EXHIBIT 4.8
EXECUTION COPY
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BANCORPSOUTH, INC.
to
THE BANK OF NEW YORK
Trustee
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Dated as of January 28, 2002
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BANCORPSOUTH, INC.
Reconciliation and tie between the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
(including cross-references to provisions of Sections 310 to and including 317
which, pursuant to Section 318(c) of the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended
by the Trust Reform Act of 1990, are a part of and govern the Indenture whether
or not physically contained therein) and the Junior Subordinated Indenture,
dated as of January 28, 2002.
Indenture
Trust Indenture Act Section Section
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ss.310(a)(1), (2) and (5).................................................... 6.09
ss.310(a)(3)................................................................. Not Applicable
ss.310(a)(4)................................................................. Not Applicable
ss.310(b).................................................................... 6.08, 6.10
ss.310(c).................................................................... Not Applicable
ss.311(a).................................................................... 6.13
ss.311(b).................................................................... 6.13
ss.312(a).................................................................... 7.01, 7.02(a)
ss.312(b).................................................................... 7.02(b)
ss.312(c).................................................................... 7.02(c)
ss.313(a).................................................................... 7.03(a)
ss.313(b).................................................................... 7.03(b)
ss.313(c).................................................................... 7.03(a), 7.03(b)
ss.313(d).................................................................... 7.03(c)
ss.314(a)(1), (2) and (3).................................................... 7.04
ss.314(a)(4)................................................................. 10.04
ss.314(b).................................................................... Not Applicable
ss.314(c)(1)................................................................. 1.02
ss.314(c)(2)................................................................. 1.02
ss.314(c)(3)................................................................. Not Applicable
ss.314(d).................................................................... Not Applicable
ss.314(e).................................................................... 1.02
ss.314(f).................................................................... Not Applicable
ss.315(a).................................................................... 6.01(a)
ss.315(b).................................................................... 6.02, 7.03(a)
ss.315(c).................................................................... 6.01(b)
ss.315(d).................................................................... 6.01(c)
ss.315(d)(1)................................................................. 6.01(c)(1)
ss.315(d)(2)................................................................. 6.01(c)(2)
ss.315(d)(3)................................................................. 6.01(c)(3)
ss.315(e).................................................................... 5.14
ss.316(a).................................................................... 1.01
ss.316(a)(1)(A).............................................................. 5.12
ss.316(a)(1)(B).............................................................. 5.13
ss.316(a)(2)................................................................. Not Applicable
ss.316(b).................................................................... 5.08
ss.316(c).................................................................... 1.04(f)
ss.317(a)(1)................................................................. 5.03
ss.317(a)(2)................................................................. 5.04
ss.317(b).................................................................... 10.03
ss.318(a).................................................................... 1.07
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Note: This reconciliation and tie shall not, for any purpose, be deemed to be
a part of the Junior Subordinated Indenture.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions
of General Application
SECTION 1.01. Definitions.............................................................................. 1
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions .....................................................13
SECTION 1.03. Forms of Documents Delivered to Trustee .................................................13
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders..........................................................................14
SECTION 1.05. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company.....................................................15
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver................................................................16
SECTION 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act........................................................16
SECTION 1.08. Effect of Headings and Table of Contents.................................................16
SECTION 1.09. Successors and Assigns...................................................................17
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause......................................................................17
SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indenture....................................................................17
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law............................................................................17
SECTION 1.13. Non-Business Days........................................................................17
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally..........................................................................17
SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security.................................................................18
SECTION 2.04. Additional Provisions Required in Global Security........................................28
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication..........................................29
ARTICLE III
The Securities
SECTION 3.01. Title and Terms..........................................................................29
SECTION 3.02. Denominations............................................................................32
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating...........................................32
SECTION 3.04. Temporary Securities.....................................................................34
SECTION 3.05. Global Securities........................................................................35
SECTION 3.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally; Certain Transfers and Exchanges...........36
SECTION 3.07. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen Securities.........................................39
SECTION 3.08. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved...........................................40
SECTION 3.09. Persons Deemed Owners....................................................................42
SECTION 3.10. Cancellation.............................................................................42
SECTION 3.11. Computation of Interest..................................................................42
SECTION 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates......................................................43
SECTION 3.13. Agreed Tax Treatment.....................................................................44
SECTION 3.14. CUSIP Numbers............................................................................44
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of............................................................45
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money...............................................................46
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default........................................................................46
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and Annulment......................................48
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for Enforcement by Trustee..........................51
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim.........................................................52
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of Securities...............................53
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected...........................................................53
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits......................................................................53
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to
Receive Principal, Premium and Interest; Control by Holders...........................54
SECTION 5.09. Restoration of Rights and Remedies.......................................................56
SECTION 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative...........................................................56
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver.............................................................56
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders.......................................................................56
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults..................................................................58
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs....................................................................59
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws .................................................59
ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities......................................................60
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults.......................................................................61
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee................................................................61
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of Securities...................................63
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities......................................................................63
SECTION 6.06. Money Held in Trust......................................................................63
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement...........................................................63
SECTION 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests..................................................64
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required, Eligibility..................................................65
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of Successor........................................65
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance of Appointment by Successor...................................................67
SECTION 6.12. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or Succession to Business..............................69
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against Company........................................69
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent......................................................69
SECTION 6.15. Trustee's Rights and Obligations After Qualification of Indenture .......................71
ARTICLE VII
Holder's Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses of Holders................................72
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information, Communications to Holders...................................72
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee.......................................................................72
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company.......................................................................73
ARTICLE VIII
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain Terms.....................................73
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted........................................................75
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of Holders ......................................76
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders .........................................77
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures.....................................................79
SECTION 9.04. Effect of Supplemental Indentures........................................................79
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act......................................................79
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental Indentures.......................................79
ARTICLE X
Covenants
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest ..............................................80
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency..........................................................80
SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments to be Held in Trust .........................................80
SECTION 10.04. Statement as to Compliance...............................................................82
SECTION 10.05. Waiver of Certain Covenants..............................................................82
SECTION 10.06. Payment of the Trust's Costs and Expenses ...............................................83
SECTION 10.07. Additional Covenants.....................................................................83
SECTION 10.08. Information Returns......................................................................85
ARTICLE XI
Redemption or Prepayment of Securities
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of This Article............................................................85
SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee....................................................85
SECTION 11.03. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed...................................................86
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption.....................................................................86
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price..............................................................87
SECTION 11.06. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption..............................................88
SECTION 11.07. Company's Right of Redemption............................................................88
SECTION 11.08. Redemption Suspended During Event of Default ............................................89
ARTICLE XII
Intentionally omitted.
ARTICLE XIII
Sinking Funds
SECTION 13.01. Applicability of Article.................................................................89
SECTION 13.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with Securities ...................................90
SECTION 13.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund ...............................................90
ARTICLE XIV
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 14.01. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt....................................................92
SECTION 14.02. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, etc ..........................................93
SECTION 14.03. Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon Acceleration of Securities ............................94
Acceleration of Securities..............................................................................94
SECTION 14.04. No Payment When Senior Debt in Default...................................................95
SECTION 14.05. Payment Permitted If No Default..........................................................96
SECTION 14.06. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior Debt .........................................96
SECTION 14.07. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights .............................................97
SECTION 14.08. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination......................................................98
SECTION 14.09. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions....................................................98
SECTION 14.10. Notice to Trustee........................................................................98
SECTION 14.11. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of Liquidating Agent ..........................98
SECTION 14.12. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior Debt ........................................99
SECTION 14.13. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt; Preservation of Trustee's Rights.............99
SECTION 14.14. Article Applicable to Paying Agents......................................................99
SECTION 14.15. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed Payment..........................................99
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE, dated as of
January 28, 2002, between BANCORPSOUTH, INC., a bank
holding company established under the laws of
Mississippi (hereinafter called the "Company") having
its principal office at One Mississippi Plaza,
Tupelo, Mississippi 38801, and THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
a New York banking corporation, as Trustee
(hereinafter called the "Trustee").
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY
The Company has duly authorized the execution and delivery of
this Indenture to provide for the issuance from time to time of its unsecured
junior subordinated debt securities in series (hereinafter called the
"Securities") of substantially the tenor hereinafter provided, including,
without limitation, Securities issued to evidence loans made to the Company of
the proceeds from the issuance from time to time by one or more business trusts
(each a "BancorpSouth Capital Trust" and, collectively, the "BancorpSouth
Capital Trusts") of preferred trust interests in such BancorpSouth Capital
Trusts (the "Capital Securities") and common interests in such BancorpSouth
Capital Trusts (the "Common Securities" and, collectively with the Capital
Securities, the "Trust Securities"), and to provide the terms and conditions
upon which the Securities are to be authenticated, issued and delivered.
NOW THEREFORE, THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH: For and in
consideration of the premises and the purchase of the Securities by the Holders
thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed, for the equal and proportionate
benefit of all Holders of the Securities or of any series thereof, as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions and Other Provisions of General Application
SECTION 1.01. Definitions. 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 the term "generally accepted accounting principles"
with respect to any computation required or permitted hereunder shall mean such
accounting principles which are generally accepted at the date or time of such
computation; provided, that when two or more principles are so generally
accepted, it shall mean that set of principles consistent with those in use by
the Company.
(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.
"Act", when used with respect to any Holder, has the meaning
specified in Section 1.04.
"Additional Interest" means the interest, if any, that shall
accrue on any interest on the Securities of any series the payment of which has
not been made on the applicable Interest Payment Date and which shall accrue at
the rate per annum specified or determined as specified in any Officers'
Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 3.01 of the Indenture.
"Additional Sums" has the meaning specified in Section 10.06.
"Affiliate" of any specified Person means any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person; provided, however, that an Affiliate
of the Company shall not be deemed to include any BancorpSouth Capital Trust to
which Securities have been issued. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"Agent Member" means any member of, or participant in, the
Depositary.
"Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust" for each series of
Securities has the meaning specified in the Officers' Certificate for such
series delivered pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture.
"Authenticating Agent" means any Person authorized by the
Trustee pursuant to Section 6.14 to act on behalf of the Trustee to authenticate
Securities of one or more series.
"BancorpSouth Guarantee" means the guarantee by the Company of
the distributions on the Trust Securities of BancorpSouth Capital Trust I to the
extent of the Guarantee Agreement.
"BancorpSouth Capital Trust" has the meaning specified in the
first recital of this Indenture.
"Board of Directors" means either the board of directors of
the Company or any committee of that board duly authorized to act hereunder.
"Board Resolution" means a copy of a resolution certified by
the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted
by the Board of Directors, or such committee of the Board of Directors or
officers of the Company to which authority to act on behalf of the Board of
Directors has been delegated, and to be in full force and effect on the date of
such certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" means any day other than (i) a Saturday or
Sunday, (ii) a day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are
authorized or required by law or executive order to remain closed, or (iii) a
day on which the Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, or, with respect to the
Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, the principal
office of the Property Trustee under the related Trust Agreement, is closed for
business.
"Capital Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture.
"Capital Treatment Event" means the reasonable determination
by the Company that, as a result of the occurrence of any amendment to, or
change (including any announced prospective change) in, the laws (or any
regulations thereunder) of the United States or any political subdivision
thereof or therein, or as a result of any official or administrative
pronouncement or action or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws
or regulations, which amendment or change is effective or such pronouncement,
action or decision is announced on or after the date of issuance of the Capital
Securities under the Declaration of Trust, there is more than an insubstantial
risk that the Company will not be entitled to treat an amount equal to the
liquidation amount of the Capital Securities as "Tier I Capital" (or the then
equivalent thereof) for purposes of the capital adequacy guidelines of the
Federal Reserve, as then in effect and applicable to the Company.
"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 under the execution of this instrument such Commission
is not existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust
Indenture Act, then the body performing such duties on such date.
"Common Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture.
"Common Stock" means the common stock, $2.50 par value, of the
Company.
"Company" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Person shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Company" shall mean such successor Person.
"Company Request" and "Company Order" mean, respectively, the
written request or order signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman,
Chief Executive Officer, President or a Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an
Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of
the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Corporate Trust Office" means the principal office of the
Trustee at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
administered, which office as of the date of this Indenture is located at 5 Penn
Plaza, Floor 13, New York, New York 10001, Attention: Robert Massimillo.
"Corporation" includes a corporation, association, company,
joint-stock company or business trust.
"Declaration of Trust" for each series of Securities has the
meaning specified in the Officers' Certificate for such series delivered
pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture.
"Debt" means (i) the principal of and premium, if any, and
unpaid interest on indebtedness for money borrowed, (ii) purchase money and
similar obligations, (iii) obligations under capital leases, (iv) guarantees,
assumptions or purchase commitments relating to, or other transactions as a
result of which the Company is responsible for the payment of, such indebtedness
of others, (v) renewals, extensions and refunding of any such indebtedness, (vi)
interest or obligations in respect of any such indebtedness accruing after the
commencement of any insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings and (vii) obligations
associated with derivative products such as interest rate and currency exchange
contracts, foreign exchange contracts, commodity contracts and similar
arrangements; provided, however, that Debt shall not include trade accounts
payable or accrued liabilities in the ordinary course of business.
"Defaulted Interest" has the meaning specified in Section
3.08.
"Depositary" means, with respect to the Securities of any
series issuable or issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more Global
Securities, the Person designated as Depositary by the Company pursuant to
Section 3.01 with respect to such series (or any successor thereto (a "Successor
Depositary")).
"Discount Security" means any security which provides for an
amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and payable upon a
declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02.
"Dollar" means the currency of the United States of America
that, as at the time of payment, is legal tender for the payment of public and
private debts.
"DTC" means The Depository Trust Company.
"Event of Default", unless otherwise specified in the
supplemental indenture creating a series of Securities, has the meaning
specified in Article V.
"Extension Period" has the meaning specified in Section 3.12.
"Federal Reserve" means the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System.
"Foreign Currency" means any currency issued by the government
of one or more countries other than the United States of America or by any
recognized confederation or association of such governments.
"Global Security" means a Security in the form prescribed in
Section 2.04 evidencing all or part of a series of Securities, issued to the
Depositary of its nominee for such series, and registered in the name of such
Depositary or its nominee.
"Guarantee Agreement" for each series of Securities has the
meaning specified in the Officers' Certificate for such series delivered
pursuant to Section 3.01 of this Indenture.
"Holder" means a Person in whose name a Security is registered
in the Securities Register.
"Indenture" means this instrument as originally executed or as
it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or more indentures
supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable provisions hereof
and shall include the terms of each particular series of Securities established
as contemplated by Section 3.01.
"Interest Payment Date" means as to each series of Securities
the Stated Maturity of an installment of interest on such Securities.
"Interest Rate" means the rate of interest specified or
determined as specified in each Security as being the rate of interest payable
on such Security.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Company of
an opinion of counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a
result of the occurrence of a change in law or regulation or a change (including
any announced prospective change) in interpretation or application of law or
regulation by any legislative body,
court, governmental agency or regulatory authority, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that the affected BancorpSouth Capital Trust is or will be
considered an "investment company" that is required to be registered under the
1940 Act, which change or prospective change becomes effective or would become
effective, as the case may be, on or after the date of original issuance of the
Capital Securities of such affected BancorpSouth Capital Trust.
"Junior Subordinated Payment" has the meaning specified in
Section 14.02. "Lien" means any mortgage, pledge, lien, security interest or
other encumbrance.
"Liquidation Amount" has the meaning specified in Section 1.01
of the Trust Agreement.
"Maturity", when used with respect to any Security, means the
date on which the principal of such Security becomes due and payable as therein
or herein provided, whether as the Stated Maturity or by declaration of
acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"1940 Act" means the Investment Company Act of 1940.
"Officers' Certificate" means a certificate signed by the
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, President, or Vice President, and by the
Treasurer, an Associate Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, the
Chief Financial Officer, the Secretary or any Assistant Secretary of the
Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" means a written opinion of counsel, who
may be counsel for the Company.
"Optional Prepayment Price" shall have a meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
"Original Issue Date" means the date of issuance specified as
such in each Security.
"Other Debentures" means, with respect to any series of
Securities, all junior subordinated debt securities to be issued by the Company
pursuant to this Indenture, other than such series of Securities, with
substantially similar subordination terms, and which will be issued and sold (if
at all) to any BancorpSouth Capital Trust established by the Company (if any),
and will be unsecured and subordinate and junior in right of payment to the
extent and to the manner set forth in this Indenture to all Senior Debt of the
Company.
"Other Guarantees" means, with respect to any series of
Securities, all guarantees (if any) to be issued by the Company with respect to
Capital Securities (if any) to be issued by any BancorpSouth Capital Trust to be
established by the Company (if any), other than the guarantee related to such
series of Securities.
