EXHIBIT 4.2
AMERICAN PHYSICIANS CAPITAL, INC.
as Issuer
INDENTURE
Dated as of May 22, 2003
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
FLOATING RATE JUNIOR SUBORDINATED DEBT SECURITIES DUE 2033
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS ..................................................................................................1
SECTION 1.01 Definitions..................................................................................1
ARTICLE II DEBT SECURITIES..............................................................................................9
SECTION 2.01 Authentication and Dating....................................................................9
SECTION 2.02 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..............................................9
SECTION 2.03 Form and Denomination of Debt Securities.....................................................9
SECTION 2.04 Execution of Debt Securities................................................................10
SECTION 2.05 Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Debt Securities....................................10
SECTION 2.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt Securities........................................13
SECTION 2.07 Temporary Debt Securities...................................................................14
SECTION 2.08 Payment of Interest.........................................................................14
SECTION 2.09 Cancellation of Debt Securities Paid, etc...................................................16
SECTION 2.10 Computation of Interest.....................................................................16
SECTION 2.11 Extension of Interest Payment Period........................................................18
SECTION 2.12 CUSIP Numbers...............................................................................18
ARTICLE III PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY........................................................................19
SECTION 3.01 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest; Agreed Treatment of the Debt Securities.........19
SECTION 3.02 Offices for Notices and Payments, etc.......................................................20
SECTION 3.03 Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office..........................................20
SECTION 3.04 Provision as to Paying Agent................................................................20
SECTION 3.05 Certificate to Trustee......................................................................21
SECTION 3.06 Additional Interest.........................................................................21
SECTION 3.07 Compliance with Consolidation Provisions....................................................22
SECTION 3.08 Limitation on Dividends.....................................................................22
SECTION 3.09 Covenants as to the Trust...................................................................23
ARTICLE IV LISTS ......................................................................................................23
SECTION 4.01 Securityholders' Lists......................................................................23
SECTION 4.02 Preservation and Disclosure of Lists........................................................23
ARTICLE V REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS..................................................................25
SECTION 5.01 Events of Default...........................................................................25
SECTION 5.02 Payment of Debt Securities on Default; Suit Therefor........................................27
SECTION 5.03 Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee..................................................28
SECTION 5.04 Proceedings by Securityholders..............................................................28
SECTION 5.05 Proceedings by Trustee......................................................................29
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SECTION 5.06 Remedies Cumulative and Continuing..........................................................29
SECTION 5.07 Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority of Securityholders..............29
SECTION 5.08 Notice of Defaults..........................................................................30
SECTION 5.09 Undertaking to Pay Costs....................................................................31
ARTICLE VI CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE......................................................................................31
SECTION 6.01 Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee......................................................31
SECTION 6.02 Reliance on Documents, Opinions, etc........................................................32
SECTION 6.03 No Responsibility for Recitals, etc.........................................................33
SECTION 6.04 Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer Agents
or Registrar May Own Debt Securities........................................................33
SECTION 6.05 Moneys to be Held in Trust..................................................................34
SECTION 6.06 Compensation and Expenses of Trustee........................................................34
SECTION 6.07 Officers' Certificate as Evidence...........................................................35
SECTION 6.08 Eligibility of Trustee......................................................................35
SECTION 6.09 Resignation or Removal of Trustee...........................................................35
SECTION 6.10 Acceptance by Successor Trustee.............................................................37
SECTION 6.11 Succession by Merger, etc...................................................................37
SECTION 6.12 Authenticating Agents.......................................................................38
ARTICLE VII CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS.............................................................................39
SECTION 7.01 Action by Securityholders...................................................................39
SECTION 7.02 Proof of Execution by Securityholders.......................................................39
SECTION 7.03 Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners..............................................................40
SECTION 7.04 Debt Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding.....................................40
SECTION 7.05 Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound................................................40
ARTICLE VIII SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS.................................................................................41
SECTION 8.01 Purposes of Meetings........................................................................41
SECTION 8.02 Call of Meetings by Trustee.................................................................41
SECTION 8.03 Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders..............................................42
SECTION 8.04 Qualifications for Voting...................................................................42
SECTION 8.05 Regulations.................................................................................42
SECTION 8.06 Voting......................................................................................43
SECTION 8.07 Quorum; Actions.............................................................................43
ARTICLE IX SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.....................................................................................44
SECTION 9.01 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Securityholders..................................44
SECTION 9.02 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Securityholders.....................................45
SECTION 9.03 Effect of Supplemental Indentures...........................................................46
SECTION 9.04 Notation on Debt Securities.................................................................46
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SECTION 9.05 Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be Furnished to Trustee.................47
ARTICLE X REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES.....................................................................................47
SECTION 10.01 Optional Redemption.........................................................................47
SECTION 10.02 Special Event Redemption....................................................................47
SECTION 10.03 Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt Securities..........................................47
SECTION 10.04 Payment of Debt Securities Called for Redemption............................................48
ARTICLE XI CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE...........................................................49
SECTION 11.01 Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.............................................49
SECTION 11.02 Successor Entity to be Substituted..........................................................49
SECTION 11.03 Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee...................................................50
ARTICLE XII SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE....................................................................50
SECTION 12.01 Discharge of Indenture......................................................................50
SECTION 12.02 Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by Trustee.............................................51
SECTION 12.03 Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held...........................................................51
SECTION 12.04 Return of Unclaimed Moneys..................................................................51
ARTICLE XIII IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS...........................................51
SECTION 13.01 Indenture and Debt Securities Solely Corporate Obligations..................................51
ARTICLE XIV MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS...................................................................................52
SECTION 14.01 Successors..................................................................................52
SECTION 14.02 Official Acts by Successor Entity...........................................................52
SECTION 14.03 Surrender of Company Powers.................................................................52
SECTION 14.04 Addresses for Notices, etc..................................................................52
SECTION 14.05 Governing Law...............................................................................53
SECTION 14.06 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent............................................53
SECTION 14.07 Business Day Convention.....................................................................53
SECTION 14.08 Table of Contents, Headings, etc............................................................53
SECTION 14.09 Execution in Counterparts...................................................................54
SECTION 14.10 Separability................................................................................54
SECTION 14.11 Assignment..................................................................................54
SECTION 14.12 Acknowledgment of Rights....................................................................54
ARTICLE XV SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES............................................................................55
SECTION 15.01 Agreement to Subordinate....................................................................55
SECTION 15.02 Default on Senior Indebtedness..............................................................55
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SECTION 15.03 Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy........................................................55
SECTION 15.04 Subrogation.................................................................................57
SECTION 15.05 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.........................................................57
SECTION 15.06 Notice by the Company.......................................................................58
SECTION 15.07 Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness.......................................58
SECTION 15.08 Subordination May Not Be Impaired...........................................................59
EXHIBITS
EXHIBIT A Form of Debt Security
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of May 22, 2003, between American
Physicians Capital, Inc., an insurance holding company incorporated in Michigan
(hereinafter sometimes called the "Company"), and Wilmington Trust Company, a
Delaware banking corporation, as trustee (hereinafter sometimes called the
"Trustee").
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, for its lawful corporate purposes, the Company has
duly authorized the issuance of its Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debt
Securities due 2033 (the "Debt Securities") under this Indenture and to provide,
among other things, for the execution and authentication, delivery and
administration thereof, the Company has duly authorized the execution of this
Indenture.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises, and the
purchase of the Debt Securities by the holders thereof, the Company covenants
and agrees with the Trustee for the equal and proportionate benefit of the
respective holders from time to time of the Debt Securities as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01 Definitions.
The terms defined in this Section 1.01 (except as herein
otherwise expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all
purposes of this Indenture and of any indenture supplemental hereto shall have
the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.01. All accounting terms
used herein and not expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such
terms in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" means such accounting principles as
are generally accepted in the United States at the time of any computation. The
words "herein," "hereof" and "hereunder" and other words of similar import refer
to this Indenture as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section or other
subdivision.
"Additional Interest" has the meaning set forth in Section
3.06.
"Additional Provisions" has the meaning set forth in Section
15.01.
"Administrative Action" has the meaning specified within the
definition of "Tax Event" in this Section 1.01.
"Authenticating Agent" means any agent or agents of the
Trustee which at the time shall be appointed and acting pursuant to Section
6.12.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar
federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" means the board of directors or the
executive committee or any other duly authorized designated officers of the
Company.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or
any other day on which banking institutions in Wilmington, Delaware, The City of
New York or East Lansing, Michigan are permitted or required by law or executive
order to close.
"Calculation Agent" means the Person identified as "Trustee"
in the first paragraph hereof with respect to the Debt Securities and the
Institutional Trustee with respect to the Trust Securities.
"Capital Securities" means undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Trust which are designated as "InCapS(SM)," and rank pari
passu with Common Securities issued by the Trust; provided, however, that if an
Event of Default (as defined in the Declaration) has occurred and is continuing,
the rights of holders of such Common Securities to payment in respect of
distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise are
subordinated to the rights of holders of such Capital Securities.
"Capital Securities Guarantee" means the guarantee agreement
that the Company will enter into with Wilmington Trust Company or other Persons
that operates directly or indirectly for the benefit of holders of Capital
Securities of the Trust.
"Certificate" means a certificate signed by any one of the
principal executive officer, the principal financial officer or the principal
accounting officer of the Company.
"Common Securities" means undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of the Trust which are designated as "Common Securities" and rank
pari passu with Capital Securities issued by the Trust; provided, however, that
if an Event of Default (as defined in the Declaration) has occurred and is
continuing, the rights of holders of such Common Securities to payment in
respect of distributions and payments upon liquidation, redemption and otherwise
are subordinated to the rights of holders of such Capital Securities.
"Company" means American Physicians Capital, Inc., an
insurance holding company incorporated in Michigan, and, subject to the
provisions of Article XI, shall include its successors and assigns.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means, with respect to the Special
Redemption Date, the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation
Agent as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life that would be
utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial
practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable
maturity to the Remaining Life. If no United States Treasury security has a
maturity which is within a period from three months before to three months after
May 23, 2008, the two most closely corresponding United States Treasury
securities shall be used as the Comparable Treasury Issue, and the Treasury Rate
shall be interpolated or extrapolated on a straight-line basis, rounding to the
nearest month using such securities.
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"Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to the Special
Redemption Date, (a) the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
for the Special Redemption Date received by the Quotation Agent, after excluding
the highest and lowest of five Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations so received,
or (b) if the Quotation Agent receives fewer than five such Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations, the average of all such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations.
"Debt Security" or "Debt Securities" has the meaning stated in
the first recital of this Indenture.
"Debt Security Register" has the meaning specified in Section
2.05.
"Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of
Trust of the Trust, dated as of May 22, 2003, as amended or supplemented from
time to time.
"Default" means any event, act or condition that with notice
or lapse of time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.08.
"Deferred Interest" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11.
"Event of Default" means any event specified in Section 5.01,
which has continued for the period of time, if any, and after the giving of the
notice, if any, therein designated.
"Extension Period" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.11.
"Indenture" means this Indenture as originally executed or, if
amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented, or
both.
"Institutional Trustee" has the meaning set forth in the
Declaration.
"Interest Payment Date" means February 23, May 23, August 23
and November 23 of each year, commencing on August 23, 2003, subject to Section
14.07.
"Interest Period" has the meaning set forth in Section 2.08.
"Interest Rate" means, with respect to any Interest Period, a
per annum rate of interest equal to LIBOR, as determined on the LIBOR
Determination Date for such Interest Period, plus 4.20%; provided, however, that
the Interest Rate for any Interest Period prior to the Interest Period
commencing on the Interest Payment Date in May 2008 may not exceed 12.5% per
annum; provided, further, that the Interest Rate for any Interest Period may not
exceed the highest rate permitted by New York law, as the same may be modified
by United States law of general application.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Company
and the Institutional Trustee for the benefit of the Trust of an Opinion of
Counsel experienced in such
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matters to the effect that, as a result of a change in law or regulation or
written change in interpretation or application of law or regulation by any
legislative body, court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is
more than an insubstantial risk that the Trust is or, within 90 days of the date
of such opinion will be, considered an "investment company" that is required to
be registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which change
or prospective change becomes effective or would become effective, as the case
may be, on or after the date of the original issuance of the Debt Securities.
"LIBOR" means the London Interbank Offered Rate for
three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe as determined by the Calculation
Agent according to Section 2.10(b).
"LIBOR Banking Day" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10(b)(i).
"LIBOR Business Day" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10(b)(i).
"LIBOR Determination Date" has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.10(b)(i).
"Liquidation Amount" means the liquidation amount of $1,000
per Trust Security.
"Maturity Date" means May 23, 2033, subject to Section 14.07.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman of the Board, the Vice Chairman, the President or any Vice President,
and by the Chief Financial Officer, the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the
Comptroller, an Assistant Comptroller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee. Each such certificate shall
include the statements provided for in Section 14.06 if and to the extent
required by the provisions of such Section.
"Opinion of Counsel" means an opinion in writing signed by
legal counsel, who may be an employee of or counsel to the Company, or who may
be other counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee. Each such opinion shall
include the statements provided for in Section 14.06 if and to the extent
required by the provisions of such Section.
The term "outstanding," when used with reference to Debt
Securities, subject to the provisions of Section 7.04, means, as of any
particular time, all Debt Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
or the Authenticating Agent under this Indenture, except
(a) Debt Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Debt Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or
redemption of which moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in
trust with the Trustee or with any Paying Agent (other than the Company) or
shall have been set aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company
shall act as its own Paying Agent); provided, that, if such Debt Securities, or
portions thereof, are to be redeemed prior to maturity thereof, notice of such
redemption shall have been given as provided in Articles X and XIV or provision
satisfactory to the Trustee shall have been made for giving such notice; and
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(c) Debt Securities paid pursuant to Section 2.06 or in lieu
of or in substitution for which other Debt Securities shall have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.06 unless proof
satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee is presented that any such Debt
Securities are held by bona fide holders in due course.
"Optional Redemption Date" has the meaning set forth in
Section 10.01.
"Optional Redemption Price" means an amount in cash equal to
100% of the principal amount of the Debt Securities being redeemed plus unpaid
interest accrued on such Debt Securities to the Optional Redemption Date or, in
the case of a redemption due to the occurrence of a Special Event, to the
Special Redemption Date if the Special Redemption Date is on or after May 23,
2008.
"Paying Agent" has the meaning set forth in Section 3.04(e).
"Person" means any individual, corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Debt Security means
every previous Debt Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as
that evidenced by such particular Debt Security; and, for the purposes of this
definition, any Debt Security authenticated and delivered under Section 2.06 in
lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Debt Security shall be deemed to evidence
the same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Debt Security.
"Primary Treasury Dealer" means a primary United States
Government securities dealer in The City of New York.
"Principal Office of the Trustee" means the office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered, which at all times shall be located within the United
States and at the time of the execution of this Indenture shall be Rodney Square
North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19890-0001.
"Quotation Agent" means Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and its
successors; provided, however, that if the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary
Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury
Dealer.
"Reference Banks" has the meaning set forth in Section
2.10(b)(ii).
"Reference Treasury Dealer" means (i) the Quotation Agent and
(ii) any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Trustee after
consultation with the Company.
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to
each Reference Treasury Dealer and the Special Redemption Date, the average, as
determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its
principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury
Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the
Special Redemption Date.
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"Remaining Life" means the period from the Special Redemption
Date through May 23, 2008.
"Resale Restriction Termination Date" means, with respect to
any Debt Security, the date which is the later of (i) two years (or such shorter
period of time as permitted by Rule 144(k) under the Securities Act of 1933, as
amended) after the later of (y) the date of original issuance of such Debt
Security and (z) the last date on which the Company or any Affiliate (as defined
in Rule 405 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended) of the Company was the
holder of such Debt Security (or any predecessor thereto) and (ii) such later
date, if any, as may be required by any subsequent change in applicable law.
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to the Trustee, any
officer within the Principal Office of the Trustee with direct responsibility
for the administration of the Indenture, including any vice-president, any
assistant vice-president, any secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer,
any assistant treasurer, any trust officer or other officer of the Principal
Office of the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those
performed by any of the above designated officers and also means, with respect
to a particular corporate trust matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of that officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Securityholder," "holder of Debt Securities" or other similar
terms, means any Person in whose name at the time a particular Debt Security is
registered on the Debt Security Register.
"Senior Indebtedness" means, with respect to the Company, (i)
the principal, premium, if any, and interest in respect of (A) indebtedness of
the Company for money borrowed and (B) indebtedness evidenced by securities,
debentures, notes, bonds or other similar instruments issued by the Company,
(ii) all capital lease obligations of the Company, (iii) all obligations of the
Company issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property, all
conditional sale obligations of the Company and all obligations of the Company
under any title retention agreement (but excluding trade accounts payable
arising in the ordinary course of business), (iv) all obligations of the Company
for the reimbursement of any letter of credit, any banker's acceptance, any
security purchase facility, any repurchase agreement or similar arrangement, any
interest rate swap, any other hedging arrangement, any obligation under options
or any similar credit or other transaction, (v) all obligations of the type
referred to in clauses (i) through (iv) above of other Persons for the payment
of which the Company is responsible or liable as obligor, guarantor or otherwise
and (vi) all obligations of the type referred to in clauses (i) through (v)
above of other Persons secured by any lien on any property or asset of the
Company (whether or not such obligation is assumed by the Company), whether
incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter incurred,
unless it is provided in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or
pursuant to which the same is outstanding that such obligations are not superior
or are pari passu in right of payment to the Debt Securities; provided, however,
that Senior Indebtedness shall not include (A) any debt securities issued to any
trust other than the Trust (or a trustee of such trust) that is a financing
vehicle of the Company (a "financing entity"), in connection with the issuance
by such financing entity of equity or other securities in transactions
substantially similar in structure to the transactions
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contemplated hereunder and in the Declaration or (B) any guarantees of the
Company in respect of the equity or other securities of any financing entity
referred to in clause (A) above.
