EXHIBIT 4.6
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INDENTURE
among
FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION
as Issuer,
THE GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME
as Guarantors
and
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
as Trustee
Dated as of [ ], 1998
Providing for Issuance of
Senior Debt Securities in Series
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Reconciliation and tie between Indenture, dated as of [ ], 1998, and the Trust
Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.
Trust Indenture Act Indenture
Of 1939 Section Section
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310 (a)(1).................................. 6.12
(a)(2).................................. 6.12
(a)(3).................................. TIA
(a)(4).................................. Not applicable
(a)(5).................................. TIA
(b)..................................... 6.10; 6.12; TIA
311 (a)..................................... TIA
(b)..................................... TIA
312 (a)..................................... 6.8
(b)..................................... TIA
(c)..................................... TIA
313 (a)..................................... 6.7; TIA
(b)..................................... TIA
(c)..................................... TIA; 6.7
(d)..................................... TIA; 6.7
314 (a)..................................... 9.5; 9.6; TIA
(b)..................................... Not Applicable
(c)(1).................................. 1.2
(c)(2).................................. 1.2
(c)(3).................................. Not Applicable
(d)..................................... Not Applicable
(e)..................................... 1.2; TIA
(f)..................................... TIA
315 (a)..................................... 6.1
(b)..................................... 6.6
(c)..................................... 6.1
(d)(1).................................. 6.1; TIA
(d)(2).................................. 6.1; TIA
(d)(3).................................. 6.1; TIA
(e)..................................... 5.15; TIA
316 (a)(last sentence)...................... 1.1
(a)(1)(A)............................... 5.2; 5.8
(a)(1)(B)............................... 5.7
(b)..................................... 5.9; 5.10
(c)..................................... 1.4; TIA
317 (a)(l).................................. 5.3
(a)(2).................................. 5.4
(b)..................................... 9.3
318 (a)..................................... 1.11
(b)..................................... 1.11; TIA
(c)..................................... 1.11; TIA
This reconciliation and tie section does not constitute part of the
Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS(1)
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ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
SECTION 1.1. Definitions........................................................1
SECTION 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions..............................10
SECTION 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee............................10
SECTION 1.4. Acts of Holders...................................................11
SECTION 1.5. Notices, etc., to the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantors.....13
SECTION 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver.........................................13
SECTION 1.7. Headings and Table of Contents....................................14
SECTION 1.8. Successors and Assigns............................................14
SECTION 1.9. Separability......................................................14
SECTION 1.10. Benefits of Indenture............................................14
SECTION 1.11. Governing Law....................................................14
SECTION 1.12. Legal Holidays...................................................15
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
SECTION 2.1. Forms Generally...................................................15
SECTION 2.2. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication...................16
SECTION 2.3. Securities in Global Form.........................................16
SECTION 2.4. Form of Legend for Securities in Global Form......................16
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
SECTION 3.1. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series..............................17
SECTION 3.2. Denominations.....................................................21
SECTION 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating....................21
SECTION 3.4. Temporary Securities..............................................24
SECTION 3.5. Registration, Transfer and Exchange...............................24
SECTION 3.6. Replacement Securities............................................28
SECTION 3.7. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved....................29
SECTION 3.8. Persons Deemed Owners.............................................30
SECTION 3.9. Cancellation......................................................31
SECTION 3.10. Computation of Interest..........................................31
SECTION 3.11. CUSIP Numbers....................................................31
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1 Note: This table of contents shall not, for any purpose be deemed to be
part of the Indenture.
SECTION 3.12. Currency and Manner of Payment in Respect of Securities..........32
SECTION 3.13. Appointment and Resignation of Exchange Rate Agent...............35
ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE
SECTION 4.1. Termination of Company's Obligations Under the Indenture..........36
SECTION 4.2. Application of Trust Funds........................................37
SECTION 4.3. Applicability of Defeasance Provisions; Company's Option to Effect
Defeasance or Covenant
Defeasance............................................38
SECTION 4.4. Defeasance and Discharge..........................................38
SECTION 4.5. Covenant Defeasance...............................................38
SECTION 4.6. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance...................39
SECTION 4.7. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to Be Held in Trust....40
SECTION 4.8. Repayment to Company..............................................41
SECTION 4.9. Indemnity for Government Obligations..............................42
ARTICLE 5
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
SECTION 5.1. Events of Default..................................................42
SECTION 5.2. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment.............................44
SECTION 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee....44
SECTION 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim...................................45
SECTION 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of Securities........45
SECTION 5.6. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.......................................45
SECTION 5.7. Waiver of Past Defaults............................................45
SECTION 5.8. Control by Majority................................................46
SECTION 5.9. Limitation on Suits by Holders.....................................46
SECTION 5.10. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment..............................47
SECTION 5.11. Application of Money Collected....................................47
SECTION 5.12. Restoration of Rights and Remedies................................47
SECTION 5.13. Rights and Remedies Cumulative....................................47
SECTION 5.14. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws...........................48
SECTION 5.15. Undertaking for Costs.............................................48
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the Trustee.................48
SECTION 6.2. Rights of Trustee..................................................49
SECTION 6.3. Trustee May Hold Securities........................................50
SECTION 6.4. Money Held in Trust................................................50
SECTION 6.5. Trustee's Disclaimer...............................................50
SECTION 6.6. Notice of Defaults.................................................50
SECTION 6.7. Reports by Trustee to Holders......................................51
SECTION 6.8. Securityholder Lists...............................................51
SECTION 6.9. Compensation and Indemnity.........................................51
SECTION 6.10. Replacement of Trustee............................................52
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor............................53
SECTION 6.12. Eligibility; Disqualification.....................................54
SECTION 6.13. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business.......55
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent...............................55
ARTICLE 7
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE BY THE COMPANY
SECTION 7.1. Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets Permitted..................57
ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
SECTION 8.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of Holders.................57
SECTION 8.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders....................59
SECTION 8.3. Compliance With Trust Indenture Act................................60
SECTION 8.4. Execution of Supplemental Indentures...............................60
SECTION 8.5. Effect of Supplemental Indentures..................................60
SECTION 8.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.................60
ARTICLE 9
COVENANTS
SECTION 9.1. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and Interest, if any........61
SECTION 9.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency....................................61
SECTION 9.3. Money for Securities Payments to Be Held in Trust; Unclaimed Money.62
SECTION 9.4. Corporate Existence................................................63
SECTION 9.5. Reports by the Company.............................................63
SECTION 9.6. Annual Review Certificate; Notice of Defaults or Events of Default.64
SECTION 9.7. Books of Record and Account........................................64
ARTICLE 10
REDEMPTION
SECTION 10.1. Applicability of Article..........................................65
SECTION 10.2. Election to Redeem Notice to Trustee..............................65
SECTION 10.3. Selection of Securities to Be Redeemed............................65
SECTION 10.4. Notice of Redemption..............................................66
SECTION 10.5. Deposit of Redemption Price.......................................67
SECTION 10.6. Securities Payable on Redemption Date.............................67
SECTION 10.7. Securities Redeemed in Part.......................................68
ARTICLE 11
SINKING FUNDS
SECTION 11.1. Applicability of Article..........................................68
SECTION 11.2. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities.............68
SECTION 11.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund.........................69
ARTICLE 12
GUARANTEES
SECTION 12.1. Guarantees........................................................69
SECTION 12.2. Obligations of Guarantors Unconditional...........................71
SECTION 12.3. Limitation on Guarantors' Liability...............................71
SECTION 12.4. Releases of Guarantees............................................71
SECTION 12.5. Application of Certain Terms and Provisions to Guarantors.........72
SECTION 12.6. Additional Guarantors.............................................72
INDENTURE, dated as of [ ], 1998 among Federal-Mogul
Corporation, a Michigan corporation, as issuer (the "Company"), the companies
listed on the signature pages hereto that are subsidiaries of the Company (the
"Guarantors") and The Bank of New York, a New York banking corporation, as
trustee (the "Trustee").
RECITALS
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
debentures, notes or other evidences of indebtedness ("Securities") to be issued
in one or more series as herein provided.
The Guarantors have duly authorized the execution and delivery
of this Indenture to provide a guarantee of the Securities and of certain of the
obligations of the Company hereunder.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement
of the Company and the Guarantors, in accordance with its terms, have been done.
For and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of
the Securities by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed as
follows for the equal and ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities:
ARTICLE 1
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 1.1. Definitions. (a) For all purposes of this
Indenture, except as otherwise expressly provided or unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings
assigned to them in this Article and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act, either directly or by reference therein, have the meanings
assigned to them therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles; and
(4) 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.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect common
control, with such specified Person. For purposes of this definition, "control"
when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to direct the
management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Agent" means any Paying Agent or Registrar.
"Authenticating Agent" means any authenticating agent
appointed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14.
"Authorized Newspaper" means a newspaper in the official
language of the country of publication or in the English language, customarily
published on each Business Day whether or not published on Saturdays, Sundays or
holidays, and of general circulation in the place in connection with which the
term is used or in the financial community of such place. Whenever successive
publications in an Authorized Newspaper are required hereunder they may be made
(unless otherwise expressly provided herein) on any Business Day and in the same
or different Authorized Newspapers.
"Bankruptcy Law" means Title 11, United States Code, or any
other applicable federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency or similar
law, as now or hereafter constituted.
"Bearer Security" means any Security issued hereunder which is
payable to bearer.
"Board" or "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors
of the Company, the Executive Committee or any other duly authorized committee
thereof.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution of the Board
of Directors or the equivalent body of any Guarantor, as applicable, certified
by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, or the equivalent
officer of any Guarantor, as applicable, to have been duly adopted by the Board
of Directors or the equivalent body of any Guarantor, as applicable, and to be
in full force and effect on the date of the certificate, and delivered to the
Trustee.
"Business Day", when used with respect to any Place of Payment
or any other particular location referred to in this Indenture or in the
Securities, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 3.1, each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
which is not a day on which banking institutions in that Place of Payment or
particular location are authorized or obligated by law or executive order to
close.
"Commission" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as
from time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, or, if at any time after the execution of this Indenture such Commission
is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Stock" means any and all shares of series and classes
of stock of the Company designated as common stock, whether voting or
non-voting, and whether now outstanding or issued after the date of this
Indenture.
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"Company" means the party named as the Company in the first
paragraph of this Indenture until one or more successor corporations shall have
become such pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and
thereafter means such successors.
"Company Order" and "Company Request" mean, respectively, a
written order or request signed in the name of the Company by two Officers, one
of whom must be the Chairman of the Board, the President, the Chief Financial
Officer, any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President or Vice President,
the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer or the Controller of the Company.
"Conversion Event" means the cessation of use of (i) a Foreign
Currency both by the government of the country which issued such currency and
for the settlement of transactions by a central bank or other public
institutions of or within the international banking community, (ii) the ECU both
within the European Monetary System and for the settlement of transactions by
public institutions of or within the European Communities or (iii) any currency
unit other than the ECU for the purposes for which it was established.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the office of the Trustee in
which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be principally
administered, which office at the date hereof is located at 101 Barclay Street,
New York, New York 10286, Attention: Corporate Trust Administration.
"Debt" means indebtedness for money borrowed.
"Default" means any event which is, or after notice or passage
of time, or both, would be, an Event of Default.
"Depositary", when used with respect to the Securities of or
within any series issuable or issued in whole or in part in global form, means
the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1 until
a successor Depositary shall have become such pursuant to the applicable
provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter shall mean or include each Person
which is then a Depositary hereunder, and if at any time there is more than one
such Person, shall be a collective reference to such Persons.
"Dollar" means the currency of the United States as at the
time of payment is legal tender for the payment of public and private debts.
"ECU" means the European Currency Unit as defined and revised
from time to time by the Council of the European Communities.
"European Communities" means the European Economic Community,
the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Atomic Energy Community.
"European Monetary System" means the European Monetary System
established by the Resolution of December 5, 1978 of the Council of the European
Communities.
"Exchange Rate Agent", when used with respect to Securities of
or within any series, means, unless otherwise specified with respect to any
Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, a
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New York Clearing House bank designated pursuant to Section 3.1 or Section
3.13 (which may include any such bank acting as Trustee hereunder).
"Exchange Rate Officers' Certificate" means a certificate
setting forth (i) the applicable Market Exchange Rate or the applicable bid
quotation and (ii) the Dollar or Foreign Currency amounts of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest, if any (on an aggregate basis and on the basis of
a Security having the lowest denomination principal amount in the relevant
currency or currency unit), payable with respect to a Security of any series on
the basis of such Market Exchange Rate or the applicable bid quotation, signed
by the Chief Financial Officer, any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice
President or Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer or the
Controller of the Company.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by the government
of one or more countries other than the United States or by any recognized
confederation or association of such governments.
"Government Obligations" means securities which are (i) direct
obligations of the United States or, if specified as contemplated by Section
3.1, the government which issued the currency in which the Securities of a
particular series are or may be payable, for the payment of which its full faith
and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or supervised
by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States or, if
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, such government which issued the
foreign currency in which the Securities of such series are or may be payable,
the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States or such other government, which, in either case,
are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof, and shall
also include a depositary receipt issued by a bank or trust company as custodian
with respect to any such Government Obligation or a specific payment of interest
on or principal of any such Government Obligation held by such custodian for the
account of the holder of a depositary receipt, provided that (except as required
by law) such custodian is not authorized to make any deduction from the amount
payable to the holder of such depositary receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the Government Obligation evidenced by such depositary
receipt.
"Guarantee" means the guarantee of the Securities by each
Guarantor under Article 12 hereof.
"Guarantors" means (i) the Subsidiaries of the Company which
have executed this Indenture as a Guarantor as of the date hereof, and (ii) each
of the Company's Subsidiaries, whether formed, created or acquired before or
after the issue date of Securities of any series, which become a guarantor of
Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture.
"Holder" means, with respect to a Bearer Security, a bearer
thereof or of a coupon appertaining thereto and, with respect to a Registered
Security, a person in whose name a Security is registered on the Register.
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"Indenture" means this Indenture as originally executed or as
amended or supplemented from time to time and shall include the forms and terms
of particular series of Securities established as contemplated hereunder.
"Indexed Security" means a Security the terms of which provide
that the principal amount thereof payable at Stated Maturity may be more or less
than the principal face amount thereof at original issuance.
"Interest", when used with respect to an Original Issue
Discount Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means
interest payable after Maturity.
"Interest Payment Date", when used with respect to any
Security, means the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such
Security.
"Market Exchange Rate" means, unless otherwise specified with
respect to any Securities pursuant to Section 3.1, (i) for any conversion
involving a currency unit on the one hand and Dollars or any Foreign Currency on
the other, the exchange rate between the relevant currency unit and Dollars or
such Foreign Currency calculated by the method specified pursuant to Section 3.1
for the Securities of the relevant series, (ii) for any conversion of Dollars
into any Foreign Currency, the noon buying rate for such Foreign Currency for
cable transfers quoted in New York City as certified for customs purposes by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York and (iii) for any conversion of one Foreign
Currency into Dollars or another Foreign Currency, the spot rate at noon local
time in the relevant market at which, in accordance with normal banking
procedures, the Dollars or Foreign Currency into which conversion is being made
could be purchased with the Foreign Currency from which conversion is being made
from major banks located in New York City, London or any other principal market
for Dollars or such purchased Foreign Currency, in each case determined by the
Exchange Rate Agent. Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 3.1, in the event of the unavailability of any of the
exchange rates provided for in the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the
Exchange Rate Agent shall use, in its sole discretion and without liability on
its part, such quotation of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as of the most
recent available date, or quotations from one or more major banks in New York
City, London or other principal market for such currency or currency unit in
question (which may include any such bank acting as Trustee under this
Indenture), or such other quotations as the Exchange Rate Agent shall deem
appropriate. If there is more than one market for dealing in any currency or
currency unit by reason of foreign exchange regulations or otherwise, the market
to be used in respect of such currency or currency unit shall be that upon which
a nonresident issuer of securities designated in such currency or currency unit
would purchase such currency or currency unit in order to make payments in
respect of such securities.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the
date on which the principal of such Security or an installment of principal
becomes due and payable as therein or herein provided, whether at the Stated
Maturity or by declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"Obligations" means any principal, premiums, interest,
penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements, damages and other liabilities
payable under the
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documentation governing any indebtedness.
"Officer" means the Chairman of the Board, the President, the
Chief Financial Officer, any Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President or
Vice President, the Treasurer, any Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the
Secretary or any Assistant Secretary.
"Officers' Certificate", when used with respect to the
Company, means a certificate signed by two Officers, one of whom must be the
Chairman of the Board, the President, the Chief Financial Officer, any Executive
Vice President, Senior Vice President or Vice President, the Treasurer, any
Assistant Treasurer or the Controller of the Company.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion from the General
Counsel or the Associate General Counsel of the Company or other legal counsel
who is reasonably acceptable to the Trustee. Such other counsel may be an
employee of or counsel to the Company.
"Original Issue Discount Security" means any Security which
provides for an amount less than the stated principal amount thereof to be due
and payable upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to
Section 5.2.
"Outstanding", when used with respect to Securities, means, as
of the date of determination, all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) Securities theretofore cancelled by the Trustee or
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) Securities, or portions thereof, for whose payment or
redemption money or Government Obligations in the necessary amount has
been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent (other
than the Company) in trust or set aside and segregated in trust (if the
Company shall act as its own Paying Agent) for the Holders of such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto; provided that, if such
Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been duly
given pursuant to this Indenture or provisions therefor satisfactory to
the Trustee have been made;
(iii) Securities, except to the extent provided in Sections
4.4 and 4.5, with respect to which the Company has effected defeasance
and/or covenant defeasance as provided in Article 4; and
(iv) Securities which have been paid pursuant to Section 3.6
or in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities have been
authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, other than any
such Securities in respect of which there shall have been presented to
the Trustee proof satisfactory to it that such Securities are held by a
bona fide purchaser in whose hands such Securities are valid
obligations of the Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, or whether
sufficient funds are available for redemption or for any other purpose and for
the purpose of making the calculations required by Section 313 of the Trust
Indenture Act, (w) the principal amount of any Original Issue Discount
Securities that may be
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counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall be deemed to
be Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the amount of principal
thereof that would be (or shall have been declared to be) due and payable, at
the time of such determination, upon a declaration of acceleration of the
maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.2, (x) the principal amount of any
Security denominated in a Foreign Currency that may be counted in making such
determination or calculation and that shall be deemed Outstanding for such
purpose shall be equal to the Dollar equivalent, determined as of the date such
Security is originally issued by the Company as set forth in an Exchange Rate
Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee, of the principal amount (or, in
the case of an Original Issue Discount Security, the Dollar equivalent as of
such date of original issuance of the amount determined as provided in clause
(w) above) of such Security, (y) the principal amount of any Indexed Security
that may be counted in making such determination or calculation and that shall
be deemed Outstanding for such purpose shall be equal to the principal face
amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance, unless otherwise provided
with respect to such security pursuant to Section 3.1, and (z) Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or of such other obligor shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
Outstanding, except that, in determining whether the Trustee shall be protected
in making such calculation or in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which the
Trustee knows to be so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which
have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if the pledgee
establishes to the satisfaction of the Trustee the pledgee's right so to act
with respect to such Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any
other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such
other obligor.
