes due and payable, at maturity, upon redemption or
otherwise (including the failure to make a payment to purchase Notes
tendered pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or a Net Proceeds Offer)
(whether or not such payment shall be prohibited by Article Ten); or
(3) the Company defaults in the observance or performance of any
other covenant or agreement contained in this Indenture and which default
continues for a period of 30 days after the Company receives written
notice specifying the default (and demanding that such default be
remedied) from the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% of the
outstanding principal amount of the Notes (except in the case of a default
with respect to Section 5.01, which will constitute an Event of Default
with such notice requirement but without such passage of time
requirement); or
(4) the Company fails to pay at final stated maturity (giving effect
to any applicable grace periods and any extensions thereof) the principal
amount of any Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Company or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Company, and such failure continues for a
period of 20 days or more, or the acceleration of the final stated
maturity of any such Indebtedness (which acceleration is not rescinded,
annulled or otherwise cured within 20 days of receipt by the Company or
such Restricted Subsidiary of notice of any such acceleration) if the
aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness, together with the
principal amount of any other such Indebtedness in default for failure to
pay principal at final
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stated maturity or which has been accelerated, in each case with respect
to which the 20-day period described above has passed, aggregates $10.0
million or more at any time; or
(5) one or more judgments for the payment of money in an aggregate
amount in excess of $10.0 million shall have been rendered against the
Company or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries and such judgments remain
undischarged, unpaid or unstayed for a period of 60 days after such
judgment or judgments become final and non-appealable; or
(6) the Company or any Significant Subsidiary of the Company (A)
commences a voluntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy Law with
respect to itself, (B) consents to the entry of a judgment, decree or
order for relief against it in an involuntary case or proceeding under any
Bankruptcy Law, (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or
for substantially all of its property, (D) consents to or acquiesces in
the institution of a bankruptcy or an insolvency proceeding against it,
(E) makes a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, or (F)
takes any corporate action to authorize or effect any of the foregoing; or
(7) a court of competent jurisdiction enters a judgment, decree or
order for relief in respect of the Company or any Significant Subsidiary
of the Company in an involuntary case or proceeding under any Bankruptcy
Law, which shall (A) approve as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition in respect of the
Company or any such Significant Subsidiary, (B) appoint a Custodian of the
Company or any such Significant Subsidiary or for substantially all of its
property or (C) order the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs; and
such judgment, decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a
period of 60 consecutive days.
SECTION 6.02. Acceleration.
(a) If an Event of Default (other than an Event of Default specified
in Section 6.01(6) or (7) with respect to the Company) occurs and is continuing
and has not been waived pursuant to Section 6.04, then the Trustee or the
Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of outstanding Notes may declare the
principal of and accrued interest on all the Notes to be due and payable by
notice in writing to the Company and the
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Trustee specifying the respective Event of Default and that it is a "notice of
acceleration" (the "Acceleration Notice"), and the same (i) shall become
immediately due and payable or (ii) if there are any amounts outstanding under
the New Revolving Credit Facility, shall become immediately due and payable upon
the first to occur of an acceleration under the New Revolving Credit Facility or
5 business days after receipt by the Company and the Representative under the
New Revolving Credit Facility of such Acceleration Notice but only if such Event
of Default is then continuing. Upon any such declaration, but subject to the
immediately preceding sentence, such amount shall be immediately due and
payable.
(b) If an Event of Default specified in Section 6.01(6) or (7)
occurs and is continuing with respect to the Company, all unpaid principal of
and accrued and unpaid interest on all of the outstanding Notes shall ipso facto
become and be immediately due and payable without any declaration or other act
on the part of the Trustee or any Holder.
(c) At any time after a declaration of acceleration with respect to
the Notes in accordance with Section 6.02(a), the Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the outstanding Notes may, on behalf of the Holders of all
of the Notes, rescind and cancel such declaration and its consequences (i) if
the rescission would not conflict with any judgment or decree, (ii) if all
existing Events of Default have been cured or waived except nonpayment of
principal or interest that has become due solely because of the acceleration,
(iii) to the extent the payment of such interest is lawful, interest on overdue
installments of interest and overdue principal, which has become due otherwise
than by such declaration of acceleration, has been paid, (iv) if the Company has
paid the Trustee its reasonable compensation and reimbursed the Trustee for its
expenses, disbursements and advances and (v) in the event of the cure or waiver
of an Event of Default of the type described in Section 6.01(6) or (7), the
Trustee shall have received an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel
that such Event of Default has been cured or waived. No such rescission shall
affect any subsequent Default or impair any right consequent thereto. The
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may waive any
existing Default or Event of Default under this Indenture, and its consequences,
except a default in the payment of the principal of or interest on any Notes.
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SECTION 6.03. Other Remedies.
If an Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
pursue any available remedy by proceeding at law or in equity to collect the
payment of principal of or interest on the Notes or to enforce the performance
of any provision of the Notes or this Indenture.
The Trustee may maintain a proceeding even if it does not possess
any of the Notes or does not produce any of them in the proceeding. A delay or
omission by the Trustee or any Holder in exercising any right or remedy accruing
upon an Event of Default shall not impair the right or remedy or constitute a
waiver of or acquiescence in the Event of Default. No remedy is exclusive of any
other remedy. All available remedies are cumulative to the extent permitted by
law.
SECTION 6.04. Waiver of Past Defaults.
Subject to Sections 2.09, 6.07 and 9.02, the Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the outstanding Notes by notice to the Trustee may waive
an existing Default or Event of Default and its consequences, except a Default
in the payment of principal of or interest on any Note as specified in clauses
(1) and (2) of Section 6.01. When a Default or Event of Default is waived, it is
cured and ceases.
SECTION 6.05. Control by Majority.
Subject to Section 2.09, the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the outstanding Notes may direct the time, method and place of
conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising
any trust or power conferred on it, including, without limitation, any remedies
provided for in Section 6.03. Subject to Section 7.01, however, the Trustee may
refuse to follow any direction that the Trustee reasonably believes conflicts
with any law or this Indenture, that the Trustee determines may be unduly
prejudicial to the rights of another Holder, or that may involve the Trustee in
personal liability; provided that the Trustee may take any other action deemed
proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
provided further that this provision shall not affect the rights of the Trustee
set forth in Section 7.01(d).
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SECTION 6.06. Limitation on Suits.
A Holder may not pursue any remedy with respect to this Indenture or
the Notes unless:
(1) the Holder gives to the Trustee written notice of a continuing
Event of Default;
(2) Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the outstanding
Notes make a written request to the Trustee to pursue the remedy;
(3) such Holders offer to the Trustee indemnity in its sole
discretion satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability, claim
or expense (including without limitation attorney's fees) to be incurred
in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee does not comply with the request within 45 days
after receipt of the request and the offer of satisfactory indemnity; and
(5) during such 45-day period the Holders of a majority in principal
amount of the outstanding Notes do not give the Trustee a direction which,
in the opinion of the Trustee, is inconsistent with the request.
A Holder may not use this Indenture to prejudice the rights of
another Holder or to obtain a preference or priority over such other Holder.
SECTION 6.07. Rights of Holders To Receive Payment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, the right of
any Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on a Note, on or
after the respective due dates expressed in such Note, or to bring suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be
impaired or affected without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 6.08. Collection Suit by Trustee.
If an Event of Default in payment of principal or interest specified
in clause (1) or (2) of Section 6.01 occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may
recover judgment in its own name and as trustee of an express trust against the
Company or any other obligor on the Notes for the whole amount of prin-
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pal and accrued interest remaining unpaid, together with interest on overdue
principal and, to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, interest
on overdue installments of interest at the rate set forth in Section 4.01 and
such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of
collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents, consultants and counsel.
SECTION 6.09. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.
The Trustee may file such proofs of claim and other papers or
documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the
Trustee (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, taxes,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel) and the
Holders allowed in any judicial proceedings relating to the Company or any other
obligor upon the Notes, any of their respective creditors or any of their
respective property and shall be entitled and empowered to collect and receive
any monies or other securities or property payable or deliverable upon
conversion or exchange of the Notes or upon any such claims and to distribute
the same, and any Custodian in any such judicial proceedings is hereby
authorized by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event
that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the
Holders, to pay to the Trustee any amount due to it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, taxes, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its
agents, consultants and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under
Section 7.07. The Company's payment obligations under this Section 6.09 shall be
secured in accordance with the provisions of Section 7.07 hereunder. Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to authorize or
consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or
the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect
of the claim of any Holder in any such proceeding.
SECTION 6.10. Priorities.
If the Trustee collects any money or property pursuant to this
Article Six, it shall pay out the money in the following order:
First: to the Trustee for amounts due under Sections 6.09 and 7.07;
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Second: if the Holders are forced to proceed against the Company
directly without the Trustee, to Holders for their collection costs;
Third: to Holders for amounts due and unpaid on the Notes for
principal and interest, ratably, without preference or priority of any
kind, according to the amounts due and payable on the Notes for principal
and interest, respectively; and
Fourth: to the Company or any other obligor on the Notes, as their
interests may appear, or as a court of competent jurisdiction may direct.
The Trustee, upon prior notice to the Company, may fix a record date
and payment date for any payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 6.10.
SECTION 6.11. Undertaking for Costs.
In any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this
Indenture or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by
it as Trustee, a court in its discretion may require the filing by any party
litigant in the suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the
court in its discretion may assess reasonable costs, including reasonable
attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in the suit, having due regard to
the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by the party litigant.
This Section 6.11 does not apply to a suit by the Trustee, a suit by a Holder
pursuant to Section 6.07, or a suit by a Holder or Holders of more than 10% in
principal amount of the outstanding Notes.
ARTICLE SEVEN
TRUSTEE
SECTION 7.01. Duties of Trustee.
(a) If a Default or an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Indenture and use the same degree of care and skill in its exercise
thereof as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in the
conduct of his own affairs.
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(b) Except during the continuance of a Default or an Event of
Default:
(1) The Trustee need perform only those duties as are specifically
set forth in this Indenture and no covenants or obligations shall be
implied in this Indenture against the Trustee.
(2) In the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the correctness
of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates (including Officers'
Certificates) or opinions (including Opinions of Counsel) furnished to the
Trustee and conforming to the requirements of this Indenture. However, as
to any certificates or opinions which are required to be delivered or
provided to the Trustee, the Trustee shall examine the certificates and
opinions to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements of
this Indenture (but need not confirm or investigate the accuracy of
mathematical calculations or other facts stated therein).
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, the
Trustee may not be relieved from liability for its own negligent action, its own
negligent failure to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that:
(1) This paragraph does not limit the effect of paragraph (b) of
this Section 7.01.
(2) The Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Trust Officer, unless it is proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts.
(3) The Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith in accordance with a direction
received by it pursuant to Section 6.02, 6.04 or 6.05.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the
performance of any of its duties hereunder or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing that
repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is
not reasonably assured to it.
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(e) Whether or not herein expressly provided, every provision of
this Indenture that in any way relates to the Trustee is subject to paragraphs
(a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 7.01.
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for interest on any money or
assets received by it except as the Trustee may agree in writing with the
Company. Assets held in trust by the Trustee need not be segregated from other
assets except to the extent required by law.
SECTION 7.02. Rights of Trustee.
Subject to Section 7.01:
(a) The Trustee may rely and shall be fully protected in acting or
refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, note or other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and to
have been signed or presented by the proper Person. The Trustee need not
investigate any fact or matter stated in the document.
(b) Before the Trustee acts or refrains from acting, it may consult
with counsel and may require an Officers' Certificate, an Opinion of
Counsel or both, which shall conform to Sections 11.04 and 11.05. The
Trustee shall not be liable for any action it takes or omits to take in
good faith in reliance on such Officers' Certificate or Opinion of
Counsel.
(c) The Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or indirectly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for
the misconduct or negligence of any agent or attorney appointed with due
care.
(d) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action that it takes or
omits to take in good faith which it reasonably believes to be authorized
or within its rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture.
(e) The Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, notice, request, direction, consent, order, bond,
debenture,
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or other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make
such further inquiry or investigation into such facts or matters as it may
see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make such further inquiry
or investigation, it shall be entitled, upon reasonable notice to the
Company, to examine the books, records, and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney and to consult with the officers and
representatives of the Company, including the Company's accountants and
attorneys, at the sole cost of the Company and shall incur no liability or
additional liability of any kind by reason of such inquiry or
investigation.
(f) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security
or indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee in its sole discretion against
the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred by it in
compliance with such request, order or direction.
(g) The Trustee shall not be required to give any bond or surety in
respect of the performance of its powers and duties hereunder.
SECTION 7.03. Individual Rights of Trustee.
The Trustee in its individual or any other capacity may become the
owner or pledgee of Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, any
Subsidiary of the Company, or their respective Affiliates with the same rights
it would have if it were not Trustee. Any Agent may do the same with like
rights. However, the Trustee must comply with Sections 7.10 and 7.11.
SECTION 7.04. Trustee's Disclaimer.
The recitals contained herein and in the Notes shall be taken as
statements of the Company and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representation as to the validity or adequacy
of this Indenture or the Notes, and it shall not be accountable for the
Company's use of the proceeds from the Notes, and it shall not be responsible
for any statement of the Company in this Indenture or the Notes other than the
Trustee's certificate of authentication.