"Special Event" means either a Tax Event or an Investment
Company Event, or both.
"Special Redemption Date" has the meaning set forth in Section
10.02.
"Special Redemption Price" means, with respect to the
redemption of any Debt Security following a Special Event, an amount in cash
equal to (1) if the Special Redemption Date is before May 23, 2008, the greater
of (a) 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof or (b) as determined by
the Quotation Agent, the sum of the present value of the principal amount
payable as part of the Optional Redemption Price with respect to a redemption as
of May 23, 2008, together with the present value of interest payments calculated
at a fixed per annum rate of interest equal to 7.60% over the Remaining Life of
such Debt Security, discounted to the Special Redemption Date on a quarterly
basis (assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the
Treasury Rate plus 2.0%, plus, in the case of either (a) or (b), unpaid interest
accrued on such Debt Security to the Special Redemption Date and (2) if the
Special Redemption Date is on or after May 23, 2008, the Optional Redemption
Price for the Special Redemption Date.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, (i) any
corporation, at least a majority of the outstanding voting stock of which is
owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries
or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, (ii) any general
partnership, joint venture or similar entity, at least a majority of the
outstanding partnership or similar interests of which shall at the time be owned
by such Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries or by such Person and one or
more of its Subsidiaries, and (iii) any limited partnership of which such Person
or any of its Subsidiaries is a general partner. For the purposes of this
definition, "voting stock" means shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents in the equity interest (however designated) in such Person having
ordinary voting power for the election of a majority of the directors (or the
equivalent) of such Person, other than shares, interests, participations or
other equivalents having such power only by reason of the occurrence of a
contingency.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Company and the
Institutional Trustee for the benefit of the Trust of an Opinion of Counsel
experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result of any amendment to
or change (including any announced prospective change) in the laws or any
regulations thereunder of the United States or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a result of any official
administrative pronouncement (including any private letter ruling, technical
advice memorandum, regulatory procedure, notice or announcement (an
"Administrative Action")) or judicial decision interpreting or applying such
laws or regulations, regardless of whether such Administrative Action or
judicial decision is issued to or in connection with a proceeding involving the
Company or the Trust and whether or not subject to review or appeal, which
amendment, clarification, change, Administrative Action or decision is enacted,
promulgated or announced, in each case on or after the date of original issuance
of the Debt Securities, there is more than an insubstantial risk that: (i) the
Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion, subject to
United States federal income tax
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with respect to income received or accrued on the Debt Securities; (ii) interest
payable by the Company on the Debt Securities is not, or within 90 days of the
date of such opinion, will not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in
part, for United States federal income tax purposes; or (iii) the Trust is, or
will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion, subject to or otherwise
required to pay, or required to withhold from distributions to holders of Trust
Securities, more than a de minimis amount of other taxes (including withholding
taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental charges.
"Treasury Rate" means, with respect to the Special Redemption
Price, (i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the
week immediately prior to the third Business Day immediately preceding the
Special Redemption Date, appearing in the most recently published statistical
release designated H.15 (519) or any successor publication which is published
weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and which
establishes yields on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted
to constant maturity under the caption "Treasury Constant Maturities," for the
maturity corresponding to the Remaining Life (provided that if no maturity is
within three months before or after the Remaining Life, then the yields for the
two published maturities most closely corresponding to the Remaining Life shall
be determined and the Treasury Rate shall be interpolated or extrapolated from
such yields on a straight-line basis, rounding to the nearest month) or (ii) if
such release (or any successor release) is not published during the week
immediately prior to the third Business Day immediately preceding the Special
Redemption Date or does not contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the
quarterly equivalent yield to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue,
calculated using a price for the Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a
percentage of its principal amount) equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for
the Special Redemption Date.
"Trust" means APCapital Trust II, the Delaware statutory
trust, or any other similar trust created for the purpose of issuing Capital
Securities in connection with the issuance of Debt Securities under this
Indenture, of which the Company is the sponsor.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939,
as amended from time to time, or any successor legislation.
"Trust Securities" means Common Securities and Capital
Securities of the Trust.
"Trustee" means the Person identified as "Trustee" in the
first paragraph hereof, and, subject to the provisions of Article VI hereof,
shall also include its successors and assigns as Trustee hereunder.
"United States" means the United States of America and the
District of Columbia.
"U.S. Person" has the meaning given to United States Person as
set forth in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended.
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ARTICLE II
DEBT SECURITIES
SECTION 2.01 Authentication and Dating.
Upon the execution and delivery of this Indenture, or from
time to time thereafter, Debt Securities in an aggregate principal amount not in
excess of $15,464,000 may be executed and delivered by the Company to the
Trustee for authentication, and the Trustee shall thereupon authenticate and
make available for delivery said Debt Securities to or upon the written order of
the Company, signed by its Chairman of the Board of Directors, Vice Chairman,
President or Chief Financial Officer or one of its Vice Presidents, without any
further action by the Company hereunder. In authenticating such Debt Securities,
and accepting the additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation
to such Debt Securities, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject
to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in relying upon a copy of any Board
Resolution or Board Resolutions relating thereto and, if applicable, an
appropriate record of any action taken pursuant to such resolution, in each case
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or other officers with
appropriate delegated authority of the Company as the case may be.
The Trustee shall have the right to decline to authenticate
and deliver any Debt Securities under this Section if the Trustee, being advised
by counsel, determines that such action may not lawfully be taken or if a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith shall determine that such
action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to existing
Securityholders.
The definitive Debt Securities shall be typed, printed,
lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced in any
other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Debt Securities,
as evidenced by their execution of such Debt Securities.
SECTION 2.02 Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication on all Debt
Securities shall be in substantially the following form:
This is one of the Debt Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
Wilmington Trust Company,
not in its individual capacity
but solely as trustee
By: ________________________________
Authorized Officer
SECTION 2.03 Form and Denomination of Debt Securities.
The Debt Securities shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit A hereto. The Debt Securities shall be in registered, certificated form
without coupons and in minimum denominations of $100,000 and any multiple of
$1,000 in excess thereof. The Debt Securities
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shall be numbered, lettered, or otherwise distinguished in such manner or in
accordance with such plans as the officers executing the same may determine with
the approval of the Trustee as evidenced by the execution and authentication
thereof.
SECTION 2.04 Execution of Debt Securities.
The Debt Securities shall be signed in the name and on behalf
of the Company by the manual or facsimile signature of its Chairman of the Board
of Directors, Vice Chairman, President or Chief Financial Officer or one of its
Executive Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents or Vice Presidents, under its
corporate seal (if legally required) which may be affixed thereto or printed,
engraved or otherwise reproduced thereon, by facsimile or otherwise, and which
need not be attested. Only such Debt Securities as shall bear thereon a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form herein before recited,
executed by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent by the manual signature of
an authorized officer, shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose. Such certificate by the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent upon any Debt Security executed by the Company shall be
conclusive evidence that the Debt Security so authenticated has been duly
authenticated and delivered hereunder and that the holder is entitled to the
benefits of this Indenture.
In case any officer of the Company who shall have signed any
of the Debt Securities shall cease to be such officer before the Debt Securities
so signed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent, or disposed of by the Company, such Debt Securities
nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered or disposed of as though the
Person who signed such Debt Securities had not ceased to be such officer of the
Company; and any Debt Security may be signed on behalf of the Company by such
Persons as, at the actual date of the execution of such Debt Security, shall be
the proper officers of the Company, although at the date of the execution of
this Indenture any such person was not such an officer.
Every Debt Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
SECTION 2.05 Exchange and Registration of Transfer of Debt
Securities.
The Company shall cause to be kept, at the office or agency
maintained for the purpose of registration of transfer and for exchange as
provided in Section 3.02, a register (the "Debt Security Register") for the Debt
Securities issued hereunder in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as
it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration and transfer of
all Debt Securities as provided in this Article II. Such register shall be in
written form or in any other form capable of being converted into written form
within a reasonable time.
Debt Securities to be exchanged may be surrendered at the
Principal Office of the Trustee or at any office or agency to be maintained by
the Company for such purpose as provided in Section 3.02, and the Company shall
execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in
exchange therefor, the Debt Security or Debt Securities which the Securityholder
making the exchange shall be entitled to receive. Upon due presentment for
registration of transfer of any Debt Security at the Principal Office of the
Trustee or at any office or agency of
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the Company maintained for such purpose as provided in Section 3.02, the Company
shall execute, the Company or the Trustee shall register and the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and make available for delivery in the
name of the transferee or transferees, a new Debt Security for a like aggregate
principal amount. Registration or registration of transfer of any Debt Security
by the Trustee or by any agent of the Company appointed pursuant to Section
3.02, and delivery of such Debt Security, shall be deemed to complete the
registration or registration of transfer of such Debt Security.
All Debt Securities presented for registration of transfer or
for exchange or payment shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee or
the Authenticating Agent) be duly endorsed by, or be accompanied by, a written
instrument or instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and
either the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent duly executed by, the holder or
such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any exchange or
registration of transfer of Debt Securities, but the Company or the Trustee may
require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or other governmental
charge that may be imposed in connection therewith other than exchanges pursuant
to Section 2.07, Section 9.04 or Section 10.04 not involving any transfer.
The Company or the Trustee shall not be required to exchange
or register a transfer of any Debt Security for a period of 15 days immediately
preceding the date of selection of Debt Securities for redemption.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Debt Securities may not be
transferred prior to the Resale Restriction Termination Date except in
compliance with the legend set forth below, unless otherwise determined by the
Company in accordance with applicable law, which legend shall be placed on each
Debt Security:
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY
OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR
UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY
BE, AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THE LATER OF (I) TWO YEARS (OR
SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144(K) OF THE SECURITIES ACT)
AFTER THE LATER OF (Y) THE DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE HEREOF AND (Z) THE LAST
DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 405 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY WAS THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION (OR ANY PREDECESSOR
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THERETO) AND (II) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY, AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY ANY SUBSEQUENT
CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAW, ONLY (A) TO THE COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A"), TO A PERSON THE HOLDER REASONABLY
BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER", AS DEFINED IN RULE 144A, THAT
PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL
BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING MADE IN RELIANCE ON
RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF
THE SECURITIES ACT TO AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR" WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SUBPARAGRAPH (A) (1), (2), (3), (7) OR (8) OF RULE 501 UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT
THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION FOR ITS OWN
ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN ACCREDITED INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT
PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY
DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (D) PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND
SALES TO NON-US PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES PURSUANT TO
REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO ANOTHER AVAILABLE
EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT, SUBJECT TO
THE COMPANY'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER PURSUANT TO CLAUSE
(C), (D) OR (E) ABOVE TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION OF COUNSEL,
CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY. THE HOLDER OF THIS
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR
THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, ALSO AGREES,
REPRESENTS AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL
RETIREMENT ACCOUNT OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE
EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE") (EACH
A "PLAN"), OR AN ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON
OF ANY PLAN'S INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY AND NO PERSON INVESTING "PLAN ASSETS" OF
ANY PLAN MAY ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION
HEREIN, UNLESS SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF
AVAILABLE UNDER U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION
96-23, 95-60, 91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS
PURCHASE AND HOLDING OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IS NOT
PROHIBITED BY SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO
SUCH PURCHASE OR HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY
INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED
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TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE
MAY BE, THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF
SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS
APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT
PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE
BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE, OR (II) SUCH PURCHASE AND HOLDING
WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR
SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR
ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.
IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY
WILL DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE INDENTURE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER
COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.
THIS SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN
MINIMUM DENOMINATIONS OF $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY
ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN DENOMINATIONS OF LESS THAN $100,000 SHALL
BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. ANY SUCH PURPORTED
TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
RECEIPT OF DISTRIBUTIONS ON THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION, AND
SUCH PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN THIS
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN.
SECTION 2.06 Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost or Stolen Debt
Securities.
In case any Debt Security shall become mutilated or be
destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company shall execute, and upon its written
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, a new Debt Security bearing
a number not contemporaneously outstanding, in exchange and substitution for the
mutilated Debt Security, or in lieu of and in substitution for the Debt Security
so destroyed, lost or stolen. In every case the applicant for a substituted Debt
Security shall furnish to the Company and the Trustee such security or indemnity
as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, and, in every case of
destruction, loss or theft, the applicant shall also furnish to the Company and
the Trustee evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of
such Debt Security and of the ownership thereof.
The Trustee may authenticate any such substituted Debt
Security and deliver the same upon the written request or authorization of any
officer of the Company. Upon the issuance of any substituted Debt Security, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses connected therewith. In case any Debt Security which has matured or is
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about to mature or has been called for redemption in full shall become mutilated
or be destroyed, lost or stolen, the Company may, instead of issuing a
substitute Debt Security, pay or authorize the payment of the same (without
surrender thereof except in the case of a mutilated Debt Security) if the
applicant for such payment shall furnish to the Company and the Trustee such
security or indemnity as may be required by them to save each of them harmless
and, in case of destruction, loss or theft, evidence satisfactory to the Company
and to the Trustee of the destruction, loss or theft of such Security and of the
ownership thereof.
Every substituted Debt Security issued pursuant to the
provisions of this Section 2.06 by virtue of the fact that any such Debt
Security is destroyed, lost or stolen shall constitute an additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Debt
Security shall be found at any time, and shall be entitled to all the benefits
of this Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Debt
Securities duly issued hereunder. All Debt Securities shall be held and owned
upon the express condition that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, the
foregoing provisions are exclusive with respect to the replacement or payment of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Debt Securities and shall preclude any and
all other rights or remedies notwithstanding any law or statute existing or
hereafter enacted to the contrary with respect to the replacement or payment of
negotiable instruments or other securities without their surrender.
SECTION 2.07 Temporary Debt Securities.
Pending the preparation of definitive Debt Securities, the
Company may execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery temporary Debt Securities that are typed, printed or lithographed.
Temporary Debt Securities shall be issuable in any authorized denomination, and
substantially in the form of the definitive Debt Securities but with such
omissions, insertions and variations as may be appropriate for temporary Debt
Securities, all as may be determined by the Company. Every such temporary Debt
Security shall be executed by the Company and be authenticated by the Trustee
upon the same conditions and in substantially the same manner, and with the same
effect, as the definitive Debt Securities. Without unreasonable delay, the
Company will execute and deliver to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent
definitive Debt Securities and thereupon any or all temporary Debt Securities
may be surrendered in exchange therefor, at the Principal Office of the Trustee
or at any office or agency maintained by the Company for such purpose as
provided in Section 3.02, and the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall
authenticate and make available for delivery in exchange for such temporary Debt
Securities a like aggregate principal amount of such definitive Debt Securities.
Such exchange shall be made by the Company at its own expense and without any
charge therefor except that in case of any such exchange involving a
registration of transfer the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any tax, fee or other governmental charge that may be imposed in relation
thereto. Until so exchanged, the temporary Debt Securities shall in all respects
be entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Debt
Securities authenticated and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 2.08 Payment of Interest.
Each Debt Security will bear interest at the then applicable
Interest Rate (i) in the case of the initial Interest Period, for the period
from, and including, the date of original issuance
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of such Debt Security to, but excluding, the initial Interest Payment Date and
(ii) thereafter, for the period from, and including, the first day following the
end of the preceding Interest Period to, but excluding, the related Interest
Payment Date or, in the case of the last Interest Period, the related Optional
Redemption Date, Special Redemption Date or Maturity Date, as applicable (each
such period, an "Interest Period"), on the principal thereof, on any overdue
principal and (to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law) on Deferred Interest and on any overdue installment of interest
(including Defaulted Interest), payable (subject to the provisions of Article
XII) on each Interest Payment Date. Interest and any Deferred Interest on any
Debt Security that is payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for by
the Company, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose
name such Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on the regular record date for such interest installment,
except that interest and any Deferred Interest payable on the Maturity Date, any
Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be,
shall be paid to the Person to whom principal is paid. In case (i) the Maturity
Date of any Debt Security or (ii) any Debt Security or portion thereof is called
for redemption and the related Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date, as the case may be, is subsequent to the regular record date
with respect to any Interest Payment Date and either on or prior to such
Interest Payment Date, interest on such Debt Security will be paid upon
presentation and surrender of such Debt Security.
Any interest on any Debt Security, other than Deferred
Interest, that is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for by
the Company, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest")
shall forthwith cease to be payable to the holder on the relevant regular record
date by virtue of having been such holder, and such Defaulted Interest shall be
paid by the Company to the Persons in whose names such Debt Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of business on a
special record date for the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be
fixed in the following manner: the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing
of the amount of Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such Debt
Security and the date of the proposed payment, and at the same time the Company
shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money equal to the aggregate amount
proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted Interest or shall make
arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit prior to
the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held in trust
for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as provided
in this paragraph. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a special record date for the
payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall not be more than fifteen nor
less than ten days prior to the date of the proposed payment and not less than
ten days after the receipt by the Trustee of the notice of the proposed payment.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company of such special record date and,
in the name and at the expense of the Company, shall cause notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor
to be mailed, first class postage prepaid, to each Securityholder at his or her
address as it appears in the Debt Security Register, not less than ten days
prior to such special record date. Notice of the proposed payment of such
Defaulted Interest and the special record date therefor having been mailed as
aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names
such Debt Securities (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered
on such special record date and thereafter the Company shall have no further
payment obligation in respect of the Defaulted Interest.
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Any interest scheduled to become payable on an Interest
Payment Date occurring during an Extension Period shall not be Defaulted
Interest and shall be payable on such other date as may be specified in the
terms of such Debt Securities.