"Paying Agent" means any Person authorized by the Company to
pay the principal of, premium, if any, or interest and any other payments on any
Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Periodic Offering" means an offering of Securities of a
series from time to time the specific terms of which Securities, including,
without limitation, the rate or rates of interest or formula for determining the
rate or rates of interest thereon, if any, the Maturity thereof and the
redemption provisions, if any, with respect thereto, are to be determined by the
Company upon the issuance of such Securities.
"Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership,
limited liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment", when used with respect to the Securities
of or within any series, means the place or places where the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest, if any, and any other payments on such Securities
are payable as specified as contemplated by Sections 3.1 and 9.2.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 3.6 in
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exchange for or in lieu of a mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall
be deemed to evidence the same debt as the mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen
Security.
"Preferred Stock" means any and all shares of series and
classes of stock of the Company designated as preferred stock, whether voting or
non-voting, and whether now outstanding or issued after the date of this
Indenture.
"Principal Amount", when used with respect to any Security,
means the amount of principal, if any, payable in respect thereof at Maturity;
provided, however, that when used with respect to an Indexed Security in any
context other than the making of payments at Maturity, "principal amount" means
the principal face amount of such Indexed Security at original issuance.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security to
be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Redemption Price", when used with respect to any Security to
be redeemed, in whole or in part, means the price at which it is to be redeemed
pursuant to this Indenture.
"Registered Security" means any Security issued hereunder and
registered as to principal and interest in the Register.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date on the Registered Securities of or within any series means the date
specified for that purpose as contemplated by Section 3.1.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee,
shall mean any officer within the corporate trust department of the Trustee,
including any vice president, any assistant vice president, any assistant
secretary, any assistant treasurer, any trust officer, or any other officer of
the Trustee customarily performing functions similar to those performed by the
persons who at the time shall be such officers, respectively, or to whom any
corporate trust matter is referred because of such officer's knowledge of and
familiarity with a particular subject and who shall have direct responsibility
for the administration of this Indenture.
"Security" or "Securities" has the meaning stated in the first
recital of this Indenture and more particularly means any security or securities
of the Company issued, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Senior Credit Agreement" means the Second Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement among Federal-Mogul Corporation, The Chase Manhattan
Bank as Agent and the lenders thereunder, dated as of December 18, 1997, as
amended.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
Interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.7.
"Stated Maturity", when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon, means the date
specified in such Security or in a coupon
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representing such installment of interest as the fixed date on which the
principal of such Security or such installment of principal or interest is due
and payable.
"Subsidiary" of any Person means any Person of which at least
a majority of capital stock having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors or other governing body of such Person is owned by such Person
directly or through one or more Subsidiaries of such Person.
"Total Assets" means, at any date, the total assets appearing
on the most recently prepared consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of a fiscal quarter of the Company,
prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
in effect on the date of this Indenture, except as provided in Section 8.3.
"Trustee" means the party named as such in the first paragraph
of this Indenture until a successor Trustee replaces it pursuant to the
applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter means such successor
Trustee and if, at any time, there is more than one Trustee, "Trustee" as used
with respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect
to the Securities of that series.
"United States" means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to the Securities of any series as contemplated by Section 3.1 the United States
of America (including the States and the District of Columbia), its territories,
its possessions and other areas subject to its jurisdiction.
"U.S. Person" means, unless otherwise specified with respect
to the Securities of any series as contemplated by Section 3.1, a citizen,
national or resident of the United States, a corporation, partnership or other
entity created or organized in or under the laws of the United States or any
political subdivision thereof, or an estate or trust, the income of which is
subject to United States federal income taxation regardless of its source.
(b) The following terms shall have the meanings specified in
the Sections referred to opposite such term below:
Term Section
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"Act" 1.4(a)
"Bankruptcy Law" 5.1
"Component Currency" 3.12(d)
"Conversion Date" 3.12(d)
"Custodian" 5.1
"Defaulted Interest" 3.7(b)
"Election Date" 3.12(h)
"Event of Default" 5.1
"Notice of Default" 5.1(3)
"Register" 3.5
"Registrar" 3.5
"Valuation Date" 3.7(c)
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Section 1.2. Compliance Certificates and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take an action under any
provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that 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, if any, have been complied with, except that in the case
of any such application or request as to which the furnishing of such documents
is specifically required by any provision of this Indenture relating to such
particular application or request, no additional certificate or opinion need be
furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (other than pursuant to
Sections 2.3, 3.3 and 9.6) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such condition or covenant and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the
examination or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in
such certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual,
he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such condition or covenant has
been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
Section 1.3. Form of Documents Delivered to Trustee. In any
case where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an
opinion of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be
certified by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they
be so certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify
or give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such
Persons as to other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion
as to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an Officer of the Company or the
Guarantors may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such Officer
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion
of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an Officer or Officers of the
Company or the Guarantors stating that the information with respect to such
factual matters is in the possession of the Company or the Guarantors, unless
such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations as to such matters are erroneous.
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Any certificate, statement or opinion of an Officer of the
Company or the Guarantors or of counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to
accounting matters, upon a certificate or opinion of or representations by an
accountant or firm of accountants in the employ of the Company, unless such
Officer or counsel, as the case may be, knows, or in the exercise of reasonable
care should know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with
respect to the accounting matters upon which his certificate, statement or
opinion is based are erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make give or execute two or
more applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements opinions or
other instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated
and form one instrument.
Any acts to be taken or matters to be established pursuant to
a Board Resolution may be taken or established by one or more Officers or other
individuals authorized to act pursuant to a Board Resolution.
Section 1.4. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given or taken by Holders may be embodied in and evidenced
by one or more instruments of substantially similar tenor signed by such Holders
in person or by an agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein
otherwise expressly provided, such action shall become effective when such
instrument or instruments are delivered to the Trustee and, where it is hereby
expressly required, to the Company and the Guarantors. Such instrument or
instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced thereby) are herein
sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Holders signing such instrument or
instruments. Proof of execution of any such instrument or of a writing
appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any purpose of this Indenture
and conclusive in favor of the Trustee and the Company and the Guarantors, if
made in the manner provided in this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness of such
execution or by a certificate of a notary public or other officer authorized by
law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by a signer acting in a capacity other than his individual
capacity, such certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof
of his authority. The fact and date of the execution of any such instrument or
writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same, may also be proved
in any other reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Bearer Securities may be proved by the
production of such Bearer Securities or by a certificate executed by any trust
company, bank, banker or other depositary, wherever situated, if such
certificate shall be deemed by the Trustee to be satisfactory, showing that at
the date therein mentioned such Person had on deposit with such depositary, or
exhibited to it, the Bearer Securities therein described; or such facts may be
proved by the certificate or affidavit of the Person holding such Bearer
Securities, if such certificate or affidavit is deemed by the Trustee to be
satisfactory. The Trustee and the Company may assume that such ownership of any
Bearer Security continues until (i) another such certificate or affidavit
bearing a later date issued in respect of the same Bearer Security is produced,
(ii) such Bearer Security is produced to the Trustee by some other Person, (iii)
such Bearer Security is
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surrendered in exchange for a Registered Security or (iv) such Bearer Security
is no longer Outstanding. The ownership of Bearer Securities may also be proved
in any other reasonable manner which the Trustee deems sufficient.
(d) The ownership of Registered Securities shall be proved by
the Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act of the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the registration of transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof
in respect of anything done, omitted or suffered to be done by the Trustee or
the Company in reliance thereon, whether or not notation of such action is made
upon such Security.
(f) If the Company shall solicit from the Holders of any
series any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or
other Act, the Company may, at its option, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution,
fix in advance a record date for the determination of Holders of such series
entitled to give such request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act, but the Company shall have no obligation to do so,
provided that the Company may not set a record date for, and the provisions of
this paragraph shall not apply with respect to, the giving or making of any
notice, declaration, request or direction referred to in the next paragraph. If
such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent, waiver or other Act may be given before or after such record
date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on such record
date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining whether
Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding Securities have authorized or
agreed or consented to such request, demand authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other Act, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities
shall be computed as of such record date; provided that no such authorization,
agreement or consent by the Holders on such 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.
(g) The Trustee may set any day as a record date for the
purpose of determining the Holders of any series entitled to join in the giving
or making of (i) any Notice of Default, (ii) any declaration of acceleration
referred to in Section 5.2, (iii) any direction referred to in Section 5.8 or
(iv) any request to institute proceedings referred to in Section 5.9(2), in each
case with respect to Securities of such series. If such a record date is fixed
pursuant to this paragraph, the relevant action may be taken or given before or
after such record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business
on such record date shall be deemed to be holders of a series for the purpose of
determining whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Outstanding
Securities of such series have authorized or agreed or consented to such action,
and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities of such series shall be computed
as of such record date; provided that no such action by Holders on such 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.
Nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to prevent the Trustee from setting
a new record date for any action for which a record date has previously been set
pursuant to this paragraph (whereupon the record date previously set shall
automatically and with no action by any Person be cancelled and of no effect),
and nothing in this paragraph shall be construed to
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render ineffective any action taken by Holders of the requisite principal amount
of Outstanding Securities of the relevant series on the date such action is
taken. Promptly after any record date is set pursuant to this paragraph, the
Trustee, at the Company's expense, shall cause notice of such record date and
the proposed action by Holders to be given to the Company in writing and to each
Holder of Securities of the relevant series in the manner set forth in Section
1.6.
Section 1.5. Notices, etc., to the Trustee, the Company and
the Guarantors. Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or Act of Holders or other document provided or permitted by this
Indenture to be made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(a) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company or any
Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise
herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, Attention: Corporate
Trust Trustee Administration, or
(b) the Company, or any Guarantor, by the Trustee or by any
Holder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (unless otherwise herein
expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to
the Company, or any Guarantor, addressed to it at Federal-Mogul Corporation,
26555 Northwestern Highway, Southfield, Michigan 48034, Attention: General
Counsel or at any other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee
by the Company.
Section 1.6. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of an event (i) if any of the Securities affected
by such event are Registered Securities, such notice to the Holders thereof
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in
writing and mailed first-class postage prepaid to each such Holder affected by
such event, at his address as it appears in the Register within the time
prescribed for the giving of such notice and, (ii) if any of the Securities
affected by such event are Bearer Securities, notice to the Holders thereof
shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in the terms of such
Bearer Securities expressly provided) if published once in an Authorized
Newspaper in New York, New York and in such other city or cities, if any, as may
be specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.
In any case where notice to Holders is given by mail, neither
the failure to mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any
particular Holder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to
other Holders of Registered Securities or the sufficiency of any notice to
Holders of Bearer Securities given as provided herein. In any case where notice
is given to Holders by publication, neither the failure to publish such notice,
nor any defect in any notice so published, shall affect the sufficiency of such
notice with respect to other Holders of Bearer Securities or the sufficiency of
any notice with respect to any Holders of Registered Securities given as
provided herein. Any notice mailed to a Holder in the manner herein prescribed
shall be conclusively deemed to have been received by such Holder, whether or
not such Holder actually receives such notice.
If by reason of the suspension of regular mail service or by
reason of any other cause it shall be impracticable to give such notice as
provided above, then such notification as
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shall be made with the approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient
notification for every purpose hereunder. If it is impossible or, in the opinion
of the Trustee, impracticable to give any notice by publication in the manner
herein required, then such publication in lieu thereof as shall be made with the
approval of the Trustee shall constitute a sufficient publication of such
notice.
Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent
or waiver required or permitted under this Indenture shall be in the English
language, except that any published notice may be in an official language of the
country of publication.
Where this Indenture provides for notice in any manner, such
notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive such notice,
either before or after the event and such waiver shall be the equivalent of such
notice. Waivers of notice by Holders shall be filed with the Trustee, but such
filing shall not be a condition precedent to the validity of any action taken in
reliance upon such waiver.
Section 1.7. Headings and Table of Contents. The Article and
Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only and
shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 1.8. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company and the Guarantors shall bind their
respective successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 1.9. Separability. In case any provision of this
Indenture or the Securities or the Guarantees shall be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable, the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining
provisions shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 1.10. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Securities or the Guarantees, expressed or implied, shall give to any
Person, other than the parties hereto and their successors hereunder and the
Holders, any benefit or any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this
Indenture.
Section 1.11. Governing Law. THIS INDENTURE, THE SECURITIES
AND ANY COUPONS APPERTAINING THERETO AND THE GUARANTEES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY,
AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. This
Indenture is subject to the Trust Indenture Act and if any provision hereof
limits, qualifies or conflicts with any provision of the Trust Indenture Act,
which is required under such Act to be a part of and govern this Indenture, the
latter provision shall control. If any provision of this Indenture modifies or
excludes any provision of the Trust Indenture Act which may be so modified or
excluded the latter provision shall be deemed to apply to this Indenture as so
modified or to be excluded, as the case may be. Whether or not this Indenture is
required to be qualified under the Trust Indenture Act, the provisions of the
Trust Indenture Act required to be included in an indenture in order for such
indenture to be so qualified shall be deemed to be included in this Indenture
with the same effect as if such provisions were set forth herein and any
provisions hereof which may not be included in an indenture which is so
qualified shall be deemed to be deleted or modified to the extent such
provisions would be required to be deleted or modified in an indenture so
qualified.
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Section 1.12. Legal Holidays. In any case where any Interest
Payment Date, Redemption Date, sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or
Maturity of any Security shall not be a Business Day at any Place of Payment,
then (notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture or of any Security
or coupon other than a provision in the Securities of any series which
specifically states that such provision shall apply in lieu of this Section)
payment of principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, need not be made at
such Place of Payment on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding
Business Day at such Place of Payment with the same force and effect as if made
on such date; provided that no interest shall accrue on the amount so payable
for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date,
sinking fund payment date, Stated Maturity or Maturity, as the case may be.
ARTICLE 2
SECURITY FORMS
Section 2.1. Forms Generally. The Securities of each series
and the coupons, if any, to be attached thereto shall be in substantially such
form as shall be established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or
more indentures supplemental hereto, in each case with such appropriate
insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are required or
permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of
identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be
required to comply with the rules of any securities exchange or Depositary
therefor or as may, consistently herewith, be determined by the officers
executing such Securities and coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution
of the Securities and coupons, if any. If temporary Securities of any series are
issued as permitted by Section 3.4, the form thereof also shall be established
as provided in the preceding sentence. If the forms of Securities and coupons,
if any, of any series are established by, or by action taken pursuant to, a
Board Resolution, a copy of the Board Resolution together with an appropriate
record of any such action taken pursuant thereto, including a copy of the
approved form of Securities or coupons, if any, shall be certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee
at or prior to the delivery of the Company Order contemplated by Section 3.3 for
the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1,
Bearer Securities shall have interest coupons attached.
The definitive Securities and coupons, if any, shall be
printed, lithographed or engraved on steel engraved borders or may be produced
in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities
and coupons, if any, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities and
coupons, if any.
Section 2.2. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
The Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the
following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series described in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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The Bank of New York
as Trustee
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by Authorized Signatory
Section 2.3. Securities in Global Form. If Securities of or
within a series are issuable in whole or in part in global form, any such
Security may provide that it shall represent the aggregate or specified amount
of Outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon and may also
provide that the aggregate amount of Outstanding Securities represented thereby
may from time to time be reduced or increased to reflect exchanges. Any
endorsement of a Security in global form to reflect the amount, or any increase
or decrease in the amount, or changes in the rights of Holders, of Outstanding
Securities represented thereby, shall be made in such manner and by such Person
or Persons as shall be specified therein or in the Company Order to be delivered
to the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.3 or 3.4. Subject to the provisions of
Section 3.3 and, if applicable, Section 3.4, the Trustee shall deliver and
redeliver any security in permanent global form in the manner and upon
instructions given by the Person or Persons specified therein or in the
applicable Company Order. Any instructions by the Company with respect to
endorsement or delivery or redelivery of a Security in global form shall be in
writing but need not comply with Section 1.2 hereof and need not be accompanied
by an Opinion of Counsel.
The provisions of the last paragraph of Section 3.3 shall
apply to any Security in global form if such Security was never issued and sold
by the Company and the Company delivers to the Trustee the Security in global
form together with written instructions (which need not comply with Section 1.2
and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) with regard to the
reduction in the principal amount of Securities represented thereby, together
with the written statement contemplated by the last paragraph of Section 3.3.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 2.1, unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, payment of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on any Security in permanent global form
shall be made to the Person or Persons specified therein.
Section 2.4. Form of Legend for Securities in Global Form. Any
Registered Security in global form authenticated and delivered hereunder shall
bear a legend in substantially the following form with such changes as may be
required by the Depositary:
THIS SECURITY IS IN GLOBAL FORM WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE
HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY
OR A NOMINEE OF A DEPOSITARY. UNLESS AND UNTIL IT IS EXCHANGED IN WHOLE
OR IN PART FOR SECURITIES IN CERTIFICATED FORM IN THE LIMITED
CIRCUMSTANCES DESCRIBED IN THE INDENTURE, THIS SECURITY MAY NOT BE
TRANSFERRED EXCEPT AS A WHOLE BY THE DEPOSITARY TO A NOMINEE OF THE
DEPOSITARY OR BY A NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY TO THE DEPOSITARY OR
ANOTHER NOMINEE OF THE DEPOSITARY OR BY THE DEPOSITARY OR ANY SUCH
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NOMINEE TO A SUCCESSOR DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF SUCH SUCCESSOR
DEPOSITARY.
ARTICLE 3
THE SECURITIES
Section 3.1. Amount Unlimited; Issuable in Series. (a) The
aggregate principal amount of Securities which may be authenticated and
delivered under this Indenture is unlimited. The Securities may be issued from
time to time in one or more series.