"Outstanding" means, when used in reference to any Securities,
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 for whose payment money in the necessary
amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any Paying
Agent in trust for the Holders of such Securities; and
(iii) Securities in substitution for or in lieu of which other
Securities have been authenticated and delivered or which have been
paid pursuant to Section 3.07, unless proof satisfactory to the Trustee
is presented that any such Securities are held by Holders in whose
hands such Securities are valid, binding and legal obligations of the
Company;
provided, however, that in determining whether the Holders of the requisite
principal amount of Outstanding Securities have given any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver hereunder, Securities owned
by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate of the
Company or such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding, except that, in determining
whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a
Responsible Officer actually 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. Upon the written request of the Trustee,
the Company shall furnish the Trustee promptly an Officers' Certificate listing
and identifying all Securities, if any, known by the Company to be owned or held
by or for the account of the Company, or any other obligor on the Securities or
any Affiliate of the Company or such obligor, and, subject to the provisions of
Section 6.01, the Trustee shall be entitled to accept such Officers' Certificate
as conclusive evidence of the facts therein set forth and of the fact that all
Securities not listed therein are Outstanding for the purpose of any such
determination.
"Paying Agent" means the Trustee or any Person authorized by
the Company to pay the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any
Securities on behalf of the Company.
"Person" means any individual, Corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, joint venture, trust, unincorporated organization or
government or any agency or political subdivision thereof.
"Place of Payment" means, with respect to the Securities of
any series, the place or places where the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of such series are payable pursuant to Sections 3.01
and 3.08.
"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 3.07 in
lieu of a lost, destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the
same debt as the lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
"Proceeding" has the meaning specified in Section 14.02.
"Property Trustee" means, in respect of any BancorpSouth
Capital Trust, the commercial bank or trust company identified as the "Property
Trustee" in the related Trust Agreement, solely in its capacity as Property
Trustee of such BancorpSouth Capital Trust under each Trust Agreement and not in
its individual capacity, or its successor in interest in such capacity, or any
successor property trustee appointed as therein provided.
"Redemption Date", when used with respect to any Security of a
series to be redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant
to this Indenture.
"Regular Record Date" for the interest payable on any Interest
Payment Date with respect to the Securities of a series means, unless otherwise
provided pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to Securities of a series, the
date which is the Business Day next preceding such Interest Payment Date.
"Regulatory Authorities" means the Federal Reserve or any
other state or federal regulatory agency having jurisdiction over the Company.
"Remaining Life" has the meaning specified in Section 2.03.
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee
means any officer assigned to the Corporate Trust Office, including any managing
director, vice president, assistant vice president, assistant treasurer,
assistant secretary or any other officer of the Trustee customarily performing
functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated officers and
having direct responsibility for the administration of this Indenture, and also,
with respect to a particular matter, any other officer to whom such matter is
referred because of such officer's knowledge of and familiarity with the
particular subject.
"Securities" or "Security" means any debt securities or debt
security, as the case may be, authenticated and delivered under this Indenture.
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933.
"Securities Certificate" means a certificate evidencing
ownership of Securities.
"Securities Register" and "Securities Registrar" have the
respective meanings specified in Section 3.06.
"Senior Debt" with respect to any series of Securities means
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest, if any (including interest
accruing on or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy or for
reorganization relating to the Company whether or not such claim for
post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), on Debt of the Company,
whether incurred on or prior to the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred, unless, in the instrument creating or evidencing the same or pursuant
to which the same is outstanding, it is provided that such obligations are not
superior in right of payment to the Securities or the Other Debentures;
provided, however, that Senior Debt shall not be deemed to include (a) any Debt
of the Company which, when incurred and without respect to any election under
Section 1111(b) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, was without
recourse to the Company; (b) any Debt of the Company to any of its Subsidiaries;
(c) Debt to any employee of the Company; (d) Debt which by its terms is
subordinated to trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business to the extent that payments made to the holders of
such Debt by the Holders as a result of the subordination provisions of this
Indenture would be greater than such payments otherwise would have been as a
result of any obligation of such holders of such Debt to pay amounts over to the
obligees on such trade accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the
ordinary course of business as a result of the subordination provisions to which
such Debt is subject; and (e) any other debt securities issued pursuant to this
Indenture.
"Special Event" has the meaning specified in Section 11.07.
"Special Event Prepayment Price" has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03.
"Special Record Date" for the payment of any Defaulted
interest means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section 3.08.
"Stated Maturity" when used with respect to any Security or
any installment of principal thereof or interest thereon means the date
specified pursuant to the terms of such Security as the date on which the
principal of such Security or such installment of interest is due and payable,
in the case of such principal, as such date may be shortened or extended as
provided pursuant to the terms of such Security and this Indenture.
"Subsidiary" means a corporation more than 50% of the
outstanding voting stock of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by the
Company or by one or more other Subsidiaries, or by the Company and one or more
other Subsidiaries. For purposes of this definition, "voting stock" means stock
which ordinarily has voting power for the election of directors, whether at all
times or only so long as no senior class of stock has such voting power by
reason of any contingency.
"Successor Security" of any particular Security means every
Security issued after, and 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 3.07 in
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.
"Tax Event" means the receipt by the Company of an opinion of
independent counsel experienced in such matters to the effect that, as a result
of any amendment to, or change (including any announced proposed change) in, the
laws or any regulations thereunder of the United States
or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, or as a
result of any official administrative pronouncement or judicial decision
interpreting or applying such laws or regulations, which amendment or change is
effective or which proposed change, pronouncement or decision is announced on or
after the Original Issue Date of the applicable series of Securities or of the
applicable Capital Securities issued by the affected BancorpSouth Capital Trust,
there is more than an insubstantial risk that (i) such BancorpSouth Capital
Trust is, or will be within 90 days of the date of such opinion of independent
counsel, subject to United States federal income tax with respect to income
received or accrued on such Securities or subject to more than de minimus amount
of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges as determined by such
counsel, or (ii) interest payable by the Company on such series of Securities is
not, or within 90 days of the date of such opinion of independent counsel, will
not be, deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States
federal income tax purposes.
"Trust Agreement" with respect to each series of Securities
means the Declaration of Trust with respect to such series, as amended by the
Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust with respect to such series.
"Trust Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture.
"Trustee" means the Person named as the "Trustee" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean or include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder and,
if at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with
respect to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"Trust Indenture Act" means the Trust Indenture Act of 1939
(15 U.S.C. ss.ss. 77aaa-77bbbb), as amended and as in effect on the date of this
Indenture, except as provided in Sections 1.07 and 9.05.
"Trust Securities" has the meaning specified in the first
recital of this Indenture.
"Vice President", when used with respect to the Company, means
any duly appointed vice president, whether or not designated by a number or a
word or words added before or after the title "vice president".
SECTION 1.02. Compliance Certificate and Opinions. Upon any
application or request by the Company to the Trustee to take any action under
any provision of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate stating that all conditions precedent (including covenants
compliance with which constitutes a condition 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 that all legal
matters contained within such conditions precedent (including covenants
compliance with which constitute a condition 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 the
certificates provided regarding conditions or covenants waived by the Holders
pursuant to Section 10.05) shall include:
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate
or opinion has read such covenant or condition 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 covenant or condition 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 1.03. Forms 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 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 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 representation
with respect to 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 stating that the
information with respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the
Company, unless such counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should
know, that the certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such
matters 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.
SECTION 1.04. Acts of Holders. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be
given to 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
is or are delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required,
to the Company. 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 (subject to Section 6.01) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee and the Company, 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 the certificate of any 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 Person acting in other than his individual capacity, such
certificate or affidavit shall also constitute sufficient proof of his
authority.
(c) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any
such instrument or writing, or the authority of the Person executing the same,
may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee deems sufficient and in
accordance with such reasonable rules as the Trustee may determine.
(d) The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the
Securities Register.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice,
consent, waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind every
future Holder of the same Security and the Holder of every Security issued upon
the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in lieu thereof in respect of
anything done 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) The Company may, but shall not be obligated to, fix a
record date for the purpose of determining the Holders entitled to take any
action under this Indenture by vote or consent. Except as otherwise provided
herein, such record date shall be the later of 30 days prior to the first
solicitation of such consent or vote or the date of the most recent list of
Holders furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 7.01 prior to such
solicitation. If a record date is fixed, those persons who were Holders at such
record date (or their duly designated proxies), and only those persons, shall be
entitled to take such action by vote or consent or to revoke any vote or consent
previously given, whether or not such persons continue to be Holders after such
record date, provided, however, that unless such vote or consent is obtained
from the Holders (or their duly designated proxies) of the requisite principal
amount of Outstanding Securities prior to the date which is the 120th day after
such record date, any such vote or consent previously given shall automatically
and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no further effect.
SECTION 1.05. Notices, Etc. to Trustee and Company. 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:
(1) the Trustee by any Holder or by the Company shall be
sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given, furnished or
filed in writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office,
or
(2) the Company by the Trustee or by any Holder shall be
sufficient for every purpose (except as otherwise provided in Section
5.01 hereof) hereunder if in writing and mailed, first class, postage
prepaid, to the Company addressed to it at the address of its principal
office specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any
other address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the
Company.
SECTION 1.06. Notice to Holders; Waiver. Where this Indenture
provides for notice to Holders of any event, such notice shall be sufficiently
given (unless otherwise herein expressly provided) if in writing and mailed,
first class postage prepaid, to each Holder affected by such event, at the
address of such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register, not later than
the latest date, and not earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the
giving of such notice. 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. 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 1.07. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act. If any
provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties
imposed by any of Section 310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act
through operation of Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 1.08. Effect of 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 1.09. Successors and Assigns. All covenants and
agreements in this Indenture by the Company shall bind its successors and
assigns, whether so expressed or not.
SECTION 1.10. Separability Clause. In case any provision in
this Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable,
the validity, legality or enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not
in any way be affected or impaired thereby.
SECTION 1.11. Benefits of Indenture. Nothing in this Indenture
or in the Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than
the parties hereto, any Paying Agent and their successors and assigns, the
holders of Senior Debt and the Holders of the Securities, any benefit or any
legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under this Indenture.
SECTION 1.12. Governing Law. This Indenture and the Securities
shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of
New York, without regard to principles of conflicts of laws.
SECTION 1.13. Non-Business Days. In any case where any
Interest Payment Date, Redemption Date or Stated Maturity of any Security shall
not be a Business Day, then (notwithstanding any other provision of this
Indenture or the Securities) payment of interest or principal need not be made
on such date, but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day (and no
interest shall accrue for the period from and after such Interest Payment Date,
Redemption Date or Stated Maturity, as the case may be, until such next
succeeding Business Day) except that, if such Business Day is in the next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, in each case with the same force and effect as if made
on the Interest Payment Date or Redemption Date or at the Stated Maturity, as
the case may be.
ARTICLE II
Security Forms
SECTION 2.01. Forms Generally. The Securities of each series
and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be in substantially the
forms set forth in this Article, or in such other form or forms 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 applicable tax laws or the rules of any securities exchange or as may,
consistently herewith, be determined by the officers executing such securities,
as evidenced by their execution of the Securities. If the form of Securities of
any series is established by action taken pursuant to a Board Resolution, a copy
of an appropriate record of such action 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 3.03 with respect
to the authentication and delivery of such Securities.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or
engraved or produced by any combination of these methods, if required by any
securities exchange on which the Securities may be listed, on a steel engraved
border or steel engraved borders or may be produced in any other manner
permitted by the rules of any securities exchange on which the Securities may be
listed, all as determined by the officers executing such Securities, as
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
Securities distributed to holders of book-entry Capital
Securities shall be distributed in the form of one or more Global Securities
registered in the name of a Depositary or its nominee, and deposited with the
Securities Registrar, as custodian for such Depositary, or held by such
Depositary for credit by the Depositary to the respective accounts of the
beneficial owners of the Securities represented thereby (or such other accounts
they may direct). Securities distributed to holders of Capital Securities other
than book-entry Capital Securities shall not be issued in the form of a Global
Security or any other
form intended to facilitate book-entry trading in beneficial interests in such
Securities.
SECTION 2.02. Form of Face of Security. The form of the face
of each Security shall contain the information set forth below, with provisions
being included and/or modified if applicable, in light of the designations made
in the related Officers' Certificate for that series.
BANCORPSOUTH, INC.
(Title of Security)
No. CUSIP No.
$
BANCORPSOUTH, INC., a corporation organized and existing under
the laws of Mississippi (hereinafter called the "Company", which term includes
any successor corporation under the Indenture hereinafter referred to), for
value received, hereby promises to pay to , or its registered assigns, the
principal sum of Dollars on (the "Stated Maturity"). The Company further
promises to pay interest on said principal sum from , or from the most
recent interest payment date (each such date, an "Interest Payment Date") on
which interest has been paid or duly provided for, [monthly] [quarterly]
[semi-annually] [annually] [if applicable, insert--(subject to deferral as set
forth herein)], in arrears on [insert applicable Interest Payment Dates] of each
year, commencing , , at the rate of % per annum, until the principal
hereof shall have become due and payable, [if applicable, insert--plus
Additional Interest, if any,] until the principal hereof is paid or duly
provided for or made available for payment [if applicable, insert--and on any
overdue principal and (without duplication and to the extent that payment of
such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any overdue installment of
interest at the rate of % per annum, compounded [monthly] [quarterly]
[semi-annually] [annually] as Additional Interest]. [The amount of interest
payable for any period shall be computed on the basis of twelve 30-day months
and a 360-day year. The amount of interest payable for any partial period shall
be computed on the basis of the number of days elapsed in a 360-day year of
twelve 30-day months.] In the event that any date on which interest is payable
on
this Security is not a Business Day, then a payment of the interest payable on
such date will be made on the next succeeding day which is a Business Day (and
without any interest or other payment in respect of any such delay), [except
that, if such Business Day is in the next succeeding calendar year, such payment
shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, in each case] with the
same force and effect as if made on the date the payment was originally payable.
A "Business Day" shall mean any day other than (i) a Saturday or Sunday, (ii) a
day on which banking institutions in The City of New York are authorized or
required by law or executive order to remain closed or (iii) a day on which the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee or the Corporate Trust Office of the
Property Trustee under the Trust Agreement hereinafter referred to for
BancorpSouth Capital Trust [ ] is closed for business. The interest installment
so payable, and punctually paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment
Date will, as provided in the Indenture, be paid to the Person in whose name
this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities, as defined in the
Indenture) is registered at the close of business on the Regular Record Date for
such interest installment, which shall be the [insert definition of Regular
Record Dates]. In addition, if pursuant to the provisions of the Indenture this
Security is issued in certificated form, the regular record date for payment of
interest shall be the close of business on the , , and next preceding such
Interest Payment Date, as applicable. Any such interest installment not so
punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith cease to be payable to the
Holder on such Regular Record Date and may either be paid to the Person in whose
name this Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest to be fixed by the Trustee, notice whereof shall be given to Holders of
Securities of this series not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record
Date, or be paid at any time in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with
the requirements of any securities exchange on which the Securities of this
series may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange,
all as more fully provided in said Indenture.
[If applicable, insert--So long as no Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, the Company shall have the right at any time during
the term of this Security, from time to time, to defer payment of interest on
such Security for up to consecutive [monthly] [quarterly] [semi-annual] [annual]
interest payment periods with respect to each deferral period (each an
"Extension Period"), during which Extension Periods the Company shall have the
right to make partial payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date, and at
the end of which the Company shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid
(together with Additional Interest thereon to the extent permitted by applicable
law); provided, however, that no Extension Period may extend beyond the Maturity
of this Security. During any such Extension Period, the Company will not (i)
declare or pay any dividends or distributions on or redeem, purchase, acquire or
make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's capital stock
or (ii) make any payment of principal of, interest or premium, if any, on or
repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company (including Other
Debentures) that ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to this Security or
(iii) make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company
of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the Company (including Other
Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to
this Security (other than (a) dividends or distributions in Common Stock of the
Company, (b) any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation
of a shareholders' rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in
the future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto,
(c) payments under the applicable BancorpSouth Guarantee, (d) purchases or
acquisitions of shares of the Company's Common Stock in connection with the
satisfaction by the Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plan
or other contractual obligation of the Company (other than a contractual
obligation ranking pari passu with or junior to these Securities), (e) as a
result of a reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or
conversion of one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another
class or series of the Company's capital stock, or (f) the purchase of
fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant to the
conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security
being converted or exchanged). Prior to the termination of any such Extension
Period, the Company may further extend such Extension Period, provided, however,
that such extension does not cause such Extension Period to exceed consecutive
[monthly] [quarterly] [semi-annual] [annual] interest payment periods or extend
beyond the Maturity of this Security. Upon the termination of any such Extension
Period and the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional
Interest then due, the Company may elect to begin a new Extension Period,
subject to the above requirements. No interest shall be due and payable during
an Extension Period except at the end thereof. The Company shall give the Holder
of this Security and the Trustee notice of its election to begin any Extension
Period at least five Business Days prior to the Interest Payment Date, [if
applicable, insert--or, with respect to the Securities issued to a BancorpSouth
Capital Trust, prior to the earlier of (i) the date the Distributions on the
Capital Securities would have been payable except for the election to begin or
extend such Extension Period or (ii) the date the Administrative Trustees are
required to give notice to any automated quotation system or to holders of such
Capital Securities of the record date or the date such Distributions are
payable, but in any event not less than five Business Days prior to such record
date]. There is no limitation on the number of times the Company may elect to
begin an Extension Period.
Payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
on this Security will be made at the office or agency of the Company maintained
for that purpose in the United States, in such coin or currency of the United
States of America as at the time of payment is legal tender for payment of
public and private debts [if applicable, insert--; provided, however, that at
the option of the Company payment of any interest may be made (except Securities
in Global form) (i) by check mailed to the address of the Person entitled
thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities Register or (ii) by wire
transfer in immediately available funds at such place and to such account as may
be designated by the Person entitled thereto as specified in the Securities
Register].
The indebtedness evidenced by this Security is, to the extent
provided in the Indenture, subordinate and
junior in right of payment to the prior payment in full of all Senior Debt, and
this Security is issued subject to the provisions of the Indenture with respect
thereto. Each Holder of this Security, by accepting the same, (a) agrees to and
shall be bound by such provisions, (b) authorizes and directs the Trustee on his
behalf to take such actions as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination so provided and (c) appoints the Trustee his attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes. Each Holder hereof, by his acceptance hereof, waives
all notice of the acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein
and in the Indenture by each holder of Senior Debt, whether now outstanding or
hereinafter incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said
provisions.
Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this
Security set forth on the reverse hereof, which further provisions shall for all
purposes have the same effect as if set forth at this place.
Unless the certificate of authentication hereon has been
executed by the Trustee referred to on the reverse hereof by manual signature,
this Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture or be
valid or obligatory for any purpose.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to
be duly executed under its corporate seal.
Date: BANCORPSOUTH, INC.,
[Seal]
by
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[Chairman and Chief
Executive Officer,
President or
Vice President]
Attest:
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[Secretary or Assistant
Secretary]
SECTION 2.03. Form of Reverse of Security. This Security is
one of a duly authorized issue of securities of the Company (herein called the
"Securities"), issued and to be issued in one or more series under a Junior
Subordinated Indenture, dated as of , , as supplemented by an Officers'
Certificate dated as of , , (herein called the "Indenture"), between the
Company and [The Bank of New York], as Trustee (herein called the "Trustee",
which term includes any successor Trustee under the Indenture), to which
Indenture and all indentures supplemental thereto reference is hereby made for a
statement of the respective rights, limitations of rights, duties and immunities
thereunder of the Trustee, the Company and the Holders of the Securities, and of
the terms upon which the Securities are, and are to be, authenticated and
delivered. This Security is one of the series designated on the face hereof[,
limited in aggregate principal amount to $ ].
All terms used in this Security that are defined in the
Indenture [if applicable, insert--and in the Amended and Restated Trust
Agreement of [insert the applicable BancorpSouth Capital Trust [ ]], dated as of
[ ], as amended (the "Amended and Restated Trust Agreement"), among
BancorpSouth, Inc., as Depositor, and the Trustees named therein,] shall have
the meanings assigned to them in the Indenture or, to the extent not defined in
the Indenture, the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust, as the case may
be.
[If applicable, insert--On or after , the Company may at
any time, at its option, subject to the terms and conditions of Article XI of
the Indenture and subject to the Company having received prior approval of the
Regulatory Authorities if then required under applicable capital guidelines of
the Regulatory Authorities, redeem this Security in whole or in part at any time
or from time to time prior to maturity, at a redemption price (the "Optional
Prepayment Price") equal to the following prices, expressed in percentages of
the principal amount of the Securities together with accrued but unpaid interest
to but excluding the date fixed for redemption. If redeemed during the 12-month
period beginning :
Redemption
Year Price
---- ----------
[Insert year and redemption prices]
and at 100% on or after .]
[If applicable, insert-- If a Tax Event, a Capital Treatment
Event or an Investment Company Event (each a "Special Event") shall occur and be
continuing, the Company may, at its option and subject to receipt of prior
approval of the Regulatory Authorities if then required under applicable capital
guidelines or policies of the Regulatory Authorities and subject to the
provisions of
Article XI of the Indenture, prepay the Securities prior to within
90 days after the occurrence of such Special Event, in whole (but not in part),
at a prepayment price (the "Special Event Prepayment Price") equal to 100% of
the principal amount of such Securities. In the case of redemption on or after
following a Special Event, the Special Event Prepayment Price shall
equal the Optional Prepayment Price applicable to a redemption as described
above.
In the event of redemption of this Security in part only, a
new Security or Securities of this series for the unredeemed portion hereof will
be issued in the name of the Holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
[If the Security is not a Discount Security,--If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing,
the principal of this Security may be declared due and payable in the manner,
with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture].
[If the Security is a Discount Security,--If an Event of
Default with respect to Securities of this series shall occur and be continuing,
an amount of principal of this Security may be declared due and payable in the
manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.
Such amount shall be equal to [--insert formula for determining the amount].
Upon payment (i) of the amount of principal so declared due and payable and (ii)
of interest on any overdue principal and overdue interest (in each case to the
extent that the payment of such interest shall be legally enforceable), all of
the Company's obligations in respect of the payment of the principal of and
interest, if any, on this Security shall terminate.]
The Indenture permits, with certain exceptions as therein
provided, the Company and the Trustee at any time to enter into a supplemental
indenture or indentures for the purpose of modifying in any manner the rights
and obligations of the Company and of the Holders of the Securities, with the
consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of each series to be affected by such
supplemental indenture. The Indenture also contains provisions permitting
Holders of specified percentages in principal amount of the Securities of each
series at the time Outstanding, on behalf of the Holders of all Securities of
such series, to waive compliance by the Company with certain provisions of the
Indenture and certain past defaults under the Indenture and their consequences.
Any such consent or waiver by the Holder of this Security shall be conclusive
and binding upon such Holder and upon all future Holders of this Security and of
any Security issued upon the registration of transfer hereof or in exchange
herefor or in lieu hereof, whether or not notation of such consent or waiver is
made upon this Security.
[If the Security is not a Discount Security,--As provided in
and subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with
respect to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of this
series may declare the aggregate principal amount of all the Securities of this
series to be due and payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company
(and to the Trustee if given by Holders), provided, however, that, in the case
of the Securities of this series issued to a BancorpSouth Capital Trust, if upon
an Event of Default, the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of this series fails to
declare the principal of all the Securities of this series to be immediately due
and payable, the holders of at least 25% in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
corresponding series of Capital Securities then outstanding shall have such
right by a notice in writing to the Company and the Trustee. The Holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of this
series may annul such declaration and waive the default by written notice to the
Property Trustee, the Company and the Trustee if the default (other than the
non-payment of the principal of these Securities which has become due solely by
such acceleration) has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured
installments of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has
been deposited with the Trustee. Should the Holders of these Securities fail to
annul such declaration and waive such default, the holders of a majority in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities shall have such right.
Upon any such declaration such specified amount of and the accrued interest
(including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities of this series shall
become immediately due and payable, provided that the payment of principal and
interest (including any Additional Interest) on such Securities shall remain
subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIV of the Indenture.]
[If the Security is a Discount Security,--As provided in and
subject to the provisions of the Indenture, if an Event of Default with respect
to the Securities of this series at the time Outstanding occurs and is
continuing, then and in every such case the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of
this series of all the Securities of this series to be due and payable
immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given
by Holders), provided that, in the case of the Securities of this series issued
to a BancorpSouth Capital Trust, if upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of this series fails to declare the principal of all the Securities
of this series to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the corresponding series of Capital Securities
then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Company and
the Trustee. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of this series may annul such declaration and waive the
default if the default (other than the nonpayment of the principal of these
Securities which has become due solely by such acceleration) has been cured and
a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest and principal due
otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the Trustee. Should the
Holders of these Securities fail to annul such declaration and waive such
default, the holders of a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the
Capital Securities shall have such right. Upon any such declaration of such
principal amount and the accrued interest (including any Additional Interest) on
all the
Securities of this series shall become immediately due and payable, provided
that the payment of principal and interest (including any Additional Interest)
on such Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article
XIV of the Indenture.]
No reference herein to the Indenture and no provision of this
Security or of the Indenture shall alter or impair the obligation of the
Company, which is absolute and unconditional, to pay the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on this Security at the times, place and rate, and
in the coin or currency, herein prescribed.
As provided in the Indenture and subject to certain
limitations therein set forth, the transfer of this Security is registrable in
the Securities Register, upon surrender of this Security for registration of
transfer at the office or agency of the Company maintained pursuant to Section
10.02 of the Indenture duly endorsed by, or accompanied by a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar
duly executed by, the Holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing
and thereupon one or more new Securities of this series, of authorized
denominations and for the same aggregate principal amount, will be issued to the
designated transferee or transferees. No service charge shall be made for any
such registration of transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment
of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other governmental charge payable in
connection therewith.
Prior to due presentment of this Security for registration of
transfer, the Company, the Trustee and any agent of the Company or the Trustee
shall treat the Person in whose name this Security is registered as the owner
hereof for all purposes, whether or not this Security be overdue, and neither
the Company, the Trustee nor any such agent shall be affected by notice to the
contrary.
The Securities of this series are issuable only in registered
form without coupons in denominations of $ and any integral multiple thereof. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to certain limitations therein set forth,
Securities of this series are exchangeable for a like aggregate principal amount
of Securities of such
series of a different authorized denomination, as requested by the Holder
surrendering the same.
The Company and, by its acceptance of this Security or a
beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, this Security intend that such Security constitute
indebtedness and agree to treat such Security as indebtedness for all United
States federal, state and local tax purposes.
THE INDENTURE AND THIS SECURITY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND
CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK WITHOUT REGARD TO
CONFLICTS OF LAWS PRINCIPLES THEREOF.
SECTION 2.04. Additional Provisions Required in Global
Security. Any Global Security issued hereunder shall, in addition to the
provisions contained in Sections 2.02 and 2.03, bear a legend in substantially
the following form:
"This Security is a Global Security within the meaning of the
Indenture hereinafter referred to and is registered in the name of The
Depository Trust Company (the "Depositary") or a nominee of the
Depositary. This Security is exchangeable for Securities registered in
the name of a person other than the Depositary or its nominee only in
the limited circumstances described in the Indenture and no transfer of
this Security (other than a transfer of this Security 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) may
be registered except in limited circumstances.
Unless this Security is presented by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company (55 Water Street, New York) to
BancorpSouth, Inc. or its agent for registration of transfer, exchange
or payment, and any Security issued is registered in the name of Cede &
Co. or such other name as requested by an authorized representative of
The Depository Trust Company and any payment hereon is made to Cede &
Co., ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR
OTHERWISE BY A PERSON IS WRONGFUL inasmuch as the registered owner
hereof, Cede & Co., has an interest herein."
SECTION 2.05. Form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication.
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within mentioned Indenture:
as Trustee
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE III
The Securities
SECTION 3.01. Title and Terms. The aggregate principal amount
of Securities which may be authenticated and delivered under this Indenture is
unlimited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series. There
shall be established in or pursuant to a Board Resolution, and set forth in an
Officers' Certificate, or established in one or more indentures supplemental
hereto, prior to the issuance of Securities of a series:
(a) the title of the securities of such series, which shall
distinguish the Securities of the series from all other Securities;
(b) the limit, if any, upon the aggregate principal amount of
the Securities of such series which may be authenticated and delivered
under this Indenture (except for 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 3.04, 3.06, 3.07,
9.06 or 11.06); provided, however, that the authorized aggregate
principal amount of such series may be
increased above such amount by a Board Resolution to such effect;
(c) the Stated Maturity or Maturities on which the principal
of the Securities of such series is payable or the method of
determination thereof;
(d) the rate or rates, if any, at which the Securities of such
series shall bear interest, if any, the rate or rates and extent to
which Additional Interest, if any, shall be payable in respect of any
Securities of such series, the Interest Payment Dates on which such
interest shall be payable, the right, pursuant to Section 3.12 or as
otherwise set forth therein, of the Company to defer or extend an
Interest Payment Date, and the Regular Record Date for the interest
payable on any Interest Payment Date or the method by which any of the
foregoing shall be determined;
(e) the place or places where the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities of such series shall be payable,
the place or places where the Securities of such series may be
presented for registration of transfer or exchange, and the place or
places where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of
the Securities of such series may be made;
(f) the period or periods within or the date or date on which,
if any, the price or prices at which and the terms and conditions upon
which the Securities of such series may be redeemed, in whole or in
part, at the option of the Company;
(g) the obligation or the right, if any, of the Company to
redeem, repay or purchase the Securities of such series pursuant to any
sinking fund, amortization or analogous provisions, or at the option of
a Holder thereof, and the period or periods within which, the prices 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 shall be redeemed, repaid or purchased, in
whole or in part, pursuant to such obligations;
(h) the denominations in which any Securities of such series
shall be issuable, if other than denominations of $25.00 and any
integral multiple thereof;
(i) if other than Dollars, the currency or currencies
(including currency unit or units) in which the principal of (and
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 manner of determining the equivalent thereof in
Dollars for purposes of the definition of the term "Outstanding";
(j) the additions, modifications or deletions, if any, in the
Events of Default or covenants of the Company set forth herein with
respect to the Securities of such series;
(k) if other than the principal amount thereof, the portion of
the principal amount of Securities of such series that shall be payable
upon declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof;
(l) the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with
respect to the Securities of such series as shall be necessary to
permit or facilitate the issuance of the Securities of such series in
bearer form, registrable or not registrable as to principal, and with
or without interest coupons;
(m) any index or indices used to determine the amount of
payments of principal of and premium, if any, on the Securities of such
series or the manner in which such amounts will be determined;
(n) the issuance of a temporary Global Security representing
all of the Securities of such series and exchange of such temporary
Global Security for definitive Securities of such series;
(o) whether the Securities of the series shall be issued in
whole or in part in the form of one or more Global Securities and, in
such case, the Depositary
for such Global Securities, which Depositary shall be a clearing agency
registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;
(p) the appointment of any Paying Agent or Agents for the
Securities of such series;
(q) the terms of any right to convert or exchange Securities
of such series into any other securities or property of the Company,
and the additions or changes, if any, to this Indenture with respect to
the Securities of such series to permit or facilitate such conversion
or exchange;
(r) the transfer restrictions and legends required to be on
the Securities;
(s) the definitions of Amended and Restated Declaration of
Trust, Declaration of Trust and Guarantee Agreement for each series;
(t) the relative degree, if any, to which the Securities of
the series shall be senior to or be subordinated to other series of
Securities in right of payment, whether such other series of Securities
are Outstanding or not; and
(u) any other terms of the Securities of such series (which
terms shall not be inconsistent with the provisions of this Indenture).
All Securities of any one series shall be substantially
identical except as to denomination and except as may otherwise be provided
herein or in or pursuant to such Board Resolution and set forth in such
Officers' Certificate or in any such indenture supplemental hereto.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to the Securities of
any series, at the option of the Company, interest on the Securities of any
series that bears interest may be paid by (i) mailing a check to the address of
the person entitled thereto as such address shall appear in the Securities
Register or (ii) wire transfer in immediately available funds at such place and
to such
account as may be designated by the person entitled thereto as specified in the
Securities Register.
SECTION 3.02. Denominations. The Securities of each series
shall be in registered form without coupons and shall be issuable in
denominations of $25.00 and any integral multiple thereof, unless otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01.
SECTION 3.03. Execution, Authentication, Delivery and Dating.
The Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its President or one of its Vice Presidents and attested by its Secretary
or one of its Assistant Secretaries. The signature of any of these officers on
the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities 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 after the execution and delivery of this Indenture, the Company may
deliver Securities executed by the Company to the Trustee for authentication.
Securities may be authenticated on original issuance from time to time and
delivered pursuant to such procedures acceptable to the Trustee ("Procedures")
as may be specified from time to time by Company Order. Procedures may authorize
authentication and delivery pursuant to oral instructions of the Company or a
duly authorized agent, which instructions shall be promptly confirmed in
writing.