The term "regular record date", as used in this Section, shall
mean the fifteenth day prior to the applicable Interest Payment Date, whether or
not such day is a Business Day.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Debt
Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of transfer of or in
exchange for or in lieu of any other Debt Security shall carry the rights to
interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, that were carried by such other Debt
Security.
SECTION 2.09 Cancellation of Debt Securities Paid, etc.
All Debt Securities surrendered for the purpose of payment,
redemption, exchange or registration of transfer, shall, if surrendered to the
Company or any Paying Agent, be surrendered to the Trustee and promptly canceled
by it, or, if surrendered to the Trustee or any Authenticating Agent, shall be
promptly canceled by it, and no Debt Securities shall be issued in lieu thereof
except as expressly permitted by any of the provisions of this Indenture. All
Debt Securities canceled by any Authenticating Agent shall be delivered to the
Trustee. The Trustee shall destroy all canceled Debt Securities unless the
Company otherwise directs the Trustee in writing, in which case the Trustee
shall dispose of such Debt Securities as directed by the Company. If the Company
shall acquire any of the Debt Securities, however, such acquisition shall not
operate as a redemption or satisfaction of the indebtedness represented by such
Debt Securities unless and until the same are surrendered to the Trustee for
cancellation.
SECTION 2.10 Computation of Interest.
(a) The amount of interest payable for any Interest Period
will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days
elapsed in such Interest Period; provided, however, that if the Special
Redemption Date is before May 23, 2008, the amounts payable pursuant to this
Indenture shall be calculated as set forth in the definition of Special
Redemption Price.
(b) LIBOR shall be determined by the Calculation Agent for
each Interest Period in accordance with the following provisions:
(i) On the second LIBOR Business Day (provided, that
on such day commercial banks are open for business (including dealings
in foreign currency deposits) in London (a "LIBOR Banking Day"), and
otherwise the next preceding LIBOR Business Day that is also a LIBOR
Banking Day) prior to March 1, June 1, September 1 or December 1, as
the case may be, immediately succeeding the commencement of such
Interest Period (or, in the case of the first Interest Period, on May
20, 2003) (each such day, a "LIBOR Determination Date"), LIBOR shall
equal the rate, as obtained by the Calculation Agent, for three-month
U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe, which appears on Telerate (as defined
in the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. 2000
Interest Rate and Currency Exchange Definitions) page 3750 or such
other page as may replace such page 3750, as of 11:00 a.m. (London
time) on such LIBOR Determination
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Date, as reported by Bloomberg Financial Markets Commodities News or
any successor service ("Telerate Page 3750"). "LIBOR Business Day"
means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banking institutions in The City of New York or Wilmington,
Delaware are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to be
closed. If such rate is superseded on Telerate Page 3750 by a corrected
rate before 12:00 noon (London time) on such LIBOR Determination Date,
the corrected rate as so substituted will be LIBOR for such LIBOR
Determination Date.
(ii) If, on such LIBOR Determination Date, such rate
does not appear on Telerate Page 3750, the Calculation Agent shall
determine the arithmetic mean of the offered quotations of the
Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank market for
three-month U.S. Dollar deposits in Europe (in an amount determined by
the Calculation Agent) by reference to requests for quotations as of
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such LIBOR Determination Date
made by the Calculation Agent to the Reference Banks. If, on such LIBOR
Determination Date, at least two of the Reference Banks provide such
quotations, LIBOR shall equal the arithmetic mean of such quotations.
If, on such LIBOR Determination Date, only one or none of the Reference
Banks provide such a quotation, LIBOR shall be deemed to be the
arithmetic mean of the offered quotations that at least two leading
banks in The City of New York (as selected by the Calculation Agent)
are quoting on such LIBOR Determination Date for three-month U.S.
Dollar deposits in Europe at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) (in
an amount determined by the Calculation Agent). As used herein,
"Reference Banks" means four major banks in the London interbank market
selected by the Calculation Agent.
(iii) If the Calculation Agent is required but is
unable to determine a rate in accordance with at least one of the
procedures provided above, LIBOR for such Interest Period shall be
LIBOR in effect for the immediately preceding Interest Period.
(c) All percentages resulting from any calculations on the
Debt Securities will be rounded, if necessary, to the nearest one
hundred-thousandth of a percentage point, with five one-millionths of a
percentage point rounded upward (e.g., 9.876545% (or .09876545) being rounded to
9.87655% (or .0987655)), and all dollar amounts used in or resulting from such
calculation will be rounded to the nearest cent (with one-half cent being
rounded upward).
(d) On each LIBOR Determination Date, the Calculation Agent
shall notify, in writing, the Company and the Paying Agent of the applicable
Interest Rate that applies to the related Interest Period. The Calculation Agent
shall, upon the request of a holder of any Debt Securities, inform such holder
of the Interest Rate that applies to the related Interest Period. 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 the Debt Securities. The Paying Agent shall be entitled to rely on
information received from the Calculation Agent or the Company as to the
applicable Interest Rate. The Company shall, from time to time, provide any
necessary information to the Paying Agent relating to any original issue
discount and interest on the Debt Securities that is included in any payment and
reportable for taxable income calculation purposes.
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SECTION 2.11 Extension of Interest Payment Period.
So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company shall
have the right, from time to time and without causing an Event of Default, to
defer payments of interest on the Debt Securities by extending the interest
payment period on the Debt Securities at any time and from time to time during
the term of the Debt Securities, for up to 20 consecutive quarterly periods
(each such extended interest payment period, together with all previous and
further consecutive extensions thereof, is referred to herein as an "Extension
Period"). No Extension Period may end on a date other than an Interest Payment
Date or extend beyond the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the
Special Redemption Date, as the case may be. During any Extension Period,
interest will continue to accrue on the Debt Securities, and interest on such
accrued interest (such accrued interest and interest thereon referred to herein
as "Deferred Interest") will accrue at an annual rate equal to the Interest Rate
applicable during such Extension Period, compounded quarterly from the date such
Deferred Interest would have been payable were it not for the Extension Period,
to the extent permitted by applicable law. No interest or Deferred Interest
(except any Additional Interest that may be due and payable) shall be due and
payable during an Extension Period, except at the end thereof. At the end of any
Extension Period, the Company shall pay all Deferred Interest then accrued and
unpaid on the Debt Securities; provided, however, that during any Extension
Period, the Company shall be subject to the restrictions set forth in Section
3.08. Prior to the termination of any Extension Period, the Company may further
extend such Extension Period, provided, that no Extension Period (including all
previous and further consecutive extensions that are part of such Extension
Period) shall exceed 20 consecutive quarterly periods. Upon the termination of
any Extension Period and upon the payment of all Deferred Interest, the Company
may commence a new Extension Period, subject to the foregoing requirements. The
Company must give the Trustee notice of its election to begin or extend an
Extension Period at least one Business Day prior to the earlier of (i) the next
succeeding date on which interest on the Debt Securities would have been payable
except for the election to begin or extend an Extension Period or (ii) the date
such interest is payable, but in any event not later than the related regular
record date. The Trustee shall give notice of the Company's election to begin or
extend an Extension Period to the Securityholders.
SECTION 2.12 CUSIP Numbers.
The Company in issuing the Debt Securities may use a "CUSIP"
number (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee shall use a "CUSIP"
number in notices of redemption as a convenience to Securityholders; provided,
that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such number either as printed on the Debt Securities or as
contained in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on
the other identification numbers printed on the Debt Securities, and any such
redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers.
The Company will promptly notify the Trustee in writing of any change in the
CUSIP number.
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ARTICLE III
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
SECTION 3.01 Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest;
Agreed Treatment of the Debt Securities.
(a) The Company covenants and agrees that it will duly and
punctually pay or cause to be paid all payments due in respect of the Debt
Securities at the place, at the respective times and in the manner provided in
this Indenture and the Debt Securities. Payment of the principal of and premium,
if any, and interest on the Debt Securities due on the Maturity Date, any
Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be,
will be made by the Company in immediately available funds against presentation
and surrender of such Debt Securities. At the option of the Company, each
installment of interest on the Debt Securities due on an Interest Payment Date
other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date, as the case may be, may be paid (i) by mailing checks for such
interest payable to the order of the holders of Debt Securities entitled thereto
as they appear on the Debt Security Register or (ii) by wire transfer of
immediately available funds to any account with a banking institution located in
the United States designated by such holders to the Paying Agent no later than
the related record date. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Indenture or any Debt Security, if the Trust or the trustee of the Trust is
the holder of any Debt Security, then all payments in respect of such Debt
Security shall be made by the Company in immediately available funds when due.
(b) The Company will treat the Debt Securities as
indebtedness, and the interest payable in respect of such Debt Securities as
interest, for all U.S. federal income tax purposes. All payments in respect of
such Debt Securities will be made free and clear of U.S. withholding tax to any
beneficial owner thereof that has provided an Internal Revenue Service Form W-8
BEN (or any substitute or successor form) establishing its non-U.S. status for
U.S. federal income tax purposes.
(c) As of the date of this Indenture, the Company represents
that it has no intention to exercise its right under Section 2.11 to defer
payments of interest on the Debt Securities by commencing an Extension Period.
(d) As of the date of this Indenture, the Company represents
that the likelihood that it would exercise its right under Section 2.11 to defer
payments of interest on the Debt Securities by commencing an Extension Period at
any time during which the Debt Securities are outstanding is remote because of
the restrictions that would be imposed on the Company's ability to declare or
pay dividends or distributions on, or to redeem, purchase or make a liquidation
payment with respect to, any of its outstanding equity and on the Company's
ability to make any payments of principal of or premium, if any, or interest on,
or repurchase or redeem, any of its debt securities that rank in all respects
pari passu with or junior in interest to the Debt Securities.
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SECTION 3.02 Offices for Notices and Payments, etc.
So long as any of the Debt Securities remain outstanding, the
Company will maintain in Wilmington, Delaware or in East Lansing, Michigan an
office or agency where the Debt Securities may be presented for payment, an
office or agency where the Debt Securities may be presented for registration of
transfer and for exchange as provided in this Indenture and an office or agency
where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the Debt
Securities or of this Indenture may be served. The Company will give to the
Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of any
change of location thereof. Until otherwise designated from time to time by the
Company in a notice to the Trustee, or specified as contemplated by Section
2.05, such office or agency for all of the above purposes shall be the Principal
Office of the Trustee. In case the Company shall fail to maintain any such
office or agency in Wilmington, Delaware or in East Lansing, Michigan, or shall
fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the location
thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be served at the
Principal Office of the Trustee.
In addition to any such office or agency, the Company may from
time to time designate one or more offices or agencies outside Wilmington,
Delaware or East Lansing, Michigan where the Debt Securities may be presented
for registration of transfer and for exchange in the manner provided in this
Indenture, and the Company may from time to time rescind such designation, as
the Company may deem desirable or expedient; provided, however, that no such
designation or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its
obligation to maintain any such office or agency in Wilmington, Delaware or in
East Lansing, Michigan for the purposes above mentioned. The Company will give
to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such designation or rescission
thereof.
SECTION 3.03 Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's
Office.
The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in
the office of Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.09, a
Trustee, so that there shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder.
SECTION 3.04 Provision as to Paying Agent.
(a) If the Company shall appoint a Paying Agent other than the
Trustee, it will cause such Paying Agent to execute and deliver to the Trustee
an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the
provision of this Section 3.04,
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such
agent for the payment of all payments due in respect of the Debt
Securities (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by
any other obligor on the Debt Securities) in trust for the benefit of
the holders of the Debt Securities;
(ii) that it will give the Trustee prompt written
notice of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Debt Securities) to make any payment in respect of the Debt Securities
when the same shall be due and payable; and
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(iii) that it will, at any time during the
continuance of any Event of Default, upon the written request of the
Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so held in trust by such
Paying Agent.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own Paying Agent, it will,
on or before each due date of the payments due in respect of the Debt
Securities, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
holders of the Debt Securities a sum sufficient to make such payments so
becoming due and will notify the Trustee in writing of any failure to take such
action and of any failure by the Company (or by any other obligor under the Debt
Securities) to make any payment in respect of the Debt Securities when the same
shall become due and payable.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for
the Debt Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the payments in
respect of the Debt Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient to
pay all payments so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit
of the Persons entitled thereto and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee)
the Company shall promptly notify the Trustee in writing of its action or
failure to act.
(c) Anything in this Section 3.04 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a
satisfaction and discharge with respect to the Debt Securities, or for any other
reason, pay, or direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company or any such Paying Agent, such sums to be held by the
Trustee upon the same terms and conditions herein contained.
(d) Anything in this Section 3.04 to the contrary
notwithstanding, the agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section
3.04 is subject to Sections 12.03 and 12.04.
(e) The Company hereby initially appoints the Trustee to act
as paying agent for the Debt Securities (the "Paying Agent").
SECTION 3.05 Certificate to Trustee.
The Company will deliver to the Trustee on or before 120 days
after the end of each fiscal year, so long as Debt Securities are outstanding
hereunder, a Certificate stating that in the course of the performance by the
signers of their duties as officers of the Company they would normally have
knowledge of any default by the Company in the performance of any covenants of
the Company contained herein, stating whether or not they have knowledge of any
such default and, if so, specifying each such default of which the signers have
knowledge and the nature thereof.
SECTION 3.06 Additional Interest.
If and for so long as the Trust is the holder of all Debt
Securities and is subject to or otherwise required to pay (or is required to
withhold from distributions to holders of Trust Securities) any additional taxes
(including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental charges
as a result of a Tax Event, the Company will pay such additional amounts
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(the "Additional Interest") on the Debt Securities or the Trust Securities, as
the case may be, as shall be required so that the net amounts received and
retained by the holders of Debt Securities or Trust Securities, as the case may
be, after payment of all taxes (including withholding taxes), duties,
assessments or other governmental charges, will be equal to the amounts that
such holders would have received and retained had no such taxes (including
withholding taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental charges been
imposed.
Whenever in this Indenture or the Debt Securities there is a
reference in any context to the payment of principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on the Debt Securities, such mention shall be deemed to include mention
of payments of the Additional Interest provided for in this Section to the
extent that, in such context, Additional Interest is, was or would be payable in
respect thereof pursuant to the provisions of this Section and express mention
of the payment of Additional Interest (if applicable) in any provisions hereof
shall not be construed as excluding Additional Interest in those provisions
hereof where such express mention is not made, provided, however, that,
notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Indenture or any Debt
Security, the deferral of the payment of interest during an Extension Period
pursuant to Section 2.11 shall not defer the payment of any Additional Interest
that may be due and payable.
SECTION 3.07 Compliance with Consolidation Provisions.
The Company will not, while any of the Debt Securities remain
outstanding, consolidate with, or merge into, any other Person, or merge into
itself, or sell, convey, transfer or otherwise dispose of all or substantially
all of its property and assets to any other Person unless the provisions of
Article XI hereof are complied with.
SECTION 3.08 Limitation on Dividends.
If (i) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of
Default, (ii) the Company shall be in default with respect to its payment of any
obligations under the Capital Securities Guarantee or (iii) the Company shall
have given notice of its election to defer payments of interest on the Debt
Securities by extending the interest payment period as provided herein and such
period, or any extension thereof, shall have commenced and be continuing, then
the Company may not (A) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or
redeem, purchase, acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of
the Company's capital stock, (B) make any payment of principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the
Company that rank in all respects pari passu with or junior in interest to the
Debt Securities or (C) make any payment under any guarantees of the Company that
rank in all respects pari passu with or junior in interest to the Capital
Securities Guarantee (other than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other
acquisitions of shares of capital stock of the Company (I) in connection with
any employment contract, benefit plan or other similar arrangement with or for
the benefit of one or more employees, officers, directors or consultants, (II)
in connection with a dividend reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or
(III) in connection with the issuance of capital stock of the Company (or
securities convertible into or exercisable for such capital stock) as
consideration in an acquisition transaction entered into prior to the occurrence
of (i), (ii) or (iii) above, (b) as a result of any exchange or conversion of
any class or series of the
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Company's capital stock (or any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Company)
for any class or series of the Company's capital stock or of any class or series
of the Company's indebtedness for any class or series of the Company's capital
stock, (c) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital
stock or the security being converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a
dividend in connection with any stockholder's rights plan, or the issuance of
rights, stock or other property under any stockholder's rights plan, or the
redemption or repurchase of rights pursuant thereto, (e) any dividend in the
form of stock, warrants, options or other rights where the dividend stock or the
stock issuable upon exercise of such warrants, options or other rights is the
same stock as that on which the dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with
or junior in interest to such stock or (f) any payments under the Capital
Securities Guarantee).
SECTION 3.09 Covenants as to the Trust.
For so long as such Trust Securities remain outstanding, the
Company shall maintain 100% ownership of the Common Securities; provided,
however, that any permitted successor of the Company under this Indenture may
succeed to the Company's ownership of such Common Securities. The Company, as
owner of the Common Securities, shall use commercially reasonable efforts to
cause the Trust (a) to remain a statutory trust, except in connection with a
distribution of Debt Securities to the holders of Trust Securities in
liquidation of the Trust, the redemption of all of the Trust Securities or
certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the
Declaration, (b) to otherwise continue to be classified as a grantor trust for
United States federal income tax purposes and (c) to cause each holder of Trust
Securities to be treated as owning an undivided beneficial interest in the Debt
Securities.
ARTICLE IV
LISTS
SECTION 4.01 Securityholders' Lists.
The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause
to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) on each regular record date for an Interest Payment Date,
a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and
addresses of the Securityholders of the Debt Securities as of such record date;
and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a list of
similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time
such list is furnished; except that no such lists need be furnished under this
Section 4.01 so long as the Trustee is in possession thereof by reason of its
acting as Debt Security registrar.
SECTION 4.02 Preservation and Disclosure of Lists.
(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the
holders of Debt Securities (1) contained in the most recent list furnished to it
as provided in Section 4.01 or (2) received by it in
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the capacity of Debt Securities registrar (if so acting) hereunder. The Trustee
may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in Section 4.01 upon receipt of
a new list so furnished.