(b) The following matters shall be established with respect to
each series of Securities issued hereunder (i) by a Board Resolution, (ii) by
action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution and (subject to Section 3.3) set
forth, or determined in the manner provided, in an Officers' Certificate or
(iii) in one or more indentures supplemental hereto:
(1) the title of the Securities of the series (which title shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other series of
Securities);
(2) any limit upon the aggregate principal amount of the
Securities of the series which may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture (which limit shall not pertain to (i)
Securities authenticated and delivered upon registration of transfer
of, or in exchange for, or in lieu of, other Securities of the
series pursuant to Section 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 8.6, or 10.7 and (ii) any
Securities which, pursuant to the last paragraph of Section 3.3, are
deemed never to have been authenticated and delivered hereunder);
(3) the date or dates on which the principal of and premium, if
any, on the Securities of the series is payable or the method of
determination thereof;
(4) the rate or rates at which the Securities of the series shall
bear interest, if any, or the method of calculating such rate or
rates of interest, the date or dates from which such interest shall
accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be
determined, the Interest Payment Dates on which any such interest
shall be payable and, with respect to Registered Securities, the
Regular Record Date, if any, for the interest payable on any
Registered Security on any Interest Payment Date;
(5) the place or places where the principal of, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, on Securities of the series shall be payable;
(6) the period or periods within which, the price or prices at
which, the currency or currencies (including currency unit or units)
in which, and the other terms and conditions upon which, Securities
of the series may be redeemed or otherwise purchased, in whole or in
part, at the option of the Company and, if other than as provided in
Section 10, the manner in which the particular Securities of such
series (if less than all Securities of such series are to be
redeemed) are to be selected for redemption;
(7) the obligation, if any, and the limitations, if any, on the
rights of the Company to redeem or purchase Securities of the series
pursuant to any sinking fund or
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analogous provisions or upon the happening of a specified event or
at the option of a Holder thereof or at the Company's option or
otherwise, or to apply any purchases of Securities to any such
redemption, and, if any, the period or periods within which, the
price or prices at which, the application of purchases to
redemptions, and the other terms and conditions upon which
Securities of the series shall be redeemed or purchased, in whole or
in part;
(8) if other than denominations of $1,000 and any integral
multiple thereof, if Registered Securities, and if other than
denominations of $5,000 and any integral multiple thereof, if Bearer
Securities, the denominations in which Securities of the series
shall be issuable;
(9) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies (including
currency unit or units) in which the principal of, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be
payable, or in which the Securities of the series shall be
denominated, and the particular provisions applicable thereto in
accordance with, in addition to, or in lieu of the provisions of
Section 3.12, and whether the Securities of the series may be
satisfied and discharged other than as provided in Article 4;
(10) if the payments of principal of, premium, if any, or
interest, if any, on the Securities of the series are to be made, at
the election of the Company or a Holder, in a currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) other than that in which such
Securities are denominated or designated to be payable, the currency
or currencies (including currency unit or units) in which such
payments are to be made, the terms and conditions of such payments
and the manner in which the exchange rate with respect to such
payments shall be determined, and the particular provisions
applicable thereto in accordance with, in addition to, or in lieu of
the provisions of Section 3.12, and whether the Securities of the
series may be satisfied and discharged other than as provided in
Article 4;
(11) if the amount of payments of principal of, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, on the Securities of the series shall be
determined with reference to an index, formula or other method
(which index, formula or method may be based, without limitation, on
a currency or currencies (including currency unit or units) other
than that in which the Securities of the series are denominated or
designated to be payable), the index, formula or other method by
which such amounts shall be determined;
(12) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of such Securities of the series which shall be
payable upon declaration of acceleration thereof pursuant to Section
5.2 or the method by which such portion shall be determined;
(13) if the principal amount payable at the Stated Maturity of
any Securities of the series will not be determinable as of any one
or more dates prior to the Stated Maturity, the amount which shall
be deemed to be the principal amount of such Securities as of any
such date for any purpose thereunder or hereunder, including the
principal amount thereof which shall be due and payable upon any
Maturity other than the Stated
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Maturity or which shall be deemed to be Outstanding as of any date
prior to the Stated Maturity (or, in any such case, the manner in
which such amount deemed to be the principal amount shall be
determined);
(14) if other than as provided in Section 3.7, the Person to whom
any interest on any Registered Security of the series shall be
payable and the manner in which, or the Person to whom, any interest
on any Bearer Securities of the series shall be payable, and the
extent to which, or the manner in which (including any certification
requirement and other terms and conditions under which), any
interest payable on a temporary or permanent global Security on an
Interest Payment Date will be paid if other than in the manner
provided in Section 2.3 and Section 3.4, as applicable;
(15) provisions, if any, granting special rights to the Holders
of Securities of the series upon the occurrence of such events as
may be specified or any provisions which may be related to rights of
the Holders to give any notice of acceleration, or to waive any past
default or to rescind and annul any declaration of acceleration and
its consequences or to institute or control any proceeding for any
remedy with respect to Securities of the series;
(16) any deletions from, modifications of or additions to the
Events of Default set forth in Section 5.1 or remedies set forth in
Article 5 or covenants of the Company set forth in Article 9
pertaining to the Securities of the series;
(17) under what circumstances, if any, the Company will pay
additional amounts on the Securities of that series held by a Person
who is not a U.S. Person in respect of taxes or similar charges
withheld or deducted and, if so, whether the Company will have the
option to redeem or otherwise purchase such Securities rather than
pay such additional amounts (and the terms of any such option);
(18) whether Securities of the series shall be issuable as
Registered Securities or Bearer Securities (with or without interest
coupons), or both, and any restrictions applicable to the offering,
sale or delivery of Bearer Securities and, if other than as provided
in Section 3.5, the terms upon which Bearer Securities of a series
may be exchanged for Registered Securities of the same series and
vice versa;
(19) the date as of which any Bearer Securities of the series and
any temporary global Security representing Outstanding Securities of
the series shall be dated if other than the date of original
issuance of the first Security of the series to be issued;
(20) the forms of the Securities and coupons, if any, of the
series;
(21) the applicability, if any, to the Securities of or within
the series of Sections 4.4 and 4.5, or such other means of
defeasance or covenant defeasance as may be specified for the
Securities and coupons, if any, of such series, and, if the
Securities are payable in a currency other than Dollars, whether,
for the purpose of such defeasance or covenant defeasance the term
"Government Obligations" shall include obligations referred to in
the definition of such term which are not obligations of the United
States or an agency or instrumentality of the United States;
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(22) if other than the Trustee, the identity of the Registrar and
any Paying Agent;
(23) the designation of the initial Exchange Rate Agent, if
any;
(24) if the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or
in part in global form (i) the Depositary for such global
Securities, (ii) the form of any legend in addition to or in lieu of
that in Section 2.4 which shall be borne by such global security,
(iii) whether beneficial owners of interests in any Securities of
the series in global form may exchange such interests for
certificated Securities of such series and of like tenor of any
authorized form and denomination, and (iv) if other than as provided
in Section 3.5, the circumstances under which any such exchange may
occur;
(25) whether Securities of the series are convertible into Common
Stock or Preferred Stock, and, if so, the class or series of capital
stock of the Company into which such Securities are convertible and
the terms and conditions upon which such conversion will be
effected, including the initial conversion price or conversion rate
and other conversion provisions; and
(26) any other terms of the series (which terms shall not be
inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture and the Trust
Indenture Act) including any terms which may be required by or
advisable under United States laws or regulations or advisable (as
determined by the Company) in connection with the marketing of
Securities of the series.
(c) All Securities of any one series and coupons, if any,
appertaining to any Bearer Securities of such series shall be substantially
identical except, in the case of Registered Securities, as to denomination and
except as may otherwise be provided (i) by a Board Resolution, (ii) by action
taken pursuant to a Board Resolution and (subject to Section 3.3) set forth or
determined in the manner provided, in the related Officers' Certificate or (iii)
in an indenture supplemental hereto. All Securities of any one series need not
be issued at the same time and, unless otherwise provided, a series may be
reopened, without the consent of the Holders, for issuances of additional
Securities of such series.
(d) If any of the terms of the Securities of any series are
established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy of such Board
Resolution shall be certified by the Corporate Secretary or an Assistant
Secretary of the Company and delivered to the Trustee at or prior to the
delivery of the Officers' Certificate setting forth, or providing the manner for
determining, the terms of the Securities of such series, and an appropriate
record of any action taken pursuant thereto in connection with the issuance of
any Securities of such series shall be delivered to the Trustee prior to the
authentication and delivery thereof. With respect to Securities of a series
subject to a Periodic Offering, such Board Resolutions or Officers' Certificates
may provide general terms for Securities of such series and provide either that
the specific terms of particular securities of such series shall be specified in
a Company Order, or that such terms shall be determined by the Company, or one
or more of its agents designated in its Officers' Certificates, in accordance
with the Company Order, as contemplated by the first proviso of the third
paragraph of Section 3.3.
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Section 3.2. Denominations. Unless otherwise provided as
contemplated by Section 3.1, any Registered Securities of a series shall be
issuable in denominations of $1,000 and any integral multiple thereof and any
Bearer Securities of a series shall be issuable in denominations of $5,000 and
any integral multiples thereof.
Section 3.3. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by two Officers. The
signatures of any of these Officers on the Securities may be manual or
facsimile. The coupons, if any, of Bearer Securities shall bear the facsimile
signature of two Officers.
Securities and coupons bearing the manual or facsimile
signatures of individuals who were at any time the proper officers of the
Company shall bind the Company, notwithstanding that such individuals or any of
them have ceased to hold such offices prior to the authentication and delivery
of such Securities or did not hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time, the Company may deliver
Securities, together with any coupons appertaining thereto, of any series
executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication, together with a
Company Order for the authentication and delivery of such Securities, and the
Trustee in accordance with the Company Order shall authenticate and deliver such
Securities; provided, however, that in the case of Securities offered in a
Periodic Offering, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver such Securities
from time to time in accordance with such other procedures (including, without
limitation, the receipt by the Trustee of oral or electronic instructions from
the Company or its duly authorized agents, promptly confirmed in writing)
reasonably acceptable to the Trustee as may be specified by or pursuant to a
Company Order delivered to the Trustee prior to the time of the first
authentication of Securities of such series.
If the form or terms of the Securities of a series have been
established by or pursuant to one or more Board Resolutions as permitted by
Sections 2.1 and 3.1, in authenticating such Securities and accepting the
additional responsibilities under this Indenture in relation to such Securities,
the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section 315(a) through
(d) of the Trust Indenture Act) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an
Opinion of Counsel stating,
(1) if the forms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by
Section 2.1, that such forms have been established in conformity with
the provisions of this Indenture;
(2) if the terms of such Securities and any coupons have been
established by or pursuant to a Board Resolution as permitted by
Section 3.1, that such terms have been, or in the case of Securities of
a series offered in a Periodic Offering, will be, established in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture, subject in the case
of Securities offered in a Periodic Offering, to any conditions
specified in such Opinion of Counsel; and
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(3) that such Securities together with any coupons
appertaining thereto, when authenticated and delivered by the Trustee
and issued by the Company in the manner and subject to any conditions
specified in such Opinion of Counsel, will constitute valid and binding
obligations of the Company, enforceable in accordance with their terms,
subject to bankruptcy, insolvency, fraudulent transfer, reorganization,
moratorium and other similar laws of general applicability relating to
or affecting the enforcement of creditors' rights and to general equity
principles and except further as enforcement thereof may be limited by
(A) requirements that a claim with respect to any Securities
denominated other than in Dollars (or a Foreign Currency or currency
unit judgment in respect of such claim) be converted into Dollars at a
rate of exchange prevailing on a date determined pursuant to applicable
law or (B) governmental authority to limit, delay or prohibit the
making of payments in Foreign Currencies or currency units or payments
outside the United States.
Notwithstanding that such form or terms have been so established, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to authenticate such Securities if, in the
written opinion of counsel to the Trustee (which counsel may be an employee of
the Trustee) reasonably acceptable to the Company, the issue of such Securities
pursuant to this Indenture will adversely affect the Trustee's own rights,
duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise in a manner which the
Trustee reasonably determines, by action of its board of directors or trustees,
executive committee, or a trust committee of directors or trustees or vice
presidents, that such action would expose the Trustee to personal liability to
existing Holders. Notwithstanding the generality of the foregoing, the Trustee
will not be required to authenticate Securities denominated in a Foreign
Currency if the Trustee reasonably believes that it would be unable to perform
its duties with respect to such Securities.
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 3.1 and of the two
preceding paragraphs, if all of the Securities of any series are not to be
issued at one time, it shall not be necessary to deliver the Officers'
Certificate otherwise required pursuant to Section 3.1 or the Company Order and
Opinion of Counsel otherwise required pursuant to the two preceding paragraphs
in connection with the authentication of each Security of such series if such
documents, with appropriate modifications to cover such future issuances, are
delivered at or prior to the authentication upon original issuance of the first
Security of such series to be issued.
With respect to Securities of a series offered in a Periodic
Offering, the Trustee and all other Holders may rely upon the documents
delivered pursuant to Sections 2.1 and 3.1 and this Section, as applicable, in
connection with the first authentication of Securities of such series.
If the Company shall establish pursuant to Section 3.1 that
the Securities of a series are to be issued in whole or in part in global form,
then the Company shall execute and the Trustee shall, in accordance with this
Section and the Company Order with respect to such series, authenticate and
deliver one or more Securities in global form that (i) shall represent and shall
be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by such Security or
Securities in global form, (ii) shall be registered, if a Registered Security,
in the name of the Depositary for such Security or Securities in global form or
the nominee of such Depositary, (iii) shall be delivered by the Trustee to such
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Depositary or pursuant to such Depositary's instruction and (iv) shall bear the
legends set forth in Section 4 and the terms determined by or pursuant to the
Board Resolution or supplemental indenture relating to such series.
Each Depositary designated pursuant to Section 3.1 for a
Registered Security in global form must, at the time of its designation and at
all times while it serves as Depositary, be a clearing agency registered under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and any other applicable statute or
regulation. The Trustee shall have no responsibility to determine if the
Depositary is so registered. Each Depositary shall enter into an agreement with
the Trustee governing the respective duties and rights of such Depositary and
the Trustee with regard to Securities issued in global form.
Each Registered Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication and each Bearer Security shall be dated as of the date specified
as contemplated by Section 3.1.
No Security or coupon appertaining thereto shall be entitled
to any benefits under this Indenture or be valid or obligatory for any purpose
until authenticated by the manual signature of one of the authorized signatories
of the Trustee or an Authenticating Agent and no coupon shall be valid until the
Security to which it appertains has been so authenticated. Such signature upon
any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only evidence, that such
Security has been duly authenticated and delivered under this Indenture and is
entitled to the benefits of this Indenture. Except as permitted by Section 3.6
or 3.7, the Trustee shall not authenticate and deliver any Bearer Security
unless all appurtenant coupons for interest then matured have been detached and
cancelled.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any Security shall have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder but never issued and sold by the Company,
and the Company shall deliver such Security to the Trustee for cancellation as
provided in Section 3.9 together with a written statement (which need not comply
with Section 1.2 and need not be accompanied by an Opinion of Counsel) stating
that such Security has never been issued and sold by the Company, for all
purposes of this Indenture such Security shall be deemed never to have been
authenticated and delivered hereunder and shall not be entitled to the benefits
of this Indenture.
Section 3.4. Temporary Securities. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute and, upon Company
Order, the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver temporary Securities of such
series which are printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise
produced, in any authorized denomination, substantially of the tenor and form,
with or without coupons, of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they are
issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other
variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities and coupons, if
any. In the case of Securities of any series, such temporary Securities may be
in global form, representing all or a portion of the Outstanding Securities of
such series.
Except in the case of temporary Securities in global form,
each of which shall be exchanged in accordance with the provisions thereof, if
temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will cause definitive
Securities of such series to be prepared without
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unreasonable delay. After preparation of definitive Securities of such series,
the temporary Securities of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive
Securities of such series upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such
series at the office or agency of the Company pursuant to Section 9.2 in a Place
of Payment for such series, without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities of any series (accompanied
by any unmatured coupons appertaining thereto), the Company shall execute and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange therefor a like principal
amount of definitive Securities of the same series of authorized denominations
and of like tenor; provided, however, that no definitive Bearer Security shall
be delivered in exchange for a temporary Registered Security; and provided
further that no definitive Bearer Security shall be delivered in exchange for a
temporary Bearer Security unless the Trustee shall have received from the person
entitled to receive the definitive Bearer Security a certificate substantially
in the form approved in or pursuant to the Board Resolutions relating thereto
and such delivery shall occur only outside the United States. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities of any series shall in all respects be
entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of
such series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.
Section 3.5. Registration, Transfer and Exchange. The Company
shall cause to be kept at the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or in any
office or agency to be maintained by the Company in accordance with Section 9.2
in a Place of Payment a register (the "Register") in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of Registered Securities and the registration of transfers of
Registered Securities. The Register shall be in written form or in any other
form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable time. The
Trustee is hereby appointed "Registrar" for the purpose of registering
Registered Securities and transfers of Registered Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Registered
Security of any series at the office or agency maintained pursuant to Section
9.2 in a Place of Payment for that series, the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of the designated transferee
or transferees, one or more new Registered Securities of the same series, of any
authorized denominations and of a like aggregate principal amount containing
identical terms and provisions.
Bearer Securities or any coupons appertaining thereto shall be
transferable by delivery.
At the option of the Holder, Registered Securities of any
series (except a Registered Security in global form) may be exchanged for other
Registered Securities of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of
a like aggregate principal amount containing identical terms and provisions,
upon surrender of the Registered Securities to be exchanged at such office or
agency. Whenever any Registered Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Registered Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive. Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, Bearer
Securities may not be issued in exchange for Registered Securities.
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Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, at
the option of the Holder, Bearer Securities of such series may be exchanged for
Registered Securities (if the Securities of such series are issuable in
registered form) or Bearer Securities (if Bearer Securities of such series are
issuable in more than one denomination and such exchanges are permitted by such
series) of the same series, of any authorized denominations and of like tenor
and aggregate principal amount, upon surrender of the Bearer Securities to be
exchanged at any such office or agency, with all unmatured coupons and all
matured coupons in default thereto appertaining. If the Holder of a Bearer
Security is unable to produce any such unmatured coupon or coupons or matured
coupon or coupons in default, such exchange may be effected if the Bearer
Securities are accompanied by payment in funds acceptable to the Company and the
Trustee in an amount equal to the face amount of such missing coupon or coupons,
or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be waived by the Company
and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such security or indemnity as they
may require to save each of them and any Paying Agent harmless. If thereafter
the Holder of such Security shall surrender to any Paying Agent any such missing
coupon in respect of which such a payment shall have been made, such Holder
shall be entitled to receive the amount of such payment; provided, however,
that, except as otherwise provided in Section 9.2, interest represented by
coupons shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of those coupons
at an office or agency located outside the United States. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, in case any Bearer Security of any series is surrendered at any such
office or agency in exchange for a Registered Security of the same series after
the close of business at such office or agency on (i) any Regular Record Date
and before the opening of business at such office or agency on the relevant
Interest Payment Date, or (ii) any Special Record Date and before the opening of
business at such office or agency on the related date for payment of Defaulted
Interest, such Bearer Security shall be surrendered without the coupon relating
to such Interest Payment Date or proposed date of payment, as the case may be
(or, if such coupon is so surrendered with such Bearer Security, such coupon
shall be returned to the person so surrendering the Bearer Security), and
interest or Defaulted Interest, as the case may be, will not be payable on such
Interest Payment Date or proposed date for payment, as the case may be, in
respect of the Registered Security issued in exchange for such Bearer Security,
but will be payable only to the Holder of such coupon, when due in accordance
with the provisions of this Indenture.
Each Security issued in global form authenticated under this
Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary designated for such
series or a nominee thereof and delivered to such Depositary or a nominee
thereof or custodian therefor, and each such Security issued in global form
shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of this Indenture.