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SECTION 7.05. Notice of Default.
If a Default or an Event of Default occurs and is continuing and if
it is known to the Trustee, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder notice of the
uncured Default or Event of Default within 60 days after such Default or Event
of Default occurs. Except in the case of a Default or an Event of Default in
payment of principal of, or interest on, any Note, including an accelerated
payment and the failure to make payment on the Change of Control Payment Date
pursuant to a Change of Control Offer or on the Proceeds Purchase Date pursuant
to a Net Proceeds Offer and, except in the case of a failure to comply with
Article Five hereof, the Trustee may withhold the notice if and so long as its
Board of Directors, the executive committee of its Board of Directors or a
committee of its directors and/or Trust Officers in good faith determines that
withholding the notice is in the interest of the Holders.
SECTION 7.06. Reports by Trustee to Holders.
Within 60 days after each May 15, the Trustee shall, to the extent
that any of the events described in TIA ss. 313(a) occurred within the previous
twelve months, but not otherwise, mail to each Holder a brief report dated as of
such date that complies with TIA ss. 313(a). The Trustee also shall comply with
TIA ss.ss. 313(b), (c) and (d).
A copy of each report at the time of its mailing to Holders shall be
mailed to the Company and filed with the SEC and each stock exchange, if any, on
which the Notes are listed.
The Company shall promptly notify the Trustee if the Notes become
listed on any stock exchange and the Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 313(d).
SECTION 7.07. Compensation and Indemnity.
The Company shall pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for its services (including without limitation in its capacity as
Registrar, Paying Agent and agent for service of demands and notices). The
Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation of a
trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon
request for all reasonable fees and expenses, including out-of-pocket expenses
incurred or made by it in connection with the performance of its duties under
this Indenture. Such expenses shall include the reasonable fees and expenses of
the Trustee's agents, consultants and counsel.
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The Company shall indemnify the Trustee and its agents, employees,
stockholders and directors and officers for, and hold them harmless against, any
loss, liability or expense incurred by them except for such actions to the
extent caused by any negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct on their part,
arising out of or in connection with the administration of this trust (including
without limitation in its capacity as Registrar, Paying Agent and agent for
service of demands and notices) including the reasonable costs and expenses of
enforcing this Indenture against the Company (including without limitation
pursuant to this Section 7.07) and of defending themselves against any claim
(whether asserted by a Noteholder or the Company) or liability in connection
with the exercise or performance of any of their rights, powers or duties
hereunder. The Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim asserted
against the Trustee for which it may seek indemnity. At the Trustee's reasonable
discretion, the Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate
and may participate in the defense; provided that any settlement of a claim
shall be approved in writing by the Trustee if such settlement would result in
an admission of liability by the Trustee or if such settlement would not be
accompanied by a full release of the Trustee for all liabilities arising out of
the events giving rise to such claim. Alternatively, the Trustee may at its
option have separate counsel of its own choosing and the Company shall pay the
reasonable fees and expenses of such counsel; provided that the Company will not
be required to pay such fees and expenses if it assumes the Trustee's defense
and there is no conflict of interest between the Company and the Trustee in
connection with such defense as reasonably determined by the Trustee. The
Company need not pay for any settlement made without its written consent. The
Company need not reimburse any expense or indemnify against any loss or
liability to the extent incurred by the Trustee through its negligence, bad
faith or willful misconduct.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section 7.07,
the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Notes on all assets or money held or
collected by the Trustee, in its capacity as Trustee, except assets or money
held in trust to pay principal of or interest on particular Notes. The Trustee's
right to receive payment of any amounts due under this Section 7.07 shall not be
subordinate to any other liability or indebtedness of the Company (even though
the Notes may be subordinate to such other liability or indebtedness).
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an Event
of Default specified in Section 6.01(6) or (7)
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occurs, such expenses and the compensation for such services are intended to
constitute expenses of administration under any Bankruptcy Law; provided,
however, that this shall not affect the Trustee's rights as set forth in the
preceding paragraph or Section 6.10.
SECTION 7.08. Replacement of Trustee.
The Trustee may resign by so notifying the Company. The Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may remove the Trustee by
so notifying the Company and the Trustee and may appoint a successor Trustee.
The Company may remove the Trustee if:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10;
(2) the Trustee is adjudged bankrupt or insolvent;
(3) a receiver or other public officer takes charge of the Trustee
or its property; or
(4) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting.
If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy exists in the
office of Trustee for any reason, the Company shall notify each Holder of such
event and shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee. Within one year after the
successor Trustee takes office, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Notes may appoint a successor Trustee to replace the successor Trustee
appointed by the Company.
A successor Trustee shall deliver a written acceptance of its
appointment to the retiring Trustee and to the Company. Immediately after that,
the retiring Trustee shall transfer all property held by it as Trustee to the
successor Trustee, subject to the lien provided in Section 7.07, the resignation
or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective, and the successor
Trustee shall have all the rights, powers and duties of the Trustee under this
Indenture. A successor Trustee shall mail notice of its succession to each
Holder.
If a successor Trustee does not take office within 60 days after the
retiring Trustee resigns or is removed, the retiring Trustee, the Company or the
Holders of at least 10% in principal amount of the outstanding Notes may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee.
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If the Trustee fails to comply with Section 7.10, any Holder may
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and
the appointment of a successor Trustee.
Notwithstanding replacement of the Trustee pursuant to this Section
7.08, the Company's obligations under Section 7.07 shall continue for the
benefit of the retiring Trustee.
SECTION 7.09. Successor Trustee by Merger, Etc.
If the Trustee consolidates with, merges or converts into, or
transfers all or substantially all of its corporate trust business to, another
corporation, the resulting, surviving or transferee corporation without any
further act shall, if such resulting, surviving or transferee corporation is
otherwise eligible hereunder, be the successor Trustee; provided that such
corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this Article Seven.
SECTION 7.10. Eligibility; Disqualification.
This Indenture shall always have a Trustee who satisfies the
requirements of TIA ss.ss. 310(a)(1), (2) and (5). The Trustee (or, in the case
of a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the related bank
holding company) shall have a combined capital and surplus of at least $100
million as set forth in its most recent publicly available annual report of
condition and have a Corporate trust office in New York City. In addition, if
the Trustee is a corporation included in a bank holding company system, the
Trustee, independently of such bank holding company, shall meet the capital
requirements of TIA ss. 310(a)(2). The Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 310(b);
provided, however, that there shall be excluded from the operation of TIA ss.
310(b)(1) any indenture or indentures under which other securities, or
certificates of interest or participation in other securities, of the Company
are outstanding, if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in TIA ss.
310(b)(1) are met. The provisions of TIA ss. 310 shall apply to the Company, as
obligor on the Notes, and any other obligor on the Notes.
SECTION 7.11. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company.
The Trustee shall comply with TIA ss. 311(a), excluding any creditor
relationship listed in TIA ss. 311(b). A Trustee
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who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to TIA ss. 311(a) to the
extent indicated therein. The provisions of TIA ss. 311 shall apply to the
Company, as obligor on the Notes, and any other obligor on the Notes.
ARTICLE EIGHT
DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE
SECTION 8.01. Termination of the
Company's Obligations.
The Company may terminate its obligations under the Notes and this
Indenture, except those obligations referred to in the penultimate paragraph of
this Section 8.01, if all Notes previously authenticated and delivered (other
than destroyed, lost or stolen Notes which have been replaced or paid or Notes
for whose payment U.S. Legal Tender or non-callable U.S. Government Obligations,
or a combination thereof, has theretofore been deposited with the Trustee or the
Paying Agent in trust or segregated and held in trust by the Company and
thereafter repaid to the Company, as provided in Section 8.05) have been
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation and the Company has paid all sums
payable by it hereunder, or if:
(a) either (i) pursuant to Article Three, the Company shall have
given notice to the Trustee and mailed a notice of redemption to each
Holder of the redemption of all of the Notes under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of such notice or (ii) all
Notes have otherwise become due and payable hereunder;
(b) the Company shall have irrevocably deposited or caused to be
deposited with the Trustee or a trustee satisfactory to the Trustee, under
the terms of an irrevocable trust agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to the Trustee, as trust funds in trust solely for the
benefit of the Holders for that purpose, U.S. Legal Tender or non-callable
U.S. Government Obligations, or a combination thereof, in such amount as
is sufficient without consideration of reinvestment of such interest, to
pay principal and interest on the outstanding Notes to maturity or
redemption, as well as the Trustee's fees and expenses; provided that the
Trustee shall have been irrevocably instructed to apply such U.S. Legal
Tender to the payment of said principal and interest with respect to the
Notes;
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provided, further, that no deposits made pursuant to this Section 8.01(b)
shall cause the Trustee to have a conflicting interest as defined in and
for the purposes of the TIA; provided, further, that from and after the
time of deposit, the money deposited shall not be subject to the rights of
holders of Senior Debt pursuant to the provisions of Article Ten and
provided, further, that, as confirmed by an Opinion of Counsel, no such
deposit shall result in the Company, the Trustee or the trust becoming or
being deemed to be an "investment company" under the Investment Company
Act of 1940;
(c) no Default or Event of Default with respect to this Indenture or
the Notes shall have occurred and be continuing on the date of such
deposit or shall occur as a result of such deposit and such deposit will
not result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default under, any
other material instrument to which the Company is a party or by which it
is bound (other than a Default or Event of Default resulting from the
incurrence of Indebtedness, all or a portion of which will be used to
defease the Notes concurrently with such incurrence);
(d) the Company shall have paid all other sums payable by it
hereunder; and
(e) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent providing for or relating to the termination of the Company's
obligations under the Notes and this Indenture have been complied with.
Such Opinion of Counsel shall also state that such satisfaction and
discharge does not result in a default under the New Revolving Credit
Facility (if then in effect) or any other agreement or instrument then
known to such counsel that binds or affects the Company.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph, the Company's obligations
in Sections 2.05, 2.06, 2.07, 2.08, 4.01, 4.02, 7.07, 8.05 and 8.06 shall
survive until the Notes are no longer outstanding pursuant to the last paragraph
of Section 2.08. After the Notes are no longer outstanding, the Company's
obligations in Sections 7.07, 8.05 and 8.06 shall survive.
After such delivery or irrevocable deposit, the Trustee upon request
shall acknowledge in writing the discharge of the Company's obligations under
the Notes and this Indenture except for those surviving obligations specified
above.
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SECTION 8.02. Legal Defeasance and
Covenant Defeasance.
(a) The Company may, at its option by Board Resolution of the Board
of Directors of the Company, at any time, elect to have either paragraph (b) or
(c) below be applied to all outstanding Notes upon compliance with the
conditions set forth in Section 8.03.
(b) Upon the Company's exercise under paragraph (a) hereof of the
option applicable to this paragraph (b), the Company shall, subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.03, be deemed to have been
discharged from its obligations with respect to all outstanding Notes on the
date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter, "Legal
Defeasance"). For this purpose, Legal Defeasance means that the Company shall be
deemed to have paid and discharged the entire Indebtedness represented by the
outstanding Notes, which shall thereafter be deemed to be "outstanding" only for
the purposes of Section 8.04 hereof and the other Sections of this Indenture
referred to in (i) and (ii) below, and to have satisfied all its other
obligations under such Notes and this Indenture (and the Trustee, on demand of
and at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging the same), and Holders of the Notes and any amounts deposited
under Section 8.03 hereof shall cease to be subject to any obligations to, or
the rights of, any holder of Senior Debt under Article Ten or otherwise, except
for the following provisions, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or
discharged hereunder: (i) the rights of Holders of outstanding Notes to receive
solely from the trust fund described in Section 8.04 hereof, and as more fully
set forth in such Section, payments in respect of the principal of and interest
on such Notes when such payments are due, (ii) the Company's obligations with
respect to such Notes under Article Two and Section 4.02 hereof, (iii) the
rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and the
Company's obligations in connection therewith and (iv) this Article Eight.
Subject to compliance with this Article Eight, the Company may exercise its
option under this paragraph (b) notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option
under paragraph (c) hereof.
(c) Upon the Company's exercise under paragraph (a) hereof of the
option applicable to this paragraph (c), the Company shall, subject to the
satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.03 hereof, be released
from its obligations under the covenants contained in Sections 4.10 through 4.20
and Article Five hereof with respect to the outstanding Notes on
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and after the date the conditions set forth below are satisfied (hereinafter,
"Covenant Defeasance"), and the Notes shall thereafter be deemed not
"outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or declaration
or act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in connection with such
covenants, but shall continue to be deemed "outstanding" for all other purposes
hereunder (it being understood that such Notes shall not be deemed outstanding
for accounting purposes) and Holders of the Notes and any amounts deposited
under Section 8.03 hereof shall cease to be subject to any obligations to, or
the rights of, any holder of Senior Debt under Article Ten or otherwise. For
this purpose, such Covenant Defeasance means that, with respect to the
outstanding Notes, the Company may omit to comply with and shall have no
liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set forth in any such
covenant, whether directly or indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere
herein to any such covenant or by reason of any reference in any such covenant
to any other provision herein or in any other document and such omission to
comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event or Default under Section
6.01(3) hereof, but, except as specified above, the remainder of this Indenture
and such Notes shall be unaffected thereby. In addition, upon the Company's
exercise under paragraph (a) hereof of the option applicable to this paragraph
(c), subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in Section 8.03
hereof, Sections 6.01(3), 6.01(4) and 6.01(5) shall not constitute Events of
Default.