Prior to the delivery of a Security in any such form to the
Trustee for authentication, the Company shall deliver to the Trustee the
following:
(a) a Company Order requesting the Trustee's authentication
and delivery of all or a portion of the Securities of such series, and
if less than all, setting forth procedures for such authentication;
(b) the Board Resolution by or pursuant to which such form of
Security has been approved, and the Board Resolution, if any, by or
pursuant to which the terms of the Securities of such series have been
approved, and, if pursuant to a Board Resolution, an Officers'
Certificate describing the action taken;
(c) an Officers' Certificate dated the date such certificate
is delivered to the Trustee, stating that all conditions precedent
provided for in this Indenture relating to the authentication and
delivery of Securities in such form and with such terms have been
complied with; and
(d) an Opinion of Counsel substantially to the effect that (i)
the form of such Securities has been duly authorized and approved in
conformity with the provisions of this Indenture; (ii) the terms of
such Securities have been duly authorized and determined in conformity
with the provisions of this Indenture, or, if such terms are to be
determined pursuant to Procedures, as defined above, when so determined
such terms shall have been duly authorized and determined in conformity
with the provisions of this Indenture; and (iii) Securities in such
form when completed by appropriate insertions and executed and
delivered by the Company to the Trustee for authentication in
accordance with this Indenture, authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee in accordance with this Indenture within the authorization as
to aggregate principal amount established from time to time by the
Board of Directors and sold in the manner specified in such Opinion of
Counsel, will be the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Company entitled to the benefits of this Indenture, subject to
applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency and similar laws
generally affecting creditors' rights, to general equitable principles
and except 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, and subject to such other qualifications as
such counsel shall conclude do not materially affect the rights of
Holders of such Securities.
The Trustee shall be entitled to receive the documents
referred to in clauses (b) and (d) above only at or prior to the first request
of the Company to the Trustee to authenticate Securities of such series.
Each Security shall be dated the date of its authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this
Indenture, or be valid or obligatory for any purpose, unless there appears on
such Security a certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided
for herein executed by the Trustee by the manual signature of one of its
authorized officers, and such certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive
evidence, and the only evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated
and delivered hereunder.
SECTION 3.04. 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 which are
printed, lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any
denomination, substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities of such
series 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 evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company
will cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without
unreasonable delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the
temporary Securities shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities upon
surrender of the temporary Securities at the office or agency of the Company
designated for that purpose without charge to the Holder. Upon surrender for
cancelation of any one or more temporary Securities, 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 having the same Original Issue Date and
Stated Maturity and having the same terms as such temporary Securities. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
SECTION 3.05. Global Securities. (a) Each Global Security
issued under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the Depositary
designated by the Company for such Global Security or a nominee thereof and
delivered to such Depositary or a nominee thereof or custodian therefor, and
each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for all purposes of
this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision in this Indenture, no
Global Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered,
and no transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in
the name of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a
nominee thereof unless (a) such Depositary advises the Trustee in writing that
such Depositary is no longer willing or able to properly discharge its
responsibilities as Depositary with respect to such Global Security, and the
Company is unable to locate a qualified successor, (b) the Company executes and
delivers to the Trustee a Company Order stating that the Company elects to
terminate the book-entry system through the Depositary, (c) there shall have
occurred and be continuing an Event of Default or (d) pursuant to the following
sentence. All or any portion of a Global Security may be exchanged for a
Security that has a like aggregate principal amount and is not a Global Security
upon 20 days' prior request made by the Depositary or its Agent Member to the
Securities Registrar.
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other
Securities or cancelled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the
Depositary or its nominee to the Securities Registrar for exchange or
cancelation as provided in this Article III. If any Global Security is to be
exchanged for other Securities or cancelled in part, or if another Security is
to be
exchanged in whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global Security,
then either (i) such Global Security shall be so surrendered for exchange or
cancelation as provided in this Article III or (ii) the principal amount thereof
shall be reduced, subject to Section 3.06(b)(iv), or increased by an amount
equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or cancelled, or equal to the
principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial
interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made
on the records of the Securities Registrar, whereupon the Trustee shall instruct
the Depositary or its authorized representative to make a corresponding
adjustment to its records. Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global
Security by the Depositary, accompanied by registration instructions, the
Trustee shall, subject to Section 3.05(b) and as otherwise provided in this
Article III, authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange for
such Global Security (or any portion thereof) in accordance with the
instructions of the Depositary. The Trustee shall not be liable for any delay in
delivery of such instructions and may conclusively rely on, and shall be fully
protected in relying on, such instructions.
(d) The Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a
Global Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes
under this Indenture and the Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a
Global Security shall hold such interest pursuant to the rules and procedures of
the Depositary. Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interests in a Global
Security shall be shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be
effected only through, records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or
its Agent Members. Neither the Trustee nor the Securities Registrar shall have
any liability in respect of any transfers effected by the Depositary.
(e) The rights of the beneficial interests in a Global
Security shall be exercised only through the Depositary and shall be limited to
those established by law and agreements between such owners and the Depositary
and/or its Agent Members.
SECTION 3.06. Registration, Transfer and Exchange Generally;
Certain Transfers and Exchanges. (a) The Company shall cause to be kept at the
Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee a register in which, subject to such
reasonable regulations as it may prescribe, the Company shall provide for the
registration of the Securities and of transfers of Securities. Such register is
herein sometimes referred to as the "Securities Register". The Trustee is hereby
appointed "Securities Registrar" for the purpose of registering the Securities
and transfers of Securities as herein provided.
Upon surrender for registration of transfer of any Security at
the office or agency of the Company designated for that purpose the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in the name of
the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities of the same
series of any authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount, of
the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity and having the same terms.
At the option of the Holder, Securities may be exchanged for
other Securities of the same series of any authorized denominations, of a like
aggregate principal amount, of the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity
and having the same terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at
such office or agency. Whenever any securities are so 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 transfer or 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 transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or
exchange shall (if so required by the Company or the Securities Registrar) be
duly endorsed, or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form
satisfactory to the Company and the Securities Registrar,
duly executed by the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing.
No service charge shall be made to a Holder for any transfer
or 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 transfer or exchange of Securities.
Neither the Company nor the Trustee shall be required,
pursuant to the provisions of this Section, (a) to issue, transfer or exchange
any Security of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business
15 days before the day of mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities
pursuant to Article XI and ending at the close of business on the day of mailing
of notice of redemption or (b) to transfer or exchange any Security so selected
for redemption in whole or in part, except, in the case of any Security to be
redeemed in part, any portion thereof not to be redeemed.
(b) Certain Transfers and Exchanges. Notwithstanding any other
provision of the Indenture, transfers and exchanges of Securities and beneficial
interests in a Global Capital Security of the kinds specified in this Section
3.06(b) shall be made only in accordance with this Section 3.06(b).
(i) Non-Global Security to Global Security. If the Holder of a
Security (other than a Global Security) wishes at any time to transfer all or
any portion of such Security to a Person who wishes to take delivery thereof in
the form of a beneficial interest in a Global Security, such transfer may be
effected only in accordance with the provisions of this clause (b)(i) and
subject to the rules and procedures of the Depositary. Upon receipt by the
Securities Registrar of (A) such Security as provided in Section 3.06(a) and
instructions satisfactory to the Securities Registrar directing that a
beneficial interest in the Global Security in a specified principal amount not
greater than the principal amount of such Security be credited to a specified
Agent Member's account and (B) a Securities Certificate duly executed by such
Holder or such Holder's attorney duly authorized in writing, then the Securities
Registrar shall cancel such Security (and issue
a new Security in respect of the untransferred portion thereof) as provided in
Section 3.06(a) and increase the aggregate principal amount of the Global
Security by the specified principal amount as provided in Section 3.05(c).
(ii) Non-Global Security to Non-Global Security. A Security
that is not a Global Security may be transferred, in whole or in part, to a
Person who takes delivery in the form of another Security that is not a Global
Security as provided in Section 3.06(a).
(iii) Exchanges between Global Security and Non-Global
Security. A beneficial interest in a Global Security may be exchanged for a
Security that is not a Global Security as provided in Section 3.05.
(iv) Limitations Relating to Principal Amount. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Indenture and unless otherwise specified as
permitted by Section 3.01, Securities or portions thereof may be transferred or
exchanged only in principal amounts of not less than $25.00 and integral
multiples of $25.00 in excess thereof. Any transfer, exchange or other
disposition of Securities in contravention of the Section 3.06(b)(iv) shall be
deemed to be void and of no legal effect whatsoever, any such transferee shall
be deemed not to be the Holder or owner of any beneficial interest in such
Securities for any purpose, including but not limited to the receipt of interest
payable on such Securities, and such transferee shall be deemed to have no
interest whatsoever in such Securities.
SECTION 3.07. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and Stolen
Securities. If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee together
with 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 in exchange therefor a new Security of the same issue
and series of like tenor and principal amount, having the same Original Issue
Date and Stated Maturity and bearing the same Interest Rate as such mutilated
Security, and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
If there shall be delivered to the Company and to the Trustee
(i) evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (ii) such security or indemnity
as may be required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence
of notice to the Company or the Trustee that such Security has been acquired by
a bona fide purchaser, the issuing Company shall execute and upon its request
the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in lieu of any such destroyed, lost
or stolen Security, a new Security of the same issue and series of like tenor
and principal amount, having the same Original Issue Date and Stated Maturity
and bearing the same Interest Rate as such destroyed, lost or stolen Security,
and bearing a number not contemporaneously outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security
has become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion
may, instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
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) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of
any destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the destroyed, lost or
stolen Security 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 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.
SECTION 3.08. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights Preserved.
Interest on any Security of any series 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 in respect of Securities
of such series, except that, unless otherwise provided in the Securities of such
series, interest payable on the Stated Maturity of a Security shall be paid to
the Person to whom principal is paid. The initial payment of interest on any
Security of any series which is issued between a Regular Record Date and the
related Interest Payment Date shall be payable as provided in such Security or
in the Board Resolution pursuant to Section 3.01 with respect to the related
series of Securities.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not
timely paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date for Securities of
such series (herein called "Defaulted Interest"), shall forthwith cease to be
payable to the registered Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue
of having been such Holder, 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 any Defaulted
Interest to the Persons in whose names the Securities of such series in respect
of which interest is in default (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are
registered at the close of business on a Special Record Date for the payment of
such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The
Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of Defaulted Interest
proposed to be paid on each Security and the date of the proposed payment, and
at the same time the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount of money
equal to the aggregate amount proposed to be paid in respect of such Defaulted
Interest or shall make arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for such deposit
prior to the date of the proposed payment, such money when deposited to be held
in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such Defaulted Interest as
in this Clause provided. Thereupon the Trustee shall fix a Special Record Date
for the payment of such Defaulted Interest which shall not be 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, first class, postage prepaid, to each Holder of a
Security of such series at the address of such Holder as it appears in the
Securities Register not less than 10 days prior to such Special Record Date. The
Trustee may, in its discretion, in the name and at the expense of the Company,
cause a similar notice to be published at least once in a newspaper, customarily
published in the English language on each Business Day and of general
circulation in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York, but such
publication shall not be a condition precedent to the establishment of such
Special Record Date. Notice of the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest
and the Special Record Date therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such
Defaulted Interest shall be paid to the Persons in whose names the Securities of
such series (or their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered on such
Special Record Date and shall no longer be payable pursuant to the following
Clause (2).
(2) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest in
any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities
exchange on which the Securities of the series in respect of which interest is
in default may be listed and, upon such notice as may be required by such
exchange (or by the Trustee if the Securities are not listed), if, after notice
given by the Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this
Clause, such payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each
Security delivered under this Indenture upon 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 3.09. Persons Deemed Owners. The Company, the Trustee
and any agent of the Company or the Trustee may treat the Person in whose name
any Security is registered as the owner of such Security for the purpose of
receiving payment of principal of and (subject to Section 3.08) interest on such
Security and for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such 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. No holder of any
beneficial interest in any Global Security held on its behalf by a Depositary
shall have any rights under this Indenture with respect to such Global Security,
and such Depositary may be treated by the Company, the Trustee and any agent of
the Company or the Trustee as the owner of such Global Security for all purposes
whatsoever. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing herein shall prevent the
Company or the Trustee from giving effect to any written certification, proxy,
or other authorization furnished by a Depositary or impair, as between the
Depositary and such holders of beneficial interests, the operation of customary
practices governing the exercise of the rights of the Depositary (or its
nominee) as Holder of any Security.
SECTION 3.10. Cancellation. All Securities surrendered for
payment, redemption, transfer or exchange shall, if surrendered to any Person
other than the Trustee, be delivered to the Trustee, and any such Securities and
Securities surrendered directly to the Trustee for any such purpose shall be
promptly cancelled by it. The Company may at any time deliver to the Trustee for
cancellation any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder
which the Company may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all Securities
so delivered shall be promptly cancelled by the Trustee. No Securities shall be
authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities cancelled as provided
in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this Indenture. All cancelled
Securities shall be destroyed by the Trustee and the Trustee shall deliver to
the Company a certificate of such destruction.
SECTION 3.11. Computation of Interest. Except as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for Securities of any series, interest
on the Securities of each series for any period shall be computed on the basis
of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and interest on the Securities of each
series for any partial period shall be computed on the basis of the number of
days elapsed in a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
SECTION 3.12. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates. If
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of a
particular series, provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing with respect to the Securities, the Company shall have the right, at
any time or from time to time during the term of such series, to defer the
payment of interest on such Securities for such period or periods as may be
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 (each, an "Extension Period") during
which Extension Periods the Company shall have the right to make partial
payments of interest on any Interest Payment Date. No Extension Period shall end
on a date other than an Interest Payment Date. At the end of any such Extension
Period the Company shall pay all interest then accrued and unpaid on the
Securities (together with Additional Interest thereon, if any, at the rate
specified for the Securities of such series to the extent permitted by
applicable law), provided, however, that no Extension Period may extend beyond
the Stated Maturity of these Securities. During any such Extension Period, the
Company shall not (i) declare or pay dividends or distributions on, or redeem,
purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any of the
Company's
capital stock, or (ii) make any payment of principal, interest or premium, if
any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company
(including Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in interest to
the Securities of such series or (iii) make any guarantee payments with respect
to any guarantee by the Company of the debt securities of any Subsidiary of the
Company (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu with or
junior in interest to the Securities of such series (other than (a) dividends or
distributions in common stock of the Company, (b) any declaration of a dividend
in connection with the implementation of a shareholders' rights plan, or the
issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or
repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, (c) payments under the
applicable BancorpSouth Guarantee, (d) purchases or acquisitions of shares of
the Company's Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by the Company of
its obligations under any employee benefit plan or other contractual obligation
of the Company (other than a contractual obligation ranking pari passu with or
junior to these Securities, (e) as a result of a reclassification of the
Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of
the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's capital
stock, or (f) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital
stock or the security being converted or exchanged). Prior to the termination of
any such Extension Period, the Company may further extend such Extension Period;
provided, however, that no Extension Period shall exceed the period or periods
specified in such Securities or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of such
Securities. Upon termination of any Extension Period and upon the payment of all
accrued and unpaid interest and any Additional Interest then due on any Interest
Payment Date, and subject to the foregoing limitations, the Company may elect to
begin a new Extension Period. No interest shall be due and payable during an
Extension Period, except at the end thereof. The Company shall give the Holders
of the Securities of such series and the Trustee and the Property Trustee notice
of its election to begin any such Extension Period (or an extension thereof) at
least five Business Days prior to the Interest Payment Date or, with respect to
the Securities of a series
issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, prior to the earlier of (i) the date the
Distributions on the Trust Securities of such BancorpSouth Capital Trust would
have been payable except for the election to begin or extend such Extension
Period or (ii) the date the Administrative Trustees of such BancorpSouth Capital
Trust are required to give notice to any automated quotation system or to
holders of Trust Securities of the record date or the date such Distributions
are payable, but in any event not less than five Business Days prior to such
record date. There is no limitation on the number of times that the Company may
elect to begin an Extension Period.
SECTION 3.13. Agreed Tax Treatment. Each Security issued
hereunder shall provide that the Company and, by its acceptance of a Security or
a beneficial interest therein, the Holder of, and any Person that acquires a
beneficial interest in, such Security intend that such Security constitute
indebtedness and agree to treat such Security as indebtedness for all United
States federal, state and local tax purposes.
SECTION 3.14. CUSIP Numbers. The Company in issuing the
Securities may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the
Trustee shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption or other related
material as a convenience to Holders; provided, however, that any such notice or
other related material 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 or other related material 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.
ARTICLE IV
Satisfaction and Discharge
SECTION 4.01. Satisfaction and Discharge of Indenture. This
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect (except as to (i) any surviving
rights of transfer, substitution and exchange of Securities, (ii) rights
hereunder of Holders to receive payments of principal of (and premium, if any)
and interest on the Securities and other rights, duties and obligations of the
Holders as beneficiaries hereof with respect to the amounts, if any, deposited
with the Trustee pursuant to this Article IV and (iii) the rights and
obligations of the Trustee hereunder), and the Trustee, on demand of and at the
expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, when
(1) either
(A) all Securities theretofore authenticated and
delivered (other than (i) Securities which have been
destroyed, lost or stolen and which have been replaced or paid
as provided in Section 3.07 and (ii) Securities 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 10.03) have been delivered to the Trustee
for cancellation; or
(B) all such Securities 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 of the date of
deposit,
and the Company, in the case of Clause (B)(i) or (B)(ii) above, has
deposited or caused to be deposited with the Trustee as trust funds in
trust for such purpose an amount in the currency or currencies in which
the Securities of such series are payable sufficient to pay and
discharge the entire indebtedness on such Securities not theretofore
delivered to the Trustee for cancellation, for
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional
Interest) to the date of such deposit (in the case of Securities which
have become due and payable) or to the Stated Maturity;
(2) the Company has paid or caused to be paid all other sums
payable hereunder by the Company; and
(3) the Company has 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 have been complied with.