(b) In case three or more holders of Debt Securities
(hereinafter referred to as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee and
furnish to the Trustee reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a
Debt Security for a period of at least six months preceding the date of such
application, and such application states that the applicants desire to
communicate with other holders of Debt Securities with respect to their rights
under this Indenture or under such Debt Securities and is accompanied by a copy
of the form of proxy or other communication which such applicants propose to
transmit, then the Trustee shall within five Business Days after the receipt of
such application, at its election, either:
(i) afford such applicants access to the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions
of subsection (a) of this Section 4.02, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate
number of holders of Debt Securities whose names and addresses appear
in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance
with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.02, and as to
the approximate cost of mailing to such Securityholders the form of
proxy or other communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants
access to such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Securityholder of Debt Securities whose name and
address appear in the information preserved at the time by the Trustee in
accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this Section 4.02 a copy of
the form of proxy or other communication which is specified in such request with
reasonable promptness after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed
and of payment, or provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of
mailing, unless within five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to
such applicants and file with the Securities and Exchange Commission, if
permitted or required by applicable law, together with a copy of the material to
be mailed, a written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the
Trustee, such mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the holders of
all Debt Securities, as the case may be, or would be in violation of applicable
law. Such written statement shall specify the basis of such opinion. If said
Commission, as permitted or required by applicable law, after opportunity for a
hearing upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall
enter an order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry
of an order sustaining one or more of such objections, said Commission shall
find, after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so
sustained have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall
mail copies of such material to all such Securityholders with reasonable
promptness after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender;
otherwise the Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such
applicants respecting their application.
(c) Each and every holder of Debt Securities, by receiving and
holding the same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that none of the
Company, the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of any such information as to the names and addresses of the
holders of Debt Securities in accordance with the provisions of
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subsection (b) of this Section 4.02, regardless of the source from which such
information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by
reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under said subsection
(b).
ARTICLE V
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 5.01 Events of Default.
The following events shall be "Events of Default" with respect
to Debt Securities:
(a) the Company defaults in the payment of any interest upon
any Debt Security when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such
default for a period of 30 days; for the avoidance of doubt, an extension of any
interest payment period by the Company in accordance with Section 2.11 of this
Indenture shall not constitute a default under this clause 5.01(a); or
(b) the Company defaults in the payment of all or any part of
the principal of (or premium, if any, on) any Debt Securities as and when the
same shall become due and payable, whether at maturity, upon redemption, by
acceleration of maturity pursuant to Section 5.01 of this Indenture or
otherwise; or
(c) the Company defaults in the performance of, or breaches,
any of its covenants or agreements in Sections 3.06, 3.07, 3.08 or 3.09 of this
Indenture (other than a covenant or agreement a default in whose performance or
whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically dealt with), and
continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days after there has
been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by the Trustee or to
the Company and the Trustee by the holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities, a written notice specifying
such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(d) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a
decree or order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case
under any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or
hereafter in effect, or appoints a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian,
trustee, sequestrator or other similar official of the Company or for any
substantial part of its property, or orders the winding-up or liquidation of its
affairs and such decree, appointment or order shall remain unstayed and in
effect for a period of 90 consecutive days; or
(e) the Company shall commence a voluntary case under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary case
under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking possession
by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator or other
similar official of the Company or of any substantial part of its property, or
shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail
generally to pay its debts as they become due; or
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(f) the Trust shall have voluntarily or involuntarily
liquidated, dissolved, wound-up its business or otherwise terminated its
existence except in connection with (1) the distribution of the Debt Securities
to holders of the Trust Securities in liquidation of their interests in the
Trust, (2) the redemption of all of the outstanding Trust Securities or (3)
certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the
Declaration.
If an Event of Default specified under clause (a), (b) or (c)
of this Section 5.01 occurs and is continuing with respect to the Debt
Securities, then, in each and every such case, either the Trustee or the holders
of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then
outstanding hereunder, by notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by Securityholders), may declare the entire principal of the Debt
Securities and any premium and interest accrued, but unpaid, thereon to be due
and payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become
immediately due and payable. If an Event of Default specified under clause (d),
(e) or (f) of this Section 5.01 occurs, then, in each and every such case, the
entire principal amount of the Debt Securities and any premium and interest
accrued, but unpaid, thereon shall ipso facto become immediately due and payable
without further action.
The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the
condition that if, at any time after the principal of the Debt Securities shall
have become due by acceleration, and before any judgment or decree for the
payment of the moneys due shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter
provided, (i) the Company shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest upon all the Debt
Securities and all payments in respect of the Debt Securities which shall have
become due otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon all such payments
and Deferred Interest, to the extent permitted by law) and such amount as shall
be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each
predecessor Trustee, their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all
other amounts due to the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.06, if any, and (ii) all
Events of Default under this Indenture, other than the non-payment of the
payments in respect of Debt Securities which shall have become due by
acceleration, shall have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided
herein, then, in each and every such case, the holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding, by written
notice to the Company and to the Trustee, may waive all defaults and rescind and
annul such acceleration and its consequences, but no such waiver or rescission
and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any subsequent default or shall
impair any right consequent thereon; provided, however, that if the Debt
Securities are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, such waiver or
rescission and annulment shall not be effective until the holders of a majority
in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities of the
Trust shall have consented to such waiver or rescission and annulment.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right
under this Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or
abandoned because of such rescission or annulment or for any other reason or
shall have been determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case
the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debt Securities shall be
restored respectively to their several positions and rights hereunder, and all
rights, remedies and powers of the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the
Debt Securities shall continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.
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SECTION 5.02 Payment of Debt Securities on Default; Suit
Therefor.
The Company covenants that upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default pursuant to clause (a) or (b) of Section 5.01 and upon demand of the
Trustee, the Company will pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the holders of
the Debt Securities, the whole amount that then shall have become due and
payable on all Debt Securities, including Deferred Interest accrued on the Debt
Securities; and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient
to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including a reasonable
compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any other
amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06. In case the Company shall fail
forthwith to pay such amounts upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and
as trustee of an express trust, shall be entitled and empowered to institute any
actions or proceedings at law or in equity for the collection of the sums so due
and unpaid, and may prosecute any such action or proceeding to judgment or final
decree, and may enforce any such judgment or final decree against the Company or
any other obligor on such Debt Securities and collect in the manner provided by
law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor on such Debt
Securities wherever situated the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy
or for the reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Debt
Securities under Bankruptcy Law, or in case a receiver or trustee shall have
been appointed for the property of the Company or such other obligor, or in the
case of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Company or other
obligor upon the Debt Securities, or to the creditors or property of the Company
or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the principal of the
Debt Securities shall then be due and payable as therein expressed or by
acceleration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Trustee shall have
made any demand pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.02, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to
file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest
owing and unpaid in respect of the Debt Securities and, in case of any judicial
proceedings, to 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 reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for
reimbursement of all other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06) and of
the Securityholders allowed in such judicial proceedings relative to the Company
or any other obligor on the Debt Securities, or to the creditors or property of
the Company or such other obligor, unless prohibited by applicable law and
regulations, to vote on behalf of the holders of the Debt Securities in any
election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement, reorganization,
liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or Person performing
similar functions in comparable proceedings, and to collect and receive any
moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims, and to
distribute the same after the deduction of its charges and expenses; and any
receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization is hereby
authorized by each of the Securityholders 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 Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as shall be
sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each predecessor
Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other
amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06.
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Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any
Securityholder any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or
composition affecting the Debt Securities or the rights of any holder thereof or
to authorize the Trustee to vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder
in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this
Indenture, or under any of the Debt Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee
without the possession of any of the Debt Securities, or the production thereof
at any trial or other proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or
proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee
of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall be for the ratable
benefit of the holders of the Debt Securities.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any
proceedings involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to
which the Trustee shall be a party), the Trustee shall be held to represent all
the holders of the Debt Securities, and it shall not be necessary to make any
holders of the Debt Securities parties to any such proceedings.
SECTION 5.03 Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee.
Any moneys collected by the Trustee shall be applied in the
following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution
of such moneys, upon presentation of the several Debt Securities in respect of
which moneys have been collected, and stamping thereon the payment, if only
partially paid, and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of costs and expenses incurred by, and
reasonable fees of, the Trustee, its agents, attorneys and counsel, and of all
other amounts due to the Trustee under Section 6.06;
Second: To the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company if and to the extent required by Article XV;
Third: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid in
respect of Debt Securities, in respect of which or for the benefit of which
money has been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due in respect of such Debt Securities; and
Fourth: The balance, if any, to the Company.
SECTION 5.04 Proceedings by Securityholders.
No holder of any Debt Security shall have any right to
institute any suit, action or proceeding for any remedy hereunder, unless such
holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an Event of
Default with respect to the Debt Securities and unless the holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding
shall have given the Trustee a written request to institute such action, suit or
proceeding and shall have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it
may require against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred thereby,
and the Trustee for 60 days after
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its receipt of such notice, request and offer of indemnity shall have failed to
institute any such action, suit or proceeding; provided, that no holder of Debt
Securities shall have any right to prejudice the rights of any other holder of
Debt Securities, obtain priority or preference over any other such holder or
enforce any right under this Indenture except in the manner herein provided and
for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all holders of Debt Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, the
right of any holder of any Debt Security to receive payment of the principal of
and premium, if any, and interest on such Debt Security when due, or to
institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such holder. For the protection and enforcement
of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and the Trustee
shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in equity.
SECTION 5.05 Proceedings by Trustee.
In case of an Event of Default, the Trustee may in its
discretion proceed to protect and enforce the rights vested in it by this
Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any of such rights, either by suit in
equity or by action at law or by proceeding in bankruptcy or otherwise, whether
for the specific enforcement of any covenant or agreement contained in this
Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power granted in this Indenture, or
to enforce any other legal or equitable right vested in the Trustee by this
Indenture or by law.
SECTION 5.06 Remedies Cumulative and Continuing.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.06, all powers and
remedies given by this Article V to the Trustee or to the Securityholders shall,
to the extent permitted by law, be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any
other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the Debt
Securities, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or
observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture or
otherwise established with respect to the Debt Securities, and no delay or
omission of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Debt Securities to
exercise any right or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and
continuing as aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be
construed to be a waiver of any such default or an acquiescence therein; and,
subject to the provisions of Section 5.04, every power and remedy given by this
Article V or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised
from time to time, and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or
by the Securityholders.
SECTION 5.07 Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults
by Majority of Securityholders.
The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Debt Securities affected at the time outstanding and, if the Debt Securities are
held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, the holders of a majority in
aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust
shall have the right to 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 the Trustee with respect to such Debt Securities; provided,
however, that if the Debt Securities
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are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, such time, method and place or
such exercise, as the case may be, may not be so directed until the holders of a
majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities
of the Trust shall have directed such time, method and place or such exercise,
as the case may be; provided, further, that (subject to the provisions of
Section 6.01) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such
direction if the Trustee shall determine that the action so directed would be
unjustly prejudicial to the holders not taking part in such direction or if the
Trustee being advised by counsel determines that the action or proceeding so
directed may not lawfully be taken or if a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed would involve the
Trustee in personal liability. Prior to any declaration of acceleration, or ipso
facto acceleration, of the maturity of the Debt Securities, the holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at the time
outstanding may on behalf of the holders of all of the Debt Securities waive (or
modify any previously granted waiver of) any past Default or Event of Default
and its consequences, except a default (a) in the payment of principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any of the Debt Securities, (b) in respect of
covenants or provisions hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the holder of each Debt Security affected, or (c) in respect of the
covenants contained in Section 3.09; provided, however, that if the Debt
Securities are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, such waiver or
modification to such waiver shall not be effective until the holders of a
majority in aggregate liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities
of the Trust shall have consented to such waiver or modification to such waiver;
provided, further, that if the consent of the holder of each outstanding Debt
Security is required, such waiver or modification to such waiver shall not be
effective until each holder of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust
shall have consented to such waiver or modification to such waiver. Upon any
such waiver or modification to such waiver, the Default or Event of Default
covered thereby shall be deemed to be cured for all purposes of this Indenture
and the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Debt Securities shall be
restored to their former positions and rights hereunder, respectively; but no
such waiver or modification to such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Whenever any Default or Event of Default hereunder shall have been waived as
permitted by this Section, said Default or Event of Default shall for all
purposes of the Debt Securities and this Indenture be deemed to have been cured
and to be not continuing.
SECTION 5.08 Notice of Defaults.
The Trustee shall, within 90 days after a Responsible Officer
of the Trustee shall have actual knowledge or received written notice of the
occurrence of a default with respect to the Debt Securities, mail to all
Securityholders, as the names and addresses of such holders appear upon the Debt
Security Register, notice of all defaults with respect to the Debt Securities
known to the Trustee, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the
giving of such notice (the term "default" for the purpose of this Section is
hereby defined to be any event specified in Section 5.01, not including periods
of grace, if any, provided for therein); provided, that, except in the case of
default in the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any of the Debt Securities, the Trustee shall be protected in withholding such
notice if and so long as a Responsible Officer of the Trustee in good faith
determines that the withholding of such notice is in the interests of the
Securityholders.
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SECTION 5.09 Undertaking to Pay Costs.
All parties to this Indenture agree, and each holder of any
Debt Security by such holder's acceptance thereof shall be deemed to have
agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, 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, the filing by any
party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and
that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs, including
reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, against any party litigant in such
suit, having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses
made by such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply
to any suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any
Securityholder, or group of Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than
10% in principal amount of the outstanding Debt Securities (or, if such Debt
Securities are held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, more than 10% in
liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities),to any suit instituted
by any Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on any Debt Security against the Company on or
after the same shall have become due and payable or to any suit instituted in
accordance with Section 14.12.
ARTICLE VI
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.01 Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.
With respect to the holders of Debt Securities issued
hereunder, the Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after
the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred,
undertakes to perform such duties and only such duties as are specifically set
forth in this Indenture. In case an Event of Default has occurred (which has not
been cured or waived), 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
their exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the
circumstances in the conduct of such person's own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve
the Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent
failure to act or its own willful misconduct or bad faith, except that:
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after
the curing or waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred:
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee with
respect to the Debt Securities shall be determined solely by the
express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall not be
liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations with
respect to the Debt Securities as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture, and no implied covenants or obligations shall be read into
this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, the Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the
statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon
any certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to
the requirements of this Indenture; but, in the case of any such
certificates
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or opinions which by any provision hereof are specifically required to
be furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to
examine the same to determine whether or not they conform on their face
to the requirements of this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment
made in good faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless
it shall be proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent
facts;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action
taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith, in accordance with the
direction of the Securityholders pursuant to Section 5.07, relating to the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this
Indenture; and
(d) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Default or Event of Default with respect to the Debt Securities unless either
(1) a Responsible Officer shall have actual knowledge of such Default or Event
of Default or (2) written notice of such Default or Event of Default shall have
been given to the Trustee by the Company or any other obligor on the Debt
Securities or by any holder of the Debt Securities, except that the Trustee
shall be deemed to have knowledge of any Event of Default pursuant to Sections
5.01(a) or 5.01(b) hereof (other than an Event of Default resulting from the
default in the payment of Additional Interest, or resulting from the default in
the payment of any premium payable upon a redemption of the Debt Securities
following a Special Event, in each case if the Trustee does not have actual
knowledge or written notice that such payment is due and payable).
None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall
require the Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal
financial liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise
of any of its rights or powers.
SECTION 6.02 Reliance on Documents, Opinions, etc.
Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, bond,
note, debenture or other paper or document believed by it in good faith to be
genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate
(unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed);
and any Board Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and
any advice or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and
protection in respect of any action taken, suffered or omitted by it hereunder
in good faith and in accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
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(d) 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 Securityholders, pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture, unless such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee
reasonable security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities
which may be incurred therein or thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted
by it in good faith and reasonably believed by it to be authorized or within the
discretion or rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; nothing
contained herein shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligation, upon the
occurrence of an Event of Default (which has not been cured or waived) to
exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and to
use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent person
would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of such person's
own affairs;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond,
debenture, coupon or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do
so by the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Debt Securities affected thereby; provided, however, that if the payment within
a reasonable time to the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to
be incurred by it in the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the
Trustee, not reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by
the terms of this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity
against such expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents (including
any Authenticating Agent) or attorneys, and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney
appointed by it with due care.
SECTION 6.03 No Responsibility for Recitals, etc.
The recitals contained herein and in the Debt Securities (except in
the certificate of authentication of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent)
shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee and the
Authenticating Agent assume no responsibility for the correctness of the same.
The Trustee and the Authenticating Agent make no representations as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Debt Securities. The Trustee
and the Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application
by the Company of any Debt Securities or the proceeds of any Debt Securities
authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture.
SECTION 6.04 Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer
Agents or Registrar May Own Debt Securities.
The Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any
transfer agent or any Debt Security registrar, in its individual or any other
capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Debt Securities with the same
rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agent,
transfer agent or Debt Security registrar.
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SECTION 6.05 Moneys to be Held in Trust.
Subject to the provisions of Section 12.04, all moneys received by
the Trustee or any Paying Agent shall, until used or applied as herein provided,
be held in trust for the purpose for which they were received, but need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
and any Paying Agent shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all
interest allowed on any such moneys, if any, shall be paid from time to time to
the Company upon the written order of the Company, signed by the Chairman of the
Board of Directors, the President, the Chief Operating Officer, a Vice
President, the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of the Company.
SECTION 6.06 Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.