SECTION 8.03. Conditions to Legal Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to the application of either
Section 8.02(b) or 8.02(c) hereof to the outstanding Notes:
In order to exercise either Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance:
(a) the Company must irrevocably deposit with the Trustee, in trust,
for the benefit of the Holders, U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government
Obligations which through the scheduled payment of principal and interest
in respect thereof in accordance with their terms, will provide, not later
than one day before the due date of any payment on the Notes, U.S. Legal
Tender, or a combination thereof, in such amounts as will be sufficient,
in the opinion of a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants, to pay the principal of, premium, if any, and inter-
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est on the Notes on the stated date for payment thereof or on the
applicable redemption date, as the case may be, of such principal or
installment of principal of or interest on the Notes; provided that the
Trustee shall have received an irrevocable written order from the Company
instructing the Trustee to apply such U.S. Legal Tender or the proceeds of
such U.S. Government Obligations to said payments with respect to the
Notes;
(b) in the case of an election under Section 8.02(b) hereof, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the
United States reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that (A) the
Company has received from, or there has been published by, the Internal
Revenue Service a ruling or (B) since the date of this Indenture, there
has been a change in the applicable federal income tax law, in either case
to the effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall
confirm that, the Holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or
loss for federal income tax purposes as a result of such Legal Defeasance
and will be subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such Legal
Defeasance had not occurred; provided, however, that notwithstanding the
foregoing, the Opinion of Counsel required by this Section 8.03(b) with
respect to Legal Defeasance need not be delivered if all of the Notes not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation (x) have become due
and payable, (y) will become due and payable on the maturity date within
one year or (z) are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of
redemption by the Trustee in the name, and at the expense, of the Company;
(c) in the case of an election under Section 8.02(c) hereof, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel in the
United States reasonably acceptable to the Trustee confirming that the
Holders of the Notes will not recognize income, gain or loss for federal
income tax purposes as a result of such Covenant Defeasance and will be
subject to federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such Covenant Defeasance
had not occurred;
(d) no Default or Event of Default or event which with notice or
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fault or an Event of Default with respect to the Notes shall have occurred
and be continuing on the date of such deposit (other than a Default or
Event of Default resulting from the incurrence of Indebtedness all or a
portion of the proceeds of which will be used to defease the Notes
pursuant to this Article Eight concurrently with such incurrence) or
insofar as Sections 6.01(6) and 6.01(7) hereof are concerned, at any time
in the period ending on the 91st day after the date of such deposit;
(e) such Legal Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of or constitute a default under this Indenture or
any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries is a party or by which the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries is bound;
(f) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate stating that the deposit was not made by the Company with the
intent of preferring the Holders over any other creditors of the Company
or with the intent of defeating, hindering, delaying or defrauding any
other creditors of the Company or others;
(g) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all conditions
precedent provided for or relating to the Legal Defeasance or the Covenant
Defeasance have been complied with; and
(h) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of
Counsel to the effect that (i) the trust funds will not be subject to any
rights of any holders of Senior Debt, including, without limitation, those
arising under this Indenture, and (ii) assuming no intervening bankruptcy
or insolvency of the Company between the date of deposit and the 91st day
following the date of deposit and that no Holder is an insider of the
Company, after the 91st day following the date of deposit, the trust funds
will not be subject to the effect of any applicable Bankruptcy Law.
SECTION 8.04. Application of Trust Money.
The Trustee or Paying Agent shall hold in trust U.S. Legal Tender or
U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to Article Eight, and
shall apply the deposited U.S. Legal Tender and the money from U.S. Government
Obligations in
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accordance with this Indenture to the payment of principal of and interest on
the Notes. The Trustee shall be under no obligation to invest said U.S. Legal
Tender or U.S. Government Obligations except as it may agree with the Company.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee
or other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Legal Tender or U.S.
Government Obligations deposited pursuant to Section 8.03 hereof or the
principal and interest received in respect thereof other than any such tax, fee
or other charge which by law is for the account of the Holders of the
outstanding Notes.
Anything in this Article Eight to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall deliver or pay to the Company from time to time upon the Company's
request any U.S. Legal Tender or U. S. Government Obligations held by it as
provided in Section 8.03 hereof which, in the opinion of a nationally recognized
firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written certification
thereof delivered to the Trustee, are in excess of the amount thereof that would
then be required to be deposited to effect an equivalent Legal Defeasance or
Covenant Defeasance.
SECTION 8.05. Repayment to the Company.
Subject to Article Eight, the Trustee and the Paying Agent shall
promptly pay to the Company upon request any excess U.S. Legal Tender or U.S.
Government Obligations held by them at any time and thereupon shall be relieved
from all liability with respect to such money. The Trustee and the Paying Agent
shall pay to the Company upon request any money held by them for the payment of
principal or interest that remains unclaimed for two years; provided that the
Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any payment, may at
the expense of the Company cause to be published once in a newspaper of general
circulation in the City of New York or mail to each Holder entitled to such
money notice that such money remains unclaimed and that after a date specified
therein which shall be at least 30 days from the date of such publication or
mailing any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the
Company. After payment to the Company, Holders entitled to such money must look
to the Company for payment as general creditors unless an applicable law
designates another Person.
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SECTION 8.06. Reinstatement.
If the Trustee or Paying Agent is unable to apply any U.S. Legal
Tender or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Article Eight by reason
of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or judgment of any court or
governmental authority enjoining, restraining or otherwise prohibiting such
application, the Company's obligations under this Indenture and the Notes shall
be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to Article
Eight until such time as the Trustee or Paying Agent is permitted to apply all
such U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with Article
Eight; provided that if the Company has made any payment of interest on or
principal of any Notes because of the reinstatement of its obligations, the
Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the Holders of such Notes to
receive such payment from the U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations
held by the Trustee or Paying Agent.
ARTICLE NINE
AMENDMENTS, SUPPLEMENTS AND WAIVERS
SECTION 9.01. Without Consent of Holders.
The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee,
together, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes without notice to
or consent of any Holder:
(1) to cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency; provided that
such amendment or supplement does not, in the opinion of the Trustee,
adversely affect the rights of any Holder in any material respect;
(2) to comply with Article Five;
(3) to provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place
of certificated Notes;
(4) to comply with any requirements of the SEC in order to effect or
maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the TIA;
(5) to make any change that would provide any additional benefit or
rights to the Holders or that does not
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adversely affect in any material respect the rights of any Holder; or
(6) to provide for issuance of the Exchange Notes, which will have
terms substantially identical in all material respects to the Initial
Notes (except that the transfer restrictions contained in the Initial
Notes will be modified or eliminated, as appropriate), and which will be
treated together with any outstanding Initial Notes, as a single issue of
securities, provided that for purposes of this clause (6), the terms
Initial Notes and Exchange Notes, shall include any other Notes issued in
accordance with clause (iii) of the fourth paragraph of Section 2.02 or
Notes issued in exchange therefor which are identical in all material
respects to such Notes (except that the transfer restrictions on the Notes
issued in exchange for Notes issued in accordance with clause (iii) of the
fourth paragraph of Section 2.02 shall be modified or eliminated, as
appropriate);
provided that the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel and
an Officers' Certificate, each stating that such amendment or supplement
complies with the provisions of this Section 9.01.
SECTION 9.02. With Consent of Holders.
Subject to Section 6.07, the Company, when authorized by a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee, together, with the written consent of the Holder or
Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Notes, may amend or supplement this Indenture or the Notes, without notice to
any other Holders. Subject to Sections 6.04 and 6.07, the Holder or Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Notes may waive
compliance by the Company with any provision of this Indenture or the Notes
without notice to any other Holder. No amendment, supplement or waiver,
including a waiver pursuant to Section 6.04, shall, without the consent of each
Holder of each Note affected thereby:
(1) reduce the amount of Notes whose Holders must consent to an
amendment;
(2) reduce the rate of or change or have the effect of changing the
time for payment of interest, including defaulted interest, on any Notes;
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(3) reduce the principal of or change or have the effect of changing
the fixed maturity of any Notes, or change the date on which any Notes may
be subject to redemption or repurchase, or reduce the redemption or
repurchase price therefor;
(4) make any Notes payable in money other than that stated in the
Notes;
(5) make any change in provisions of this Indenture protecting the
right of each Holder to receive payment of principal of and interest on
such Note on or after the due date thereof or to bring suit to enforce
such payment, or permitting Holders of a majority in principal amount of
Notes to waive Defaults or Events of Default;
(6) amend, modify, change or waive any provision of this Section
9.02;
(7) amend, modify or change in any material respect the obligation
of the Company to make or consummate a Change of Control Offer in the
event of a Change of Control or make and consummate a Net Proceeds Offer
in respect of any Asset Sale that has been consummated or modify any of
the provisions or definitions with respect thereto after a Change of
Control has occurred or the subject Asset Sale has been consummated; or
(8) modify Article Ten or the definitions used in Article Ten to
adversely affect the Holders of the Notes in any material respect.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Holders under this
Section 9.02 to approve the particular form of any proposed amendment,
supplement or waiver, but it shall be sufficient if such consent approves the
substance thereof.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver under this Section 9.02
becomes effective, the Company shall mail to the Holders affected thereby a
notice briefly describing the amendment, supplement or waiver. Any failure of
the Company to mail such notice, or any defect therein, shall not, however, in
any way impair or affect the validity of any such supplemental indenture.
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SECTION 9.03. Effect on Senior Debt.
No amendment of this Indenture shall adversely affect the rights of
any holder of Senior Debt under Article Ten of this Indenture, without the
consent of such holder.
SECTION 9.04. Compliance with TIA.
Every amendment, waiver or supplement of this Indenture or the Notes
shall comply with the TIA as then in effect.
SECTION 9.05. Revocation and Effect of Consents.
Until an amendment, waiver or supplement becomes effective, a
consent to it by a Holder is a continuing consent by the Holder and every
subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the same debt as
the consenting Holder's Note, even if notation of the consent is not made on any
Note. Subject to the following paragraph, any such Holder or subsequent Holder
may revoke the consent as to such Holder's Note or portion of such Note by
notice to the Trustee or the Company received before the date on which the
Trustee receives an Officers' Certificate certifying that the Holders of the
requisite principal amount of outstanding Notes have consented (and not
theretofore revoked such consent) to the amendment, supplement or waiver (at
which time such amendment, supplement or waiver shall become effective).
The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a record date
for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to consent to any amendment,
supplement or waiver, which record date shall be at least 30 days prior to the
first solicitation of such consent. If a record date is fixed, then
notwithstanding the last sentence of the immediately preceding paragraph, those
Persons who were Holders at such record date (or their duly designated proxies),
and only those Persons, shall be entitled to revoke any consent previously
given, whether or not such Persons continue to be Holders after such record
date. No such consent shall be valid or effective for more than 90 days after
such record date.
After an amendment, supplement or waiver becomes effective, it shall
bind every Holder, unless it makes a change described in any of clauses (1)
through (8) of Section 9.02, in which case, the amendment, supplement or waiver
shall bind only each Holder of a Note who has consented to it and every
subsequent Holder of a Note or portion of a Note that evidences the
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same debt as the consenting Holder's Note; provided that any such waiver shall
not impair or affect the right of any Holder to receive payment of principal of
and interest on a Note, on or after the respective due dates expressed in such
Note, or to bring suit for the enforcement of any such payment on or after such
respective dates without the consent of such Holder.
SECTION 9.06. Notation on or Exchange of Notes.
If an amendment, supplement or waiver changes the terms of a Note,
the Trustee may require the Holder of such Note to deliver it to the Trustee.
The Trustee may place an appropriate notation on the Note about the changed
terms and return it to the Holder. Alternatively, if the Company or the Trustee
so determines, the Company in exchange for the Note shall issue and the Trustee
shall authenticate a new Note that reflects the changed terms. Any such notation
or exchange shall be made at the sole cost and expense of the Company.
SECTION 9.07. Trustee To Sign Amendments, Etc.
The Trustee shall execute any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to this Article Nine; provided that the Trustee may, but
shall not be obligated to, execute any such amendment, supplement or waiver
which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this
Indenture. The Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and shall be fully
protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel and an Officers' Certificate
each stating that the execution of any amendment, supplement or waiver
authorized pursuant to this Article Nine is authorized or permitted by this
Indenture. Such Opinion of Counsel shall not be an expense of the Trustee.
ARTICLE TEN
SUBORDINATION
SECTION 10.01. Notes Subordinated to Senior Debt.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of the Notes, by
its acceptance thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that all Notes shall be
issued subject to the provisions of this Article Ten; and the Trustee and each
Person
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holding any Note, whether upon original issue or upon transfer, assignment or
exchange thereof, accepts and agrees that the payment of all Obligations on the
Notes by the Company shall, to the extent and in the manner herein set forth, be
subordinated and junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full in cash
or Cash Equivalents of all Obligations on the Senior Debt; that the
subordination is for the benefit of, and shall be enforceable directly by, the
holders of Senior Debt, and that each holder of Senior Debt whether now
outstanding or hereafter created, incurred, assumed or guaranteed shall be
deemed to have acquired Senior Debt in reliance upon the covenants and
provisions contained in this Indenture and the Notes.