Notwithstanding the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture, the
obligations of the Company to the Trustee under Section 6.07 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 4.02 and the last
paragraph of Section 10.03 shall survive.
SECTION 4.02. Application of Trust Money. Subject to the
provisions of the last paragraph of Section 10.03, all money deposited with the
Trustee pursuant to Section 4.01, shall be held in trust and applied by the
Trustee, in accordance with the provisions of the Securities 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 (and premium, if any) and interest
for the payment of which such money or obligations have been deposited with or
received by the Trustee; provided, however, that such moneys need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law.
ARTICLE V
Remedies
SECTION 5.01. Events of Default. "Event of Default", wherever
used herein with respect to the Securities of any series, means any one of the
following events (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) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security
of that series, including any Additional Interest in respect thereof,
when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for a
period of 30 days (subject to the deferral of any due date in the case
of an Extension Period); or
(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if
any, on) any Security of that series when due, whether at its Maturity,
upon redemption, by declaration of acceleration or otherwise; or
(3) default in the performance, or breach, in any material
respect, of any covenant or warranty of the Company in this Indenture
(other than a covenant or warranty a default in the performance of
which or the breach of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of
90 days after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to
the Company by the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the
Holders of at least 25% in aggregate outstanding principal amount of
the Securities of that series a written notice specifying such default
or breach and requiring it to be remedied; or
(4) the entry or a decree or order by a court having
jurisdiction in the premises adjudging the Company a bankrupt or
insolvent, or approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect
of the Company under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization or other similar law, or appointing a
receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar
official) of the Company or of any substantial part of
its property or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs,
and the continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect
for a period of 60 consecutive days; or
(5) the institution by the Company of proceedings to be
adjudicated a bankrupt or insolvent, or the consent by it to the
institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the
filing by it of a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization
or relief under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or other similar law, or the consent by it to the filing
of any such petition or to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator,
assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of the
Company or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it
of an assignment for the benefit for creditors, or the admission by it
in writing of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become
due and its willingness to be adjudicated a bankrupt, or the taking of
corporate action by the Company in furtherance of any such action; or
(6) in respect of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital
Trust I, the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, winding-up or
termination of BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, except in connection with
the distribution of the Securities to the holders of Trust Securities
in liquidation of such BancorpSouth Capital Trust, the redemption of
all the Trust Securities of BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, or certain
mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as permitted by the
applicable Trust Agreement; or
(7) any other Event of Default with respect to Securities of
that series as may be specified in an Officers' Certificate or
supplemental indenture pursuant to Section 3.01 hereof.
SECTION 5.02. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission and
Annulment. If an Event of Default with respect to Securities of any series at
the time Outstanding occurs and is continuing, then and in every such case the
Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series may declare the
principal amount (or, if the Securities of that series are Discount Securities,
such portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that
series) of all the Securities of that series to be due and payable immediately,
by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee if given by Holders),
provided, however, that, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to
BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, if, upon an Event of Default, the Trustee or the
Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of that series fail to declare the principal of all the Securities of
that series to be immediately due and payable, the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate Liquidation Amount of the corresponding series of Capital Securities
then outstanding shall have such right by a notice in writing to the Company and
the Trustee. The Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of these Securities may annul such declaration and waive
the default by written notice to the Property Trustee, the Company and the
Trustee if the default (other than the nonpayment of the principal of the
Securities of such a series which has become due solely by such acceleration)
has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments of interest
and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited with the
Trustee. Should the Holders of the Securities of such a series fail to annul
such declaration and waive such default, the holders of a majority in aggregate
Liquidation Amount of the Capital Securities shall have such right. Upon any
such declaration such principal amount (or specified amount) of and the accrued
interest (including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities of such
series shall become immediately due and payable, provided, however, that the
payment of principal and interest (including any Additional Interest) on such
Securities shall remain subordinated to the extent provided in Article XIV.
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 principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series, by written notice to the
Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if:
(1) the Company has paid or deposited with the Trustee a sum
sufficient to pay:
(A) all overdue installments of interest (including
any Additional Interest) on all Securities of that series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any
Securities of that series which have become due otherwise than
by such declaration of acceleration and interest thereon at
the rate borne by the Securities, and
(C) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee
hereunder and the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and
counsel.
(2) all Events of Default with respect to Securities of that
series, other than the nonpayment of the principal of Securities of
that series which has become due solely by such acceleration, have been
cured or waived as provided in Section 5.13.
The Holders of a majority in aggregate outstanding principal
amount of the Securities of a series affected thereby may, on behalf of the
Holders of all the Securities of such series, waive any past default, except a
default in the payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest (unless
such default has been cured and a sum sufficient to pay all matured installments
of interest and principal due otherwise than by acceleration has been deposited
with the Trustee) or a default in respect of a covenant or provision which under
this Indenture cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder
of
each outstanding Security of such series and, in the case of Securities of a
series issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, should the holders of such
Securities fail to annul such declaration and waive such default, the holders of
a majority in aggregate Liquidation Amount of the related series of Capital
Securities shall have such right. The Company is required to file annually with
the Trustee a certificate as to whether or not the Company is in compliance with
all the conditions and covenants applicable to it under this Indenture.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or
impair any right consequent thereon.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of written notice declaring such
an acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, with respect to Securities
of a series all or part of which is represented by a Global Security, a record
date shall be established for determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of
such series entitled to join in such notice, which record date shall be at the
close of business on the day the Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on
such record date, or their duly designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall
be entitled to join in such notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders
after such record date; provided, however, that, unless such declaration of
acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be, shall have become
effective by virtue of the requisite percentage having joined in such notice
prior to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice of
declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment, as the case may be,
shall automatically and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of
no further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy
of a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new written
notice of declaration of acceleration, or rescission and annulment thereof, as
the case may be, that is identical to a written notice which has been cancelled
pursuant to the proviso to the preceding sentence, in which event a new record
date shall be established pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.02.
SECTION 5.03. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits for
Enforcement by Trustee. The Company covenants that if:
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security when such
interest becomes due and payable and such default continues for a
period of 30 days (subject to the deferral of any due date in the case
of an Extension Period), or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof,
the Company will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to the Trustee, for the
benefit of the Holders of such Securities, the whole amount then due and payable
on such Securities for principal, including any sinking fund payment or
analogous obligations (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest); and, in addition thereto, all amounts owing to the Trustee
under Section 6.07 and Section 10.06.
If the Company fails to pay such amounts forthwith upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, may
institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due and
unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may
enforce the same against the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities
and collect the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable in the manner provided
by law out of the property of the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities, wherever situated.
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 enforce any other proper remedy.
SECTION 5.04. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or
the property of the Company or of such other obligor or their creditors,
(a) the Trustee (irrespective of whether the principal of the
Securities of any series shall then be due and payable as therein
expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether
the Trustee shall have made any demand on the Company for the payment
of overdue principal (and premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest)) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention
in such proceeding or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of
principal (and premium, if any) and interest (including any
Additional Interest) owing and unpaid in respect to the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable and to take any and all actions as
are authorized under the Trust Indenture Act in order to have
the claims of the Holders and any predecessor to the Trustee
under Section 6.07 and of the Holders allowed in any such
judicial proceedings; and
(ii) 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 in
accordance with Section 5.06; and
(b) 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 for distribution in accordance with Section 5.06, and in
the event that the Trustee shall consent to the
making of such payments directly to the Holders, to pay to the Trustee
any amount due to it and any predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the
Trustee to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Holder
any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any Holder thereof, or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Holder in any proceeding; provided, however,
that the Trustee may, on behalf of the Holders, vote for the election of a
trustee in bankruptcy or similar official and be a member of a creditors' or
other similar committee.
SECTION 5.05. Trustee May Enforce Claim Without Possession of
Securities. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without the possession
of any of the Securities or the production thereof in any proceeding relating
thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the Trustee shall be brought in
its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any recovery of judgment shall,
after provision for the payment of all the amounts owing the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07, its agents and counsel, be for the
ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities in respect of which such
judgment has been recovered.
SECTION 5.06. Application of Money Collected. Any money or
property collected or to be applied by the Trustee with respect to a series of
Securities pursuant to this Article shall be applied in the following order, at
the date or dates fixed by the Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such
money or property on account of principal (or premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest), 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 payment of all amounts due the Trustee and any
predecessor Trustee under Section 6.07;
Second: to the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon
such series of Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest (including any Additional Interest), in respect of which or
for the benefit of which such money has been collected, ratably,
without preference or priority of any kind, according to the amounts
due and payable on such series of Securities for principal (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest),
respectively; and
Third: the balance, if any, to the Person or Persons entitled
thereto.
SECTION 5.07. Limitation on Suits. No Holder of any Securities
of any series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or
otherwise, with respect to this Indenture or for the appointment of a receiver,
assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar official) or for
any other remedy hereunder, unless:
(1) such 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 not less than 25% in aggregate principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series shall have made
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
reasonable indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be
incurred in compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has
been given to the Trustee during such 60-day period by the Holders of a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that
series;
it being understood and intended that no one or more of such Holders shall have
any right in any manner whatever by virtue of, or by availing itself of, any
provision of this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of any
other Holders of Securities, 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 such Holders.
SECTION 5.08. Unconditional Right of Holders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest; Control by Holders. (a) Notwithstanding any
other provision in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the
right which is absolute and unconditional to receive payment of the principal of
(and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 3.08) interest (including any
Additional Interest) on such Security on the respective Stated Maturities
expressed in such Security and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment, and such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such
Holder. In the case of Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital
Trust I, any holder of the corresponding series of Capital Securities shall have
the right, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default described in Section
5.01(1) or 5.01(2) hereof, to institute a suit directly against the Company for
enforcement of payment to such Holder of principal of (and premium, if any) and
(subject to Section 3.08) interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities having a principal amount equal to the aggregate Liquidation Amount
of the Capital Securities of the corresponding series held by such Holder.
Notwithstanding any payments made to a holder of Capital Securities by the
Company in connection with a suit directly against the Company, the Company
shall remain obligated to pay the principal of or interest on the Securities,
and the Company shall be subrogated to the rights of the holder of such Capital
Securities with respect to payments on the Capital Securities to the extent of
any payments made by the Company to such holder in any suit directly against the
Company.
(b) The Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series shall
have the right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding
for any remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power
conferred on the Trustee with respect to the Securities of such series, provided
that:
(i) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture,
(ii) the Trustee shall not determine that the action so
directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part
in such direction,
(iii) subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow any such direction if the
Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of
the Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would involve
the Trustee in personal liability, and
(iv) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by
the Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
(c) The holders of the Capital Securities will not be able to
exercise directly any remedies, other than those set forth in this Section 5.08,
available to the holders of the Securities unless there shall have been an Event
of Default under the Trust Agreement.
SECTION 5.09. 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 case the Company, the Trustee and the Holders
shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding, 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 5.10. Rights and Remedies Cumulative. Except as
otherwise provided in the last paragraph of
Section 3.07, no right or remedy herein conferred upon or reserved to the
Trustee or to 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 right and remedy given hereunder or now or
hereafter existing at law or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment
of any right or remedy hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent
assertion or employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
SECTION 5.11. Delay or Omission Not Waiver. Except as
otherwise provided in the last paragraph of Section 3.07, no delay or omission
of the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this Article or by law to the
Trustee or to the Holders may be exercised from time to time, and as often as
may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the Holders as the case may be.
SECTION 5.12. Control by Holders. The Holders of a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series shall have the
right to direct the time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any
remedy available to the Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on
the Trustee, with respect to the Securities of such series, provided that:
(1) such direction shall not be in conflict with any rule of
law or with this Indenture;
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction; and
(3) subject to the provisions of Section 6.01, the Trustee
shall have the right to decline to follow such direction if the Trustee
in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the
Trustee, determine that the proceeding so directed would be unjustly
prejudicial to the Holders not joining in any
such direction or would involve the Trustee in personal liability.
Upon receipt by the Trustee of any written notice directing
the time, method or place of conducting any such proceeding or exercising any
such trust or power, with respect to Securities of a series all or part of which
is represented by a Global Security, a record date shall be established for
determining Holders of Outstanding Securities of such series entitled to join in
such notice, which record date shall be at the close of business on the day the
Trustee receives such notice. The Holders on such record date, or their duly
designated proxies, and only such Persons, shall be entitled to join in such
notice, whether or not such Holders remain Holders after such record date;
provided, however, that, unless the Holders of a majority in principal amount of
the Outstanding Securities of such series shall have joined in such notice prior
to the day which is 90 days after such record date, such notice shall
automatically and without further action by any Holder be cancelled and of no
further effect. Nothing in this paragraph shall prevent a Holder, or a proxy of
a Holder, from giving, after expiration of such 90-day period, a new notice
identical to a notice which has been cancelled pursuant to the proviso to the
preceding sentence, in which event a new record date shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.12.
SECTION 5.13. Waiver of Past Defaults. The Holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of
any series may on behalf of the Holders of all the Securities of such series
waive any past default hereunder and its consequences with respect to such
series except a default:
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security of such
series; or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under
Article IX cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security of such series 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; but no such waiver shall extend to any
subsequent or other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
SECTION 5.14. Undertaking for Costs. All parties to this
Indenture agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall
be deemed to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any
suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any
suit against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the
filing by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of
such suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Holder, or group
of Holders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, or to any suit instituted by any Holder
for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security on or after the
respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security.
SECTION 5.15. Waiver of Usury, Stay or Extension Laws. The
Company 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 the Company (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.
ARTICLE VI
The Trustee
SECTION 6.01. Certain Duties and Responsibilities. (a) Except
during the continuance of an Event of Default:
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only
such duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no
implied covenants or obligations shall be read into this Indenture
against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may
conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but in the case of any such certificates or opinions
which by any provisions hereof are specifically required to be
furnished to the Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine
the same to determine whether or not they conform to the requirements
of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in 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:
(i) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect
of Subsection (a) of this Section;
(ii) 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
(iii) 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 Holders pursuant to Section 5.12 relating to the
time, method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy
available to the Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred
upon the Trustee, under this Indenture with respect to the Securities
of such series.
(d) No provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee
to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any of its
rights or powers, if there shall be grounds for believing that repayment of such
funds or indemnity satisfactory to its against such risk or liability is not
assured to it.
(e) 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.
SECTION 6.02. Notice of Defaults. Within 90 days after actual
knowledge by a Responsible Officer of the Trustee of the occurrence of any
default hereunder with respect to the Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail to all Holders of Securities of such series, as their
names and addresses appear in the Securities Register, notice of such default
hereunder known to a Responsible Officer of the Trustee, unless such default
shall have been cured or waived; provided, however, that, except in the case of
a default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest
(including any Additional Interest) on any Security of such series, the Trustee
shall be fully protected in withholding such notice if and so long as the board
of directors, the executive committee or a trust committee of directors and/or
Responsible Officers of the Trustee in good faith determines that the
withholding of such notice is in the interests of the Holders of Securities of
such series; and provided, further, however, that, in the case of any
default of the character specified in Section 5.01(3), no such notice to Holders
of Securities of such series shall be given until at least 30 days after the
occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default" means
any event which is, or after notice or lapse of time or both would become, an
Event of Default with respect to Securities of such series.
SECTION 6.03. Certain Rights of Trustee. Subject to the
provisions of Section 6.01:
(a) the Trustee may conclusively rely and shall be fully
protected in acting or refraining from acting upon any resolution,
certificate, statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request,
direction, consent, order, bond, debenture, Security or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or
presented by the proper party or parties;
(b) any request or direction of the Company mentioned herein
shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or Company Order
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) shall
be entitled to receive and may, in the absence of bad faith on its
part, conclusively rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel 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 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 this Indenture, unless
such
Holders shall have offered to the Trustee security or indemnity
satisfactory to it against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
might be incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation
into the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate,
statement, instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction,
consent, order, bond, indenture, Security or other paper or document,
but the Trustee in its discretion may make such inquiry or
investigation into such facts or matters as it may see fit, and, if the
Trustee shall determine to make such inquiry or investigation, it shall
be entitled to examine the books, records and premises of the Company,
personally or by agent or attorney;
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers
hereunder or perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or
through agents or attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any agent or attorney
appointed with due care by it hereunder;
(h) the Trustee shall not be under any obligation to take any
action that is discretionary under the provisions of this Indenture;
(i) the Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge of any
Event of Default unless either (1) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee
shall have actual knowledge or (2) the Trustee shall have received
notice thereof in accordance with Section 1.05(1) hereof from the
Company or a Holder; and
(j) no permissive power or authority available to the Trustee
shall be construed as a duty.