The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to
time, and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation as shall be agreed
to in writing between the Company and the Trustee (which shall not be limited by
any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust), and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its written
request for all documented reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances
incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this
Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the reasonable expenses and
disbursements of its counsel and of all Persons not regularly in its employ)
except any such expense, disbursement or advance that arises from its
negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. The Company also covenants to
indemnify each of the Trustee (including in its individual capacity) and any
predecessor Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and employees) for, and
to hold it harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim, liability or
expense including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee),
except to the extent such loss, damage, claim, liability or expense results from
the negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith of such indemnitee, arising out
of or in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust,
including the costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim or
liability in the premises. The obligations of the Company under this Section to
compensate and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for
documented expenses, disbursements and advances shall constitute additional
indebtedness hereunder. Such additional indebtedness shall be secured by a lien
prior to that of the Debt Securities upon all property and funds held or
collected by the Trustee as such, except funds held in trust for the benefit of
the holders of particular Debt Securities.
Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under
applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in clause (d), (e) or (f) of
Section 5.01, the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the resignation or
removal of the Trustee and the defeasance or other termination of this
Indenture.
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SECTION 6.07 Officers' Certificate as Evidence.
Except as otherwise provided in Sections 6.01 and 6.02, whenever in
the administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it
necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or
omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect
thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of negligence,
willful misconduct or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, be deemed to be
conclusively proved and established by an Officers' Certificate delivered to the
Trustee, and such certificate, in the absence of negligence, willful misconduct
or bad faith on the part of the Trustee, shall be full warrant to the Trustee
for any action taken or omitted by it under the provisions of this Indenture
upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 6.08 Eligibility of Trustee.
The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a U.S. Person that is a
banking corporation or national association organized and doing business under
the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or of the District
of Columbia and authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers,
having a combined capital and surplus of at least fifty million U.S. dollars
($50,000,000) and subject to supervision or examination by federal, state, or
District of Columbia authority. If such corporation or national association
publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the
requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the
purposes of this Section the combined capital and surplus of such corporation or
national association shall be deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as
set forth in its most recent records of condition so published.
The Company may not, nor may any Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by, or under common control with the Company, serve as
Trustee, notwithstanding that such corporation or national association shall be
otherwise eligible and qualified under this Article.
In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in
accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.09.
If the Trustee has or shall acquire any "conflicting interest"
within the meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee
shall either eliminate such interest or resign, to the extent and in the manner
provided by, and subject to, this Indenture.
SECTION 6.09 Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
(a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may
at any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company
and by mailing notice thereof, at the Company's expense, to the holders of the
Debt Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the Debt Security
Register. Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly
appoint a successor trustee or trustees by written instrument, in duplicate,
executed by order of its Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall
be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the successor Trustee. If
no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed and have accepted appointment
within 30 days after the mailing of
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such notice of resignation to the affected Securityholders, the resigning
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Trustee, or any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Debt Security or Debt Securities for at least six months may, subject to the
provisions of Section 5.09, on behalf of himself or herself and all others
similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a successor
Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it may deem
proper and prescribe, appoint a successor Trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of the
last paragraph of Section 6.08 after written request therefor by the
Company or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Debt
Security or Debt Securities for at least six months;
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of Section 6.08 and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company or by any such Securityholder; or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting, or shall be
adjudged bankrupt or insolvent, or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed, or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation,
then, in any such case, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor Trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, executed by order of the
Board of Directors, one copy of which instrument shall be delivered to the
Trustee so removed and one copy to the successor Trustee, or, subject to the
provisions of Section 5.09, if no successor Trustee shall have been so appointed
and have accepted appointment within 30 days of the occurrence of any of (i),
(ii) or (iii) above, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a
Debt Security or Debt Securities for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself or herself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a
successor Trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and appoint a successor
Trustee.
(c) Upon prior written notice to the Company and the Trustee, the
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at
the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and nominate a successor
Trustee, which shall be deemed appointed as successor Trustee unless within ten
Business Days after such nomination the Company objects thereto, in which case
or in the case of a failure by such holders to nominate a successor Trustee, the
Trustee so removed or any Securityholder, upon the terms and conditions and
otherwise as in subsection (a) of this Section, may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section shall become
effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee as provided in
Section 6.10.
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SECTION 6.10 Acceptance by Successor Trustee.
Any successor Trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.09 shall
execute, acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor Trustee
an indenture supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be
deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all of the rights, powers, trusts
and duties of the retiring Trustee shall be vested in the successor Trustee, and
thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall become
effective and such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, duties and
obligations with respect to the Debt Securities of its predecessor hereunder,
with like effect as if originally named as Trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on
the written request of the Company or of the successor Trustee, the Trustee
ceasing to act shall, upon payment of the amounts then due it pursuant to the
provisions of Section 6.06, execute and deliver an instrument transferring to
such successor Trustee all the rights and powers of the Trustee so ceasing to
act and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all
property and money held by such retiring Trustee hereunder. Upon request of any
such successor Trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
Trustee all such rights and powers. Any Trustee ceasing to act shall,
nevertheless, retain a lien upon all property or funds held or collected by such
Trustee to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section
6.06.
No successor Trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this
Section unless at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be
eligible and qualified under the provisions of Section 6.08.
In no event shall a retiring Trustee be liable for the acts or
omissions of any successor Trustee hereunder.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor Trustee as provided in
this Section, the Company shall mail notice of the succession of such Trustee
hereunder to the holders of Debt Securities at their addresses as they shall
appear on the Debt Security Register. If the Company fails to mail such notice
within ten Business Days after the acceptance of appointment by the successor
Trustee, the successor Trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the
expense of the Company.
SECTION 6.11 Succession by Merger, etc.
Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder without
the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of
the parties hereto, provided, that such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
and qualified under this Article.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to
the trusts created by this Indenture any of the Debt Securities shall have been
authenticated but not delivered, any
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such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate of authentication of any
predecessor Trustee, and deliver such Debt Securities so authenticated; and in
case at that time any of the Debt Securities shall not have been authenticated,
any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such Debt Securities either in the
name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the successor Trustee; and
in all such cases such certificates shall have the full force which it is
anywhere in the Debt Securities or in this Indenture provided that the
certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, however, that the right to
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or
authenticate Debt Securities in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply
only to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 6.12 Authenticating Agents.
There may be one or more Authenticating Agents appointed by the
Trustee upon the request of the Company with power to act on its behalf and
subject to its direction in the authentication and delivery of Debt Securities
issued upon exchange or registration of transfer thereof as fully to all intents
and purposes as though any such Authenticating Agent had been expressly
authorized to authenticate and deliver Debt Securities; provided, however, that
the Trustee shall not have any liability to the Company for any acts or
omissions of the Authenticating Agent with respect to the authentication and
delivery of Debt Securities. Any such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be
a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States
or of any state thereof or of the District of Columbia authorized under such
laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least $50,000,000 and being subject to supervision or examination by federal,
state or District of Columbia authority. If such corporation publishes reports
of condition at least annually pursuant to law or the requirements of such
authority, then for the purposes of this Section the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with
the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately in the manner and
with the effect herein specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of
the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor
of such Authenticating Agent hereunder, if such successor corporation is
otherwise eligible under this Section without the execution or filing of any
paper or any further act on the part of the parties hereto or such
Authenticating Agent.
Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written
notice of resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent with respect to the Debt
Securities by giving written notice of termination to such Authenticating Agent
and to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon such a
termination, or in case at any time any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be
eligible under this Section, the Trustee may, and upon the request of the
Company shall, promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent eligible under
this Section, shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company and
shall mail notice of such appointment to all holders of Debt Securities as the
names and addresses of such holders appear on the Debt
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Security Register. Any successor Authenticating Agent, upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder, shall become vested with all rights, powers, duties and
responsibilities of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally
named as Authenticating Agent herein.
The Company agrees to pay to any Authenticating Agent from time to
time reasonable compensation for its services. Any Authenticating Agent shall
have no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such in
accordance with the directions of the Trustee.
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.01 Action by Securityholders.
Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the holders of a
specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities may
take any action (including the making of any demand or request, the giving of
any notice, consent or waiver or the taking of any other action), the fact that
at the time of taking any such action the holders of such specified percentage
have joined therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of
instruments of similar tenor executed by such Securityholders in person or by
agent or proxy appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of such holders of
Debt Securities voting in favor thereof at any meeting of such Securityholders
duly called and held in accordance with the provisions of Article VIII, or (c)
by a combination of such instrument or instruments and any such record of such a
meeting of such Securityholders, or (d) by any other method the Trustee deems
satisfactory.
If the Company shall solicit from the Securityholders any request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or
revocation of the same, the Company may, at its option, as evidenced by an
Officers' Certificate, fix in advance a record date for such Debt Securities for
the determination of Securityholders entitled to give such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation
of the same, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so. If such a record
date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action or revocation of the same may be given before or after
the record date, but only the Securityholders of record at the close of business
on the record date shall be deemed to be Securityholders for the purposes of
determining whether Securityholders of the requisite proportion of outstanding
Debt Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation
of the same, and for that purpose the outstanding Debt Securities shall be
computed as of the record date; provided, however, that no such authorization,
agreement or consent by such Securityholders on the record date shall be deemed
effective unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this
Indenture not later than six months after the record date.
SECTION 7.02 Proof of Execution by Securityholders.
Subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01, 6.02 and 8.05, proof of
the execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or such Securityholder's
agent or proxy shall be sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable
rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the
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Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to the Trustee. The ownership
of Debt Securities shall be proved by the Debt Security Register or by a
certificate of the Debt Security registrar. The Trustee may require such
additional proof of any matter referred to in this Section as it shall deem
necessary.
The record of any Securityholders' meeting shall be proved in the
manner provided in Section 8.06.
SECTION 7.03 Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners.
Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Debt
Security, the Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent,
any transfer agent and any Debt Security registrar may deem the Person in whose
name such Debt Security shall be registered upon the Debt Security Register to
be, and may treat such Person as, the absolute owner of such Debt Security
(whether or not such Debt Security shall be overdue) for the purpose of
receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on such Debt Security and for all other purposes; and none of the
Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any transfer
agent or any Debt Security registrar shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary. All such payments so made to any holder for the time being or upon
such holder's order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the sum or sums so
paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for moneys payable upon
any such Debt Security.
SECTION 7.04 Debt Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not
Outstanding.
In determining whether the holders of the requisite aggregate
principal amount of Debt Securities have concurred in any direction, consent or
waiver under this Indenture, Debt Securities which are owned by the Company or
any other obligor on the Debt Securities or by any Person directly or indirectly
controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the
Company (other than the Trust) or any other obligor on the Debt Securities shall
be disregarded and deemed not to be outstanding for the purpose of any such
determination, provided, that for the purposes of determining whether the
Trustee shall be protected in relying on any such direction, consent or waiver,
only Debt Securities which a Responsible Officer of the Trustee actually knows
are so owned shall be so disregarded. Debt Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this
Section if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee the
pledgee's right to vote such Debt Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any such other obligor or Person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or
any such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision
by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the
Trustee.
SECTION 7.05 Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound.
At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee,
as provided in Section 7.01, of the taking of any action by the holders of the
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities specified in
this Indenture in connection with such action, any holder (in cases where no
record date has been set pursuant to Section 7.01) or any holder as of
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an applicable record date (in cases where a record date has been set pursuant to
Section 7.01) of a Debt Security (or any Debt Security issued in whole or in
part in exchange or substitution therefor) the serial number of which is shown
by the evidence to be included in the Debt Securities the holders of which have
consented to such action may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at the
Principal Office of the Trustee and upon proof of holding as provided in Section
7.02, revoke such action so far as concerns such Debt Security (or so far as
concerns the principal amount represented by any exchanged or substituted Debt
Security). Except as aforesaid any such action taken by the holder of any Debt
Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon all future
holders and owners of such Debt Security, and of any Debt Security issued in
exchange or substitution therefor or on registration of transfer thereof,
irrespective of whether or not any notation in regard thereto is made upon such
Debt Security or any Debt Security issued in exchange or substitution therefor.
ARTICLE VIII
SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS
SECTION 8.01 Purposes of Meetings.
A meeting of Securityholders may be called at any time and from time
to time pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII for any of the following
purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee, or to give
any directions to the Trustee, or to consent to the waiving of any default
hereunder and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be
taken by Securityholders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article V;
(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant
to the provisions of Article VI;
(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.02; or
(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf
of the holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of such Debt
Securities under any other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
SECTION 8.02 Call of Meetings by Trustee.
The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Securityholders to
take any action specified in Section 8.01, to be held at such time and at such
place in The City of New York, the Borough of Manhattan, or Wilmington,
Delaware, as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of the
Securityholders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in
general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be mailed
to holders of Debt Securities affected at their addresses as they shall appear
on the Debt Securities Register. Such notice shall be mailed not less than 20
nor more than 180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
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SECTION 8.03 Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders.
In case at any time the Company pursuant to a Board Resolution, or
the holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities, as the case may be, then outstanding, shall have requested the
Trustee to call a meeting of Securityholders, by written request setting forth
in reasonable detail the action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the
Trustee shall not have mailed the notice of such meeting within 20 days after
receipt of such request, then the Company or such Securityholders may determine
the time and the place in East Lansing, Michigan for such meeting and may call
such meeting to take any action authorized in Section 8.01, by mailing notice
thereof as provided in Section 8.02.
SECTION 8.04 Qualifications for Voting.
To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Securityholders a Person
shall be (a) a holder of one or more Debt Securities or (b) a Person appointed
by an instrument in writing as proxy by a holder of one or more Debt Securities.
The only Persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting
of Securityholders shall be the Persons entitled to vote at such meeting and
their counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any
representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 8.05 Regulations.
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee
may make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Securityholders, in regard to proof of the holding of Debt Securities and of the
appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of
inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and
other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the
conduct of the meeting as it shall deem appropriate.
The Trustee shall, by an instrument in writing, appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Securityholders as provided in Section 8.03, in which case the
Company or the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in
like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by majority vote at the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 7.04, at any meeting each
holder of Debt Securities with respect to which such meeting is being held or
proxy therefor shall be entitled to one vote for each $1,000 principal amount of
Debt Securities held or represented by such holder; provided, however, that no
vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Debt Security
challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not
outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than
by virtue of Debt Securities held by such chairman or instruments in writing as
aforesaid duly designating such chairman as the Person to vote on behalf of
other Securityholders. Any meeting of Securityholders duly called pursuant to
the provisions of Section 8.02 or 8.03 may be adjourned from time to time by a
majority of those present, whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting
may be held as so adjourned without further notice.
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SECTION 8.06 Voting.
The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of holders of
Debt Securities with respect to which such meeting is being held shall be by
written ballots on which shall be subscribed the signatures of such holders or
of their representatives by proxy and the serial number or numbers of the Debt
Securities held or represented by them. The permanent chairman of the meeting
shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count all votes cast at the
meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make and file with the
secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in triplicate of all
votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the proceedings of each
meeting of Securityholders shall be prepared by the secretary of the meeting and
there shall be attached to said record the original reports of the inspectors of
votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and affidavits by one or more Persons
having knowledge of the facts setting forth a copy of the notice of the meeting
and showing that said notice was mailed as provided in Section 8.02. The record
shall show the serial numbers of the Debt Securities voting in favor of or
against any resolution. The record shall be signed and verified by the
affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of the meeting and one of the
duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the other to the Trustee to be
preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached thereto the ballots voted
at the meeting.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of
the matters therein stated.
SECTION 8.07 Quorum; Actions.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding shall constitute a quorum for a
meeting of Securityholders; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken
at such meeting with respect to a consent, waiver, request, demand, notice,
authorization, direction or other action which may be given by the holders of
not less than a specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities then outstanding, the Persons holding or representing such specified
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding
will constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum within 30 minutes of the
time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting shall, if convened at the
request of Securityholders, be dissolved. In any other case, the meeting may be
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent
chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such meeting. In the absence
of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such adjourned meeting may be further
adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as determined by the permanent
chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such adjourned meeting.
Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be given as provided in
Section 8.02, except that such notice need be given only once not less than five
days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled to be reconvened.
Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state expressly the
percentage, as provided above, of the aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities then outstanding which shall constitute a quorum.
Except as limited by the proviso in the first paragraph of Section
9.02, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened
at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote
of the holders of a majority in
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aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities then outstanding; provided,
however, that, except as limited by the proviso in the first paragraph of
Section 9.02, any resolution with respect to any consent, waiver, request,
demand, notice, authorization, direction or other action that this Indenture
expressly provides may be given by the holders of not less than a specified
percentage in outstanding principal amount of the Debt Securities may be adopted
at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a quorum is
present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of the holders of not less
than such specified percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Debt
Securities then outstanding.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of holders of
Debt Securities duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on
all the Securityholders, whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
ARTICLE IX
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 9.01 Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
Securityholders.
The Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
may from time to time and at any time enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto, without the consent of the Securityholders, for one or more
of the following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company, or successive successions, and the assumption by the successor
corporation of the covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company,
pursuant to Article XI hereof;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions or conditions for the protection of the holders of Debt Securities
as the Board of Directors shall consider to be for the protection of the holders
of such Debt Securities, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and
continuance, of a Default in any of such additional covenants, restrictions or
conditions a Default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or
any of the several remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth;
provided, however, that in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction
or condition such supplemental indenture may provide for a particular period of
grace after Default (which period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in
the case of other Defaults) or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon
such Default or may limit the remedies available to the Trustee upon such
default;
(c) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental
indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture, provided, that any such action shall not adversely
affect the interests of the holders of the Debt Securities then outstanding;
(d) to add to, delete from, or revise the terms of Debt Securities,
including, without limitation, any terms relating to the issuance, exchange,
registration or transfer of Debt Securities, including to provide for transfer
procedures and restrictions substantially similar to those applicable to the
Capital Securities, as required by Section 2.05 (for purposes of assuring
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that no registration of Debt Securities is required under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended), provided, that any such action shall not adversely affect the
interests of the holders of the Debt Securities then outstanding (it being
understood, for purposes of this proviso, that transfer restrictions on Debt
Securities substantially similar to those applicable to Capital Securities shall
not be deemed to adversely affect the holders of the Debt Securities);
(e) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee and to add to or change any of the provisions
of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant to the
requirements of Section 6.10;
(f) to make any change (other than as elsewhere provided in this
Section) that does not adversely affect the rights of any Securityholder in any
material respect; or
(g) to provide for the issuance of and establish the form and terms
and conditions of the Debt Securities, to establish the form of any
certifications required to be furnished pursuant to the terms of this Indenture
or the Debt Securities, or to add to the rights of the holders of Debt
Securities.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the
execution of any such supplemental indenture, to make any further appropriate
agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to accept the
conveyance, transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but the Trustee
shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any such
supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any supplemental indenture authorized by the provisions of this
Section may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of
the holders of any of the Debt Securities at the time outstanding,
notwithstanding any of the provisions of Section 9.02.
SECTION 9.02 Supplemental Indentures with Consent of
Securityholders.
With the consent (evidenced as provided in Section 7.01) of the
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at
the time outstanding affected by such supplemental indenture, the Company, when
authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may from time to time and at
any time enter into an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the
purpose of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any
of the provisions of this Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Debt Securities;
provided, however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the
consent of the holders of each Debt Security then outstanding and affected
thereby, (i) change the Maturity Date of any Debt Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or any premium thereon, or reduce the rate (or manner
of calculation of the rate) or extend the time of payment of interest thereon,
or reduce (other than as a result of the maturity or earlier redemption of any
such Debt Security in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Debt
Security) or increase the aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities then
outstanding, or change any of the redemption provisions, or make the principal
thereof or any interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other
than
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United States Dollars, or impair or affect the right of any Securityholder to
institute suit for payment thereof, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of
Debt Securities the holders of which are required to consent to any such
supplemental indenture; and provided, further, that if the Debt Securities are
held by the Trust or the trustee of the Trust, such supplemental indenture shall
not be effective until the holders of a majority in aggregate liquidation amount
of the outstanding Capital Securities shall have consented to such supplemental
indenture; provided, further, that if the consent of the Securityholder of each
outstanding Debt Security is required, such supplemental indenture shall not be
effective until each holder of the outstanding Capital Securities shall have
consented to such supplemental indenture.
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a Board Resolution
authorizing the execution of any such supplemental indenture, and upon the
filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of Securityholders as
aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the execution of such
supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture affects the Trustee's
own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise, in which
case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into such supplemental indenture.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, a notice, prepared by the
Company, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental
indenture, to the Securityholders as their names and addresses appear upon the
Debt Security Register. Any failure of the Trustee to mail such notice, or any
defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of
any such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders
under this Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
SECTION 9.03 Effect of Supplemental Indentures.
Upon the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to the
provisions of this Article IX, this Indenture shall be, and shall be deemed to
be, modified and amended in accordance therewith and the respective rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities under this Indenture
of the Trustee, the Company and the holders of Debt Securities shall thereafter
be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder subject in all respects to such
modifications and amendments and all the terms and conditions of any such
supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be part of the terms and
conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.04 Notation on Debt Securities.
Debt Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of
any supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX may
bear a notation as to any matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If
the Company or the Trustee shall so determine, new Debt Securities so modified
as to conform, in the opinion of the Board of
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Directors of the Company, to any modification of this Indenture contained in any
such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by the Company,
authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent and delivered in
exchange for the Debt Securities then outstanding.
SECTION 9.05 Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be
Furnished to Trustee.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01 and 6.02,
shall, in addition to the documents required by Section 14.06, receive an
Officers' Certificate as conclusive evidence that any supplemental indenture
executed pursuant hereto complies with the requirements of this Article IX. The
Trustee shall also receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any
supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article IX is authorized or
permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of this Article IX and that it is
proper for the Trustee under the provisions of this Article IX to join in the
execution thereof.
ARTICLE X
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 10.01 Optional Redemption.
The Company shall have the right to redeem the Debt Securities, in
whole or (provided that all accrued and unpaid interest has been paid on all
Debt Securities for all Interest Periods terminating on or prior to such date)
from time to time in part, on any Interest Payment Date on or after May 23, 2008
(each, an "Optional Redemption Date"), at the Optional Redemption Price.
SECTION 10.02 Special Event Redemption.
If a Special Event shall occur and be continuing, the Company shall
have the right to redeem the Debt Securities, in whole but not in part, at any
time within 90 days following the occurrence of such Special Event (the "Special
Redemption Date"), at the Special Redemption Price. In the event that the
Special Redemption Date falls on a day prior to the LIBOR Determination Date for
any Interest Period commencing on or after May 23, 2008, then the Company shall
be required to pay to Securityholders, on the Business Day following such LIBOR
Determination Date, any additional amount of interest that would have been
payable on the Special Redemption Date had the amount of interest determined on
such LIBOR Determination Date been known on the first day of such Interest
Period.
SECTION 10.03 Notice of Redemption; Selection of Debt Securities.
In case the Company shall desire to exercise the right to redeem
all, or, as the case may be, any part of the Debt Securities, it shall fix a
date for redemption and shall mail, or cause the Trustee to mail (at the expense
of the Company), a notice of such redemption at least 30 and not more than 60
days prior to the date fixed for redemption to the holders of Debt Securities so
to be redeemed as a whole or in part at their last addresses as the same appear
on the Debt Security Register. Such mailing shall be by first class mail. The
notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to
have been duly given, whether or not the
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holder receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or
any defect in the notice to the holder of any Debt Security designated for
redemption as a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the
proceedings for the redemption of any other Debt Security.
Each such notice of redemption shall specify the CUSIP number, if
any, of the Debt Securities to be redeemed, the date fixed for redemption, the
price (or manner of calculation of the price) at which Debt Securities are to be
redeemed, the place or places of payment, that payment will be made upon
presentation and surrender of such Debt Securities, that interest accrued to the
date fixed for redemption will be paid as specified in said notice, and that on
and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be redeemed
will cease to accrue. If less than all the Debt Securities are to be redeemed,
the notice of redemption shall specify the numbers of the Debt Securities to be
redeemed. In case the Debt Securities are to be redeemed in part only, the
notice of redemption shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to
be redeemed and shall state that on and after the date fixed for redemption,
upon surrender of such Debt Security, a new Debt Security or Debt Securities in
principal amount equal to the unredeemed portion thereof will be issued.
Prior to 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date specified in the notice of redemption given
as provided in this Section, the Company will deposit with the Trustee or with
one or more Paying Agents an amount of money sufficient to redeem on such date
all the Debt Securities so called for redemption at the applicable price
therefor, together with unpaid interest accrued to such date.
The Company will give the Trustee notice not less than 45 nor more
than 60 days prior to the date fixed for redemption as to the price at which the
Debt Securities are to be redeemed and the aggregate principal amount of Debt
Securities to be redeemed and the Trustee shall select, in such manner as in its
sole discretion it shall deem appropriate and fair, the Debt Securities or
portions thereof (in integral multiples of $1,000) to be redeemed.
SECTION 10.04 Payment of Debt Securities Called for Redemption.
If notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 10.03,
the Debt Securities or portions of Debt Securities with respect to which such
notice has been given shall become due and payable on the related Optional
Redemption Date or Special Redemption Date (as the case may be) and at the place
or places stated in such notice at the applicable price therefor, together with
unpaid interest accrued thereon to said Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date (as the case may be), and on and after said Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date (as the case may be) (unless the Company
shall default in the payment of such Debt Securities at the redemption price,
together with unpaid interest accrued thereon to said date) interest on the Debt
Securities or portions of Debt Securities so called for redemption shall cease
to accrue. On presentation and surrender of such Debt Securities at a place of
payment specified in said notice, such Debt Securities or the specified portions
thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the Company at the applicable price
therefor, together with unpaid interest accrued thereon to said Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date (as the case may be).
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Upon presentation of any Debt Security redeemed in part only, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery to the holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Debt
Security or Debt Securities of authorized denominations in principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion of the Debt Security so presented.
ARTICLE XI
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
SECTION 11.01 Company May Consolidate, etc., on Certain Terms.
Nothing contained in this Indenture or in the Debt Securities shall
prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other
corporation or corporations (whether or not affiliated with the Company) or
successive consolidations or mergers in which the Company or its successor or
successors shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition of all or substantially all of the property or
capital stock of the Company or its successor or successors to any other
corporation (whether or not affiliated with the Company, or its successor or
successors) authorized to acquire and operate the same; provided, however, that
the Company hereby covenants and agrees that (i) upon any such consolidation,
merger (where the Company is not the surviving corporation), sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition, the successor entity shall be a corporation
organized and existing under the laws of the United States or any state thereof
or the District of Columbia (unless such corporation has agreed to make all
payments due in respect of the Debt Securities or, if outstanding, the Trust
Securities and the Capital Securities Guarantee without withholding or deduction
for, or on account of, any taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental
charges under the laws or regulations of the jurisdiction of organization or
residence (for tax purposes) of such corporation or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein unless required by applicable law, in which
case such corporation shall have agreed to pay such additional amounts as shall
be required so that the net amounts received and retained by the holders of such
Debt Securities or Trust Securities, as the case may be, after payment of all
taxes (including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or other governmental
charges, will be equal to the amounts that such holders would have received and
retained had no such taxes (including withholding taxes), duties, assessments or
other governmental charges been imposed) and such corporation expressly assumes
all of the obligations of the Company under the Debt Securities, this Indenture,
the Capital Securities Guarantee and the Declaration and (ii) after giving
effect to any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or other
disposition, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing.
SECTION 11.02 Successor Entity to be Substituted.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition contemplated in Section 11.01 and upon the
assumption by the successor corporation, by supplemental indenture, executed and
delivered to the Trustee and reasonably satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of
the due and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on all of the Debt Securities and the due and punctual performance and
observance of all of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be
performed or observed by the Company, such successor corporation shall succeed
to and be substituted for the Company, with
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the same effect as if it had been named herein as the Company, and thereupon the
predecessor entity shall be relieved of any further liability or obligation
hereunder or upon the Debt Securities. Such successor corporation thereupon may
cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of the
Company, any or all of the Debt Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore
shall not have been signed by the Company and delivered to the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent; and, upon the order of such successor corporation instead
of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and limitations in this
Indenture prescribed, the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent shall authenticate
and deliver any Debt Securities which previously shall have been signed and
delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent for authentication, and any Debt Securities which such successor
corporation thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee or
the Authenticating Agent for that purpose. All the Debt Securities so issued
shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture
as the Debt Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the
terms of this Indenture as though all of such Debt Securities had been issued at
the date of the execution hereof.
SECTION 11.03 Opinion of Counsel to be Given to Trustee.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.01 and 6.02,
shall receive, in addition to the Opinion of Counsel required by Section 9.05,
an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any consolidation, merger,
sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition, and any assumption, permitted
or required by the terms of this Article XI complies with the provisions of this
Article XI.
ARTICLE XII
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
SECTION 12.01 Discharge of Indenture.
When (a) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation
all Debt Securities theretofore authenticated (other than any Debt Securities
which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been
replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06) and not theretofore canceled, or
(b) all the Debt Securities not theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation shall have become due and payable, or are by their terms to
become due and payable within one year or are to be called for redemption within
one year under arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice
of redemption, and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, funds,
which shall be immediately due and payable, sufficient to pay at maturity or
upon redemption, as the case may be, all of the Debt Securities (other than any
Debt Securities which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall
have been replaced or paid as provided in Section 2.06) not theretofore canceled
or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and premium,
if any, and interest due or to become due to the Maturity Date, any Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be, but
excluding, however, the amount of any moneys for the payment of principal of and
premium, if any, or interest on the Debt Securities (1) theretofore repaid to
the Company in accordance with the provisions of Section 12.04, or (2) paid to
any state or to the District of Columbia pursuant to its unclaimed property or
similar laws, and if in the case of either clause (a) or (b) above the Company
shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums
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payable hereunder by the Company, then this Indenture shall cease to be of
further effect except for the provisions of Sections 2.05, 2.06, 3.01, 3.02,
3.04, 6.06, 6.09 and 12.04 hereof, which shall survive until such Debt
Securities shall mature or are redeemed, as the case may be, and are paid in
full. Thereafter, Sections 6.06, 6.09 and 12.04 shall survive, and the Trustee,
on demand of the Company accompanied by an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion
of Counsel, each stating that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture have been complied
with, and at the cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper
instruments acknowledging satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture,
provided, however, that the Company hereby agrees to reimburse the Trustee for
any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably and properly incurred by the Trustee
in connection with this Indenture or the Debt Securities.
SECTION 12.02 Deposited Moneys to be Held in Trust by Trustee.
Subject to the provisions of Section 12.04, all moneys deposited
with the Trustee pursuant to Section 12.01 shall be held in trust and applied by
it to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent (including the
Company if acting as its own Paying Agent), to the holders of the particular
Debt Securities for the payment of which such moneys have been deposited with
the Trustee, of all sums due and to become due thereon for principal, premium,
if any, and interest.
SECTION 12.03 Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held.
Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, all moneys
then held by any Paying Agent of the Debt Securities (other than the Trustee)
shall, upon demand of the Company, be repaid to the Company or paid to the
Trustee, and thereupon such Paying Agent shall be released from all further
liability with respect to such moneys.
SECTION 12.04 Return of Unclaimed Moneys.
Any moneys deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any Paying Agent
for payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on Debt
Securities and not applied but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Debt
Securities for two years after the date upon which such principal, premium, if
any, or interest, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall
be repaid to the Company by the Trustee or such Paying Agent on written demand;
and the holder of any of the Debt Securities shall thereafter look only to the
Company for any payment which such holder may be entitled to collect and all
liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such moneys shall
thereupon cease.
ARTICLE XIII
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS,
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
SECTION 13.01 Indenture and Debt Securities Solely Corporate
Obligations.
No recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any,
or interest on any Debt Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in
respect thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or
agreement of the Company in this Indenture
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or in any supplemental indenture, or in any such Debt Security, or because of
the creation of any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any
incorporator, stockholder, officer, director, employee or agent, as such, past,
present or future, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor corporation
of the Company, either directly or through the Company or any successor
corporation of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution, statute or
rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise; it
being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived
and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of
this Indenture and the issuance of the Debt Securities.
ARTICLE XIV
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 14.01 Successors.
All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements of the
Company contained in this Indenture shall bind its successors and assigns,
whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 14.02 Official Acts by Successor Entity.
Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized
or required to be done or performed by any board, committee or officer of the
Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the
like board, committee, officer or other authorized Person of any entity that
shall at the time be the lawful successor of the Company.
SECTION 14.03 Surrender of Company Powers.
The Company, by instrument in writing executed by authority of 2/3
(two thirds) of its Board of Directors and delivered to the Trustee, may
surrender any of the powers reserved to the Company and thereupon such power so
surrendered shall terminate both as to the Company and as to any permitted
successor.
SECTION 14.04 Addresses for Notices, etc.
Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is
required or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders on the Company may be given or served in writing by being
deposited postage prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office
letter box addressed (until another address is filed by the Company with the
Trustee for such purpose) to the Company at 1301 N. Hagadorn Road, East Lansing,
Michigan 48823, Attention: Frank H. Freund. Any notice, direction, request or
demand by any Securityholder or the Company to or upon the Trustee shall be
deemed to have been sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or
made in writing at the office of Wilmington Trust Company at Rodney Square
North, 1100 North Market Street, Wilmington, DE 19890-0001, Attention: Corporate
Trust Administration.
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SECTION 14.05 Governing Law.
This Indenture and the Debt Securities shall each be governed by,
and construed in accordance with, the laws of the State of New York, without
regard to conflict of laws principles of said State other than Section 5-1401 of
the New York General Obligations Law.
SECTION 14.06 Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take
any action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that in the opinion of
the signers all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture
relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions
precedent have been complied with (except that no such Opinion of Counsel is
required to be furnished to the Trustee in connection with the authentication
and issuance of Debt Securities issued on the date of this Indenture).
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and
delivered to the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant
provided for in this Indenture (except certificates delivered pursuant to
Section 3.05) shall include (a) a statement that the person making such
certificate or opinion has read such covenant or condition; (b) 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; (c) a statement that, in the opinion of such person, he or she has made
such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him or her to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or condition has
been complied with; and (d) a statement as to whether or not, in the opinion of
such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 14.07 Business Day Convention.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if any
Interest Payment Date, other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date, falls on a day that is not a Business Day,
then any interest payable will be paid on, and such Interest Payment Date will
be moved to, the next succeeding Business Day, and additional interest will
accrue for each day that such payment is delayed as a result thereof. If the
Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date falls
on a day that is not a Business Day, then the principal, premium, if any, and/or
interest payable on such date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day,
and no additional interest will accrue in respect of such payment made on such
next succeeding Business Day.
SECTION 14.08 Table of Contents, Headings, etc.
The table of contents and the titles and headings of the Articles
and Sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference
only, are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or
restrict any of the terms or provisions hereof.
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SECTION 14.09 Execution in Counterparts.
This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each
of which shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute
but one and the same instrument.
SECTION 14.10 Separability.
In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this
Indenture or in the Debt Securities shall for any reason be held to be invalid,
illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability shall not affect any other provisions of this Indenture or of
such Debt Securities, but this Indenture and such Debt Securities shall be
construed as if such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision had never been
contained herein or therein.
SECTION 14.11 Assignment.