SECTION 10.02. No Payment on Notes in
Certain Circumstances.
(a) If any default occurs and is continuing in the payment when due,
whether at maturity, upon redemption, by declaration or otherwise, of any
principal of, interest on, unpaid drawings for letters of credit issued in
respect of, or regularly accruing fees with respect to, any Senior Debt, no
payment of any kind or character shall be made by, or on behalf of, the Company
or any other Person on its or their behalf with respect to any Obligations on
the Notes, or to acquire any of the Notes for cash or property or otherwise. In
addition, if any other event of default occurs and is continuing with respect to
any Designated Senior Debt, as such event of default is defined in the
instrument creating or evidencing such Designated Senior Debt, permitting the
holders of such Designated Senior Debt then outstanding to accelerate the
maturity thereof and if the Representative for the respective issue of
Designated Senior Debt gives notice of the event of default to the Trustee (a
"Default Notice"), then, unless and until all events of default have been cured
or waived or have ceased to exist or the Trustee receives notice thereof from
the Representative for the respective issue of Designated Senior Debt
terminating the Blockage Period (as defined below), during the 180 days after
the delivery of such Default Notice (the "Blockage Period"), neither the Company
nor any other Person on its behalf shall (x) make any payment of any kind or
character with respect to any Obligations on the Notes or (y) acquire any of the
Notes for cash or property or otherwise. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, in no event will a Blockage Period extend beyond 180 days from the
date the payment on the Notes was due and only one such Blockage Period may be
commenced within any 360 consecutive days. No event of default which existed or
was continuing on the date of the commencement of any Blockage Period with
respect to the Designated Senior Debt shall be, or
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be made, the basis for the commencement of a second Blockage Period by the
Representative of such Designated Senior Debt whether or not within a period of
360 consecutive days, unless such event of default shall have been cured or
waived for a period of not less than 90 consecutive days (it being acknowledged
that any subsequent action, or any breach of any financial covenants for a
period commencing after the date of commencement of such Blockage Period that,
in either case, would give rise to an event of default pursuant to any
provisions under which an event of default previously existed or was continuing
shall constitute a new event of default for this purpose).
(b) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment
shall be received by the Trustee or any Holder when such payment is prohibited
by Section 10.02(a), such payment shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and
shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of Senior Debt (pro rata to such
holders on the basis of the respective amount of Senior Debt held by such
holders) or their respective Representatives, as their respective interests may
appear. The Trustee shall be entitled to rely on information regarding amounts
then due and owing on the Senior Debt, if any, received from the holders of
Senior Debt (or their Representatives) or, if such information is not received
from such holders or their Representatives, from the Company and only amounts
included in the information provided to the Trustee shall be paid to the holders
of Senior Debt.
Nothing contained in this Article Ten shall limit the right of the
Trustee or the Holders of Notes to take any action to accelerate the maturity of
the Notes pursuant to Section 6.02 or to pursue any rights or remedies
hereunder; provided that all Senior Debt thereafter due or declared to be due
shall first be paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents before the Holders are
entitled to receive any payment of any kind or character with respect to
Obligations on the Notes.
SECTION 10.03. Payment Over of Proceeds
upon Dissolution, Etc.
(a) Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any
kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors upon
any total or partial liquidation, dissolution, winding-up, reorganization,
assignment for the benefit of creditors or marshaling of assets of the Company
or in a bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, receivership or other similar
proceeding relating to the Company or its prop-
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erty, whether voluntary or involuntary, all Obligations due or to become due
upon all Senior Debt shall first be paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, or
such payment duly provided for to the satisfaction of the holders of Senior
Debt, before any payment or distribution of any kind or character is made on
account of any Obligations on the Notes, or for the acquisition of any of the
Notes for cash or property or otherwise. Upon any such dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation, reorganization, receivership or similar proceeding, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, to which the Holders of the Notes or the Trustee under
this Indenture would be entitled, except for the provisions hereof, shall be
paid by the Company or by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating
trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, or by the
Holders or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them, directly to
the holders of Senior Debt (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the
respective amounts of Senior Debt held by such holders) or their respective
Representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to
which any of such Senior Debt may have been issued, as their respective
interests may appear, for application to the payment of Senior Debt remaining
unpaid until all such Senior Debt has been paid in full in cash or Cash
Equivalents after giving effect to any concurrent payment, distribution or
provision therefor to or for the holders of Senior Debt.
(b) To the extent any payment of Senior Debt (whether by or on
behalf of the Company, as proceeds of security or enforcement of any right of
setoff or otherwise) is declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or
required to be paid to any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee,
agent or other similar Person under any bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership,
fraudulent conveyance or similar law, then, if such payment is recovered by, or
paid over to, such receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent
or other similar Person, the Senior Debt or part thereof originally intended to
be satisfied shall be deemed to be reinstated and outstanding as if such payment
had not occurred.
(c) In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, shall be received by any Holder when such payment or
distribution is prohibited by Section 10.03(a), such payment or distribution
shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered
to, the holders of Senior Debt (pro rata to such holders on the basis of the
respective amount of Senior
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Debt held by such holders) or their respective Representatives, or to the
trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior
Debt may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, for
application to the payment of Senior Debt remaining unpaid until all such Senior
Debt has been paid in full in cash or Cash Equivalents, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment, distribution or provision therefor to or for the holders
of such Senior Debt.
(d) The consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the
Company with or into, another corporation or the liquidation or dissolution of
the Company following the conveyance or transfer of all or substantially all of
its assets, to another corporation upon the terms and conditions provided in
Article Five hereof and as long as permitted under the terms of the Senior Debt
shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization for
the purposes of this Section if such other corporation shall, as a part of such
consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer, assume the Company's obligations
hereunder in accordance with Article Five hereof.
SECTION 10.04. Payments May Be Paid Prior to
Dissolution.
Nothing contained in this Article Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture
shall prevent (i) the Company, except under the conditions described in Sections
10.02 and 10.03, from making payments at any time for the purpose of making
payments of principal of and interest on the Notes, or from depositing with the
Trustee any moneys for such payments, or (ii) in the absence of actual knowledge
by the Trustee that a given payment would be prohibited by Section 10.02 or
10.03, the application by the Trustee of any moneys deposited with it for the
purpose of making such payments of principal of, and interest on, the Notes to
the Holders entitled thereto unless at least two Business Days prior to the date
upon which such payment would otherwise become due and payable a Trust Officer
shall have actually received the written notice provided for in the second
sentence of Section 10.02(a) or in Section 10.07 (provided that, notwithstanding
the foregoing, such application shall otherwise be subject to the provisions of
the first sentence of Section 10.02(a) and Section 10.03). The Company shall
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation or reorganization of the Company.
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SECTION 10.05. Subrogation.
Subject to the payment in full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all
Senior Debt, the Holders of the Notes shall be subrogated to the rights of the
holders of Senior Debt to receive payments or distributions of cash, property or
securities of the Company applicable to the Senior Debt until the Notes shall be
paid in full; and, for the purposes of such subrogation, no such payments or
distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt by or on behalf of the Company
or by or on behalf of the Holders by virtue of this Article Ten which otherwise
would have been made to the Holders shall, as between the Company and the
Holders of the Notes, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account
of the Senior Debt, it being understood that the provisions of this Article Ten
are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the relative rights of
the Holders of the Notes, on the one hand, and the holders of the Senior Debt,
on the other hand.
SECTION 10.06. Obligations of the Company
Unconditional.
Nothing contained in this Article Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture
or in the Notes is intended to or shall impair, as among the Company, its
creditors other than the holders of Senior Debt, and the Holders, the obligation
of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the Holders the
principal of and any interest on the Notes as and when the same shall become due
and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or shall affect
the relative rights of the Holders and creditors of the Company other than the
holders of the Senior Debt, nor shall anything herein or therein prevent the
Holder of any Note or the Trustee on its behalf from exercising all remedies
otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this Indenture, subject
to the rights, if any, in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company
received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
SECTION 10.07. Notice to Trustee.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
fact known to the Company which would prohibit the making of any payment to or
by the Trustee in respect of the Notes pursuant to the provisions of this
Article Ten. Regardless of anything to the contrary contained in this Article
Ten or elsewhere in this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be charged with
knowledge of the existence of any default or event of default with respect to
any Senior Debt or of any other
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facts which would prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee unless
and until the Trustee shall have received notice in writing from the Company, or
from a holder of Senior Debt or a Representative therefor, together with proof
satisfactory to the Trustee of such holding of Senior Debt or of the authority
of such Representative, and, prior to the receipt of any such written notice,
the Trustee shall be entitled to assume (in the absence of actual knowledge to
the contrary) that no such facts exist.
In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that any
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of
Senior Debt to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this
Article Ten, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amounts of Senior Debt held by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such
Person under this Article Ten, and if such evidence is not furnished the Trustee
may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as to the
right of such Person to receive such payment.
SECTION 10.08. Reliance on Judicial Order or
Certificate of Liquidating Agent.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred
to in this Article Ten, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article Seven
hereof, and the Holders of the Notes shall be entitled to rely upon any order or
decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which any insolvency,
bankruptcy, receivership, dissolution, winding-up, liquidation, reorganization
or similar case or proceeding is pending, or upon a certificate of the receiver,
trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, receiver, assignee for the benefit
of creditors, agent or other person making such payment or distribution,
delivered to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes, for the purpose of
ascertaining the persons entitled to participate in such payment or
distribution, the holders of the Senior Debt and other Indebtedness of the
Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or
distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent thereto or to this Article
Ten.
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SECTION 10.09. Trustee's Relation to Senior Debt.
The Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be
entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article Ten with respect to any
Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it in its individual or any other
capacity to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Debt and nothing in
this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee or any such agent of any of its rights
as such holder.
With respect to the holders of Senior Debt, the Trustee undertakes
to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Article Ten, and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Debt shall be read into this
Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe any
fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt.
Whenever a distribution is to be made or a notice given to holders
or owners of Senior Debt, the distribution may be made and the notice may be
given to their Representative, if any.
SECTION 10.10. Subordination Rights Not Impaired
by Acts or Omissions of the Company
or Holders of Senior Debt.
No right of any present or future holders of any Senior Debt to
enforce subordination as provided herein shall at any time in any way be
prejudiced or impaired by any act or failure to act on the part of the Company
or by any act or failure to act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any
noncompliance by the Company with the terms of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof which any such holder may have or otherwise be charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing
paragraph, the holders of Senior Debt may, at any time and from time to time,
without the consent of or notice to the Trustee, without incurring
responsibility to the Trustee or the Holders of the Notes and without impairing
or releasing the subordination provided in this Article Ten or the obligations
hereunder of the Holders of the Notes to the holders of the Senior Debt, do any
one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place or terms of payment
or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, Senior Debt, or otherwise
amend
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or supplement in any manner Senior Debt, or any instrument evidencing the same
or any agreement under which Senior Debt is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange,
release or otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise
securing Senior Debt; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the
payment or collection of Senior Debt; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
SECTION 10.11. Noteholders Authorize Trustee To
Effectuate Subordination of Notes.
Each Holder of Notes by its acceptance of them authorizes and
expressly directs the Trustee on its behalf to take such action as may be
necessary or appropriate to effectuate, as between the holders of Senior Debt
and the Holders of Notes, the subordination provided in this Article Ten, and
appoints the Trustee its attorney-in-fact for such purposes, including, in the
event of any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership, reorganization or
similar proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or
otherwise) tending towards liquidation of the business and assets of the
Company, the filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of its Notes and accrued
interest in the form required in those proceedings.
If the Trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the
form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the
time to file such claim or claims, then the holders of the Senior Debt or their
Representative are or is hereby authorized to have the right to file and are or
is hereby authorized to file an appropriate claim for and on behalf of the
Holders of said Notes. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee or the holders of Senior Debt or their Representative to authorize or
consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder any plan of
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Notes or
the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee or the holders of
Senior Debt or their Representative to vote in respect of the claim of any
Holder in any such proceeding.
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SECTION 10.12. This Article Ten Not To Prevent
Events of Default.
The failure to make a payment on account of principal of or interest
on the Notes by reason of any provision of this Article Ten will not be
construed as preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default.
SECTION 10.13. Trustee's Compensation
Not Prejudiced.
Nothing in this Article Ten will apply to amounts due to the Trustee
pursuant to other sections in this Indenture.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.01. TIA Controls.
If any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies, or conflicts
with another provision which is required to be included in this Indenture by the
TIA, the required TIA provision shall control.
SECTION 11.02. Notices.
Any notices or other communications required or permitted hereunder
shall be in writing, and shall be sufficiently given if made by hand delivery,
by commercial courier service, by telex, by telecopier or registered or
certified mail, postage prepaid, return receipt requested, addressed as follows:
if to the Company:
MCMS, Inc.