SECTION 6.04. Not Responsible for Recitals or Issuance of
Securities. The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the
Trustee's certificates of authentication, shall be taken as the statements of
the Company, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their correctness.
The Trustee makes no representations as
to the validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities or any
offering or disclosure materials prepared in connection therewith. The Trustee
shall not be accountable for the use or application by the Company of the
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
SECTION 6.05. May Hold Securities. The Trustee, any Paying
Agent, Securities Registrar or any other agent of the Company, in its individual
or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities and,
subject to Sections 6.08 and 6.13, may otherwise deal with the Company with the
same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying Agent, Securities
Registrar or such other agent.
SECTION 6.06. 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 with the Company.
SECTION 6.07. Compensation and Reimbursement. The Company, as
borrower on the Securities, agrees:
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time reasonable
compensation for all services rendered by it hereunder in such amounts
as the Company and the Trustee shall agree from time to time (which
compensation shall not be limited by any provision of law in regard to
the compensation a trustee of an express trust);
(2) to reimburse the Trustee upon its request for all
reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any provision of this Indenture (including
the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its
agents and counsel), except any such expense, disbursement or advance
as may be attributable to its negligence or bad faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee, its officers, agents, directors
and employees for, and to hold them harmless against, any loss,
liability or expense
(including the reasonable compensation and the expenses and
disbursements of its agents and counsel) incurred without negligence or
bad faith, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust or the performance of its duties
hereunder, including the 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 obligations of the Company under this Section 6.07 shall
survive the termination of this Indenture or the earlier resignation or removal
of the Trustee.
To secure the Company's payment obligations in this Section,
the Company and the Holders agree that the Trustee shall have a lien prior to
the Securities on all money or property held or collected by the Trustee. Such
lien shall survive the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture.
When the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services after an
Event of Default specified in Section 5.01(4) or (5) occurs, the expenses and
the compensation for the services are intended to constitute expenses of
administration under the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended, or any successor
statute.
SECTION 6.08. Disqualification; Conflicting Interests. The
Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to
the provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act. Nothing herein
shall prevent the Trustee from filing with the Commission the application
referred to in the second-to-last paragraph of Section 301(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 6.09. Corporate Trustee Required, Eligibility. There
shall at all times be a Trustee hereunder which shall be:
(a) a corporation organized and doing business under the laws
of the United States of America or of any state, territory or the
District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to exercise corporate
trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by Federal,
state, territorial or District of Columbia authority, or
(b) a corporation or other Person organized and doing business
under the laws of a foreign government that is permitted to act as
Trustee pursuant to a rule, regulation or order of the Commission,
authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers, and
subject to supervision or examination by authority of such foreign
government or a political subdivision thereof substantially equivalent
to the supervision or examination applicable to United States
institutional trustees,
in either case having a combined capital and surplus of at least $50,000,000,
subject to supervision of examination by Federal or state authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant to law or
to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining authority, then,
for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and surplus of such
corporation 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 hereinafter specified
in this Article. Neither the Company nor any Person directly or indirectly
controlling, controlled by or under common control with the Company shall serve
as Trustee for the Securities of any series issued hereunder.
SECTION 6.10. Resignation and Removal; Appointment of
Successor. (a) No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a
successor Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the
acceptance of appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 6.11.
(b) The Trustee may resign at any time with respect to the
Securities of one or more series by giving written notice thereof to the
Company. If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have
been delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of such series.
(c) The Trustee may be removed at any time with respect to the
Securities of any series by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of such series, delivered to the Trustee and to
the Company.
(d) If at any time:
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 6.08 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
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 6.09
and shall fail to resign after written request therefor by the Company
or by any such Holder, or
(iii) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting or shall be
adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a receiver of the Trustee or of its
property shall be appointed or any public officer shall take charge or
control of the Trustee or of its property or affairs for the purpose of
rehabilitation, conservation or liquidation, then, in any such case,
(i) the Company, acting pursuant to the authority of a Board
Resolution, may remove the Trustee, or (ii) subject to Section 5.14,
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 and the appointment of a Successor Trustee.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become
incapable of acting, or if a vacancy shall occur in the office of Trustee for
any cause with respect to the Securities of one or more series, the Company, by
a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of that or those series. 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, become the successor Trustee with respect to the Securities
of such series and 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 hereinafter provided, any Holder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security for at least six months may, subject to Section 5.14, 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.
(f) 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
by mailing written notice of such event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to
the Holders of Securities of such series as their names an addresses appear in
the Securities Register. 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 6.11. 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 so appointed shall execute, acknowledge
and deliver to the Company and to the retiring Trustee an instrument accepting
such appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the retiring
Trustee shall become effective and such successor Trustee,
without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the
rights, powers trusts 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 the successor
Trustee with respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the
Company, the retiring Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to the
Securities of one or more series shall execute and deliver an instrument or an
indenture supplemental hereto wherein each successor Trustee shall accept such
appointment and which (1) shall contain such provisions as shall be necessary or
desirable to transfer and confirm to, and to vest in, each 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, (2) 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 (3) 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 instrument or supplemental indenture
shall constitute such Trustee 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 and delivery of such instrument or 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 such Successor Trustee all 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 this Article. In the event that the Trust Indenture Act applies
to this Indenture at the time that any Successor Trustee is appointed, such
Successor Trustee shall qualify under such Act.
SECTION 6.12. 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 of 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 (including qualification under the Trustee Indenture Act, if
applicable), 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, and in case any
Securities shall not have been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may
authenticate such Securities either in the name of any predecessor Trustee or in
the name of such Successor
Trustee, and in all cases the certificate of authentication shall have the full
force which it is provided anywhere in the Securities or in this Indenture that
the certificate of the Trustee shall have.
SECTION 6.13. Preferential Collection of Claims Against
Company. If and when the Trustee shall be or become a creditor of the Company
(or any other obligor upon the Securities), the Trustee shall be subject to the
provisions of the Trust Indenture Act regarding the collection of claims against
the Company (or any such other obligor).
SECTION 6.14. Appointment of Authenticating Agent. The Trustee
may appoint an authenticating agent or agents (each, an "Authenticating Agent")
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 and upon 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. Where 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. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, or of any state, Territory or
the District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and
subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State authority. If such
Authenticating Agent publishes reports of condition at least annually, pursuant
to law or to the requirements of said 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. If 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 all or
substantially all of the corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent
shall be the successor Authenticating Agent hereunder, provided such corporation
shall be otherwise eligible under this Section, without the execution or filing
of any paper or any further act on the part of the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving
written notice thereof to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any
time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by giving written notice
thereof to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving such a
notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time such
Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of this Section, the Trustee may appoint a successor Authenticating
Agent which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall give notice of such
appointment in the manner provided in Section 1.06 to all Holders of Securities
of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve. 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.
No successor Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the
provision of this Section.
The Company agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent from
time to time reasonable compensation 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 each series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alterative certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within
mentioned Indenture.
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Agent Trustee
by
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As Authenticating Agent
by
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Authorized Signatory
SECTION 6.15. Trustee's Rights and Obligations After
Qualification of Indenture. Following the qualification of this Indenture under
the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee shall have and be subject to all the duties
and responsibilities specified with respect to an indenture trustee under the
Trust Indenture Act. Subject to such provisions, the Trustee is under no
obligation to exercise any of the powers vested in it by this Indenture at the
request of any holder of the Securities, unless offered indemnity to its
satisfaction by such holder against the costs, expenses and liabilities which
might be incurred thereby. The Trustee will not be required to expend or risk
its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial liability in the performance
of its duties if the Trustee reasonably believes that repayment or adequate
indemnity is not reasonably assured to it. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
nothing in this Section 6.15 shall be deemed to abrogate any of the rights,
indemnities or protections otherwise provided to the Trustee under this
Indenture.
ARTICLE VII
Holder's Lists and Reports by Trustee and Company
SECTION 7.01. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and Addresses
of Holders. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the Trustee:
(a) semi-annually, not more than 15 days after each December
15 and June 15, a list, in such form as the Trustee may reasonably
require, of the names and addresses of the Holders as of such December
15 and June 15, and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing,
within 30 days after the receipt by the Company of any such request, a
list of similar form and content as of a date not more than 15 days
prior to the time such list is furnished, excluding from any such list
names and addresses received by the Trustee in its capacity as
Securities Registrar.
SECTION 7.02. Preservation of Information, Communications to
Holders. (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, the names and addresses of Holders contained in the most recent
list furnished to the Trustee as provided in Section 7.01 and the names and
addresses of Holders received by the Trustee in its capacity as Securities
Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided in
Section 7.01 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) The rights of Holders to communicate with other Holders
with respect to their rights under this Indenture or under the Securities, and
the corresponding rights and privileges of the Trustee, shall be as provided in
the Trust Indenture Act.
(c) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the
same, agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the
Trustee nor any agent of either of them shall be held accountable by reason of
the disclosure of information as to the names and addresses of the Holders made
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 7.03. Reports by Trustee. (a) The Trustee shall
transmit to Holders such reports concerning the Trustee and its actions under
this Indenture as may be required pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act, at the
times and in the manner provided pursuant thereto.
(b) Reports so required to be transmitted at stated intervals
of not more than 12 months shall be transmitted no later than the last calendar
day in February of each calendar year dated as of December 31 of the prior year,
commencing with the last calendar day in February 2003.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Holders, be filed by the Trustee with each securities exchange
upon which the Securities are listed and also with the Commission. The Company
will notify the Trustee whenever the Securities are listed on any securities
exchange.
SECTION 7.04. Reports by Company. The Company shall file with
the Trustee and with the Commission, and transmit to Holders, such information,
documents and other reports, and such summaries thereof, as may be required
pursuant to the Trust Indenture Act at the times and in the manner provided in
the Trust Indenture Act; provided that any such information, documents or
reports required to be filed with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, shall be filed
with the Trustee within 15 days after the same is required to be filed with the
Commission. Notwithstanding that the Company may not be required to remain
subject to the reporting requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the Company shall continue to file with the Commission and
provide the Trustee with the annual reports and the information, documents and
other reports which are specified in Sections 13 and 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934. The Company also shall comply with the other provisions of
Section 314(a) of the Trust Indenture Act.
ARTICLE VIII
Consolidation, Merger, Conveyance, Transfer or Lease
SECTION 8.01. Company May Consolidate, etc., Only on Certain
Terms. The Company shall not consolidate with or merge with or into any other
Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets substantially as
an entirety to any Person, and no Person shall consolidate with or merge with or
into the Company or convey, transfer or lease its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to the Company, unless:
(1) in case the Company shall consolidate with or merge with
or into another Person or convey, transfer or lease its properties and
assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, the corporation
formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the
Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer, or which leases, the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety shall
be a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or trust
organized and existing under the laws of the United States of America
or any State or the District of Columbia, and shall expressly assume,
by an indenture supplemental hereto, executed and delivered to the
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on all the Securities and the
performance of every covenant and every obligation of this Indenture on
the part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or
both, would become an Event of Default, shall have occurred and be
continuing;
(3) in the case of the Securities of a series issued to
BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, such consolidation, merger, conveyance,
transfer or lease is permitted under the related Trust Agreement and
BancorpSouth Guarantee and does not give rise to any
breach or violation of the related Trust Agreement or BancorpSouth
Guarantee; and
(4) the Company has delivered to the Trustee an Officers'
Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that such
consolidation, merger, conveyance, transfer or lease and any such
supplemental indenture complies with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction
have been complied with; and the Trustee, subject to Section 6.01, may
rely upon such Officers' Certificate and Opinion of Counsel as
conclusive evidence that such transaction complies with this Section
8.01.
SECTION 8.02. Successor Corporation Substituted. Upon any
consolidation or merger by the Company with or into any other Person, or any
conveyance, transfer or lease by the Company of its properties and assets
substantially as an entirety to any Person in accordance with Section 8.01, the
successor corporation formed by such consolidation or into which the Company is
merged or to which such conveyance, transfer or lease is made shall succeed to,
and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of, the Company
under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor Person had been
named as the Company herein; and in the event of any such conveyance, transfer
or lease the Company shall be discharged from all obligations and covenants
under the Indenture and the Securities and may be dissolved and liquidated.
Such successor Person may cause to be signed, and may issue
either in its own name or in the name of the Company, any or all of the
Securities issuable hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by
the Company and delivered to the Trustee; and, upon the order of such successor
Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms, conditions and
limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee shall authenticate and
shall deliver any Securities which previously shall have been signed and
delivered by the officers of the Company to the Trustee for authentication
pursuant to such provisions and any Securities which such successor Person
thereafter shall cause to be signed and delivered to the Trustee on its
behalf for the purpose pursuant to such provisions. All the Securities so issued
shall in all respects have the same legal rank and benefit under this Indenture
as the Securities theretofore or thereafter issued in accordance with the terms
of this Indenture as though all of such Securities had been issued at the date
of the execution hereof.
In case of any such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance or
lease, such changes in phraseology and form may be made in the Securities
thereafter to be issued as may be appropriate.
ARTICLE IX
Supplemental Indentures
SECTION 9.01. Supplemental Indentures without Consent of
Holders. Without the consent of any Holders, the Company, when authorized by a
Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to time, may enter
into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form satisfactory, to the
Trustee, for any of the following:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the
Company, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants of
the Company herein and in the Securities contained;
(2) to convey, transfer, assign, mortgage or pledge any
property to or with the Trustee or to surrender any right or power
herein conferred upon the Company;
(3) to establish the form or terms of Securities of any series
as permitted by Sections 2.01 or 3.01;
(4) to add to the covenants of the Company 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;
(5) to add any additional Events of Default;
(6) to change or eliminate any of the provisions of this
Indenture; provided that any such 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;
(7) to cure any ambiguity, 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 that such action
pursuant to this clause (7) shall not materially adversely affect the
interest of the Holders of Securities of any series or, in the case of
the Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust I and
for so long as any of the corresponding series of Capital Securities
shall remain outstanding, the holders of such Capital Securities;
(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(b); or
(9) to comply with the requirements of the Commission in order
to effect or maintain the qualification of this Indenture under the
Trust Indenture Act.
SECTION 9.02. Supplemental Indentures with Consent of Holders.
With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in principal amount
of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such supplemental
indenture, by Act of said Holders delivered to the Company and the Trustee, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into
an indenture or indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any
provisions to or changing in any manner or eliminating
any of the provisions of this Indenture or of modifying in any manner the rights
of the Holders of Securities of such series under this Indenture; provided,
however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of the
Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby,
(1) except to the extent permitted by Section 3.12 or as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the
extension of the interest payment period of the Securities of any
series, change the Stated Maturity of the principal of, or any
installment of interest (including any Additional Interest) on, any
Security, or reduce the principal amount thereof or the rate of
interest thereon or reduce any premium payable upon the redemption
thereof, or reduce the amount of principal of a Discount Security that
would be due and payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 5.02, or change the place of
payment where, or the coin or currency in which, any Security or
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 date fixed for
redemption thereof);
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series, 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) modify any of the provisions of this Section, Section 5.13
or Section 10.05, except to increase any such percentage or to provide
that certain other provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or
waived without the consent of the Holder of each Security affected
thereby; or
(4) modify the provisions in Article XIII of this Indenture
with respect to the subordination of Outstanding Securities of any
series in a manner adverse to the Holders thereof;
provided that, in the case of the Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth
Capital Trust I, so long as any of the corresponding series of Capital
Securities remains outstanding, no such amendment shall be made that adversely
affects the holders of such Capital Securities, and no termination of this
Indenture shall occur, and no waiver of any Event of Default or compliance with
any covenant under this Indenture shall be effective, without the prior consent
of the holders of at least a majority of the aggregate Liquidation Amount of
such Capital Securities then outstanding unless and until the principal (and
premium, if any) of the Securities of such series and all accrued and, subject
to Section 3.08, unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest) thereon
have been paid in full; and provided further, however, that in the case of the
Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, so long as any of
the corresponding series of Capital Securities remain outstanding, no amendment
shall be made to Section 5.08 of this Indenture without the prior consent of the
holders of each Capital Security then outstanding unless and until the principal
(and premium, if any) of the Securities of such series and all accrued and
(subject to Section 3.08) unpaid interest (including any Additional Interest)
thereon have been paid in full.