Subject to Article XI, the Company will have the right at all times
to assign any of its rights or obligations under this Indenture and the Debt
Securities to a direct or indirect wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company;
provided, however, that, in the event of any such assignment, the Company shall
remain liable for all such obligations. Subject to the foregoing, this Indenture
is binding upon and inures to the benefit of the parties hereto and their
respective successors and assigns. This Indenture may not otherwise be assigned
by the parties thereto.
SECTION 14.12 Acknowledgment of Rights.
The Company acknowledges that, with respect to any Debt Securities
held by the Trust or a trustee of the Trust, if such trustee of the Trust fails
to enforce its rights under this Indenture as the holder of Debt Securities held
as the assets of the Trust after the holders of a majority in aggregate
liquidation amount of the outstanding Capital Securities of the Trust have so
directed in writing such trustee, a holder of record of such Capital Securities
may, to the fullest extent permitted by law, institute legal proceedings
directly against the Company to enforce such trustee's rights under this
Indenture without first instituting any legal proceedings against such trustee
or any other Person. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing and such event is attributable to the failure of the
Company to pay interest or premium, if any, on or principal of the Debt
Securities on the date such interest, premium, if any, or principal is otherwise
due and payable (or, in the case of redemption, on the related Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date (as the case may be)), the
Company acknowledges that a holder of outstanding Capital Securities of the
Trust may directly institute a proceeding against the Company for enforcement of
payment to such holder directly of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on the Debt Securities having an aggregate principal amount equal to
the aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital Securities of such holder on or
after the respective due date (or Optional Redemption Date or Special Redemption
Date (as the case may be)) specified in the Debt Securities.
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ARTICLE XV
SUBORDINATION OF DEBT SECURITIES
SECTION 15.01 Agreement to Subordinate.
The Company covenants and agrees, and each holder of Debt Securities
issued hereunder and under any supplemental indenture (the "Additional
Provisions") by such holder's acceptance thereof likewise covenants and agrees,
that all Debt Securities shall be issued subject to the provisions of this
Article XV; and each holder of a Debt Security, whether upon original issue or
upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and agrees to be bound by such
provisions.
The payment by the Company of the payments due on all Debt
Securities issued hereunder and under any Additional Provisions shall, to the
extent and in the manner hereinafter set forth, be subordinated and junior in
right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred.
No provision of this Article XV shall prevent the occurrence of any
default or Event of Default hereunder.
SECTION 15.02 Default on Senior Indebtedness.
In the event and during the continuation of any default by the
Company in the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other payment due
in respect of any Senior Indebtedness of the Company following any applicable
grace period, or in the event that the maturity of any Senior Indebtedness of
the Company has been accelerated because of a default, and such acceleration has
not been rescinded or canceled and such Senior Indebtedness has not been paid in
full, then, in either case, no payment shall be made by the Company with respect
to the payments due on the Debt Securities.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall
be received by the Trustee when such payment is prohibited by the preceding
paragraph of this Section, such payment shall, subject to Section 15.06, be held
in trust for the benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders
of Senior Indebtedness or their respective representatives, or to the trustee or
trustees under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the
extent that the holders of the Senior Indebtedness (or their representative or
representatives or trustee) notify the Trustee in writing within 90 days of such
payment of the amounts then due and owing on the Senior Indebtedness and only
the amounts specified in such notice to the Trustee shall be paid to the holders
of Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 15.03 Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.
Upon any payment by the Company or distribution of assets of the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
creditors upon any dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all amounts due upon all Senior Indebtedness
of the Company shall first be paid in full, or payment thereof provided for in
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money in accordance with its terms, before any payment is made by the Company in
respect of the Debt Securities; and upon any such dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation or reorganization, any payment by the Company, or distribution of
assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or
securities, to which the Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled to
receive from the Company, except for the provisions of this Article XV, 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
Securityholders or by the Trustee under this Indenture if received by them or
it, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company (pro rata to
such holders on the basis of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held
by such holders, as calculated by the Company) or their representative or
representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to
which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued,
as their respective interests may appear, to the extent necessary to pay such
Senior Indebtedness in full, in money or money's worth, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution to or for the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness, before any payment or distribution is made to the Securityholders.
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, prohibited by the foregoing shall be received by the
Trustee before all Senior Indebtedness of the Company is paid in full, or
provision is made for such payment in money in accordance with its terms, such
payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of, and shall be
paid over or delivered, to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness or their
representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any
indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness
may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, as calculated by
the Company, for application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to pay such Senior Indebtedness
in full in money in accordance with its terms, after giving effect to any
concurrent payment or distribution to or for the benefit of the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness.
For purposes of this Article XV, the words "cash, property or
securities" shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as
reorganized or readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation
provided for by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which
is subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article XV with respect
to the Debt Securities to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company,
that may at the time be outstanding, provided, that (a) such Senior Indebtedness
is assumed by the new corporation, if any, resulting from any such
reorganization or readjustment, and (b) the rights of the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness are not, without the consent of such holders, altered by such
reorganization or readjustment. The consolidation of the Company with, or the
merger of the Company into, another corporation or the liquidation or
dissolution of the Company following the conveyance, transfer or other
disposition of its property as an entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to
another corporation upon the terms and conditions provided for in Article XI of
this Indenture 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, comply with the
conditions stated in Article XI of this Indenture. Nothing in Section 15.02 or
in this Section shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the Trustee under or
pursuant to Section 6.06 of this Indenture.
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SECTION 15.04 Subrogation.
Subject to the payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness of the
Company, the Securityholders shall be subrogated to the rights of the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of cash, property
or securities of the Company applicable to such Senior Indebtedness until all
payments due in respect of the Debt Securities shall be paid in full; and, for
the purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the
Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article XV, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this Article
XV to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by
Securityholders or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors
other than holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the
Debt Securities be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or
on account of such Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions of
this Article XV are, and are intended, solely for the purposes of defining the
relative rights of the holders of the Debt Securities, on the one hand, and the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness, on the other hand.
Nothing contained in this Article XV or elsewhere in this Indenture,
any Additional Provisions or in the Debt Securities is intended to or shall
impair, as between the Company, its creditors other than the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the Debt Securities, the
obligation of the Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
holders of the Debt Securities all payments due in respect of the Debt
Securities 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 of the Debt Securities and creditors of the Company other than the
holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, nor shall anything herein or
therein prevent the Trustee or the holder of any Debt Security from exercising
all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under this
Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article XV of the holders
of such Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the
Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred
to in this Article XV, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of
this Indenture, and the Securityholders shall be entitled to conclusively rely
upon any order or decree made by any court of competent jurisdiction in which
such dissolution, winding-up, liquidation or reorganization proceedings are
pending, or a certificate of the receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidation
trustee, agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to
the Trustee or to the Securityholders, for the purposes of ascertaining the
Persons entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of Senior
Indebtedness 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 XV.
SECTION 15.05 Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
Each Securityholder, by such Securityholder's acceptance thereof,
authorizes and directs the Trustee on such Securityholder's behalf to take such
action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination
provided in this Article XV and appoints the Trustee such Securityholder's
attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes.
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SECTION 15.06 Notice by the Company.
The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible
Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of the Trustee of any fact known
to the Company that would prohibit the making of any payment of moneys to or by
the Trustee in respect of the Debt Securities pursuant to the provisions of this
Article XV. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Article XV or any other
provision of this Indenture or any Additional Provisions to the contrary, the
Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that
would prohibit the making of any payment of moneys to or by the Trustee in
respect of the Debt Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Article XV
unless and until a Responsible Officer of the Trustee at the Principal Office of
the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or a
holder or holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and
before the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Article VI of this Indenture, shall be entitled in all respects to
assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall
not have received the notice provided for in this Section at least two Business
Days prior to the date upon which by the terms hereof any money may become
payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any Debt Security), then,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall
have full power and authority to receive such money and to apply the same to the
purposes for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any notice
to the contrary that may be received by it within two Business Days prior to
such date.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this
Indenture, shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon the delivery to it of a
written notice by a Person representing himself or herself to be a holder of
Senior Indebtedness of the Company (or a trustee or representative on behalf of
such holder) to establish that such notice has been given by a holder of such
Senior Indebtedness or a trustee or representative on behalf of any such holder
or holders. In the event that the Trustee determines in good faith that further
evidence is required with respect to the right of any Person as a holder of such
Senior Indebtedness to participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to
this Article XV, the Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the
reasonable satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior
Indebtedness 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 XV, 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 15.07 Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
The Trustee, in its individual capacity, shall be entitled to all
the rights set forth in this Article XV in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at
any time held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior
Indebtedness, and nothing in this Indenture or any Additional Provisions shall
deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such holder.
With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company,
the Trustee undertakes to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and
obligations as are specifically set forth in this Article XV, and no implied
covenants or obligations with respect to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
shall be read into this Indenture or any Additional Provisions against
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the Trustee. The Trustee shall not owe or be deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness and, subject to the provisions of
Article VI of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be liable to any holder of
such Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to Securityholders, the
Company or any other Person money or assets to which any holder of such Senior
Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XV or otherwise.
Nothing in this Article XV shall apply to claims of, or payments to,
the Trustee under or pursuant to Section 6.06.
SECTION 15.08 Subordination May Not Be Impaired.
No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness
of the Company to enforce the subordination of the Debt Securities provided in
this Article XV 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, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof that 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 Indebtedness of the Company may, at any time
and from time to time, without the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the
Securityholders, without incurring responsibility to the Securityholders and
without impairing or releasing the subordination of the Debt Securities provided
in this Article XV or the obligations hereunder of the holders of the Debt
Securities to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, do any one or more of the
following: (a) change the manner, place or terms of payment or extend the time
of payment of, or renew or alter, such Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend
or supplement in any manner such Senior Indebtedness or any instrument
evidencing the same or any agreement under which such Senior Indebtedness is
outstanding; (b) sell, exchange, release or otherwise deal with any property
pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing such Senior Indebtedness; (c) release
any Person liable in any manner for the collection of such Senior Indebtedness;
and (d) exercise or refrain from exercising any rights against the Company or
any other Person.
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Wilmington Trust Company, in its capacity as Trustee, hereby accepts
the trusts in this Indenture declared and provided, upon the terms and
conditions herein above set forth.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of
the day and year first above written.
AMERICAN PHYSICIANS CAPITAL, INC.
By: /s/ Frank H. Freund
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Name: Frank H. Freund
Title: Chief Financial Officer
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
as Trustee
By: /s/ Donald F. MacKelcan
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Name: Donald F. MacKelcan
Title: Vice President
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF DEBT SECURITY
[FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY]
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF
1933, AS AMENDED (THE "SECURITIES ACT"), OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR ANY
OTHER APPLICABLE SECURITIES LAWS. NEITHER THIS SECURITY NOR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN MAY BE REOFFERED, SOLD, ASSIGNED, TRANSFERRED, PLEDGED,
ENCUMBERED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF IN THE ABSENCE OF SUCH REGISTRATION OR
UNLESS SUCH TRANSACTION IS EXEMPT FROM, OR NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT. THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY
BE, AGREES TO OFFER, SELL OR OTHERWISE TRANSFER SUCH SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN PRIOR TO THE DATE WHICH IS THE LATER OF (I) TWO YEARS (OR
SUCH SHORTER PERIOD OF TIME AS PERMITTED BY RULE 144(K) OF THE SECURITIES ACT)
AFTER THE LATER OF (Y) THE DATE OF ORIGINAL ISSUANCE HEREOF AND (Z) THE LAST
DATE ON WHICH THE COMPANY OR ANY AFFILIATE (AS DEFINED IN RULE 405 UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT) OF THE COMPANY WAS THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST
OR PARTICIPATION (OR ANY PREDECESSOR THERETO) AND (II) SUCH LATER DATE, IF ANY,
AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY ANY SUBSEQUENT CHANGE IN APPLICABLE LAW, ONLY (A) TO THE
COMPANY, (B) PURSUANT TO RULE 144A UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT ("RULE 144A"), TO A
PERSON THE HOLDER REASONABLY BELIEVES IS A "QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER", AS
DEFINED IN RULE 144A, THAT PURCHASES FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF A
QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL BUYER TO WHOM NOTICE IS GIVEN THAT THE TRANSFER IS BEING
MADE IN RELIANCE ON RULE 144A, (C) PURSUANT TO AN EXEMPTION FROM THE
REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT TO AN "ACCREDITED INVESTOR"
WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBPARAGRAPH (A) (1), (2), (3), (7) OR (8) OF RULE 501
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT THAT IS ACQUIRING THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION FOR ITS OWN ACCOUNT, OR FOR THE ACCOUNT OF SUCH AN ACCREDITED
INVESTOR, FOR INVESTMENT PURPOSES AND NOT WITH A VIEW TO, OR FOR OFFER OR SALE
IN CONNECTION WITH, ANY DISTRIBUTION IN VIOLATION OF THE SECURITIES ACT, (D)
PURSUANT TO OFFERS AND SALES TO NON-US PERSONS THAT OCCUR OUTSIDE THE UNITED
STATES PURSUANT TO REGULATION S UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR (E) PURSUANT TO
ANOTHER AVAILABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES
ACT, SUBJECT TO THE COMPANY'S RIGHT PRIOR TO ANY SUCH OFFER, SALE OR TRANSFER
PURSUANT TO CLAUSE (C), (D) OR (E) ABOVE TO REQUIRE THE DELIVERY OF AN OPINION
OF COUNSEL, CERTIFICATION AND/OR OTHER INFORMATION SATISFACTORY TO IT IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE
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INDENTURE, A COPY OF WHICH MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE COMPANY. THE HOLDER OF THIS
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR
THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, AGREES THAT IT WILL COMPLY WITH THE FOREGOING
RESTRICTIONS.
THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN,
BY ITS ACCEPTANCE HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, ALSO AGREES, REPRESENTS
AND WARRANTS THAT IT IS NOT AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT, INDIVIDUAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT
OR OTHER PLAN OR ARRANGEMENT SUBJECT TO TITLE I OF THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974, AS AMENDED ("ERISA"), OR SECTION 4975 OF THE
INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE") (EACH A "PLAN"), OR AN
ENTITY WHOSE UNDERLYING ASSETS INCLUDE "PLAN ASSETS" BY REASON OF ANY PLAN'S
INVESTMENT IN THE ENTITY AND NO PERSON INVESTING "PLAN ASSETS" OF ANY PLAN MAY
ACQUIRE OR HOLD THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN, UNLESS
SUCH PURCHASER OR HOLDER IS ELIGIBLE FOR THE EXEMPTIVE RELIEF AVAILABLE UNDER
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PROHIBITED TRANSACTION CLASS EXEMPTION 96-23, 95-60,
91-38, 90-1 OR 84-14 OR ANOTHER APPLICABLE EXEMPTION OR ITS PURCHASE AND HOLDING
OF THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION IS NOT PROHIBITED BY SECTION
406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE WITH RESPECT TO SUCH PURCHASE OR
HOLDING. ANY PURCHASER OR HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN WILL BE DEEMED TO HAVE REPRESENTED BY ITS PURCHASE AND
HOLDING HEREOF OR THEREOF, AS THE CASE MAY BE, THAT EITHER (I) IT IS NOT AN
EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN WITHIN THE MEANING OF SECTION 3(3) OF ERISA, OR A PLAN TO
WHICH SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE IS APPLICABLE, A TRUSTEE OR OTHER PERSON ACTING
ON BEHALF OF AN EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN, OR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY
USING THE ASSETS OF ANY EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLAN OR PLAN TO FINANCE SUCH PURCHASE,
OR (II) SUCH PURCHASE AND HOLDING WILL NOT RESULT IN A PROHIBITED TRANSACTION
UNDER SECTION 406 OF ERISA OR SECTION 4975 OF THE CODE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO
APPLICABLE STATUTORY OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXEMPTION.
IN CONNECTION WITH ANY TRANSFER, THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY WILL
DELIVER TO THE REGISTRAR AND TRANSFER AGENT SUCH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER
INFORMATION AS MAY BE REQUIRED BY THE INDENTURE TO CONFIRM THAT THE TRANSFER
COMPLIES WITH THE FOREGOING RESTRICTIONS.
THIS SECURITY WILL BE ISSUED AND MAY BE TRANSFERRED ONLY IN MINIMUM
DENOMINATIONS OF $100,000 AND MULTIPLES OF $1,000 IN EXCESS THEREOF. ANY
ATTEMPTED TRANSFER OF THIS SECURITY IN DENOMINATIONS OF LESS THAN $100,000 SHALL
BE DEEMED TO BE VOID AND OF NO LEGAL EFFECT WHATSOEVER. ANY SUCH PURPORTED
TRANSFEREE
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SHALL BE DEEMED NOT TO BE THE HOLDER OF THIS SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR
PARTICIPATION HEREIN FOR ANY PURPOSE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE RECEIPT
OF DISTRIBUTIONS ON THIS SECURITY OR SUCH INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION, AND SUCH
PURPORTED TRANSFEREE SHALL BE DEEMED TO HAVE NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN THIS
SECURITY OR ANY INTEREST OR PARTICIPATION HEREIN.
Floating Rate Junior Subordinated Debt Security due 2033
of
AMERICAN PHYSICIANS CAPITAL, INC.
American Physicians Capital, Inc., an insurance holding company
incorporated in Michigan (the "Company", which term includes any successor
permitted under the Indenture (as defined herein)), for value received, promises
to pay to Wilmington Trust Company, not in its individual capacity but solely as
Institutional Trustee for APCapital Trust II, a Delaware statutory trust, or
registered assigns, the principal amount of FIFTEEN MILLION FOUR HUNDRED AND
SIXTY-FOUR THOUSAND ($15,464,000) Dollars on May 23, 2033 (the "Maturity Date")
(or any Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, each as defined
herein, or any earlier date of acceleration of the maturity of this Debt
Security), and to pay interest on the outstanding principal amount of this Debt
Security from May 22, 2003, or from the most recent Interest Payment Date (as
defined below) to which interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly
(subject to deferral as set forth herein) in arrears on February 23, May 23,
August 23 and November 23 of each year, commencing on August 23, 2003 (each, an
"Interest Payment Date"), at a floating rate per annum, which, with respect to
any Interest Period (as defined in the Indenture), will be equal to LIBOR (as
defined in the Indenture), as determined on the LIBOR Determination Date (as
defined in the Indenture) for such Interest Period, plus 4.20% (the "Interest
Rate") (provided that the Interest Rate for any Interest Period prior to the
Interest Period commencing on the Interest Payment Date in May 2008 may not
exceed 12.5% per annum; and provided, further, that the Interest Rate for any
Interest Period may not exceed the highest rate permitted by New York law, as
the same may be modified by United States law of general application) until the
principal hereof shall have been paid or duly provided for, and on any overdue
principal and (without duplication and to the extent that payment of such
interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of
interest at an annual rate equal to the then applicable Interest Rate,
compounded quarterly. The amount of interest payable for any Interest Period
shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year and the actual number of days
elapsed in such Interest Period; provided, however, that if the Special
Redemption Date (as defined herein) is before May 23, 2008, the amounts so
payable shall be calculated as set forth in the definition of the Special
Redemption Price.
The interest installment so payable, and punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date will, as provided in the Indenture,
be paid to the Person in whose name this Debt Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities, as defined in the Indenture) is registered at the close
of business on the "regular record date" for such interest installment, which
shall be the fifteenth day prior to such Interest Payment Date, whether or not
such day is a Business Day (as defined herein). Any such interest installment
(other than Deferred Interest (as defined herein)) not punctually paid or duly
provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to
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the holders on such regular record date and may be paid to the Person in whose
name this Debt Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at
the close of business on a special record date to be fixed by the Trustee for
the payment of such defaulted interest, notice whereof shall be given to the
holders of the Debt Securities not less than 10 days prior to such special
record date, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.
Payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on
this Debt Security due on the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the
Special Redemption Date, as the case may be, shall be made in immediately
available funds against presentation and surrender of this Debt Security at the
office or agency of the Trustee maintained for that purpose in Wilmington,
Delaware, or at the office or agency of any other Paying Agent appointed by the
Company maintained for that purpose in Wilmington, Delaware or East Lansing,
Michigan. Payment of interest on this Debt Security due on any Interest Payment
Date other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special
Redemption Date, as the case may be, shall be made at the option of the Company
by check mailed to the holder thereof at such address as shall appear in the
Debt Security Register or by wire transfer of immediately available funds to an
account appropriately designated by the holder hereof. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, so long as the holder of this Debt Security is the Institutional
Trustee, payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on this
Debt Security shall be made in immediately available funds when due at such
place and to such account as may be designated by the Institutional Trustee. All
payments in respect of this Debt Security shall be payable in any coin or
currency of the United States of America that at the time of payment is legal
tender for payment of public and private debts.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, if any
Interest Payment Date, other than the Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption
Date or the Special Redemption Date, falls on a day that is not a Business Day,
then any interest payable will be paid on, and such Interest Payment Date will
be moved to, the next succeeding Business Day, and additional interest will
accrue for each day that such payment is delayed as a result thereof. If the
Maturity Date, any Optional Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date falls
on a day that is not a Business Day, then the principal, premium, if any, and/or
interest payable on such date will be paid on the next succeeding Business Day,
and no additional interest will accrue in respect of such payment made on such
next succeeding Business Day.
So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Company shall have the right, from time to time and without causing an Event of
Default, to defer payments of interest on the Debt Securities by extending the
interest payment period on the Debt Securities at any time and from time to time
during the term of the Debt Securities, for up to 20 consecutive quarterly
periods (each such extended interest payment period, together with all previous
and further consecutive extensions thereof, is referred to herein as an
"Extension Period"). No Extension Period may end on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date or extend beyond the Maturity Date, any Optional
Redemption Date or the Special Redemption Date, as the case may be. During any
Extension Period, interest will continue to accrue on the Debt Securities, and
interest on such accrued interest (such accrued interest and interest thereon
referred to herein as "Deferred Interest") will accrue at an annual rate equal
to the Interest Rate applicable during such Extension Period, compounded
quarterly from the date such Deferred Interest would have been payable were it
not for the Extension Period, to the extent permitted by applicable law. No
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interest or Deferred Interest (except any Additional Interest (as defined in the
Indenture) that may be due and payable) shall be due and payable during an
Extension Period, except at the end thereof. At the end of any Extension Period,
the Company shall pay all Deferred Interest then accrued and unpaid on the Debt
Securities; provided, however, that during any Extension Period, the Company may
not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase,
acquire, or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's
capital stock or (ii) make any payment of principal of or premium or interest on
or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that rank in
all respects pari passu with or junior in interest to the Debt Securities (other
than (a) repurchases, redemptions or other acquisitions of shares of capital
stock of the Company (A) in connection with any employment contract, benefit
plan or other similar arrangement with or for the benefit of one or more
employees, officers, directors or consultants, (B) in connection with a dividend
reinvestment or stockholder stock purchase plan or (C) in connection with the
issuance of capital stock of the Company (or securities convertible into or
exercisable for such capital stock), as consideration in an acquisition
transaction entered into prior to such Extension Period, (b) as a result of any
exchange or conversion of any class or series of the Company's capital stock (or
any capital stock of a subsidiary of the Company) for any class or series of the
Company's capital stock or of any class or series of the Company's indebtedness
for any class or series of the Company's capital stock, (c) the purchase of
fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the
conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security being
converted or exchanged, (d) any declaration of a dividend in connection with any
stockholder's rights plan, or the issuance of rights, stock or other property
under any stockholder's rights plan, or the redemption or repurchase of rights
pursuant thereto, (e) any dividend in the form of stock, warrants, options or
other rights where the dividend stock or the stock issuable upon exercise of
such warrants, options or other rights is the same stock as that on which the
dividend is being paid or ranks pari passu with or junior to such stock or (f)
any payments under the Capital Securities Guarantee). Prior to the termination
of any Extension Period, the Company may further extend such Extension Period,
provided, that no Extension Period (including all previous and further
consecutive extensions that are part of such Extension Period) shall exceed 20
consecutive quarterly periods. Upon the termination of any Extension Period and
upon the payment of all Deferred Interest, the Company may commence a new
Extension Period, subject to the foregoing requirements. The Company must give
the Trustee notice of its election to begin or extend an Extension Period at
least one Business Day prior to the earlier of (i) the next succeeding date on
which interest on the Debt Securities would have been payable except for the
election to begin or extend such Extension Period or (ii) the date such interest
is payable, but in any event not later than the related regular record date.
The indebtedness evidenced by this Debt Security is, to the extent
provided in the Indenture, subordinate and junior in right of payment to the
prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness (as defined in the Indenture),
and this Debt Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with
respect thereto. Each holder of this Debt Security, by accepting the same, (a)
agrees to and shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the
Trustee on such holder's behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination of this Debt Security
so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee such holder's attorney-in-fact for any
and all such purposes. Each holder of this Debt Security, by such holder's
acceptance hereof, hereby waives all notice of the acceptance of the
subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture by each holder of
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Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter incurred, and waives reliance
by each such holder upon said provisions.
The Company waives diligence, presentment, demand for payment,
notice of nonpayment, notice of protest, and all other demands and notices.
This Debt Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the
Indenture and shall not be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until the
certificate of authentication hereon shall have been signed by or on behalf of
the Trustee.
The provisions of this Debt Security are continued on the reverse
side hereof and such continued provisions shall for all purposes have the same
effect as though fully set forth at this place.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has duly executed this certificate.
AMERICAN PHYSICIANS CAPITAL, INC.
By:
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Name:
Title:
Dated: May 22, 2003
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Debt Securities referred to in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
WILMINGTON TRUST COMPANY,
not in its individual capacity but
solely as the Trustee
By:
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Authorized Officer
Dated: May 22, 2003
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[FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY]
This Debt Security is one of a duly authorized series of debt
securities of the Company (collectively, the "Debt Securities"), all issued or
to be issued pursuant to an Indenture (the "Indenture"), dated as of May 22,
2003, duly executed and delivered between the Company and Wilmington Trust
Company, as Trustee (the "Trustee"), to which Indenture and all indentures
supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a description of the rights,
limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the
Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Debt Securities of which this Debt
Security is a part.
Upon the occurrence and continuation of a Tax Event or an Investment
Company Event (each, a "Special Event"), the Company shall have the right to
redeem this Debt Security, at its option, in whole with all other Debt
Securities but not in part, at any time, within 90 days following the occurrence
of such Special Event (the "Special Redemption Date"), as the case may be, at
the Special Redemption Price (as defined herein). In the event that the Special
Redemption Date falls on a day prior to the LIBOR Determination Date for any
Interest Period commencing on or after May 23, 2008, then the Company shall be
required to pay to Securityholders, on the Business Day following such LIBOR
Determination Date, any additional amount of interest that would have been
payable on the Special Redemption Date had the amount of interest determined on
such LIBOR Determination Date been known on the first day of such Interest
Period.
The Company shall also have the right to redeem this Debt Security
at its option, in whole or (provided that all accrued and unpaid interest has
been paid on all Debt Securities for all Interest Periods terminating on or
prior to such date) from time to time in part, on any Interest Payment Date on
or after May 23, 2008 (each, an "Optional Redemption Date"), at the Optional
Redemption Price (as defined herein).
Any redemption pursuant to the preceding two paragraphs will be made
upon not less than 30 days' nor more than 60 days' prior written notice. If the
Debt Securities are only partially redeemed by the Company, the Debt Securities
will be redeemed pro rata or by any other method utilized by the Trustee. In the
event of redemption of this Debt Security in part only, a new Debt Security or
Debt Securities for the unredeemed portion hereof will be issued in the name of
the holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
"Comparable Treasury Issue" means, with respect to the Special
Redemption Date, the United States Treasury security selected by the Quotation
Agent as having a maturity comparable to the Remaining Life that would be
utilized, at the time of selection and in accordance with customary financial
practice, in pricing new issues of corporate debt securities of comparable
maturity to the Remaining Life. If no United States Treasury security has a
maturity which is within a period from three months before to three months after
May 23, 2008, the two most closely corresponding United States Treasury
securities shall be used as the Comparable Treasury Issue, and the Treasury Rate
shall be interpolated or extrapolated on a straight-line basis, rounding to the
nearest month using such securities.
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"Comparable Treasury Price" means, with respect to the Special
Redemption Date, (a) the average of three Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations
(as defined herein) for the Special Redemption Date received by the Quotation
Agent, after excluding the highest and lowest of five such Reference Treasury
Dealer Quotations so received, or (b) if the Quotation Agent receives fewer than
five such Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations, the average of all such
Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations.
"Optional Redemption Price" means an amount in cash equal to 100% of
the principal amount of this Debt Security being redeemed plus unpaid interest
accrued thereon to the Optional Redemption Date or, in the case of a redemption
due to the occurrence of a Special Event, to the Special Redemption Date if the
Special Redemption Date is on or after May 23, 2008.
"Primary Treasury Dealer" means a primary United States Government
securities dealer in The City of New York.
"Quotation Agent" means Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and its
successors; provided, however, that if the foregoing shall cease to be a Primary
Treasury Dealer, the Company shall substitute therefor another Primary Treasury
Dealer.
"Reference Treasury Dealer" means (i) the Quotation Agent and (ii)
any other Primary Treasury Dealer selected by the Trustee after consultation
with the Company.
"Reference Treasury Dealer Quotations" means, with respect to each
Reference Treasury Dealer and the Special Redemption Date, the average, as
determined by the Quotation Agent, of the bid and asked prices for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed in each case as a percentage of its
principal amount) quoted in writing to the Trustee by such Reference Treasury
Dealer at 5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the third Business Day preceding the
Special Redemption Date.
"Remaining Life" means the period from the Special Redemption Date
through May 23, 2008.
"Special Redemption Price" means an amount in cash equal to (1) if
the Special Redemption Date is before May 23, 2008, the greater of (a) 100% of
the principal amount of this Debt Security or (b) as determined by the Quotation
Agent, the sum of the present value of the principal amount payable as part of
the Optional Redemption Price with respect to a redemption as of May 23, 2008,
together with the present value of interest payments calculated at a fixed per
annum rate of interest equal to 7.60% over the Remaining Life of this Debt
Security, discounted to the Special Redemption Date on a quarterly basis
(assuming a 360-day year consisting of twelve 30-day months) at the Treasury
Rate (as defined herein) plus 2.0%, plus, in the case of either (a) or (b),
unpaid interest accrued thereon to the Special Redemption Date and (2) if the
Special Redemption Date is on or after May 23, 2008, the Optional Redemption
Price for the Special Redemption Date.
"Treasury Rate" means, with respect to the Special Redemption Price,
(i) the yield, under the heading which represents the average for the week
immediately prior to the third Business Day immediately preceding the Special
Redemption Date, appearing in the most
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recently published statistical release designated H.15 (519) or any successor
publication which is published weekly by the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System and which establishes yields on actively traded United States
Treasury securities adjusted to constant maturity under the caption "Treasury
Constant Maturities," for the maturity corresponding to the Remaining Life
(provided that if no maturity is within three months before or after the
Remaining Life, then the yields for the two published maturities most closely
corresponding to the Remaining Life shall be determined and the Treasury Rate
shall be interpolated or extrapolated from such yields on a straight-line basis,
rounding to the nearest month) or (ii) if such release (or any successor
release) is not published during the week immediately prior to the third
Business Day immediately preceding the Special Redemption Date or does not
contain such yields, the rate per annum equal to the quarterly equivalent yield
to maturity of the Comparable Treasury Issue, calculated using a price for the
Comparable Treasury Issue (expressed as a percentage of its principal amount)
equal to the Comparable Treasury Price for the Special Redemption Date.
In case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of the Debt Securities may be
declared, and, in certain cases, shall ipso facto become, due and payable, and
upon any such declaration of acceleration shall become due and payable, in each
case, in the manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in
the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the
Trustee, with the consent of the holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Debt Securities at the time outstanding affected thereby, as
specified in the Indenture, to execute supplemental indentures for the purpose
of adding any provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating any of the
provisions of the Indenture or of any supplemental indenture or of modifying in
any manner the rights of the holders of the Debt Securities; provided, however,
that no such supplemental indenture shall, among other things, without the
consent of the holders of each Debt Security then outstanding and affected
thereby (i) change the Maturity Date of any Debt Security, or reduce the
principal amount thereof or any premium thereon, or reduce the rate (or manner
of calculation of the rate) or extend the time of payment of interest thereon,
or reduce (other than as a result of the maturity or earlier redemption of any
such Debt Security in accordance with the terms of the Indenture and such Debt
Security) or increase the aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities then
outstanding, or change any of the redemption provisions, or make the principal
thereof or any interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other
than United States Dollars, or impair or affect the right of any holder to
institute suit for payment thereof, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of
Debt Securities the holders of which are required to consent to any such
supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting the
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Debt Securities at
the time outstanding, on behalf of the holders of all the Debt Securities, to
waive any past default in the performance of any of the covenants contained in
the Indenture, or established pursuant to the Indenture, and its consequences,
except (a) a default in payments due in respect of any of the Debt Securities,
(b) in respect of covenants or provisions of the Indenture which cannot be
modified or amended without the consent of the holder of each Debt Security
affected, or (c) in respect of the covenants of the Company relating to its
ownership of Common Securities of the Trust. Any such consent or waiver by the
holder of this Debt Security (unless revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall
be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon
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all future holders and owners of this Debt Security and of any Debt Security
issued in exchange herefor or in place hereof (whether by registration of
transfer or otherwise), irrespective of whether or not any notation of such
consent or waiver is made upon this Debt Security.
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this Debt
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to make all payments due in
respect of this Debt Security at the time and place and at the rate and in the
money herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
herein and therein set forth, this Debt Security is transferable by the holder
hereof on the Debt Security Register (as defined in the Indenture) of the
Company, upon surrender of this Debt Security for registration of transfer at
the office or agency of the Trustee in Wilmington, Delaware, or at any other
office or agency of the Company in Wilmington, Delaware or East Lansing,
Michigan, accompanied by a written instrument or instruments of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company or the Trustee duly executed by the holder hereof or
such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, and thereupon one or more new
Debt Securities of authorized denominations and for the same aggregate principal
amount will be issued to the designated transferee or transferees. No service
charge will be made for any such registration of transfer, but the Company or
the Trustee may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax, fee or
other governmental charge payable in relation thereto as specified in the
Indenture.
Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this Debt
Security, the Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent,
any transfer agent and the Debt Security registrar may deem and treat the holder
hereof as the absolute owner hereof (whether or not this Debt Security shall be
overdue and notwithstanding any notice of ownership or writing hereon) for the
purpose of receiving payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and
interest on this Debt Security and for all other purposes, and none of the
Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any Paying Agent, any transfer
agent or any Debt Security registrar shall be affected by any notice to the
contrary.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations
herein and therein set forth, Debt Securities are exchangeable for a like
aggregate principal amount of Debt Securities of different authorized
denominations, as requested by the holder surrendering the same.
The Debt Securities are issuable only in registered certificated
form without coupons.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on this Debt Security, or for any claim based
hereon, or otherwise in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the
Indenture, against any incorporator, stockholder, officer, director, employee or
agent, past, present or future, as such, of the Company or of any predecessor or
successor corporation of the Company, whether by virtue of any constitution,
statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or
otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance hereof and as part of the
consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly waived and released.
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All terms used but not defined in this Debt Security shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the Indenture.
THIS DEBT SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT OF LAWS
PRINCIPLES OF SAID STATE OTHER THAN SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL
OBLIGATIONS LAW.
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