EXHIBIT 4.2
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LIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
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INDENTURE
DATED AS OF _________, 1997
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STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
AS TRUSTEE
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JUNIOR CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED DEBENTURES
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TIE-SHEET
of provisions of Trust Indenture Act of 1939 with Indenture dated as of
__________, 1997 between LIFE Financial Corporation and ____________________,
as Trustee:
ACT SECTION INDENTURE SECTION
310(a)(1)............................................................................. 6.9
(a)(2)................................................................................ 6.9
310(a)(3)............................................................................. N/A
(a)(4)................................................................................ N/A
310(a)(5)............................................................................. 6.10, 6.11
310(b)................................................................................ N/A
310(c)................................................................................ 6.13
311(a) and (b)........................................................................ N/A
311(c)................................................................................ 4.1,4.2(a)
312(a)................................................................................ 4.2
312(b) and (c)........................................................................ 4.4
313(a)................................................................................ 4.4
313(b)(1)............................................................................. 4.4
313(b)(2)............................................................................. 4.4
313(c)................................................................................ 4.4
313(d)................................................................................ 4.4
314(a)................................................................................ 4.3
314(b)................................................................................ N/A
314(c)(1) and (2)..................................................................... 6.7
314(c)(3)............................................................................. N/A
314(d)................................................................................ N/A
314(e)................................................................................ 6.7
314(f)................................................................................ N/A
315(a)(c) and (d)..................................................................... 6.1
315(b)................................................................................ 5.8
315(e)................................................................................ 5.9
316(a)(1)............................................................................. 5.7
316(a)(2)............................................................................. N/A
316(a) last sentence.................................................................. 2.9
316(b)................................................................................ 9.2
317(a)................................................................................ 5.5
317(b)................................................................................ 6.5
318(a)................................................................................ 13.8
THIS TIE-SHEET IS NOT PART OF THE INDENTURE AS EXECUTED.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I - DEFINITIONS............................................................................. 1
SECTION 1.1 Definitions................................................................... 1
ARTICLE II - SECURITIES............................................................................. 8
SECTION 2.1. Forms Generally............................................................... 8
SECTION 2.2. Execution and Authentication.................................................. 8
SECTION 2.3. Form and Payment.............................................................. 9
SECTION 2.4. Global Security............................................................... 9
SECTION 2.5. Interest...................................................................... 10
SECTION 2.6. Transfer and Exchange......................................................... 11
SECTION 2.7. Replacement Securities........................................................ 11
SECTION 2.8. [Intentionally Omitted]....................................................... 12
SECTION 2.9. Temporary Securities.......................................................... 12
SECTION 2.10. Cancellation.................................................................. 12
SECTION 2.11. Defaulted Interest............................................................ 12
SECTION 2.12. CUSIP Numbers................................................................. 13
ARTICLE III - PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY................................................... 13
SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.................................... 13
SECTION 3.2. Offices for Notices and Payments, Etc......................................... 14
SECTION 3.3. Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office............................ 14
SECTION 3.4. Provision as to Paying Agent.................................................. 14
SECTION 3.5. Certificate to Trustee........................................................ 15
SECTION 3.6. Compliance with Consolidation Provisions...................................... 15
SECTION 3.7. Limitation on Dividends....................................................... 15
SECTION 3.8. Covenants as to LFC Trust..................................................... 16
SECTION 3.9. Payment of Expenses........................................................... 16
SECTION 3.10. Payment Upon Resignation or Removal........................................... 17
ARTICLE IV - SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE....................................................... 17
SECTION 4.1. Securityholders' Lists........................................................ 17
SECTION 4.2. Preservation and Disclosure of Lists.......................................... 18
SECTION 4.3. Reports by Company............................................................ 19
SECTION 4.4. Reports by the Trustee........................................................ 19
ARTICLE V - REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT........................................................... 20
SECTION 5.1. Events of Default............................................................. 20
SECTION 5.2. Payment of Securities on Default; Suit Therefor............................... 21
SECTION 5.3. Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee.................................... 23
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SECTION 5.4. Proceedings by Securityholders............................................... 23
SECTION 5.5. Proceedings by Trustee....................................................... 24
SECTION 5.6. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing........................................... 24
SECTION 5.7. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults
by Majority of Securityholders............................................... 24
SECTION 5.8. Notice of Defaults........................................................... 25
SECTION 5.9. Undertaking to Pay Costs..................................................... 25
ARTICLE VI - CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE................................................................ 25
SECTION 6.1. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee....................................... 25
SECTION 6.2. Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc......................................... 26
SECTION 6.3. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.......................................... 27
SECTION 6.4. Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer
Agents or Registrar May Own Securities....................................... 27
SECTION 6.5. Moneys to be Held in Trust................................................... 28
SECTION 6.6. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee......................................... 28
SECTION 6.7. Officers' Certificate as Evidence............................................ 28
SECTION 6.8. Conflicting Interest of Trustee.............................................. 29
SECTION 6.9. Eligibility of Trustee....................................................... 29
SECTION 6.10. Resignation or Removal of Trustee............................................ 29
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance by Successor Trustee.............................................. 30
SECTION 6.12. Succession by Merger, Etc.................................................... 31
SECTION 6.13. Limitation on Rights of Trustee as a Creditor................................ 31
SECTION 6.14. Authenticating Agents........................................................ 31
ARTICLE VII - CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS....................................................... 32
SECTION 7.1. Action by Securityholders.................................................... 32
SECTION 7.2. Proof of Execution by Securityholders........................................ 33
SECTION 7.3. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners............................................... 33
SECTION 7.4. Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding........................... 33
SECTION 7.5. Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound................................. 33
ARTICLE VIII - SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS........................................................... 34
SECTION 8.1. Purposes of Meetings......................................................... 34
SECTION 8.2. Call of Meetings by Trustee.................................................. 34
SECTION 8.3. Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders............................... 34
SECTION 8.4. Qualifications for Voting.................................................... 35
SECTION 8.5. Regulations.................................................................. 35
SECTION 8.6. Voting....................................................................... 36
ARTICLE IX - AMENDMENTS............................................................................ 36
SECTION 9.1. Without Consent of Securityholders........................................... 36
SECTION 9.2. With Consent of Securityholders.............................................. 37
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SECTION 9.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act; Effect of
Supplemental Indentures...................................................... 38
SECTION 9.4. Notation on Securities....................................................... 38
SECTION 9.5. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture
to be Furnished to the Trustee............................................... 39
ARTICLE X - CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE....................................... 39
SECTION 10.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms.............................. 39
SECTION 10.2. Successor Corporation to be Substituted for Company.......................... 39
SECTION 10.3. Opinion of Counsel to be Received by Trustee................................. 40
ARTICLE XI - SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE................................................ 40
SECTION 11.1. Discharge of Indenture....................................................... 40
SECTION 11.2. Deposited Moneys and U.S. Government Obligations
to be Held in Trust by Trustee............................................... 40
SECTION 11.3. Paying Agent to Repay Moneys Held............................................ 41
SECTION 11.4. Return of Unclaimed Moneys................................................... 41
SECTION 11.5. Defeasance Upon Deposit of Moneys or U.S. Government
Obligations.................................................................. 41
ARTICLE XII - IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS, OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS....................... 42
SECTION 12.1. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations........................ 42
ARTICLE XIII - MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS............................................................. 43
SECTION 13.1. Successors................................................................... 43
SECTION 13.2. Official Acts by Successor Corporation....................................... 43
SECTION 13.3. Surrender of Company Powers.................................................. 43
SECTION 13.4. Addresses for Notices, Etc................................................... 43
SECTION 13.5. Governing Law................................................................ 43
SECTION 13.6. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent............................. 44
SECTION 13.7. Business Days................................................................ 44
SECTION 13.8. Trust Indenture Act to Control............................................... 44
SECTION 13.9. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc............................................. 44
SECTION 13.10. Execution in Counterparts.................................................... 44
SECTION 13.11. Separability................................................................. 44
SECTION 13.12. Assignment................................................................... 45
SECTION 13.13. Acknowledgment of Rights..................................................... 45
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ARTICLE XIV - PREPAYMENT OF SECURITIES -- MANDATORY AND OPTIONAL SINKING FUND....................... 45
SECTION 14.1. Special Event Repayment...................................................... 45
SECTION 14.2. Optional Prepayment by Company............................................... 45
SECTION 14.3. No Sinking Fund.............................................................. 46
SECTION 14.4. Notice of Prepayment; Selection of Securities................................ 46
SECTION 14.5. Payment of Securities Called for Prepayment.................................. 47
ARTICLE XV - SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES............................................................ 47
SECTION 15.1. Agreement to Subordinate..................................................... 47
SECTION 15.2. Default on Senior Indebtedness............................................... 47
SECTION 15.3. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy......................................... 48
SECTION 15.4. Subrogation.................................................................. 49
SECTION 15.5. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.......................................... 49
SECTION 15.6. Notice by the Company........................................................ 50
SECTION 15.7. Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior
Indebtedness................................................................. 50
SECTION 15.8. Subordination May Not Be Impaired............................................ 51
ARTICLE XVI - EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT PERIOD.................................................. 51
SECTION 16.1. Extension of Interest Payment Period......................................... 51
SECTION 16.2. Notice of Extension.......................................................... 52
ARTICLE XVII - CONVERSION OF SECURITIES............................................................. 52
SECTION 17.1. Conversion Rights............................................................ 52
SECTION 17.2. Conversion Procedures........................................................ 53
SECTION 17.3. Conversion Price Adjustments................................................. 55
SECTION 17.4. Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale
of Assets.................................................................... 58
SECTION 17.5. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price.................................... 58
SECTION 17.6. Prior Notice of Certain Events............................................... 58
SECTION 17.7. Certain Defined Terms........................................................ 59
SECTION 17.8. Benefit Plans................................................................ 60
SECTION 17.9. Certain Additional Rights.................................................... 60
SECTION 17.10. Trustee Not Responsible for Determining Conversion
Price or Adjustments......................................................... 60
SECTION 17.11. Expiration of Conversion Rights.............................................. 61
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THIS INDENTURE, dated as of ________, 1997, between LIFE FINANCIAL
CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (hereinafter sometimes called the
"Company"), and State Street Bank and Trust Company, a Massachusetts trust
company, as trustee (hereinafter sometimes called the "Trustee"),
W I T N E S S E T H :
In consideration of the premises, and the purchase of the Securities by the
holders thereof, the Company covenants and agrees with the Trustee for the equal
and proportionate benefit of the respective holders from time to time of the
Securities, as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.1. Definitions.
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The terms defined in this Section 1.1 (except as herein otherwise expressly
provided or unless the context otherwise requires) for all purposes of this
Indenture shall have the respective meanings specified in this Section 1.1. All
other terms used in this Indenture which are defined in the Trust Indenture Act
of 1939, as amended (the "Trust Indenture Act"), or which are by reference
therein defined in the Securities Act, shall (except as herein otherwise
expressly provided or unless the context otherwise requires) have the meanings
assigned to such terms in said Trust Indenture Act and in said Securities Act as
in force at the date of this Indenture as originally executed. The following
terms have the meanings given to them in the Declaration: (i) Clearing Agency;
(ii) Delaware Trustee; (iii) Property Trustee; (iv) Administrator; (v) Direct
Action; (vi) Underwriting Agreement; (vii) Public Offering; (viii) Distribution
and (ix) Conversion Termination Date. All accounting terms used herein and not
expressly defined shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in accordance
with generally accepted accounting principles and the term "generally accepted
accounting principles" means such accounting principles as are generally
accepted at the time of any computation. The words "herein", "hereof" and
"hereunder" and other words of similar import refer to this Indenture as a whole
and not to any particular Article, Section or other subdivision. Headings are
used for convenience of reference only and do not affect interpretation. The
singular includes the plural and vice versa.
"Additional Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5(c).
"Affiliate" means, with respect to a specified Person, (a) any Person
directly or indirectly owning, controlling or holding the power to vote 10% or
more of the outstanding voting securities or other ownership interests of the
specified Person, (b) any Person 10% or more of whose outstanding voting
securities or other ownership interests are directly or indirectly owned,
controlled or held with power to vote by the specified Person, (c) any Person
directly or indirectly controlling, controlled by, or under common control with
the specified Person, (d) a partnership in which the specified Person is a
general partner, (e) any officer or director of the specified Person, and (f) if
the specified Person is an individual, any entity of which the specified Person
is an officer, director or general partner.
"Allocable Amounts," when used with respect to any Senior Indebtedness,
means all amounts due or to become due on such Senior Indebtedness less, if
applicable, any amount which would have been paid to, and retained by, the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness (whether as a result of the receipt of
payments by the holders of such Senior Indebtedness from the Company or any
other obligor thereon or from any holders of, or trustee in respect of, other
indebtedness that is subordinate and junior in right of payment to such Senior
Indebtedness pursuant to any provision of such indebtedness for the payment over
of amounts
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received on account of such indebtedness to the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness or otherwise) but for the fact that such Senior Indebtedness is
subordinate or junior in right of payment to (or subject to a requirement that
amounts received on such Senior Indebtedness be paid over to obligees on) trade
accounts payable or accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of
business.
"Authenticating Agent" shall mean any agent or agents of the Trustee which
at the time shall be appointed and acting pursuant to Section 6.14.
"Bankruptcy Law" shall mean Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar federal or
state law for the relief of debtors.
"Board of Directors" shall mean either the Board of Directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"Board Resolution" shall mean a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Business Day" shall mean, with respect to any series of Securities, any
day other than a Saturday or a Sunday or a day on which banking institutions in
California are authorized or required by law or executive order to close.
"Capital Securities" shall mean preferred undivided beneficial interests in
the assets of LFC Trust which rank pari passu with the Common Securities issued
by LFC Trust; provided, however, that if an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, no payments in respect of Distributions on, or payments upon
liquidation, redemption or otherwise with respect to, the Common Securities
shall be made until the holders of the Capital Securities shall be paid in full
the Distributions and the liquidation, redemption and other payments to which
they are entitled.
"Capital Securities Guarantee" shall mean any guarantee that the Company
may enter into with State Street Bank and Trust Company or other Persons that
operates directly or indirectly for the benefit of holders of Capital
Securities.
"Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Exchange Act, or if at any time
after the execution of this Indenture such Commission is not existing and
performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture Act, then the
body performing such duties at such time.
"Common Securities" shall mean undivided beneficial interests in the assets
of LFC Trust which rank pari passu with Capital Securities issued by LFC Trust;
provided, however, that if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
no payments in respect of Distributions on, or payments upon liquidation,
redemption or otherwise with respect to, the Common Securities shall be made
until the holders of the Capital Securities shall be paid in full the
Distributions and the liquidation, redemption and other payments to which they
are entitled.
"Common Securities Guarantee" shall mean any guarantee of the Company that
operates directly or indirectly for the benefit of holders of Common Securities.
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"Common Stock" shall mean the common stock, par value $0.01 per share, of
the Company or any other class of stock resulting from changes or
reclassifications of such common stock consisting solely of changes in par
value, or from par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value.
"Company" shall mean LIFE Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation,
and, subject to the provisions of Article X, shall include its successors and
assigns.
"Company Request" or "Company Order" shall mean a written request or order
signed in the name of the Company by the Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer,
the President, a Vice Chairman, a Vice President, the Comptroller, the Secretary
or an Assistant Secretary of the Company, and delivered to the Trustee.
"Compounded Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.1.
"Conversion Agent" means the Person appointed to act on behalf of the
holders of Capital Securities in effecting the conversion of Capital Securities
to Securities and Securities to Common Stock as and in the manner set forth in
the Declaration and in this Indenture.
"Conversion Request" means (a) the irrevocable request to be given by a
holder of Securities to the Conversion Agent directing the Conversion Agent to
convert such Security into shares of Common Stock and (b) the irrevocable
request to be given by a holder of Capital Securities to the Conversion Agent
directing the Conversion Agent to exchange such Capital Securities for
Securities and to convert such Securities into Common Stock on behalf of such
holder.
"Coupon Rate" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.
"Custodian" shall mean any receiver, trustee, assignee, liquidator, or
similar official under any Bankruptcy Law.
"Declaration" means the Amended and Restated Declaration of Trust of LFC
Trust, dated as of the Issue Date.
"Default" means any event, act or condition that with notice or lapse of
time, or both, would constitute an Event of Default.
"Deferred Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 16.1.
"Definitive Securities" shall mean those securities issued in fully
registered certificated form not otherwise in global form.
"Depositary" shall mean, with respect to Securities of any series, for
which the Company shall determine that such Securities will be issued as a
Global Security, The Depository Trust Company, New York, New York, another
clearing agency, or any successor registered as a clearing agency under the
Exchange Act or other applicable statute or regulation, which, in each case,
shall be designated by the Company pursuant to Section 2.5(d).
"Dissolution Event" means the liquidation of the LFC Trust pursuant to the
Declaration, and the distribution of the Securities held by the Property Trustee
to the holders of the Trust Securities issued by the LFC Trust pro rata in
accordance with the Declaration.
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"Event of Default" shall mean any event specified in Section 5.1, continued
for the period of time, if any, and after the giving of the notice, if any,
therein designated.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
"Extended Interest Payment Period" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 16.1.
"Federal Reserve" shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
"Global Security" means, with respect to the Securities, a Security
executed by the Company and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or
pursuant to the Depositary's instruction, all in accordance with the Indenture,
which shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee.
"Indebtedness for Money Borrowed" shall mean (i) any obligation of, or any
obligation guaranteed by, the Company for the repayment of borrowed money,
whether or not evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or other written
instruments and any deferred obligation for the payment of the purchase price of
property or assets acquired other than in the ordinary course of business, and
(ii) all indebtedness of the Company for claims in respect of derivative
products such as interest and foreign exchange rate contracts, commodity
contracts and similar arrangements, whether outstanding on the date of execution
of the Indenture or thereafter created, assumed or incurred. For purposes of
this definition, "claim" shall have the meaning assigned in Section 101(5) of
the Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended and in effect on the date of the
execution of this Indenture.
"Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Securities" shall mean any Indebtedness
for Money Borrowed, whether outstanding on the date of execution of this
Indenture or hereafter created, assumed or incurred, which specifically by its
terms ranks junior to and not equally with or prior to the Securities (and any
other Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Securities) in right of payment
upon the happening of any dissolution or winding up or liquidation or
reorganization of the Company. The securing of any Indebtedness for Money
Borrowed of the Company, otherwise constituting Indebtedness Ranking Junior to
the Securities, shall not be deemed to prevent such Indebtedness for Money
Borrowed from constituting Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Securities.
"Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Securities" shall mean
Indebtedness for Money Borrowed, whether outstanding on the date of execution of
this Indenture or hereafter created, assumed or incurred, which specifically by
its terms ranks equally with and not prior to the Securities in the right of
payment upon the happening of any dissolution or winding up or liquidation or
reorganization of the Company. The securing of any Indebtedness for Money
Borrowed of the Company, otherwise constituting Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity
with the Securities, shall not be deemed to prevent such Indebtedness for Money
Borrowed from constituting Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the Securities.
"Indenture" shall mean this instrument as originally executed or, if
amended or supplemented as herein provided, as so amended or supplemented.
"Initial Optional Prepayment Date" means ___________, ____.
"Interest Payment Date" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.5.
"Investment Company Event" means the receipt by the Company and LFC Trust
of an opinion of Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette or any other nationally recognized
counsel experienced in such matters, to the effect that (a) as a result of any
amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change) in,
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the laws or any regulations thereunder of the United States or any political
subdivision or authority thereof or therein or (b) any official administrative
pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or
regulations, which amendment or change is effective or such pronouncement or
decision is announced on or after the Issue Date, there is more than an
insubstantial risk that LFC Trust is or within 90 days will be considered an
"investment company" that is required to be registered under the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended.
"Issue Date" means _______, 1997.
"LFC Trust" shall mean LIFE Financial Capital Trust, a Delaware business
trust created for the purpose of issuing its undivided beneficial interests in
connection with the issuance of Securities under this Indenture.
"Maturity Date" shall mean __________, 2027.
"Non Book-Entry Capital Securities" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.5.
"Officers" shall mean any of the Chairman, the Co-Chairman, a Vice
Chairman, the Chief Executive Officer, the President, a Vice President, the
Comptroller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company.
"Officers' Certificate" shall mean a certificate signed by two Officers and
delivered to the Trustee.
"Opinion of Counsel" shall mean a written opinion of counsel, who may be an
employee of the Company, and who shall be acceptable to the Trustee.
"Optional Prepayment Price" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
14.2.
"Other Debentures" means all junior subordinated debentures issued by the
Company from time to time and sold to trusts to be established by the Company
(if any), in each case similar to the LFC Trust.
"Other Guarantees" means all guarantees issued by the Company with respect
to capital securities (if any) and issued to other trusts established by the
Company (if any), in each case similar to the LFC Trust.
The term "outstanding" when used with reference to Securities, shall,
subject to the provisions of Section 7.4, mean, as of any particular time, all
Securities authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent under this Indenture, except:
(a) Securities theretofore canceled by the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(b) Securities, or portions thereof, for the payment or prepayment of which
moneys in the necessary amount shall have been deposited in trust with the
Trustee or with any paying agent (other than the Company) or shall have been set
aside and segregated in trust by the Company (if the Company shall act as its
own paying agent); provided that, if such Securities, or portions thereof, are
to be prepaid prior to maturity thereof, notice of such prepayment shall have
been given as in Article XIV provided or provision satisfactory to the Trustee
shall have been made for giving such notice; and
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(c) Securities in lieu of or in substitution for which other Securities
shall have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to the terms of Section 2.7
unless proof satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee is presented that any
such Securities are held by bona fide holders in due course.
"Person" shall mean any individual, corporation, estate, partnership, joint
venture, association, joint-stock company, limited liability company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Predecessor Security" of any particular Security means every previous
Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt and as that evidenced by
such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any Security
authenticated and delivered under Section 2.7 in lieu of a lost, destroyed or
stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the lost, destroyed
or stolen Security.
"Prepayment Date" when used with respect to any Security to be prepaid,
means the date fixed for such prepayment by or pursuant to this Indenture.
"Prepayment Price" means the Special Event Prepayment Price or the Optional
Prepayment Price, as the context requires.
"Principal Office of the Trustee", or other similar term, shall mean the
office of the Trustee, at which at any particular time its corporate trust
business shall be principally administered.
"Property Trustee" shall have the same meaning as set forth in the
Declaration.
"Regulatory Capital Event" means the receipt by the Company and the LFC
Trust of an opinion of Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette or any other independent bank
regulatory counsel experienced in such matters, to the effect that, as a result
of (a) any amendment to, or change (including any announced prospective change)
in, the laws (or any regulations thereunder) of the United States or any rules,
guidelines or policies of the Office of Thrift Supervision, the Federal Reserve
or any other federal bank regulatory agency or (b) any official administrative
pronouncement or judicial decision interpreting or applying such laws or
regulations, which amendment or change is effective or such pronouncement or
decision is announced on or after the Issue Date, (i) the Company is or within
90 days will be subject to capital adequacy requirements and such requirements
do not or will not permit the Capital Securities to constitute, subject to
limitations on inclusion of the Capital Securities as Tier 1 capital by the
Federal Reserve capital guidelines in effect as of the date of the prospectus
used in connection with the offering and sale of the Capital Securities, Tier 1
capital (or its then-equivalent) or (ii) the amount of net proceeds received
from the sale of the Capital Securities and contributed by the Company to its
subsidiary, Life Bank, does not or within 90 days will not constitute Tier 1
(core) capital (or its then-equivalent).
"Responsible Officer", when used with respect to the Trustee, shall mean
any vice president, any assistant secretary, any assistant treasurer or senior
trust officer, any trust officer or assistant trust officer, or any other
officer or assistant officer of the Principal Office of the Trustee customarily
performing functions similar to those performed by any of the above designated
officers and also means, with respect to a particular corporate trust matter,
any other officer to whom such matter is referred because of his knowledge of
and familiarity with the particular subject.
"Securities" means the Company's ____% Junior Subordinated Convertible
Debentures due __________, 2027, as authenticated and issued under this
Indenture.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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"Security Register" shall mean (i) prior to a Dissolution Event, the list
of holders provided to the Trustee pursuant to Section 4.1, and (ii) following a
Dissolution Event, any security register maintained by a security registrar for
the Securities appointed by the Company following the execution of a
supplemental indenture providing for transfer procedures as provided for in
Section 2.6(a).
"Securityholder", "holder of Securities", or other similar terms, shall
mean any person in whose name at the time a particular Security is registered on
the register kept by the Company or the Trustee for that purpose in accordance
with the terms hereof.
"Senior Indebtedness" shall mean all Indebtedness for Money Borrowed,
whether outstanding on the date of execution of this Indenture or thereafter
created, assumed or incurred, except Indebtedness Ranking on a Parity with the
Securities or Indebtedness Ranking Junior to the Securities, and any deferrals,
renewals or extensions of such Senior Indebtedness.
"Special Event" means a Tax Event, Regulatory Capital Event or an
Investment Company Event, as the case may be.
"Special Event Prepayment Price" shall mean, with respect to any prepayment
of the Securities pursuant to Section 14.1 hereof, an amount in cash equal to
100% of the principal amount to be prepaid plus any accrued and unpaid interest
thereon, including Compounded Interest and Additional Interest, if any, to the
date of such redemption.
"Subsidiary" shall mean with respect to any Person, (i) any corporation at
least a majority of whose outstanding voting stock is owned, directly or
indirectly, by such Person or by one or more of its Subsidiaries, or by such
Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries, (ii) any general partnership, joint
venture or similar entity, at least a majority of whose outstanding partnership
or similar interests shall at the time be owned by such Person, or by one or
more of its Subsidiaries, or by such Person and one or more of its Subsidiaries
and (iii) any limited partnership of which such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries is a general partner. For the purposes of this definition, "voting
stock" means shares, interests, participations or other equivalents in the
equity interest (however designated) in such Person having ordinary voting power
for the election of a majority of the directors (or the equivalent) of such
Person, other than shares, interests, participations or other equivalents having
such power only by reason of the occurrence of a contingency.
"Tax Event" means (a) the receipt by the Company and the LFC Trust of an
opinion of Muldoon, Murphy & Faucette of any other nationally recognized tax
counsel experienced in such matters, to the effect that as a result of (i) any
amendment to, clarification of, or change (including any announced prospective
change) in, the laws or any regulations thereunder of the United States or any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein, (ii) any amendment
to, clarification of, or change in, an interpretation or application of any such
laws or regulations by any legislative body, court, governmental agency or
regulatory authority (including the enactment of any legislation and the
publication of any judicial decision or regulatory determination or the
publication of an explanation of legislation by the staff of the Joint Committee
on Taxation), (iii) any interpretation or pronouncement that provides for a
position with respect to such laws or regulations that differs from the
theretofore generally accepted position or (iv) any judicial decision,
administrative pronouncement, ruling, regulatory procedure, notice, announcement
(including any notice or announcement of intent to adopt procedures or
regulations) or any other actions taken by any governmental agency or regulatory
authority, which amendment or change is enacted, promulgated, issued or
announced or which interpretation or pronouncement is issued or announced or
which action is taken, in each case, on or after the Issue Date, there is more
than an insubstantial risk that (x) the LFC Trust is or within 90 days will be
subject to United States federal income tax with respect to income received or
accrued on the Securities, (y) interest payable by the Company on the Securities
is not or within 90 days will not be
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deductible by the Company, in whole or in part, for United States federal income
tax purposes, or (z) the LFC Trust is or within 90 days will be subject to more
than a de minimis amount of other taxes, duties or other governmental charges,
or (b) a proposed audit adjustment by a taxing authority which, if sustained,
would result in any of the events described in clauses (x), (y) or (z) above
(without regard to the 90 day period referred to therein).
"Trust Indenture Act of 1939" shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939 as
in force at the date of execution of this Indenture, except as provided in
Section 9.3.
"Trust Securities" shall mean the Capital Securities and the Common
Securities, collectively.
"Trustee" shall mean the Person identified as "Trustee" in the first
paragraph hereof, and, subject to the provisions of Article VI hereof, shall
also include its successors and assigns as Trustee hereunder. The term
"Trustee" as used with respect to a particular series of the Securities shall
mean the trustee with respect to that series.
"Underwriter" shall mean Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., as underwriter in
the Public Offering.
"U.S. Government Obligations" shall mean securities that are (i) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged or (ii) obligations of a Person controlled or
supervised by and acting as an agency or instrumentality of the United States of
America the payment of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and
credit obligation by the United States of America, which, in either case under
clauses (i) or (ii) are not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer
thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a bank or trust
company as custodian with respect to any such U.S. Government Obligation or a
specific payment of interest on or principal of any such U.S. Government
Obligation held by such custodian for the account of the holder of a depository
receipt, provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is not
authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the holder of such
depository receipt from any amount received by the custodian in respect of the
U.S. Government Obligation or the specific payment of interest on or principal
of the U.S. Government Obligation evidenced by such depository receipt.
ARTICLE II
SECURITIES
SECTION 2.1. Forms Generally.
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The Securities and the Trustee's certificate of authentication shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit A, the terms of which are incorporated in
and made a part of this Indenture. The Securities may have notations, legends
or endorsements required by law, stock exchange rule, agreements to which the
Company is subject or usage. Each Security shall be dated the date of its
authentication.
SECTION 2.2. Execution and Authentication.
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Two Officers shall sign the Securities for the Company by manual or
facsimile signature in the manner set forth in Exhibit A. If an Officer whose
signature is on a Security no longer holds that office at the time the Security
is authenticated, the Security shall nevertheless be valid.
A Security shall not be valid until authenticated by the manual signature
of an authorized signatory of the Trustee. The signature of the Trustee shall
be conclusive evidence that the Security has been
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authenticated under this Indenture. The form of Trustee's certificate of
authentication to be borne by the Securities shall be substantially as set forth
in Exhibit A hereto.
The Trustee shall, upon a Company Order, authenticate for original issue up
to, and the aggregate principal amount of Securities outstanding at any time may
not exceed, $__________ aggregate principal amount of the Securities, except as
provided in Sections 2.6, 2.7, 2.9 and 14.5.
SECTION 2.3. Form and Payment.
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Except as provided in Section 2.4, the Securities shall be issued in fully
registered certificated form without interest coupons. Principal of, premium,
if any, and interest on the Securities issued in certificated form will be
payable, the transfer of such Securities will be registrable and such Securities
will be exchangeable for Securities bearing identical terms and provisions at
the office or agency of the Company maintained for such purpose under Section
3.2; provided, however, that payment of interest with respect to the Securities
may be made at the option of the Company (i) by check mailed to the holder
entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the Security Register or
(ii) by wire transfer to an account maintained by the Person entitled thereto,
provided that proper wire transfer instructions have been received in writing by
the paying agent by the relevant record date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, so
long as the holder of any Securities is the Property Trustee, the payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest (including Compounded Interest and
Additional Interest, if any) on such Securities held by the Property Trustee
will be made at such place and to such account as may be designated by the
Property Trustee.
SECTION 2.4. Global Security.
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(a) In connection with a Dissolution Event,
(i) if any Capital Securities are held in book-entry form, the related
Definitive Securities shall be presented to the Trustee (if an arrangement
with the Depositary has been maintained) by the Property Trustee in
exchange for one or more Global Securities (as may be required pursuant to
Section 2.6) in an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of all outstanding Securities, to be registered in the
name of the Depositary, or its nominee, and delivered by the Trustee to the
Depositary for crediting to the accounts of its participants pursuant to
the instructions of the Administrators; the Company upon any such
presentation shall execute one or more Global Securities in such aggregate
principal amount and deliver the same to the Trustee for authentication and
delivery in accordance with this Indenture; and payments on the Securities
issued as a Global Security will be made to the Depositary; and
(ii) if any Capital Securities are held in certificated form, the
related Definitive Securities may be presented to the Trustee by the
Property Trustee and any Capital Security certificate which represents
Capital Securities other than Capital Securities in book-entry form ("Non
Book-Entry Capital Securities") will be deemed to represent beneficial
interests in Securities presented to the Trustee by the Property Trustee
having an aggregate principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation
amount of the Non Book-Entry Capital Securities until such Capital Security
certificates are presented to the Security Registrar for transfer or
reissuance, at which time such Capital Security certificates will be
canceled and a Security, registered in the name of the holder of the
Capital Security certificate or the transferee of the holder of such
Capital Security certificate, as the case may be, with an aggregate
principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital
Security certificate canceled, will be executed by the Company and
delivered to the Trustee for authentication and delivery in accordance with
the Indenture. Upon the issuance of such
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Securities, Securities with an equivalent aggregate principal amount that
were presented by the Property Trustee to the Trustee will be deemed to
have been canceled.
(b) The Global Securities shall represent the aggregate amount of
outstanding Securities from time to time endorsed thereon; provided, that the
aggregate amount of outstanding Securities represented thereby may from time to
time be reduced or increased, as appropriate, to reflect exchanges, conversions
and prepayments. Any endorsement of a Global Security to reflect the amount of
any increase or decrease in the amount of outstanding Securities represented
thereby shall be made by the Trustee, in accordance with instructions given by
the Company as required by this Section 2.4.
(c) The Global Securities may be transferred, in whole but not in part,
only to the Depositary, another nominee of the Depositary, or to a successor
Depositary selected or approved by the Company or to a nominee of such successor
Depositary.
(d) If at any time the Depositary notifies the Company that it is unwilling
or unable to continue as Depositary or the Depositary has ceased to be a
clearing agency registered under the Exchange Act, and a successor Depositary is
not appointed by the Company within 90 days after the Company receives such
notice or becomes aware of such condition, as the case may be, the Company will
execute, and the Trustee, upon written notice from the Company, will
authenticate and make available for delivery the Definitive Securities, in
authorized denominations, and in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
principal amount of the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security.
If there is an Event of Default, the Depositary shall have the right to exchange
the Global Securities for Definitive Securities. In addition, the Company may
at any time determine that the Securities shall no longer be represented by a
Global Security. In the event of such an Event of Default or such a
determination, the Company shall execute, and subject to Section 2.6, the
Trustee, upon receipt of an Officers' Certificate evidencing such determination
by the Company, will authenticate and make available for delivery the Definitive
Securities, in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of
the Global Security in exchange for such Global Security. Upon the exchange of
the Global Security for such Definitive Securities, the Global Security shall be
canceled by the Trustee. Such Definitive Securities issued in exchange for the
Global Security shall be registered in such names and in such authorized
denominations as the Depositary, pursuant to instructions from its direct or
indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee. The Trustee
shall deliver such Definitive Securities to the Depositary for delivery to the
Persons in whose names such Definitive Securities are so registered.
SECTION 2.5. Interest.
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(a) Each Security will bear interest at the rate of ____% per annum (the
"Coupon Rate") from the most recent date to which interest has been paid or duly
provided for or, if no interest has been paid or duly provided for, from the
Issue Date, until the principal thereof becomes due and payable, and at the
Coupon Rate on any overdue principal (and premium, if any) and (to the extent
that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law) on any
overdue installment of interest, compounded quarterly, payable (subject to the
provisions of Article XVI) quarterly, in arrears on March 15, June 15, September
15 and December 15 of each year (each, an "Interest Payment Date") commencing on
March 15, 1998, to the Person in whose name such Security or any predecessor
Security is registered, at the close of business on the regular record date for
such interest installment, which shall be the fifteenth day of the month in
which the relevant Interest Payment Date falls.
(b) Interest will be computed on the basis of a 360-day year consisting of
twelve 30- day months and, for any period of less than a full calendar month,
the number of days lapsed in such 30-day month. In the event that any Interest
Payment Date falls on a day that is not a Business Day, then payment of interest
payable on
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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), with the
same force and effect as if made on such date.
(c) During such time as the Property Trustee is the holder of any
Securities, the Company shall pay any additional amounts on the Securities as
may be necessary in order that the amount of Distributions then due and payable
by the LFC Trust shall not be reduced as a result of any additional taxes,
duties and other governmental charges to which the LFC Trust has become subject
as a result of a Tax Event ("Additional Interest").
SECTION 2.6. Transfer and Exchange.
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(a) General Provisions Relating to Transfers and Exchanges. Upon surrender
for registration of transfer of any Security at the office or agency of the
Company maintained for the purpose pursuant to Section 3.2, the Company shall
execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery, in
the name of the designated transferee or transferees, one or more new Securities
of the same series of a like aggregate principal amount.
At the option of the holder, Securities may be exchanged for other
Securities of the same series of a like aggregate principal amount, upon
surrender of the Securities to be exchanged at the office or agency identified
above. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered for exchange, the Company
shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, the Securities which the holder making the exchange is entitled to
receive.
Every Security presented or surrendered for registration of transfer or
exchange (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) shall be duly endorsed,
or be accompanied by a written instrument of transfer in form satisfactory to
the Company and the Security registrar duly executed by the holder thereof or
such holder's attorney duly authorized in writing.
All Definitive Securities and Global Securities issued upon any
registration of transfer or exchange of Definitive Securities or Global
Securities shall be the valid obligations of the Company, evidencing the same
debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the Definitive
Securities or Global Securities surrendered upon such registration of transfer
or exchange.
No service charge shall be made to a holder for any registration of
transfer or exchange, but the Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to
cover any transfer tax or similar governmental charge payable in connection
therewith.
The Company shall not be required to (i) issue, register the transfer of or
exchange Securities during a period beginning at the opening of business 15 days
before the day of mailing of a notice of prepayment or any notice of selection
of Securities for prepayment under Article XIV hereof and ending at the close of
business on the day of such mailing; or (ii) register the transfer of or
exchange any Security so selected for prepayment in whole or in part, except the
portion of any Security being prepaid in part.
SECTION 2.7. Replacement Securities.
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If any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Company and
the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the destruction, loss or
theft of any Security, the Company shall issue and the Trustee shall
authenticate a replacement Security if the Trustee's requirements for
replacements of Securities are met. At the request of the Trustee or the
Company, an indemnity bond may be required from
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the holder that is sufficient in the judgment of the Trustee and the Company to
protect the Company, the Trustee, any agent thereof or any Authenticating Agent
from any loss that any of them may suffer if a Security is replaced. The Company
or the Trustee may charge for its expenses in replacing a Security.
Every replacement Security is an obligation of the Company and shall be
entitled to all of the benefits of this Indenture equally and proportionately
with 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 of
mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
SECTION 2.8. [Intentionally Omitted]
SECTION 2.9. Temporary Securities.
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Pending the preparation of definitive Securities, the Company may execute,
and upon Company Order the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for
delivery, temporary Securities that are printed, lithographed, typewritten,
mimeographed or otherwise reproduced, in any authorized denomination,
substantially of the tenor of the definitive Securities in lieu of which they
are issued and with such appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and
other variations as the officers executing such Securities may determine, as
conclusively evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities are issued, the Company shall cause definitive
Securities to be prepared without unreasonable delay. The definitive Securities
shall be printed, lithographed or engraved, or provided by any combination
thereof, or in any other manner permitted by the rules and regulations of any
applicable securities exchange, all as determined by the officers executing such
definitive Securities. 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 maintained by the
Company for such purpose pursuant to Section 3.2 hereof, without charge to the
holder. Upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary
Securities, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, in exchange therefor the same aggregate principal
amount of definitive Securities of authorized denominations. Until so
exchanged, the temporary Securities shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities.
SECTION 2.10. Cancellation.
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The Company at any time may deliver Securities to the Trustee for
cancellation. The Trustee and no one else shall cancel all Securities
surrendered for registration of transfer, exchange, payment, conversion,
replacement or cancellation and shall retain or dispose of canceled Securities
in accordance with its normal practices (subject to the record retention
requirement of the Exchange Act) unless the Company directs them to be returned
to it; provided, that the Trustee shall not be required to destroy such canceled
Securities. Subject to the other provisions of the Indenture, the Company may
not issue new Securities to replace Securities that have been paid (at maturity
or upon prepayment) or that have been delivered to the Trustee for cancellation.
SECTION 2.11. Defaulted Interest.
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Any interest on any Security that is payable, but is not punctually paid or
duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called "Defaulted
Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the holder on the relevant
regular record date by virtue of having been such holder; and such Defaulted
Interest shall be paid by the Company, at its election, as provided in clause
(a) or clause (b) below:
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(a) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on Securities to
the Persons in whose names such Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered at the close of business on a special record date for
the payment of such Defaulted Interest, which shall be fixed in the following
manner: the Company shall notify the Trustee in writing of the amount of
Defaulted Interest proposed to be paid on each such 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 nor 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 Securityholder at his or her address as it appears in the Security
Register, not less than 10 days prior to such special record date. Notice of
the proposed payment of such Defaulted Interest and the special record date
therefor having been mailed as aforesaid, such Defaulted Interest shall be paid
to the Persons in whose names such Securities (or their respective Predecessor
Securities) are registered on such special record date and shall be no longer
payable pursuant to the following clause (b).
(b) The Company may make payment of any Defaulted Interest on any
Securities in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements of
any securities exchange on which such Securities may be listed, and upon such
notice as may be required by such exchange, if, after notice given by the
Company to the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this clause, such
manner of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
SECTION 2.12. CUSIP Numbers.
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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 prepayment as a convenience to Securityholders; provided that any such notice
may state that no representation is made as to the correctness of such numbers
either as printed on the Securities or as contained in any notice of prepayment
and that reliance may be placed only on the other identification numbers printed
on the Securities, and any such prepayment shall not be affected by any defect
in or omission of such numbers. The Company will promptly notify the Trustee of
any change in the CUSIP numbers.
ARTICLE III
PARTICULAR COVENANTS OF THE COMPANY
SECTION 3.1. Payment of Principal, Premium and Interest.
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The Company covenants and agrees for the benefit of the holders of the
Securities that it will duly and punctually pay or cause to be paid the
principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Securities at the place,
at the respective times and in the manner provided herein. Except as provided
in Section 2.3, each installment of interest on the Securities may be paid by
mailing checks for such interest payable to the order of the holder of Security
entitled thereto as they appear in the Security Register.
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SECTION 3.2. Offices for Notices and Payments, Etc.
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So long as any of the Securities remain outstanding, the Company will
maintain in _______________, an office or agency where the Securities may be
presented for payment, an office or agency where the Securities may be presented
for registration of transfer and for exchange as in this Indenture provided and
an office or agency where notices and demands to or upon the Company in respect
of the Securities or of this Indenture may be served. The Company will give to
the Trustee written notice of the location of any such office or agency and of
any change of location thereof. Until otherwise designated from time to time by
the Company in a notice to the Trustee, any such office or agency for all of the
above purposes shall be the Principal Office of the Trustee. In case the
Company shall fail to maintain any such office or agency in ___________________,
or shall fail to give such notice of the location or of any change in the
location thereof, presentations and demands may be made and notices may be
served at the Principal Office of the Trustee.
In addition to any such office or agency, the Company may from time to time
designate one or more offices or agencies outside _______________, where the
Securities may be presented for payment, registration of transfer and for
exchange or conversion in the manner provided in this Indenture, and the Company
may from time to time rescind such designation, as the Company may deem
desirable or expedient; provided, however, that no such designation or
rescission shall in any manner relieve the Company of its obligation to maintain
any such office or agency in ________________, for the purposes above mentioned.
The Company will give to the Trustee prompt written notice of any such
designation or rescission thereof.
SECTION 3.3. Appointments to Fill Vacancies in Trustee's Office.
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The Company, whenever necessary to avoid or fill a vacancy in the office of
Trustee, will appoint, in the manner provided in Section 6.10, a Trustee, so
that at all times there shall be a Trustee hereunder.
SECTION 3.4. Provision as to Paying Agent.
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(a) If the Company shall appoint a paying agent other than the Trustee with
respect to the Securities, it will cause such paying agent to execute and
deliver to the Trustee an instrument in which such agent shall agree with the
Trustee, subject to the provision of this Section 3.4,
(i) that it will hold all sums held by it as such agent for the
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities (whether such sums have been paid to it by the Company or by any
other obligor on the Securities of such series) in trust for the benefit of
the holders of the Securities
(ii) that it will give the Trustee notice of any failure by the
Company (or by any other obligor on the Securities) to make any payment of
the principal of and premium or interest on the Securities when the same
shall be due and payable;
(iii) that it will at any time during the continuance of any such
failure, upon the written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the
Trustee all sums so held in trust by it as such paying agent.
(b) If the Company shall act as its own paying agent, it will, on or before
each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the
Securities, set aside, segregate and hold in trust for the benefit of the
holders of the Securities a sum sufficient to pay such principal, premium or
interest so becoming due and will notify the Trustee of its action or any
failure to take such action and of any failure
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by the Company (or by any other obligor under the Securities) to make any
payment of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on the Securities
when the same shall become due and payable.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more paying agents, it will, on or
prior to each due date of the principal of and premium, if any, or interest on
any Securities, deposit with a paying agent a sum sufficient to pay the
principal of and premium, if any, or interest so becoming due, such sum to be
held in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto, and (unless such
paying agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the Trustee of its
action or failure to act.
(c) Anything in this Section 3.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Company may, at any time, for the purpose of obtaining a satisfaction and
discharge with respect to the Securities hereunder, or for any other reason, pay
or cause to be paid to the Trustee all sums held in trust for any such
Securities by the Trustee or any paying agent hereunder, as required by this
Section 3.4, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon the trusts herein
contained.
(d) Anything in this Section 3.4 to the contrary notwithstanding, the
agreement to hold sums in trust as provided in this Section 3.4 is subject to
Sections 11.3 and 11.4.
SECTION 3.5. Certificate to Trustee.
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The Company will deliver to the Trustee on or before 120 days after the end
of each fiscal year in each year, commencing with the first fiscal year ending
after the date hereof, so long as Securities are outstanding hereunder, an
Officers' Certificate, one of the signers of which shall be the principal
executive, principal financial or principal accounting officer of the Company
stating that in the course of the performance by the signers of their duties as
officers of the Company they would normally have knowledge of any default by the
Company in the performance of any covenants contained herein, stating whether or
not they have knowledge of any such default and, if so, specifying each such
default of which the signers have knowledge and the nature thereof.
SECTION 3.6. Compliance with Consolidation Provisions.
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The Company will not, while any of the Securities remain outstanding,
consolidate with, or merge into, or merge into itself, or sell or convey all or
substantially all of its property to any other Person unless the provisions of
Article X hereof are complied with.
SECTION 3.7. Limitation on Dividends.
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If at any time (i) an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing (other than solely an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) hereof),
(ii) there shall have occurred any event of which the Company has actual
knowledge that (a) is, or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or
both, would constitute an Event of Default (other than solely an Event of
Default under Section 5.1(c) hereof) and (b) in respect of which the Company
shall not have taken reasonable steps to cure, (iii) if the Securities are held
by the Property Trustee, the Company shall be in default with respect to its
payment obligations under the Capital Securities Guarantee or (iv) the Company
shall have given notice of its election of the exercise of its right to extend
the interest payment period pursuant to Section 16.1 and has not rescinded such
notice and any such extension shall have commenced, then, in each such case, 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, interest or
premium, if any, on or repay or repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the
Company (including any Other Debentures) that rank pari passu with or junior in
right of payment to the Securities or (iii) make any guarantee payments with
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respect to any guarantee by the Company of any securities of any Subsidiary of
the Company (including Other Guarantees) if such guarantee ranks pari passu or
junior in right of payment to the Securities, other than (a) dividends or
distributions in shares of, or options, warrants or rights to subscribe for or
purchase shares of, Common Stock or preferred stock of the Company; (b) any
declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a
stockholder's 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 Capital Securities Guarantee; (d) as a direct result of, and
only to the extent required in order to avoid the issuance of fractional shares
of capital stock following a reclassification of the Company's capital stock or
the exchange or the conversion of one class or series of the Company's capital
stock for another class or series of the Company's capital stock; (e) 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; and (f) purchases of Common Stock related
to the issuance of Common Stock or rights under any of the Company's benefit
plans for its directors, officers or employees.
SECTION 3.8. Covenants as to LFC Trust.
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In the event Securities are issued to LFC Trust or a trustee of such trust
in connection with the issuance of Trust Securities by LFC Trust, for so long as
such Trust Securities remain outstanding, the Company will (i) maintain 100%
direct ownership of the Common Securities of LFC Trust; provided, however, that
any successor of the Company, permitted pursuant to Article X, may succeed to
the Company's ownership of such Common Securities, (ii) use its reasonable
efforts to cause LFC Trust (a) to remain a business trust, except in connection
with a distribution of Securities, the redemption of all of the Trust Securities
of LFC Trust or certain mergers, consolidations or amalgamations, each as
permitted by the Declaration of LFC Trust, and (b) to otherwise continue not to
be treated as an association taxable as a corporation or partnership for United
States federal income tax purposes and (iii) to use its reasonable efforts to
cause each holder of Trust Securities to be treated as owning an individual
beneficial interest in the Securities.
SECTION 3.9. Payment of Expenses.
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In connection with the offering, sale and issuance of the Securities to LFC
Trust and in connection with the sale of the Trust Securities by LFC Trust, the
Company, in its capacity as borrower with respect to the Securities, shall:
(a) pay all costs and expenses relating to the offering, sale and issuance
of the Securities, including fees to the Underwriter payable in connection with
the Public Offering and compensation of the Trustee in accordance with the
provisions of Section 6.6;
(b) pay all costs and expenses of the LFC Trust (including, but not limited
to, costs and expenses relating to the organization of LFC Trust, the offering,
sale and issuance of the Trust Securities (including fees to the Underwriter in
connection therewith), the fees and expenses of the Property Trustee and the
Delaware Trustee, the costs and expenses relating to the operation of LFC Trust,
including without limitation, costs and expenses of accountants, attorneys,
statistical or bookkeeping services, expenses for printing and engraving and
computing or accounting equipment, paying agent(s), registrar(s), transfer
agent(s), conversion agent(s), duplicating, travel and telephone and other
telecommunications expenses and costs and expenses incurred in connection with
the acquisition, financing and disposition of assets of the LFC Trust;
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(c) be primarily and fully liable for any indemnification obligations
arising with respect to the Declaration;
(d) pay any and all taxes (other than United States withholding taxes
attributable to LFC Trust or its assets) and all liabilities, costs and expenses
with respect to such taxes of LFC Trust; and
(e) pay all other fees, expenses, debts and obligations (other than
payments of principal of, premium, if any, or interest on the Trust Securities)
related to LFC Trust.
SECTION 3.10. Payment Upon Resignation or Removal.
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Upon termination of this Indenture or the removal or resignation of the
Trustee, unless otherwise stated, the Company shall pay to the Trustee all
amounts accrued and owing to the date of such termination, removal or
resignation. Upon termination of the Declaration or the removal or resignation
of the Delaware Trustee or the Property Trustee, as the case may be, pursuant to
Section 5.6 of the Declaration, the Company shall pay to the Delaware Trustee or
the Property Trustee, as the case may be, all amounts accrued and owing to the
date of such termination, removal or resignation.
SECTION 3.11. Reservation of Common Stock.
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The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available out of its
authorized and unissued Common Stock, solely for issuance upon the conversion of
the Company, free from any preemptive or other similar rights, such number of
such shares of Common Stock as shall from time to time be issuable upon the
conversion of all the Company then outstanding. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Company shall be entitled to deliver upon conversion of Company, shares of
Common Stock reacquired and held in the treasury of the Company (in lieu of the
issuance of authorized and unissued shares of Common Stock), so long as any such
treasury shares are free and clear of all liens, charges, security interests or
encumbrances. Any shares of Common Stock issued upon conversion of the Company
shall be duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. The
Trust shall deliver the shares of Common Stock received upon conversion of the
Company to the converting Holder free and clear of all liens, charges, security
interests and encumbrances, except for United States withholding taxes.
SECTION 3.12. Listing of Junior Subordinated Debentures.
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At such time as the Trust is dissolved or terminated pursuant to Article
VIII of the Trust, the Company shall use its best efforts to have the Securities
approved for listing on the Nasdaq or on an exchange prior to the time the
Securities are distributed to the holders of the Securities.
ARTICLE IV
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY THE
COMPANY AND THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 4.1. Securityholders' Lists.
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The Company covenants and agrees that it will furnish or cause to be
furnished to the Trustee:
(a) on a quarterly basis on each regular record date for the Securities in
connection with the payment of interest thereon, a list, in such form as the
Trustee may reasonably require, of the names and addresses of the
Securityholders as of such record date; and
(b) at such other times as the Trustee may request in writing, within 30
days after the receipt by the Company, of any such request, a list of similar
form and content as of a date not more than 15 days prior to the time such list
is furnished,
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except that, no such lists need be furnished so long as the Trustee is in
possession thereof by reason of its acting as Security registrar.
SECTION 4.2. Preservation and Disclosure of Lists.
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(a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is reasonably
practicable, all information as to the names and addresses of the holders of the
Securities (1) contained in the most recent list furnished to it as provided in
Section 4.1 or (2) received by it in the capacity of Securities registrar (if so
acting) hereunder. The Trustee may destroy any list furnished to it as provided
in Section 4.1 upon receipt of a new list so furnished.
(b) In case three or more holders of Securities (hereinafter referred to
as "applicants") apply in writing to the Trustee and furnish to the Trustee
reasonable proof that each such applicant has owned a Security for a period of
at least six months preceding the date of such application, and such application
states that the applicants desire to communicate with other holders of
Securities or with holders of all Securities with respect to their rights under
this Indenture and is accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which such applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall
within 5 Business Days after the receipt of such application, at its election,
either:
(i) afford such applicants access to the information preserved at
the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a)
of this Section 4.2, or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of holders
of all Securities, whose names and addresses appear in the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (a) of this Section 4.2, and as to the approximate cost of
mailing to such Securityholders the form of proxy or other communication,
if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to such
information, the Trustee, upon the written request of such applicants, shall
mail to each Securityholder whose name and address appear in the information
preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with the provisions of
subsection (a) of this Section 4.2 a copy of the form of proxy or other
communication which is specified in such request with reasonable promptness
after a tender to the Trustee of the material to be mailed and of payment, or
provision for the payment, of the reasonable expenses of mailing, unless within
five days after such tender, the Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file
with the Commission, together with a copy of the material to be mailed, a
written statement to the effect that, in the opinion of the Trustee, such
mailing would be contrary to the best interests of the holders of Securities, or
would be in violation of applicable law. Such written statement shall specify
the basis of such opinion. If the Commission, after opportunity for a hearing
upon the objections specified in the written statement so filed, shall enter an
order refusing to sustain any of such objections or if, after the entry of an
order sustaining one or more of such objections, the Commission shall find,
after notice and opportunity for hearing, that all the objections so sustained
have been met and shall enter an order so declaring, the Trustee shall mail
copies of such material to all such Securityholders with reasonable promptness
after the entry of such order and the renewal of such tender; otherwise the
Trustee shall be relieved of any obligation or duty to such applicants
respecting their application.
(c) Each and every holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
nor any paying agent shall be held accountable by reason of the disclosure of
any such information as to the names and addresses of the holders of Securities
in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section 4.2,
regardless of the source
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from which such information was derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held
accountable by reason of mailing any material pursuant to a request made under
said subsection (b).
SECTION 4.3. Reports by Company.
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(a) The Company covenants and agrees to file with the Trustee, within 15
days after the date on which the Company is required to file the same with the
Commission, copies of the annual reports and of the information, documents and
other reports (or copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as said
Commission may from time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the
Company may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section 13 or
Section 15(d) of the Exchange Act; or, if the Company is not required to file
information, documents or reports pursuant to either of such sections, then to
file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with rules and
regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such of the
supplementary and periodic information, documents and reports which may be
required pursuant to Section 13 of the Exchange Act in respect of a security
listed and registered on a national securities exchange as may be prescribed
from time to time in such rules and regulations.
(b) The Company covenants and agrees to file with the Trustee and the
Commission, in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed from time to
time by said Commission, such additional information, documents and reports with
respect to compliance by the Company with the conditions and covenants provided
for in this Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations.
(c) The Company covenants and agrees to transmit by mail to all holders of
Securities, as the names and addresses of such holders appear upon the Security
Register, within 30 days after the filing thereof with the Trustee, such
summaries of any information, documents and reports required to be filed by the
Company pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this Section 4.3 as may be
required by rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission.
(d) Delivery of such reports, information and documents to the Trustee is
for informational purposes only and the Trustee's receipt of such shall not
constitute constructive notice of any information contained therein or
determinable from information contained therein, including the Company's
compliance with any of its covenants hereunder (as to which the Trustee is
entitled to rely exclusively on Officers' Certificates).
SECTION 4.4. Reports by the Trustee.
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(a) The Trustee shall transmit to Securityholders 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. If required by Section 313(a) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee,
within sixty days after each ____________ following the date of this Indenture,
commencing ____________, 1998, shall deliver to Securityholders a brief report,
dated as of such __________, which complies with the provisions of such Section
313(a).
(b) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such transmission to
Securityholders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock exchange, if any, upon
which the Securities are listed, with the Commission and with the Company. The
Company will promptly notify the Trustee if the Securities are listed on any
stock exchange.
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ARTICLE V
REMEDIES OF THE TRUSTEE AND SECURITYHOLDERS
ON EVENT OF DEFAULT
SECTION 5.1. Events of Default.
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One or more of the following events of default shall constitute an Event of
Default hereunder (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it
shall be voluntary 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):
(a) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security or any Other
Debentures when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default for
a period of 30 days; provided, however, that a valid extension of an interest
payment period by the Company in accordance with the terms hereof shall not
constitute a default in the payment of interest for this purpose; or
(b) default in the payment of all or any part of the principal of (or
premium, if any, on) any Security or any Other Debentures as and when the same
shall become due and payable either at maturity, upon prepayment, by declaration
of acceleration or otherwise; or
(c) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or warranty of
the Company in this Indenture (other than a covenant or warranty a default in
whose performance or whose breach is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), and continuance of such default or breach for a period of 90 days
after there has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Company by
the Trustee or to the Company and the Trustee by the holders of at least 25% in
aggregate principal amount of the outstanding Securities a written notice
specifying such default or breach and requiring it to be remedied and stating
that such notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(d) a court having jurisdiction in the premises shall enter a decree or
order for relief in respect of the Company in an involuntary case under any
applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter in
effect, or appointing a receiver, liquidator, assignee, custodian, trustee,
sequestrator (or similar official) of the Company or for any substantial part of
its property, or ordering the winding-up or liquidation of its affairs and such
decree or order shall remain unstayed and in effect for a period of 90
consecutive days; or
(e) the Company shall commence a voluntary case under any Bankruptcy Law
or any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law now or hereafter
in effect, shall consent to the entry of an order for relief in an involuntary
case under any such law, or shall consent to the appointment of or taking
possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator
(or other similar official) of the Company or of any substantial part of its
property, or shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or
shall fail generally to pay its debts as they become due.
If an Event of Default with respect to Securities at the time outstanding
occurs and is continuing, then in every such case the Trustee or the holders of
not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities then
outstanding may declare the principal amount of all Securities to be due and
payable immediately, by a notice in writing to the Company (and to the Trustee
if given by the holders of the outstanding Securities), and upon any such
declaration the same shall become immediately due and payable.
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The foregoing provisions, however, are subject to the condition that if, at
any time after the principal of the Securities shall have been so declared due
and payable, and before any judgment or decree for the payment of the moneys due
shall have been obtained or entered as hereinafter provided, (i) the Company
shall pay or shall deposit with the Trustee a sum sufficient to pay (A) all
matured installments of interest upon all the Securities and the principal of
and premium, if any, on any and all Securities which shall have become due
otherwise than by acceleration (with interest upon such principal and premium,
if any, and, to the extent that payment of such interest is enforceable under
applicable law, on overdue installments of interest, at the same rate as the
rate of interest specified in the Securities to the date of such payment or
deposit) and (B) such amount as shall be sufficient to cover reasonable
compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, their respective
agents, attorneys and counsel, and all other expenses and liabilities incurred,
and all advances made, by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee except as a
result of negligence or bad faith, and (ii) any and all Events of Default under
the Indenture, other than the non-payment of the principal of the Securities
which shall have become due solely by such declaration of acceleration, shall
have been cured, waived or otherwise remedied as provided herein, then, in every
such case, the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then outstanding, by written notice to the Company and to the
Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its consequences, but no
such waiver or rescission and annulment shall extend to or shall affect any
subsequent default or shall impair any right consequent thereon.
In case the Trustee shall have proceeded to enforce any right under this
Indenture and such proceedings shall have been discontinued or abandoned because
of such rescission or annulment or for any other reason or shall have been
determined adversely to the Trustee, then and in every such case the Company,
the Trustee and the holders of the Securities shall be restored respectively to
their several positions and rights hereunder, and all rights, remedies and
powers of the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the Securities shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been taken.
SECTION 5.2. Payment of Securities on Default; Suit Therefor.
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The Company covenants that (a) in case default shall be made in the payment
of any installment of interest upon any of the Securities as and when the same
shall become due and payable, and such default shall have continued for a period
of 30 days, or (b) in case default shall be made in the payment of the principal
of or premium, if any, on any of the Securities as and when the same shall have
become due and payable, whether at maturity of the Securities or upon prepayment
or by declaration or otherwise, then, upon demand of the Trustee, the Company
shall pay to the Trustee, for the benefit of the holders of the Securities, the
whole amount that then shall have become due and payable on all such Securities
for principal and premium, if any, or interest, or both, as the case may be,
with interest upon the overdue principal and premium, if any, and (to the extent
that payment of such interest is enforceable under applicable law and, if the
Securities are held by LFC Trust or a trustee of such trust, without duplication
of any other amounts paid by LFC Trust or a trustee in respect thereof) upon the
overdue installments of interest at the rate borne by the Securities; and, in
addition thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs
and expenses of collection, including a reasonable compensation to the Trustee,
its agents, attorneys and counsel, and any expenses or liabilities incurred by
the Trustee hereunder other than through its negligence or bad faith.
In case the Company shall fail forthwith to pay such amounts upon such
demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express trust, shall
be entitled and empowered to institute any actions or proceedings at law or in
equity for the collection of the sums so due and unpaid, and may prosecute any
such action or proceeding to judgment or final decree, and may enforce any such
judgment or final decree against the Company or any other obligor on the
Securities and collect in the manner provided by law out of the
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property of the Company or any other obligor on the Securities wherever situated
the moneys adjudged or decreed to be payable.
In case there shall be pending proceedings for the bankruptcy or for the
reorganization of the Company or any other obligor on the Securities under
Bankruptcy Law, or any other applicable law, or in case a receiver or trustee
shall have been appointed for the property of the Company or such other obligor,
or in the case of any other similar judicial proceedings relative to the Company
or other obligor upon the Securities, or to the creditors or property of the
Company or such other obligor, the Trustee, irrespective of whether the
principal of the Securities 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 pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5.2, shall be
entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceedings or otherwise, to
file and prove a claim or claims for the whole amount of principal and interest
owing and unpaid in respect of the Securities and, in case of any judicial
proceedings, to file such proofs of claim and other papers or documents as may
be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including
any claim for reasonable compensation to the Trustee and each predecessor
Trustee, and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and for
reimbursement of all expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made,
by the Trustee and each predecessor Trustee, except as a result of negligence or
bad faith) and of the Securityholders allowed in such judicial proceedings
relative to the Company or any other obligor on the Securities, or to the
creditors or property of the Company or such other obligor, unless prohibited by
applicable law and regulations, to vote on behalf of the holders of the
Securities in any election of a trustee or a standby trustee in arrangement,
reorganization, liquidation or other bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings or
person performing similar functions in comparable proceedings, and to collect
and receive any moneys or other property payable or deliverable on any such
claims, and to distribute the same after the deduction of its charges and
expenses; and any receiver, assignee or trustee in bankruptcy or reorganization
is hereby authorized by each of the Securityholders to make such payments to the
Trustee, and, in the event that the Trustee shall consent to the making of such
payments directly to the Securityholders, to pay to the Trustee such amounts as
shall be sufficient to cover reasonable compensation to the Trustee, each
predecessor Trustee and their respective agents, attorneys and counsel, and all
other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all advances made, by the Trustee
and each predecessor Trustee except as a result of negligence or bad faith.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder any
plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the
Securities or the rights of any holder thereof or to authorize the Trustee to
vote in respect of the claim of any Securityholder in any such proceeding.
All rights of action and of asserting claims under this Indenture, or under
any of the Securities, may be enforced by the Trustee without the possession of
any of the Securities, or the production thereof on any trial or other
proceeding relative thereto, and any such suit or proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall be for the ratable benefit of the holders of the
Securities.
In any proceedings brought by the Trustee (and also any proceedings
involving the interpretation of any provision of this Indenture to which the
Trustee shall be a party) the Trustee shall be held to represent all the holders
of the Securities, and it shall not be necessary to make any holders of the
Securities parties to any such proceedings.
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SECTION 5.3. Application of Moneys Collected by Trustee.
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Any moneys collected by the Trustee shall be applied in the order
following, at the date or dates fixed by the Trustee for the distribution of
such moneys, upon presentation of the Securities in respect of which moneys have
been collected, and stamping thereon the payment, if only partially paid, and
upon surrender thereof if fully paid:
First: To the payment of costs and expenses of collection applicable to
the Securities and reasonable compensation to the Trustee, its agents, attorneys
and counsel, and of all other expenses and liabilities incurred, and all
advances made, by the Trustee except as a result of its negligence or bad faith;
Second: To the payment of all Senior Indebtedness of the Company if and to
the extent required by Article XV;
Third: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon Securities
for principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the Securities, in
respect of which or for the benefit of which money has been collected, ratably,
without preference of priority of any kind, according to the amounts due on such
Securities for principal (and premium, if any) and interest, respectively; and
Fourth: To the Company.
SECTION 5.4. Proceedings by Securityholders.
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No holder of any Security shall have any right by virtue of or by availing
of any provision of this Indenture to institute any suit, action or proceeding
in equity or at law upon or under or with respect to this Indenture or for the
appointment of a receiver or trustee, or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
such holder previously shall have given to the Trustee written notice of an
Event of Default and of the continuance thereof with respect to the Securities
specifying such Event of Default, as hereinbefore provided, and unless also the
holders of not less than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
then outstanding shall have made written request upon the Trustee to institute
such action, suit or proceeding in its own name as Trustee hereunder and shall
have offered to the Trustee such reasonable indemnity as it may require against
the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred therein or thereby, and the
Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice, request and offer of
indemnity shall have failed to institute any such action, suit or proceeding, it
being understood and intended, and being expressly covenanted by the taker and
holder of every Security with every other taker and holder and the Trustee, that
no one or more holders of Securities shall have any right in any manner whatever
by virtue of or by availing of any provision of this Indenture to affect,
disturb or prejudice the rights of any other holder of Securities, or to obtain
or seek to obtain priority over or preference to any other such holder, or to
enforce any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and
for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all holders of Securities.
Notwithstanding any other provisions in this Indenture, however, the right
of any holder of any Security to receive payment of the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on such Security, on or after the same shall have
become due and payable, or to institute suit for the enforcement of any such
payment, shall not be impaired or affected without the consent of such holder
and by accepting a Security hereunder it is expressly understood, intended and
covenanted by the taker and holder of every Security with every other such taker
and holder and the Trustee, that no one or more holders of Securities shall have
any right in any manner whatsoever by virtue or by availing of any provision of
this Indenture to affect, disturb or prejudice the rights of the holders of any
other Securities, or to obtain or seek to obtain priority over or preference to
any other such holder, or to enforce any right under this Indenture, except in
the manner herein provided and for the equal, ratable and common benefit of all
holders of Securities. For the protection and
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enforcement of the provisions of this Section, each and every Securityholder and
the Trustee shall be entitled to such relief as can be given either at law or in
equity.
The Company and the Trustee acknowledge that pursuant to the Declaration,
the holders of Capital Securities are entitled, in the circumstances and subject
to the limitations set forth therein, to commence a Direct Action with respect
to any Event of Default under this Indenture and the Securities.
SECTION 5.5. Proceedings by Trustee.
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In case an Event of Default occurs with respect to Securities and is
continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect and enforce the
rights vested in it by this Indenture by such appropriate judicial proceedings
as the Trustee shall deem most effectual to protect and enforce any of such
rights, either by suit in equity or by action at law or by proceeding in
bankruptcy or otherwise, whether for the specific enforcement of any covenant or
agreement contained in this Indenture or in aid of the exercise of any power
granted in this Indenture, or to enforce any other legal or equitable right
vested in the Trustee by this Indenture or by law.
SECTION 5.6. Remedies Cumulative and Continuing.
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Except as provided in the last paragraph of Section 2.7, all powers and
remedies given by this Article V to the Trustee or to the Securityholders, to
the extent permitted by law, shall be deemed cumulative and not exclusive of any
other powers and remedies available to the Trustee or the holders of the
Securities, by judicial proceedings or otherwise, to enforce the performance or
observance of the covenants and agreements contained in this Indenture or
otherwise established with respect to the Securities, and no delay or omission
of the Trustee or of any holder of any of the Securities to exercise any right
or power accruing upon any Event of Default occurring and continuing as
aforesaid shall impair any such right or power, or shall be construed to be a
waiver of any such default or an acquiescence therein; and, subject to the
provisions of Section 5.4, every power and remedy given by this Article V or by
law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from time to time,
and as often as shall be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders.
SECTION 5.7. Direction of Proceedings and Waiver of Defaults by Majority
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of Securityholders.
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The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities
at the time outstanding 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; provided, however, that
(subject to the provisions of Section 6.1) the Trustee shall have the right to
decline to follow any such direction if the Trustee, upon the advice of counsel,
shall determine that the action so directed would be unjustly prejudicial to the
holders not taking part in such direction or if the Trustee being advised by
counsel determines that the action or proceeding so directed may not lawfully be
taken or if the Trustee, in good faith, by its board of directors or trustees,
executive committee or a trust committee of directors or trustees and/or
Responsible Officers shall determine that the action or proceedings so directed
would involve the Trustee in personal liability. Prior to any declaration
accelerating the maturity of the Securities, the holders of a majority in
aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time outstanding may on
behalf of the holders of all of the Securities waive any past default or Event
of Default and its consequences except a default (a) in the payment of principal
of or premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities or (b) in respect of
covenants or provisions hereof which cannot be modified or amended without the
consent of the holder of each Security affected; provided, however, that if the
Securities are held by the Property Trustee, such waiver or modification to such
waiver shall not be effective until the holders of a majority in aggregate
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amount of Trust Securities shall have consented to such waiver or modification
to such waiver; and provided further, that if the consent of the holder of each
outstanding Security is required, such waiver shall not be effective until each
holder of the Trust Securities shall have consented to such waiver. Upon any
such waiver, the default covered thereby shall be deemed to be cured for all
purposes of this Indenture and the Company, the Trustee and the holders of the
Securities shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder,
respectively; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other default
or impair any right consequent thereon. Whenever any default or Event of Default
hereunder shall have been waived as permitted by this Section 5.7, said default
or Event of Default shall for all purposes of the Securities and this Indenture
be deemed to have been cured and to be not continuing.
SECTION 5.8. Notice of Defaults.
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The Trustee, within 90 days after the occurrence of a default with respect
to the Securities, shall mail to all Securityholders, as the names and addresses
of such holders appear upon the Security register, notice of all defaults known
to the Trustee, unless such defaults shall have been cured before the giving of
such notice (the term "defaults" for the purpose of this Section 5.8 being
hereby defined to be the events specified in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e)
of Section 5.1, not including periods of grace, if any, provided for therein,
and irrespective of the giving of written notice specified in clause (c) of
Section 5.1); and provided that, except in the case of default in the payment of
the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities, the
Trustee shall be 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 Securityholders; and
provided further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in
Section 5.1(c) no such notice to Securityholders shall be given until at least
60 days after the occurrence thereof but shall be given within 90 days after
such occurrence.
SECTION 5.9. Undertaking to Pay Costs.
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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 in its
discretion may require, in any suit for the enforcement of any right or remedy
under this Indenture, or in any suit against the Trustee for any action taken or
omitted by it as Trustee, the filing by any party litigant in such suit of an
undertaking to pay the costs of such suit, and that such court may in its
discretion assess reasonable costs, including reasonable attorneys' fees and
expenses, against any party litigant in such suit, having due regard to the
merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by such party litigant; but
the provisions of this Section 5.9 shall not apply to any suit instituted by the
Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder, or group of
Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities outstanding, or to any suit instituted by any
Securityholder for the enforcement of the payment of the principal of (or
premium, if any) or interest on any Security against the Company on or after the
same shall have become due and payable.
ARTICLE VI
CONCERNING THE TRUSTEE
SECTION 6.1. Duties and Responsibilities of Trustee.
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With respect to the holders of the Securities issued hereunder, the
Trustee, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or
waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred, undertakes to perform
such duties and only such duties as are specifically set forth in this
Indenture. In case
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an Event of Default has occurred (which has not been cured or waived) the
Trustee shall exercise such of the rights and powers vested in it by this
Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their exercise, as a
prudent man would exercise or use under the circumstances in the conduct of his
own affairs.
No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the Trustee
from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure to act or
its own willful misconduct, except that
(a) prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default and after the curing or
waiving of all Events of Default which may have occurred
(i) the duties and obligations of the Trustee shall be determined
solely by the express provisions of this Indenture, and the Trustee shall
not be liable except for the performance of such duties and obligations as
are specifically set forth in this Indenture, and no implied covenants or
obligations shall be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(ii) in the absence of bad faith on the part of the Trustee, the
Trustee may conclusively rely, as to the truth of the statements and the
correctness of the opinions expressed therein, upon any certificates or
opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to the requirements of
this Indenture; but, in the case of any such certificates or opinions which
by any provision hereof are specifically required to be furnished to the
Trustee, the Trustee shall be under a duty to examine the same to determine
whether or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture;
(b) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made in good
faith by a Responsible Officer or Officers of the Trustee, unless it shall be
proved that the Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts upon
which such judgment was made;
(c) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken or
omitted to be taken by it in good faith, in accordance with the direction of the
Securityholders pursuant to Section 5.7, relating to the time, method and place
of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the Trustee, or
exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee, under this Indenture;
and
(d) None of the provisions contained in this Indenture shall require the
Trustee to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur personal financial
liability in the performance of any of its duties or in the exercise of any of
its rights or powers.
SECTION 6.2. Reliance on Documents, Opinions, Etc.
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Except as otherwise provided in Section 6.1:
(a) the Trustee may rely and shall be protected in acting or refraining
from acting upon any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument, opinion,
report, notice, request, consent, order, bond, note, debenture or other paper or
document believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed or presented by
the proper party or parties;
(b) any request, direction, order or demand of the Company mentioned
herein may be sufficiently evidenced by an Officers' Certificate (unless other
evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed); and any Board
Resolution may be evidenced to the Trustee by a copy thereof certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company;
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(c) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and any advice
or Opinion of Counsel shall be full and complete authorization and protection in
respect of any action taken or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in
accordance with such advice or Opinion of Counsel;
(d) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the rights
or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request, order or direction of
any of the Securityholders, pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture, unless
such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security or
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which may be incurred
therein or thereby;
(e) the Trustee shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted by it
in good faith and believed by it to be authorized or within the discretion or
rights or powers conferred upon it by this Indenture; nothing contained herein
shall, however, relieve the Trustee of the obligation, upon the occurrence of an
Event of Default (that has not been cured or waived), to exercise such of the
rights and powers vested in it by this Indenture, and to use the same degree of
care and skill in their exercise, as a prudent man would exercise or use under
the circumstances in the conduct of his own affairs;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into the
facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement, instrument,
opinion, report, notice, request, consent, order, approval, bond, debenture,
coupon or other paper or document, unless requested in writing to do so by the
holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the outstanding
Securities; provided, however, that if the payment within a reasonable time to
the Trustee of the costs, expenses or liabilities likely to be incurred by it in
the making of such investigation is, in the opinion of the Trustee, not
reasonably assured to the Trustee by the security afforded to it by the terms of
this Indenture, the Trustee may require reasonable indemnity against such
expense or liability as a condition to so proceeding; and
(g) the Trustee may execute any of the trusts or powers hereunder or
perform any duties hereunder either directly or by or through agents (including
any Authenticating Agent) or attorneys, and the Trustee shall not be responsible
for any misconduct or negligence on the part of any such agent or attorney
appointed by it with due care.
SECTION 6.3. No Responsibility for Recitals, Etc.
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The recitals contained herein and in the Securities (except in the
certificate of authentication of the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent) shall
be taken as the statements of the Company, and the Trustee and the
Authenticating Agent assume no responsibility for the correctness of the same.
The Trustee and the Authenticating Agent make no representations as to the
validity or sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee and
the Authenticating Agent shall not be accountable for the use or application by
the Company of any Securities or the proceeds of any Securities authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture. The Trustee shall not be charged with knowledge
of any default or Event of Default under Section 5.1(a) or (b) relating to Other
Debentures unless (i) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee assigned to its
Principal Office shall have actual knowledge thereof or (ii) the Company, any
Securityholder or the holder of any Other Debenture shall have given the Trustee
written notice thereof in accordance with Section 13.4.
SECTION 6.4. Trustee, Authenticating Agent, Paying Agents, Transfer
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Agents or Registrar May Own Securities.
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The Trustee or any Authenticating Agent or any paying agent or any transfer
agent or any Security registrar, in its individual or any other capacity, may
become the owner or pledgee of Securities with the
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same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Authenticating Agent, paying
agent, transfer agent or Security registrar.
SECTION 6.5. Monies to be Held in Trust.
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Subject to the provisions of Section 11.4, all monies received by the
Trustee or any paying agent, until used or applied as herein provided, shall be
held in trust for the purpose for which they were received, but need not be
segregated from other funds except to the extent required by law. The Trustee
and any paying agent shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed in writing with the Company.
So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all
interest allowed on any such monies shall be paid from time to time upon the
written order of the Company, signed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors,
the President or a Vice President or the Treasurer or an Assistant Treasurer of
the Company.
SECTION 6.6. Compensation and Expenses of Trustee.
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The Company covenants and agrees to pay to the Trustee from time to time,
and the Trustee shall be entitled to, such compensation as shall be agreed to in
writing between the Company and the Trustee (which shall not be limited by any
provision of law in regard to the compensation of a trustee of an express
trust), and the Company will pay or reimburse the Trustee upon its request for
all reasonable expenses, disbursements and advances incurred or made by the
Trustee in accordance with any of the provisions of this Indenture (including
the reasonable compensation and the expenses and disbursements of its counsel
and of all persons not regularly in its employ) except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may arise from its negligence or bad faith. The
Company also covenants to indemnify each of the Trustee or any predecessor
Trustee (and its officers, agents, directors and employees) for, and to hold it
harmless against, any and all loss, damage, claim, liability or expense
including taxes (other than taxes based on the income of the Trustee) incurred
without negligence or bad faith on the part of the Trustee and arising out of or
in connection with the acceptance or administration of this trust, including the
costs and expenses of defending itself against any claim of liability in the
premises. The obligations of the Company under this Section 6.6 to compensate
and indemnify the Trustee and to pay or reimburse the Trustee for expenses,
disbursements and advances shall constitute additional indebtedness hereunder.
Such additional indebtedness shall be secured by a lien prior to that of the
Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such,
except funds held in trust for the benefit of the holders of particular
Securities.
Without prejudice to any other rights available to the Trustee under
applicable law, when the Trustee incurs expenses or renders services in
connection with an Event of Default specified in Section 5.1(d) or Section
5.1(e), the expenses (including the reasonable charges and expenses of its
counsel) and the compensation for the services are intended to constitute
expenses of administration under any applicable federal or state bankruptcy,
insolvency or other similar law.
The provisions of this Section shall survive the termination of this
Indenture.
SECTION 6.7. Officers' Certificate as Evidence.
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Except as otherwise provided in Sections 6.1 and 6.2, whenever in the
administration of the provisions of this Indenture the Trustee shall deem it
necessary or desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to taking or
omitting any action hereunder, such matter (unless other evidence in respect
thereof is herein specifically prescribed), in the absence of negligence or bad
faith on the part of the Trustee, may be deemed to be conclusively proved and
established by an Officers' Certificate delivered to the Trustee, and such
certificate, in the absence of negligence or bad faith on the part of the
Trustee, shall be full warrant
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to the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it under the provisions of
this Indenture upon the faith thereof.
SECTION 6.8. Conflicting Interest of Trustee.
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If the Trustee has or shall acquire any "conflicting interest" within the
meaning of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act, the Trustee and the
Company shall in all respects comply with the provisions of Section 310(b) of
the Trust Indenture Act, subject to the penultimate paragraph thereof.
SECTION 6.9. Eligibility of Trustee.
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The Trustee hereunder shall at all times be a corporation organized and
doing business under the laws of the United States of America or any state or
territory thereof or of the District of Columbia or a corporation or other
Person permitted to act as trustee by the Commission authorized under such laws
to exercise corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at
least ____ million U.S. dollars ($__________) and subject to supervision or
examination by federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia 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 6.9 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.
The Company may not, nor may any Person directly or indirectly controlling,
controlled by, or under common control with the Company, serve as Trustee.
In case at any time the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance
with the provisions of this Section 6.9, the Trustee shall resign immediately in
the manner and with the effect specified in Section 6.10.
SECTION 6.10. Resignation or Removal of Trustee.
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(a) The Trustee, or any trustee or trustees hereafter appointed, may at
any time resign by giving written notice of such resignation to the Company.
Upon receiving such notice of resignation, the Company shall promptly appoint a
successor trustee or trustees by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of
which instrument shall be delivered to the resigning Trustee and one copy to the
successor trustee. If no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and have
accepted appointment within 60 days after the mailing of such notice of
resignation to the Company, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor trustee, or any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide holder of a Security for at least six
months may, subject to the provisions of Section 5.9, on behalf of himself and
all others similarly situated, petition any such court for the appointment of a
successor trustee. Such court may thereupon, after such notice, if any, as it
may deem proper and prescribe, appoint a successor trustee.
(b) In case at any time any of the following shall occur,
(i) the Trustee shall fail to comply with the provisions of Section
6.8 after written request therefor by the Company or by any Securityholder
who has been a bona fide holder of a Security or Securities for at least
six months,
(ii) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible in accordance with the
provisions of Section 6.9 and shall fail to resign after written request
therefor by the Company or by any such Securityholder, or
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(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, the Company may remove the Trustee and appoint a
successor trustee by written instrument, in duplicate, one copy of which
instrument shall be delivered to the Trustee so removed and one copy to the
successor trustee, or, subject to the provisions of Section 5.9, any
Securityholder 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. Such court may thereupon, after such
notice, if any, as it may deem proper and prescribe, remove the Trustee and
appoint a successor trustee.
(c) The holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities at the time outstanding may at any time remove the Trustee and
nominate a successor trustee, which shall be deemed appointed as successor
trustee unless within 10 days after such nomination the Company objects thereto
or if no successor trustee shall have been so appointed and shall have accepted
appointment within 30 days after such removal, in which case the Trustee so
removed or any Securityholder, upon the terms and conditions and otherwise as in
subsection (a) of this Section 6.10 provided, may petition any court of
competent jurisdiction for an appointment of a successor trustee.
(d) Any resignation or removal of the Trustee and appointment of a
successor trustee pursuant to any of the provisions of this Section 6.10 shall
become effective upon acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee as
provided in Section 6.11.
SECTION 6.11. Acceptance by Successor Trustee.
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Any successor trustee appointed as provided in Section 6.10 shall execute,
acknowledge and deliver to the Company and to its predecessor trustee an
instrument accepting such appointment hereunder, and thereupon the resignation
or removal of the retiring trustee shall become effective and such successor
trustee, without any further act, deed or conveyance, shall become vested with
all the rights, powers, duties and obligations of its predecessor hereunder,
with like effect as if originally named as trustee herein; but, nevertheless, on
the written request of the Company or of the successor trustee, the trustee
ceasing to act, upon payment of any amounts then due it pursuant to the
provisions of Section 6.6, shall execute and deliver an instrument transferring
to such successor trustee all the rights and powers of the trustee so ceasing to
act and shall duly assign, transfer and deliver to such successor trustee all
property and money held by such retiring trustee thereunder. Upon request of
any such successor trustee, the Company shall execute any and all instruments in
writing for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such successor
trustee all such rights and powers. Any trustee ceasing to act, nevertheless,
shall retain a lien upon all property or funds held or collected by such trustee
to secure any amounts then due it pursuant to the provisions of Section 6.6.
No successor trustee shall accept appointment as provided in this Section
6.11 unless at the time of such acceptance such successor trustee shall be
qualified under the provisions of Section 6.8 and eligible under the provisions
of Section 6.9.
Upon acceptance of appointment by a successor trustee as provided in this
Section 6.11, the Company shall mail notice of the succession of such trustee
hereunder to the holders of Securities at their addresses as they shall appear
on the Security register. If the Company fails to mail such notice within 10
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days after the acceptance of appointment by the successor trustee, the successor
trustee shall cause such notice to be mailed at the expense of the Company.
SECTION 6.12. Succession by Merger, Etc.
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Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or with
which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder without
the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of
the parties hereto.
In case at the time such successor to the Trustee shall succeed to the
trusts created by this Indenture any Securities shall have been authenticated
but not delivered, any such successor to the Trustee may adopt the certificate
of authentication of any predecessor trustee, and deliver such Securities so
authenticated; and in case at that time any of the Securities shall not have
been authenticated, any successor to the Trustee may authenticate such
Securities either in the name of any predecessor hereunder or in the name of the
successor trustee; and in all such cases such certificates shall have the full
force which the Securities or this Indenture elsewhere provides that the
certificate of the Trustee shall have; provided, however, that the right to
adopt the certificate of authentication of any predecessor Trustee or
authenticate Securities in the name of any predecessor Trustee shall apply only
to its successor or successors by merger, conversion or consolidation.
SECTION 6.13. Limitation on Rights of Trustee as a Creditor.
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The Trustee shall comply with Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act,
excluding any creditor relationship described in Section 311(b) of the Trust
Indenture Act. A Trustee who has resigned or been removed shall be subject to
Section 311(a) of the Trust Indenture Act to the extent included therein.
SECTION 6.14. Authenticating Agents.
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There may be one or more Authenticating Agents appointed by the Trustee
with power to act on its behalf and subject to its direction in the
authentication and delivery of Securities issued upon exchange or transfer
thereof as fully to all intents and purposes as though any such Authenticating
Agent had been expressly authorized to authenticate and deliver Securities;
provided, that the Trustee shall have no liability to the Company for any acts
or omissions of the Authenticating Agent with respect to the authentication and
delivery of Securities. Any such Authenticating Agent shall at all times be a
corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the United States or
of any state or territory thereof or of the District of Columbia authorized
under such laws to act as Authenticating Agent, having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $________ and being subject to supervision or examination by
federal, state, territorial or District of Columbia authority. If such
corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually pursuant to law or
the requirements of such authority, then for the purposes of this Section 6.14
the combined capital and surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its
combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition
so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible
in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign immediately
in the manner and with the effect herein specified in this Section.
Any corporation into which any Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, consolidation or conversion to which any Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of
the corporate trust business of any Authenticating Agent, shall be the successor
of such Authenticating Agent
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hereunder, if such successor corporation is otherwise eligible under this
Section 6.14 without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on
the part of the parties hereto or such Authenticating Agent.
Any Authenticating Agent may at any time resign by giving written notice of
resignation to the Trustee and to the Company. The Trustee may at any time
terminate the agency of any Authenticating Agent by giving written notice of
termination to such Authenticating Agent and to the Company. Upon receiving
such a notice of resignation or upon such a termination, or in case at any time
any Authenticating Agent shall cease to be eligible under this Section 6.14, the
Trustee may promptly appoint a successor Authenticating Agent eligible under
this Section 6.14, shall give written notice of such appointment to the Company
and shall mail notice of such appointment to all Securityholders as the names
and addresses of such holders appear on the Security Register. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become
vested with all rights, powers, duties and responsibilities of its predecessor
hereunder, with like effect as if originally named as Authenticating Agent
herein.
The Company agrees to pay to any Authenticating Agent from time to time
reasonable compensation for its services. Any Authenticating Agent shall have
no responsibility or liability for any action taken by it as such in accordance
with the directions of the Trustee.
ARTICLE VII
CONCERNING THE SECURITYHOLDERS
SECTION 7.1. Action by Securityholders.
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Whenever in this Indenture it is provided that the holders of a specified
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities may take any action
(including the making of any demand or request, the giving of any notice,
consent or waiver or the taking of any other action) the fact that at the time
of taking any such action the holders of such specified percentage have joined
therein may be evidenced (a) by any instrument or any number of instruments of
similar tenor executed by such Securityholders in person or by agent or proxy
appointed in writing, or (b) by the record of such holders of Securities voting
in favor thereof at any meeting of such Securityholders duly called and held in
accordance with the provisions of Article VIII, or (c) by a combination of such
instrument or instruments and any such record of such a meeting of such
Securityholders.
If the Company shall solicit from the Securityholders any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, the Company
may, at its option, as evidenced by an Officers' Certificate, fix in advance a
record date for the determination of Securityholders entitled to give such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action or to revoke any such action, but the Company shall have no obligation to
do so. If such a record date is fixed, such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action or revocation may be given
before or after the record date, but only the Securityholders of record at the
close of business on the record date shall be deemed to be Securityholders for
the purposes of determining whether Securityholders of the requisite proportion
of Outstanding Securities have authorized or agreed or consented to such
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, and for that purpose the Outstanding Securities shall be computed as of
the record date; provided, however, that no such authorization, agreement or
consent by such Securityholders on the record date shall be deemed effective
unless it shall become effective pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture
not later than six months after the record date.
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SECTION 7.2. Proof of Execution by Securityholders.
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Subject to the provisions of Section 6.1, 6.2 and 8.5, proof of the
execution of any instrument by a Securityholder or his agent or proxy shall be
sufficient if made in accordance with such reasonable rules and regulations as
may be prescribed by the Trustee or in such manner as shall be satisfactory to
the Trustee. The ownership of Securities shall be proved by the Security
Register or by a certificate of the Security registrar. The Trustee may require
such additional proof of any matter referred to in this Section as it shall deem
necessary.
The record of any Securityholders' meeting shall be proved in the manner
provided in Section 8.6.
SECTION 7.3. Who Are Deemed Absolute Owners.
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Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Security, the
Company, the Trustee, any Authenticating Agent, any paying agent, any transfer
agent and any Security registrar may deem the person in whose name such Security
shall be registered upon the Security Register to be, and may treat him as, the
owner of such Security (whether or not such Security shall be overdue) for the
purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal of and premium,
if any, and (subject to Section 2.5) interest on such Security and for all other
purposes; and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any Authenticating Agent
nor any paying agent nor any transfer agent nor any Security registrar shall be
affected by any notice to the contrary. All such payments so made to any holder
for the time being or upon his order shall be valid, and, to the extent of the
sum or sums so paid, effectual to satisfy and discharge the liability for monies
payable upon any such Security.
SECTION 7.4. Securities Owned by Company Deemed Not Outstanding.
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In determining whether the holders of the requisite aggregate principal
amount of Securities have concurred in any direction, consent or waiver under
this Indenture, Securities which are owned by the Company or any other obligor
on the Securities or by any person directly or indirectly controlling or
controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or any
other obligor on the Securities shall be disregarded and deemed not to be
outstanding for the purpose of any such determination; provided that for the
purposes of determining whether the Trustee shall be protected in relying on any
such direction, consent or waiver, only Securities which the Trustee actually
knows are so owned shall be so disregarded. Securities so owned which have been
pledged in good faith may be regarded as outstanding for the purposes of this
Section 7.4 if the pledgee shall establish to the satisfaction of the Trustee
the pledgee's right to vote such Securities and that the pledgee is not the
Company or any such other obligor or person directly or indirectly controlling
or controlled by or under direct or indirect common control with the Company or
any such other obligor. In the case of a dispute as to such right, any decision
by the Trustee taken upon the advice of counsel shall be full protection to the
Trustee.
SECTION 7.5. Revocation of Consents; Future Holders Bound.
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At any time prior to (but not after) the evidencing to the Trustee, as
provided in Section 7.1, of the taking of any action by the holders of the
percentage in aggregate principal amount of the Securities specified in this
Indenture in connection with such action, any holder of a Security (or any
Security issued in whole or in part in exchange or substitution therefor),
subject to Section 7.1, the serial number of which is shown by the evidence to
be included in the Securities the holders of which have consented to such action
may, by filing written notice with the Trustee at its Principal Office and upon
proof of holding as provided in Section 7.2, revoke such action so far as
concerns such Security (or so far as concerns the principal amount represented
by any exchanged or substituted Security). Except as aforesaid any such action
taken by the
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holder of any Security shall be conclusive and binding upon such holder and upon
all future holders and owners of such Security, and of any Security issued in
exchange or substitution therefor, irrespective of whether or not any notation
in regard thereto is made upon such Security or any Security issued in exchange
or substitution therefor.
ARTICLE VIII
SECURITYHOLDERS' MEETINGS
SECTION 8.1. Purposes of Meetings.
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A meeting of Securityholders may be called at any time and from time to
time pursuant to the provisions of this Article VIII for any of the following
purposes:
(a) to give any notice to the Company or to the Trustee, or to give any
directions to the Trustee, or to consent to the waiving of any default hereunder
and its consequences, or to take any other action authorized to be taken by
Securityholders pursuant to any of the provisions of Article V;
(b) to remove the Trustee and nominate a successor trustee pursuant to the
provisions of Article VI;
(c) to consent to the execution of an indenture or indentures supplemental
hereto pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.2; or
(d) to take any other action authorized to be taken by or on behalf of the
holders of any specified aggregate principal amount of such Securities under any
other provision of this Indenture or under applicable law.
SECTION 8.2. Call of Meetings by Trustee.
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The Trustee may at any time call a meeting of Securityholders to take any
action specified in Section 8.1, to be held at such time and at such place in
___________________, as the Trustee shall determine. Notice of every meeting of
the Securityholders, setting forth the time and the place of such meeting and in
general terms the action proposed to be taken at such meeting, shall be mailed
to holders of Securities at their addresses as they shall appear on the
Securities Register. Such notice shall be mailed not less than 20 nor more than
180 days prior to the date fixed for the meeting.
SECTION 8.3. Call of Meetings by Company or Securityholders.
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In case at any time the Company pursuant to a resolution of the Board of
Directors, or the holders of at least 10% in aggregate principal amount of the
Securities then outstanding, shall have requested the Trustee to call a meeting
of Securityholders, by written request setting forth in reasonable detail the
action proposed to be taken at the meeting, and the Trustee shall not have
mailed the notice of such meeting within 20 days after receipt of such request,
then the Company or such Securityholders may determine the time and the place in
said ________________ for such meeting and may call such meeting to take any
action authorized in Section 8.1, by mailing notice thereof as provided in
Section 8.2.
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SECTION 8.4. Qualifications for Voting.
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To be entitled to vote at any meeting of Securityholders a person shall (a)
be a holder of one or more Securities or (b) be a person appointed by an
instrument in writing as proxy by a holder of one or more Securities. The only
persons who shall be entitled to be present or to speak at any meeting of
Securityholders shall be the persons entitled to vote at such meeting and their
counsel and any representatives of the Trustee and its counsel and any
representatives of the Company and its counsel.
SECTION 8.5. Regulations.
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Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Indenture, the Trustee may
make such reasonable regulations as it may deem advisable for any meeting of
Securityholders, in regard to proof of the holding of Securities and of the
appointment of proxies, and in regard to the appointment and duties of
inspectors of votes, the submission and examination of proxies, certificates and
other evidence of the right to vote, and such other matters concerning the
conduct of the meeting as it shall think fit.
The Trustee, by an instrument in writing, shall appoint a temporary
chairman of the meeting, unless the meeting shall have been called by the
Company or by Securityholders as provided in Section 8.3, in which case the
Company or the Securityholders calling the meeting, as the case may be, shall in
like manner appoint a temporary chairman. A permanent chairman and a permanent
secretary of the meeting shall be elected by majority vote of the meeting.
Subject to the provisions of Section 8.4, at any meeting each holder of
Securities or proxy therefor shall be entitled to one vote for each $__
principal amount of Securities held or represented by him; provided, however,
that no vote shall be cast or counted at any meeting in respect of any Security
challenged as not outstanding and ruled by the chairman of the meeting to be not
outstanding. The chairman of the meeting shall have no right to vote other than
by virtue of Securities held by him or instruments in writing as aforesaid duly
designating him as the person to vote on behalf of other Securityholders. Any
meeting of Securityholders duly called pursuant to the provisions of Section 8.2
or 8.3 may be adjourned from time to time by a majority of those present,
whether or not constituting a quorum, and the meeting may be held as so
adjourned without further notice.
The Persons entitled to vote a majority in principal amount of the
outstanding Securities shall constitute a quorum for a meeting of holders of
Securities; provided, however, that if any action is to be taken at such meeting
with respect to a consent, waiver, request, demand, notice, authorization,
direction or other action which may be given by the holders of not less than a
specified percentage in principal amount of the outstanding Securities, the
Persons holding or representing such specified percentage in principal amount of
the outstanding Securities will constitute a quorum. In the absence of a quorum
within 30 minutes of the time appointed for any such meeting, the meeting, if
convened at the request of holders of Securities, shall be dissolved. In any
other case the meeting may be adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days as
determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
meeting. In the absence of a quorum at any such adjourned meeting, such
adjourned meeting may be further adjourned for a period of not less than 10 days
as determined by the chairman of the meeting prior to the adjournment of such
adjourned meeting. Notice of the reconvening of any adjourned meeting shall be
given as provided in Section 8.2, except that such notice need be given only
once not less than five days prior to the date on which the meeting is scheduled
to be reconvened. Notice of the reconvening of an adjourned meeting shall state
expressly the percentage, as provided above, of the principal amount of the
outstanding Securities which shall constitute a quorum.
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Except as limited by the first proviso to the first paragraph of Section
9.2, any resolution presented to a meeting or adjourned meeting duly reconvened
at which a quorum is present as aforesaid may be adopted by the affirmative vote
of the holders of a majority in principal amount of the outstanding Securities;
provided, however, that, except as limited by the first proviso to the first
paragraph of Section 9.2, any resolution with respect to any consent, waiver,
request, demand, notice, authorization, direction or other action which this
Indenture expressly provides may be given by the holders of not less than a
specified percentage in principal amount of the outstanding Securities may be
adopted at a meeting or an adjourned meeting duly reconvened and at which a
quorum is present as aforesaid only by the affirmative vote of the holders of
not less than such specified percentage in principal amount of the outstanding
Securities.
Any resolution passed or decision taken at any meeting of holders of
Securities duly held in accordance with this Section shall be binding on all the
holders of Securities whether or not present or represented at the meeting.
SECTION 8.6. Voting.
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The vote upon any resolution submitted to any meeting of holders of
Securities shall be by written ballots on which shall be subscribed the
signatures of such holders or of their representatives by proxy and the serial
number or numbers of the Securities held or represented by them. The permanent
chairman of the meeting shall appoint two inspectors of votes who shall count
all votes cast at the meeting for or against any resolution and who shall make
and file with the secretary of the meeting their verified written reports in
triplicate of all votes cast at the meeting. A record in duplicate of the
proceedings of each meeting of Securityholders shall be prepared by the
secretary of the meeting and there shall be attached to said record the original
reports of the inspectors of votes on any vote by ballot taken thereat and
affidavits by one or more persons having knowledge of the facts setting forth a
copy of the notice of the meeting and showing that said notice was mailed as
provided in Section 8.2. The record shall show the serial numbers of the
Securities voting in favor of or against any resolution. The record shall be
signed and verified by the affidavits of the permanent chairman and secretary of
the meeting and one of the duplicates shall be delivered to the Company and the
other to the Trustee to be preserved by the Trustee, the latter to have attached
thereto the ballots voted at the meeting. The holders of Securities shall vote
or consent for all purposes as a single class.
Any record so signed and verified shall be conclusive evidence of the
matters therein stated.
ARTICLE IX
AMENDMENTS
SECTION 9.1. Without Consent of Securityholders.
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The Company and the Trustee may from time to time and at any time amend the
Indenture, without the consent of the Securityholders, for one or more of the
following purposes:
(a) to evidence the succession of another corporation to the Company, or
successive successions, and the assumption by the successor corporation of the
covenants, agreements and obligations of the Company pursuant to Article X
hereof;
(b) to add to the covenants of the Company such further covenants,
restrictions or conditions for the protection of the Securityholders as the
Board of Directors and the Trustee shall consider to be for the protection of
the Securityholders, and to make the occurrence, or the occurrence and
continuance, of a
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default in any of such additional covenants, restrictions or conditions a
default or an Event of Default permitting the enforcement of all or any of the
remedies provided in this Indenture as herein set forth; provided, however, that
in respect of any such additional covenant, restriction or condition such
amendment may provide for a particular period of grace after default (which
period may be shorter or longer than that allowed in the case of other defaults)
or may provide for an immediate enforcement upon such default or may limit the
remedies available to the Trustee upon such default;
(c) to provide for the issuance under this Indenture of Securities in
physical form (including Securities registrable as to principal only) and to
provide for exchangeability of such Securities with the Securities issued
hereunder in fully registered form and to make all appropriate changes for such
purpose;
(d) to cure any ambiguity or to correct or supplement any provision
contained herein or in any supplemental indenture which may be defective or
inconsistent with any other provision contained herein or in any supplemental
indenture, or to make such other provisions in regard to matters or questions
arising under this Indenture; provided that any such action shall not materially
adversely affect the interests of the holders of the Securities;
(e) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment hereunder by
a successor trustee with respect to the Securities;
(f) to make provision for transfer procedures, certification, book-entry
provisions, and all other matters required pursuant to Section 2.6 or otherwise
necessary, desirable or appropriate in connection with the issuance of
Securities to holders of Capital Securities in the event of a distribution of
Securities by LFC Trust following a Dissolution Event;
(g) to qualify or maintain qualification of this Indenture under the Trust
Indenture Act; or
(h) to make any change that does not adversely affect the rights of any
Securityholder in any material respect.
The Trustee is hereby authorized to join with the Company in the execution
of any supplemental indenture to effect such amendment, to make any further
appropriate agreements and stipulations which may be therein contained and to
accept the conveyance, transfer and assignment of any property thereunder, but
the Trustee shall not be obligated to, but may in its discretion, enter into any
such supplemental indenture which affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under this Indenture or otherwise.
Any amendment to the Indenture authorized by the provisions of this Section
9.1 may be executed by the Company and the Trustee without the consent of the
holders of any of the Securities at the time outstanding, notwithstanding any of
the provisions of Section 9.2.
SECTION 9.2. With Consent of Securityholders.
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With the consent (evidenced as provided in Section 7.1) of the holders of a
majority in aggregate principal amount of the Securities at the time
outstanding, the Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, and the Trustee
may from time to time and at any time amend the Indenture 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 the Securities; provided, however, that no such amendment shall
without the consent of the holders of each Security then outstanding and
affected thereby (i) extend the Maturity Date of any Security, or reduce the
rate or extend the time of payment of interest thereon (except as contemplated
by Article XVI), or reduce the principal amount thereof, or reduce any
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amount payable on prepayment thereof, or make the principal thereof or any
interest or premium thereon payable in any coin or currency other than that
provided in the Securities, or impair or affect the right of any Securityholder
to institute suit for payment thereof, or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage
of Securities the holders of which are required to consent to any such amendment
to the Indenture, provided, however, that if the Securities are held by LFC
Trust, such amendment shall not be effective until the holders of a majority in
liquidation amount of Trust Securities shall have consented to such amendment;
and provided, further, that if the consent of the holder of each outstanding
Security is required, such amendment shall not be effective until each holder of
the Trust Securities shall have consented to such amendment.
Upon the request of the Company accompanied by a copy of a Board Resolution
authorizing the execution of any supplemental indenture affecting such
amendment, and upon the filing with the Trustee of evidence of the consent of
Securityholders as aforesaid, the Trustee shall join with the Company in the
execution of such supplemental indenture unless such supplemental indenture
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise, in which case the Trustee may in its discretion, but shall not be
obligated to, enter into such supplemental indenture.
Promptly after the execution by the Company and the Trustee of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Section, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail, first class postage prepaid, a notice, prepared by the
Company, setting forth in general terms the substance of such supplemental
indenture, to the Securityholders as their names and addresses appear upon the
Security Register. Any failure of the Trustee to mail such notice, or any
defect therein, shall not, however, in any way impair or affect the validity of
any such supplemental indenture.
It shall not be necessary for the consent of the Securityholders under this
Section 9.2 to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental
indenture, but it shall be sufficient if such consent shall approve the
substance thereof.
SECTION 9.3. Compliance with Trust Indenture Act; Effect of
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Supplemental Indentures.
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Any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to the provisions of this
Article IX shall comply with the Trust Indenture Act. Upon the execution of any
supplemental indenture pursuant to the provisions of this Article IX, this
Indenture shall be and be deemed to be modified and amended in accordance
therewith and the respective rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties
and immunities under this Indenture of the Trustee, the Company and the holders
of Securities shall thereafter be determined, exercised and enforced hereunder
subject in all respects to such modifications and amendments and all the terms
and conditions of any such supplemental indenture shall be and be deemed to be
part of the terms and conditions of this Indenture for any and all purposes.
SECTION 9.4. Notation on Securities.
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Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any
supplemental indenture affecting such Securities pursuant to the provisions of
this Article IX may bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any
matter provided for in such supplemental indenture. If the Company or the
Trustee shall so determine, new Securities so modified as to conform, in the
opinion of the Trustee and the Board of Directors, to any modification of this
Indenture contained in any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and
executed by the Company, authenticated by the Trustee or the Authenticating
Agent and delivered in exchange for the Securities then outstanding.
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SECTION 9.5. Evidence of Compliance of Supplemental Indenture to be
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Furnished to the Trustee.
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The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive
an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that
any supplemental indenture executed pursuant hereto complies with the
requirements of this Article IX.
The Trustee may receive an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that
any supplemental indenture executed pursuant to this Article is authorized or
permitted by, and conforms to, the terms of this Article and that it is proper
for the Trustee under the provisions of this Article to join in the execution
thereof.
ARTICLE X
CONSOLIDATION, MERGER, SALE, CONVEYANCE AND LEASE
SECTION 10.1. Company May Consolidate, Etc., on Certain Terms.
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Nothing contained in this Indenture or in any of the Securities shall
prevent any consolidation or merger of the Company with or into any other Person
(whether or not affiliated with the Company, as the case may be), or successive
consolidations or mergers in which the Company, or its successor or successors,
as the case may be, shall be a party or parties, or shall prevent any sale,
conveyance, transfer or lease of the property of the Company, or its successor
or successors, as the case may be, as an entirety, or substantially as an
entirety, to any other Person (whether or not affiliated with the Company, or
its successor or successors, as the case may be) authorized to acquire and
operate the same; provided, that (a) the Company is the surviving Person, or the
Person formed by or surviving any such consolidation or merger (if other than
the Company) or to which such sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of property is
made is a Person organized and existing under the laws of the United States or
any State thereof or the District of Columbia, and (b) upon any such
consolidation or merger in which the Company is not the surviving Person or any
such sale, conveyance, transfer or lease of the property of the Company as an
entirety, or substantially as an entirety, to any other Person, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on the
Securities according to their tenor and the due and punctual performance and
observance of all the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be kept or
performed by the Company shall be expressly assumed, by supplemental indenture
(which shall conform to the provisions of the Trust Indenture Act, as then in
effect) satisfactory in form to the Trustee executed and delivered to the
Trustee by the Person formed by such consolidation, or into which the Company
shall have been merged, or by the Person which shall have acquired such
property, as the case may be, and (c) after giving effect to such consolidation,
merger, sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing.
SECTION 10.2. Successor Corporation to be Substituted for Company.
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In case of any such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and upon
the assumption by the successor corporation, by supplemental indenture, executed
and delivered to the Trustee and satisfactory in form to the Trustee, of the due
and punctual payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on
all of the Securities and the due and punctual performance and observance of all
of the covenants and conditions of this Indenture to be performed or observed by
the Company, such successor Person shall succeed to and be substituted for the
Company, with the same effect as if it had been named herein as the party of the
first part, and the Company thereupon shall be relieved of any further liability
or obligation hereunder or upon the Securities. Such successor Person thereupon
may cause to be signed, and may issue either in its own name or in the name of
LIFE Financial Corporation, any or all of the Securities issuable
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hereunder which theretofore shall not have been signed by the Company and
delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent; and, upon the order of
such successor Person instead of the Company and subject to all the terms,
conditions and limitations in this Indenture prescribed, the Trustee or the
Authenticating Agent shall authenticate and deliver any Securities which
previously shall have been signed and delivered by the officers of the Company
to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for authentication, and any
Securities which such successor Person thereafter shall cause to be signed and
delivered to the Trustee or the Authenticating Agent for that purpose. 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 Indentures had
been issued at the date of the execution hereof.
SECTION 10.3. Opinion of Counsel to be Received by Trustee.
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The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Sections 6.1 and 6.2, may receive
an Opinion of Counsel as conclusive evidence that any consolidation, merger,
sale, conveyance, transfer or lease, and any assumption, permitted or required
by the terms of this Article X complies with the provisions of this Article X.
The Trustee is not obligated to receive such an Opinion of Counsel in any case.
ARTICLE XI
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE
SECTION 11.1. Discharge of Indenture.
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When (a) the Company shall deliver to the Trustee for cancellation all
Securities theretofore authenticated (other than any Securities which shall have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced as provided in
Section 2.7) and not theretofore canceled, or (b) all the Securities not
theretofore canceled or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall have
become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable within
one year or are to be called for prepayment within one year under arrangements
satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of prepayment, and the
Company shall deposit with the Trustee, in trust, funds sufficient to pay on the
Maturity Date or upon prepayment all of the Securities (other than any
Securities which shall have been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have
been replaced as provided in Section 2.7) not theretofore canceled or delivered
to the Trustee for cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and
interest due or to become due to the Maturity Date or prepayment date, as the
case may be, but excluding, however, the amount of any monies for the payment of
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities (1) theretofore
repaid to the Company in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.4, or (2)
paid to any State or to the District of Columbia pursuant to its unclaimed
property or similar laws, and if in either case the Company shall also pay or
cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by the Company, then this
Indenture shall cease to be of further effect except for the provisions of
Sections 2.2, 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 6.6, 6.10 and 11.4 hereof, which shall
survive until such Securities shall mature and be paid. Thereafter, Sections
6.6, 6.10 and 11.4 shall survive, and the Trustee, on demand of the Company
accompanied by any Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel and at the
cost and expense of the Company, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture; provided that the Company hereby
agrees to reimburse the Trustee for any costs or expenses thereafter reasonably
and properly incurred by the Trustee in connection with this Indenture or the
Securities.
SECTION 11.2. Deposited Monies and U.S. Government Obligations to be Held
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in Trust by Trustee.
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Subject to the provisions of Section 11.4, all monies and U.S. Government
Obligations deposited with the Trustee pursuant to Sections 11.1 or 11.5 shall
be held in trust and applied by it to the payment, either directly or through
any paying agent (including the Company if acting as its own paying agent), to
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holders of the particular Securities for the payment of which such monies or
U.S. Government Obligations have been deposited with the Trustee, of all sums
due and to become due thereon for principal, premium, if any, and interest.
The Company shall pay and indemnify the Trustee against any tax, fee or
other charge imposed on or assessed against the U.S. Government Obligations
deposited pursuant to Section 11.5 or the principal and interest received in
respect thereof other than any such tax, fee or other charge which by law is for
the account of the holders of outstanding Securities.
SECTION 11.3. Paying Agent to Repay Monies Held.
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Upon the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture all monies then held
by any paying agent of the Securities (other than the Trustee), upon written
demand of the Company, shall be repaid to it or paid to the Trustee, and
thereupon such paying agent shall be released from all further liability with
respect to such monies.
SECTION 11.4. Return of Unclaimed Monies.
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Any monies deposited with or paid to the Trustee or any paying agent for
payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on Securities and
not applied but remaining unclaimed by the holders of Securities for two years
after the date upon which the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
such Securities, as the case may be, shall have become due and payable, shall be
repaid to the Company by the Trustee or such paying agent on Company Request;
and the holder of any of the Securities shall thereafter look only to the
Company for any payment which such holder may be entitled to collect and all
liability of the Trustee or such paying agent with respect to such monies shall
thereupon cease.
SECTION 11.5. Defeasance Upon Deposit of Monies or U.S. Government
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Obligations.
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The Company shall be deemed to have been Discharged (as defined below) from
its obligations with respect to the Securities on the 91st day after the
conditions set forth below have been satisfied:
(a) The Company shall have deposited or caused to be deposited irrevocably
with the Trustee or the Defeasance Agent (as defined below) as trust funds in
trust, specifically pledged as security for, and dedicated solely to, the
benefit of the holders of the Securities (i) money in an amount, or (ii) U.S.
Government Obligations which through the payment of interest and principal in
respect thereof in accordance with their terms will provide, not later than one
day before the due date of any payment, money in an amount, or (iii) a
combination of (i) and (ii), sufficient, in the opinion (with respect to (ii)
and (iii)) of a nationally recognized firm of independent public accountants
expressed in a written certification thereof delivered to the Trustee and the
Defeasance Agent, if any, to pay and discharge each installment of principal of
and interest and premium, if any, on the outstanding Securities on the dates
such installments of principal, interest or premium are due;
(b) if the Securities are then listed on any national securities exchange
or quoted on the National Market System of the Nasdaq Stock Market, the Company
shall have delivered to the Trustee and the Defeasance Agent, if any, an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that the exercise of the option under this Section 11.5
would not cause such Securities to be delisted or removed from such exchange or
quotation system;
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(c) no Default or Event of Default with respect to the Securities shall
have occurred and be continuing on the date of such deposit;
(d) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee and the Defeasance
Agent, if any, an Opinion of Counsel to the effect that holders of the
Securities will not recognize income, gain or loss for United States federal
income tax purposes as a result of the exercise of the option under this Section
11.5 and will be subject to United States federal income tax on the same amount
and in the same manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
option had not been exercised, and such opinion shall be based on a statute so
providing or be accompanied by a private letter ruling to that effect received
from the United States Internal Revenue Service or a revenue ruling pertaining
to a comparable form of transaction to that effect published by the United
States Internal Revenue Service; and
(e) the Company shall have delivered to the Trustee and the Defeasance
Agent, if any, an Officers' Certificate stating that in the opinion of the
signers all conditions precedent provided for in this Section 11.5 have been
compiled with.
"Discharged" means that the Company shall be deemed to have paid and
discharged the entire indebtedness represented by, and obligations under, the
Securities and to have satisfied all the obligations under this Indenture
relating to the Securities (and the Trustee, at the expense of the Company,
shall execute proper instruments acknowledging the same), except (A) the rights
of holders of Securities to receive, from the trust fund described in clause (1)
above, payment of the principal of and the interest and premium, if any, on the
Securities when such payments are due; (B) the Company's obligations with
respect to the Securities under Sections 2.2, 2.6, 2.7, 3.2, 3.4, 6.10 and 11.4;
and (C) the rights, powers, trusts, duties and immunities of the Trustee
hereunder.
"Defeasance Agent" means another financial institution which is eligible to
act as Trustee hereunder and which assumes all of the obligations of the Trustee
necessary to enable the Trustee to act under this Article. In the event such a
Defeasance Agent is appointed pursuant to this Section, the following conditions
shall apply:
(a) The Trustee shall have approval rights over the document appointing
such Defeasance Agent and the document setting forth such Defeasance Agent's
rights and responsibilities; and
(b) The Defeasance Agent shall provide verification to the Trustee
acknowledging receipt of sufficient money and/or U.S. Government Obligations to
meet the applicable conditions set forth in this Section 11.5.
ARTICLE XII
IMMUNITY OF INCORPORATORS, STOCKHOLDERS,
OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS
SECTION 12.1. Indenture and Securities Solely Corporate Obligations.
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No recourse for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or
interest on any Security, or for any claim based thereon or otherwise in respect
thereof, and no recourse under or upon any obligation, covenant or agreement of
the Company in this Indenture, or in any Security, or because of the creation of
any indebtedness represented thereby, shall be had against any incorporator,
stockholder, officer or director, as such, past, present or future, of the
Company or of any successor Person to the Company, either directly or through
the Company or any successor Person to the Company, whether by virtue of any
constitution, statute
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or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any assessment or penalty or otherwise;
it being expressly understood that all such liability is hereby expressly waived
and released as a condition of, and as a consideration for, the execution of
this Indenture and the issue of the Securities.
ARTICLE XIII
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
SECTION 13.1. Successors.
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All the covenants, stipulations, promises and agreements in this Indenture
contained by the Company shall bind its successors and assigns whether so
expressed or not.
SECTION 13.2. Official Acts by Successor Corporation.
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Any act or proceeding by any provision of this Indenture authorized or
required to be done or performed by any board, committee or officer of the
Company shall and may be done and performed with like force and effect by the
like board, committee or officer of any corporation that shall at the time be
the lawful sole successor of the Company.
SECTION 13.3. Surrender of Company Powers.
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The Company by instrument in writing executed by authority of 2/3 (two-
thirds) of its Board of Directors and delivered to the Trustee may surrender any
of the powers reserved to the Company, and thereupon such power so surrendered
shall terminate both as to the Company, as the case may be, and as to any
successor Person.
SECTION 13.4. Addresses for Notices, Etc.
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Any notice or demand which by any provision of this Indenture is required
or permitted to be given or served by the Trustee or by the holders of
Securities on the Company may be given or served by being deposited postage
prepaid by registered or certified mail in a post office letter box addressed
(until another address is filed by the Company with the Trustee for the purpose)
to the Company, 10540 North Magnolia Avenue, Unit B, Riverside, California
92505, Attention: Chief Executive Officer. Any notice, direction, request or
demand by any Securityholder to or upon the Trustee shall be deemed to have been
sufficiently given or made, for all purposes, if given or made in writing at the
office of the Trustee, Two International Place, Boston, Massachusetts 02110,
Attention: Corporate Trustee Administration Department (unless another address
is provided by the Trustee to the Company for the purpose).
Any notice or communication to a holder shall be mailed by first class mail
to his or her address shown on the register kept by the Registrar. Failure to
mail a notice or communication to a holder or any defect in it shall not affect
its sufficiency with respect to other holders.
SECTION 13.5. Governing Law.
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This Indenture and each Security shall be deemed to be a contract made
under the laws of the State of Delaware, and for all purposes shall be
governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of said State, without
regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.
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SECTION 13.6. Evidence of Compliance with Conditions Precedent.
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Upon any application or demand by the Company to the Trustee to take any
action under any of the provisions of this Indenture, the Company shall furnish
to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating that in the opinion of the
signers all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture
relating to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of
Counsel stating that, in the opinion of such counsel, all such conditions
precedent have been complied with.
Each certificate or opinion provided for in this Indenture and delivered to
the Trustee with respect to compliance with a condition or covenant provided for
in this Indenture (except pursuant to Section 3.5) shall include (1) a statement
that the person making such certificate or opinion has read such covenant or
condition; (2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based; (3) a statement that, in the opinion of such
person, he has made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable
him to express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and (4) a statement as to whether or not, in
the opinion of such person, such condition or covenant has been complied with.
SECTION 13.7. Business Days.
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In any case where the date of payment of principal of or premium, if any,
or interest on the Securities will not be a Business Day, the payment of such
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities need not be made
on such date but may be made on the next succeeding Business Day, except that if
such next succeeding Business Day falls in the next succeeding Calendar Year,
such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day, with the
same force and effect as if made on the date of payment and no interest shall
accrue for the period from and after such date.
SECTION 13.8. Trust Indenture Act to Control.
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If and to the extent that any provision of this Indenture limits, qualifies
or conflicts with the duties imposed by Sections 310 to 317, inclusive, of the
Trust Indenture Act, such imposed duties shall control.
SECTION 13.9. Table of Contents, Headings, Etc.
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The table of contents and the titles and headings of the articles and
sections of this Indenture have been inserted for convenience of reference only,
are not to be considered a part hereof, and shall in no way modify or restrict
any of the terms or provisions hereof.
SECTION 13.10. Execution in Counterparts.
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This Indenture may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of which
shall be an original, but such counterparts shall together constitute but one
and the same instrument.
SECTION 13.11. Separability.
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In case any one or more of the provisions contained in this Indenture or in
the Securities shall for any reason be held to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable in any respect, such invalidity, illegality or unenforceability
shall not affect any other provisions of this Indenture or of the Securities,
but this Indenture and the Securities shall be construed as if such invalid or
illegal or unenforceable provision had never been contained herein or therein.
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SECTION 13.12. Assignment.
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The Company will have the right at all times to assign any of its
respective rights or obligations under this Indenture to a direct or indirect
wholly owned Subsidiary of the Company, provided that, in the event of any such
assignment, the Company will remain primarily liable for all its obligations.
Subject to the foregoing, the Indenture is binding upon and inures to the
benefit of the parties thereto and their respective successors and assigns.
This Indenture may not otherwise be assigned by the parties thereto.
SECTION 13.13. Acknowledgment of Rights.
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The Company acknowledges that, with respect to any Securities held by LFC
Trust or a trustee of such trust, if the Property Trustee of such Trust fails to
enforce its rights under this Indenture as the holder of the Securities held as
the assets of LFC Trust, any holder of Capital Securities may institute, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, legal proceedings directly against the Company
to enforce such Property Trustee's rights under this Indenture without first
instituting any legal proceedings against such Property Trustee or any other
person or entity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if an Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing and such event is attributable to the failure of the
Company to pay principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities
when due, the Company acknowledges that a holder of Capital Securities may
directly institute a proceeding for enforcement of payment to such holder of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities having a
principal amount equal to the aggregate liquidation amount of the Capital
Securities of such holder on or after the respective due date specified in the
Securities.
ARTICLE XIV
PREPAYMENT OF SECURITIES -- MANDATORY AND
OPTIONAL SINKING FUND
SECTION 14.1. Special Event Repayment.
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If a Special Event has occurred and is continuing then, notwithstanding
Section 14.2(a) but subject to Section 14.2(c), the Company shall have the right
at any time prior to the Initial Optional Prepayment Date, upon (i) not less
than 45 days written notice to the Trustee, which notice shall be accompanied by
an Officers' Certificate certifying that a Special Event entitling the Company
to prepay the Securities pursuant to this Section, has occurred and (ii) not
less than 30 days nor more than 60 days written notice to the Securityholders,
to prepay the Securities, in whole, but not in part, within 90 days following
the occurrence of such Special Event at the Special Event Prepayment Price. The
Special Event Prepayment Price shall be paid prior to 12:00 noon, New York time,
on the date of such prepayment or such earlier time as the Company determines,
provided that the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount sufficient to
pay the Special Event Prepayment Price by 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the date
such Special Event Prepayment Price is to be paid. The Company shall provide
the Trustee with written notice of the Special Event Prepayment Price promptly
after the calculation thereof, which notice shall include any calculation made
in connection with the determination of the Special Event Prepayment Price.
SECTION 14.2. Optional Prepayment by Company.
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(a) Subject to the provisions of this Article XIV, including but not
limited to Section 14.2(c), the Company shall have the right to prepay the
Securities, in whole or in part, from time to time, on or after the Initial
Optional Prepayment Date at an optional prepayment price (the "Optional
Prepayment Price") equal to the percentage of the outstanding principal amount
of the Securities specified below, plus, in each case, accrued interest thereon
(including Additional Interest and Compounded Interest, if any) to the
applicable date of prepayment:
On or after _________, __________: 100.000%.
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If the Securities are only prepaid redeemed pursuant to this Section 14.2,
the Securities will be prepaid by lot or by any other method utilized by the
Trustee; provided, that if at the time of prepayment the Securities are
registered as a Global Security, the Depositary shall determine, in accordance
with its procedures, the principal amount of such Securities held for the
account of its participants to be prepaid. The Optional Prepayment Price shall
be paid prior to 12:00 noon, New York time, on the date of such prepayment or at
such earlier time as the Company determines, provided that the Company shall
deposit with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay the Optional Prepayment
Price by 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the date such Optional Prepayment Price
is to be paid.
(b) Notwithstanding the first sentence of Section 14.2, upon the entry of
an order for dissolution of LFC Trust by a court of competent jurisdiction, the
Securities thereafter will be subject to optional prepayment, in whole only, but
not in part, on or after ___________________, at the Optional Prepayment Price
and otherwise in accordance with this Article XIV.
(c) Any prepayment of Securities pursuant to Section 14.1 or Section 14.2
shall be subject to the receipt by the Company of any required regulatory
approval, if then required.
SECTION 14.3. No Sinking Fund.
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The Securities are not entitled to the benefit of any sinking fund.
SECTION 14.4. Notice of Prepayment; Selection of Securities.
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In case the Company shall desire to exercise the right to prepay all, or,
as the case may be, any part of the Securities in accordance with their terms,
it shall fix a date for prepayment and shall mail a notice of such prepayment at
least 30 and not more than 60 days prior to the date fixed for prepayment to the
holders of Securities so to be prepaid as a whole or in part at their last
addresses as the same appear on the Security Register. Such mailing shall be by
first class mail. The notice if mailed in the manner herein provided shall be
conclusively presumed to have been duly given, whether or not the holder
receives such notice. In any case, failure to give such notice by mail or any
defect in the notice to the holder of any Security designated for prepayment as
a whole or in part shall not affect the validity of the proceedings for the
prepayment of any other Security.
Each such notice of prepayment shall specify the CUSIP number of the
Securities to be prepaid, the date fixed for prepayment, the Prepayment Price at
which the Securities are to be prepaid (or the method by which such Prepayment
Price is to be calculated), the place or places of payment, that payment will be
made upon presentation and surrender of the Securities, that interest accrued to
the date fixed for prepayment will be paid as specified in said notice, and that
on and after said date interest thereon or on the portions thereof to be prepaid
will cease to accrue. If less than all the Securities are to be prepaid the
notice of prepayment shall specify the numbers of the Securities to be prepaid.
In case any Security is to be prepaid in part only, the notice of prepayment
shall state the portion of the principal amount thereof to be prepaid and shall
state that on and after the date fixed for prepayment, upon surrender of such
Security, a new Security or Securities in principal amount equal to the portion
thereof not prepaid will be issued.
By 10:00 a.m. New York time on the prepayment date specified in the notice
of prepayment given as provided in this Section, the Company will deposit with
the Trustee or with one or more paying agents an amount of money sufficient to
prepay on the prepayment date all the Securities so called for prepayment at the
appropriate Prepayment Price, together with accrued interest to the date fixed
for prepayment.
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The Company will give the Trustee notice not less than 45 days prior to the
prepayment date as to the aggregate principal amount of Securities to be prepaid
and the Trustee shall select, in such manner as in its sole discretion it shall
deem appropriate and fair, the Securities or portions thereof to be prepaid.
SECTION 14.5. Payment of Securities Called for Prepayment.
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If notice of prepayment has been given as provided in Section 14.4, the
Securities or portions 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 Prepayment Price, together with interest
accrued to the date fixed for prepayment (subject to the rights of holders of
Securities on the close of business on a regular record date in respect of an
Interest Payment Date occurring on or prior to the prepayment date), and on and
after said date (unless the Company shall default in the payment of such
Securities at the Prepayment Price, together with interest accrued to said date)
interest on the Securities or portions of Securities so called for prepayment
shall cease to accrue. On presentation and surrender of such Securities at a
place of payment specified in said notice, the said Securities or the specified
portions thereof shall be prepaid by the Company at the applicable Prepayment
Price, together with interest accrued thereon to the date fixed for prepayment
(subject to the rights of holders of Securities on the close of business on a
regular record date in respect of an Interest Payment Date occurring on or prior
to the prepayment date).
Upon presentation of any Security redeemed in part only, the Company shall
execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and make available for delivery to
the holder thereof, at the expense of the Company, a new Security or Securities
in principal amount equal to the portion of the Security so presented not
prepaid.
ARTICLE XV
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 15.1. Agreement to Subordinate.
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The Company covenants and agrees, and each holder of Securities issued
hereunder likewise covenants and agrees, that the Securities shall be issued
subject to the provisions of this Article XV; and each holder of a Security,
whether upon original issue or upon transfer or assignment thereof, accepts and
agrees to be bound by such provisions.
The payment by the Company of the principal of, premium, if any, and
interest on all Securities issued hereunder, to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth, shall be subordinated and junior in right of payment to
the prior payment in full of all Allocable Amounts with respect to Senior
Indebtedness, whether outstanding at the date of this Indenture or thereafter
incurred.
No provision of this Article XV shall prevent the occurrence of any Default
or Event of Default hereunder.
SECTION 15.2. Default on Senior Indebtedness.
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In the event and during the continuation of any default by the Company in
the payment of principal, premium, interest or any other payment due on any
Senior Indebtedness, or in the event that the maturity of any Senior
Indebtedness has been accelerated because of a default, then, in either case, no
payment shall be made by the Company with respect to the principal (including
prepayments) of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities.
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In the event of the acceleration of the maturity of the Securities, then no
payment shall be made by the Company with respect to the principal (including
prepayments) of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities until the
holders of all Senior Indebtedness outstanding at the time of such acceleration
shall receive payment in full of all Allocable Amounts due in respect of such
Senior Indebtedness (including any amounts due upon acceleration).
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment shall be
received by the Trustee when such payment is prohibited by the preceding
paragraphs of this Section 15.2, such payment shall be held in trust for the
benefit of, and shall be paid over or delivered to, the holders of Senior
Indebtedness or their respective representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture pursuant to which any of such Senior Indebtedness may have
been issued, as their respective interests may appear, but only to the extent
that the holders of the Senior Indebtedness (or their representative or
representatives or a trustee) notify the Trustee in writing, within 90 days of
such payment of the Allocable Amounts then due and owing on such Senior
Indebtedness and only the Allocable Amounts specified in such notice to the
Trustee shall be paid to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
SECTION 15.3. Liquidation; Dissolution; Bankruptcy.
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Upon any payment by the Company or distribution of assets of the Company of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to creditors
upon any dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or reorganization of the
Company, whether voluntary or involuntary or in bankruptcy, insolvency,
receivership or other proceedings, all Allocable Amounts due upon all Senior
Indebtedness of the Company shall first be paid in full, or payment thereof
provided for in money in accordance with its terms, before any payment is made
by the Company on account of the principal (and premium, if any) or interest on
the Securities; and upon any such dissolution or winding-up or liquidation or
reorganization, any payment by the Company, or distribution of assets of the
Company of any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to
which the Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled to receive from the
Company, except for the provisions of this Article XV, shall be paid by the
Company or by any receiver, trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, agent or
other Person making such payment or distribution, or by the Securityholders or
by the Trustee under the Indenture if received by them or it, directly to the
holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company (pro rata to such holders on the
basis of the respective Allocable Amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by such
holders, as calculated by the Company) or their representative or
representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under any indenture pursuant to
which any instruments evidencing such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued,
as their respective interests may appear, to the extent necessary to pay all
Allocable Amounts in respect of such Senior Indebtedness in full, in money or
money's worth, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to
or for the holders of such Senior Indebtedness, before any payment or
distribution is made to the Securityholders or to the Trustee.
In the event that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any payment or
distribution of assets of the Company of any kind or character, whether in cash,
property or securities, prohibited by the foregoing, shall be received by the
Trustee before all Allocable Amounts in respect of Senior Indebtedness is paid
in full, or provision is made for such payment in money in accordance with its
terms, such payment or distribution shall be held in trust for the benefit of
and shall be paid over or delivered to the holders of such Senior Indebtedness
or their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees under
any indenture pursuant to which any instruments evidencing such Senior
Indebtedness may have been issued, as their respective interests may appear, as
calculated by the Company, for application to the payment of all Senior
Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the extent necessary to pay all Allocable
Amounts in respect of such Senior Indebtedness in full in money in accordance
with its terms, after giving effect to any concurrent payment or distribution to
or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
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For purposes of this Article XV, the words "cash, property or securities"
shall not be deemed to include shares of stock of the Company as reorganized or
readjusted, or securities of the Company or any other corporation provided for
by a plan of reorganization or readjustment, the payment of which is
subordinated at least to the extent provided in this Article XV with respect to
the Securities to the payment of Senior Indebtedness that may at the time be
outstanding, provided that (i) such Senior Indebtedness is assumed by the new
corporation, if any, resulting from any such reorganization or readjustment, and
(ii) the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness are not, without the
consent of such holders, altered by such reorganization or readjustment. The
consolidation of the Company with, or the merger of the Company into, another
Person or the liquidation or dissolution of the Company following the sale,
conveyance, transfer or lease of its property as an entirety, or substantially
as an entirety, to another Person upon the terms and conditions provided for in
Article X of this Indenture shall not be deemed a dissolution, winding-up,
liquidation or reorganization for the purposes of this Section 15.3 if such
other Person, as a part of such consolidation, merger, sale, conveyance,
transfer or lease, shall comply with the conditions stated in Article X of this
Indenture.
SECTION 15.4. Subrogation.
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Subject to the payment in full of all Allocable Amounts in respect of
Senior Indebtedness, the rights of the Securityholders shall be subrogated to
the rights of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or
distributions of cash, property or securities of the Company, as the case may
be, applicable to such Senior Indebtedness until the principal of (and premium,
if any) and interest on the Securities shall be paid in full; and, for the
purposes of such subrogation, no payments or distributions to the holders of
such Senior Indebtedness of any cash, property or securities to which the
Securityholders or the Trustee would be entitled except for the provisions of
this Article XV, and no payment over pursuant to the provisions of this Article
XV to or for the benefit of the holders of such Senior Indebtedness by
Securityholders or the Trustee, shall, as between the Company, its creditors
other than holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the holders of the
Securities, be deemed to be a payment by the Company to or on account of such
Senior Indebtedness. It is understood that the provisions of this Article XV
are and are intended solely for the purposes of defining the relative rights of
the holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the holders of such Senior
Indebtedness on the other hand.
Nothing contained in this Article XV or elsewhere in this Indenture or in
the Securities is intended to or shall impair, as between the Company, its
creditors other than the holders of Senior Indebtedness of the Company, and the
holders of the Securities, the obligation of the Company, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the holders of the Securities the principal of (and
premium, if any) and interest on the Securities as and when the same shall
become due and payable in accordance with their terms, or is intended to or
shall affect the relative rights of the holders of the Securities and creditors
of the Company, as the case may be, other than the holders of Senior
Indebtedness of the Company, as the case may be, nor shall anything herein or
therein prevent the Trustee or the holder of any Security from exercising all
remedies otherwise permitted by applicable law upon default under the Indenture,
subject to the rights, if any, under this Article XV of the holders of such
Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities of the Company,
as the case may be, received upon the exercise of any such remedy.
SECTION 15.5. Trustee to Effectuate Subordination.
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Each Securityholder by such Securityholder's acceptance thereof authorizes
and directs the Trustee on such Securityholder's behalf to take such action as
may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the subordination provided in this
Article XV and appoints the Trustee such Securityholder's attorney-in-fact for
any and all such purposes.
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SECTION 15.6. Notice by the Company.
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The Company shall give prompt written notice to a Responsible Officer of
the Trustee of any fact known to the Company that would prohibit the making of
any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the Securities pursuant
to the provisions of this Article XV. Notwithstanding the provisions of this
Article XV or any other provision of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be
charged with knowledge of the existence of any facts that would prohibit the
making of any payment of monies to or by the Trustee in respect of the
Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Article XV, unless and until a
Responsible Officer of the Trustee assigned to its Principal Office shall have
received written notice thereof from the Company or a holder or holders of
Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor or representative thereof; and
before the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee, subject to the
provisions of Article VI of this Indenture, shall be entitled in all respects to
assume that no such facts exist; provided, however, that if the Trustee shall
not have received the notice provided for in this Section 15.6 at least two
Business Days prior to the date (i) upon which by the terms hereof any money may
become payable for any purpose (including, without limitation, the payment of
the principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security), or (ii)
monies and/or U.S. Government Obligations are deposited in trust pursuant to
Article XI then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Trustee shall have full power and authority to receive such money and U.S.
Government Obligations and to apply the same to the purposes for which they were
received, and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary that may be
received by it within two Business Days prior to such date.
The Trustee, subject to the provisions of Article VI of this Indenture,
shall be entitled to conclusively rely on the delivery to it of a written notice
by a Person representing himself to be a holder of Senior Indebtedness of the
Company (or a trustee or representative on behalf of such holder) to establish
that such notice has been given by a holder of such Senior Indebtedness or a
trustee or representative on behalf of any such holder or holders. In the event
that the Trustee determines in good faith that further evidence is required with
respect to the right of any Person as a holder of such Senior Indebtedness to
participate in any payment or distribution pursuant to this Article XV, the
Trustee may request such Person to furnish evidence to the reasonable
satisfaction of the Trustee as to the amount of such Senior Indebtedness held by
such Person, the extent to which such Person is entitled to participate in such
payment or distribution and any other facts pertinent to the rights of such
Person under this Article XV, and, if such evidence is not furnished, the
Trustee may defer any payment to such Person pending judicial determination as
to the right of such Person to receive such payment.
Upon any payment or distribution of assets of the Company referred to in
this Article XV, the Trustee and the Securityholders shall be entitled to rely
upon any order or decree entered by any court of competent jurisdiction in which
such insolvency, bankruptcy, receivership, liquidation, reorganization,
dissolution, winding up or similar case or proceeding is pending, or a
certificate of the trustee in bankruptcy, liquidating trustee, custodian,
receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, agent or other person making
such payment or distribution, delivered to the Trustee or to the
Securityholders, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons entitled to
participate in such payment or distribution, the holders of Senior Indebtedness
and other indebtedness of the Company, the amount thereof or payable thereon,
the amount or amounts paid or distributed thereon and all other facts pertinent
thereto or to this Article XV.
SECTION 15.7. Rights of the Trustee; Holders of Senior Indebtedness.
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The Trustee in its individual capacity shall be entitled to all the rights
set forth in this Article XV in respect of any Senior Indebtedness at any time
held by it, to the same extent as any other holder of Senior Indebtedness, and
nothing in this Indenture shall deprive the Trustee of any of its rights as such
holder.
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With respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness, the Trustee undertakes
to perform or to observe only such of its covenants and obligations as are
specifically set forth in this Article XV, and no implied covenants or
obligations with respect to the holders of Senior Indebtedness shall be read
into this Indenture against the Trustee. The Trustee shall not be deemed to owe
any fiduciary duty to the holders of Senior Indebtedness and, subject to the
provisions of Article VI of this Indenture, the Trustee shall not be liable to
any holder of Senior Indebtedness if it shall pay over or deliver to
Securityholders, the Company or any other Person money or assets to which any
holder of Senior Indebtedness shall be entitled by virtue of this Article XV or
otherwise.
Nothing in this Article XV shall apply to claims of, or payments to, the
Trustee under or pursuant to Section 6.6.
SECTION 15.8. Subordination May Not Be Impaired.
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No right of any present or future holder of any Senior Indebtedness 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
otherwise be charged with.
Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing paragraph, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness may, at any time and from time to time, without
the consent of or notice to the Trustee or the Securityholders, without
incurring responsibility to the Securityholders and without impairing or
releasing the subordination provided in this Article XV or the obligations
hereunder of the holders of the Securities to the holders of Senior
Indebtedness, do any one or more of the following: (i) change the manner, place
or terms of payment or extend the time of payment of, or renew or alter, such
Senior Indebtedness, or otherwise amend or supplement in any manner such Senior
Indebtedness or any instrument evidencing the same or any agreement under which
such Senior Indebtedness is outstanding; (ii) sell, exchange, release or
otherwise deal with any property pledged, mortgaged or otherwise securing such
Senior Indebtedness; (iii) release any Person liable in any manner for the
collection of such Senior Indebtedness; and (iv) exercise or refrain from
exercising any rights against the Company and any other Person.
ARTICLE XVI
EXTENSION OF INTEREST PAYMENT PERIOD
SECTION 16.1. Extension of Interest Payment Period.
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So long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company
shall have the right, at any time and from time to time during the term of the
Securities, to defer payments of interest by extending the interest payment
period of such Securities for a period not exceeding 20 consecutive quarters,
including the first such quarter during such extension period (the "Extension
Period"), during which Extension Period no interest shall be due and payable;
provided that no Extension Period shall end on a date other than an Interest
Payment Date or extend beyond the Maturity Date. To the extent permitted by
applicable law, interest, the payment of which has been deferred because of the
extension of the interest payment period pursuant to this Section 16.1, will
bear interest thereon at the Coupon Rate compounded quarterly, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, for each quarter of the Extension Period
("Compounded Interest"). At the end of the Extension Period, the Company shall
pay all interest accrued and unpaid on the Securities, including any Additional
Interest and Compounded Interest (together, "Deferred Interest") that shall be
payable to the holders of the Securities in whose names the Securities are
registered in the Security Register
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on the first record date preceding the end of the Extension Period. Before the
termination of any Extension Period, the Company may further defer payments of
interest by further extending such period, provided that such period, together
with all such previous and further extensions within such Extension Period,
shall not exceed 20 consecutive quarters, including the first such quarter
during such Extension Period, or extend beyond the Maturity Date. Upon the
termination of any Extension Period and the payment of all Deferred Interest
then due, the Company may commence a new Extension Period, subject to the
foregoing requirements. No interest shall be due and payable during an Extension
Period, except at the end thereof, but the Company may prepay at any time all or
any portion of the interest accrued during an Extension Period.
SECTION 16.2. Notice of Extension.
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(a) If the Property Trustee is the only registered holder of the
Securities at the time the Company selects an Extension Period, the Company
shall give written notice to the Administrators, the Property Trustee and the
Trustee of its selection of such Extension Period five Business Days before the
earlier of (i) the next succeeding date on which Distributions on the Trust
Securities issued by LFC Trust are payable, or (ii) the date LFC Trust is
required to give notice of the record date, or the date such Distributions are
payable, to any national securities exchange or to holders of the Capital
Securities issued by LFC Trust, but in any event at least five Business Days
before such record date.
(b) If the Property Trustee is not the only holder of the Securities at
the time the Company selects an Extension Period, the Company shall give the
holders of the Securities and the Trustee written notice of its selection of
such Extension Period at least 10 Business Days before the earlier of (i) the
next succeeding Interest Payment Date, or (ii) the date the Company is required
to give notice of the record or payment date of such interest payment to any
national securities exchange.
(c) The quarter in which any notice is given pursuant to paragraphs (a) or
(b) of this Section 16.2 shall be counted as one of the 20 quarters permitted in
the maximum Extension Period permitted under Section 16.1.
ARTICLE XVII
CONVERSION OF SECURITIES
SECTION 17.1. Conversion Rights.
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Subject to and upon compliance with the provisions of this Article XVII,
the Securities are convertible, at the option of the holder, at any time on or
before 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the earlier of (i) the Business Day
immediately preceding the date of repayment of such Securities, whether at
maturity or upon prepayment, and (ii) the Conversion Termination Date of the
Securities, into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock at a
conversion rate of _______ shares of Common Stock for each Security (equivalent
to a conversion price of $______ per share of Common Stock), subject to
adjustment as described in this Article XVII (as so adjusted, the "Conversion
Price"). A holder of Securities may convert any portion of the principal amount
of the Securities into that number of fully paid and nonassessable shares of
Common Stock (calculated as to each conversion to the nearest 1/100th of a
share) obtained by dividing the principal amount of the Securities to be
converted by the Conversion Price. In case a Security or portion thereof is
called for prepayment, such conversion right in respect of the Security or
portion so
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called shall expire at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Business Day immediately
preceding the corresponding Prepayment Date, unless the Company defaults in
making the payment due upon prepayment.
SECTION 17.2. Conversion Procedures.
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(a) To convert all or a portion of the Securities, the holder thereof
shall deliver to the Conversion Agent an irrevocable Notice of Conversion
Request setting forth the principal amount of Securities to be converted,
together with the name or names, if other than the holder, in which the shares
of Common Stock should be issued upon conversion and, if such Securities are
definitive Securities, surrender to the Conversion Agent the Securities to be
converted, duly endorsed or assigned to the Company or in blank. In addition, a
holder of Capital Securities may exercise its right under the Declaration to
exchange such Capital Securities into Securities which will be converted into
Common Stock by delivering to the Conversion Agent an irrevocable Conversion
Request setting forth the information called for by the preceding sentence and
directing the Conversion Agent (i) to exchange such Capital Security for a
portion of the Securities held by the LFC Trust (at an exchange rate of $__
principal amount of Securities for each Capital Security) and (ii) to
immediately convert such Securities, on behalf of such holder, into Common Stock
pursuant to this Article XVII and, if such Capital Securities are in definitive
form, surrendering such Capital Securities, duly endorsed or assigned to the
Company or in blank. So long as any Capital Securities are outstanding, LFC
Trust shall not convert any Securities except pursuant to a Conversion Request
delivered to the Conversion Agent by a holder of Capital Securities.
Holders of Securities at 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on a record date for a
Interest Payment Date will be entitled to receive the interest payable on such
Securities on the corresponding Interest Payment Date notwithstanding the
conversion of such Securities following such record date but on or prior to such
Interest Payment Date. Except as provided in the immediately preceding
sentence, the Company will not make, or be required to make, any payment,
allowance or adjustment for accumulated and unpaid interest, whether or not in
arrears, on converted Securities; provided, however, that if notice of
prepayment of Securities is mailed or otherwise given to holders of Securities
or the LFC Trust issues a press release announcing a Conversion Termination
Date, then, if any holder of Securities converts any Securities into Common
Stock on any date on or after the date on which such notice of prepayment is
mailed or otherwise given or the date of such press release, as the case may be,
and if such date of conversion falls on any day from and including the first day
of an Extension Period and on or prior to the Interest Payment Date upon which
such Extension Period ends, such converting holder shall be entitled to receive
either (i) if the date of such conversion falls after a record date and on or
prior to the next succeeding Interest Payment Date, all accrued and unpaid
interest on such Securities (including interest thereon, if any, to the extent
permitted by applicable law) to such Interest Payment Date or (ii) if the date
of such conversion does not fall on a date described in clause (i) above, all
accrued and unpaid interest on such Securities (including interest thereon, if
any, to the extent permitted by applicable law) to the most recent Interest
Payment Date prior to the date of such conversion, which interest shall, in
either such case, be paid to such converting holder unless the date of
conversion of such Securities is on or prior to the Interest Payment Date upon
which such Extension Period ends and after the record date for such Interest
Payment Date, in which case such interest shall be paid to the person who was
the holder of such Securities (or one or more predecessor Securities) at 5:00
p.m. (Eastern time) on such record date. Except as otherwise set forth above in
this paragraph, in the case of any Security which is converted, interest whose
Stated Maturity is after the date of conversion of such Security shall not be
payable, and the Company shall not make nor be required to make any other
payment, adjustment or allowance with respect to accrued but unpaid interest
(including Compounded Interest and Additional Interest, if any) on the
Securities being converted, which shall be deemed to be paid in full. If any
Security called for prepayment is converted, any money deposited with the
Trustee or with any paying agent or so segregated and held in trust for the
prepayment of such Security shall (subject to say right of the holder of
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such Security or any Predecessor Security to receive interest as provided in
this Indenture) be paid to the Company upon Company Request or, if then held by
the Company, shall be discharged from such trust.
Each conversion shall be deemed to have been effected immediately prior to
5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the day on which the Notice of Conversion was
received (the "Conversion Date") by the Conversion Agent from the Securityholder
or from a holder of the Capital Securities effecting a conversion thereof
pursuant to its conversion rights under the Declaration, as the case may be.
The Person or Persons entitled to receive the Common Stock issuable upon such
conversion shall be treated for all purposes as a record holder or holders of
such Common Stock as of the Conversion Date. As promptly as practicable on or
after the Conversion Date, the Company shall issue and deliver at the office of
the Conversion Agent, unless otherwise directed by the Securityholder in the
Notice of Conversion, a certificate or certificates for the number of full
shares of Common Stock issuable upon such conversion, together with the cash
payment, if any, in lieu of any fraction of any share to the Person or Persons
entitled to receive the same. The Conversion Agent shall deliver such
certificate or certificates to each Person or Persons.
(b) Subject to any right of the holder of such Security or any Predecessor
Security to receive interest as provided in Section 17.2(a), the Company's
delivery upon conversion of the fixed number of shares of Common Stock into
which the Securities are convertible (together with the cash payment, if any, in
lieu of fractional shares) shall be deemed to satisfy the Company's obligation
to pay the principal amount at maturity of the portion of Securities so
converted and any unpaid interest (including Compounded Interest and Additional
Interest, if any) accrued on such Securities at the time of such conversion.
(c) No fractional shares of Common Stock will be issued as a result of
conversion, but in lieu thereof, the Company shall pay to the Conversion Agent a
cash adjustment in an amount equal to the same fraction of the Closing Price of
such fractional interest on the date on which the Securities or Capital
Securities, as the case may be, were duly surrendered to the Conversion Agent
for conversion, or, if such day is not a Trading Day, on the next Trading Day,
and the Conversion Agent in turn will make such payment, if any, to the holder
of the Securities or the holder of the Capital Securities so converted.
(d) In the event of the conversion of any Security in part only, a new
Security or Securities for the unconverted portion thereof will be issued in the
name of the holder thereof upon the cancellation thereof in accordance with
Section 2.7.
(e) In effecting the conversion transactions described in this Section,
the Conversion Agent is acting as agent of the holders of Capital Securities (in
the exchange of Capital Securities for Securities) and as agent of the holders
of Securities (in the conversion of Securities into Common Stock), as the case
may be, directing it to effect such conversion transactions. The Conversion
Agent is hereby authorized (i) to exchange Capital Securities for Securities
held by LFC Trust from time to time in connection with the conversion of such
Capital Securities in accordance with this Article XVII and (ii) to convert all
or a portion of the Securities into Common Stock and thereupon to deliver such
shares of Common Stock in accordance with the provisions of this Article XVII
and to deliver to the LFC Trust a new Security or Securities for any resulting
unconverted principal amount.
(f) The Company shall pay any and all taxes that may be payable in respect
of the issue or delivery of shares of Common Stock on conversion of Securities
and the delivery of shares of Common Stock by the Trust to the Holder upon
conversion. The Company shall not, however, be required to pay any tax that may
be payable in respect of any transfer involved in the issue and delivery of
shares of Common Stock in a name other than that in which the Securities so
converted were registered, and no such issue or delivery shall be made unless
and until the Person requesting such issue has paid to the Trust the amount of
any such tax or has established to the satisfaction of the Trust that such tax
has been paid.
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SECTION 17.3. Conversion Price Adjustments.
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The conversion price shall be subject to adjustment (without duplication)
from time to time as follows:
(a) In case the Company shall, while any of the Securities are
outstanding, (i) pay a dividend or make a distribution with respect to its
Common Stock in shares of Common Stock, (ii) subdivide its outstanding shares of
Common Stock, (iii) combine its outstanding shares of Common Stock into a
smaller number of shares or (iv) issue by reclassification of its shares of
Common Stock any shares of capital stock of the Company, the Conversion Price in
effect immediately prior to such action shall be adjusted so that the holder of
any Securities thereafter surrendered for conversion shall be entitled to
receive the number of shares of capital stock of the Company which he would have
owned immediately following such action had such Securities been converted
immediately prior thereto. An adjustment made pursuant to this Section 17.3(a)
shall become effective immediately after the record date in the case of a
dividend or other distribution and shall become effective immediately after the
effective date in case of a subdivision, combination or reclassification (or
immediately after the record date if a record date shall have been established
for such event). If, as a result of an adjustment made pursuant to this Section
17.3(a), the holder of any Security thereafter surrendered for conversion shall
become entitled to receive shares of two or more classes or series of capital
stock of the Company, the Board of Directors (whose determination shall be
conclusive and shall be described in a resolution of the Board of Directors
filed with the Trustee) shall determine the allocation of the adjusted
Conversion Price between or among shares of such classes or series of capital
stock.
(b) In case the Company shall, while any of the Securities are
outstanding, issue rights or warrants to all holders of its Common Stock
entitling them (for a period expiring within 45 days after the record date
mentioned in this Section 17.3(b)) to subscribe for or purchase shares of Common
Stock at a price per share less than the Current Market Price per share of
Common Stock (as defined in 17.3(f) below) on such record date, the Conversion
Price for the Securities shall be adjusted so that the same shall equal the
price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior
to the date of issuance of such rights or warrants by a fraction of which the
numerator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding on the date
of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the number of shares which the
aggregate offering price of the total number of shares so offered for
subscription or purchase would purchase at such Current Market Price, and of
which the denominator shall be the number of shares of Common Stock outstanding
on the date of issuance of such rights or warrants plus the number of additional
shares of Common Stock offered for subscription or purchase. Such adjustment
shall become effective immediately after the record date for the determination
of stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants. For the purposes of
this subsection, the number of shares of Common Stock at any time outstanding
shall not include shares held in the treasury of the Company. The Company shall
not issue any rights or warrants in respect of the shares of Common Stock held
in the treasury of the Company. In case any rights or warrants referred to in
this subsection in respect of which an adjustment shall have been made shall
expire unexercised within 45 days after the same shall have been distributed or
issued by the Company, the Conversion Price shall be readjusted at the time of
such expiration to the Conversion Price that would have been in effect if no
adjustment had been made on account of the distribution or issuance of such
expired rights or warrants.
(c) Subject to the last sentence of this Section 17.3(c), in case the
Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, distribute to all holders of its Common
Stock evidences of its indebtedness, shares of any class or series of capital
stock, cash or assets (including securities, but excluding any rights or
warrants referred to in Section 17.3(b), any dividend or distribution paid
exclusively in cash and any dividend or distribution referred to in Section 17.3
(a)), the Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall equal the
price determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior
to the effectiveness of the Conversion Price reduction contemplated by Section
17.3(c) by a fraction of which the numerator shall be
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the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the
payment of such distribution (the "Reference Date") less the fair market value
(as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose determination
shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of Directors), on
the Reference Date, of the portion of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of
capital stock, cash and assets so distributed applicable to one share of Common
Stock and the denominator shall be such Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the
opening of business on the day following the Reference Date. In the event that
such dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Price shall
again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if
such dividend or distribution had not occurred. If the Board of Directors
determines the fair market value of any distribution for purposes of this
Section 17.3(c) by reference to the actual or when issued trading market for any
securities comprising such distribution, it must in doing so consider the prices
in such market over the same period used in computing the Current Market Price
per share of Common Stock. For purposes of this Section 17.3(c), any dividend or
distribution that includes shares of Common Stock or rights or warrants to
subscribe for or purchase shares of Common Stock shall be deemed instead to be
(1) a dividend or distribution of the evidences of indebtedness, shares of
capital stock, cash or assets other than such shares of Common Stock or such
rights or warrants (making any Conversion Price reduction required by this
Section 17.3(c)) immediately followed by (2) a dividend or distribution of such
shares of Common Stock or such rights or warrants (making any further Conversion
Price reduction required by Section 17.3(a) or 17.3 (b)), except (A) the
Reference Date of such dividend or distribution as defined in this Section
17.3(c) shall be substituted as (a) "the record date in the case of a dividend
or other distribution," and (b) "the record date for the determination of
stockholders entitled to receive such rights or warrants" and (c) "the date
fixed for such determination" within the meaning of Sections 17.3(a) and 17.3(b)
and (B) any shares of Common Stock included in such dividend or distribution
shall not be deemed outstanding for purposes of computing any adjustment of the
Conversion Price in Section 17.3(a).
(d) In case the Company shall pay or make a dividend or other distribution
on its Common Stock exclusively in cash (excluding all regular cash dividends,
if the annualized amount thereof per share of Common Stock does not exceed 15%
of the Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the Trading Day
immediately preceding the date of declaration of such dividend), the Conversion
Price shall be reduced so that the same shall equal the price determined by
multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to the
effectiveness of the Conversion Price reduction contemplated by this Section
17.3(d) by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the Current Market Price
per share of the Common Stock on the date fixed for the payment of such
distribution less the amount of cash so distributed and not excluded as provided
applicable to one share of Common Stock and the denominator shall be such
Current Market Price per share of the Common Stock, such reduction to become
effective immediately prior to the opening of business on the day following the
date fixed for the payment of such distribution; provided, however, that in the
event the portion of the cash so distributed applicable to one share of Common
Stock is equal to or greater than the Current Market Price per share of the
Common Stock on the record date mentioned above, in lieu of the foregoing
adjustment, adequate provision shall be made so that each holder of Securities
shall have the right to receive upon conversion the amount of cash such holder
would have received had such holder converted each Security immediately prior to
the record date for the distribution of the cash. In the event that such
dividend or distribution is not so paid or made, the Conversion Price shall
again be adjusted to be the Conversion Price which would then be in effect if
such record date had not been fixed.
(e) In case a tender or exchange offer (other than an odd-lot offer) made
by the Company or any subsidiary of the Company for all or any portion of the
Common Stock shall expire and such tender or exchange offer shall involve the
payment by the Company or such subsidiary of consideration per share of Common
Stock having a fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Board of
Directors, whose determination shall be conclusive and described in a resolution
of the Board of Directors) at the last time (the "Expiration Time") tenders or
exchanges may be made pursuant to such tender or exchange offer (as it shall
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have been amended) that exceeds ___% of the Current Market Price per share of
Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time, the
Conversion Price shall be reduced so that the same shall equal the price
determined by multiplying the Conversion Price in effect immediately prior to
the effectiveness of the Conversion Price reduction contemplated by this Section
17.3(e) by a fraction of which the numerator shall be the number of shares of
Common Stock outstanding (including any tendered or exchanged shares) at the
Expiration Time multiplied by the Current Market Price per share of the Common
Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding the Expiration Time and the denominator
shall be the sum of (x) the fair market value (determined as aforesaid) of the
aggregate consideration payable to stockholders based on the acceptance (up to
any maximum specified in the terms of the tender or exchange offer) of all
shares validly tendered or exchanged and not withdrawn as of the Expiration Time
(the shares deemed so accepted, up to any such maximum, being referred to as the
"Purchased Shares") and (y) the product of the number of shares of Common Stock
outstanding (less any Purchased Shares) at the Expiration Time and the Current
Market Price per share of the Common Stock on the Trading Day next succeeding
the Expiration Time, such reduction to become effective immediately prior to the
opening of business on the day following the Expiration Time.
(f) For the purpose of any computation under Sections 17.3(b), (c), (d) or
(e), the "Current Market Price" per share of Common Stock on any date in
question shall be deemed to be the average of the daily Closing Prices for the
five consecutive Trading Days selected by the Company commencing not more than
20 Trading Days before, and ending not later than, the earlier of the day in
question or, if applicable, the day before the "ex" date with respect to the
issuance or distribution requiring such computation; provided, however, that if
another event occurs that would require an adjustment pursuant to Sections
17.3(a) through (e), inclusive, the Board of Directors may make such adjustments
to the Closing Prices during such five Trading Day period as it deems
appropriate to effectuate the intent of the adjustments in this Section 17.3, in
which case any such determination by the Board of Directors shall be set forth
in a resolution of the Board of Directors and shall be conclusive. For purposes
of this paragraph, the term "ex" date, (i) when used with respect to any
issuance or distribution, means the first date on which the Common Stock trades
regular way on the Nasdaq National Market or on such successor securities
exchange as the Common Stock may be listed or in the relevant market from which
the Closing Prices were obtained without the right to receive such issuance or
distribution, and (ii) when used with respect to any tender or exchange offer,
means the first date on which the Common Stock trades regular way on such
securities exchange or in such market after the Expiration Time of such offer.
(g) The Company may make such reductions in the Conversion Price, in
addition to those required by Sections (a) through (e), as it considers to be
advisable to avoid or diminish any income tax to holders of Common Stock or
rights to purchase Common Stock resulting from any dividend or distribution of
stock (or rights to acquire stock) or from any event treated as such for income
tax purposes. The Company from time to time may reduce the Conversion Price by
any amount for any period of time if the period is at least 20 days, the
reduction is irrevocable during the period, and the Board of Directors of the
Company shall have made a determination that such reduction would be in the best
interest of the Company, which determination shall be conclusive. Whenever the
Conversion Price is reduced pursuant to the preceding sentence, the Company
shall mail to holders of record of the Securities a notice of the reduction at
least 15 days prior to the date the reduced Conversion Price takes effect, and
such notice shall state the reduced Conversion Price and the period it will be
in effect.
(h) No adjustment in the Conversion Price shall be required unless such
adjustment would require an increase or decrease of at least 1% in the
Conversion Price; provided, however, that any adjustments which by reason of
this Section 17.3(h) are not required to be made shall be carried forward and
taken into account in determining whether any subsequent adjustment shall be
required.
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(i) If any action would require adjustment of the Conversion Price
pursuant to more than one of the provisions described above, only one adjustment
shall be made and such adjustment shall be the amount of adjustment that has the
highest absolute value to the holder of the Securities.
SECTION 17.4. Reclassification, Consolidation, Merger or Sale of Assets.
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In the event that the Company shall be a party to any transaction,
including without limitation (a) any recapitalization or reclassification of the
Common Stock (other than a change in par value, or from par value to no par
value, or from no par value to par value, or as a result of a subdivision or
combination of the Common Stock), (b) any consolidation of the Company with, or
merger of the Company into any other Person, any merger of another Person into
the Company (other than a merger which does not result in a reclassification,
conversion, exchange or cancellation of outstanding shares of Common Stock of
the Company), (c) any sale, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company or (d) any compulsory share exchange, in each case
pursuant to which the Common Stock is converted into the right to receive other
securities, cash or other property, then lawful provision shall be made as part
of the terms of such transaction whereby the holder of each Security then
outstanding shall have the right thereafter to convert each Security only into
the kind and amount of securities, cash or other property receivable upon
consummation of such transaction by a holder of the number of shares of Common
Stock of the Company into which such Security could have been converted
immediately prior to such transaction.
The Company or the Person formed by such consolidation or resulting from
such merger or which acquired such assets or which acquires the Company's
shares, as the case may be, shall make provision in its certificate or articles
of incorporation or other constituent document to establish such right. Such
certificate or articles of incorporation or other constituent document shall
provide for adjustments which, for events subsequent to the effective date of
such certificate or articles of incorporation or other constitution document,
shall be as nearly equivalent as may be practicable to the adjustments provided
for in this Article XVII. The above provisions shall similarly apply to
successive transactions of the foregoing type.
SECTION 17.5. Notice of Adjustments of Conversion Price.
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Whenever the Conversion Price is adjusted as herein provided:
(a) The Company shall compute the adjusted Conversion Price and shall
prepare a certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer or the Treasurer of
the Company setting forth the adjusted Conversion Price and showing in
reasonable detail the facts upon which such adjustment is based, and such
certificate shall forthwith be filed with the Trustee, the Conversion Agent and
the transfer agent for the Capital Securities and the Securities; and
(b) notice stating the Conversion Price has been adjusted and setting
forth the adjusted Conversion Price shall as soon as practicable be mailed by
the Company to all record holders of Capital Securities and the Securities at
their last addresses as they appear upon the stock transfer books of the Company
and the Trust.
SECTION 17.6. Prior Notice of Certain Events.
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In case:
(a) the Company shall (i) declare any dividend (or any other distribution)
on its Common Stock, other than (A) a dividend payable in shares of Common Stock
or (B) a dividend payable in cash that would
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not require an adjustment pursuant to Section 17.3(c) or (d), or (ii) authorize
a tender or exchange offer that would require an adjustment pursuant to Section
17.3(e);
(b) the Company shall authorize the granting to all holders of Common
Stock of rights or warrants to subscribe for or purchase any shares of stock of
any class or series or of any other rights or warrants;
(c) of any reclassification of Common Stock (other than a subdivision or
combination of the outstanding Common Stock, or a change in par value, or from
par value to no par value, or from no par value to par value), or of any
consolidation or merger to which the Company is a party and for which approval
of any stockholders of the Company shall be required, or the sale or transfer of
all or substantially all of the assets of the Company or of any compulsory share
exchange whereby the Common Stock is converted into other securities, cash or
other property; or
(d) of the voluntary or involuntary dissolution, liquidation or winding up
of the Company; then the Company shall (1) if any Capital Securities are
outstanding, cause to be filed with the transfer agent for the Capital
Securities, and shall cause to be mailed to the holders of record of the Capital
Securities, at their last addresses as they shall appear upon the stock transfer
books of the LFC Trust or (2) shall cause to be mailed to all Securityholders at
their last addresses as they shall appear in the Security Register, at least 15
days prior to the applicable record or effective date hereinafter specified, a
notice stating (x) the date on which a record (if any) is to be taken for the
purpose of such dividend, distribution, rights or warrants or, if a record is
not to be taken, the date as of which the holders of Common Stock of record to
be entitled to such dividend, distribution, rights or warrants are to be
determined or (y) the date on which such reclassification, consolidation,
merger, sale, transfer, share exchange, dissolution, liquidation or winding up
is expected to become effective, and the date as of which it is expected that
holders of Common Stock of record shall be entitled to exchange their shares of
Common Stock for securities, cash or other property deliverable upon such
reclassification, consolidation, merger, sale, transfer, share exchange,
dissolution, liquidation or winding up (but no failure to mail such notice or
any defect therein or in the mailing thereof shall affect the validity of the
corporate action required to be specified in such notice).
Section 17.7. Certain Defined Terms.
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The following definitions shall apply to terms used in this Article VII:
(a) "Closing Prices" of any Security shall on any day shall mean the last
reported sale price for such security, regular way, or such day or, if no sale
takes place on such day, the average of the reported closing bid and asked
prices on such day, regular way, of such Security, in either case as reported on
the NYSE Composite Tape or, if the Security is not listed or admitted to trading
on the NYSE, on the principal national securities exchange on which such
Security is listed or admitted to trading, or, if not listed or admitted to
trading on a national securities exchange, on the National Market System of the
National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. or, if such Security is not
quoted or admitted to trading on such quotation system, on the principal
quotation system on which such Security is listed or admitted to trading or
quoted, or, if not listed or admitted to trading or quoted on any national
securities exchange or quotation system, the average of the closing bid and
asked prices of such Security in the over-the-counter market on the day in
question as reported by the National Quotation Bureau Incorporated, or a similar
generally accepted reporting service, or, if not so available in such manner, as
furnished by any NYSE member firm selected from time to time by the Board of
Directors for that purpose or, if not so available in such manner, as otherwise
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors.
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(b) "Trading Day" shall mean a day on which securities are traded on the
national securities exchange or quotation system used to determine the Closing
Price.
Section 17.8. Benefit Plans.
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Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions, the issuance of any shares of
Common Stock pursuant to any plan providing for the issuance of any shares of
Common Stock or options or rights to purchase such shares pursuant to any
employee benefit plan or program of the Company pursuant to any option, warrant,
right or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible security outstanding as of the
date the Securities were first issued, shall not be deemed to constitute an
issuance of Common Stock or exercisable, exchangeable or convertible securities
by the Company to which any of the adjustment provisions described above
applies. There shall also be no adjustment of the Conversion Price in case of
the issuance of any stock (or securities convertible into or exchangeable for
stock) of the Company except as specifically described in this Article XVII.
Section 17.9. Certain Additional Rights.
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In case the Company shall, by dividend or otherwise, declare or make a
distribution on its Common Stock referred to in Section 17.3(c) or (d)
(including, without limitation, dividends or distributions referred to in the
last sentence of Section 17.3(c)), the holder of the Securities, upon the
conversion thereof subsequent to 5:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the date fixed for
the determination of stockholders entitled to receive such distribution and
prior to the effectiveness of the Conversion Price adjustment in respect of such
distribution, shall also be entitled to receive for each share of Common stock
into which the Securities are converted, the portion of the shares of Common
Stock, rights, warrants, evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock,
cash and assets so distributed applicable to one share of Common Stock;
provided, however, that, at the election of the Company (whose election shall be
evidenced by a resolution of the Board of Directors) with respect to all
Securityholders so converting, the Company may, in lieu of distributing to such
holder any portion of such distribution not consisting of cash or securities of
the Company, pay such holder an amount in cash equal to the fair market value
thereof (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors, whose
determination shall be conclusive and described in a resolution of the Board of
Directors). If any conversion of Securities described in the immediately
preceding sentence occurs prior to the payment date for a distribution to
holders of Common Stock which the holder of Securities so converted is entitled
to receive in accordance with the immediately preceding sentence, the Company
may elect (such election to be evidenced by a resolution of the Board of
Directors) to distribute to such holder a due bill for the shares of Common
Stock, rights, warrants, evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock,
cash or assets to which such holder is so entitled, provided, that such due bill
(i) meets any applicable requirements of the principal national securities
exchange or other market on which the Common Stock is then traded and (ii)
requires payment or delivery of such shares of Common Stock, rights, warrants,
evidences of indebtedness, shares of capital stock, cash or assets no later than
the date of payment or delivery thereof to holders of shares of Common Stock
receiving such distribution.
Section 17.10. Trustee Not Responsible for Determining Conversion Price or
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Adjustments.
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Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall at any time be under any
duty or responsibility to any holder or any Security to determine whether any
facts exist which may require any adjustment of the Conversion Price, or with
respect to the nature or extent of any such adjustment when made, or with
respect to the method employed, or herein or in any supplemental indenture
provided to be employed, in making the same. Neither the Trustee nor any
Conversion Agent shall be accountable with respect to the validity or value (or
the kind of account) of any shares of Common Stock or of any securities or
property, which may
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at any time be issued or delivered upon the conversion of any Security; and
neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent makes any representation with
respect thereto. Neither the Trustee nor any Conversion Agent shall be
responsible for any failure of the Company to make any cash payment or to issue,
transfer or deliver any shares of Common Stock or stock certificates or other
securities or property upon the surrender of any Security for the purpose of
conversion, or, except as expressly herein provided, to comply with any of the
covenants of the Company contained in Article III or Article XVII.
Section 17.11. Expiration of Conversion Rights.
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(a) Right of Company to Terminate Conversion Rights. On and after
___________________, the Company may, at its option, cause the conversion rights
of holders of Securities to terminate if (i) the Company is then current in the
payment of interest on the Securities (including Compounded Interest and
Additional Interest, if any) (except to the extent that the payment of interest
may have been deferred as a result of any Extension Period) and (ii) for at
least 20 Trading Days within any period of 30 consecutive Trading Days,
including the last Trading Day of such period, the Closing Price of the Common
Stock shall have exceeded ___% of the Conversion Price of the Securities then in
effect.
(b) Exercise of Option Prior to a Dissolution Event Distribution. To
exercise its conversion expiration option prior to the distribution of
Securities from LFC Trust to the holders of Capital Securities upon the
occurrence of a Dissolution Event (a "Dissolution Event Distribution"), the
Company shall give written notice to LFC Trust directing LFC Trust to issue the
Press Release (as defined in Section 5(h) of Annex I of the Declaration), to
cause the conversion rights of the holders of Capital Securities to expire. The
Company shall also furnish a copy of such notice to the Trustee (and the
Conversion Agent if the Trustee is not then serving as the Conversion Agent).
If LFC Trust fails to issue the Press Release within two (2) Business Days after
its receipt of such notice, the Company may, on behalf of LFC Trust, issue the
Press Release in accordance with the provisions of Section 5(h) of Annex I of
the Declaration. The conversion rights of the holders of the Securities shall
terminate simultaneously with the termination of the conversion rights of the
holders of the Capital Securities.
(c) Exercise of Option After a Dissolution Event Distribution. To exercise
its conversion expiration option after a Dissolution Event Distribution, the
Company shall issue a press release for publication on the Dow Jones News
Service or on a comparable news service announcing the Conversion Termination
Date of the Securities. Such press release must be issued prior to the opening
of business on the second Trading Day after a period in which the conditions of
Section 17.11(a) have been met, but in no event prior to ___________________.
Such press release shall state that the Company has elected to exercise its
right to terminate the conversion privilege, specify the Conversion Termination
Date of the Securities (as determined in the manner set forth below) and provide
the Conversion Price and the Closing Price of Common Stock, in each case as of
the close of business on the Trading Day next preceding the date of the press
release. Additionally, the Company shall cause a notice of the expiration of
conversion rights (a "Notice of Conversion Termination") to be given by first-
class mail to the holder of Securities, the Trustee (and the Conversion Agent if
the Trustee is not then serving as the Conversion Agent) not more than four
Business Days after the Company issues the press release. The Notice of
Conversion Termination shall state, as appropriate: (i) the Conversion
Termination Date of the Securities; (ii) the Conversion Price of the Securities
and the Closing Price of the Common Stock, in each case as of the close of
business on the Trading Day next preceding the date of the Notice of Conversion
Termination; (iii) the place or places at which a conversion notice with respect
to Securities may be given to the Conversion Agent in accordance with Section
17.2 prior to the Conversion Termination Date of the Securities; and (iv) such
other information or instructions as the Company deems necessary or advisable to
enable Securityholder to exercise its conversion right hereunder. Notice of
Conversion Termination shall be deemed to have been given on the day such notice
is first mailed by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to each holder of
Securities at the address of the
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holder appearing in the Security Register (whether or not the Securityholder
receives the Notice of Conversion Termination). No defect in the Notice of
Conversion Termination or in the mailing thereof with respect to any Securities
shall affect the validity of the Company's exercise of its conversion expiration
option if the press release referred to above shall have been issued.
(d) Certain Definitions. The term "Conversion Termination Date" has the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 5(h) of Annex I of the Declaration.
The "Conversion Termination Date of the Securities" shall be the close of
business on the Business Day selected by the Company which is not less than 30
nor more than 60 calendar days after (1) the date on which LFC Trust issues the
Press Release announcing LFC Trust's intention to terminate the conversion
rights of the holders of the Capital Securities or (2) the date the Company
issues the press release required by Section 17.11(c) announcing its intention
to terminate the conversion rights of the holders of the Securities, as the case
may be. If the Company does not exercise its conversion expiration option, the
Conversion Termination Date of the Securities (i) with respect to any principal
amount of Securities which is called for repayment shall be the close of
business on the Business Day prior to the scheduled date for such repayment and
(ii) in any other case shall be the close of business on the Business Day prior
to the Maturity Date of the Securities. As of the close of business on the
earlier of the Conversion Termination Date or the Conversion Termination Date of
the Securities, the Securities shall be deemed to be non-convertible securities.
State Street Bank and Trust Company hereby accepts the trusts in this
Indenture declared and provided, upon the terms and conditions hereinabove set
forth.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to be
duly executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized, as of the
day and year first above written.
LIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By ____________________________________
Daniel L. Perl
President and Chief Executive Officer
STATE STREET BANK AND TRUST COMPANY
as Trustee
By ____________________________________
____________________________________
____________________________________
Authorized Signatory
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EXHIBIT A
(FORM OF FACE OF SECURITY)
[IF THE SECURITY IS A GLOBAL SECURITY, INSERT: -- THIS SECURITY IS A GLOBAL
SECURITY WITHIN THE MEANING OF THE INDENTURE HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AND IS
REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF A DEPOSITARY OR A NOMINEE OF A 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, A NEW YORK CORPORATION ("DTC") TO THE ISSUER OR ITS
AGENT FOR REGISTRATION OF TRANSFER, EXCHANGE OR PAYMENT, AND ANY SECURITY ISSUED
IS REGISTERED IN THE NAME OF CEDE & CO. OR IN SUCH OTHER NAME AS REQUESTED BY
AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF DTC (AND ANY PAYMENT HEREON IS MADE TO CEDE &
CO. OR TO SUCH OTHER ENTITY AS IS REQUESTED BY AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE OF
DTC), ANY TRANSFER, PLEDGE OR OTHER USE HEREOF FOR VALUE OR OTHERWISE BY OR TO
ANY PERSON IS WRONGFUL SINCE THE REGISTERED OWNER HEREOF, CEDE & CO., HAS AN
INTEREST HEREIN.]
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$___________ No. CUSIP No. ______________
LIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
____% JUNIOR CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED DEBENTURE
DUE ___________, ____
LIFE Financial Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the "Company", which
term includes any successor Person under the Indenture hereinafter referred to),
for value received, hereby promises to pay to _________ or registered assigns,
the principal sum of _____________ Dollars on ____________, 2027 (the "Maturity
Date"), unless previously prepaid, and to pay interest on the outstanding
principal amount hereof from _______________, 1997, or from the most recent
interest payment date (each such date, an "Interest Payment Date") to which
interest has been paid or duly provided for, quarterly (subject to deferral as
set forth herein) in arrears on March 15, June 15, September 15 and December 15
of each year, commencing March 15, 1998 at the rate of ____% per annum until the
principal hereof shall have become due and payable, and at the same rate per
annum on any overdue principal and premium, if any, 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 same rate per annum compounded
quarterly. The amount of interest payable on any Interest Payment Date shall be
computed on the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months and, for any
period less than a full calendar month, the number of days elapsed in such 30-
day month. In the event that any date on which the principal of (or premium, if
any) or interest on this Security is payable is not a Business Day, then the
payment payable on such date will be made on the next succeeding day that is a
Business Day (and without any interest or other payment in respect of any such
delay) except that if such next succeeding Business Day falls in the next
succeeding calendar year, such payment shall be made on the immediately
preceding Business Day, with the same force and effect as if made on such date.
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 said Indenture) is registered at the close of business on the
regular record date for such interest installment, which shall be the first day
of the month in which the relevant Interest Payment Date falls. Any such
interest installment not punctually paid or duly provided for shall forthwith
cease to be payable to the holders on such regular record date and may 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 to
be fixed by the Trustee for the payment of such defaulted interest, notice
whereof shall be given to the holders of Securities not less than 10 days prior
to such special record date, or may be paid at any time in any other lawful
manner not inconsistent with the requirements of any securities exchange on
which the Securities may be listed, and upon such notice as may be required by
such exchange, all as more fully provided in the Indenture.
The principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on this Security shall
be payable at the office or agency of the Trustee maintained for that purpose in
any coin or currency of the United States of America that at the time of payment
is legal tender for payment of public and private debts; provided, however,
that, payment of interest may be made at the option of the Company by (i) check
mailed to the holder entitled thereto at such address as shall appear in the
Security Register or (ii) by wire transfer to an account maintained by the
Person entitled thereto, provided that proper written wire transfer instructions
have been received by the paying agent by the relevant record date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as the holder of this Security is the
Property Trustee, the payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on this Security will be made at such place and to such account as may
be designated by the Property Trustee.
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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 Allocable Amounts in respect of Senior Indebtedness, 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
or her behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to
acknowledge or effectuate the subordination so provided and (c) appoints the
Trustee his or her attorney-in-fact for any and all such purposes. Each holder
hereof, by his or her acceptance hereof, hereby waives all notice of the
acceptance of the subordination provisions contained herein and in the Indenture
by each holder of Senior Indebtedness, whether now outstanding or hereafter
incurred, and waives reliance by each such holder upon said provisions.
This Security shall not be entitled to any benefit under the Indenture
hereinafter referred to, or be valid or become obligatory for any purpose until
the Certificate of Authentication hereon shall have been signed by or on behalf
of the Trustee.
The provisions of this Security are continued on the reverse side hereof
and such provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully
set forth at this place.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this instrument to be executed.
LIFE FINANCIAL CORPORATION
By: _______________________
Name:
Title
By: _______________________
Name:
Title:
CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities referred to in the within-mentioned
Indenture.
Dated ______________
State Street Bank and Trust Company,
as Trustee
By ____________________
Authorized Signatory
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(FORM OF REVERSE OF SECURITY)
This Security is one of the Junior Convertible Subordinated Debentures of
the Company (herein sometimes referred to as the "Securities"), specified in the
Indenture, all issued or to be issued under and pursuant to an Indenture, dated
as of _______________, 1997 (the "Indenture"), duly executed and delivered
between the Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee (the
"Trustee"), to which Indenture reference is hereby made for a description of the
rights, limitations of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of
the Trustee, the Company and the holders of the Securities.
Upon the occurrence and continuation of a Special Event, the Company shall
have the right at any time, within 90 days following the occurrence of a Special
Event, at any time prior to or after ___________________ (the "Initial Optional
Prepayment Date"), to prepay this Security in whole, but not in part, at the
Special Event Prepayment Price. "Special Event Prepayment Price" shall mean,
with respect to any prepayment of the Securities following a Special Event, an
amount in cash equal to 100% of the principal amount to be prepaid plus any
accrued and unpaid interest thereon, including Compounded Interest and
Additional Interest, if any, to the date of such prepayment.
In addition, the Company shall have the right to prepay this Security, in
whole or in part, at any time on or after the Initial Optional Prepayment Date
(an "Optional Prepayment"), at an optional prepayment price (the "Optional
Prepayment Price") equal to 100% of the principal amount to be prepaid, plus
accrued and unpaid interest thereon (including Additional Interest and
Compounded Interest, if any) to the applicable date of prepayment.
The Optional Prepayment Price or the Special Event Prepayment Price, as the
case requires, shall be paid prior to 12:00 noon, New York time, on the date of
such prepayment or at such earlier time as the Company determines, provided,
that the Company shall deposit with the Trustee an amount sufficient to pay the
applicable Prepayment Price by 10:00 a.m., New York time, on the date such
Prepayment Price is to be paid. Any prepayment pursuant to this paragraph will
be made upon not less than 30 days nor more than 60 days notice. If the
Securities are only partially prepaid by the Company pursuant to an Optional
Prepayment, the Securities will be prepaid by lot or by any other method
utilized by the Trustee; provided that if, at the time of prepayment, the
Securities are registered as a Global Security, the Depositary shall determine
in accordance with its procedures the principal amount of such Securities held
for the account of its participants to be prepaid.
In the event of prepayment of this Security in part only, a new Security or
Securities for the portion hereof not prepaid will be issued in the name of the
holder hereof upon the cancellation hereof.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, any prepayment of Securities by the Company
shall be subject to the receipt by the Company of any required regulatory
approval.
In case an Event of Default, as defined in the Indenture, shall have
occurred and be continuing, the principal of all of the Securities may be
declared, and upon such declaration shall become, due and payable, in the
manner, with the effect and subject to the conditions provided in the Indenture.
The Indenture contains provisions permitting the Company and the Trustee,
with the consent of the holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of
the Securities at the time outstanding, as defined in the Indenture, to execute
supplemental indentures for the purpose of adding any provisions to or changing
in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of the Indenture or of
modifying in any manner the rights of the holders of the Securities; provided,
however, that no such supplemental indenture shall, without the consent of each
holder of Securities then outstanding and affected thereby, (i) extend the
Maturity Date of any Securities, or reduce the principal amount thereof, or
reduce any amount payable on prepayment thereof, or reduce the rate or extend
the time of payment of interest thereon (subject to Article XVI of the
Indenture),
or make the principal of, or interest or premium on, the Securities
payable in any coin or currency other than U.S. dollars, or impair or affect
the right of any holder of Securities to institute suit for the payment thereof,
or (ii) reduce the aforesaid percentage of Securities, the holders of which are
required to consent to any such supplemental indenture. The Indenture also
contains provisions permitting the holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount of the Securities at the time outstanding, on behalf of all of the
holders of the Securities, to waive any past default in the performance of any
of the covenants contained in the Indenture, or established pursuant to the
Indenture, and its consequences, except a default in the payment of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on any of the Securities or a
default in respect of any covenant or provision which under the Indenture cannot
be modified or amended without the consent of each holder of Securities then
outstanding. Any such consent or waiver by the holder of this Security (unless
revoked as provided in the Indenture) shall be conclusive and binding upon such
holder and upon all future holders and owners of this Security and of any
Security issued in exchange herefor or in place hereof (whether by registration
of transfer or otherwise), irrespective of whether or not any notation of such
consent or waiver is made upon this Security.
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 time and place and at the rate and in the money
herein prescribed or to convert the Securities as provided in the Indenture.
The Company shall have the right, at any time and from time to time during
the term of the Securities, to defer payments of interest by extending the
interest payment period of such Securities for a period not exceeding 20
consecutive quarters, including the first such quarter during such extension
period, and not to extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Securities (an
"Extension Period"), at the end of which period the Company shall pay all
interest then accrued and unpaid (together with interest thereon at the rate
specified for the Securities to the extent that payment of such interest is
enforceable under applicable law). Before the termination of any such Extension
Period, the Company may further defer payments of interest by further extending
such Extension Period, provided that such Extension Period, together with all
such previous and further extensions within such Extension Period, shall not
exceed 20 consecutive quarters, including the first quarter during such
Extension Period, and shall not end on any date other than an Interest Payment
Date or extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Securities. Upon the termination
of any such Extension Period and the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest
and any additional amounts then due, the Company may commence a new Extension
Period, subject to the foregoing requirements.
The Company has agreed 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 of the Company's capital stock (which includes common and
preferred stock) or (ii) make any payment of principal, interest or premium, if
any, on or repay or repurchase or redeem any debt securities of the Company that
rank pari passu with or junior in right of payment to the Securities or (iii)
make any guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of any
securities or any Subsidiary of the Company (including Other Guarantees) if such
guarantee ranks pari passu or junior in right of payment to the Securities
(other than (a) dividends or distributions in shares of, or options, warrants or
rights to subscribe for or purchase shares of, Common Stock of the Company; (b)
any declaration of a dividend in connection with the implementation of a
stockholder's 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 Capital Securities Guarantee; (d) as a direct result of, and
only to the extent required in order to avoid the issuance of fractional shares
of capital stock following a reclassification of the Company's capital stock or
the exchange or the conversion of one class or series of the Company's capital
stock for another class or series of the Company's capital stock; (e) the
purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's capital stock
pursuant to the exchange or conversion of such capital stock or the security
being exchanged or converted and (f) purchases of Common Stock related to the
issuance of Common Stock or rights under any of the Company's benefit plans for
its directors, officers or employees) if at such time (i) an Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing (other than solely
an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) of the Indenture), (ii) there shall
have occurred any event of which the Company has actual knowledge that (a) is,
or with the giving of notice or the lapse of time, or both, would be, an Event
of Default (other than solely an Event of Default under Section 5.1(c) of the
Indenture) and (b) in respect of which the Company shall not have taken
reasonable steps to cure, (iii) if such Securities are held by LFC Trust, the
Company shall be in default with respect to its payment obligations under the
Capital Securities Guarantee or (iv) the Company shall have given notice of its
election of the exercise of its right to extend the interest payment period and
any such extension shall be continuing.
On the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Indenture, the
holder of any security has the right, exercisable at any time on or before 5:00
p.m. (Eastern time) on the earlier of (i) the Business Day immediately
preceding the date of repayment of such Security, whether at maturity or upon
prepayment, and (ii) the Conversion Termination Date of the Securities, if any,
to convert the principal amount thereof (or any portion thereof that is an
integral multiple of $__) into fully paid and nonassessable shares of Common
Stock of the Company at the Conversion Price prescribed in the Indenture. The
number of shares issuable upon conversion of a Security is determined by
dividing the principal amount of the Security converted by the Conversion Price
in effect on the date of conversion. No fractional shares will be issued upon
conversion but a cash adjustment will be made for any fractional interest. The
outstanding principal amount of any Security shall be reduced by the portion of
the principal amount thereof converted into shares of Common Stock. The
conversion right and the Conversion Price are subject to adjustment as provided
in the Indenture, to which reference is hereby made. Under certain
circumstances specified in the Indenture, Securityholders converting Securities
may be entitled to accrued and unpaid interest (including Compounded Interest
and Additional Interest, if any, to the extent permitted by applicable law) on
such Securities.
The conversion rights of the holders of Securities are subject to
termination at the option of the Company on and after ___________________,
subject to and upon the satisfaction of certain conditions set forth in the
Indenture.
The Securities are issuable only in registered form without coupons. As
provided in the Indenture and subject to the transfer restrictions limitations
as may be contained herein and therein from time to time, this Security is
transferable by the holder hereof on the Security Register of the Company, upon
surrender of this Security for registration of transfer at the office or agency
of the Company in ________________ accompanied by a written instrument or
instruments of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Security
registrar duly executed by the holder hereof or his attorney duly authorized in
writing, and thereupon one or more new Securities for the same aggregate
principal amount and series will be issued to the designated transferee or
transferees. No service charge will be made for any such transfer, but the
Company may require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge payable in relation thereto.
Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of this Security, the
Company, the Trustee, any authenticating agent, any paying agent, any transfer
agent and the registrar may deem and treat the holder hereof as the owner hereof
(whether or not this Security shall be overdue and notwithstanding any notice of
ownership or writing hereon made by anyone other than the Security registrar)
for the purpose of receiving payment of or on account of the principal hereof
and premium, if any, and (subject to the Indenture) interest due hereon and for
all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Trustee nor any
authenticating agent nor any paying agent nor any transfer agent nor any
registrar shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.
No recourse shall be had for the payment of the principal of or premium, if
any, or interest on this Security, or for any claim based hereon, or otherwise
in respect hereof, or based on or in respect of the Indenture, against any
incorporator, stockholder, officer or director, past, present or future, as
such, of the Company or of any predecessor or successor Person, whether by
virtue of any constitution, statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement of any
assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being, by the acceptance
hereof and as part of the consideration for the issuance hereof, expressly
waived and released.
All capitalized terms used in this Security that are defined in the
Indenture but not defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the
Indenture.
THE INDENTURE AND THE SECURITIES SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN
ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF ___________ WITHOUT REGARD TO CONFLICT
OF LAW PROVISIONS THEREOF.
ASSIGNMENT
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned assigns and transfer this Security
certificate to:
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(Insert assignees social security or tax identification number)
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(INSERT ADDRESS AND ZIP CODE OF ASSIGNEE)
and irrevocably appoints
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________ agent to transfer this Security certificate on the
books of the Company. The agent may substitute another to act for him or her.
Date: __________________
Signature: ______________________________ (SIGN EXACTLY AS YOUR NAME APPEARS ON
THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY)
Signature Guarantee(1): ___________________________________
_____________________
1 Signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" that is a
bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union meeting the
requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Registrar
in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
CONVERSION REQUEST
To: LIFE Financial Corporation
The undersigned owner of these Securities hereby irrevocably exercises the
option to convert these Securities, or the portion below designated, into Common
Stock of LIFE Financial Corporation (the "Common Stock") in accordance with the
terms of the Indenture (the "Indenture"), dated as of __________ __, 1997,
between the Company and State Street Bank and Trust Company, as Trustee.
Pursuant to the aforementioned exercise of the options to convert these Capital
Securities, the undersigned hereby directs the Conversion Agent (as that term is
defined in the Indenture) to convert such Securities on behalf of the
undersigned, into Common Stock (at the conversion price specified in the
Indenture).
The undersigned also hereby directs the Conversion Agent that the shares
issuable and deliverable upon conversion, together with any check in payment for
fractional shares, be issued in the name of and delivered to the undersigned,
unless a different name has been indicated in the assignment below. If shares
are to be issued in the name of a person other than the undersigned, the
undersigned will pay all transfer taxes payable with respect thereto.
Date: _______________________
Principal Amount of Securities to be converted ($__ or integral multiples
thereof):
If a name or names other than the undersigned, please indicate in the spaces
below the name or names in which the shares of Common Stock are to be issued,
along with the address or addresses of such person or persons.
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
(SIGN EXACTLY AS YOUR NAME APPEARS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS SECURITY) (FOR
CONVERSION ONLY)
Please Print or Type Name and Address,
Including Zip Code, and Social Security
or Other Identifying Number
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________
Signature Guarantee:* _____________________________
______________
* Signature must be guaranteed by an "eligible guarantor institution" that is a
bank, stockbroker, savings and loan association or credit union meeting the
requirements of the Registrar, which requirements include membership or
participation in the Securities Transfer Agents Medallion Program ("STAMP") or
such other "signature guarantee program" as may be determined by the Registrar
in addition to, or in substitution for, STAMP, all in accordance with the
Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.