16399 Franklin Road
Nampa, ID 83687
Facsimile No.: (208) 898-7411
Attn: Corporate Counsel
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if to the Trustee:
United States Trust Company of New York
114 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036
Facsimile No.: (212) 852-1627
Attention: Corporate Trust and Agency Services
Each of the Company and the Trustee by written notice to each other
such Person may designate additional or different addresses for notices to such
Person. Any notice or communication to the Company or the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been given or made as of the date so delivered if personally
delivered; when receipt is confirmed if delivered by commercial courier service;
when answered back, if telexed; when receipt is acknowledged, if faxed; and five
(5) calendar days after mailing if sent by registered or certified mail, postage
prepaid (except that a notice of change of address shall not be deemed to have
been given until actually received by the addressee).
Any notice or communication mailed to a Holder shall be mailed to
him by first class mail or other equivalent means at his address as it appears
on the registration books of the Registrar and shall be sufficiently given to
him if so mailed within the time prescribed.
Failure to mail a notice or communication to a Holder or any defect
in it shall not affect its sufficiency with respect to other Holders. If a
notice or communication is mailed in the manner provided above, it is duly
given, whether or not the addressee receives it.
SECTION 11.03. Communications by Holders with
Other Holders.
Holders may communicate pursuant to TIA ss. 312(b) with other
Holders with respect to their rights under this Indenture or the Notes. The
Company, the Trustee, the Registrar and any other Person shall have the
protection of TIA ss. 312(c).
SECTION 11.04. Certificate and Opinion as to
Conditions Precedent.
Upon any request or application by the Company to the Trustee to
take any action under this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee:
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(1) an Officers' Certificate, in form and substance satisfactory to
the Trustee, stating that, in the opinion of the signers, all conditions
precedent to be performed by the Company, if any, provided for in this
Indenture relating to the proposed action have been complied with; and
(2) an Opinion of Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such
counsel, all such conditions precedent to be performed by the Company, if
any, provided for in this Indenture relating to the proposed action have
been complied with.
SECTION 11.05. Statements Required in
Certificate or Opinion.
Each certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture, other than the Officers'
Certificate required by Section 4.06, shall include:
(1) a statement that the Person making such certificate or opinion
has read such covenant or condition and the definitions relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of such Person, he has made
such examination or investigation as is reasonably necessary to enable him
to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of each such
Person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 11.06. Rules by Trustee, Paying Agent, Registrar.
The Trustee may make reasonable rules in accordance with the
Trustee's customary practices for action by or at a meeting of Holders. The
Paying Agent or Registrar may make reasonable rules for its functions.
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SECTION 11.07. Legal Holidays.
A "Legal Holiday" used with respect to a particular place of payment
is a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in New York, New
York or at such place of payment are not required to be open. If a payment date
is a Legal Holiday at such place, payment may be made at such place on the next
succeeding day that is not a Legal Holiday, and no interest shall accrue for the
intervening period.
SECTION 11.08. Governing Law.
THIS INDENTURE AND THE NOTES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, AS APPLIED TO CONTRACTS MADE
AND PERFORMED WITHIN THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO PRINCIPLES OF
CONFLICT OF LAWS. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES TO SUBMIT TO THE
JURISDICTION OF THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING
ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS INDENTURE.
SECTION 11.09. No Adverse Interpretation of Other
Agreements.
This Indenture may not be used to interpret another indenture, loan
or debt agreement of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries. Any such indenture,
loan or debt agreement may not be used to interpret this Indenture.
SECTION 11.10. No Recourse Against Others.
A director, officer, employee, stockholder or incorporator, as such,
of the Company or of the Trustee shall not have any liability for any
obligations of the Company under the Notes or this Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of such obligations or their creation. Each
Holder by accepting a Note waives and releases all such liability. Such waiver
and release are part of the consideration for the issuance of the Notes.
SECTION 11.11. Successors.
All agreements of the Company in this Indenture and the Notes shall
bind its successors. All agreements of the Trustee in this Indenture shall bind
its successors.
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SECTION 11.12. Duplicate Originals.
All parties may sign any number of copies of this Indenture. Each
signed copy shall be an original, but all of them together shall represent the
same agreement.
SECTION 11.13. Severability.
In case any one or more of the provisions in this Indenture or in
the Notes shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable, in any respect for
any reason, the validity, legality and enforceability of any such provision in
every other respect and of the remaining provisions shall not in any way be
affected or impaired thereby, it being intended that all of the provisions
hereof shall be enforceable to the full extent permitted by law.
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SIGNATURES
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, all as of the date first written above.
Issuer:
MCMS, INC.
By: /s/ Chris J. Anton
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Name: Chris J. Anton
Title: Vice President, Finance & CFO
Trustee:
United States Trust Company of New
York, as Trustee
By: /s/ James E. Logan
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Name: James E. Logan
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A-1
CUSIP No.:
MCMS, INC.
9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008
No. $
MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), for value
received, promises to pay to or registered assigns, the
principal sum of Dollars, on March 1, 2008.
Interest Payment Dates: March 1 and September 1, commencing
September 1, 1998.
Record Dates: February 15 and August 15
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security
contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set
forth at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be
signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.
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Dated:
MCMS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
Trustee's Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the 9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
United States Trust Company of New
York , as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)
9 3/4% SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE DUE 2008
1. Interest. MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"),
promises to pay interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per
annum shown above. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date
on which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from February
26, 1998. The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each
Interest Payment Date, commencing September 1, 1998, for the period commencing
on and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date and ending on
and including the date next preceding the Interest Payment Date, with the
exception that the first Interest Period shall commence on and include February
26, 1998 and end on and include August 31, 1998. Interest will be computed on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.
2. Method of Payment. The Company shall pay interest on the Notes
(except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the
close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date even if the Notes are canceled on registration of transfer or registration
of exchange (including pursuant to an Exchange Offer (as defined in the
Registration Rights Agreement)) after such Record Date. Holders must surrender
Notes to a Paying Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay
principal and interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender").
However, the Company may pay principal and interest by its check payable in such
U.S. Legal Tender. The Company may deliver any such interest payment to the
Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered address.
3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, United States Trust
Company of New York, a New York corporation (the "Trustee"), will act as Paying
Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or
co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.
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4. Indenture. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated
as of February 26, 1998 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and the Trustee.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Initial Fixed Rate Notes of the
Company designated as its 9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 (the
"Initial Fixed Rate Notes"). The Notes include the Fixed Rate Notes and the
Floating Rate Notes (as defined in the Indenture). The Fixed Rate Notes and the
Floating Rate Notes are treated as a single class of securities under the
Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture or the Notes. Except as
set forth in the Indenture, the Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount
outstanding at any time to $275,000,000, which may be issued under the
Indenture. Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code ss.ss. 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in
effect on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are
referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Notes are
general unsecured obligations of the Company.
5. Subordination. The Notes are subordinated in right of payment, in
the manner and to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to the prior payment in
full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Debt of the Company, whether
outstanding on the date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed. Each Holder by its acceptance hereof agrees to be bound
by such provisions and authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee, on its
behalf, to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided for in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee its
attorney-in-fact for such purposes.
6. Redemption.
(a) Optional Redemption. The Fixed Rate Notes will be redeemable, at
the Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and
after March 1, 2003, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the
following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount
thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on March 1 of the
year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of redemption:
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Year Percentage
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2003............................................... 104.875%
2004............................................... 103.250%
2005............................................... 101.625%
2006 and thereafter................................ 100.000%
(b) Optional Redemption upon Public Equity Offerings. At any time,
or from time to time, on or prior to March 1, 2001, the Company may, at its
option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Public Equity Offerings to
redeem the Fixed Rate Notes at a redemption price equal to 109.750% of the
principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to
the date of redemption; provided that at least 65% of (x) the principal amount
of Fixed Rate Notes originally issued on the Issue Date plus (y) any additional
Fixed Rate Notes issued after the Issue Date pursuant to the Indenture remain
outstanding immediately after any such redemption.
In order to effect the foregoing redemption with the proceeds of any
Public Equity Offering, the Company shall make such redemption not more than 120
days after the consummation of any such Public Equity Offering.
7. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption will be mailed at
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address. Notes in
denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if monies for the redemption
of the Notes called for redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying
Agent for redemption on such Redemption Date, then, unless the Company defaults
in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest from and after
such Redemption Date and the only right of the Holders of such Notes will be to
receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any.
8. Offers to Purchase. Sections 4.15 and 4.16 of the Indenture
provide that, after certain Asset Sales and upon the occurrence of a Change of
Control, and subject to further limitations contained therein, the Company will
make an offer to purchase certain amounts of the Notes in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Indenture.
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9. Registration Rights. Pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement, the Company will be obligated to consummate an exchange offer
pursuant to which the Holder of this Note shall have the right to exchange this
Note for the Company's 9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 (the
"Exchange Fixed Rate Notes"), which have been registered under the Securities
Act, in like principal amount and having terms identical in all material
respects to the Initial Fixed Rate Notes. The Holders of the Initial Notes shall
be entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such
exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all
pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.
10. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. The Notes are in registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance
with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to
furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain
transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith
as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of
or exchange of any Notes or portions thereof selected for redemption.
11. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note shall be
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
12. Unclaimed Money. If money for the payment of principal or
interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company. After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.
13. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity. If the Company at any
time deposits with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of the Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of and interest on the Notes).
14. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions,
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at
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least a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding,
and any existing Default or Event of Default or noncompliance with any provision
may be waived with the written consent of the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Notes then outstanding. Without notice to or consent of
any Holder, the parties thereto may amend or supplement the Indenture or the
Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity, defect or inconsistency,
provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in place of certificated
Notes, or comply with Article Five of the Indenture or make any other change
that does not adversely affect in any material respect the rights of any Holder
of a Note.
15. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture imposes certain limitations
on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other
things, incur additional Indebtedness, make payments in respect of its Capital
Stock or certain Indebtedness, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create
dividend or other payment restrictions affecting Subsidiaries, merge or
consolidate with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation. Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions. The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.
16. Successors. When a successor assumes, in accordance with the
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.
17. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all the Notes to be due and payable
in the manner, at the time and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided
in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the
Notes unless it has received indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it. The
Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct
the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from
Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a
Default in payment of principal or interest) if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest.
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18. Trustee Dealings with Company. The Trustee under the Indenture,
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their
respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
19. No Recourse Against Others. No stockholder, director, officer,
employee or incorporator, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for
any obligation of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance
of the Notes.
20. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
or Authenticating Agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.
21. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern
this Note and the Indenture, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.
22. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary abbreviations may be
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
23. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the
Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed
on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
24. Indenture. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time.
The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written
request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has the text of this
Note in larger type. Requests may be made to: MCMS, Inc., 16399 Franklin Road,
Nampa, ID 83687, Attn: Corporate Counsel.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
If you the Holder want to assign this Note, fill in the form below
and have your signature guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
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(Print or type name, address and zip code and
social security or tax ID number of assignee)
and irrevocably appoint ______________________________________, agent to
transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another
to act for him.
Date: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the other side of
this Note)
Signature Guarantee:
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In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the
date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the SEC of the
effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act") covering resales of this Note (which
effectiveness shall not have been suspended or terminated at the date of the
transfer) and (ii)February 27, 2000, the undersigned confirms that it has not
utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the
transfer and that this Note is being transferred:
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[Check One]
(1) __ to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or
(2) __ pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act; or
(3) __ to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) that has
furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain
representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
be obtained from the Trustee); or
(4) __ outside the United states to a "foreign person" in compliance
with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or
(5) __ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule
144 under the Securities Act; or
(6) __ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act; or
(7) __ pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act;
and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is
not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):
|_| The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.
Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided that if box (3), (4),
(5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to
registering any such transfer of the Notes, in its sole discretion, such legal
opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the case of box (3)
or (4)) and other information as the Trustee or the Company has reasonably
requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption
from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the
Securities Act.
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If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or Registrar shall not be
obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other than the Holder
hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set
forth herein and in Section 2.17 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.
Dated: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as name
appears on the other side of
this Security)
Signature Guarantee:
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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act
and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and
acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the
undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request
such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the
undersigned's foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from
registration provided by Rule 144A.
Dated:
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NOTICE: To be executed by
an executive officer
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[OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE]
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
Section 4.15 [ ]
Section 4.16 [ ]
If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, state the
amount you elect to have purchased:
$
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Dated:
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NOTICE: The signature on this
assignment must correspond with the
name as it appears upon the face of
the within Note in every particular
without alteration or enlargement or
any change whatsoever and be
guaranteed by the endorser's bank or
broker.
Signature Guarantee:
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EXHIBIT A-2
CUSIP No.:
MCMS, INC.
Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities
due 2008 (FIRSTS)(SM)*
No. $
MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), for value
received, promises to pay to or registered assigns, the principal sum of
Dollars, on March 1, 2008.
Interest Payment Dates: March 1 and September 1, commencing
September 1, 1998.
Record Dates: February 15 and August 15
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security
contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set
forth at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be
signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.
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* FIRSTS is a service mark of BT Alex. Brown Incorporated.
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Dated:
MCMS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
Trustee's Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities due 2008
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
United States Trust Company of New
York , as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)
FLOATING INTEREST RATE SUBORDINATED TERM SECURITIES DUE 2008
1. Interest. MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), promises to pay
interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum, reset
semi-annually, equal to LIBOR (as defined below) plus 4 5/8%, as determined by
the Calculation Agent. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent
date on which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from
February 26, 1998. The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on
each Interest Payment Date, commencing September 1, 1998, for the period
commencing on and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date and
ending on and including the day next preceding the Interest Payment Date, with
the exception that the first Interest Period shall commence on and include
February 26, 1998 and end on and include August 31, 1998. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.
"LIBOR", with respect to an Interest Period, shall be the rate
(expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in United States dollars for
a six-month period beginning on the second London Banking Day (as defined) after
the Determination Date (as defined) that appears on Telerate Page 3750 (as
defined) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Determination Date. If Telerate
Page 3750 does not include such a rate or is unavailable on a Determination
Date, LIBOR for the Interest Period shall be the arithmetic mean of the rates
(expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in a Representative Amount
(as defined) in United States dollars for a six-month period beginning on the
second London Banking Day after the Determination Date that appears on Reuters
Screen LIBO Page (as defined) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the
Determination Date. If Reuters Screen LIBO Page does not include two or more
rates or is unavailable on a Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will
request the principal London office of each of four major banks in the London
interbank market, as selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide such bank's
offered quotation (expressed as a percentage per annum), as of approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, on such Determination Date, to prime
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banks in the London interbank market for deposits in a Representative Amount in
United States dollars for a six-month period beginning on the second London
Banking Day after the Determination Date. If at least two such offered
quotations are so provided, LIBOR for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic
mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such quotations are so provided, the
Calculation Agent will request each of three major banks in New York City, as
selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide such bank's rate (expressed as a
percentage per annum), as of approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on
such Determination Date, for loans in a Representative Amount in United States
dollars to leading European banks for a six-month period beginning on the second
London Banking Day after the Determination Date. If at least two such rates are
so provided, LIBOR for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of such
rates. If fewer than two such rates are so provided, then LIBOR for the Interest
Period will be LIBOR in effect with respect to the immediately preceding
Interest Period.
"Determination Date," with respect to an Interest Period, will be
the second London Banking Day preceding the first day of the Interest Period.
"London Banking Day" is any day in which dealings in United States
dollars are transacted or, with respect to any future date, are expected to be
transacted in the London interbank market.
"Representative Amount" means a principal amount of not less than
U.S. $1,000,000 for a single transaction in the relevant market at the relevant
time.
"Telerate Page 3750" means the display designated as "Page 3750" on
the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace Page 3750 on
that service).
"Reuters Screen LIBO Page" means the display designated as page
"LIBO" on The Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page as may
replace the LIBO page on that service).
The amount of interest for each day that this Floating Rate Note is
outstanding (the "Daily Interest Amount") will be calculated by dividing the
interest rate in effect for such day by 360 and multiplying the result by the
principal amount of this Note. The amount of interest to be paid on this Note
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for each Interest Period will be calculated by adding the Daily Interest Amounts
for each day in the Interest Period.
All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be
rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage
point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g.,
9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar
amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the
nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
The interest rate on this Note will in no event be higher than the
maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United
States law of general application. Under current New York law, the maximum rate
of interest is 25% per annum on a simple interest basis. This limit may not
apply to Notes in which $2,500,000 or more has been invested.
The Calculation Agent will, upon the request of the holder of any
Floating Rate Note, provide the interest rate then in effect with respect to
this Note. All calculations made by the Calculation Agent in the absence of
manifest error shall be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company
and the Holders of this Floating Rate Note.
2. Method of Payment.
The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted
interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business
on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the
Notes are canceled on registration of transfer or registration of exchange
(including pursuant to an Exchange Offer (as defined in the Registration Rights
Agreement)) after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying
Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and
interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender"). However,
the Company may pay principal and interest by its check payable in such U.S.
Legal Tender. The Company may deliver any such interest payment to the Paying
Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered address.
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3. Paying Agent, Registrar and
Calculation Agent.
Initially, United States Trust Company of New York (the "Trustee")
will act as Paying Agent, Registrar and Calculation Agent. The Company may
change any Paying Agent, Registrar, co-Registrar or Calculation Agent without
notice to the Holders.
4. Indenture.
The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of
February 26, 1998 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and the Trustee. This
Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Notes of the Company designated as its
Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities due 2008 (the "Floating Rate
Notes"). The Notes include the Floating Rate Notes and the Fixed Rate Notes (as
defined in the Indenture). The Floating Rate Notes and the Fixed Rate Notes are
treated as a single class of securities under the Indenture unless otherwise
specified in the Indenture or the Notes. Except as set forth in the Indenture,
the Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time to
$275,000,000, which may be issued under the Indenture. Capitalized terms used
herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. ss.ss. 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect
on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein,
the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to
the Indenture and the TIA for a statement of them. The Notes are general
unsecured obligations of the Company.
5. Subordination. The Notes are subordinated in right of payment, in
the manner and to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to the prior payment in
full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Debt of the Company, whether
outstanding on the date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed. Each Holder by its acceptance hereof agrees to be bound
by such provisions and authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee, on its
behalf, to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided for in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee its
attorney-in-fact for such purposes.
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6. Optional Redemption. The Floating Rate Notes will be redeemable,
at the Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon
not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the following redemption
prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount thereof) if redeemed
during the twelve-month period commencing on March 1 of the year set forth
below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the
date of redemption:
Year Percentage
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1998............................................... 105.000%
1999............................................... 104.000%
2000............................................... 103.000%
2001............................................... 102.000%
2002............................................... 101.000%
2003............................................... 100.000%
7. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption will be mailed at
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address. Notes in
denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if monies for the redemption
of the Notes called for redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying
Agent for redemption on such Redemption Date, then, unless the Company defaults
in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest from and after
such Redemption Date and the only right of the Holders of such Notes will be to
receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any.
8. Offers to Purchase. Sections 4.15 and 4.16 of the Indenture
provide that, after certain Asset Sales and upon the occurrence of a Change of
Control, and subject to further limitations contained therein, the Company will
make an offer to purchase certain amounts of the Notes in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Indenture.
9. Registration Rights. Pursuant to the Registration Rights
Agreement, the Company will be obligated to consummate an exchange offer
pursuant to which the Holder of this Note shall have the right to exchange this
Note for the Company's Series B Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term
Securities due 2008 (the "Exchange Floating Rate Notes"), which have been
registered under the Securities Act, in like princi-
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pal amount and having terms identical in all material respects to the Initial
Floating Rate Notes. The Holders of the Initial Floating Rate Notes shall be
entitled to receive certain additional interest payments in the event such
exchange offer is not consummated and upon certain other conditions, all
pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Registration Rights
Agreement.
10. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. The Notes are in registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance
with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to
furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain
transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith
as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of
or exchange of any Notes or portions thereof selected for redemption.
11. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note shall be
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
12. Unclaimed Money. If money for the payment of principal or
interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company. After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.
13. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity. If the Company at any
time deposits with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of the Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of and interest on the Notes).
14. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions,
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default or Event of Default or
noncompliance with any provision may be waived with the written consent of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may
amend or sup-
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plement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any ambiguity,
defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition to or in
place of certificated Notes, or comply with Article Five of the Indenture or
make any other change that does not adversely affect in any material respect the
rights of any Holder of a Note.
15. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture imposes certain limitations
on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other
things, incur additional Indebtedness, make payments in respect of its Capital
Stock or certain Indebtedness, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create
dividend or other payment restrictions affecting Subsidiaries, merge or
consolidate with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation. Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions. The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.
16. Successors. When a successor assumes, in accordance with the
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.
17. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all the Notes to be due and payable
in the manner, at the time and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided
in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the
Notes unless it has received indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it. The
Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct
the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from
Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a
Default in payment of principal or interest) if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest.
18. Trustee Dealings with Company. The Trustee under the Indenture,
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their
respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
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19. No Recourse Against Others. No stockholder, director, officer,
employee or incorporator, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for
any obligation of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance
of the Notes.
20. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
or Authenticating Agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.
21. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern
this Note and the Indenture, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.
22. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary abbreviations may be
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
23. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the
Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed
on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
24. Indenture. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time.
The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written
request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has the text of this
Note in larger type. Requests may be made to: MCMS, Inc., 16399 Franklin Road,
Nampa, ID 83687, Attn: Corporate Counsel.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
If you the Holder want to assign this Note, fill in the form below
and have your signature guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Print or type name, address and zip code and
social security or tax ID number of assignee)
and irrevocably appoint ______________________________________, agent to
transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another
to act for him.
Date: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the other side of
this Note)
Signature Guarantee:
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In connection with any transfer of this Note occurring prior to the
date which is the earlier of (i) the date of the declaration by the SEC of the
effectiveness of a registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended (the "Securities Act") covering resales of this Note (which
effectiveness shall not have been suspended or terminated at the date of the
transfer) and (ii)February 27, 2000 the undersigned confirms that it has not
utilized any general solicitation or general advertising in connection with the
transfer and that this Note is being transferred:
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[Check One]
(1) __ to the Company or a subsidiary thereof; or
(2) __ pursuant to and in compliance with Rule 144A under the
Securities Act; or
(3) __ to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) under the Securities Act) that has
furnished to the Trustee a signed letter containing certain
representations and agreements (the form of which letter can
be obtained from the Trustee); or
(4) __ outside the United states to a "foreign person" in compliance
with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act; or
(5) __ pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule
144 under the Securities Act; or
(6) __ pursuant to an effective registration statement under the
Securities Act; or
(7) __ pursuant to another available exemption from the registration
requirements of the Securities Act;
and unless the box below is checked, the undersigned confirms that such Note is
not being transferred to an "affiliate" of the Company as defined in Rule 144
under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (an "Affiliate"):
|_| The transferee is an Affiliate of the Company.
Unless one of the items is checked, the Trustee will refuse to
register any of the Notes evidenced by this certificate in the name of any
person other than the registered Holder thereof; provided that if box (3), (4),
(5) or (7) is checked, the Company or the Trustee may require, prior to
registering any such transfer of the Notes, in its sole discretion, such legal
opinions, certifications (including an investment letter in the case of box (3)
or (4)) and other information as the Trustee or the Company has reasonably
requested to confirm that such transfer is being made pursuant to an exemption
from, or in a transaction not subject to, the registration requirements of the
Securities Act.
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If none of the foregoing boxes is checked, the Trustee or Registrar shall not be
obligated to register this Note in the name of any person other than the Holder
hereof unless and until the conditions to any such transfer of registration set
forth herein and in Section 2.17 of the Indenture shall have been satisfied.
Dated: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as name
appears on the other side of
this Security)
Signature Guarantee:
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TO BE COMPLETED BY PURCHASER IF (2) ABOVE IS CHECKED
The undersigned represents and warrants that it is purchasing this
Note for its own account or an account with respect to which it exercises sole
investment discretion and that it and any such account is a "qualified
institutional buyer" within the meaning of Rule 144A under the Securities Act
and is aware that the sale to it is being made in reliance on Rule 144A and
acknowledges that it has received such information regarding the Company as the
undersigned has requested pursuant to Rule 144A or has determined not to request
such information and that it is aware that the transferor is relying upon the
undersigned's foregoing representations in order to claim the exemption from
registration provided by Rule 144A.
Dated:
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NOTICE: To be executed by
an executive officer
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[OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE]
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
Section 4.15 [ ]
Section 4.16 [ ]
If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, state the
amount you elect to have purchased:
$
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Dated:
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NOTICE: The signature on this
assignment must correspond with the
name as it appears upon the face of
the within Note in every particular
without alteration or enlargement or
any change whatsoever and be
guaranteed by the endorser's bank or
broker.
Signature Guarantee:
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EXHIBIT B-1
CUSIP No.
MCMS, INC.
9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008
No. $
MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), for value
received, promises to pay to or registered assigns, the
principal sum of Dollars, on March 1, 2008.
Interest Payment Dates: March 1 and September 1, commencing
September 1, 1998.
Record Dates: February 15 and August 15.
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security
contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set
forth at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be
signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.
Dated:
MCMS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
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Trustee's Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the 9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due
2008 referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
United States Trust Company of New
York, as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)
9 3/4% SERIES B SENIOR SUBORDINATED NOTE DUE 2008
1. Interest. MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), promises to pay
interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum shown above.
Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent date on which interest
has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from February 26, 1998. The
Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on each Interest Payment
Date, commencing September 1, 1998, for the period commencing on and including
the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date and ending on and including the
day next preceding the Interest Payment Date, with the exception that the first
Interest Period shall commence on and include February 26, 1998 and end on and
include August 31, 1998. Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day
year of twelve 30-day months.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.
2. Method of Payment. The Company shall pay interest on the Notes
(except defaulted interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the
close of business on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment
Date even if the Notes are canceled on registration of transfer or registration
of exchange after such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying
Agent to collect principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and
interest in money of the United States that at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender"). However,
the Company may pay principal and interest by its check payable in such U.S.
Legal Tender. The Company may deliver any such interest payment to the Paying
Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's registered address.
3. Paying Agent and Registrar. Initially, United States Trust
Company of New York, a New York corporation (the "Trustee"), will act as Paying
Agent and Registrar. The Company may change any Paying Agent, Registrar or
co-Registrar without notice to the Holders.
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4. Indenture. The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated
as of February 26, 1998 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and the Trustee.
This Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Exchange Notes of the Company
designated as its 9 3/4% Series B Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 (the
"Exchange Fixed Rate Notes"). The Notes include the Fixed Rate Notes and the
Floating Rate Notes (as defined in the Indenture). The Fixed Rate Notes and the
Floating Rate Notes are treated as a single class of securities under the
Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture or the Notes. Except as
set forth in the Indenture, the Notes are limited in aggregate principal amount
outstanding at any time to $275,000,000, which may be issued under the
Indenture. Capitalized terms herein are used as defined in the Indenture unless
otherwise defined herein. The terms of the Notes include those stated in the
Indenture and those made part of the Indenture by reference to the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S. Code ss.ss. 77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in
effect on the date of the Indenture. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein, the Notes are subject to all such terms, and Holders of Notes are
referred to the Indenture and said Act for a statement of them. The Notes are
general unsecured obligations of the Company.
5. Subordination. The Notes are subordinated in right of payment, in
the manner and to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to the prior payment in
full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Debt of the Company, whether
outstanding on the date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed. Each Holder by its acceptance hereof agrees to be bound
by such provisions and authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee, on its
behalf, to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided for in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee its
attorney-in-fact for such purposes.
6. Redemption.
(a) Optional Redemption. The Fixed Rate Notes will be redeemable, at
the Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, on and
after March 1, 2003, upon not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the
following redemption prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount
thereof) if redeemed during the twelve-month period commencing on March 1 of the
year set forth below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
if any, to the date of redemption:
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Year Percentage
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2003............................................... 104.875%
2004............................................... 103.250%
2005............................................... 101.625%
2006 and thereafter................................ 100.000%
(b) Optional Redemption upon Public Equity Offerings. At any time,
or from time to time, on or prior to March 1, 2001, the Company may, at its
option, use the net cash proceeds of one or more Public Equity Offerings (as
defined in the Indenture) to redeem the Fixed Rate Notes at a redemption price
equal to 109.750% of the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid
interest thereon, if any, to the date of redemption; provided that at least 65%
of (x) the principal amount of Fixed Rate Notes originally issued on the Issue
Date plus (y) any additional Fixed Rate Notes issued after the Issue Date
pursuant to the Indenture remain outstanding immediately after any such
redemption.
In order to effect the foregoing redemption with the proceeds of any
Public Equity Offering, the Company shall make such redemption not more than 120
days after the consummation of any such Public Equity Offering.
7. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption will be mailed at
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address. Notes in
denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if monies for the redemption
of the Notes called for redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying
Agent for redemption on such Redemption Date, then, unless the Company defaults
in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest from and after
such Redemption Date and the only right of the Holders of such Notes will be to
receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any.
8. Offers to Purchase. Sections 4.15 and 4.16 of the Indenture
provide that, after certain Asset Sales and upon the occurrence of a Change of
Control, and subject to further limitations contained therein, the Company will
make an offer to purchase certain amounts of the Notes in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Indenture.
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9. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. The Notes are in registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance
with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to
furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain
transfer taxes or similar governmental charges payable in connection therewith
as permitted by the Indenture. The Registrar need not register the transfer of
or exchange of any Notes or portions thereof selected for redemption.
10. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note shall be
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
11. Unclaimed Money. If money for the payment of principal or
interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company. After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.
12. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity. If the Company at any
time deposits with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of the Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of and interest on the Notes).
13. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions,
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default or Event of Default or
noncompliance with any provision may be waived with the written consent of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may
amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any
ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition
to or in place of certificated Notes, or comply with Article Five of the
Indenture or make any other change that does not adversely affect in any
material respect the rights of any Holder of a Note.
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14. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture imposes certain limitations
on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other
things, incur additional Indebtedness, make payments in respect of its Capital
Stock or certain Indebtedness, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create
dividend or other payment restrictions affecting Subsidiaries, merge or
consolidate with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of all or substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of
liquidation. Such limitations are subject to a number of important
qualifications and exceptions. The Company must annually report to the Trustee
on compliance with such limitations.
15. Successors. When a successor assumes, in accordance with the
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.
16. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all the Notes to be due and payable
in the manner, at the time and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided
in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the
Notes unless it has received indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it. The
Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct
the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from
Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a
Default in payment of principal or interest) if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest.
17. Trustee Dealings with Company. The Trustee under the Indenture,
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their
respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
18. No Recourse Against Others. No stockholder, director, officer,
employee or incorporator, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for
any obligation of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases
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all such liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the
issuance of the Notes.
19. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
or Authenticating Agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.
20. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern
this Note and the Indenture, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.
21. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary abbreviations may be
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
22. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the
Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed
on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
23. Indenture. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time.
The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written
request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has the text of this
Note in larger type. Requests may be made to: MCMS, Inc., 16399 Franklin Road,
Nampa, Idaho 83687, Attn: Corporate Counsel.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
If you the Holder want to assign this Note, fill in the form below
and have your signature guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(Print or type name, address and zip code and
social security or tax ID number of assignee)
and irrevocably appoint ______________________________________, agent to
transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another
to act for him.
Dated: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as name
appears on the other side of
this Note)
Signature Guarantee:
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[OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE]
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
Section 4.15 [ ]
Section 4.16 [ ]
If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, state the
amount you elect to have purchased:
$
-------------------
Dated:
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NOTICE: The signature on this
assignment must correspond with the
name as it appears upon the face of
the within Note in every particular
without alteration or enlargement or
any change whatsoever and be
guaranteed by the endorser's bank or
broker.
Signature Guarantee:
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EXHIBIT B-2
CUSIP No.:
MCMS, INC.
Series B Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities
due 2008 (FIRSTS)(SM)*
No. $
MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), for value
received, promises to pay to or registered assigns, the
principal sum of Dollars, on March 1, 2008.
Interest Payment Dates: March 1 and September 1, commencing
September 1, 1998.
Record Dates: February 15 and August 15
Reference is made to the further provisions of this Security
contained herein, which will for all purposes have the same effect as if set
forth at this place.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Security to be
signed manually or by facsimile by its duly authorized officers.
- ----------
* FIRSTS is a service mark of BT Alex. Brown Incorporated.
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Dated:
MCMS, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
By:
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Name:
Title:
Trustee's Certificate of Authentication
This is one of the Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities due 2008
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
Dated:
United States Trust Company of New
York, as Trustee
By:
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Authorized Signatory
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(REVERSE OF SECURITY)
FLOATING INTEREST RATE SUBORDINATED TERM SECURITIES DUE 2008
1. Interest. MCMS, INC., an Idaho corporation (the "Company"), promises to pay
interest on the principal amount of this Note at the rate per annum, reset
semi-annually, equal to LIBOR (as defined below) plus 4 5/8%, as determined by
the Calculation Agent. Interest on the Notes will accrue from the most recent
date on which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid, from
February 26, 1998. The Company will pay interest semi-annually in arrears on
each Interest Payment Date, commencing September 1, 1998, for the period
commencing on and including the immediately preceding Interest Payment Date and
ending on and including the day next preceding the Interest Payment Date, with
the exception that the first Interest Period shall commence on and include
February 26, 1998 and end on and include August 31, 1998. Interest will be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
The Company shall pay interest on overdue principal and on overdue
installments of interest from time to time on demand at the rate borne by the
Notes and on overdue installments of interest (without regard to any applicable
grace periods) to the extent lawful.
"LIBOR", with respect to an Interest Period, shall be the rate
(expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in United States dollars for
a six-month period beginning on the second London Banking Day (as defined) after
the Determination Date (as defined) that appears on Telerate Page 3750 (as
defined) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the Determination Date. If Telerate
Page 3750 does not include such a rate or is unavailable on a Determination
Date, LIBOR for the Interest Period shall be the arithmetic mean of the rates
(expressed as a percentage per annum) for deposits in a Representative Amount
(as defined) in United States dollars for a six-month period beginning on the
second London Banking Day after the Determination Date that appears on Reuters
Screen LIBO Page (as defined) as of 11:00 a.m., London time, on the
Determination Date. If Reuters Screen LIBO Page does not include two or more
rates or is unavailable on a Determination Date, the Calculation Agent will
request the principal London office of each of four major banks in the London
interbank market, as selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide such bank's
offered quotation (expressed as a percentage per annum), as of approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, on such Determination Date, to prime
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banks in the London interbank market for deposits in a Representative Amount in
United States dollars for a six-month period beginning on the second London
Banking Day after the Determination Date. If at least two such offered
quotations are so provided, LIBOR for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic
mean of such quotations. If fewer than two such quotations are so provided, the
Calculation Agent will request each of three major banks in New York City, as
selected by the Calculation Agent, to provide such bank's rate (expressed as a
percentage per annum), as of approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on
such Determination Date, for loans in a Representative Amount in United States
dollars to leading European banks for a six-month period beginning on the second
London Banking Day after the Determination Date. If at least two such rates are
so provided, LIBOR for the Interest Period will be the arithmetic mean of such
rates. If fewer than two such rates are so provided, then LIBOR for the Interest
Period will be LIBOR in effect with respect to the immediately preceding
Interest Period.
"Determination Date," with respect to an Interest Period, will be
the second London Banking Day preceding the first day of the Interest Period.
"London Banking Day" is any day in which dealings in United States
dollars are transacted or, with respect to any future date, are expected to be
transacted in the London interbank market.
"Representative Amount" means a principal amount of not less than
U.S. $1,000,000 for a single transaction in the relevant market at the relevant
time.
"Telerate Page 3750" means the display designated as "Page 3750" on
the Dow Jones Telerate Service (or such other page as may replace Page 3750 on
that service).
"Reuters Screen LIBO Page" means the display designated as page
"LIBO" on The Reuters Monitor Money Rates Service (or such other page as may
replace the LIBO page on that service).
The amount of interest for each day that this Floating Rate Note is
outstanding (the "Daily Interest Amount") will be calculated by dividing the
interest rate in effect for such day by 360 and multiplying the result by the
principal amount of this Note. The amount of interest to be paid on this Note
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for each Interest Period will be calculated by adding the Daily Interest Amounts
for each day in the Interest Period.
All percentages resulting from any of the above calculations will be
rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one hundred-thousandth of a percentage
point, with five one-millionths of a percentage point rounded upwards (e.g.,
9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to 9.87655% (or .0987655)) and all dollar
amounts used in or resulting from such calculations will be rounded to the
nearest cent (with one-half cent being rounded upwards).
The interest rate on this Note will in no event be higher than the
maximum rate permitted by New York law as the same may be modified by United
States law of general application. Under current New York law, the maximum rate
of interest is 25% per annum on a simple interest basis. This limit may not
apply to Notes in which $2,500,000 or more has been invested.
The Calculation Agent will, upon the request of the holder of any
Floating Rate Note, provide the interest rate then in effect with respect to
this Note. All calculations made by the Calculation Agent in the absence of
manifest error shall be conclusive for all purposes and binding on the Company
and the Holders of this Floating Rate Note.
2. Method of Payment.
The Company shall pay interest on the Notes (except defaulted
interest) to the Persons who are the registered Holders at the close of business
on the Record Date immediately preceding the Interest Payment Date even if the
Notes are canceled on registration of transfer or registration of exchange after
such Record Date. Holders must surrender Notes to a Paying Agent to collect
principal payments. The Company shall pay principal and interest in money of the
United States that at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of public
and private debts ("U.S. Legal Tender"). However, the Company may pay principal
and interest by check payable in such U.S. Legal Tender. The Company may deliver
any such interest payment to the Paying Agent or to a Holder at the Holder's
registered address.
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3. Paying Agent, Registrar and
Calculation Agent.
Initially, United States Trust Company of New York (the "Trustee")
will act as Paying Agent, Registrar and Calculation Agent. The Company may
change any Paying Agent, Registrar, co-Registrar or Calculation Agent without
notice to the Holders.
4. Indenture.
The Company issued the Notes under an Indenture, dated as of
February 26, 1998 (the "Indenture"), between the Company and the Trustee. This
Note is one of a duly authorized issue of Exchange Notes of the Company
designated as its Series B Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities
due 2008 (the "Exchange Floating Rate Notes"). The Notes include the Floating
Rate Notes and the Fixed Rate Notes (as defined in the Indenture). The Floating
Rate Notes and the Fixed Rate Notes are treated as a single class of securities
under the Indenture unless otherwise specified in the Indenture or the Notes.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, the Notes are limited in aggregate
principal amount outstanding at any time to $275,000,000, which may be issued
under the Indenture. Capitalized terms used herein shall have the meanings
assigned to them in the Indenture unless otherwise defined herein. The terms of
the Notes include those stated in the Indenture and those made part of the
Indenture by reference to the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 (15 U.S.C. ss.ss.
77aaa-77bbbb) (the "TIA"), as in effect on the date of the Indenture.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Notes are subject to all
such terms, and Holders of Notes are referred to the Indenture and the TIA for a
statement of them. The Notes are general unsecured obligations of the Company.
5. Subordination. The Notes are subordinated in right of payment, in
the manner and to the extent set forth in the Indenture, to the prior payment in
full in cash or Cash Equivalents of all Senior Debt of the Company, whether
outstanding on the date of the Indenture or thereafter created, incurred,
assumed or guaranteed. Each Holder by its acceptance hereof agrees to be bound
by such provisions and authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee, on its
behalf, to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided for in the Indenture and appoints the Trustee its
attorney-in-fact for such purposes.
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6. Optional Redemption. The Floating Rate Notes will be redeemable,
at the Company's option, in whole at any time or in part from time to time, upon
not less than 30 nor more than 60 days' notice, at the following redemption
prices (expressed as percentages of the principal amount thereof) if redeemed
during the twelve-month period commencing on March 1 of the year set forth
below, plus, in each case, accrued and unpaid interest thereon, if any, to the
date of redemption:
Year Percentage
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1998............................................... 105.000%
1999............................................... 104.000%
2000............................................... 103.000%
2001............................................... 102.000%
2002............................................... 101.000%
2003............................................... 100.000%
7. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption will be mailed at
least 30 days but not more than 60 days before the Redemption Date to each
Holder of Notes to be redeemed at such Holder's registered address. Notes in
denominations larger than $1,000 may be redeemed in part.
Except as set forth in the Indenture, if monies for the redemption
of the Notes called for redemption shall have been deposited with the Paying
Agent for redemption on such Redemption Date, then, unless the Company defaults
in the payment of such Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any, the Notes called for redemption will cease to bear interest from and after
such Redemption Date and the only right of the Holders of such Notes will be to
receive payment of the Redemption Price plus accrued and unpaid interest, if
any.
8. Offers to Purchase. Sections 4.15 and 4.16 of the Indenture
provide that, after certain Asset Sales and upon the occurrence of a Change of
Control, and subject to further limitations contained therein, the Company will
make an offer to purchase certain amounts of the Notes in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the Indenture.
9. Denominations; Transfer; Exchange. The Notes are in registered
form, without coupons, in denominations of $1,000 and integral multiples of
$1,000. A Holder shall register the transfer of or exchange Notes in accordance
with the Indenture. The Registrar may require a Holder, among other things, to
furnish appropriate endorsements and transfer documents and to pay certain
transfer taxes or similar governmental
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charges payable in connection therewith as permitted by the Indenture. The
Registrar need not register the transfer of or exchange of any Notes or portions
thereof selected for redemption.
10. Persons Deemed Owners. The registered Holder of a Note shall be
treated as the owner of it for all purposes.
11. Unclaimed Money. If money for the payment of principal or
interest remains unclaimed for two years, the Trustee and the Paying Agent will
pay the money back to the Company. After that, all liability of the Trustee and
such Paying Agent with respect to such money shall cease.
12. Discharge Prior to Redemption or Maturity. If the Company at any
time deposits with the Trustee U.S. Legal Tender or U.S. Government Obligations
sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on the Notes to redemption or
maturity and complies with the other provisions of the Indenture relating
thereto, the Company will be discharged from certain provisions of the Indenture
and the Notes (including certain covenants, but excluding its obligation to pay
the principal of and interest on the Notes).
13. Amendment; Supplement; Waiver. Subject to certain exceptions,
the Indenture or the Notes may be amended or supplemented with the written
consent of the Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Notes then outstanding, and any existing Default or Event of Default or
noncompliance with any provision may be waived with the written consent of the
Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then
outstanding. Without notice to or consent of any Holder, the parties thereto may
amend or supplement the Indenture or the Notes to, among other things, cure any
ambiguity, defect or inconsistency, provide for uncertificated Notes in addition
to or in place of certificated Notes, or comply with Article Five of the
Indenture or make any other change that does not adversely affect in any
material respect the rights of any Holder of a Note.
14. Restrictive Covenants. The Indenture imposes certain limitations
on the ability of the Company and its Restricted Subsidiaries to, among other
things, incur additional Indebtedness, make payments in respect of its Capital
Stock or certain Indebtedness, enter into transactions with Affiliates, create
dividend or other payment restrictions affecting Subsidiaries, merge or
consolidate with any other Person, sell, assign, transfer, lease, convey or
otherwise dispose of all or
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substantially all of its assets or adopt a plan of liquidation. Such limitations
are subject to a number of important qualifications and exceptions. The Company
must annually report to the Trustee on compliance with such limitations.
15. Successors. When a successor assumes, in accordance with the
Indenture, all the obligations of its predecessor under the Notes and the
Indenture, the predecessor will be released from those obligations.
16. Defaults and Remedies. If an Event of Default occurs and is
continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal
amount of Notes then outstanding may declare all the Notes to be due and payable
in the manner, at the time and with the effect provided in the Indenture.
Holders of Notes may not enforce the Indenture or the Notes except as provided
in the Indenture. The Trustee is not obligated to enforce the Indenture or the
Notes unless it has received indemnity reasonably satisfactory to it. The
Indenture permits, subject to certain limitations therein provided, Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Notes then outstanding to direct
the Trustee in its exercise of any trust or power. The Trustee may withhold from
Holders of Notes notice of any continuing Default or Event of Default (except a
Default in payment of principal or interest) if it determines that withholding
notice is in their interest.
17. Trustee Dealings with Company. The Trustee under the Indenture,
in its individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of
Notes and may otherwise deal with the Company, its Subsidiaries or their
respective Affiliates as if it were not the Trustee.
18. No Recourse Against Others. No stockholder, director, officer,
employee or incorporator, as such, of the Company shall have any liability for
any obligation of the Company under the Notes or the Indenture or for any claim
based on, in respect of or by reason of, such obligations or their creation.
Each Holder of a Note by accepting a Note waives and releases all such
liability. The waiver and release are part of the consideration for the issuance
of the Notes.
19. Authentication. This Note shall not be valid until the Trustee
or Authenticating Agent manually signs the certificate of authentication on this
Note.
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20. Governing Law. The laws of the State of New York shall govern
this Note and the Indenture, without regard to principles of conflict of laws.
21. Abbreviations and Defined Terms. Customary abbreviations may be
used in the name of a Holder of a Note or an assignee, such as: TEN COM (=
tenants in common), TEN ENT (= tenants by the entireties), JT TEN (= joint
tenants with right of survivorship and not as tenants in common), CUST (=
Custodian), and U/G/M/A (= Uniform Gifts to Minors Act).
22. CUSIP Numbers. Pursuant to a recommendation promulgated by the
Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures, the Company has caused
CUSIP numbers to be printed on the Notes as a convenience to the Holders of the
Notes. No representation is made as to the accuracy of such numbers as printed
on the Notes and reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers
printed hereon.
23. Indenture. Each Holder, by accepting a Note, agrees to be bound
by all of the terms and provisions of the Indenture, as the same may be amended
from time to time.
The Company will furnish to any Holder of a Note upon written
request and without charge a copy of the Indenture which has the text of this
Note in larger type. Requests may be made to: MCMS, Inc., 16399 Franklin Road,
Nampa, ID 83687, Attn: Corporate Counsel.
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ASSIGNMENT FORM
If you the Holder want to assign this Note, fill in the form below
and have your signature guaranteed:
I or we assign and transfer this Note to:
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(Print or type name, address and zip code and
social security or tax ID number of assignee)
and irrevocably appoint ______________________________________, agent to
transfer this Note on the books of the Company. The agent may substitute another
to act for him.
Date: Signed:
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(Sign exactly as your name
appears on the other side of
this Note)
Signature Guarantee:
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[OPTION OF HOLDER TO ELECT PURCHASE]
If you want to elect to have this Note purchased by the Company
pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, check the appropriate
box:
Section 4.15 [ ]
Section 4.16 [ ]
If you want to elect to have only part of this Note purchased by the
Company pursuant to Section 4.15 or Section 4.16 of the Indenture, state the
amount you elect to have purchased:
$
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Dated:
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NOTICE: The signature on this
assignment must correspond with the
name as it appears upon the face of
the within Note in every particular
without alteration or enlargement or
any change whatsoever and be
guaranteed by the endorser's bank or
broker.
Signature Guarantee:
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Exhibit C
Form of Certificate To Be
Delivered in Connection with
Transfers to Non-QIB Accredited Investors
[ ], [ ]
United States Trust Company of New York
114 West 47th Street
New York, New York 10036
Attention: Securities Processing
Window Level SC1
Re: MCMS, Inc.
9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008 (the "Fixed Rate
Notes") or Floating Interest Rate Subordinated Term Securities
due 2008 (the "Floating Rate Notes," and together with the
Fixed Rate Notes, the "Notes")
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed purchase of [Fixed Rate Notes]
[Floating Rate Notes] of MCMS, Inc. (the "Company"), we confirm that:
1. We have received a copy of the Offering Memorandum (the "Offering
Memorandum"), dated February 26, 1998 relating to the Notes and such other
information as we deem necessary in order to make our investment decision. We
acknowledge that we have read and agreed to the matters stated on pages (i)-(iv)
of the Offering Memorandum and in the section entitled "Transfer Restrictions"
of the Offering Memorandum, including the restrictions on duplication and
circulation of the Offering Memorandum.
2. We understand that any subsequent transfer of the Notes is
subject to certain restrictions and conditions set forth in the Indenture
relating to the Notes (as described in the Offering Memorandum) and the
undersigned agrees to be bound by, and not to resell, pledge or otherwise
transfer the Notes
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except in compliance with, such restrictions and conditions and the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act").
3. We understand that the offer and sale of the Notes have not been
registered under the Securities Act, and that the Notes may not be offered or
sold except as permitted in the following sentence. We agree, on our own behalf
and on behalf of any accounts for which we are acting as hereinafter stated,
that if we should sell or otherwise transfer any Notes prior to the date which
is two years after the original issuance of the Notes, we will do so only (i) to
the Company or any of its subsidiaries, (ii) inside the United States in
accordance with Rule 144A under the Securities Act to a "qualified institutional
buyer" (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act), (iii) inside the
United States to an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined below) that,
prior to such transfer, furnishes (or has furnished on its behalf by a U.S.
broker-dealer) to the Trustee (as defined in the Indenture relating to the
Notes), a signed letter containing certain representations and agreements
relating to the restrictions on transfer of the Notes, (iv) outside the United
States in accordance with Rule 904 of Regulation S under the Securities Act, (v)
pursuant to the exemption from registration provided by Rule 144 under the
Securities Act (if available), or (vi) pursuant to an effective registration
statement under the Securities Act, and we further agree to provide to any
person purchasing any of the Notes from us a notice advising such purchaser that
resales of the Notes are restricted as stated herein.
4. We are not acquiring the Notes for or on behalf of, and will not
transfer the Notes to, any pension or welfare plan (as defined in Section 3 of
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974), except as permitted in the
section entitled "Transfer Restrictions" of the Offering Memorandum.
5. We understand that, on any proposed resale of any Notes, we will
be required to furnish to the Trustee and the Company such certification, legal
opinions and other information as the Trustee and the Company may reasonably
require to confirm that the proposed sale complies with the foregoing
restrictions. We further understand that the Notes purchased by us will bear a
legend to the foregoing effect.
6. We are an institutional "accredited investor" (as defined in Rule
501(a)(1), (2), (3) or (7) of Regulation D under the Securities Act) and have
such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters as to be capable
of
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evaluating the merits and risks of our investment in the Notes, and we and any
accounts for which we are acting are each able to bear the economic risk of our
or their investment, as the case may be.
7. We are acquiring the Notes purchased by us for our account or for
one or more accounts (each of which is an institutional "accredited investor")
as to each of which we exercise sole investment discretion.
You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are
irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested
party in any administrative or legal proceeding or official inquiry with respect
to the matters covered hereby.
Very truly yours,
By:
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Name:
Title:
169
Exhibit D
Form of Certificate To Be Delivered
in Connection with Transfers
Pursuant to Regulation S
[ ], [ ]
United States Trust Company of New York
114 West 47th Street
New York, NY 10036
Attention: Securities Processing
Window Level SC1
Re: MCMS, INC. (the "Company")
9 3/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2008
(the "Fixed Rate Notes") or Floating Interest Rate
Subordinated Term Securities due 2008 (the "Floating
Rate Notes," and together with the Fixed Rate Notes, the
"Notes")
Ladies and Gentlemen:
In connection with our proposed sale of $ aggregate principal
amount of the [Fixed Rate Notes] [Floating Rate Notes], we confirm that such
sale has been effected pursuant to and in accordance with Regulation S under the
U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and,
accordingly, we represent that:
(1) the offer of the Notes was not made to a person in the United
States;
(2) either (a) at the time the buy offer was originated, the
transferee was outside the United States or we and any person acting on
our behalf reasonably believed that the transferee was outside the United
States, or (b) the transaction was executed in, on or through the
facilities of a designated off-shore securities market and neither we nor
any person acting on our behalf knows that the transaction has been
pre-arranged with a buyer in the United States;
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(3) no directed selling efforts have been made in the United States
in contravention of the requirements of Rule 903(b) or Rule 904(b) of
Regulation S, as applicable;
(4) the transaction is not part of a plan or scheme to evade the
registration requirements of the Securities Act; and
(5) we have advised the transferee of the transfer restrictions
applicable to the Notes.
You and the Company are entitled to rely upon this letter and are
irrevocably authorized to produce this letter or a copy hereof to any interested
party in any administrative or legal proceedings or official inquiry with
respect to the matters covered hereby. Terms used in this certificate have the
meanings set forth in Regulation S.
Very truly yours,
[Name of Transferor]
By:
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Authorized Signature