Notwithstanding any other provision (other than the provisions
set forth in the eighth, ninth and tenth paragraphs of this Section) of this
Section, unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for Securities in
certificated form in the circumstances described below, a Security in global
form representing all or a portion of the Securities of a series may not be
transferred except as a whole by the Depositary for such series to a nominee of
such Depositary or by a nominee of such Depositary to such Depositary or another
nominee of such Depositary or by such Depositary or any such nominee to a
successor Depositary for such series or a nominee of such successor Depositary.
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If at any time the Depositary for the Securities of a series
notifies the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary
for the Securities of such series or if at any time the Depositary for the
Securities of such series shall no longer be eligible under Section 3.3, the
Company shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to the Securities of
such series. If a successor Depositary for the Securities of such series is not
appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such notice
or becomes aware of such ineligibility, the Company's election pursuant to
Section 3.1(b)(24) shall no longer be effective with respect to the Securities
of such series and the Company shall execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a
Company Order for the authentication and delivery of certificated Securities of
such series of like tenor, shall authenticate and deliver Securities of such
series of like tenor in certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an
aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the Security or
Securities of such series of like tenor in global form in exchange for such
Security or Securities in global form.
The Company may at any time in its sole discretion determine
that Securities of a series issued in global form shall no longer be represented
by such a Security or Securities in global form. In such event the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee, upon receipt of a Company Order for the authentication
and delivery of certificated Securities of such series of like tenor, shall
authenticate and deliver, Securities of such series of like tenor in
certificated form, in authorized denominations and in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of the Security or Securities of such
series of like tenor in global form in exchange for such Security or Securities
in global form.
If specified by the Company pursuant to Section 3.1 with
respect to a series of Securities, the Depositary for such series may surrender
a Security in global form of such series in exchange in whole or in part for
Securities of such series in certificated form on such terms as are acceptable
to the Company and such Depositary. Thereupon, the Company shall execute, and
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge,
(i) to each Person specified by such Depositary a new
certificated Security or Securities of the same series of like tenor,
of any authorized denomination as requested by such Person, in
aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange for such Person's
beneficial interest in the Security in global form; and
(ii) to such Depositary a new Security in global form of like
tenor in a denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the
principal amount of the surrendered Security in global form and the
aggregate principal amount of certificated Securities delivered to
Holders thereof.
Upon the exchange of a Security in global form for Securities
in certificated form, such Security in global form shall be cancelled by the
Trustee. Unless expressly provided with respect to the Securities of any series
that such Security may be exchanged for Bearer Securities, Securities in
certificated form issued in exchange for a Security in global form pursuant to
this Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized
denominations as the Depositary for such Security in global form, pursuant to
instructions from its direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall
instruct the Trustee. The Trustee shall deliver such Securities to the Persons
in whose names such Securities are so registered.
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Whenever any Securities are surrendered for exchange, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, the
Securities which the Holder making the exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any registration of transfer or
upon any exchange of Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company,
evidencing the same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this
Indenture, as the Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer or
exchange.
Every Registered Security presented or surrendered for
registration of transfer or for exchange shall (if so required by the Company,
the Registrar or the Trustee) be duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written
instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company, the Registrar and
the Trustee duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized
in writing.
No service charge shall be made for any registration of
transfer or for any exchange of Securities, but the Company may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge that may be
imposed in connection with any registration or transfer or exchange of
Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 3.4, 8.6 or 10.7 not
involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, register the
transfer of, or exchange any Securities for a period beginning at the opening of
business 15 days before any selection for redemption of Securities of like tenor
and of the series of which such Security is a part and ending at the close of
business on the earliest date on which the relevant notice of redemption is
deemed to have been given to all Holders of Securities of like tenor and of such
series to be redeemed; (ii) to register the transfer of or exchange any
Registered Security selected for redemption, in whole or in part, except the
unredeemed portion of any Security being redeemed in part; or (iii) to exchange
any Bearer Security selected for redemption, except that such a Bearer Security
may be exchanged for a Registered Security of that series and like tenor;
provided that such Registered Security shall be simultaneously surrendered for
redemption.
The foregoing provisions relating to registration, transfer
and exchange may be modified, supplemented or superseded with respect to any
series of Securities by or pursuant to a Board Resolution or in one or more
indentures supplemental hereto.
Section 3.6. Replacement Securities. If a mutilated Security
or a Security with a mutilated coupon appertaining to it is surrendered to the
Trustee, together with, in proper cases, such security or indemnity as may be
required by the Company or the Trustee to save each of them harmless, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver a
replacement Registered Security, if such surrendered Security was a Registered
Security, or a replacement Bearer Security with coupons corresponding to the
coupons appertaining to the surrendered Security, if such surrendered Security
was a Bearer Security, of the same series and date of maturity, if the Trustee's
requirements are met.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and the Trustee (i)
evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or theft of any Security
or Security with a destroyed, lost or
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stolen coupon and (ii) such security or indemnity as may be required by them to
save each of them and any agent of either of them harmless, then, in the absence
of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security or coupon has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and the Trustee
shall authenticate and deliver in lieu of any such destroyed, lost or stolen
Security or in exchange for the Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains (with all appurtenant coupons not destroyed, lost or stolen),
a replacement Registered Security, if such Holder's claim appertains to a
Registered Security, or a replacement Bearer Security with coupons corresponding
to the coupons appertaining to the destroyed, lost or stolen Bearer Security or
the Bearer Security to which such lost, destroyed or stolen coupon appertains,
if such Holder's claim appertains to a Bearer Security, of the same series and
principal amount, containing identical terms and provisions and bearing a number
not contemporaneously outstanding with coupons corresponding to the coupons, if
any, appertaining to the destroyed, lost or stolen Security.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
or coupon has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its
discretion may, instead of issuing a new Security or coupon, pay such Security
or coupon; provided, however, that payment of principal of and any premium or
interest on Bearer Securities shall, except as otherwise provided in Section
9.2, be payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States
and, unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, any interest on
Bearer Securities shall be payable only upon presentation and surrender of the
coupons appertaining thereto.
Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, 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 (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel) connected therewith.
Every new Security of any series with its coupons, if any,
issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any destroyed, lost or stolen
Security, or in exchange for a Security to which a destroyed, lost or stolen
coupon appertains, shall constitute an original additional contractual
obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or stolen Security
and its coupon, if any, or the destroyed, lost or stolen coupon, shall be at any
time enforceable by anyone, and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this
Indenture equally and proportionately with any and all other Securities of that
series and their coupons, if any, duly issued hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall
preclude (to the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to
the replacement or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities or
coupons.
Section 3.7. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
(a) Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1 with respect to any
series of Securities, interest, if any, on any Registered Security which is
payable, and is punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date shall be paid to the Person in whose name that Security (or one or more
Predecessor Securities) is registered at the close of business on the Regular
Record Date for such interest at the office or agency maintained for such
purpose pursuant to Section 9.2; provided, however, that at the option of the
Company, interest on any series of Registered Securities that earn interest may
be paid (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled thereto as it
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shall appear on the Register of Holders of Securities of such series or (ii) at
the expense of the Company, by wire transfer to an account maintained by the
Person entitled thereto as specified in the Register of Holders of Securities of
such series.
Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1 with
respect to any series of Securities, (i) interest, if any, on Bearer Securities
shall be paid only against presentation and surrender of the coupons for such
interest installments as are evidenced thereby as they mature and (ii) original
issue discount, if any, on Bearer Securities shall be paid only against
presentation and surrender of such Securities; in either case at the office of a
Paying Agent located outside the United States, unless the Company shall have
otherwise instructed the Trustee in writing, provided that any such instruction
for payment in the United States does not cause any Bearer Security to be
treated as a "registration-required obligation" under United States laws and
regulations. The interest, if any, on any temporary Bearer Security shall be
paid, as to any installment of interest evidenced by a coupon attached thereto,
only upon presentation and surrender of such coupon and, as to other
installments of interest, only upon presentation of such Security for notation
thereon of the payment of such interest. If at the time a payment of principal
of, premium, if any, or interest, if any, on a Bearer Security or coupon shall
become due, the payment of the full amount so payable at the office or offices
of all the Paying Agents outside the United States is illegal or effectively
precluded because of the imposition of exchange controls or other similar
restrictions on the payment of such amount in Dollars, then the Company may
instruct the Trustee to make such payments at a Paying Agent located in the
United States, provided that provision for such payment in the United States
would not cause such Bearer Security to be treated as a "registration-required
obligation" under United States laws and regulations.
(b) Unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1
with respect to any series of Securities, any interest on Registered Securities
of any series which is payable, but is not punctually paid or duly provided for,
on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted Interest") shall
forthwith cease to be payable to the Holders on the relevant Regular Record Date
by virtue of their having been such Holders, and such Defaulted Interest may be
paid by the Company, at its election in each case, as provided in clause (1) or
(2) below:
(1) The Company may elect to make payment of such Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names such Registered 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 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 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 the
Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as in this clause (1)
provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall be not more than
15 days and not less than 10 days prior to the date of the proposed
payment and not less than 10 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,
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first-class postage prepaid, to each Holder of such Registered
Securities at his address as it appears in the Register, not less
than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. Notice of the
proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the Special Record
Date therefor having been so mailed, such Defaulted Interest shall
be paid to the Persons in whose names such Registered Securities (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close
of business on such Special Record Date and shall no longer be
payable pursuant to the following clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of such Defaulted Interest to
the Persons in whose names such Registered Securities (or their
respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
business on a specified date in any other lawful manner not
inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on
which such Registered Securities may be listed, and upon such notice
as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
clause (2), such manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by
the Trustee.
(c) Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section and
Section 3.5, each Security delivered under this Indenture upon registration of
transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of any other Security shall carry the
rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to accrue, which were carried by such
other Security.
Section 3.8. Persons Deemed Owners. Prior to due presentment
of any Registered Security for registration of transfer, the Company, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in
whose name such Registered Security is registered as the owner of such
Registered Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of,
premium, if any, and (subject to Section 3.7) interest, if any, on such
Registered Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such
Registered Security be overdue, and neither the Company, the Trustee nor any
agent of the Company or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
The Company, the Trustee and an agent of the Company or the
Trustee may treat the bearer of any Bearer Security and the bearer of any coupon
as the absolute owner of such Bearer Security or coupon for the purpose of
receiving payment thereof or on account thereof and for all other purposes
whatsoever, whether or not such Bearer Security or coupon be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
None of the Company, the Trustee or any agent of the Company
or the Trustee shall have any responsibility or liability for any aspect of the
records relating to or payments made on account of beneficial ownership
interests of a Security in global form, or for maintaining, supervising or
reviewing any records relating to such beneficial ownership interests.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to any Security in global form,
nothing herein shall prevent the Company or the Trustee, or any agent of the
Company or the Trustee, from giving effect to any written certification, proxy
or other authorization furnished by any Depositary (or its nominee) as a Holder,
with respect to such Security in global form or impair, as between such
Depositary and owners of beneficial interests in such Security in global form,
the operation of
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customary practices governing the exercise of the rights of such Depositary (or
its nominee) as Holder of such Security in global form.
Section 3.9. Cancellation. The Company at any time may deliver
Securities and coupons to the Trustee for cancellation. The Registrar and any
Paying Agent shall forward to the Trustee any Securities and coupons surrendered
to them for replacement, for registration of transfer, or for exchange or
payment. The Trustee shall cancel all Securities and coupons surrendered for
replacement, for registration of transfer, or for exchange, payment, redemption
or cancellation and may, but shall not be required to, dispose of cancelled
Securities and coupons and issue a certificate of destruction to the Company.
The Company may not issue new Securities to replace Securities that it has paid
or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, except as expressly permitted in
the terms of Securities for any particular series or as permitted pursuant to
the terms of this Indenture.
Section 3.10. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, interest on the Securities of each
series shall be computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 3.11. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the
Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, in such
case, the Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a
convenience to Holders; provided that any such notice may state that no
representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers either as printed
on the 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
Securities, and any such redemption shall not be affected by any defect in or
omission of such numbers.
Section 3.12. Currency and Manner of Payment in Respect of
Securities. (a) Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Securities
pursuant to Section 3.1, with respect to Registered Securities of any series not
permitting the election provided for in paragraph (b) below or the Holders of
which have not made the election provided for in paragraph (b) below, and with
respect to Bearer Securities of any series, except as provided in paragraph (d)
below, payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on
any Registered or Bearer Security of such series will be made in the currency or
currencies or currency unit or units in which such Registered Security or Bearer
Security, as the case may be, is payable. The provisions of this Section 3.12
may be modified or superseded pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to any
Securities.
(b) It may be provided pursuant to Section 3.1, with respect
to Registered Securities of any series, that Holders shall have the option,
subject to paragraphs (d) and (e) below, to receive payments of principal of,
premium, if any, or interest, if any, on such Registered Securities in any of
the currencies or currency units which may be designated for such election by
delivering to the Trustee (or the applicable Paying Agent) a written election
with signature guarantees and in the applicable form established pursuant to
Section 3.1, not later than the close of business on the Election Date
immediately preceding the applicable payment date. If a Holder so elects to
receive such payments in any such currency or currency unit, such election will
remain in effect for such Holder or any transferee of such Holder until changed
by such Holder or such transferee by written notice to the Trustee (or any
applicable Paying Agent) for
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such series of Registered Securities (but any such change must be made not later
than the close of business on the Election Date immediately preceding the next
payment date to be effective for the payment to be made on such payment date,
and no such change of election may be made with respect to payments to be made
on any Registered Security of such series with respect to which an Event of
Default has occurred or with respect to which the Company has deposited funds
pursuant to Article 4 or with respect to which a notice of redemption has been
given by or on behalf of the Company). Any Holder of any such Registered
Security who shall not have delivered any such election to the Trustee (or any
applicable Paying Agent) not later than the close of business on the applicable
Election Date will be paid the amount due on the applicable payment date in the
relevant currency or currency unit as provided in Section 3.12(a). The Trustee
(or the applicable Paying Agent) shall notify the Exchange Rate Agent as soon as
practicable after the Election Date of the aggregate principal amount of
Registered Securities for which Holders have made such written election.
(c) If the election referred to in paragraph (b) above has
been provided for with respect to any Registered Securities of a series pursuant
to Section 3.1, then, unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 with
respect to any such Registered Securities, not later than the fourth Business
Day after the Election Date for each payment date for such Registered
Securities, the Exchange Rate Agent will deliver to the Company a written notice
specifying, in the currency or currencies or currency unit or units in which
Registered Securities of such series are payable, the respective aggregate
amounts of principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such
Registered Securities to be paid on such payment date, and specifying the
amounts in such currency or currencies or currency unit or units so payable in
respect of such Registered Securities as to which the Holders of Registered
Securities denominated in any currency or currencies or currency unit or units
shall have elected to be paid in another currency or currency unit as provided
in paragraph (b) above. If the election referred to in paragraph (b) above has
been provided for with respect to any Registered Securities of a series pursuant
to Section 3.1, and at least one Holder has made such election, then, unless
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1, on the second Business Day
preceding such payment date the Company will deliver to the Trustee (or the
applicable Paying Agent) an Exchange Rate Officers' Certificate in respect of
the Dollar, Foreign Currency or Currencies, ECU or other currency unit payments
to be made on such payment date. Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section
3.1, the Dollar, Foreign Currency or Currencies, ECU or other currency unit
amount receivable by Holders of Registered Securities who have elected payment
in a currency or currency unit as provided in paragraph (b) above shall be
determined by the Company on the basis of the applicable Market Exchange Rate in
effect on the second Business Day (the "Valuation Date") immediately preceding
each payment date, and such determination shall be conclusive and binding for
all purposes, absent manifest error.
(d) If a Conversion Event occurs with respect to a Foreign
Currency, ECU or any other currency unit in which any of the Securities are
denominated or payable otherwise than pursuant to an election provided for
pursuant to paragraph (b) above, then, with respect to each date for the payment
of principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the applicable
Securities denominated or payable in such Foreign Currency, ECU or such other
currency unit occurring after the last date on which such Foreign Currency, ECU
or such other currency unit was used (the "Conversion Date"), the Dollar shall
be the currency of payment for use on each such payment date (but such Foreign
Currency, ECU or such other currency unit that was
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previously the currency of payment shall, at the Company's election, resume
being the currency of payment on the first such payment date preceded by 15
Business Days during which the circumstances which gave rise to the Dollar
becoming such currency no longer prevail). Unless otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 3.1, the Dollar amount to be paid by the Company to the Trustee or
any applicable Paying Agent and by the Trustee or any applicable Paying Agent to
the Holders of such Securities with respect to such payment date shall be, in
the case of a Foreign Currency other than a currency unit, the Dollar Equivalent
of the Foreign Currency or, in the case of a Foreign Currency that is a currency
unit, the Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit, in each case as determined by
the Exchange Rate Agent in the manner provided in paragraph (f) or (g) below.
(e) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1, if the
Holder of a Registered Security denominated in any currency or currency unit
shall have elected to be paid in another currency or currency unit or in other
currencies as provided in paragraph (b) above, and (i) a Conversion Event occurs
with respect to any such elected currency or currency unit, such Holder shall
receive payment in the currency or currency unit in which payment would have
been made in the absence of such election and (ii) if a Conversion Event occurs
with respect to the currency or currency unit in which payment would have been
made in the absence of such election, such Holder shall receive payment in
Dollars as provided in paragraph (d) of this Section 3.12 (but, subject to any
contravening valid election pursuant to paragraph (b) above, the elected payment
currency or currency unit, in the case of the circumstances described in clause
(i) above, or the payment currency or currency unit in the absence of such
election, in the case of the circumstances described in clause (ii) above,
shall, at the Company's election, resume being the currency or currency unit of
payment with respect to Holders who have so elected, but only with respect to
payments on payment dates preceded by 15 Business Days during which the
circumstances which gave rise to such currency or currency unit, in the case of
the circumstances described in clause (i) above, or the Dollar, in the case of
the circumstances described in clause (ii) above, as applicable, becoming the
currency or currency unit of payment, no longer prevail).
(f) The "Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency" shall be
determined by the Exchange Rate Agent and shall be obtained for each subsequent
payment date by the Exchange Rate Agent by converting the specified Foreign
Currency into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate on the Conversion Date.
(g) The "Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit" shall be
determined by the Exchange Rate Agent and, subject to the provisions of
paragraph (h) below, shall be the sum of each amount obtained by converting the
Specified Amount of each Component Currency (as each such term is defined in
paragraph (h) below) into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate for such Component
Currency on the Valuation Date with respect to each payment.
(h) For purposes of this Section 3.12 the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
"Component Currency" shall mean any currency which, on the
Conversion Date, was a component currency of the relevant currency unit,
including, but not limited to, ECU.
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"Election Date" shall mean the Regular Record Date for the
applicable series of Registered Securities as specified pursuant to Section 3.1
by which the written election referred to in Section 3.12(b) may be made.