A supplemental indenture that changes or eliminates any
covenant or other provision of this Indenture that 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 shall not be necessary for any Act of Holders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
SECTION 9.03. Execution of Supplemental Indentures. In
executing or accepting the additional trusts created by any supplemental
indenture permitted by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts
created by this Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and
(subject to Section 6.01) shall be fully protected in conclusively relying upon,
an Officer's Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel stating that the execution of
such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by this Indenture, and
that all conditions precedent have been complied with. 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, or which may subject it to liability or be contrary to applicable
law.
SECTION 9.04. 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 shall be bound
thereby.
SECTION 9.05. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act. Every
supplemental indenture executed shall conform to the requirements of the Trust
Indenture Act.
SECTION 9.06. Reference in Securities to Supplemental
Indentures. Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by
the Company, bear a notation in form approved by the Company as to any matter
provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine,
new Securities of any series so modified as to conform, in the opinion of 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 of such series.
ARTICLE X
Covenants
SECTION 10.01. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest. The
Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of each series of securities that
it will duly and punctually pay the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on the Securities of that series in accordance with the terms of such
Securities and this Indenture.
SECTION 10.02. Maintenance of Office or Agency. The Company
will maintain in each Place of Payment for any series, an office or agency where
Securities of that series may be presented or surrendered for payment and an
office or agency where Securities may be surrendered for transfer or exchange
and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect of the
Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company initially appoints the
Trustee, acting through its Corporate Trust Office, as its agent for said
purposes. The Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any
change in the location of any such office or agency. If at any time the Company
shall fail to maintain such 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.
The Company may also from time to time designate one or more
other offices or agencies where the Securities may be presented or surrendered
for any or all of 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 of any series for such purposes. The
Company will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any such designation
and any change in the location of any such office or agency.
SECTION 10.03. Money for Security Payments to be Held in
Trust. If the Company 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 (and premium, if any) or interest on any of the Securities of such
series, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled
thereto a sum sufficient to pay the
principal (and 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 of its failure so to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents, it
will, prior to 10:00 a.m. New York City time on each due date of the principal
of or interest on any Securities, deposit with a Paying Agent a sum sufficient
to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming due, such sum
to be held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled to such principal
and premium (if any) or interest, and (unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee)
the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent 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 (and premium, if any) or interest on Securities 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 written notice of any default by the
Company (or any other obligor upon the Securities) in the making of any
payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest;
(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; and
(4) comply with the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act
applicable to it as a Paying Agent.
The Company may at any time, for the purpose of obtaining the
satisfaction and discharge 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 trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company or
such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by the Company or 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 the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on any Security and remaining unclaimed for two
years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest has become due and
payable shall (unless otherwise required by mandatory provision of applicable
escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property law) be paid on Company Request to
the Company, or (if then held by the Company) shall (unless otherwise required
by mandatory provision of applicable escheat or abandoned or unclaimed property
law) be discharged from such trust; 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 Borough of Manhattan, the City of New York, 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 10.04. Statement as to Compliance. The Company shall
deliver to the Trustee, within 120 days after the end of such calendar year of
the Company commencing after the date hereof, an Officers' Certificate executed
by authorized officers at least one of whom shall be the principal executive,
financial or accounting officer of the Company covering the preceding calendar
year, stating whether or not to the best knowledge of the signers thereof the
Company is in default in the performance, observance or fulfillment of or
compliance with any of the terms, provisions, covenants and conditions of this
Indenture, and if the Company shall be in default, specifying all such
defaults and the nature and status thereof of which they may have knowledge. For
the purpose of this Section 10.04, compliance shall be determined without regard
to any grace period or requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of
this Indenture.
SECTION 10.05. Waiver of Certain Covenants. The Company may
omit in any particular instance to comply with any covenant or condition
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of any
series, if before or after the time for such compliance the Holders of at least
a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series
shall, by Act of such Holders, either waive such compliance in such instance or
generally waive compliance with such covenant or condition, but no such waiver
shall extend to or affect such covenant or condition except to the extent so
expressly waived, and, until such waiver shall become effective, the obligations
of the Company in respect of any such covenant or condition shall remain in full
force and effect.
SECTION 10.06. Payment of the Trust's Costs and Expenses.
Since the BancorpSouth Capital Trusts are being formed solely to facilitate the
investment in the Securities, the Company, as borrower on the Securities, hereby
covenants to pay all debts and obligations (other than with respect to the
payment of principal, interest and premium, if any, on the Trust Securities) and
all costs and expenses of such Trusts (including, but not limited to, all costs
and expenses relating to the organization of such Trusts, the fees and expenses
of the Trustees and all costs and expenses relating to the operation of such
Trusts) and to pay any and all taxes, duties, assessments or other governmental
charges of whatever nature (other than United States withholding taxes) imposed
on such Trusts by the United States, or any other taxing authority (such
payments of amounts in connection with taxes being herein referred to as
"Additional Sums"), so that the net amounts received and retained by such Trusts
and their respective Property Trustees after paying such expenses or Additional
Sums will be equal to the amounts such Trusts and Property Trustees would have
received had no such costs, expenses or taxes, duties, assessments or other
governmental charges been incurred by or imposed on such Trusts. The foregoing
obligations of the Company are for the benefit of, and
shall be enforceable by, any person to whom such debts, obligations, costs,
expenses and taxes are owed (a "Creditor") whether or not such Creditor has
received notice thereof. Any such Creditor may enforce such obligations of the
Company hereunder directly against the Company, and the Company hereby
irrevocably waives any right or remedy to require that any such Creditor take
any action against any Trust or any other person before proceeding against the
Company. The Company also agrees hereby to execute such additional agreements as
may be necessary or desirable to give full effect to the foregoing.
SECTION 10.07. Additional Covenants. The Company covenants and
agrees with each Holder of Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital
Trust I that it will not (i) declare or pay any dividends or distributions on,
or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment with respect to, any
shares of the Company's capital stock, or (ii) make any payment of principal,
interest or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any debt
securities of the Company (including Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with
or junior in interest to the Securities of such series or (iii) make any
guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of debt
securities of any subsidiary of the Company (including Other Guarantees) if such
guarantee ranks pari passu with or junior in interest to the Securities (other
than (a) dividends or distributions in Common Stock of the Company, (b) any
declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a
shareholders' rights plan, or the issuance of stock under any such plan in the
future, or the redemption or repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, (c)
payments under the BancorpSouth Guarantee, (d) purchases or acquisitions of
shares of the Company's Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by the
Company of its obligations under any employee benefit plan or other contractual
obligation of the Company (other than a contractual obligation ranking pari
passu with or junior in interest to these Securities), (e) as a result of a
reclassification of the Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of
one class or series of the Company's capital stock for another class or series
of the Company's capital stock, or (f) the purchase of fractional interests in
shares of the Company's capital stock pursuant
to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital stock or the security
being converted or exchanged), if at such time (i) there shall have occurred an
Event of Default, (ii) the Company shall be in default with respect to its
payment of any obligations under the related BancorpSouth Guarantee or (iii) the
Company shall have given notice of its election to begin an Extension Period as
provided herein and shall not have rescinded such notice, or such Extension
Period, or any extension thereof, shall be continuing.
The Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities of a
series issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust I (i) to maintain directly 100%
ownership of the Common Securities of such BancorpSouth Capital Trust; provided,
however, that any permitted successor of the Company hereunder may succeed to
the Company's ownership of such Common Securities, (ii) not to voluntarily
terminate, windup or liquidate such BancorpSouth Capital Trust, except in
connection with (a) a distribution of the Securities of such series to the
holders of Capital Securities in liquidation of such BancorpSouth Capital Trust,
(b) redemption of all of the Trust Securities of BancorpSouth Capital Trust I or
(c) certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations permitted by the related
Trust Agreement and (iii) to use its reasonable efforts, consistent with the
terms and provisions of such Trust Agreement, to cause such BancorpSouth Capital
Trust to remain classified as a grantor trust and not an association taxable as
a corporation for United States Federal income tax purposes.
SECTION 10.08. Information Returns. On or before December 15
of each year during which any Securities are outstanding, the Company shall
furnish to each Paying Agent such information as may be reasonably requested by
each Paying Agent in order that such Paying Agent may prepare the information
which it is required to report for such year on Internal Revenue Service Forms
1096 and 1099. Such information shall include the amount of original issue
discount, if any, includible in income for each $25.00 of principal amount at
Stated Maturity of outstanding Securities during such year.
ARTICLE XI
Redemption or Prepayment of Securities
SECTION 11.01. Applicability of This Article. Redemption of
Securities (whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise) as permitted or
required by any form of Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall be made
in accordance with such form of Security and this Article; provided, however,
that if any provision of any such form of Security shall conflict with any
provision of this Article, the provision of such form of Security shall govern.
Except as otherwise set forth in the form of Security for such series, each
Security shall be subject to partial redemption only in the amount of $25.00 or,
in the case of the Securities of a series issued to BancorpSouth Capital Trust
I, $25.00, or integral multiples thereof.
SECTION 11.02. Election To Redeem; Notice to Trustee. The
election of the Company to redeem any Securities shall be evidenced by or
pursuant to a Board Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the
Company of any Securities of any particular series and having the same terms,
the Company shall, not less than 45 nor more than 60 days prior to the date
fixed for redemption (unless a shorter notice shall be satisfactory to the
Trustee), notify the Trustee and, in the case of Securities held by or on behalf
of BancorpSouth Capital Trust I, the Property Trustee of such date and of the
principal amount of Securities of that series to be redeemed. In the case of any
redemption of Securities prior to the expiration of any restriction on such
redemption provided in the terms of such Securities, the Company shall furnish
the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel evidencing
compliance with such restriction. Any such notice given to the Trustee hereunder
shall include the information required by Section 11.04 hereof.
SECTION 11.03. Selection of Securities to be Redeemed. If less
than all the Securities of any series are to be redeemed (unless all the
Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed or unless
such redemption affects only a single Security all as designated to the Trustee
by the Company), the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not
more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the
Outstanding Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by
such method 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 shall be in an authorized denomination (which shall not be less than
the minimum authorized denomination) for such Security. If less than all the
Securities of such series and of a specified tenor are to be redeemed (unless
such redemption affects only a single Security), the particular Securities to be
redeemed shall be selected not more than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by
the Trustee, from the Outstanding Securities of such series and specified tenor
not previously called for redemption in accordance with the preceding sentence.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of
the Securities selected for partial redemption and the principal amount thereof
to be redeemed. For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal amount of such Security which has been or is to be
redeemed. If the Company shall so direct, Securities registered in the name of
the Company, any Affiliate or any Subsidiary thereof shall not be included in
the Securities selected for redemption.
SECTION 11.04. Notice of Redemption. Notice of redemption
shall be given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not later than the
thirtieth day, and not earlier than the sixtieth day, prior to the date fixed
for redemption, to each Holder of Securities to be redeemed, at the address of
such Holder as it appears in the Securities Register.
With respect to Securities of each series to be redeemed, each
notice of redemption shall state:
(a) the Redemption Date fixed for Securities of such series;
(b) the redemption price at which Securities of such series
are to be redeemed;
(c) if less than all Outstanding Securities of such particular
series and having the same terms are to be redeemed, the identification
(and, in the case of partial redemption, the respective principal
amounts) of the particular Securities to be redeemed;
(d) that on the date fixed for redemption, the redemption
price at which such Securities are to be redeemed will become due and
payable upon each such Security or portion thereof, and that interest
thereon, if any, shall cease to accrue on and after said date;
(e) the place or places where such Securities are to be
surrendered for payment of the redemption price at which such
Securities are to be redeemed;
(f) that the redemption is for a sinking fund, if such is the
case; and
(g) such other provisions as may be required in respect of the
terms of a particular series of Securities.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the
election of the Company 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 and shall
be irrevocable. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the Holder
receives such notice. In any case, a failure to give such notice by mail or any
defect in the notice to the Holder of any Security designated for redemption as
a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
redemption of any other Security.
SECTION 11.05. Deposit of Redemption Price. Prior to 10:00
a.m. New York City time on the redemption date specified in the notice of
redemption given as provided in Section 11.04, the Company will deposit with the
Trustee or with one or more Paying Agents an amount of
money sufficient to redeem on the Redemption Date all the Securities so called
for redemption at the applicable redemption price.
SECTION 11.06. Payment of Securities Called for Redemption. If
any notice of redemption has been given as provided in Section 11.04, the
Securities or portion of Securities with respect to which such notice has been
given shall become due and payable on the date and at the place or places stated
in such notice at the applicable redemption price. On presentation and surrender
of such Securities at a place of payment in said notice specified, the said
Securities or the specified portions thereof shall be paid and redeemed by the
Company at the applicable redemption price.
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities of
that same series, of authorized denominations, in aggregate principal amount
equal to the unredeemed portion of the Security so presented and having the same
Original Issue Date, Stated Maturity and terms. If the Global Security is so
surrendered, such new Security will (subject to Section 3.06) also be a new
Global Security.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid
upon surrender thereof for redemption, the principal of and premium, if any, on
such Security shall, until paid, bear interest from the Redemption Date at the
rate prescribed therefor in the Security.
SECTION 11.07. Company's Right of Redemption. If specified in
accordance with Section 3.01 with respect to the Securities of a particular
series and in addition to any additional redemption rights that may be so
specified, the Company may at any time, at its option, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Article XI and subject to the Company having received prior
approval of the Regulatory Authorities if then required under applicable capital
guidelines of the Regulatory Authorities, redeem this Security in whole or in
part at any time or from time to time prior to Maturity, subject to the terms of
the Securities of a particular series.
If a Tax Event, a Capital Treatment Event or an Investment
Company Event (each a "Special Event") shall occur and be continuing, the
Company may, at its option and subject to receipt of prior approval of the
Regulatory Authorities if then required under applicable capital guidelines or
policies of the Regulatory Authorities and subject to the provisions of this
Article XI of the Indenture, prepay the Securities within 90 days after the
occurrence of such Special Event, in whole (but not in part), at a prepayment
price (the "Special Event Prepayment Price") equal to 100% of the principal
amount of such Securities.
SECTION 11.08. Redemption Suspended During Event of Default.
The Trustee shall not redeem any Securities (unless all Securities then
Outstanding are to be redeemed) or commence the giving of any notice of
redemption of Securities during the continuance of any Event of Default known to
the Trustee, except that where the giving of notice of redemption of any
Securities shall therefore have been made, the Trustee shall, subject to the
provisions of Section 14.10, redeem such Securities, provided funds are
deposited with it for such purpose. Subject to the rights of the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, except as aforesaid, any moneys theretofore or thereafter
received by the Trustee shall, during the continuance of such Event of Default,
be held in trust for the benefit of the Holders and applied in the manner set
forth in Section 5.06, provided, however, that in case such Event of Default
shall have been waived as provided herein or otherwise cured, such moneys shall
thereafter be held and applied in accordance with the provisions of this
Article.
ARTICLE XII
Intentionally omitted.
ARTICLE XIII
Sinking Funds
SECTION 13.01. Applicability of Article. The provisions of
this Article shall be applicable to any sinking fund for the retirement of
Securities of any series if a sinking fund is specified in accordance with
Section 3.01 as being applicable to such Securities.
The minimum amount of any sinking fund payment provided for by
the terms of any Securities of any series is herein referred to as a "mandatory
sinking fund payment", and any sinking fund payment in excess of such minimum
amount which is permitted to be made by the terms of such Securities of any
series is herein referred to as an "optional sinking fund payment". If provided
for by the terms of any Securities of any series, the base amount of any sinking
fund payment may be subject to reduction as provided in Section 13.02. Each
sinking fund payment shall be applied to the redemption (or purchase by tender
or otherwise) of Securities of any series as provided for by the terms of such
Securities.
SECTION 13.02. Satisfaction of Sinking Fund Payments with
Securities. In lieu of making all or any part of a mandatory sinking fund
payment with respect to any Securities of a series in cash, the Company may at
its option, at any time no more than 16 months and no less than 45 days prior to
the date on which such sinking fund payment is due, deliver to the Trustee
Securities of such series (together with the unmatured Coupons, if any,
appertaining thereto) theretofore purchased or otherwise acquired by the
Company, except Securities of such series that have been redeemed through the
application of mandatory or optional sinking fund payments pursuant to the terms
of the Securities of such series, accompanied by a Company Order instructing the
Trustee to credit such obligations and stating that the Securities of such
series were originally issued by the Company by way of bona fide sale or other
negotiation for value; provided that the Securities to be so credited have not
been previously so credited. The Securities to be so credited shall be received
and credited for such purpose by the Trustee at the redemption price for such
Securities, as specified in the Securities so to be redeemed, for redemption
through operation of the sinking fund and the amount of such sinking fund
payment shall be reduced accordingly.
SECTION 13.03. Redemption of Securities for Sinking Fund. Not
less than 45 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 such
Securities pursuant to the terms of such Securities, the portion thereof, if
any, which is to be satisfied by payment of cash in the currency in which the
Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section
3.01) and the portion thereof, if any, which is to be satisfied by delivering
and crediting Securities pursuant to Section 13.02 and will also deliver to the
Trustee any Securities to be so delivered. Such Certificate shall be irrevocable
and upon its delivery the Company shall be obligated to make the cash payment or
payments therein referred to, if any, on or before the succeeding sinking fund
payment date. In the case of the failure of the Company to deliver such
Certificate (or, as required by this Indenture, the Securities and coupons, if
any, specified in such Certificate) by the due date therefor, the sinking fund
payment due on the succeeding sinking fund payment date for such series shall be
paid entirely in cash and shall be sufficient to redeem the principal amount of
the Securities of such series subject to a mandatory sinking fund payment
without the right to deliver or credit securities as provided in Section 13.02
and without the right to make the optional sinking fund payment with respect to
such series at such time.
Any sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional)
made in cash plus any unused balance of any preceding sinking fund payments made
with respect to the Securities of any particular series shall be applied by the
Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent) on
the sinking fund payment date on which such payment is made (or, if such payment
is made before a sinking fund payment date, on the sinking fund payment date
immediately following the date of such payment) to the redemption of Securities
of such series at the redemption price specified in such Securities with respect
to the sinking fund. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by the
Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregated and held in trust as provided in Section 10.03) for such series and
together with such payment (or such amount so segregated)
shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of this Section 13.03. Any
and all sinking fund moneys with respect to the Securities of any particular
series held by the Trustee (or if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent,
segregated and held in trust as provided in Section 10.03) on the last sinking
fund payment date with respect to Securities of such series and not held for the
payment or redemption of particular Securities of such series shall be applied
by the Trustee (or by the Company if the Company is acting as its own Paying
Agent), together with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited (or
segregated) sufficient for the purpose, to the payment of the principal of the
Securities of such series at Maturity. The Trustee shall select the Securities
to be redeemed upon such sinking fund payment date in the manner specified in
Section 11.03 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 11.04.
Such notice having been duly given, the redemption of such Securities shall be
made upon the terms and in the manner stated in Section 11.06. On or before each
sinking fund payment date, the Company shall pay to the Trustee (or, if the
Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, the Company shall segregate and hold
in trust as provided in Section 10.03) in cash a sum in the currency in which
Securities of such series are payable (except as provided pursuant to Section
3.01) equal to the principal, premium, if any, and any interest accrued to the
redemption date for Securities or portions thereof to be redeemed on such
sinking fund payment date pursuant to this Section 13.03.
Neither the Trustee nor the Company shall redeem any
Securities of a series with sinking fund moneys or mail any notice of redemption
of Securities of such series by operation of the sinking fund for such series
during the continuance of a default in payment of interest, if any, on any
Securities of such series or of any Event of Default (other than an Event of
Default occurring as a consequence of this paragraph) with respect to the
Securities of such series, except that if the notice of redemption shall have
been provided in accordance with the provisions hereof, the Trustee (or the
Company if the Company is then acting as its own Paying Agent) shall redeem such
Securities if cash sufficient for that purpose shall be deposited with the
Trustee (or segregated by the Company) for that purpose in
accordance with the terms of this Article XIII. Except as aforesaid, any moneys
in the sinking fund for such series at the time when any such default or Event
of Default shall occur and any moneys thereafter paid into such sinking fund
shall, during the continuance of such default or Event of Default, be held as
security for the payment of the Securities and coupons, if any, of such series;
provided, however, that in case such default or Event of Default shall have been
cured or waived herein, such moneys shall thereafter be applied on the next
sinking fund payment date for the Securities of such series on which such moneys
may be applied pursuant to the provisions of this Section 13.03.
ARTICLE XIV
Subordination of Securities
SECTION 14.01. Securities Subordinate to Senior Debt. The
Company covenants and agrees, and each Holder of a Security, by its acceptance
thereof, likewise covenants and agrees, that, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth in this Article, the payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest (including any Additional Interest) on each and
all of the Securities are hereby expressly made subordinate and junior in right
of payment to the prior payment in full of all amounts then due and payable in
respect of all Senior Debt.
SECTION 14.02. Payment Over of Proceeds Upon Dissolution, etc.
In the event of (a) any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company, its creditors or its property, (b) any
proceeding for the liquidation, dissolution, or other winding up of the Company,
voluntary or involuntary, whether or not involving insolvency or bankruptcy
proceedings, (c) any assignment by the Company for the benefit of creditors or
(d) any other marshaling of the assets of the Company (each such event, if any,
herein sometimes referred to as a "Proceeding"), then the holders of Senior Debt
shall be entitled to receive payment in full of principal of (and premium, if
any) and interest, if any, on such Senior Debt, or provision shall be made for
such
payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of Senior Debt, before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to
receive or retain any payment or distribution of any kind or character, whether
in cash, property or securities (including any payment or distribution which may
be payable or deliverable by reason of the payment of any other Debt of the
Company (including any series of the Securities) subordinated to the payment of
the Securities, such payment or distribution being hereinafter referred to as a
"Junior Subordinated Payment"), on account of principal of (or premium, if any)
or interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities or on account
of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or any
Subsidiary and to that end the holders of Senior Debt shall be entitled to
receive, for application to the payment thereof, any payment or distribution of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, including any
Junior Subordinated Payment, which may be payable or deliverable in respect of
the Securities in any such Proceeding; provided, however, that holders of Senior
Debt shall not be entitled to receive payment of any such amounts to the extent
that such holders would be required by the subordination provisions of such
Senior Debt to pay such amounts over to the obligees on trade accounts payable
or other liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this Section, the Trustee or the Holder of any Security shall have received any
payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character,
whether in cash, property or securities, including any Junior Subordinated
Payment, before all Senior Debt is paid in full or payment thereof is provided
for in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the
holders of Senior Debt, and if such fact shall, at or prior to the time of such
payment or distribution, have been made known to a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such payment
or distribution shall be paid over or delivered forthwith to the trustee in
bankruptcy, receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee, agent or other
Person making payment or distribution of assets of the Company for application
to
the payment of all Senior Debt remaining unpaid, to the extent necessary to pay
all Senior Debt in full, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or
distribution to or for the holders of Senior Debt.
For purposes of this Article only, the words "any payment or
distribution of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities"
shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or
readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for
by a plan or reorganization or readjustment which securities are subordinated in
right of payment to all then outstanding Senior Debt to substantially the same
extent as the Securities are so subordinated as provided in this Article. The
consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another
Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the sale of
all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to another
Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the sale of
all or substantially all of its properties and assets as an entirety to another
Person upon the terms and conditions set forth in Article VIII shall not be
deemed a Proceeding for the purposes of this Section if the Person formed by
such consolidation or into which the Company is merged or the Person which
acquires by sale such properties and assets as an entirety, as the case may be,
shall, as a part of such consolidation, merger, or sale comply with the
conditions set forth in Article VIII.
SECTION 14.03. Prior Payment to Senior Debt Upon Acceleration
of Securities. In the event that any Securities are declared due and payable
before their Stated Maturity, then and in such event the holders of the Senior
Debt outstanding at the time such Securities so become due and payable shall
first be entitled to receive payment in full of all amounts due on or in respect
of such Senior Debt (including any amounts due upon acceleration), or provision
shall be made for such payment in cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a
manner satisfactory to the holders of Senior Debt, before the Holders of the
Securities will be entitled to receive or retain any payment or distribution of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (including any
Junior
Subordinated Payment) by the Company on account of the principal of (or premium,
if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on the Securities or on
account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities by the Company or any
Subsidiary; provided, however, that nothing in this Section shall prevent the
satisfaction of any sinking fund payment in accordance with this Indenture or as
otherwise specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities of any
series by delivering and crediting pursuant to Section 13.02 or as otherwise
specified as contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities of any series
Securities which have been acquired (upon redemption or otherwise) prior to such
declaration of acceleration; provided further, however, that holders of Senior
Debt shall not be entitled to receive payment of any such amounts to the extent
that such holders would be required by the subordination provisions of such
Senior Debt to pay such amounts over to the obligees on trade accounts payable
or other liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited
by the foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior
to the time of such payment, have been made known to a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such
payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment
with respect to which Section 14.02 would be applicable.
SECTION 14.04. No Payment When Senior Debt in Default. (a) In
the event and during the continuation of any default by the Company in the
payment of principal of (or premium, if any) or interest, if any, on any Senior
Debt, or in the event that any event of default with respect to any Senior Debt
shall have occurred and be continuing and shall have resulted in such Senior
Debt becoming or being declared due and payable prior to the date on which it
would otherwise have become due and payable, unless and until such event of
default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to exist and such
acceleration shall have been rescinded or annulled, or (b) in the event any
judicial proceeding shall be pending with respect to any such default in payment
or such event of default, then no direct or indirect payment or distribution of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities (including any
Junior Subordinated Payment), by set-off or otherwise, shall be made or agreed
to be made by the Company on account of principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest (including any Additional Interest), if any, on the Securities or on
account of any redemption, repayment, retirement, purchase or other acquisition
of any Securities by the Company or any Subsidiary; provided, however, that
nothing in this Section shall prevent the satisfaction of any sinking fund
payment in accordance with this Indenture or as otherwise specified as
contemplated by Section 3.01 for the Securities of any series by delivering and
crediting pursuant to Section 13.02 or as otherwise specified as contemplated by
Section 3.01 for the Securities of any series which have been acquired (upon
redemption or otherwise) prior to such default in payment or event of default.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company
shall make any payment to the Trustee or the Holder of any Security prohibited
by the foregoing provisions of this Section, and if such fact shall, at or prior
to the time of such payment, have been made known to a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee or, as the case may be, such Holder, then and in such event such
payment shall be paid over and delivered forthwith to the Company.
The provisions of this Section shall not apply to any payment
with respect to which Section 14.02 would be applicable.
SECTION 14.05. Payment Permitted If No Default. Nothing
contained in this Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in any of the
Securities shall prevent (a) the Company, at any time except during the pendency
of any Proceeding referred to in Section 14.02 or under the conditions described
in Sections 14.03 and 14.04, from making payments at any time of principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on the
Securities, or (b) the application by the Trustee of any money deposited with it
hereunder to the payment of or
on account of the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest (including any
Additional Interest) on the Securities or the retention of such payment by the
Holders, if, at the time of such payment by the Company or application by the
Trustee, as the case may be, it did not have knowledge that such payment or
application, as the case may be, would have been prohibited by the provisions of
this Article.
SECTION 14.06. Subrogation to Rights of Holders of Senior
Debt. Subject to the payment of all Senior Debt to the extent required under
Sections 14.02 and 14.03 of this Indenture, or the provision for such payment in
cash or cash equivalents or otherwise in a manner satisfactory to the holders of
Senior Debt, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the extent of
the payments or distributions made to the holders of such Senior Debt pursuant
to the provisions of this Article (equally and ratably with the holders of all
indebtedness of the Company which by its express terms is subordinated to Senior
Debt of the Company to substantially the same extent as the Securities are
subordinated to the Senior Debt and is entitled to like rights of subrogation by
reason of any payments or distributions made to holders of such Senior Debt) to
the rights of the holders of such Senior Debt to receive payments and
distributions of cash, property and securities applicable to the Senior Debt
until the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities
shall be paid in full. For purposes of such subrogation or assignment, no
payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior Debt of any cash,
property or securities to which the Holders of the Securities or the Trustee
would be entitled except for the provisions of this Article, and no payments
over pursuant to the provisions of this Article to the holders of Senior Debt by
Holders of the Securities or the Trustee, shall, as among the Company, its
creditors other than holders of Senior Debt, and the Holders of the Securities,
be deemed to be a payment or distribution by the Company to or on account of the
Senior Debt.
SECTION 14.07. Provisions Solely to Define Relative Rights.
The provisions of this Article are and are intended solely for the purpose of
defining the relative rights of the Holders of the Securities on the one
hand and the holders of Senior Debt on the other hand. Nothing contained in this
Article or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the Securities is intended to or
shall (a) impair, as between the Company and the Holders of the Securities, the
obligations of the Company, which are absolute and unconditional, to pay to the
Holders of the Securities the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest
(including any Additional Interest) on the Securities as and when the same shall
become due and payable in accordance with their terms; or (b) affect the
relative rights against the Company of the Holders of the Securities and
creditors of the Company other than their rights in relation to the holders of
Senior Debt; or (c) prevent the Trustee or the Holder of any Security from
exercising all remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under
this Indenture including, without limitation, filing and voting claims in any
Proceeding, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article of the holders of
Senior Debt to receive cash, property and securities otherwise payable or
deliverable to the Trustee or such Holder.
SECTION 14.08. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination. Each
Holder of a Security by his or her acceptance thereof authorizes and directs the
Trustee on his or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or
appropriate to acknowledge or effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article and appoints the Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all
such purposes.
SECTION 14.09. No Waiver of Subordination Provisions. No right
of any present or future holder of any Senior Debt to enforce subordination as
herein provided shall at any time in any way be prejudiced or impaired by any
act or failure to act on the part of the Company or by any act or failure to
act, in good faith, by any such holder, or by any noncompliance by the Company
with the terms, provisions and covenants of this Indenture, regardless of any
knowledge thereof that any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
SECTION 14.10. Notice to Trustee. The Company shall give
prompt written notice to the Trustee of any fact known to the Company which
would prohibit the making of any
payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities. Notwithstanding the
provisions of this Article or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee
shall not be charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts which would
prohibit the making of any payment to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities, unless and until the Trustee shall have received written notice
thereof from the Company or a holder of Senior Debt or from any trustee, agent
or representative therefor (whether or not the facts contained in such notice
are true); provided, however, that if the Trustee shall not have received the
notice provided for in this Section at least two Business Days prior to the date
upon which by the terms hereof any monies may become payable for any purpose
(including, without limitation, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if
any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on any Security), then,
anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee shall
have full power and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same to
the purpose for which they were received and shall not be affected by any notice
to the contrary which may be received by it within two Business Days prior to
such date.
SECTION 14.11. Reliance on Judicial Order or Certificate of
Liquidating Agent. Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company
referred to in this Article, the Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article
VI, and the Holders of the Securities shall be entitled to conclusively rely
upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which
such Proceeding is pending, or a certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy,
receiver, liquidating trustee, custodian, assignee for the benefit of creditors,
agent or other Person making such payment or distribution, delivered to the
Trustee or to the Holders of Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the
Persons entitled to participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of
the Senior Debt and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or
payable thereon, the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other
facts pertinent thereto or to this Article.
SECTION 14.12. Trustee Not Fiduciary for Holders of Senior
Debt. The Trustee, in its capacity as trustee under this Indenture, shall not be
deemed to owe any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Debt and shall not
be liable to any such holders if it shall in good faith mistakenly pay over or
distribute to Holders of Securities or to the Company or to any other Person
cash, property or securities to which any holders of Senior Debt shall be
entitled by virtue of this Article or otherwise.
SECTION 14.13. Rights of Trustee as Holder of Senior Debt;
Preservation of Trustee's Rights. The Trustee in its individual capacity shall
be entitled to all the rights set forth in this Article with respect to any
Senior Debt which may at any time be held by it, to the same extent as any other
holder of Senior Debt, and nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee
of any of its rights as such holder.
SECTION 14.14. Article Applicable to Paying Agents. In case at
any time any Paying Agent other than the Trustee shall have been appointed by
the Company and be then acting hereunder, the term "Trustee" as used in this
Article shall in such case (unless the context otherwise requires) be construed
as extending to and including such Paying Agent within its meaning as fully for
all intents and purposes as if such Paying Agent were named in this Article in
addition to or in place of the Trustee.
SECTION 14.15. Certain Conversions or Exchanges Deemed
Payment. For purposes of this Article only, (a) the issuance and delivery of
junior securities upon conversion or exchange of Securities shall not be deemed
to constitute a payment or distribution on account of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest (including any Additional Interest) on Securities
or on account of the purchase or other acquisition of Securities, and (b) the
payment, issuance or delivery of cash, property or securities (other than junior
securities) upon conversion or exchange of a Security shall be deemed to
constitute payment on account of the principal of such Security. For the
purposes of this Section, the term "junior securities" means (i) shares of any
stock of any class of the Company and (ii) securities of the Company which are
subordinated in right of payment to all Senior Debt which may be outstanding at
the time of issuance or delivery of such securities to substantially the same
extent as, or to a greater extent than, the Securities are so subordinated as
provided in this Article.
This instrument may be executed in any number of counterparts,
each of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original, but all such
counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Indenture to be duly executed, and their respective corporate seals to be
hereunto affixed, all as of the day and year first written above.
BANCORPSOUTH, INC.,
by
/s/ L. Nash Allen, Jr.
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Name: L. Nash Allen, Jr.
Title: Treasurer and CFO
THE BANK OF NEW YORK, as Trustee,
by
/s/ Robert A. Massimillo
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Name: ROBERT A. MASSIMILLO
Title: VICE PRESIDENT