A "Specified Amount" of a Component Currency shall mean the
number of units of such Component Currency or fractions thereof which such
Component Currency represented in the relevant currency unit, including, but not
limited to, ECU, on the Conversion Date. If after the Conversion Date the
official unit of any Component Currency is altered by way of combination or
subdivision, the Specified Amount of such Component Currency shall be divided or
multiplied in the same proportion. If after the Conversion Date two or more
Component Currencies are consolidated into a single currency, the respective
Specified Amounts of such Component Currencies shall be replaced by an amount in
such single currency equal to the sum of the respective Specified Amounts of
such consolidated Component Currencies expressed in such single currency, and
such amount shall thereafter be a Specified Amount and such single currency
shall thereafter be a Component Currency. If after the Conversion Date any
Component Currency shall be divided into two or more currencies, the Specified
Amount of such Component Currency shall be replaced by specified amounts of such
two or more currencies, the sum of which, at the Market Exchange Rate of such
two or more currencies on the date of such replacement, shall be equal to the
Specified Amount of such former Component Currency and such amounts shall
thereafter be Specified Amounts and such currencies shall thereafter be
Component Currencies. If, after the Conversion Date of the relevant currency
unit, including, but not limited to, ECU, a Conversion Event (other than any
event referred to above in this definition of "Specified Amount") occurs with
respect to any Component Currency of such currency unit and is continuing on the
applicable Valuation Date, the Specified Amount of such Component Currency
shall, for purposes of calculating the Dollar Equivalent of the Currency Unit,
be converted into Dollars at the Market Exchange Rate in effect on the
Conversion Date of such Component Currency.
All decisions and determinations of the Exchange Rate Agent
regarding the Dollar Equivalent of the Foreign Currency, the Dollar Equivalent
of the Currency Unit, the Market Exchange Rate and changes in the Specified
Amounts as specified above shall be in its sole discretion and shall, in the
absence of manifest error, be conclusive for all purposes and irrevocably
binding upon the Company, the Trustee (and any applicable Paying Agent) and all
Holders of Securities denominated or payable in the relevant currency,
currencies or currency units. The Exchange Rate Agent shall promptly give
written notice to the Company and the Trustee of any such decision or
determination.
In the event that the Company determines in good faith that a
Conversion Event has occurred with respect to a Foreign Currency, the Company
will promptly give written notice thereof to the Trustee (or any applicable
Paying Agent) and to the Exchange Rate Agent (and the Trustee (or such Paying
Agent) will promptly thereafter give notice in the manner provided in Section
1.6 to the affected Holders) specifying the Conversion Date. In the event the
Company so determines that a Conversion Event has occurred with respect to ECU
or any other currency unit in which Securities are denominated or payable, the
Company will promptly give written notice thereof to the Trustee (or any
applicable Paying Agent) and to the Exchange Rate Agent (and the Trustee (or
such Paying Agent) will promptly thereafter give notice in the manner provided
in Section 1.6 to the affected Holders) specifying the Conversion Date and the
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Specified Amount of each Component Currency on the Conversion Date. In the event
the Company determines in good faith that any subsequent change in any Component
Currency as set forth in the definition of Specified Amount above has occurred,
the Company will similarly give written notice to the Trustee (or any applicable
Paying Agent) and to the Exchange Rate Agent and the Trustee (or such Paying
Agent) will similarly given written notice to the affected Holders.
The Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities shall be
fully justified and protected in relying and acting upon information received by
it from the Company and the Exchange Rate Agent and shall not otherwise have any
duty or obligation to determine the accuracy or validity of such information
independent of the Company or the Exchange Rate Agent.
Section 3.13. Appointment and Resignation of Exchange Rate
Agent. (a) Unless otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1, if and so long as
the Securities of any series (i) are denominated in a currency other than
Dollars or (ii) may be payable in a currency other than Dollars, or so long as
it is required under any other provision of this Indenture, then the Company
will maintain with respect to each such series of Securities, or as so required,
at least one Exchange Rate Agent. The Company will cause the Exchange Rate Agent
to make the necessary foreign exchange determinations at the time and in the
manner specified pursuant to Section 3.12 for the purpose of determining the
applicable rate of exchange and, if applicable, for the purpose of converting
the issued currency or currencies or currency unit or units into the applicable
payment currency or currency unit for the payment of principal, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, pursuant to Section 3.12.
(b) No resignation of the Exchange Rate Agent and no
appointment of a successor Exchange Rate Agent pursuant to this Section shall
become effective until the acceptance of appointment by the successor Exchange
Rate Agent as evidenced by a written instrument delivered to the Company and the
Trustee of the appropriate series of Securities accepting such appointment
executed by the successor Exchange Rate Agent.
(c) If the Exchange Rate Agent shall resign, be removed or
become incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of the
Exchange Rate Agent for any cause, with respect to the Securities of one or more
series, the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall promptly
appoint a successor Exchange Rate Agent or Exchange Rate Agents with respect to
the Securities of that or those series (it being understood that any such
successor Exchange Rate Agent may be appointed with respect to the Securities of
one or more or all of such series and that, unless otherwise specified pursuant
to Section 3.1 at any time there shall only be one Exchange Rate Agent with
respect to the Securities of any particular series that are originally issued by
the Company on the same date and that are initially denominated and/or payable
in the same currency or currencies or currency unit or units).
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ARTICLE 4
SATISFACTION, DISCHARGE AND DEFEASANCE
Section 4.1. Termination of Company's Obligations Under the
Indenture. (a) This Indenture shall upon a Company Request cease to be of
further effect with respect to Securities of or within any series and any
coupons appertaining thereto (except as to any surviving rights of registration
of transfer or exchange of such Securities and replacement of such Securities
which may have been lost, stolen or mutilated as herein expressly provided for)
and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments
acknowledging satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto when
(1) either
(A) all such Securities previously authenticated and delivered
and all coupons appertaining thereto (other than (i) such coupons appertaining
to Bearer Securities surrendered in exchange for Registered Securities and
maturing after such exchange, surrender of which is not required or has been
waived as provided in Section 3.5, (ii) such Securities and coupons which have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid, as provided
in Section 3.6, (iii) such coupons appertaining to Bearer Securities called for
redemption and maturing after the relevant Redemption Date, surrender of which
has been waived as provided in Section 10.6 and (iv) such Securities and coupons
for whose payment money has theretofore been deposited in trust or segregated
and held in trust by the Company and thereafter repaid to the Company or
discharged from such trust as provided in Section 9.3) have been delivered to
the Trustee for cancellation; or
(B) all Securities of such series and, in the case of (i) or
(ii) below, any coupons appertaining thereto not theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation
(i) have become due and payable, or
(ii) will become due and payable at their Stated Maturity
within one year, or
(iii) if redeemable at the option of the Company, are to
be called for redemption within one year under arrangements satisfactory to the
Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption by the Trustee in the name, and
at the expense, of the Company, and the Company, in the case of (i), (ii) or
(iii) above, has irrevocably deposited or caused to be deposited with the
Trustee as trust funds in trust for the purpose an amount in the currency or
currencies or currency unit or units in which the Securities of such series are
payable, sufficient to pay and discharge the entire indebtedness on such
Securities and such coupons not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, for principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, with respect
thereto, on the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which have
become due and payable) or at the Stated Maturity or Redemption Date, as the
case may be;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
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(3) the Company delivered to the Trustee 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 as to such series have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the obligation
of the Company to the Trustee and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.9, the
obligations of the Company to any Authenticating Agent under Section 6.14 and,
if money shall have been deposited with the Trustee pursuant to subclause (B) of
clause (1) of this Section, the obligations of the Trustee under Section 4.2 and
the last paragraph of Section 9.3 shall survive.
Section 4.2. Application of Trust Funds. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.3, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1 shall be held in trust and applied by it, in
accordance with the provisions of the Securities, the coupons and this
Indenture, to the payment, either directly or through any Paying Agent
(including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent) as the Trustee may
determine, to the Persons entitled thereto, of the principal, premium, if any,
and interest, if any, for whose payment such money has been deposited with or
received by the Trustee, but such money need not be segregated from other funds
except to the extent required by law.
Section 4.3. Applicability of Defeasance Provisions; Company's
Option to Effect Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance. If pursuant to Section 3.1
provision is made for either or both of (i) defeasance of the Securities of or
within a series under Section 4.4 or (ii) covenant defeasance of the Securities
of or within a series under Section 4.5, then the provisions of such Section or
Sections, as the case may be, together with the provisions of Sections 4.6
through 4.9 inclusive, with such modifications thereto as may be specified
pursuant to Section 3.1 with respect to any Securities, shall be applicable to
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, and the Company may at its
option by or pursuant to Board Resolution, at any time, with respect to such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, elect to have Section 4.4 (if
applicable) or Section 4.5 (if applicable) be applied to such Outstanding
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto upon compliance with the
conditions set forth below in this Article.
Section 4.4. Defeasance and Discharge. Upon the Company's
exercise of the option specified in Section 4.3 applicable to this Section with
respect to the Securities of or within a series, the Company and the Guarantors
shall be deemed to have been discharged from its obligations with respect to
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the
conditions set forth in Section 4.6 are satisfied (hereinafter "defeasance").
For this purpose, such defeasance means that the Company shall be deemed to have
paid and discharged the entire indebtedness represented by such Securities and
any coupons appertaining thereto which shall thereafter be deemed to be
"Outstanding" only for the purposes of Section 4.7 and the other Sections of
this Indenture referred to in clause (ii) of this Section, and to have satisfied
all its other obligations under such Securities and any coupons appertaining
thereto and this Indenture insofar as such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto are concerned (and the Trustee, at the expense of the
Company, shall on a Company Order execute proper instruments acknowledging the
same), except the following, which shall survive until otherwise terminated or
discharged hereunder: (i) the rights of Holders of such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto to receive, solely from the trust funds described
in Section 4.6(a) and as more fully set forth in such Section, payments in
respect of the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if
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any, on such Securities or any coupons appertaining thereto when such payments
are due; (ii) the Company's and the Guarantors' obligations with respect to such
Securities under Sections 3.5, 3.6, 9.2 and 9.3 and with respect to the payment
of additional amounts, if any, payable with respect to such Securities as
specified pursuant to Section 3.1(b)(16); (iii) the rights, powers, trusts,
duties and immunities of the Trustee hereunder and (iv) this Article 4. Subject
to compliance with this Article 4, the Company may exercise its option under
this Section notwithstanding the prior exercise of its option under Section 4.5
with respect to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto. Following
a defeasance, payment of such Securities may not be accelerated because of an
Event of Default.
Section 4.5. Covenant Defeasance. Upon the Company's exercise
of the option specified in Section 4.3 applicable to this Section with respect
to any Securities of or within a series, the Company shall be released from its
obligations under Sections 7.1, 9.4 and 9.7 (and with respect to Section 9.6,
shall be required to certify only with respect to those covenants not defeased
pursuant to this Section 4.5) and, if specified pursuant to Section 3.1, its
obligations under any other covenant, with respect to such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto on and after the date the conditions set forth in
Section 4.6 are satisfied (hereinafter, "covenant defeasance"), and such
Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto shall thereafter be deemed to be
not "Outstanding" for the purposes of any direction, waiver, consent or
declaration or Act of Holders (and the consequences of any thereof) in
connection with Sections 7.1, 9.4 and 9.7 or such other covenant, but shall
continue to be deemed "Outstanding" for all other purposes hereunder. For this
purpose, such covenant defeasance means that, with respect to such Securities
and any coupons appertaining thereto, the Company may omit to comply with and
shall have no liability in respect of any term, condition or limitation set
forth in any such Section or such other covenant, whether directly or
indirectly, by reason of any reference elsewhere herein to any such Section or
such other covenant or by reason of reference in any such Section or such other
covenant to any other provision herein or in any other document and such
omission to comply shall not constitute a Default or an Event of Default under
Section 5.1(3) or 5.1(7), or otherwise, as the case may be, but, except as
specified above, the remainder of this Indenture and such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto shall be unaffected thereby.
Section 4.6. Conditions to Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance.
The following shall be the conditions to application of Section 4.4 or Section
4.5 to any Securities of or within a series and any coupons appertaining
thereto:
(a) The Company shall have deposited or caused to be deposited
irrevocably with the Trustee (or another trustee satisfying the requirements of
Section 6.12 who shall agree to comply with, and shall be entitled to the
benefits of, the provisions of Sections 4.3 through 4.9 inclusive and the last
paragraph of Section 9.3 applicable to the Trustee, for purposes of such
Sections also a "Trustee") as trust funds in trust for the purpose of making the
payments referred to in clauses (x) and (y) of this Section 4.6(a), specifically
pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the benefit of the Holders of
such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto, with instructions to the
Trustee as to the application thereof, (A) money in an amount (in such currency,
currencies or currency unit or units in which such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto are then specified as payable at Maturity), or (B) if
Securities of such series are not subject to repayment at the option of Holders,
Government Obligations which through the payment of interest, if any, and
principal in respect thereof in accordance with their terms will
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provide, not later than one day before the due date of any payment referred to
in clause (x) or (y) of this Section 4.6(a), money in an amount or (C) a
combination thereof in an amount sufficient, in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent certified public accountants expressed in a
written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee, to pay and discharge,
and which shall be applied by the Trustee to pay and (x) discharge the principal
of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto on the Maturity of such principal or installment of
principal or interest, if any, and (y) any mandatory sinking fund payments
applicable to such Securities on the day on which such payments are due and
payable in accordance with the terms of this Indenture and such Securities and
any coupons appertaining thereto. Before such a deposit the Company may make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption or purchase of
Securities at a future date or dates in accordance with Article 10 which shall
be given effect in applying the foregoing.
(b) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall not result in
a breach or violation of, or constitute a Default or Event of Default under,
this Indenture or result in a breach or violation of, or constitute a default
under, any other material agreement or instrument to which the Company is a
party or by which it is bound, in each case, on the date of such deposit
pursuant to Section 4.6(a).
(c) In the case of an election under Section 4.4, the
Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an
Opinion of Counsel to the effect that (i) the Company has received from, or
there has been published by, the Internal Revenue Service a ruling, or (ii)
since the date of execution of this Indenture, there has been a change in the
applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the effect that, and based
thereon such opinion shall confirm that, the Holders of such Securities and any
coupons appertaining thereto will not recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and will be subject to
Federal income tax on the same amount and in the same manner and at the same
times, as would have been the case if such deposit, defeasance and discharge had
not occurred.
(d) In the case of an election under Section 4.5, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that the
Holders of such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of
such covenant defeasance and will be subject to Federal income tax on the same
amounts, in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if
such covenant defeasance had not occurred.
(e) The Company shall have delivered to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent to the defeasance under Section 4.4 or the covenant
defeasance under Section 4.5 (as the case may be) have been complied with.
(f) No Default or Event of Default under Section 5.1(5) or
5.1(6) with respect to such Securities and any coupons appertaining thereto
shall have occurred and be continuing during the period commencing on the date
of such deposit and ending on the 91st day after such date (it being understood
that this condition shall not be deemed satisfied until the expiration of such
period).
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(g) Such Defeasance or Covenant Defeasance shall not result in
the trust arising from such deposit constituting an investment company within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940 unless such trust shall be
registered under such Act or exempt from registration thereunder.
(h) Such defeasance or covenant defeasance shall be effected
in compliance with any additional or substitute terms, conditions or limitations
which may be imposed on the Company in connection therewith as contemplated by
Section 3.1.
Section 4.7. Deposited Money and Government Obligations to be
Held in Trust. Subject to the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.3,
all money and Government Obligations (or other property as may be provided
pursuant to Section 3.1) (including the proceeds thereof) deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.6 in respect of any Securities of any series and
any coupons appertaining thereto shall be held in trust and applied by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto and this Indenture, to the payment, either directly or
through any Paying Agent (including the Company acting as its own Paying Agent)
as the Trustee may determine, to the Holders of such Securities and any coupons
appertaining thereto of all sums due and to become due thereon in respect of
principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, but such money need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
Unless otherwise specified with respect to any Security
pursuant to Section 3.1, if, after a deposit referred to in Section 4.6(a) has
been made, (i) the Holder of a Security in respect of which such deposit was
made is entitled to, and does, elect pursuant to Section 3.12(b) or the terms of
such Security to receive payment in a currency or currency unit other than that
in which the deposit pursuant to Section 4.6(a) has been made in respect of such
Security, or (ii) a Conversion Event occurs as contemplated in Section 3.12(d)
or 3.12(e) or by the terms of any Security in respect of which the deposit
pursuant to Section 4.6(a) has been made, the indebtedness represented by such
Security and any coupons appertaining thereto shall be deemed to have been, and
will be, fully discharged and satisfied through the payment of the principal of,
premium, if any, and interest, if any, on such Security as the same becomes due
out of the proceeds yielded by converting (from time to time as specified below
in the case of any such election) the amount or other property deposited in
respect of such Security into the currency or currency unit in which such
Security becomes payable as a result of such election or Conversion Event based
on the applicable Market Exchange Rate for such currency or currency unit in
effect on the second Business Day prior to each payment date, except, with
respect to a Conversion Event, for such currency or currency unit in effect (as
nearly as feasible) at the time of the Conversion Event.
Section 4.8. Repayment to Company. To the extent permitted by
the Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 76, as amended or interpreted by the Financial Accounting
Standards Board from time to time, or any successor thereto ("Standard No. 76"),
or to the extent permitted by the Commission, the Trustee shall, from time to
time, take one or more of the following actions as specified in a Company
Request: (a) retransfer, reassign and deliver to the Company any securities
deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.6(a), provided that the Company
shall, in substitution therefor, simultaneously transfer, assign and deliver to
the Trustee other Governmental Obligations
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appropriate to satisfy the Company's obligations in respect of the relevant
Securities; and (b) the Trustee and Paying Agent shall promptly pay to the
Company upon Company Request any excess money or securities held by them at any
time, including, without limitation, any assets deposited with the Trustee
pursuant to Section 4.6(a) exceeding those necessary for the purposes of Section
4.6(a). The Trustee shall not take the actions described in subsections (a) and
(b) of this Section 4.8 unless it shall have first received a written report of
Ernst & Young LLP, or another nationally recognized independent public
accounting firm, (i) expressing their opinion that the contemplated action is
permitted by Standard No. 76 or the Commission for transactions accounted for as
extinguishment of debt under the circumstances described in paragraph 3.c of
Standard No. 76 or any successor provision, and (ii) verifying the accuracy,
after giving effect to such action or actions, of the computations which
demonstrate that the amounts remaining to be earned on the Government
Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.6(a) will be
sufficient for purposes of Section 4.6(a).
Section 4.9. Indemnity for Government Obligations. The Company
shall pay, and shall indemnify the Trustee against, any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against Government Obligations deposited pursuant to this
Article or the principal and interest, if any, and any other amount received on
such Government Obligations.
ARTICLE 5
DEFAULTS AND REMEDIES
Section 5.1. Events of Default. An "Event of Default" occurs
with respect to the Securities of any series if (whatever the reason for such
Event of Default and whether it shall be voluntary or involuntary or be effected
by operation of law or pursuant to any judgment, decree or order of any court or
any order, rule or regulation of any administrative or governmental body):
(1) the Company defaults in the payment of interest on any Security of
that series or any coupon appertaining thereto or any additional amount
payable with respect to any Security of that series as specified
pursuant to Section 3.1(b) when the same becomes due and payable and
such default continues for a period of 30 days;
(2) the Company defaults in the payment of the principal of or any
premium on any Security of that series when the same becomes due and
payable at its Maturity or on redemption or otherwise, or in the
payment of a mandatory sinking fund payment when and as due by the
terms of the Securities of that series;
(3) the Company fails to comply in any material respect with any of its
agreements or covenants in, or any of the provisions of, this Indenture
with respect to any Security of that series (other than an agreement,
covenant or provision for which non-compliance is elsewhere in this
Section specifically dealt with), and such non-compliance continues for
a period of 60 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 at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of the series, a written notice
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specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and
stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder;
(4) a default under any mortgage, agreement, indenture or instrument
under which there may be issued, or by which there may be secured,
guaranteed or evidenced any Debt of the Company (including this
Indenture) whether such Debt now exists or shall hereafter be created,
in an aggregate principal amount then outstanding of $25,000,000 or
more, which default (a) shall constitute a failure to pay any portion
of the principal of such Debt when due and payable after the expiration
of an applicable grace period with respect thereto or (b) shall result
in such Debt becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the
date on which it would otherwise become due and payable, and such
acceleration shall not be rescinded or annulled, or such Debt shall not
be paid in full within a period of 30 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 at least 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series a written
notice specifying such event of default and requiring the Company to
cause such acceleration to be rescinded or annulled or to pay in full
such Debt and stating that such notice is a "Notice of Default"
hereunder; (it being understood however, that the Trustee shall not be
deemed to have knowledge of such default under such agreement or
instrument unless either (A) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall
have actual knowledge of such default or (B) a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the
Company, from any Holder, from the holder of any such indebtedness or
from the trustee under any such agreement or other instrument);
provided, however, that if such default under such agreement or
instrument is remedied or cured by the Company or waived by the holders
of such indebtedness, then the Event of Default hereunder by reason
thereof shall be deemed likewise to have been thereupon remedied, cured
or waived without further action upon the part of either the Trustee or
any of such Holders; provided, further, that the foregoing shall not
apply to any secured Debt under which the obligee has recourse
(exclusive of recourse for ancillary matters such as environmental
indemnities, misapplication of funds, costs of enforcement and the
like) only to the collateral pledged for repayment so long as the fair
market value of such collateral does not exceed 2% of Total Assets at
the time of the default;
(5) the Company, pursuant to or within the meaning of any Bankruptcy
Law, (A) commences a voluntary case or proceeding, (B) consents to the
entry of an order for relief against it in an involuntary case or
proceeding, (C) consents to the appointment of a Custodian of it or for
all or substantially all of its property, (D) makes a general
assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (E) makes an admission in
writing of its inability to its debts generally as they become due or
(F) takes corporate action in furtherance of any such action;
(6) a court of competent jurisdiction enters an order or decree under
any Bankruptcy Law that (A) is for relief against the Company, in an
involuntary case, (B) adjudges the Company as bankrupt or insolvent, or
approves as properly filed a petition seeking reorganization,
arrangement, and adjustment or composition of or in respect of the
Company, or appoints a Custodian of the Company, or for all or
substantially all of its
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property, or (C) orders the liquidation of the Company and the decree
remains unstayed and in effect for 60 days; or
(7) any other Event of Default provided as contemplated by Section
3.1 with respect to Securities of that series.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee, as soon as
practicable, written notice in the form of an Officers' Certificate of any
Default, its status and what action the Company is taking or proposes to take
with respect thereto.
As used in the Indenture, the term "Bankruptcy Law" means
Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other law for the relief of debtors. As used in the Indenture,
the term "Custodian" means any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator or
similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
Section 5.2. Acceleration; Rescission and Annulment. If an
Event of Default with respect to the Securities of any series at the time
Outstanding occurs and is continuing, the Trustee or the Holders of at least 25%
in aggregate principal amount of all of the Outstanding Securities of that
series by written notice to the Company (and if given by the Holders, to the
Trustee), may declare the principal (or, if the Securities of that series are
Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such portion of the
original principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that series) of
and accrued interest, if any, on the Securities of that series to be due and
payable and upon any such declaration such principal (or, in the case of
Original Issue Discount Securities or Indexed Securities, such specified amount)
and interest, if any, shall be immediately due and payable.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration with
respect to Securities of any series has been made and before a judgment or
decree for payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as
hereinafter in this Article provided, the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice
to the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences if
all existing Defaults and Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the non-payment of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, on Securities of that series which have become due solely by
such declaration of acceleration, have been cured or waived as provided in
Section 5.7. No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair
any right consequent thereon.
Section 5.3. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any interest on any Security or
coupon, if any, when such interest becomes due and payable and such
default continues for a period of 30 days, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof, the Company will, upon
demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holders of
such Securities or coupons, if any, the whole amount then due and
payable on such Securities for principal, premium, if
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any, and interest, if any, and, to the extent that payment of such
interest shall be legally enforceable, interest on any overdue
principal, premium, if any, and on any overdue interest, if any, at the
rate or rates prescribed therefor in such Securities or coupons, if
any, and, in addition thereto, such further amount as shall be
sufficient to cover the costs and expenses of collection, including the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any
series occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to
protect and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of
such series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem
most effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to secure any other proper remedy
including, without limitation seeking recourse against any Guarantor.
Section 5.4. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. The Trustee may
file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents and take such actions
authorized under the Trust Indenture Act as may be necessary or advisable in
order to have the claims of the Trustee and the Holders of Securities allowed in
any judicial proceedings relating to the Company (or any other obligor upon the
Securities, including any Guarantor), its creditors or its property. In
particular, the Trustee shall be authorized to collect and receive any moneys or
other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the
same; and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator
or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized
by each Holder to make such payments to the Trustee and, in the event that the
Trustee shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Holders, to
pay to the Trustee any amount due it for the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel, and any other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 6.9.
Section 5.5. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without Possession of
Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities or any Guarantee may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee, in
its own name as an express trust, without the possession of any of the
Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating thereto and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the reasonable fees and expenses
of the Trustee and its counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the
Securities in respect to which judgment was recovered.
Section 5.6. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. No delay or
omission by the Trustee or any Holder of any Securities to exercise any right or
remedy accruing upon an Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy
or constitute a waiver of or acquiescence in any such Event of Default.
Section 5.7. Waiver of Past Defaults. In addition to the
provisions of Section 5.2 and except as otherwise provided as contemplated by
Section 3.1, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
Outstanding Securities of any series by written notice to the Trustee may waive
on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of such series a past Default or
Event of Default with respect to that series and its consequences except (i) a
Default or Event of
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Default in the payment of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if
any, on any Security of such series or any coupon appertaining thereto or (ii)
in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which pursuant to Section 8.2
cannot be amended or modified without the consent of the Holder of each
Outstanding Security of such series adversely affected. Upon any such waiver,
such Default shall cease to exist, and any Event of Default arising therefrom
shall be deemed to have been cured, for every purpose of this Indenture.
Section 5.8. Control by Majority. Except as otherwise provided
as contemplated by Section 3.1, the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected (with each such
series voting as a class) 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 it with respect to Securities of that
series; provided, however, that (i) the Trustee may refuse to follow any
direction that conflicts with law or this Indenture (ii) the Trustee may refuse
to follow any direction that is unduly prejudicial to the rights of the Holders
of Securities of such series not consenting or that would in the good faith
judgment of the Trustee have a substantial likelihood of involving the Trustee
in personal liability and (iii) the Trustee may take any other action deemed
proper by the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction. Prior to
the taking of any action hereunder, the Trustee shall be entitled to reasonable
indemnification satisfactory to the Trustee against all losses and expenses
caused by taking or not taking such action. This paragraph shall be in lieu of
Section 316(a)(1)(A) of the Trust Indenture Act and such Section 316(a)(1)(A) is
hereby expressly excluded from this Indenture, as permitted by the Trust
Indenture Act.
Section 5.9. Limitation on Suits by Holders. No Holder of any
Security of any series or any coupons appertaining thereto shall have any right
to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise, with respect to this
Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other
remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) the Holder has previously given written notice to the
Trustee of a continuing Event of Default with respect to the Securities
of that series;
(2) the Holders of at least 25% in aggregate principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of that series have made a written
request to the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such
Event of Default in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee
indemnity satisfactory to the Trustee against any loss, liability or
expense to be, or which may be, incurred by the Trustee in pursuing the
remedy;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and the offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceedings; and
(5) during such 60 day period, the Holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series
have not given to the Trustee a direction inconsistent with such
written request.
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Except as otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1,
no one or more Holders shall have any right in any manner whatever by virtue of,
or by availing of, any provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or
prejudice the rights of any other of such Holders, or to obtain or to seek to
obtain priority or preference over any other of such Holders or to enforce any
right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal and ratable benefit of all of such Holders.
Section 5.10. Rights of Holders to Receive Payment.
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, but subject to Section
9.2, the right of any Holder of a Security or coupon to receive payment of
principal of, premium, if any, and, subject to Sections 3.5 and 3.7, interest,
if any, on the Security, on or after the respective due dates expressed in the
Security (or, in case of redemption, on the redemption dates), and the right of
any Holder of a coupon to receive payment of interest due as provided in such
coupon, or, subject to Section 5.9, to bring suit for the enforcement of any
such payment on or after such respective dates, shall not be impaired or
affected without the consent of such Holder.
Section 5.11. Application of Money Collected. If the Trustee
collects any money pursuant to this Article, it shall pay out the money in the
following order, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the
distribution of such money on account of principal, premium, if any, or
interest, if any, upon presentation of the Securities and the notation thereon
of the payment if only partially paid and upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: to the Trustee for amounts due under Section 6.9;
Second: to Holders of Securities and coupons in respect of
which or for the benefit of which such money has been collected for amounts due
and unpaid on such Securities for principal of, premium, if any, and interest,
if any, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind, according to the
amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal, premium, if any, and
interest, if any, respectively; and
Third: to the Company.
The Trustee may fix a record date and payment date for any
payment to Holders pursuant to this Section 5.11. At least 15 days before such
record date, the Trustee shall mail to each Holder and the Company a notice that
states the record date, the payment date and the amount to be paid.
Section 5.12. Restoration of Rights and Remedies. If the
Trustee or any Holder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or
remedy under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or
abandoned for any reason, or has been determined adversely to the Trustee or to
such Holder, then and in every such case, subject to any determination in such
proceeding, the Company, the Guarantors, the Trustee and the Holders shall be
restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Holders shall continue
as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 5.13. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as
otherwise provided with respect to the replacement or payment of mutilated,
destroyed, lost or stolen Securities in
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the last paragraph of Section 3.6, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or
reserved to the Trustee or the Holders is intended to be exclusive of any other
right or remedy, and every right and remedy shall, to the extent permitted by
law, be cumulative and in addition to every other right and remedy given
hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The
assertion or employment of any existing right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise,
shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or employment of any other
appropriate right or remedy.
Section 5.14. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. Each of
the Company and the Guarantors covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do
so) that it will not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner
whatsoever claim or take the benefit or advantage of, any usury, stay or
extension law wherever enacted, now or at any time hereafter in force, which may
affect the covenants or the performance of this Indenture; and each of the
Company and the Guarantors (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby
expressly waives all benefit or advantage of any such law and covenants that it
will not hinder, delay or impede the execution of any power herein granted to
the Trustee, but will suffer and permit the execution of every such power as
though no such law had been enacted.
Section 5.15. Undertaking for Costs. In any suit for the
enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture or in any suit against
the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, a court in its
discretion may require the filing by any party litigant in the suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of the suit, and the court in its discretion may
assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorney's fees, against any party
litigant in the suit having due regard to the merits and good faith of the
claims or defenses made by the party litigant.
ARTICLE 6
THE TRUSTEE
Section 6.1. Certain Duties and Responsibilities of the
Trustee. (a) Except during the continuance of an Event of Default, the Trustee's
duties and responsibilities under this Indenture shall be governed by Section
315(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee shall
exercise the rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of such series, and shall 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 his own affairs.
(c) 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, except that: this
subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of subsection (a) of this
Section; the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the Trustee was
negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts; and 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 Holders in accordance with Section
5.8 relating to the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
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available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon
the Trustee, under the Indenture.
Section 6.2. Rights of Trustee. Subject to the provisions of
the Trust Indenture Act:
(a) The Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any document believed by it
to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by the proper party or
parties. The Trustee need not investigate any fact or matter stated in the
document;
(b) Any request or direction of the Company mentioned
herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
(other than delivery of any Security, together with any coupons appertaining
thereto, to the Trustee for authentication and delivery pursuant to Section 3.3
which shall be sufficiently evidenced as provided therein) and any resolution of
the Board of Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution;
(c) Whenever in the administration of this Indenture the
Trustee shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless other
evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of bad faith on
its part, conclusively rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) The Trustee may consult with counsel of its
selection and the advice of such counsel or any 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 reliance thereon;
(e) The Trustee may act through agents or attorneys and
shall not be responsible for the misconduct or negligence of any agent or
attorney appointed with due care;
(f) The Trustee shall not be liable for any action it
takes or omits to take in good faith which it believes to be authorized or
within its rights or powers;
(g) The Trustee shall not be required to expend or risk
its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of
any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of its rights or powers if it
shall have reasonable grounds for believing that repayment of such funds or
adequate indemnity against such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to
it;
(h) 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, direction, consent,
order, bond, debenture, note, other evidence of indebtedness or other paper or
document, but the Trustee, in its discretion, may make such further inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee
shall determine to make such further inquiry or investigation it shall be
entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company, personally
or by agent or attorney;
(i) The Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise
any of the rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Holders pursuant to
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this Indenture, unless such Holders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable
security or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(j) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every
provision of this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability
of or affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of
this Section 6.2;
(k) The rights, privileges, protections, immunities and
benefits given to the Trustee, including, without limitation, its right to be
indemnified, are extended to, and shall be enforceable by, the Trustee in each
of its capacities hereunder, and to each agent, custodian and other Person
employed to act hereunder.
Section 6.3. Trustee May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any
Paying Agent, any Registrar or any other agent of the Company in its in
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and coupons and, subject to Sections 310(b) and 311 of the Trust Indenture Act,
may otherwise deal with the Company, an Affiliate of the Company or Subsidiary
of the Company with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying
Agent, Registrar or such other agent.
Section 6.4. Money Held in Trust. Money held by the Trustee in
trust hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent
required by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any
money received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed upon in writing with
the Company.
Section 6.5. Trustee's Disclaimer. The recitals contained
herein and in the Securities, except the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee
assumes no responsibility for their correctness. The Trustee makes no
representation as to the validity or adequacy of this Indenture or the
Securities or any coupon. The Trustee shall not be accountable for the Company's
use of the proceeds from the Securities or for monies paid over to the Company
pursuant to the Indenture.
Section 6.6. Notice of Defaults. If a Default occurs and is
continuing with respect to the Securities of any series and if it is actually
known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, the Trustee shall, within 90 days
after it occurs, transmit by mail to the Holders of Securities of such series,
in the manner and to the extent provided in Section 313(c) of the Trust
Indenture Act, notice of all Defaults known to it unless such Default shall have
been cured or waived; provided, however, that except in the case of a Default in
payment on the Securities of any series, the Trustee may withhold the notice if
and so long as the board of directors, the executive committee or a committee of
its Responsible Officers in good faith determines that withholding such notice
is in the interests of Holders of Securities of that series; and provided,
further, that in the case of any Default of the character specified in Section
5.1(3) with respect to Securities of such series, no such notice to Holder shall
be given until at least 30 days after the occurrence thereof.
Section 6.7. Reports by Trustee to Holders. Within 60 days
after each May 15 of each year commencing with the first May 15 after the first
issuance of Securities pursuant to this
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Indenture, the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities as
provided in Section 313(C) of the Trust Indenture Act a brief report dated as of
such May 15 if required by and in compliance with Section 313(A) of the Trust
Indenture Act. A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if
any, upon which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the
Company. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee when the Securities are
listed on, or delisted from, any stock exchange.
Section 6.8. Securityholder Lists. The Trustee shall preserve
in as current a form as is reasonably practicable the most recent list available
to it of the names and addresses of Holders of Securities of each series. If the
Trustee is not the Registrar, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee
semiannually on or before the last day of June and December in each year, and at
such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, a list, in such form and
as of such date as the Trustee may reasonably require containing all the
information in the possession or control of the Registrar, the Company or any of
its Paying Agents other than the Trustee as to the names and addresses of
Holders of Securities of each such series. If there are Bearer Securities of any
series Outstanding, even if the Trustee is the Registrar, the Company shall
furnish to the Trustee such a list containing such information with respect to
Holders of such Bearer Securities only.
Section 6.9. Compensation and Indemnity. (a) The Company shall
pay to the Trustee from time to time such reasonable compensation for its
services as the Company and the Trustee shall agree in writing from time to
time. The Trustee's compensation shall not be limited by any law on compensation
of a trustee of an express trust. The Company shall reimburse the Trustee upon
request for all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by it in connection
with the performance of its duties under this Indenture. Such expenses shall
include the reasonable compensation and expenses of the Trustee's agents and
counsel.
(b) The Company shall indemnify the Trustee or any
Predecessor Trustee and their agents for, and hold them harmless against, any
loss or liability damage, claim or reasonable expense including taxes (other
than taxes based upon or determined or measured by the income of the Trustee)
incurred by it arising out of or in connection with its acceptance or
administration of the trust or trusts hereunder, including the reasonable costs
and expenses of defending itself against any claim or liability in connection
with the exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder. The
Trustee shall notify the Company promptly of any claim for which it may seek
indemnity. The Company shall defend the claim and the Trustee shall cooperate in
the defense. The Company need not pay for any settlement made without its
consent.
(c) The Company need not reimburse any expense or
indemnify against any loss, liability, damage or claim incurred by the Trustee
through negligence or bad faith or willful misconduct.
(d) To secure the payment obligations of the Company
pursuant to this Section, the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the Securities
of any series on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee, except
that held in trust to pay principal, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on
particular Securities.
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When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(5) or Section
5.1(6), 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 termination
of this Indenture.
Section 6.10. Replacement of Trustee. (a) The resignation or
removal of the Trustee and the appointment of a successor Trustee shall become
effective only upon the successor Trustee's acceptance of appointment as
provided in Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by giving written notice thereof to the Company.
(c) The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of any series may remove the Trustee with respect to
that series by so notifying the Trustee and the Company and may appoint a
successor Trustee for such series with the Company's consent.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee fails to comply with Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act after written request therefor by the Company or
by any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security for at
least six months; or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.12
of this Indenture or Section 310(a) of the Trust Indenture Act and
shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any Holder of a Security who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months; or
(3) the Trustee becomes incapable of acting, is adjudged a
bankrupt or an insolvent or a receiver or public officer takes
charge of the Trustee or its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such case,
(i) the Company by or pursuant to a Board Resolution may remove the
Trustee with respect to all Securities, or (ii) subject to Section
315(e) of the Trust Indenture Act, any Holder who has been a bona
fide Holder of a Security for at least six months may, on behalf of
himself and all others similarly situated, petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the removal of the Trustee with respect
to all Securities and the appointment of a successor Trustee or
Trustees.
(e) If the instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee
required by Section 6.11 shall not have been delivered to the Trustee within 30
days after the giving of such notice of resignation or removal, the Trustee
resigning or being removed may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
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(f) If the Trustee resigns or is removed or if a vacancy
exists in the office of Trustee for any reason, with respect to Securities of
one or more series, the Company, by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, shall
promptly appoint a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or
those series (it being understood that any such successor Trustee may be
appointed with respect to the Securities of one or more or all of such series
and that at any time there shall be only one Trustee with respect to the
Securities of any particular series) and shall comply with the applicable
requirements of Section 6.11. If, within one year after such resignation,
removal or incapability, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a successor Trustee
with respect to the Securities of any series shall be appointed by Act of the
Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such
series delivered to the Company and the retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee
so appointed shall, forthwith upon its acceptance of such appointment in
accordance with the applicable requirements of Section 6.11, become the
successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series and to that
extent supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company. If no successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series shall have been so
appointed by the Company or the Holders and accepted appointment in the manner
required by Section 6.11, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security of such series for at least six months may, on behalf of himself and
all others similarly situated, petition any court of competent jurisdiction for
the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of such
series.
Section 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor. (a) In
case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with respect to all
Securities, every such successor Trustee shall execute, acknowledge and deliver
to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment. Thereupon, the resignation or removal of the retiring Trustee shall
become effective, and the successor Trustee, without further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties of the
retiring Trustee; but, on the request of the Company or the successor Trustee,
such retiring Trustee shall, upon payment of its charges, execute and deliver an
instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights, powers and
trusts of the retiring Trustee and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to
such successor Trustee all property and money held by such retiring Trustee
hereunder.
(b) In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and such successor Trustee shall execute and
deliver an indenture supplemental hereto wherein such successor Trustee shall
accept such appointment and which (i) shall contain such provisions as shall be
necessary or desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, such
successor Trustee all the rights, powers, trusts and duties of the retiring
Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series to which the
appointment of such successor Trustee relates, (ii) if the retiring Trustee is
not retiring with respect to all Securities, shall contain such provisions as
shall be deemed necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers,
trusts and duties of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that
or those series as to which the retiring Trustee is not retiring shall continue
to be vested in the retiring Trustee, and (iii) shall 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,
it being understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder administered by any other such Trustee and upon
the execution
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and delivery of such supplemental indenture the resignation or
removal of the retiring Trustee shall become effective to the extent provided
therein and each such successor Trustee, without any further act, deed or
conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the retiring Trustee with respect to the Securities of that or those series
to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates; but, on request of
the Company or any successor Trustee, such retiring Trustee shall duly assign,
transfer and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by
such retiring Trustee hereunder with respect to the Securities of that or those
series to which the appointment of such successor Trustee relates.
(c) Upon request of any such successor Trustee, the Company
shall execute any and all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in
and confirming to the successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts
referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section, as the case may be.
(d) No successor Trustee shall accept its appointment unless
at the time of such acceptance such successor Trustee shall be qualified and
eligible under the Trust Indenture Act.
(e) The Company shall give notice of each resignation
and each removal of the Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series and
each appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any
series in the manner provided for notices to the Holders of Securities in
Section 1.6. Each notice shall include the name of the successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of such series and the address of its Corporate Trust
Office.
Section 6.12. Eligibility; Disqualification. There shall at
all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be eligible to act as Trustee under
Section 310(a)(1) of the Trust Indenture Act and shall have a combined capital
and surplus of at least $75,000,000. If such corporation publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of Federal,
State, Territorial or District of Columbia supervising or examining 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 the Trustee
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it
shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect heretofore specified
in this Article.
Section 6.13. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession
to Business. 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 the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
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Section 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee
may appoint an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series
of Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon original issue, exchange,
registration of transfer or partial redemption thereof, and Securities so
authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture and shall be
valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the Trustee
hereunder. Any such appointment shall be evidenced by an instrument in writing
signed by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, a copy of which instrument shall
be promptly furnished to the Company. Wherever reference is made in this
Indenture to the authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the
Trustee's certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to
include authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of
the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be
acceptable to the Company and, except as may otherwise be provided pursuant to
Section 3.1, shall at all times be a bank or trust company or corporation
organized and doing business and in good standing under the laws of the United
States of America or of any State or the District of Columbia, authorized under
such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and surplus
of not less than $25,000,000 and subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or State authorities. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or the requirements of the
aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this
Section, the combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be
deemed to be its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent
report of condition so published. In case at any time an Authenticating Agent
shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section,
such Authenticating Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the
effect specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be
merged or converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation
resulting from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such
Authenticating Agent shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the
corporate agency or corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall
continue to be an Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be
otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing of any
paper or further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent for any series of Securities may at
any time resign by giving written notice of resignation to the Trustee for such
series and to the Company. The Trustee for any series of Securities may at any
time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of
termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee for such series may appoint a successor
Authenticating Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give
notice of such appointment to all Holders of Securities of the series with
respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve in the manner set forth in
Section 1.6. Any successor Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its
appointment hereunder shall become vested with all the rights, powers and duties
of its predecessor hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as an
Authenticating Agent herein. No successor Authenticating Agent shall be
appointed unless eligible under the provisions of this Section.
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The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation including reimbursement of its reasonable
expenses for its services under this Section.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to or in lieu of the Trustee's certificate of
authentication, an alternate certificate of authentication substantially in the
following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series described in the
within-mentioned Indenture.
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as Trustee
by
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as Authenticating Agent
by
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Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE 7
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER OR SALE BY THE COMPANY
Section 7.1. Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets
Permitted. The Company shall not consolidate or merge with or into, or transfer
or lease all or substantially all of its assets to, any Person unless:
(1) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation
or any merger (if other than the Company), or to which such transfer or lease
shall have been made, is a corporation organized and existing under the laws of
the United States, any State thereof or the District of Columbia;
(2) the Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation
or merger (if other than the Company), or to which such transfer or lease shall
have been made, assumes by supplemental indenture all the obligations of the
Company under the Securities and this Indenture;
(3) immediately after giving effect to the transaction no
Default or Event of Default exists; and
(4) if, as a result of any such consolidation or merger or
such conveyance, transfer or lease, properties or assets of the Company would
become subject to a mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or other
encumbrance which would not be permitted by the
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Securities of any series, the Company or such successor Person, as the case may
be, shall take such steps as shall be necessary effectively to secure such
Securities equally and ratably with all indebtedness secured thereby.
The Company shall deliver to the Trustee prior to the proposed
transaction an Officers' Certificate to the foregoing effect and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that the proposed transaction and such supplemental indenture
comply with this Indenture and that all conditions precedent to the consummation
of the transaction under this Indenture have been met.
In the event of the assumption by a successor corporation as
provided in clause (2) above, such successor corporation shall succeed to and be
substituted for the Company hereunder and under the Securities with the same
effect as if it had been named hereunder and thereunder and any coupons
appertaining thereto and all such obligations of the Company shall terminate.
ARTICLE 8
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 8.1. Supplemental Indentures Without Consent of
Holders. Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution, the Guarantors and the Trustee at any time and
from time to time, may enter into indentures supplemental hereto, in form
reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the
Company and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants and
obligations of the Company herein and in the Securities; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantors
for the benefit of the Holders of all or any series of Securities (and if such
covenants are to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities,
stating that such covenants are expressly being included solely for the benefit
of such series) or to surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the
Company or the Guarantors; provided, however, that in respect of any such
additional covenant 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 limit the remedies available to
the Trustee upon such Default; or
(3) to add any additional Events of Default with respect to
all or any series of Securities (and if such Events of Default are to be for the
benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that such Events of
Default are expressly included solely for the benefit of such series); or
(4) to add to or change any of the provisions of this
Indenture to such extent as shall be necessary to facilitate the issuance of
Bearer Securities (including, without limitation, to provide that Bearer
Securities may be registrable as to principal only) or to facilitate the
issuance of Securities in global form; or
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(5) to add to, change or eliminate any of the provisions of
this Indenture, provided that any such addition, change or elimination shall
become effective only when there is no Security Outstanding of any series
created prior to the execution of such supplemental indenture which is entitled
to the benefit of such provision; or
(6) to secure the Securities; or
(7) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
as permitted by Sections 2.1 and 3.1; or
(8) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment
hereunder by a successor Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more
series 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
6.11; or
(9) if allowed without penalty under applicable laws and
regulations, to permit payment in the United States (including any of the States
and the District of Columbia), its territories, its possessions and other areas
subject to its jurisdiction of principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any,
on Bearer Securities or coupons, if any; or
(10) to correct or supplement any provision herein which
may be inconsistent with any other provision herein or to make any other
provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Indenture,
provided such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series; or
(11) to cure an ambiguity or correct any mistake, provided
such action shall not adversely affect the interests of the Holders of
Securities of any series; or
(12) to add a Guarantor pursuant to Section 9.8 or remove a
Guarantor in respect of any series which, in accordance with the terms of this
Indenture applicable to the particular series, ceases to be liable in respect of
its Guarantee.
Section 8.2. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the written consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series adversely affected by such
supplemental indenture, the Company, when authorized by or pursuant to a Board
Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or indentures
supplemental hereto to add any provisions to or to change or eliminate any
provisions of this Indenture or of any other indenture supplemental hereto or to
modify the rights of the Holders of such Securities; provided, however, that
without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
a supplemental indenture under this Section may not:
(1) change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or
premium, if any, on, or any installment of principal of or premium, if
any, or interest, if any, on, any Security, or reduce the principal
amount thereof or the rate of interest thereon or any premium payable
upon the redemption, repurchase or repayment thereof, or change the
manner in which the amount of any principal thereof or premium, if any,
or interest, if any, thereon is determined or reduce the amount of the
principal of any Original Issue Discount
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Security or Indexed Security that would be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section
5.2, or change the Place of Payment where or the currency in which any
Security or any premium or the interest thereon is payable, or impair
the right to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment on
or after the Stated Maturity thereof (or, in the case of redemption, on
or after the Redemption Date);
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series affected thereby, the consent of
whose Holders is required for any such supplemental indenture, or the
consent of whose Holders is required for any waiver (of compliance with
certain provisions of this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and
their consequences) provided for in this Indenture;
(3) waive a default in the payment of principal of, premium,
if any, or interest, if any, on, any Security of such Series;
(4) change any obligation of the Company to maintain an office
or agency in the places and for the purposes specified in Section 9.2;
or
(5) make any change in Section 5.7 or this 8.2(a) except to
increase any percentage or to provide that certain other provisions of
this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the consent of the
Holders of each Outstanding Security of such series affected thereby.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture, which has expressly been included
solely for the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which
modifies the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to
such covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under
this Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It is not necessary under this Section 8.2 for the Holders to
consent to the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture, but it is
sufficient if they consent to the substance thereof.
Upon the request of the Company, accompanied by an Officers'
Certificate and a Board Resolution authorizing the execution of any such
supplemental indenture, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the
consent of Holders 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, but shall not be obligated to, enter
into such supplemental indenture.
Section 8.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act. Every
amendment to this Indenture or the Securities of one or more series shall be set
forth in a supplemental indenture that complies with the Trust Indenture Act as
then in effect.
Section 8.4. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing, or accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the
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modification thereby of the trusts created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall
be entitled to receive, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion
of Counsel stating that the execution of such supplemental indenture is
authorized or permitted by this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which affects the
Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Section 8.5. Effect of Supplemental Indentures. Upon the
execution of any supplemental indenture under this article, this Indenture shall
be modified in accordance therewith and such supplemental indenture shall form a
part of this Indenture for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities
theretofore or thereafter authenticated and delivered hereunder and of any
coupon appertaining thereto shall be bound thereby.
Section 8.6. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures. Securities, including any coupons, of any series authenticated and
delivered after the execution of any supplemental indenture pursuant to this
Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee, bear a notation in form
approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in such supplemental
indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities including any
coupons of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee
and the Company, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed
by the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities including any coupons of such series.
ARTICLE 9
COVENANTS
Section 9.1. Payment of Principal, Premium, if any, and
Interest, if any. The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the
Holders of each series of Outstanding Securities that it will duly and
punctually pay the principal of, premium, if any, and interest, if any, on the
Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of the Securities of such
series, any coupons appertaining thereto and this Indenture. An installment of
principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, shall be considered paid on the
date it is due if the Trustee or Paying Agent holds on that date money
designated for and sufficient to pay the installment.
Section 9.2. Maintenance of Office or Agency. If Securities of
a series are issued as Registered Securities, the Company will maintain in each
Place of Payment for any series of Securities an office or agency where
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment, where
Securities of that series may be surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities of that series and this Indenture may be served. If Securities of a
series are issuable as Bearer Securities, the Company will maintain, (i) subject
to any laws or regulations applicable thereto, an office or agency in a Place of
Payment for that series which is located outside the United States where
Securities of that series and related coupons may be presented and surrendered
for payment; provided, however, that if the Securities of that series are listed
on The International Stock Exchange of the United Kingdom and the Republic of
Ireland Limited, the Luxembourg Stock Exchange or any other stock exchange
located outside the United States and such stock
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exchange shall so require, the Company will maintain a Paying Agent for the
Securities of that series in London, Luxembourg or any other required city
located outside the United States, as the case may be, so long as the Securities
of that series are listed on such exchange, and (ii) subject to any laws or
regulations applicable thereto, an office or agency in a Place of Payment for
that series which is located outside the United States, where Securities of that
series may be surrendered for exchange and where notices and demands to or upon
the Company in respect of the Securities of that series and this Indenture may
be served. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of any such office or agency. If at
any time the Company shall fail to maintain any such required office or agency
or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such
presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made or served at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the Company hereby appoints the
Trustee as its agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders, notices and
demands.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, no
payment of principal, premium or interest on Bearer Securities shall be made at
any office or agency of the Company in the United States, by check mailed to any
address in United States, by transfer to an account located in the United States
or upon presentation or surrender in the United States of a Bearer Security or
coupon for payment, even if the payment would be credited to an account located
outside the United States; provided, however, that, if the Securities of a
series are denominated and payable in Dollars, payment of principal of and any
premium or interest on any such Bearer Security shall be made at the office of
the Company's Paying Agent located within the United States, if (but only if)
payment in Dollars of the full amount of such principal, premium or interest, as
the case may be, at all offices or agencies outside the United States maintained
for the purpose by the Company in accordance with this Indenture is illegal or
effectively precluded by exchange controls or other similar restrictions. The
Company may also from time to time designate one or more other offices or
agencies where the Securities (including coupons, if any) of one or more series
may be presented or surrendered for any or all such purposes and may from time
to time rescind such designations; provided, however, that no such designation
or rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to
maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment for Securities (including
coupons, if any) of any series for such purposes. The Company will give prompt
written notice to the Trustee of any such designation or rescission and of any
change in the location of any such other office or agency.
Unless otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, the
Trustee shall initially serve as Paying Agent.
Section 9.3. Money for Securities Payments to be Held in
Trust; Unclaimed Money. If the Company or any Guarantor shall at any time act as
its own Paying Agent with respect to any series of Securities, it will, on or
before each due date of the principal of, premium, if any, or interest, if any,
on any of the Securities of that series, segregate and hold in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum sufficient to pay the principal,
premium, if any, or interest so becoming due until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided and will promptly
notify the Trustee in writing of its action or failure so to act.
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The Company will cause each Paying Agent for any series of
Securities other than the Trustee to execute and deliver to the Trustee an
instrument in which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to
the provisions of this Section, that such Paying Agent will:
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of the principal
of, premium, if any, or interest, if any, on Securities of that series
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such
sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein
provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company or
any Guarantor (or any other obligor upon the Securities of that series)
in the making of any payment of principal, premium, if any, or
interest, if any, on the Securities; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default,
upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee
all sums so held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge or defeasance of this Indenture or for any other
purpose, pay, or by Company Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee
all sums held in trust by the Company or such Paying Agent, such sums to be held
by the Trustee upon the same terms as those upon which such sums were held by
the Company or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by any Paying Agent to
the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or
then held by the Company, in trust for the payment of any principal, premium or
interest on any Security of any series and remaining unclaimed for two years
after such principal, premium, if any, or interest, if any, has become due and
payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request or (if then held by the
Company) shall be discharged from such trust, unless otherwise required by
certain provisions of applicable law; and the Holder of such Security and
coupon, if any, shall thereafter, as an unsecured general creditor, look only to
the Company for payment thereof, and all liability of the Trustee or such Paying
Agent with respect to such trust money, and all liability of the Company as
trustee thereof, shall thereupon cease; provided, however, that the Trustee or
such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such repayment, may at the
expense of the Company cause to be published once, in a newspaper published in
the English language, customarily published on each Business Day and of general
circulation in The City of New York, or cause to be mailed to such Holder,
notice that such money remains unclaimed and that, after a date specified
therein, which shall not be less than 30 days from the date of such publication,
any unclaimed balance of such money then remaining will be repaid to the
Company.
Section 9.4. Corporate Existence. Subject to Article 7, the
Company will at all times do or cause to be done all things necessary to
preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence and its
rights and franchises; provided that nothing in this Section 9.4 shall prevent
the abandonment or termination of any right or franchise of the Company if, in
the opinion of the Company, such abandonment or termination is in the best
interests of the
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Company and does not materially adversely affect the ability of the Company to
fulfill its obligations hereunder.
Section 9.5. Reports by the Company. The Company covenants:
(a) to file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company
is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the annual
reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or copies
of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company may
be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; or,
if the Company is not required to file information, documents or
reports pursuant to either of such sections, then to file with the
Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and regulations
prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the
supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may
be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, in respect of a security listed and registered on a
national securities exchange as may be prescribed from time to time in
such rules and regulations;
(b) to file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance
with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants
provided for in this Indenture, as may be required from time to time by
such rules and regulations; and
(c) to transmit to all Holders of Securities, within 30 days
after the filing thereof with the Trustee, in the manner and to the
extent provided in section 313(c) of the Trust Indenture Act, such
summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be
filed by the Company pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this
Section 9.5, as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission.
Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is for
informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including information
concerning the Company's compliance with any of its covenants hereunder,
provided that the foregoing shall not relieve the Trustee of any of its
responsibilities hereunder.
Section 9.6. Annual Review Certificate; Notice of Defaults or
Events of Default. (a) The Company covenants and agrees to deliver to the
Trustee, within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company
(beginning with respect to Securities of any series with the fiscal year next
following the issue date of such series of Securities), a certificate from the
principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal accounting
officer as to his or her knowledge of the Company's compliance with all
conditions and covenants under this Indenture. For purposes of this Section 9.6,
such compliance shall be determined without regard to any period of grace or
requirement of notice provided under this Indenture.
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(b) The Company covenants and agrees to deliver to the
Trustee, within a reasonable time after the Company becomes aware of the
occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default of the character specified in
Section 5.1(4) hereof, written notice of the occurrence of such Default or Event
of Default.
Section 9.7. Books of Record and Account. The Company will
keep proper books of record and account, either on a consolidated or individual
basis. The Company shall cause its books of record and account to be examined
either on a consolidated or individual basis, by one or more firms of
independent public accountants not less frequently than annually. The Company
shall prepare its financial statements in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles.
ARTICLE 10
REDEMPTION
Section 10.1. Applicability of Article. Securities (including
coupons, if any) of any series which are redeemable before their Stated
Maturity, whether at the option of the Holder thereof or the Company, shall be
redeemable in accordance with their terms and (except as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.1 for Securities of any series) in accordance with
this Article.
Section 10.2. Election to Redeem Notice to Trustee. The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities, including coupons, if any,
shall be evidenced by or pursuant to a Board Resolution. In the case of any
redemption at the election of the Company of less than all the Securities or
coupons, if any, of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and
Redemption Price, of the principal amount of Securities of such series to be
redeemed and, if applicable, of the tenor of the Securities to be redeemed. In
the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the expiration of any
restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such Securities or
elsewhere in this Indenture or (ii) pursuant to an election of the Company which
is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such Securities, the Company
shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate evidencing compliance
with such restriction or condition.
Section 10.3. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. Unless
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, if less than all the
Securities (including coupons, if any) of a series with the same terms are to be
redeemed, the Trustee, not more than 45 days prior to the Redemption Date, shall
select the Securities of the series to be redeemed in such manner as the Trustee
shall deem fair and appropriate and which may provide for the selection for
redemption of a portion of the principal amount of any Security of such series,
provided that the unredeemed portion of the principal amount of any Security
shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than the minimum
authorized denomination) for such Security. The Trustee shall make the selection
from Securities of the series that are Outstanding and that have not previously
been called for redemption and may provide for the selection for redemption of
portions (equal to the minimum authorized denomination for Securities, including
coupons, if
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any, of that series or any integral multiple thereof) of the principal amount of
Securities, including coupons, if any, of such series of a denomination larger
than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of that series. The
Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the Securities selected
by the Trustee for redemption and, in the case of any Securities selected for
partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed. If the Company
shall so direct, Securities registered in the name of the Company, any Affiliate
of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company thereof shall not be included in
the Securities selected for redemption.
For purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities (including
coupons, if any) shall relate, in the case of any Securities (including coupons,
if any) redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the portion of the principal
amount of such Securities (including coupons, if any) which has been or is to be
redeemed.
Section 10.4. Notice of Redemption. Unless otherwise specified
as contemplated by Section 3.1, notice of redemption shall be given in the
manner provided in Section 1.6 not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days prior
to the Redemption Date to the Holders of the Securities to be redeemed.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all the Outstanding Securities of a series
are to be redeemed, the identification (and in the case of partial redemption,
the principal amounts) of the particular Security or Securities to be redeemed;
(4) in case any Security is to be redeemed in part only, the
notice which relates to such Security shall state that on and after the
Redemption Date, upon surrender of such Security, the Holder will receive,
without a charge, a new Security or Securities of authorized denominations for
the principal amount thereof remaining unredeemed;
(5) the Place or Places of Payment where such Securities,
together in the case of Bearer Securities with all coupons appertaining thereto,
if any, maturing after the Redemption Date, are to be surrendered for payment
for the Redemption Price;
(6) that Securities of the series called for redemption and
all unmatured coupons, if any, appertaining thereto must be surrendered to the
Paying Agent to collect the Redemption Price;
(7) that, on the Redemption Date, the Redemption Price will
become due and payable upon each such Security, or the portion thereof, to be
redeemed and, if applicable, that interest thereon will cease to accrue on and
after said date;
(8) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case;
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(9) that unless otherwise specified in such notice, Bearer
Securities of any series, if any, surrendered for redemption must be accompanied
by all coupons maturing subsequent to the Redemption Date or the amount of any
such missing coupon or coupons will be deducted from the Redemption Price,
unless security or indemnity satisfactory to the Company, the Trustee and any
Paying Agent is furnished; and
(10) the CUSIP number, if any, of the Securities.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed shall be
given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the Trustee in the name
and at the expense of the Company.
Section 10.5. Deposit of Redemption Price. On or prior to any
Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a Paying
Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate and hold
in trust as provided in Section 9.3) an amount of money in the currency or
currencies (including currency unit or units) in which the Securities of such
series are payable (except as otherwise specified pursuant to Section 3.1 for
the Securities of such series) sufficient to pay on the Redemption Date the
Redemption Price of, and (unless the Redemption Date shall be an Interest
Payment Date) interest accrued to the Redemption Date on, all Securities or
portions thereof which are to be redeemed on that date.
Unless any Security by its terms prohibits any sinking fund
payment obligation from being satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities
(including Securities redeemed otherwise than through a sinking fund), the
Company may deliver such Securities to the Trustee for crediting against such
payment obligation in accordance with the terms of such Securities and this
Indenture or as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1.
Section 10.6. Securities Payable on Redemption Date. Notice of
redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified, and from and after such date (unless the Company shall
default in the payment of the Redemption Price and accrued interest) such
Securities shall cease to bear interest and the coupons for any such interest
appertaining to any Bearer Security so to be redeemed, except to the extent
provided below, shall be void. Except as provided in the next succeeding
paragraph, upon surrender of any such Security, including coupons, if any, for
redemption in accordance with said notice, such Security shall be paid by the
Company at the Redemption Price, together with accrued interest to the
Redemption Date; provided, however, that installments of interest on Bearer
Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable only at an office or agency located outside the United States and its
possessions (except as otherwise provided in Section 9.2) and, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, only upon presentation and surrender
of coupons for such interest; and provided, further that, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.1, installments of interest on Registered
Securities whose Stated Maturity is on or prior to the Redemption Date shall be
payable to the Holders of such Securities, or one or more Predecessor
Securities, registered as such at the close of business on the relevant Record
Dates according to their terms and the provisions of Section 3.7.
If any Bearer Security surrendered for redemption shall not be
accompanied by all appurtenant coupons maturing after the Redemption Date, such
Bearer Security may be paid after
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deducting from the Redemption Price an amount equal to the face amount of all
such missing coupons, or the surrender of such missing coupon or coupons may be
waived by the Company and the Trustee if there be furnished to them such
security or indemnity as they may require to save each of them and any Paying
Agent harmless. If thereafter the Holder of such Bearer Security shall surrender
to the Trustee or any Paying Agent any such missing coupon in respect of which a
deduction shall have been made from the Redemption Price, such Holder shall be
entitled to receive the amount so deducted; provided, however, that interest
represented by coupons shall be payable only at an office or agency located
outside of the United States (except as otherwise provided pursuant to Section
9.2) and, unless otherwise provided as contemplated by Section 3.1, only upon
presentation and surrender of those coupons.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal (and premium, if any)
shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the rate prescribed
therefor in the Security.
Section 10.7. Securities Redeemed in Part. Upon surrender of a
Security that is redeemed in part at any Place of Payment therefor (with, if the
Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed
by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing), the Company
and the Guarantors shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver
to the Holder of that Security, without service charge a new Security or
Securities of the same series, having the same form, terms and Stated Maturity,
in any authorized denomination equal in aggregate principal amount to the
unredeemed portion of the principal amount of the Security surrendered.
ARTICLE 11
SINKING FUNDS
Section 11.1. Applicability of Article. The provisions of this
Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of Securities
of a series except as otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.1 for
Securities of such series.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment", and any payment in excess of such minimum amount provided
for by the terms of Securities of any series is herein referred to as an
"optional sinking fund payment". If provided for by the terms of Securities of
any series, the cash amount of any sinking fund payment may be subject to
reduction as provided in Section 11.2. Each sinking fund payment shall be
applied to the redemption of Securities of any series as provided for by the
terms of the Securities of such series.
Section 11.2. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities. The Company (i) may deliver Outstanding Securities of a series
(other than any previously called for redemption) together, in the case of
Bearer Securities of such series, with all unmatured coupons appertaining
thereto and (ii) may apply as a credit Securities of a series which have been
redeemed either at the election of the Company pursuant to the terms of such
Securities or
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through the application of permitted optional sinking fund payments pursuant to
the terms of such Securities, or (iii) may apply Securities of a series
previously cancelled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation pursuant to
Section 3.9 in each case in satisfaction of all or any part of any sinking fund
payment with respect to the Securities of such series required to be made
pursuant to the terms of such Securities as provided for by the terms of such
series; provided that such Securities have not been previously so credited. Such
Securities shall be received and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the
Redemption Price specified in such Securities for redemption through operation
of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund payment shall be reduced
accordingly.
Section 11.3. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not
less than 60 days prior to each sinking fund payment date for any series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate
specifying the amount of the next ensuing sinking fund payment for that series
pursuant to the terms of that series, the portion thereof, if any, which is to
be satisfied by payment of cash and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be
satisfied by delivering and crediting Securities of that series pursuant to
Section 11.2 and will also deliver to the Trustee any Securities to be so
delivered. Not less than 30 days before each such sinking fund payment date the
Trustee shall select the Securities to be redeemed upon such sinking fund
payment date in the manner specified in Section 10.3 and cause notice of the
redemption thereof to be given in the name of and at the expense of the Company
in the manner provided in Section 10.4. Such notice having been duly given, the
redemption of such Securities shall be made upon the terms and in the manner
stated in Sections 10.6 and 10.7.
ARTICLE 12
GUARANTEES
Section 12.1. Guarantees. (a) Subject to the provisions of
this Article 12, each Guarantor, jointly and severally, hereby irrevocably and
unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of Securities and to the Trustee on
behalf of the Holders (i) the due and punctual payment of principal of, premium,
if any, and interest in full on each Security when and as the same shall become
due and payable whether at Stated Maturity, by declaration of acceleration or
otherwise, (ii) the due and punctual payment of interest on the overdue
principal of, premium, if any, and interest in full on the Securities, to the
extent permitted by law, and (iii) the due and punctual performance of all other
Obligations of the Company and the other Guarantors to the Holders or the
Trustee, including without limitation the payment of fees, expenses,
indemnification or other amounts, all in accordance with the terms of the
Securities and this Indenture. In case of the failure of the Company punctually
to make any such principal or interest payment or the failure of the Company or
any other Guarantor to perform any such other Obligation, each Guarantor hereby
agrees to cause any such payment to be made punctually when and as the same
shall become due and payable, whether at Stated Maturity, by declaration of
acceleration or otherwise, and as if such payment were made by the Company and
to perform any such other Obligation of the Company immediately. Each Guarantor
hereby further agrees to pay any and all expenses (including reasonable counsel
fees and expenses) incurred by the Trustee or the Holders in enforcing any
rights under these Guarantees. The Guarantees under this Article 12 are
guarantees of payment and not of collection.
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(b) Each of the Company and the Guarantors hereby waives
diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a court in the
event of merger, insolvency or bankruptcy of the Company or any other Guarantor,
any right to require a proceeding first against the Company or any other
Guarantor, protest or notice with respect to the Securities or the indebtedness
evidenced thereby and all demands whatsoever, and covenants that these
Guarantees will not be discharged except by complete performance of the
Obligations contained in the Securities and in this Indenture, or as otherwise
specifically provided therein and herein.
(c) Each Guarantor hereby waives and relinquishes:
(i) any right to require the Trustee, the Holders or the Company
(each, a "Benefited Party") to proceed against the Company,
the Subsidiaries of the Company or any other Person or to
proceed against or exhaust any security held by a Benefited
Party at any time or to pursue any other remedy in any secured
party's power before proceeding against the Guarantors;
(ii) any defense that may arise by reason of the incapacity, lack
of authority, death or disability of any other Person or
Persons or the failure of a Benefited Party to file or enforce
a claim against the estate (in administration, bankruptcy or
any other proceeding) of any other Person or Persons;
(iii) demand, protest and notice of any kind (except as expressly
required by this Indenture), including but not limited to
notice of the existence, creation or incurring of any new or
additional indebtedness or obligation or of any action or
non-action on the part of the Guarantors, the Company, the
Subsidiaries of the Company, any Benefited Party, any creditor
of the Guarantors, the Company or the Subsidiaries of the
Company or on the part of any other Person whomsoever in
connection with any obligations the performance of which are
hereby guaranteed;
(iv) any defense based upon an election of remedies by a Benefited
Party, including but not limited to an election to proceed
against the Guarantors for reimbursement;
(v) any defense based upon any statute or rule of law which
provides that the obligation of a surety must be neither
larger in amount nor in other respects more burdensome than
that of the principal;
(vi) any defense arising because of a Benefited Party's election,
in any proceeding instituted under the Bankruptcy Law, of the
application of Section 1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Law; and
(vii) any defense based on any borrowing or grant of a security
interest under Section 364 of the
Bankruptcy Law.
(d) Each Guarantor further agrees that, as between such
Guarantor, on the one hand, and Holders and the Trustee, on the other hand, (i)
for purposes of the relevant Guarantee, the maturity of the Obligations
Guaranteed by such Guarantee may be accelerated as provided in
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Article 5, notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing
such acceleration in respect of the Obligations guaranteed thereby, and (ii) in
the event of any acceleration of such Obligations (whether or not due and
payable) such Obligations shall forthwith become due and payable by such
Guarantor for purposes of such Guarantee.
(e) The Guarantees shall continue to be effective or shall be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment, or any part thereof,
of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities is
rescinded or must otherwise be returned by the Holders or the Trustee upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of the Company or any of the
Guarantors, all as though such payment had not been made.
(f) Each Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the
Holders against the Company in respect of any amounts paid by such Guarantor
pursuant to the provisions of the Guarantees or this Indenture; provided,
however, that a Guarantor shall not be entitled to enforce or to receive any
payments until the principal of, premium, if any, and interest on all Securities
issued hereunder shall have been paid in full.
Section 12.2 Obligations of Guarantors Unconditional. Each
Guarantor hereby agrees that its Obligations hereunder shall be Guarantees of
payment and shall be unconditional, irrespective of and unaffected by the
validity, regularity or enforceability of the Securities or this Indenture, or
of any amendment thereto or hereto, the absence of any action to enforce the
same, the waiver or consent by any Holder or by the Trustee with respect to any
provisions thereof or of this Indenture, the entry of any judgment against the
Company or any other Guarantor or any action to enforce the same or any other
circumstance which might otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge or
defense of a guarantor.
Section 12.3. Limitation on Guarantors' Liability. Each
Guarantor, and by its acceptance hereof each Holder, hereby confirms that it is
the intention of all such parties that the Guarantee by such Guarantor pursuant
to its Guarantee not constitute a fraudulent transfer or conveyance for purposes
of the Bankruptcy Law, the Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act, the Uniform
Fraudulent Transfer Act or any similar federal or state law. To effectuate the
foregoing intention, the Holders and such Guarantor hereby irrevocable agree
that the Obligations of such Guarantor under this Article 12 shall be limited to
the maximum amount as will, after giving effect to all other contingent and
fixed liabilities of such Guarantor and after giving effect to any collections
from or payments made by or on behalf of any other Guarantor in respect of the
Obligations of such other Guarantor under this Article 12, result in the
Obligations of such Guarantor under its Guarantee not constituting a fraudulent
transfer or conveyance under applicable federal or state law.
Section 12.4. Releases of Guarantees. (a) If the Securities
are defeased in accordance with the terms of Article 4 of this
Indenture, then each Guarantor shall be deemed to have been released
from and discharged of its obligations under its Guarantee as provided
in Article 4 hereof, subject to the conditions stated therein.
(b) In the event an entity that is a Guarantor ceases to be a
guarantor under the Senior Credit Agreement, as amended (or any other
credit agreement renewing, refunding, replacing, restating, refinancing
or extending the Senior Credit Agreement),
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such entity shall also cease to be a Guarantor, whether or not a
Default or an Event of Default is then outstanding.
(c) Any Guarantor not released from its obligations under its
Guarantee shall remain liable for the full amount of principal of,
premium, if any, and interest on the Securities and for the other
obligations of the Company, such Guarantor and any other Guarantor
under this Indenture as provided in this Article 12.
Section 12.5. Application of Certain Terms and Provisions to
Guarantors. (a) For purposes of any provision of this Indenture which
provides for the delivery by any Guarantor of an Officers' Certificate
or an Opinion of Counsel or both, the definitions of such terms in
Section 1.1 shall apply to such Guarantor as if references therein to
the Company were references to such Guarantor.
(b) Any request, direction, order or demand which by any
provision of this Indenture is to be made by any Guarantor shall be
sufficient if evidenced by a Company Order; provided that the
definition of such term in Section 1.1 hereof shall apply to such
Guarantor as if references therein to the Company were references to
such Guarantor.
(c) 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 Holders of Securities to or on any Guarantor may be given or
served as described in Section 1.5 hereof.
(d) Upon any demand, request or application by any Guarantor
to the Trustee to take any action under this Indenture, such Guarantor
shall furnish to the Trustee such certificates and opinions as are
required in Section 6.2 hereof as if all references therein to the
Company were references to such Guarantor.
Section 12.6. Additional Guarantors. The Company shall cause
each subsidiary of the Company that becomes a guarantor under the Senior Credit
Agreement, as amended (or any other credit agreement renewing, refunding,
replacing, restating, refinancing or extending the Senior Credit Agreement),
after the Date of the Indenture , to execute and deliver to the Trustee,
promptly upon any such formation or acquisition (a) a supplemental indenture in
form and substance satisfactory to the Trustee which subjects such subsidiary to
the provisions of this Indenture as a Guarantor, and (b) an Opinion of Counsel
to the effect that such supplemental indenture has been duly authorized and
executed by such subsidiary and constitutes the legal, valid, binding and
enforceable obligation of such subsidiary (subject to such customary exceptions
concerning fraudulent conveyance laws, creditors' rights and equitable
principles as may be acceptable to the Trustee in its discretion).
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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 instrument.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed and attested, all as of the day and year first above written.
FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION
by:
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Name:
Title:
FEDERAL-MOGUL DUTCH HOLDINGS INC.
by:
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Name:
Title:
FEDERAL-MOGUL GLOBAL INC.
by:
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Name:
Title:
FEDERAL-MOGUL U.K. HOLDINGS INC.
by:
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Name:
Title:
CARTER AUTOMOTIVE COMPANY, INC.
by:
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Name:
Title:
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FEDERAL MOGUL VENTURE CORPORATION
by:
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Name:
Title:
FEDERAL-MOGUL WORLD WIDE, INC.
by:
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Name:
Title:
FEDERAL-MOGUL GLOBAL PROPERTIES, INC.
by:
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Name:
Title:
FELT PRODUCTS MFG. CO.
by:
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Name:
Title:
FEL-PRO MANAGEMENT CO.
by:
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Name:
Title:
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FEL-PRO CHEMICAL PRODUCTS L.P.
by: FEL-PRO MANAGEMENT CO.
by:
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Name:
Title:
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THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee
by:
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Name:
Title: