Exhibit 4.5
[Form of Junior Subordinated Indenture]
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WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE GROUP, LTD.
Guarantor
FUND AMERICAN COMPANIES, INC.
Company
and
BANK ONE, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
Trustee
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE
Dated as of ____________, 200_
Providing for Issuance of Securities in Series
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CROSS-REFERENCE TABLE
TIA INDENTURE
SECTION SECTION
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310(a)(1) 609
(a)(2) 609
(a)(3) N.A.
(a)(4) N.A.
(b) 608; 610
(c) N.A.
311(a) 613
(b) 613
(c) N.A.
312(a) 701
(b) 702
(c) 702
313(a) 703
(b)(1) N.A.
(b)(2) 703
(c) 703
(d) 703
314(a) 704
(b) N.A.
(c)(1) 102
(c)(2) 102
(c)(3) N.A.
(d) N.A.
(e) 102
315(a) 601
(b) 602
(c) 602
(d) 602
(e) 602
316(a)(last sentence) 502
(a)(1)(A) 512
(a)(1)(B) 502
(a)(2) N.A.
(b) 508
317(a)(1) 503
(a)(2) 504
(b) 1003
318(a) 107
N.A. means Not Applicable.
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Note: This Cross-Reference Table shall not, for any purpose,
be deemed to be part of the Indenture.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Recitals of the Company 1
Agreements of the Parties 1
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER
PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. Definitions 2
Act 2
Affiliate 2
Authenticating Agent 3
Board of Directors 3
Board Resolution 3
Business Day 3
Commission 3
Common Securities 3
Company 3
Company Request, Company Order and
Company Consent 4
Corporate Trust Office 4
Debt 4
Declaration of Trust 4
Defaulted Interest 4
Depositary 4
Event of Default 4
Extension Period 4
Fund American Trust 4
Fund American Trust Guarantee 4
Global Security 5
Guarantee 5
Guarantor 5
Guarantor Board of Directors 5
Guarantor's Board Resolution 5
Guarantor Request, Guarantor
Order, Guarantor Consent 5
Holder 5
Indenture, this Indenture 5
Interest 6
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Interest Payment Date 6
Maturity 6
Officers' Certificate 6
Opinion of Counsel 6
Original Issue Discount Security 6
Outstanding 7
Paying Agent 8
Person 8
Place of Payment 8
Predecessor Securities 8
Preferred Securities 8
Property Trustee 8
Redemption Date 8
Redemption Price 8
Regular Record Date 8
Repayment Date 9
Repayment Price 9
Responsible Officer 8
Security or Securities 9
Security Exchange 9
Security Register 9
Security Registrar 9
Securityholder 9
Senior Indebtedness 9
Special Record Date 10
Stated Maturity 10
Subsidiary 10
Trust Indenture Act or TIA 10
Trustee 10
U.S. Government Obligations 11
Vice President 11
Voting Stock 11
Section 102. Compliance Certificates and Opinions 11
Section 103. Form of Documents Delivered to
Trustee 12
Section 104. Acts of Securityholders 13
Section 105. Notices, etc., to Trustee, Guarantor
and Company 14
Section 106. Notices to Securityholders; Waiver 15
Section 107. Conflict with Trust Indenture Act 15
Section 108. Effect of Headings and Table of
Contents 15
Section 109. Successors and Assigns 16
Section 110. Separability Clause 16
Section 111. Benefits of Indenture 16
Section 112. Governing Law 16
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Section 113. Counterparts 16
Section 114. Judgment Currency 16
Section 115. Certain Rights of Holders of
Preferred Securities 17
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. Forms Generally 17
Section 202. Forms of Securities 18
Section 203. Form of Trustee's Certificate of
Authentication 18
Section 204. Securities Issuable in the Form of a
Global Security 19
Section 205. Form of Notation of Guarantee 21
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. General Title; General Limitations;
Issuable in Series; Terms of
Particular Series 22
Section 302. Denominations 26
Section 303. Execution, Authentication and
Delivery and Dating 26
Section 304. Temporary Securities 28
Section 305. Registration, Transfer and Exchange 29
Section 306. Mutilated, Destroyed, Lost and
Stolen Securities 30
Section 307. Payment of Interest; Interest Rights
Preserved 31
Section 308. Persons Deemed Owners 33
Section 309. Cancellation 33
Section 310. Computation of Interest 33
Section 311. Medium-Term Securities 33
Section 312. CUSIP Numbers 34
Section 313. Global Securities 34
Section 314. Deferrals of Interest Payment Dates 36
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ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE;
DEFEASANCE; UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 401. Applicability of Article 38
Section 402. Satisfaction and Discharge of
Indenture; Defeasance 38
Section 403. Conditions of Defeasance 40
Section 404. Application of Trust Money 41
Section 405. Repayment to Company or Guarantor 41
Section 406. Indemnity for U.S. Government
Obligations 42
Section 407. Reinstatement 42
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. Events of Default 42
Section 502. Acceleration of Maturity; Rescission
and Annulment 44
Section 503. Collection of Indebtedness and Suits
for Enforcement by Trustee 46
Section 504. Trustee May File Proofs of Claim 47
Section 505. Trustee May Enforce Claims Without
Possession of Securities 48
Section 506. Application of Money Collected 48
Section 507. Limitation on Suits 49
Section 508. Unconditional Right of
Securityholders to Receive
Principal, Premium and Interest 50
Section 509. Restoration of Rights and Remedies 51
Section 510. Rights and Remedies Cumulative 51
Section 511. Delay or Omission Not Waiver 51
Section 512. Control by Securityholders 51
Section 513. Waiver of Past Defaults 52
Section 514. Undertaking for Costs 52
Section 515. Waiver of Stay or Extension Laws 53
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ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. Certain Duties and Responsibilities 53
Section 602. Notice of Defaults 55
Section 603. Certain Rights of Trustee 55
Section 604. Not Responsible for Recitals or
Issuance of Securities 57
Section 605. May Hold Securities 57
Section 606. Money Held in Trust 57
Section 607. Compensation and Reimbursement 57
Section 608. Disqualification; Conflicting
Interests 58
Section 609. Corporate Trustee Required;
Eligibility 58
Section 610. Resignation and Removal; Appointment
of Successor 59
Section 611. Acceptance of Appointment by
Successor 61
Section 612. Merger, Conversion, Consolidation or
Succession to Business 62
Section 613. Preferential Collection of Claims
Against Company 62
Section 614. Appointment of Authenticating Agent 67
ARTICLE SEVEN
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY
TRUSTEE, GUARANTOR AND COMPANY
Section 701. Company to Furnish Trustee Names and
Addresses of Securityholders 69
Section 702. Preservation of Information;
Communications to Securityholders 69
Section 703. Reports by Trustee 71
Section 704. Reports by Company 73
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ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, AMALGAMATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR
TRANSFER
Section 801. Company May Consolidate, etc., only
on Certain Terms 74
Section 802. Successor Person Substituted for
Company 74
Section 803. Guarantor May Consolidate, etc. only
on Certain Terms 75
Section 804. Successor Person Substituted for
Guarantor 75
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. Supplemental Indentures Without
Consent of Securityholders 76
Section 902. Supplemental Indentures with Consent
of Securityholders 77
Section 903. Execution of Supplemental Indentures 79
Section 904. Effect of Supplemental Indentures 79
Section 905. Conformity with Trust Indenture Act 79
Section 906. Reference in Securities to
Supplemental Indentures 79
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. Payment of Principal, Premium and
Interest 79
Section 1002. Maintenance of Office or Agency 80
Section 1003. Money for Security Payments to Be
Held in Trust 80
Section 1004. Statement as to Compliance 82
Section 1005. Corporate Existence 83
Section 1006. Additional Covenants 83
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ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. Applicability of Article 84
Section 1102. Election to Redeem; Notice to
Trustee 84
Section 1103. Selection by Trustee of Securities
to Be Redeemed 85
Section 1104. Notice of Redemption 85
Section 1105. Deposit of Redemption Price 86
Section 1106. Securities Payable on Redemption
Date 86
Section 1107. Securities Redeemed in Part 87
Section 1108. Provisions with Respect to any
Sinking Funds 87
ARTICLE TWELVE
SUBORDINATION
Section 1201. Agreement of Securityholders that
Securities Subordinated to Extent
Provided 89
Section 1202. Company not to Make Payments With
Respect to Securities in Certain
Circumstances 89
Section 1203. Securities Subordinated to Prior
Payments of All Senior
Indebtedness on Dissolution,
Liquidation or
Reorganization of the Company 90
Section 1204. Securityholders to be Subrogated to
Right of Holders of Senior
Indebtedness 91
Section 1205. Obligation of the Company
Unconditional 92
Section 1206. Trustee Entitled to Assume Payments
Not Prohibited in Absence of
Notice 92
Section 1207. Application by Trustee of Monies
Deposited With It 93
Section 1208. Subordination Rights Not Impaired by
Acts or Omissions of Company or
Holders of Senior Indebtedness 93
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Section 1209. Securityholders Authorize Trustee to
Effectuate Subordination of
Securities 93
Section 1210. Right of Trustee to Hold Senior
Indebtedness 94
Section 1211. Article Twelve Not to Prevent Events
of Default 94
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
Section 1301. Guarantee of Securities 94
Section 1302. Subordination of Guarantee 96
Section 1303. Execution of Notations of Guarantee 96
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[Form of]
JUNIOR SUBORDINATED INDENTURE (this "Indenture") between
WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE GROUP, LTD. a company existing under
the laws of Bermuda (the "Guarantor") having its principal
office at ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇, FUND AMERICAN COMPANIES, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the "Company") having its principal office at ▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ (White
Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., and Fund American Companies
Inc., each hereinafter called the "Company"), and BANK ONE,
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, trustee (hereinafter called the
"Trustee"), is made and entered into as of this ___ day of
________, 200_.
RECITALS OF THE COMPANY AND THE GUARANTOR
The Company and the Guarantor each has duly authorized the execution
and delivery of this Indenture to provide for, in the case of the Company, the
issuance of, and in the case of the Guarantor, the guarantee of, the Company's
debentures, notes, bonds or other evidences of indebtedness, to be issued in one
or more fully registered series.
All things necessary to make this Indenture a valid agreement of
each of the Company and the Guarantor, in accordance with its terms, have been
done.
AGREEMENTS OF THE PARTIES
To set forth or to provide for the establishment of the terms and
conditions upon which the Securities are and are to be authenticated, issued and
delivered, and in consideration of the premises and the purchase of Securities
by the Holders thereof, it is mutually covenanted and agreed
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as follows, for the equal and proportionate benefit of all Holders of the
Securities or of a series thereof, as the case may be:
ARTICLE ONE
DEFINITIONS AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF GENERAL APPLICATION
Section 101. DEFINITIONS. For all purposes of this Indenture and of
any indenture supplemental hereto, except as otherwise expressly provided or
unless the context otherwise requires:
(1) the terms defined in this Article have the meanings assigned to
them in this Article, and include the plural as well as the singular;
(2) all other terms used herein which are defined in the Trust
Indenture Act or by Commission rule under the Trust Indenture Act, either
directly or by reference therein, have the meanings assigned to them
therein;
(3) all accounting terms not otherwise defined herein have the
meanings assigned to them in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles and, except as otherwise herein expressly provided, the term
"generally accepted accounting principles" with respect to any computation
required or permitted hereunder shall mean such accounting principles as
are generally accepted in the United States of America at the date of such
computation;
(4) all references in this instrument to designated "Articles",
"Sections" and other subdivisions are to the designated Articles, Sections
and other subdivisions of this instrument as originally executed. 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; and
(5) "including" and words of similar import shall be deemed to be
followed by "without limitation".
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Certain terms, used principally in Article Six, are defined in that
Article.
"ACT", when used with respect to any Securityholder, has the meaning
specified in Section 104.
"AFFILIATE" of any specified Person means any other Person directly
or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect common
control with such specified Person. For the purposes of this definition,
"control" when used with respect to any specified Person means the power to
direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise;
and the terms "controlling" and "controlled" have meanings correlative to the
foregoing.
"AUTHENTICATING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Trustee to
authenticate Securities under Section 614.
"BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means either the board of directors of the
Company or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"BOARD RESOLUTION" means a copy of a resolution certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company to have been duly adopted by
the Board of Directors and to be in full force and effect on the date of such
certification, and delivered to the Trustee.
"BUSINESS DAY" means each day which is neither a Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which banking institutions in the pertinent Place or Places of
Payment are authorized or required by law or executive order to be closed.
"COMMISSION" means the Securities and Exchange Commission, as from
time to time constituted, created under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or,
if at any time after the execution of this instrument such Commission is not
existing and performing the duties now assigned to it under the Trust Indenture
Act, then the body performing such
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duties on such date.
"COMMON SECURITIES" means the common undivided beneficial interests
in the assets of the applicable Fund American Trust.
"COMPANY" means the Person named as the "Company" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor replaces it and, thereafter,
"Company" shall mean the successor and, for purposes of any provision contained
herein and required by the TIA, each other obligor on the Securities.
"COMPANY REQUEST", "COMPANY ORDER" and "COMPANY CONSENT" mean,
respectively, a written request, order or consent signed in the name of the
Company by its Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, and by its
Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, Controller, an Assistant Controller,
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"CORPORATE TRUST OFFICE" means the principal office of the Trustee
in [ ] at which at any particular time its corporate trust business shall be
principally administered, which office at the date hereof is located at [ ],
except that with respect to the presentation of Securities for payment or for
registration of transfer and exchange, such term shall mean the office or the
agency of the Trustee in said city at which at any particular time its corporate
agency business shall be conducted, which office at the date hereof is located
at [ ].
"DEBT" means indebtedness for money borrowed.
"DECLARATION OF TRUST" means the Declaration of Trust of the Fund
American Trust, if any, specified in the applicable Board Resolution or
supplemental indenture establishing a particular series of Securities pursuant
to Section 301.
"DEFAULTED INTEREST" has the meaning specified in Section 307.
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"DEPOSITARY" means, unless otherwise specified by the Company
pursuant to either Section 204 or 301, with respect to Securities of any series
issuable or issued as a Global Security, The Depository Trust Company, New York,
New York, or any successor thereto registered as a clearing agency under the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or
regulation.
"FUND AMERICAN TRUST" means, as the context requires, Fund American
Trust I, Fund American Trust II or Fund American Trust III, each a business
trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware, or any other business
trust created under the laws of the State of Delaware, any of which may be
specified in the applicable Board Resolution or supplemental indenture
establishing a particular series of Securities pursuant to Section 301 as the
Person who will hold such series of Securities.
"FUND AMERICAN TRUST GUARANTEE" means the guarantee, if any, that
the Guarantor may enter into that operates directly or indirectly for the
benefit of holders of Preferred Securities issued by a Fund American Trust.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning specified in Article Five.
"EXTENSION PERIOD" has the meaning specified in Section 314 of this
Indenture.
"GLOBAL SECURITY" means with respect to any series of Securities
issued hereunder, a Security which is executed by the Company and authenticated
and delivered by the Trustee to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary's
instruction, all in accordance with this Indenture and an indenture supplemental
hereto, if any, or Board Resolution and pursuant to a Company Request, which
shall be registered in the name of the Depositary or its nominee and which shall
represent, and shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate
principal amount of, all of the Outstanding Securities of such series or any
portion thereof, in either case having the same terms, including, without
limitation, the same original issue date, date or dates on which principal is
due, and interest rate or method of determining interest.
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"GUARANTEE" means the irrevocable and unconditional guarantee by the
Guarantor of any Security of any series of the Company authenticated and
delivered pursuant to Article Thirteen.
"GUARANTOR" means the Person named as the "Guarantor" in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor replaces it and, thereafter,
"Guarantor" shall mean the successor.
"GUARANTOR BOARD OF DIRECTORS" means either the board of directors
of the Guarantor or any duly authorized committee of that board.
"GUARANTOR'S BOARD RESOLUTION" means a copy of a resolution
certified by the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Guarantor to have
been duly adopted by the Guarantor Board of Directors.
"GUARANTOR REQUEST", "GUARANTOR ORDER", "GUARANTOR CONSENT" means,
respectively, a written request, order or consent signed in the name of the
Guarantor by its Chairman of the Board, President or a Vice President, and by
its Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, Controller, an Assistant Controller,
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, and delivered to the Trustee.
"HOLDER", when used with respect to any Security, means a
Securityholder.
"INDENTURE" or "THIS INDENTURE" means this instrument as originally
executed or as it may from time to time be supplemented or amended by one or
more indentures supplemental hereto entered into pursuant to the applicable
provisions hereof and shall include the terms of particular series of Securities
established as contemplated by Section 301.
"INTEREST", when used with respect to an Original Issue Discount
Security which by its terms bears interest only after Maturity, means interest
payable after Maturity.
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"INTEREST PAYMENT DATE", when used with respect to any series of
Securities, means the Stated Maturity of any installment of interest on those
Securities.
"MATURITY", when used with respect to any Securities, means the date
on which the principal of any such Security becomes due and payable as therein
or herein provided, whether on a Repayment Date, at the Stated Maturity or by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption or otherwise.
"OFFICERS' CERTIFICATE" means, with respect to the Company or the
Guarantor, a certificate signed by the Chairman of the Board, the President or a
Vice President, and by the Treasurer, an Assistant Treasurer, the Controller, an
Assistant Controller, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of the Company or
the Guarantor, as the case may be, and delivered to the Trustee. Wherever this
Indenture requires that an Officers' Certificate be signed also by an engineer
or an accountant or other expert, such engineer, accountant or other expert
(except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) may be in the employ
of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, and shall be acceptable to
the Trustee.
"OPINION OF COUNSEL" means a written opinion of counsel, who may
(except as otherwise expressly provided in this Indenture) be an employee of or
of counsel to the Company or the Guarantor. Such counsel shall be acceptable to
the Trustee, whose acceptance shall not be unreasonably withheld.
"ORIGINAL ISSUE DISCOUNT SECURITY" means (i) any Security which
provides for an amount less than the principal amount thereof to be due and
payable upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity thereof, and (ii) any
other Security deemed an Original Issue Discount Security for United States
Federal income tax purposes.
"OUTSTANDING", when used with respect to Securities or Securities of
any series, means, as of the date of determination, all such Securities
theretofore authenticated and delivered under this Indenture, except:
(i) such Securities theretofore canceled by
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the Trustee or delivered to the Trustee for cancellation;
(ii) such Securities for whose payment or redemption money in the
necessary amount has been theretofore deposited with the Trustee or any
Paying Agent in trust for the Holders of such Securities; provided that,
if such Securities are to be redeemed, notice of such redemption has been
duly given pursuant to this Indenture or provision therefor satisfactory
to the Trustee has been made; and
(iii) such Securities in exchange for or in lieu of which other Securities
have been authenticated and delivered pursuant to this Indenture, or which
shall have been paid pursuant to the terms of Section 306 (except with
respect to any such Security as to which proof satisfactory to the Trustee
is presented that such Security is held by a person in whose hands such
Security is a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company).
In determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of such
Securities Outstanding have given any request, demand, authorization, direction,
notice, consent or waiver hereunder, (i) the principal amount of any Original
Issue Discount Security that shall be deemed to be Outstanding shall be the
amount of the principal thereof that would be due and payable as of the date of
the taking of such action upon a declaration of acceleration of the Maturity
thereof and (ii) Securities owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or of such other obligor shall be
disregarded and deemed not to be Outstanding. In determining whether the Trustee
shall be protected in relying upon any such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent or waiver, only Securities which a Responsible
Officer assigned to the corporate trust department of the Trustee knows to be
owned by the Company or any other obligor upon the Securities or any Affiliate
of the Company or such other obligor shall be so disregarded. Securities so
owned which have been pledged in good faith may be regarded as Outstanding if
the pledgee establishes to the satisfaction
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of the Trustee the pledgee's right to act as owner with respect to such
Securities and that the pledgee is not the Company or any other obligor upon the
Securities or any Affiliate of the Company or such other obligor.
"PAYING AGENT" means any Person authorized by the Company to pay the
principal of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Securities on behalf of
the Company.
"PERSON" means any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, joint venture, association, joint-stock company, trust,
unincorporated organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"PLACE OF PAYMENT" means with respect to any series of Securities
issued hereunder the city or political subdivision so designated with respect to
the series of Securities in question in accordance with the provisions of
Section 301.
"PREDECESSOR SECURITIES" of any particular Security means every
previous Security evidencing all or a portion of the same debt as that evidenced
by such particular Security; and, for the purposes of this definition, any
Security authenticated and delivered under Section 306 in lieu of a lost,
destroyed or stolen Security shall be deemed to evidence the same debt as the
lost, destroyed or stolen Security.
"PREFERRED SECURITIES" means the preferred undivided beneficial
interests in the assets of the applicable Fund American Trust.
"PROPERTY TRUSTEE" means the entity performing the function of the
Property Trustee under the applicable Declaration of Trust of a Fund American
Trust.
"REDEMPTION DATE", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the date fixed for such redemption by or pursuant to this
Indenture.
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"REDEMPTION PRICE", when used with respect to any Security to be
redeemed, means the price specified in the Security at which it is to be
redeemed pursuant to this Indenture.
"REGULAR RECORD DATE" for the interest payable on any Security on
any Interest Payment Date means the date specified in such Security as the
Regular Record Date.
"REPAYMENT DATE", when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid, means the date fixed for such repayment pursuant to such Security.
"REPAYMENT PRICE", when used with respect to any Security to be
repaid, means the price at which it is to be repaid pursuant to such Security.
"RESPONSIBLE OFFICER", when used with respect to the Trustee, means
the chairman or vice-chairman of the board of directors, the chairman or vice-
chairman of the executive committee of the board of directors, the president,
any vice president, the secretary, any assistant secretary, the treasurer, any
assistant treasurer, the cashier, any assistant cashier, any senior trust
officer or trust officer, the controller and any assistant controller or any
other officer 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.
"SECURITY" or "SECURITIES" means any note or notes, bond or bonds,
debenture or debentures, or any other evidences of indebtedness, as the case may
be, of any series authenticated and delivered from time to time under this
Indenture.
"SECURITY EXCHANGE" when used with respect to the Securities of any
series which are held as trust assets of a Fund American Trust pursuant to the
Declaration of Trust of such Fund American Trust means the distribution of the
Securities of such series by such Fund American Trust in exchange for the
Preferred Securities and Common Securities of such Fund American Trust in
dissolution of such Fund
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American Trust pursuant to the Declaration of Trust of such Fund American Trust.
"SECURITY REGISTER" shall have the meaning specified in Section 305.
"SECURITY REGISTRAR" means the Person who keeps the Security
Register specified in Section 305.
"SECURITYHOLDER" means a Person in whose name a Security is
registered in the Security Register.
"SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS" means the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest on the following, whether outstanding on the date of execution of
this Indenture or thereafter incurred or created (i) indebtedness of the Company
or the Guarantor for money borrowed by the Company or the Guarantor (including
purchase money obligations with an original maturity in excess of one year) or
evidenced by securities (other than the Securities), notes, bankers' acceptances
or other corporate debt securities or similar instruments issued by the Company
or the Guarantor; (ii) obligations with respect to letters of credit; (iii)
indebtedness of the Company or the Guarantor constituting a guarantee of
indebtedness of others of the type referred to in the preceding clauses (i) and
(ii); or (iv) renewals, extensions or refundings of any of the indebtedness
referred to in the preceding clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) unless, in the case of
any particular indebtedness, renewal, extension or refunding, under the express
provisions of the instrument creating or evidencing the same, or pursuant to
which the same is outstanding, such indebtedness or such renewal, extension or
refunding thereof is not superior in right of payment to the Securities.
"SPECIAL RECORD DATE" for the payment of any Defaulted Interest (as
defined in Section 307) means a date fixed by the Trustee pursuant to Section
307.
"STATED MATURITY" when used with respect to any Security or any
installment of principal thereof or interest thereon means the date specified in
such Security as the
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fixed date on which the principal of such Security or such installment of
principal or interest is due and payable.
"SUBSIDIARY" of any specified Person means any corporation, limited
liability company, limited or general partnership, business trust or other
business entity at least a majority of whose outstanding Voting Stock shall at
the time be owned, directly or indirectly, by the specified Person or by one or
more of its Subsidiaries, or both.
"TRUST INDENTURE ACT" or "TIA" means the Trust Indenture Act of
1939, as amended by the Trust Indenture Reform Act of 1990, as in force at the
date as of which this instrument was executed except as provided in Section 905.
"TRUSTEE" means the Person named as the Trustee in the first
paragraph of this instrument until a successor Trustee shall have become such
pursuant to the applicable provisions of this Indenture, and thereafter
"Trustee" shall mean and include each Person who is then a Trustee hereunder. If
at any time there is more than one such Person, "Trustee" as used with respect
to the Securities of any series shall mean the Trustee with respect to
Securities of that series.
"U.S. GOVERNMENT OBLIGATIONS" means securities that are (x) direct
obligations of the United States of America for the payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged or (y) 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, are
not callable or redeemable at the option of the issuer thereof.
"VICE PRESIDENT" when used with respect to the Guarantor, the
Company or the Trustee means any vice president, whether or not designated by a
number or a word or words added before or after the title "vice president",
including, without limitation, an assistant vice president.
"VOTING STOCK", as applied to the stock of any Person, means stock
of any class or classes (however designated) having by the terms thereof
ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the members of the board of
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directors (or other governing body) of such Person other than stock having such
power only by reason of the happening of a contingency.
Section 102. COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATES AND OPINIONS. Upon any
application or request by the Company or the Guarantor to the Trustee to take
any action under any provision of this Indenture, the Company or the Guarantor,
as applicable, shall furnish to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate stating
that all conditions precedent, if any, provided for in this Indenture relating
to the proposed action have been complied with and an Opinion of Counsel stating
that in the opinion of such Counsel all such conditions precedent, if any, have
been complied with, except that in the case of any such application or request
as to which the furnishing of such documents is specifically required by any
provision of this Indenture relating to such particular application or request,
no additional certificate or opinion need be furnished.
Every certificate or opinion with respect to compliance with a
condition or covenant provided for in this Indenture (except for the written
statement required by Section 1004) shall include
(1) a statement that each individual signing such certificate or
opinion has read such covenant or condition and the definitions herein
relating thereto;
(2) a brief statement as to the nature and scope of the examination
or investigation upon which the statements or opinions contained in such
certificate or opinion are based;
(3) a statement that, in the opinion of each such individual, he has
made such examination or investigation as is necessary to enable him to
express an informed opinion as to whether or not such covenant or
condition has been complied with; and
(4) a statement as to whether, in the opinion of each such
individual, such condition or covenant has
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been complied with.
Section 103. FORM OF DOCUMENTS DELIVERED TO TRUSTEE. In any case
where several matters are required to be certified by, or covered by an opinion
of, any specified Person, it is not necessary that all such matters be certified
by, or covered by the opinion of, only one such Person, or that they be so
certified or covered by only one document, but one such Person may certify or
give an opinion with respect to some matters and one or more other such Persons
as to the other matters, and any such Person may certify or give an opinion as
to such matters in one or several documents.
Any certificate or opinion of an officer of the Company or the
Guarantor may be based, insofar as it relates to legal matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, counsel, unless such officer
knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the certificate
or opinion or representations with respect to the matters upon which his
certificate or opinion is based are erroneous. Any such certificate or Opinion
of Counsel may be based, insofar as it relates to factual matters, upon a
certificate or opinion of, or representations by, an officer or officers of the
Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, stating that the information with
respect to such factual matters is in the possession of the Company, unless such
counsel knows, or in the exercise of reasonable care should know, that the
certificate or opinion or representations with respect to such matters are
erroneous.
Where any Person is required to make, give or execute two or more
applications, requests, consents, certificates, statements, opinions or other
instruments under this Indenture, they may, but need not, be consolidated and
form one instrument.
Section 104. ACTS OF SECURITYHOLDERS. (a) Any request, demand,
authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action provided by
this Indenture to be given or taken by Securityholders or Securityholders of any
series may be embodied in and evidenced by one or more instruments of
substantially similar tenor signed by such Securityholders in person or by an
agent duly appointed in writing; and, except as herein otherwise expressly
provided,
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such action shall become effective when such instrument or instruments are
delivered to the Trustee, and, where it is hereby expressly required, to the
Company or the Guarantor or both of them. If any Securities are denominated in
coin or currency other than that of the United States, then for the purposes of
determining whether the Holders of the requisite principal amount of Securities
have taken any action as herein described, the principal amount of such
Securities shall be deemed to be that amount of United States dollars that could
be obtained for such principal amount on the basis of the spot rate of exchange
into United States dollars for the currency in which such Securities are
denominated (as evidenced to the Trustee by an Officers' Certificate) as of the
date the taking of such action by the Holders of such requisite principal amount
is evidenced to the Trustee as provided in the immediately preceding sentence.
Such instrument or instruments (and the action embodied therein and evidenced
thereby) are herein sometimes referred to as the "Act" of the Securityholders
signing such instrument or instruments. Proof of execution of any such
instrument or of a writing appointing any such agent shall be sufficient for any
purpose of this Indenture and (subject to Section 601) conclusive in favor of
the Trustee, the Company and the Guarantor, if made in the manner provided in
this Section.
(b) The fact and date of the execution by any Person of any such
instrument or writing may be proved by the affidavit of a witness to such
execution or by the certificate of any notary public or other officer authorized
by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, certifying that the individual signing
such instrument or writing acknowledged to him the execution thereof. Where such
execution is by an officer of a corporation or a member of a partnership, on
behalf of such corporation or partnership, such certificate or affidavit shall
also constitute sufficient proof of his authority. The fact and date of the
execution of any such instrument or writing, or the authority of the person
executing the same, may also be proved in any other manner which the Trustee
deems sufficient.
(c) The ownership of Securities shall be proved
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by the Security Register.
(d) If the Company or the Guarantor shall solicit from the Holders
any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other
action, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, may, at its option, by
Board Resolution or Guarantor's Board Resolution, as applicable, fix in advance
a record date for the determination of Holders entitled to give such request,
demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, but
the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, 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 may be given before or after
the record date, but only the Holders of record at the close of business on the
record date shall be deemed to be Holders for the purposes of determining
whether Holders of the requisite proportion of Securities Outstanding have
authorized or agreed or consented to such request, demand, authorization,
direction, notice, consent, waiver or other action, and for that purpose the
Securities Outstanding shall be computed as of the record date; provided that no
such authorization, agreement or consent by the Holders 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.
(e) Any request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent,
waiver or other action by the Holder of any Security shall bind the Holder of
every Security issued upon the transfer thereof or in exchange therefor or in
lieu thereof, in respect of anything done or suffered to be done by the Trustee
or the Company or the Guarantor in reliance thereon whether or not notation of
such action is made upon such Security.
Section 105. NOTICES, ETC., TO TRUSTEE, GUARANTOR AND COMPANY. Any
request, demand, authorization, direction, notice, consent, waiver or Act of
Securityholders or other document provided or permitted by this Indenture to be
made upon, given or furnished to, or filed with,
(1) the Trustee by any Securityholder or by the Company or the
Guarantor shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder if made, given,
furnished or filed in
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writing to or with the Trustee at its Corporate Trust Office, or
(2) the Company or the Guarantor by the Trustee or by any
Securityholder shall be sufficient for every purpose hereunder (except as
provided in Section 501(4) or, in the case of a request for repayment, as
specified in the Security carrying the right to repayment) if in writing
and mailed, first-class postage prepaid, to the Company or the Guarantor,
as the case may be, addressed to it at the address of its principal office
specified in the first paragraph of this instrument or at any other
address previously furnished in writing to the Trustee by the Company or
the Guarantor, as the case may be.
Section 106. NOTICES TO SECURITYHOLDERS; WAIVER. Where this
Indenture or any Security provides for notice to Securityholders of any event,
such notice shall be sufficiently given (unless otherwise herein or in such
Security expressly provided) if in writing and mailed, first-class postage
prepaid, to each Securityholder affected by such event, at his address as it
appears in the Security Register, not later than the latest date, and not
earlier than the earliest date, prescribed for the giving of such notice. In any
case where notice to Securityholders is given by mail, neither the failure to
mail such notice, nor any defect in any notice so mailed, to any particular
Securityholder shall affect the sufficiency of such notice with respect to other
Securityholders. Where this Indenture or any Security provides for notice in any
manner, such notice may be waived in writing by the Person entitled to receive
such notice, either before or after the event, and such waiver shall be the
equivalent of such notice. Waivers of notice by Securityholders shall be filed
with the Trustee, but such filing shall not be a condition precedent to the
validity of any action taken in reliance upon such waiver.
In case, by reason of the suspension of regular mail service as a
result of a strike, work stoppage or otherwise, it shall be impractical to mail
notice of any
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event to any Securityholder when such notice is required to be given pursuant to
any provision of this Indenture, then any method of notification as shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee, the Guarantor and the Company shall be deemed to be
a sufficient giving of such notice.
Section 107. CONFLICT WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. If any provision
hereof limits, qualifies or conflicts with the duties imposed by any of Sections
310 to 317, inclusive, of the Trust Indenture Act through the operation of
Section 318(c) thereof, such imposed duties shall control.
Section 108. EFFECT OF HEADINGS AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. The Article
and Section headings herein and the Table of Contents are for convenience only
and shall not affect the construction hereof.
Section 109. SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS. All covenants and agreements in
this Indenture by each of the Company and the Guarantor shall bind its
successors and assigns, whether so expressed or not.
Section 110. SEPARABILITY CLAUSE. In case any provision in this
Indenture or in the Securities shall be invalid, illegal or unenforceable, the
validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions shall not in
any way be affected or impaired thereby.
Section 111. BENEFITS OF INDENTURE. Nothing in this Indenture or in
any Securities, express or implied, shall give to any Person, other than the
parties hereto and their successors hereunder, any Authenticating Agent or
Paying Agent, the Security Registrar and the Holders of Securities (or such of
them as may be affected thereby), any benefit or any legal or equitable right,
remedy or claim under this Indenture.
Section 112. GOVERNING LAW. This Indenture shall be construed in
accordance with and governed by the laws of the State of New York.
Section 113. COUNTERPARTS. This instrument may be executed in any
number of counterparts, each of which so executed shall be deemed to be an
original, but all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the
same instrument.
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Section 114. JUDGMENT CURRENCY. The Company and the Guarantor each
agrees, to the fullest extent that it may effectively do so under applicable
law, that (a) if for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court it is
necessary to convert the sum due in respect of the principal of, or premium or
interest, if any, on the Securities of any series (the "Required Currency") into
a currency in which a judgment will be rendered (the "Judgment Currency"), the
rate of exchange used shall be the rate at which in accordance with normal
banking procedures the Trustee could purchase in New York City the Required
Currency with the Judgment Currency on the Banking Day (as defined below)
immediately preceding the date on which final unappealable judgment is given and
(b) its obligations under this Indenture to make payments in the Required
Currency (i) shall not be discharged or satisfied by any tender, or any recovery
pursuant to any judgment (whether or not entered in accordance with subsection
(a)), in any currency other than the Required Currency, except to the extent
that such tender or recovery shall result in the actual receipt, by the payee,
of the full amount of the Required Currency expressed to be payable in respect
of such payments, (ii) shall be enforceable as an alternative or additional
cause of action for the purpose of recovering in the Required Currency the
amount, if any, by which such actual receipt shall fall short of the full amount
of the Required Currency so expressed to be payable and (iii) shall not be
affected by judgment being obtained for any other sum due under this Indenture.
For purposes of the foregoing, "Banking Day" means any day except a Saturday,
Sunday or a legal holiday in New York City or a day on which banking
institutions in New York City are authorized or required by law or executive
order to close.
Section 115. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF HOLDERS OF PREFERRED SECURITIES. The
Company hereby acknowledges that, to the extent specifically set forth herein,
prior to a Security Exchange with respect to the Securities of any series held
as trust assets of a Fund American Trust, the holders of the Preferred
Securities of such Fund American Trust shall expressly be third party
beneficiaries of this
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Indenture. The Company further acknowledges that, prior to a Security Exchange
with respect to Securities of any series held as trust assets of a Fund American
Trust, if the Property Trustee of such Fund American Trust fails to enforce its
rights under this Indenture as the holder of the Securities of a series held as
trust assets of such Fund American Trust, any holder of the Preferred Securities
of such Fund American Trust may institute 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.
ARTICLE TWO
SECURITY FORMS
Section 201. FORMS GENERALLY. The Securities shall have such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other variations as are
required or permitted by this Indenture and may have such letters, numbers or
other marks of identification and such legends or endorsements placed thereon,
as may be required to comply with applicable laws or regulations or with the
rules of any securities exchange, or as may, consistently herewith, be
determined by the officers executing such Securities, as evidenced by their
execution of the Securities. Any portion of the text of any Security may be set
forth on the reverse thereof, with an appropriate reference thereto on the face
of the Security.
The definitive Securities shall be printed, lithographed or engraved
or produced by any combination of these methods on steel engraved borders or may
be produced in any other manner, all as determined by the officers executing
such Securities, as evidenced by their execution of such Securities, subject,
with respect to the Securities of any series, to the rules of any securities
exchange on which such Securities are listed.
Section 202. FORMS OF SECURITIES. Each Security shall be in one of
the forms approved from time to time by
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or pursuant to a Board Resolution, or established in one or more indentures
supplemental hereto. Prior to the delivery of a Security to the Trustee for
authentication in any form approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution, the
Company shall deliver to the Trustee the Board Resolution by or pursuant to
which such form of Security has been approved, which Board Resolution shall have
attached thereto a true and correct copy of the form of Security which has been
approved thereby or, if a Board Resolution authorizes a specific officer or
officers to approve a form of Security, a certificate of such officer or
officers approving the form of Security attached thereto. Any form of Security
approved by or pursuant to a Board Resolution must be acceptable as to form to
the Trustee, such acceptance to be evidenced by the Trustee's authentication of
Securities in that form or a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee and delivered to the Company.
Each Security shall bear a notation of Guarantee in substantially
the form set forth in Section 205. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the notation
of Guarantee to be endorsed on the Securities of any series may have such
appropriate insertions, omissions, substitutions and other corrections from the
form thereof referred to above as are required or permitted by this Indenture
and may have such letters, numbers or other marks of identification and such
legends or endorsements placed thereon as may be required to comply with the
rules of any securities exchange or as may, consistently herewith, be determined
by the officers delivering the same, in each case as evidenced by such delivery.
Section 203. FORM OF TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION. The
form of Trustee's Certificate of Authentication for any Security issued pursuant
to this Indenture shall be substantially as follows:
TRUSTEE'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICATION
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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[ ],
as Trustee,
Dated: By:
Authorized Signatory
Section 204. SECURITIES ISSUABLE IN THE FORM OF A GLOBAL SECURITY.
(a) If the Company shall establish pursuant to Sections 202 and 301 that the
Securities of a particular series are to be issued in whole or in part in the
form of one or more Global Securities, then the Company shall execute and the
Trustee or its agent shall, in accordance with Section 303 and the Company
Request delivered to the Trustee or its agent thereunder, authenticate and
deliver, such Global Security or Securities, which (i) shall represent, and
shall be denominated in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of,
the Outstanding Securities of such series to be represented by such Global
Security or Securities, or such portion thereof as the Company shall specify in
a Company Request, (ii) shall be registered in the name of the Depositary for
such Global Security or Securities or its nominee, (iii) shall be delivered by
the Trustee or its agent to the Depositary or pursuant to the Depositary's
instruction and (iv) shall bear a legend substantially to the following effect:
"Unless and until it is exchanged in whole or in part for the individual
Securities represented hereby, this Global Security may not be transferred
except as a whole by the Depositary to a nominee of the Depositary or by a
nominee of the Depositary to the Depositary or another nominee of the Depositary
or by the Depositary or any such nominee to a successor Depositary or a nominee
of such successor Depositary."
(b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 204 or of
Section 305, and subject to the provisions of paragraph (c) below, unless the
terms of a Global Security expressly permit such Global Security to be exchanged
in whole or in part for individual Securities, a Global Security may be
transferred, in whole but not in part
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and in the manner provided in Section 305, only to a nominee of the Depositary
for such Global Security, or to the Depositary, or a successor Depositary for
such Global Security selected or approved by the Company, or to a nominee of
such successor Depositary.
(c)(i) If at any time the Depositary for a Global Security notifies
the Company that it is unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such
Global Security or if at any time the Depositary for the Securities for such
series ceases to be a clearing agency registered under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended, or other applicable statute or regulation, the Company
shall appoint a successor Depositary with respect to such Global Security. If a
successor Depositary for such Global Security is not appointed by the Company
within 90 days after the Company receives such notice or becomes aware of such
ineligibility, the Company will execute, and the Trustee or its agent, upon
receipt of a Company Request for the authentication and delivery of individual
Securities of such series in exchange for such Global Security, will
authenticate and deliver, individual Securities of such series of like tenor and
terms in an aggregate principal amount equal to the principal amount of the
Global Security in exchange for such Global Security.
(ii) The Company may at any time and in its sole discretion determine that
the Securities of any series or portion thereof issued or issuable in the form
of one or more Global Securities shall no longer be represented by such Global
Security or Securities. In such event the Company will execute, and the Trustee,
upon receipt of a Company Request for the authentication and delivery of
individual Securities of such series in exchange in whole or in part for such
Global Security, will authenticate and deliver individual Securities of such
series of like tenor and terms in definitive form in an aggregate principal
amount equal to the principal amount of such Global Security or Securities
representing such series or portion thereof in exchange for such Global Security
or Securities.
(iii) If specified by the Company pursuant to Sections 202 and 301 with
respect to Securities issued or issuable in the form of a Global Security, the
Depositary for such Global Security may surrender such Global Security
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in exchange in whole or in part for individual Securities of such series of like
tenor and terms in definitive form on such terms as are acceptable to the
Company and such Depositary. Thereupon the Company shall execute, and the
Trustee or its agent shall authenticate and deliver, without service charge, (1)
to each Person specified by such Depositary a new Security or Securities of the
same series of like tenor and terms and of any authorized denomination as
requested by such Person in aggregate principal amount equal to and in exchange
for such Person's beneficial interest in the Global Security; and (2) to such
Depositary a new Global Security of like tenor and terms and in an authorized
denomination equal to the difference, if any, between the principal amount of
the surrendered Global Security and the aggregate principal amount of Securities
delivered to the Holders thereof.
(iv) In any exchange provided for in any of the preceding three
paragraphs, the Company will execute and the Trustee or its agent will
authenticate and deliver individual Securities in definitive registered form in
authorized denominations. Upon the exchange of the entire principal amount of a
Global Security for individual Securities, such Global Security shall be
canceled by the Trustee or its agent. Except as provided in the preceding
paragraph, Securities issued in exchange for a Global Security pursuant to this
Section shall be registered in such names and in such authorized denominations
as the Depositary for such Global Security, pursuant to instructions from its
direct or indirect participants or otherwise, shall instruct the Trustee or the
Security Registrar. The Trustee or the Security Registrar shall deliver such
Securities to the Persons in whose names such Securities are so registered.
SECTION 205. FORM OF NOTATION OF GUARANTEE. The form of notation of
Guarantee to be endorsed on any Security issued pursuant to this Indenture shall
be substantially as follows:
NOTATION OF GUARANTEE
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White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., a company existing under the
law of Bermuda (the "Guarantor", which term includes any successor thereto under
the Indenture (the "Indenture") referred to in the Security on which this
notation is endorsed) has unconditionally guaranteed, pursuant to the terms of
the Guarantee contained in Article Twelve of the Indenture, the due and punctual
payment of the principal of and any premium and interest on this Security, when
and as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the Stated Maturity, by
declaration of acceleration, call for redemption, early repayment or otherwise,
in accordance with the terms of this Security and the Indenture.
The obligations of the Guarantor to the Holders of the Securities
and to the Trustee pursuant to the Guarantee and the Indenture are expressly set
forth in Article Twelve of the Indenture, and reference is hereby made to such
Article and Indenture for the precise terms of the Guarantee.
The Guarantee shall not be valid or obligatory for any purpose until
the certificate of authentication on the Security upon which this notation of
the Guarantee is endorsed shall have been executed by the Trustee under the
Indenture by the manual signature of one of its authorized signatories.
WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE GROUP, LTD.
by
_______________
Name:
Title:
ARTICLE THREE
THE SECURITIES
Section 301. GENERAL TITLE; GENERAL LIMITATIONS; ISSUABLE IN SERIES;
TERMS OF PARTICULAR SERIES. The aggregate principal amount of Securities which
may be authenticated and delivered and Outstanding under this
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Indenture is not limited.
The Securities may be issued in one or more series up to an
aggregate principal amount of Securities as from time to time may be authorized
by the Board of Directors. All Securities of each series under this Indenture
shall in all respects be equally and ratably entitled to the benefits hereof
with respect to such series without preference, priority or distinction on
account of the actual time of the authentication and delivery or Stated Maturity
of the Securities of such series.
Each series of Securities shall be created either by or pursuant to
a Board Resolution or by or pursuant to an indenture supplemental hereto. The
Securities of each such series may bear such date or dates, be payable at such
place or places, have such Stated Maturity or Maturities, be issuable at such
premium over or discount from their face value, bear interest at such rate or
rates (which may be fixed or floating), from such date or dates, payable in such
installments and on such dates and at such place or places to the Holders of
Securities registered as such on such Regular Record Dates, or may bear no
interest, and may be redeemable or repayable at such Redemption Price or Prices
or Repayment Price or Prices, as the case may be, whether at the option of the
Holder or otherwise, and upon such terms, all as shall be provided for in or
pursuant to the Board Resolution or in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture
creating that series. There may also be established in or pursuant to a Board
Resolution or in or pursuant to a supplemental indenture prior to the issuance
of Securities of each such series, provision for:
(1) the exchange or conversion of the Securities of that series, at
the option of the Holders thereof, for or into new Securities of a
different series or other securities or other property of the Company, the
Guarantor or another Person, including shares of common stock, preferred
stock, indebtedness or securities of any kind of the Company, the
Guarantor, any Subsidiary of the Company or of the Guarantor or of any
other Person or securities directly or indirectly convertible
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into or exchangeable for any such securities;
(2) a sinking or purchase fund or other analogous obligation;
(3) if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currencies or units
based on or related to currencies (including European Currency Units) in
which the Securities of such series shall be denominated and in which
payments of principal of, and any premium and interest on, such Securities
shall or may be payable;
(4) if the principal of (and premium, if any) or interest, if any,
on the Securities of such series are to be payable, at the election of the
Company or a holder thereof, in a currency or currencies or units based on
or related to currencies (including European Currency Units) other than
that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, the period or
periods within which, and the terms and conditions upon which, such
election may be made;
(5) if the amount of payments of principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest, if any, on the Securities of such series may be determined
with reference to an index based on (i) a currency or currencies or units
based on or related to currencies (including European Currency Units)
other than that in which the Securities are stated to be payable, (ii)
changes in the price of one or more other securities or groups or indexes
of securities or (iii) changes in the prices of one or more commodities or
groups or indexes of commodities, or any combination of the foregoing, the
manner in which such amounts shall be determined;
(6) if the aggregate principal amount of the Securities of that
series is to be limited, such limitations, and the maturity date of the
principal amount of the Securities of that series (which may be fixed or
extendible), and the rate or rates (which may be fixed or floating) per
annum at which the Securities of such series will bear interest, if any,
or the
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method of determining such rate or rates and the payment dates and record
dates relating to interest payments;
(7) the exchange of Securities of that series, at the option of the
Holders thereof, for other Securities of the same series of the same
aggregate principal amount of a different authorized kind or different
authorized denomination or denominations, or both;
(8) the appointment by the Trustee of an Authenticating Agent in one
or more places other than the location of the office of the Trustee with
power to act on behalf of the Trustee and subject to its direction in the
authentication and delivery of the Securities of any one or more series in
connection with such transactions as shall be specified in the provisions
of this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or the
supplemental indenture creating such series;
(9) the percentage of their principal amount of which such
Securities will be issued and the portion of the principal amount of
Securities of the series, if other than the total principal amount
thereof, which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the
Maturity thereof pursuant to Section 502 or provable in bankruptcy
pursuant to Section 504;
(10) any Event of Default with respect to the Securities of such
series, if not set forth herein and any additions, deletions or other
changes to the Events of Default set forth herein that shall be applicable
to the Securities of such series (including a provision making any Event
of Default set forth herein inapplicable to the Securities of that
series);
(11) any covenant solely for the benefit of the Securities of such
series and any additions, deletions or other changes to the provisions of
Article Ten or any definitions relating to such Article that shall be
applicable to the Securities of such series (including a provision making
any Section of such Article inapplicable to the Securities of such
series);
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(12) the applicability of Section 402(b) of this Indenture to the
Securities of such series;
(13) if the Securities of the series shall be issued in whole or in
part in the form of a Global Security or Global Securities, the terms and
conditions, if any, upon which such Global Security or Global Securities
may be exchanged in whole or in part for other individual Securities; and
the Depositary for such Global Security or Global Securities (if other
than the Depositary specified in Section 101 hereof);
(14) the subordination of the Securities of such series to any other
indebtedness of the Company and the Guarantor, including without
limitation, the Securities of any other series;
(15) if the Securities of the series are to be deposited as trust
assets in a Fund American Trust, the name of the applicable Fund American
Trust (which shall distinguish such statutory business trust from all
other Fund American Trusts) into which the Securities of the series are to
be deposited as trust assets and the date of its Declaration of Trust;
(16) if the Securities of the series are to have an interest
deferral feature, the terms relating to such interest deferral feature;
and
(17) any other terms of the series, which shall not be inconsistent
with the provisions of this Indenture;
all upon such terms as may be determined in or pursuant to a Board Resolution or
in or pursuant to a supplemental indenture with respect to such series. All
Securities of the same series shall be substantially identical in tenor and
effect, except as to denomination.
The form of the Securities of each series shall be established
pursuant to the provisions of this Indenture in or pursuant to the Board
Resolution or in or pursuant to the supplemental indenture creating such series.
The Securities
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of each series shall be distinguished from the Securities of each other series
in such manner, reasonably satisfactory to the Trustee, as the Board of
Directors may determine.
Unless otherwise provided with respect to Securities of a particular
series, the Securities of any series may only be issuable in registered form,
without coupons.
Any terms or provisions in respect of the Securities of any series
issued under this Indenture may be determined pursuant to this Section by
providing in a Board Resolution or supplemental indenture for the method by
which such terms or provisions shall be determined.
Section 302. DENOMINATIONS. The Securities of each series shall be
issuable in such denominations and currency as shall be provided in the
provisions of this Indenture or in or pursuant to the Board Resolution or the
supplemental indenture creating such series. In the absence of any such
provisions with respect to the Securities of any series, the Securities of that
series shall be issuable only in fully registered form in denominations of $25
and any integral multiple thereof.
Section 303. EXECUTION, AUTHENTICATION AND DELIVERY AND DATING. The
Securities shall be executed on behalf of the Company by its Chairman of the
Board, its President, one of its Vice Presidents or its Treasurer. The signature
of any of these officers on the Securities may be manual or facsimile.
Securities bearing the manual or facsimile signatures of individuals
who were at any time the proper officers of the Company shall bind the Company,
notwithstanding that such individuals or any of them have ceased to hold such
offices prior to the authentication and delivery of such Securities or did not
hold such offices at the date of such Securities.
At any time and from time to time after the execution and delivery
of this Indenture, the Company may deliver Securities executed by the Company to
the Trustee for authentication; and the Trustee shall, upon Company Order,
authenticate and make available for delivery such
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Securities as in this Indenture provided and not otherwise.
Prior to any such authentication and delivery, the Trustee shall be
entitled to receive, in addition to any Officers' Certificate and Opinion of
Counsel required to be furnished to the Trustee pursuant to Section 102, and the
Board Resolution and any certificate relating to the issuance of the series of
Securities required to be furnished pursuant to Section 202, an Opinion of
Counsel stating that:
(1) all instruments furnished to the Trustee conform to the
requirements of the Indenture and constitute sufficient authority
hereunder for the Trustee to authenticate and deliver such Securities;
(2) the form and terms (or in connection with the issuance of
medium-term Securities under Section 311, the manner of determining the
terms) of such Securities have been established in conformity with the
provisions of this Indenture;
(3) all laws and requirements with respect to the execution and
delivery by the Company of such Securities have been complied with, the
Company has the corporate power to issue such Securities and such
Securities have been duly authorized and delivered by the Company and,
assuming due authentication and delivery by the Trustee, constitute legal,
valid and binding obligations of the Company enforceable in accordance
with their terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to applicable
bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance, moratorium
or other laws and legal principles affecting creditors' rights generally
from time to time in effect and to general equitable principles, whether
applied in an action at law or in equity) and entitled to the benefits of
this Indenture, equally and ratably with all other Securities, if any, of
such series Outstanding; and
(4) such other matters as the Trustee may reasonably request;
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and, if the authentication and delivery relates to a new series of Securities
created by an indenture supplemental hereto, also stating that all laws and
requirements with respect to the form and execution by the Company of the
supplemental indenture with respect to that series of Securities have been
complied with, the Company has corporate power to execute and deliver any such
supplemental indenture and has taken all necessary corporate action for those
purposes and any such supplemental indenture has been executed and delivered and
constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company enforceable
in accordance with its terms (subject, as to enforcement of remedies, to
applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent conveyance,
moratorium or other laws and legal principles affecting creditors' rights
generally from time to time in effect and to general equitable principles,
whether applied in an action at law or in equity).
The Trustee shall not be required to authenticate such Securities if
the issue thereof will adversely affect the Trustee's own rights, duties or
immunities under the Securities and this Indenture.
Unless otherwise provided in the form of Security for any series,
all Securities shall be dated the date of their authentication.
No Security shall be entitled to any benefit under this Indenture or
be valid or obligatory for any purpose unless there appears on such Security a
certificate of authentication substantially in the form provided for herein
executed by the Trustee by manual signature of an authorized signatory, and such
certificate upon any Security shall be conclusive evidence, and the only
evidence, that such Security has been duly authenticated and delivered
hereunder.
Section 304. TEMPORARY SECURITIES. Pending the preparation of
definitive Securities of any series, the Company may execute, and, upon receipt
of the documents required by Section 303, together with a Company Order, the
Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, temporary Securities which are printed,
lithographed, typewritten, mimeographed or otherwise produced, in any authorized
denomination,
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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
evidenced by their execution of such Securities.
If temporary Securities of any series are issued, the Company will
cause definitive Securities of such series to be prepared without unreasonable
delay. After the preparation of definitive Securities, the temporary Securities
of such series shall be exchangeable for definitive Securities of such series
upon surrender of the temporary Securities of such series at the office or
agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, without charge to the Holder; and
upon surrender for cancellation of any one or more temporary Securities the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver in exchange
therefor a like principal amount of definitive Securities of such series of
authorized denominations and of like tenor and terms. Until so exchanged the
temporary Securities of such series shall in all respects be entitled to the
same benefits under this Indenture as definitive Securities of such series.
Section 305. REGISTRATION, TRANSFER AND EXCHANGE. The Company shall
keep or cause to be kept a register (herein sometimes referred to as the
"Security Register") in which, subject to such reasonable regulations as it may
prescribe, the Company shall provide for the registration of Securities, or of
Securities of a particular series, and for transfers of Securities or of
Securities of such series. Any such register shall be in written form or in any
other form capable of being converted into written form within a reasonable
time. At all reasonable times the information contained in such register or
registers shall be available for inspection by the Trustee at the office or
agency to be maintained by the Company as provided in Section 1002.
Subject to Section 204, upon surrender for transfer of any Security
of any series at the office or agency of the Company in a Place of Payment, the
Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and make
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available for delivery, in the name of the designated transferee or transferees,
one or more new Securities of such series of any authorized denominations, of a
like aggregate principal amount and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms.
Subject to Section 204, at the option of the Holder, Securities of
any series may be exchanged for other Securities of such series of any
authorized denominations, of a like aggregate principal amount and Stated
Maturity and of like tenor and terms, upon surrender of the Securities to be
exchanged at such office or agency. Whenever any Securities are so surrendered
for exchange, the Company shall execute, and the Trustee shall authenticate and
make available for delivery, the Securities which the Securityholder making the
exchange is entitled to receive.
All Securities issued upon any transfer or exchange of Securities
shall be the valid obligations of the Company and the Guarantor, evidencing the
same debt, and entitled to the same benefits under this Indenture, as the
Securities surrendered upon such transfer or exchange.
Every Security presented or surrendered for transfer or exchange
shall (if so required by the Company or the Trustee) 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 his
attorney duly authorized in writing.
Unless otherwise provided in the Security to be transferred or
exchanged, no service charge shall be made on any Securityholder for any
transfer or exchange of Securities, but the Company may (unless otherwise
provided in such Security) require payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax
or other governmental charge that may be imposed in connection with any transfer
or exchange of Securities, other than exchanges pursuant to Section 304 or 906
not involving any transfer.
The Company shall not be required (i) to issue, transfer or exchange
any Security of any series during a period beginning at the opening of business
15 days before the day of the mailing of a notice of redemption of Securities of
such series selected for redemption under
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Section 1103 and ending at the close of business on the date of such mailing, or
(ii) to transfer or exchange any Security so selected for redemption in whole or
in part, except for the portion of such Security not so selected for redemption.
None of the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee, any agent of the
Trustee, any Paying Agent or the Security Registrar will have any responsibility
or liability for any aspect of the records relating to or payments made on
account of beneficial ownership interests of a Global Security or for
maintaining, supervising or reviewing any records relating to such beneficial
ownership interests.
The Company initially appoints the Trustee to act as Security
Registrar for the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any time and from
time to time authorize any Person to act as Security Registrar in place of the
Trustee with respect to any series of Securities issued under this Indenture.
Section 306. MUTILATED, DESTROYED, LOST AND STOLEN SECURITIES. If
(i) any mutilated Security is surrendered to the Trustee, or the Company, the
Guarantor and the Trustee receive evidence to their satisfaction of the
destruction, loss or theft of any Security, and (ii) there is delivered to the
Company, the Guarantor and the Trustee such Security or indemnity as may be
required by them to save each of them harmless, then, in the absence of notice
to the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee that such Security has been
acquired by a bona fide purchaser, the Company shall execute and upon its
request the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver, in exchange for or in lieu
of any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security, a new Security of
like tenor, series, Stated Maturity and principal amount, bearing a number not
contemporaneously Outstanding.
In case any such mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Security has
become or is about to become due and payable, the Company in its discretion may,
instead of issuing a new Security, pay such Security.
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Upon the issuance of any new Security under this Section, the
Company may require the payment of a sum sufficient to cover any tax or other
governmental charge that may be imposed in relation thereto and any other
expenses (including the fees and expenses of the Trustee) connected therewith.
Every new Security issued pursuant to this Section in lieu of any
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall constitute an original additional
contractual obligation of the Company and the Guarantor, whether or not the
destroyed, lost or stolen Security shall be at any time enforceable by anyone,
and shall be entitled to all the benefits of this Indenture equally and
proportionately with any and all other Securities of the same series duly issued
hereunder.
The provisions of this Section are exclusive and shall preclude (to
the extent lawful) all other rights and remedies with respect to the replacement
or payment of mutilated, destroyed, lost or stolen Securities.
Section 307. PAYMENT OF INTEREST; INTEREST RIGHTS PRESERVED. Unless
otherwise provided with respect to such Security pursuant to Section 301,
interest on any Security which is payable, and is punctually paid or duly
provided for, on any Interest Payment Date shall be paid to the Person in whose
name that Security (or one or more Predecessor Securities) is registered at the
close of business on the Regular Record Date for such interest.
Any interest on any Security which is payable, but is not punctually
paid or duly provided for, on any Interest Payment Date (herein called
"Defaulted Interest") shall forthwith cease to be payable to the registered
Holder on the relevant Regular Record Date by virtue of his having been such
Holder; and, except as hereinafter provided, such Defaulted Interest may be paid
by the Company or the Guarantor, at its election in each case, as provided in
Clause (1) or Clause (2) below:
(1) The Company or the Guarantor may elect to make payment of any
Defaulted Interest to the Persons in whose names any such Securities (or
their respective Predecessor Securities) are registered at the close of
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business on a Special Record Date for the payment of such Defaulted
Interest, which shall be fixed in the following manner. The Company or the
Guarantor, as the case may be, 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 or the
Guarantor, as the case may be, 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 be not 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 or the Guarantor, as the case may be, of
such Special Record Date and, in the name and at the expense of the
Company or the Guarantor, 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 the Holder of each such Security at his
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 no longer be payable
pursuant to the following Clause (2).
(2) The Company or the Guarantor may make payment of any Defaulted
Interest in any other lawful manner not inconsistent with the requirements
of any securities exchange on which such Securities may be
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listed, and upon such notice as may be required by such exchange, if,
after notice given by the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, to
the Trustee of the proposed payment pursuant to this Clause, such manner
of payment shall be deemed practicable by the Trustee.
If any installment of interest the Stated Maturity of which is on or
prior to the Redemption Date for any Security called for redemption pursuant to
Article Eleven is not paid or duly provided for on or prior to the Redemption
Date in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section, such interest
shall be payable as part of the Redemption Price of such Securities.
Subject to the foregoing provisions of this Section, each Security
delivered under this Indenture upon transfer of or in exchange for or in lieu of
any other Security shall carry the rights to interest accrued and unpaid, and to
accrue, which were carried by such other Security.
Section 308. PERSONS DEEMED OWNERS. The Company, the Guarantor, the
Trustee and any agent of the Company, the Guarantor or the Trustee may treat the
Person in whose name any Security is registered in the Security Register as the
owner of such Security for the purpose of receiving payment of principal of (and
premium, if any), and (subject to Section 307) interest on, such Security and
for all other purposes whatsoever, whether or not such Security be overdue, and
neither the Company, the Guarantor, the Trustee nor any agent of the Company,
the Guarantor or the Trustee shall be affected by notice to the contrary.
Section 309. CANCELLATION. All Securities surrendered for payment,
redemption, transfer, conversion or exchange or credit against a sinking fund
shall, if surrendered to any Person other than the Trustee, be delivered to the
Trustee and, if not already canceled, shall be promptly canceled by it. The
Company or the Guarantor may at any time deliver to the Trustee for cancellation
any Securities previously authenticated and delivered hereunder which the
Company or the Guarantor may have acquired in any manner whatsoever, and all
Securities so delivered shall be promptly canceled by the Trustee. No Security
shall be authenticated in lieu of or in exchange for any Securities
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canceled as provided in this Section, except as expressly permitted by this
Indenture. The Trustee shall return all canceled Securities to the Company.
Section 310. COMPUTATION OF INTEREST. Unless otherwise provided as
contemplated in Section 301, interest on the Securities shall be calculated on
the basis of a 360-day year of twelve 30-day months.
Section 311. MEDIUM-TERM SECURITIES. Notwithstanding any contrary
provision herein, if all Securities of a series are not to be originally issued
at one time, it shall not be necessary for the Company to deliver to the Trustee
an Officers' Certificate, Board Resolution, supplemental indenture, Opinion of
Counsel or Company Request otherwise required pursuant to Sections 202, 301 and
303 at or prior to the time of authentication of each Security of such series if
such documents are delivered to the Trustee or its agent at or prior to the
authentication upon original issuance of the first Security of such series to be
issued; provided that any subsequent request by the Company to the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series upon original issuance shall constitute a
representation and warranty by the Company that as of the date of such request,
the statements made in the Officers' Certificate delivered pursuant to Section
102 shall be true and correct as if made on such date.
An Officers' Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution
delivered by the Company to the Trustee in the circumstances set forth in the
preceding paragraph may provide that Securities which are the subject thereof
will be authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or its agent on original
issue from time to time upon the telephonic or written order of persons
designated in such Officers' Certificate, Board Resolution or supplemental
indenture (any such telephonic instructions to be confirmed promptly in writing
by such persons) and that such persons are authorized to determine, consistent
with such Officers' Certificate, supplemental indenture or Board Resolution,
such terms and conditions of said Securities as are specified in such Officers'
Certificate, supplemental
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indenture or Board Resolution.
Section 312. CUSIP NUMBERS. The Company in issuing the Securities
may use "CUSIP" numbers (if then generally in use), and, if so, the Trustee
shall use "CUSIP" numbers in notices of redemption as a convenience to Holders;
provided that any such notice may state that no representation is made as to the
correctness of such numbers either as printed on the Securities or as contained
in any notice of a redemption and that reliance may be placed only on the other
identification numbers printed on the Securities, and any such redemption shall
not be affected by any defect in or omission of such numbers. The Company will
promptly notify the Trustee of any change in the "CUSIP" numbers.
Section 313. GLOBAL SECURITIES. (a) Each Global Security
authenticated under this Indenture shall be registered in the name of the
Depositary designated by the Company for such Global Security or a nominee
thereof and delivered to such Depository or a nominee thereof or custodian
therefor, and each such Global Security shall constitute a single Security for
all purposes of this Indenture.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Indenture, no Global
Security may be exchanged in whole or in part for Securities registered, and no
transfer of a Global Security in whole or in part may be registered, in the name
of any Person other than the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee
thereof unless (i) such Depositary (A) has notified the Company that it is
unwilling or unable to continue as Depositary for such Global Security or (B)
has ceased to be a clearing agency registered as such under the Exchange Act or
announces an intention permanently to cease business or does in fact do so or
(ii) there shall have occurred and be continuing an Event of Default with
respect to such Global Security.
(c) If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other Securities
or canceled in whole, it shall be surrendered by or on behalf of the Depositary
or its nominee
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to the Trustee, as Security Registrar, for exchange or cancellation, as provided
in this Article Three. If any Global Security is to be exchanged for other
Securities or canceled in part, or if another Security is to be exchanged in
whole or in part for a beneficial interest in any Global Security, in each case,
as provided in Section 305, then either (i) such Global Security shall be so
surrendered for exchange or cancellation, as provided in this Article Three or
(ii) the principal amount thereof shall be reduced or increased by an amount
equal to the portion thereof to be so exchanged or canceled, or equal to the
principal amount of such other Security to be so exchanged for a beneficial
interest therein, as the case may be, by means of an appropriate adjustment made
on the records of the Trustee, as Security Registrar, whereupon the Trustee in
accordance with the Applicable Procedures, shall instruct the Depositary or its
authorized representative to make a corresponding adjustment to its records.
Upon any such surrender or adjustment of a Global Security, the Trustee shall,
subject to Section 305 and as otherwise provided in this Article Three,
authenticate and deliver any Securities issuable in exchange for such Global
Security (or any portion thereof) to or upon the order of, and registered in
such names as may be directed by, the Depositary or its authorized
representative. Upon the request of the Trustee in connection with the
occurrence of any of the events specified in the preceding paragraph, the
Company shall promptly make available to the Trustee a reasonable supply of
Securities that are not in the form of Global Securities. The Trustee shall be
entitled to rely upon any order, direction or request of the Depositary or its
authorized representative which is given or made pursuant to this Article Three
if such order, direction or request is given or made in accordance with the
Applicable Procedures.
(d) Every Security authenticated and delivered upon registration of
transfer of, or in exchange for or in lieu of, a Global Security or any portion
thereof, whether pursuant to this Article Three or otherwise, shall be
authenticated and delivered in the form of, and shall be, a registered Global
Security, unless such Security is registered in the name of a Person other than
the Depositary for such Global Security or a nominee thereof, in which case such
Registered Security shall be authenticated and delivered in definitive, fully
registered form, without
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interest coupons.
(e) The Depositary or its nominee, as registered owner of a Global
Security, shall be the Holder of such Global Security for all purposes under the
Indenture and the Registered Securities, and owners of beneficial interests in a
Global Security shall hold such interests pursuant to the Applicable Procedures.
Accordingly, any such owner's beneficial interest in a Global Security will be
shown only on, and the transfer of such interest shall be effected only through,
records maintained by the Depositary or its nominee or its Agent Members and
such owners of beneficial interests in a Global Security will not be considered
the owners of holders thereof.
Section 314. DEFERRALS OF INTEREST PAYMENT DATES. If the Securities
of a particular series are to be deposited as trust assets in a Fund American
Trust and as specified by Section 301 with respect to the Securities of such
series, provided that no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing with
respect to such Securities, the Company shall have the right, at any time or
from time to time during the term of such series, to defer the payment of
interest on such Securities for such period or periods as may be specified as
contemplated by Section 301 (each, an "Extension Period") during which Extension
Periods the Company shall have the right to make partial payments of interest on
any Interest Payment Date. No Extension Period shall end on a date other than an
Interest Payment Date. At the end of any such Extension Period the Company shall
pay all interest then accrued and unpaid on the Securities (together with
interest thereon accrued in a manner to be specified in Section 301 compounded
in a manner to be specified in Section 301 from the relevant Interest Payment
Date, to the extent permitted by applicable law), provided, however, that no
Extension Period may extend beyond the Stated Maturity of such Securities.
During an Extension Period, interest will continue to accrue and Holders of the
Securities will be required to accrue interest income for U.S. Federal income
tax purposes. During any such Extension Period, the Company shall not (i)
declare or pay dividends or distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or
make a
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liquidation payment with respect to, any of the Company's capital stock (which
includes the Common Stock and the Preferred Stock), or (ii) make any payment of
principal, interest, or premium, if any, on or repay, repurchase or redeem any
debt securities of the Company (including other Securities) that rank pari passu
with or junior in interest to the Securities of such series or (iii) make any
guarantee payments with respect to any guarantee by the Company of the debt
securities of any Subsidiary of the Company if such guarantee ranks pari passu
with or junior in interest to the Securities of such series (other than (a)
dividends or distributions in Common Stock, (b) any declaration of a dividend in
connection with the implementation of a stockholders' rights plan, or the
issuance of stock under any such plan in the future, or the redemption or
repurchase of any such rights pursuant thereto, (c) payments under the
applicable Fund American Trust Guarantee, (d) purchases or acquisitions of
shares of the Common Stock in connection with the satisfaction by the Company of
its obligations under any employee benefit plan or other contractual obligation
of the Company (other than a contractual obligation ranking pari passu with or
junior to these Securities), (e) as a result of a reclassification of the
Company's capital stock or the exchange or conversion of one class or series of
the Company's capital stock for another class or series of the Company's capital
stock, or (f) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of the Company's
capital stock pursuant to the conversion or exchange provisions of such capital
stock or the security being converted or exchanged). Prior to the termination of
any such Extension Period, the Company may further extend such Extension Period;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that no Extension Period shall exceed the specified number of
specified consecutive periods or extend beyond the Stated Maturity of such
Securities. Upon termination of any Extension Period and upon the payment of all
accrued and unpaid interest then due on any Interest Payment Date, and subject
to the foregoing limitations, the Company may elect to begin a new Extension
Period. No interest shall be due and payable during an Extension Period, except
at the end thereof. The Company shall give the Holders and the Trustee notice of
its election to begin any such Extension Period (or an extension thereof) at
least three Business Days prior to the Interest Payment Date or, with respect to
the Securities of a series issued to a Fund American Trust, prior to the earlier
of (i)
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the date the distributions on the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities
of such Fund American Trust would have been payable except for the election to
begin or extend such Extension Period or (ii) the date the regular trustees of
such Fund American Trust are required to give notice to any automated quotation
system or to holders of the Common Securities and the Preferred Securities of
the record date or the date such distributions are payable, but in any event not
less than three Business Days prior to such record date. There is no limitation
on the number of times that the Company may elect to begin an Extension Period.
ARTICLE FOUR
SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE;
UNCLAIMED MONEYS
Section 401. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. If, pursuant to Section 301,
provision is made for the defeasance of Securities of a series and if the
Securities of such series are denominated and payable only in U.S. dollars
(except as provided pursuant to Section 301), then the provisions of this
Article Four relating to defeasance of Securities shall be applicable except as
otherwise specified pursuant to Section 301 for Securities of such series.
Defeasance provisions, if any, for Securities denominated in a currency other
than U.S. dollars may be specified pursuant to Section 301.
Section 402. SATISFACTION AND DISCHARGE OF INDENTURE; DEFEASANCE.
(a) If at any time (i) the Company or the Guarantor shall have delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation all Securities of any series theretofore authenticated
and delivered (other than (1) any Securities of such series which shall have
been destroyed, lost or stolen and which shall have been replaced or paid as
provided in Section 306 and (2) Securities for whose payment money has
theretofore been deposited in trust and thereafter repaid to the Company or the
Guarantor as provided in Section 405) or (ii) all Securities of such series not
theretofore delivered to the Trustee for cancellation shall
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have become due and payable, or are by their terms to become due and payable
within one year or are to be called for redemption within one year under
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the giving of notice of redemption,
and the Company shall deposit with the Trustee as trust funds the entire amount
in the currency in which such Securities are denominated (except as otherwise
provided pursuant to Section 301) sufficient (in the opinion of a nationally
recognized firm of independent public accountants expressed in a written
certification thereof delivered to the Trustee) without consideration of any
reinvestment and after payment of all taxes or other charges and assessments in
respect thereof payable by the Trustee, to pay at maturity or upon redemption
all Securities of such series not theretofore delivered to the Trustee for
cancellation, including principal and premium, if any, and interest due or to
become due on such date of maturity or redemption date, as the case may be, no
default with respect to the Securities has occurred and is continuing on the
date of such deposit, such deposit does not result in a breach or violation of,
or constitute a default under, the Indenture or any other agreement or
instrument to which the Company of the Guarantor is a party and the Company
delivers an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that
such conditions have been complied with and if in either case the Company or the
Guarantor shall also pay or cause to be paid all other sums payable hereunder by
the Company or the Guarantor, then this Indenture shall cease to be of further
effect (except as to any surviving rights of registration of transfer or
exchange of such Securities herein expressly provided for and rights to receive
payments of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, such Securities)
with respect to the Securities of such series, and the Trustee, on demand of the
Company or the Guarantor, shall execute proper instruments acknowledging
satisfaction of and discharging this Indenture.
(b) Subject to Sections 402(c), 403 and 407, the Company at any time
may terminate, with respect to Securities of a particular series, (i) all of the
Company's and the Guarantor's obligations under the Securities of such series
and this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series ("legal
defeasance option") or (ii) the Company's and the Guarantor's obligations under
any covenants specified pursuant to Section 301 applicable to
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the Securities of such Series ("covenant defeasance option"). The Company may
exercise its legal defeasance option notwithstanding its prior exercise of its
covenant defeasance option.
If the Company exercises its legal defeasance option, payment of the
Securities of the defeased series may not be accelerated because of an Event of
Default. If the Company exercises its covenant defeasance option, payment of the
Securities may not be accelerated because of an Event of Default related to the
specified covenants.
Upon satisfaction of the conditions set forth herein and upon
request of the Company or the Guarantor, the Trustee shall acknowledge in
writing the discharge of those obligations that the Company terminates.
(c) Notwithstanding clause (a) above and the exercise of the legal
defeasance option in clause (b) above, the Company's and the Guarantor's
obligations in Sections 305, 306, 405, 406, 407, 607, 608, 701 and 1002 shall
survive until the Securities of the defeased series have been paid in full.
Thereafter, the Company's and the Guarantor's obligations in Sections 607, 405
and 406 shall survive.
Section 403. CONDITIONS OF DEFEASANCE. The Company may exercise the
legal defeasance option or the covenant defeasance option with respect to
Securities of a particular series only if:
(1) the Company or the Guarantor irrevocably deposits in trust with
the Trustee money or U.S. Government Obligations for the payment of
principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on, the Securities of such
series to maturity or redemption, as the case may be;
(2) the Company or the Guarantor delivers to the Trustee a
certificate from a nationally recognized firm of independent public
accountants expressing their opinion that the payments of principal and
interest when due and without reinvestment on the deposited U.S.
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Government Obligations plus any deposited money without investment will
provide cash at such times and in such amounts as will be sufficient to
pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest when due on all the
Securities of such series to maturity or redemption, as the case may be;
(3) 91 days pass after the deposit is made and during the 91-day
period no Default specified in Section 501(5) or (6) with respect to the
Company occurs which is continuing at the end of the period;
(4) no Default has occurred and is continuing on the date of such
deposit and after giving effect thereto;
(5) the deposit does not constitute a default under any other
agreement binding on the Company or the Guarantor;
(6) the Company or the Guarantor delivers to the Trustee an Opinion
of Counsel to the effect that the trust resulting from the deposit does
not constitute, or is qualified as, a regulated investment company under
the Investment Company Act of 1940;
(7) in the event of the legal defeasance option, the Company or the
Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel
stating that (i) the Company has received from the Internal Revenue
Service a ruling, or (ii) since the date of this Indenture there has been
a change in the applicable Federal income tax law, in either case to the
effect that, and based thereon such Opinion of Counsel shall confirm that,
the Holders of Securities of such series will not recognize income, gain
or loss for Federal income tax purposes as a result of such defeasance and
will be subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same
manner and at the same times as would have been the case if such
defeasance had not occurred;
(8) in the event of the covenant defeasance option, the Company or
the Guarantor shall have delivered to the Trustee an Opinion of Counsel to
the effect that the Holders of Securities of such series will not
recognize income, gain or loss for Federal
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income tax purposes as a result of such covenant defeasance and will be
subject to Federal income tax on the same amounts, in the same manner and
at the same times as would have been the case if such covenant defeasance
had not occurred; and
(9) the Company or the Guarantor delivers to the Trustee an
Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel, each stating that all
conditions precedent to the defeasance and discharge of the Securities of
such series as contemplated by this Article Four have been complied with.
Before or after a deposit, the Company or the Guarantor may make
arrangements satisfactory to the Trustee for the redemption of Securities of
such series at a future date in accordance with Article Eleven.
Section 404. APPLICATION OF TRUST MONEY. The Trustee shall hold in
trust money or U.S. Government Obligations deposited with it pursuant to this
Article Four. It shall apply the deposited money and the money from U.S.
Government Obligations through any paying agent and in accordance with this
Indenture to the payment of principal of, and premium, if any, and interest on,
the Securities of the defeased series.
Section 405. REPAYMENT TO COMPANY OR GUARANTOR. The Trustee and any
paying agent shall promptly turn over to the Company or the Guarantor upon
request any excess money or securities held by them at any time.
Subject to any applicable abandoned property law, the Trustee and
any paying agent shall pay to the Company or the Guarantor upon request any
money held by them for the payment of principal, premium or interest that
remains unclaimed for two years, and, thereafter, Holders entitled to such money
must look to the Company or the Guarantor for payment as general creditors and
all liability of the Trustee or such paying agent with respect to such money
shall thereupon cease.
Section 406. INDEMNITY FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT
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OBLIGATIONS. The Company and the Guarantor (without duplication) shall pay and
shall indemnify the Trustee and the Holders against any tax, fee or other charge
imposed on or assessed against deposited U.S. Government Obligations or the
principal and interest received on such U.S. Government Obligations.
Section 407. REINSTATEMENT. If the Trustee or any paying agent is
unable to apply any money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this
Article Four by reason of any legal proceeding or by reason of any order or
judgment of any court or government authority enjoining, restraining or
otherwise prohibiting such application, the Company's and the Guarantor's
obligations under this Indenture and the Securities of the defeased series shall
be revived and reinstated as though no deposit had occurred pursuant to this
Article Four until such time as the Trustee or any paying agent is permitted to
apply all such money or U.S. Government Obligations in accordance with this
Article Four.
ARTICLE FIVE
REMEDIES
Section 501. EVENTS OF DEFAULT. "Event of Default", wherever used
herein, means with respect to any series of Securities any one of the following
events (whatever the reason for such Event of Default and whether it shall be
voluntary or involuntary or be effected by operation of law or pursuant to any
judgment, decree or order of any court or any order, rule or regulation of any
administrative or governmental body), unless such event is either inapplicable
to a particular series or it is specifically deleted or modified in the
supplemental indenture creating such series of Securities or in the form of
Security for such series:
(1) default in the payment of any interest upon any Security of that
series when it becomes due and payable, and continuance of such default
for a period of 90 days (subject to the deferral of any due date in the
case of an Extension Period); or
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(2) default in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any,
on) any Security of that series at its Maturity; or
(3) default in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund or
analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms of the
Securities of such series; or
(4) default in the performance, or breach, of any covenant or
warranty of the Company or the Guarantor in this Indenture in respect of
the Securities of such series (other than a covenant or warranty in
respect of the Securities of such series a default in the performance of
which or the breach of which is elsewhere in this Section specifically
dealt with), all of such covenants and warranties in the Indenture which
are not expressly stated to be for the benefit of a particular series of
Securities being deemed in respect of the Securities of all series for
this purpose, 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 and the Guarantor by the Trustee or to the Company, the Guarantor
and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series, 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
(5) with respect to any series of Securities issued or guaranteed
by the Guarantor, the Guarantor's consolidation or amalgamation with
or merger into any other Person or conveyance or transfer of its
properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person,
unless:
(A) the Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation
or into which the Guarantor is merged or the Person which acquires by
conveyance or transfer the properties and assets of the Guarantor
substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation or limited
liability company organized and existing under the laws of the United
States of America, any State thereof, the District of Columbia or
Bermuda, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental
hereto, executed by the successor Person and the Company and delivered
to the Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and
punctual payment of the principal of (and premium, if any) and
interest on all the Securities and the performance of every covenant
of this Indenture on the part of the Guarantor to be performed or
observed;
(B) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no
Event of Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time,
or both, would become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be
continuing; and
(C) either the Guarantor or the successor Person has
delivered to the Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of
Counsel each stating that such consolidation, amalgamation, merger,
conveyance or transfer and such supplemental indenture comply with
this Article and that all conditions precedent herein provided for
relating to such transaction have been complied with,
and continuance of any failure to comply with the conditions set forth under
items (A), (B) or (C) of this paragraph (5) for a period of 90 days after there
has been given, by registered or certified mail, to the Guarantor by the Trustee
or to the Guarantor and the Trustee by the Holders of at least 25% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of such series, a written notice specifying
such failure to comply and requiring it to be remedied and stating that such
notice is a "Notice of Default" hereunder; or
(6) the entry of an order for relief against the Company or the
Guarantor under the Federal Bankruptcy Code by a court having jurisdiction
in the premises or a decree or order by a court having jurisdiction in the
premises adjudging the Company or the Guarantor a bankrupt or insolvent
under any other applicable Federal, State or foreign law, or the entry of
a decree or order approving as properly filed a petition seeking
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of or in respect of
the Company under the Federal Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable
Federal, State or foreign law (other than a reorganization under a
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foreign law that does not relate to insolvency), or appointing a receiver,
liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator (or other similar official) of
the Company or the Guarantor or of any substantial part of its property,
or ordering the winding up or liquidation of its affairs, and the
continuance of any such decree or order unstayed and in effect for a
period of 60 consecutive days; or
(7) the consent by the Company or the Guarantor to the institution
of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it, or the filing by it of
a petition or answer or consent seeking reorganization or relief under the
Federal Bankruptcy Code or any other applicable Federal, State or foreign
law (other than a reorganization under a foreign law that does not relate
to insolvency), or the consent by it to the filing of any such petition or
to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee,
sequestrator (or other similar official) of the Company or the Guarantor
or of any substantial part of its property, or the making by it of an
assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the admission by it in writing
of its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or the
taking of corporate action by the Company or the Guarantor in furtherance
of any such action; or
(8) any other Event of Default provided in the supplemental
indenture under which such series of Securities is issued or in the form
of Security for such series.
Section 502. ACCELERATION OF MATURITY; RESCISSION AND ANNULMENT.
If an Event of Default described in paragraph (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (8)
(if the Event of Default under paragraph (4), (5) or (8) is with respect to
less than all series of Securities then Outstanding) of Section 501 occurs
and is continuing with respect to any series, then and in each and every such
case, unless the principal of all the Securities of such series shall have
already become due and payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less
than 25% in aggregate principal amount of the Securities of such
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series then Outstanding hereunder (each such series acting as a separate
class), by notice in writing to the Company and the Guarantor (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders), may declare the principal amount (or, if the
Securities of such series are Original Issue Discount Securities, such
portion of the principal amount as may be specified in the terms of that
series) of all the Securities of such series then Outstanding and all accrued
interest thereon to be due and payable immediately, and upon any such
declaration the same shall become and shall be immediately due and payable,
anything in this Indenture or in the Securities of such series contained to
the contrary notwithstanding. If an Event of Default described in paragraph
(4), (5) or (8) (if the Event of Default under paragraph (4), (5) or (8) is
with respect to all series of Securities then Outstanding), or (6) or (7) of
Section 501 occurs and is continuing, then and in each and every such case,
unless the principal of all the Securities shall have already become due and
payable, either the Trustee or the Holders of not less than 25% in aggregate
principal amount of all the Securities then Outstanding hereunder (treated as
one class), by notice in writing to the Company and the Guarantor (and to the
Trustee if given by Holders), may declare the principal amount (or, if any
Securities are Original Issue Discount Securities, such portion of the
principal amount as may be specified in the terms thereof) of all the
Securities then Outstanding and all accrued interest thereon to be due and
payable immediately, and upon any such declaration the same shall become and
shall be immediately due and payable, anything in this Indenture or in the
Securities contained to the contrary notwithstanding.
At any time after such a declaration of acceleration has been made
with respect to the Securities of any series and before a judgment or decree for
payment of the money due has been obtained by the Trustee as hereinafter in this
Article provided, the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series (subject to, in the case of any series of
Securities held as trust assets of a Fund American Trust and with respect to
which a Security Exchange has not theretofore occurred, such consent of the
holders of the Preferred Securities and the Common Securities of such Fund
American Trust as may be required under the Declaration of Trust of such Fund
American Trust), by written notice to the
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Company and the Trustee, may rescind and annul such declaration and its
consequences if
(1) the Company or the Guarantor has paid or deposited with the
Trustee a sum sufficient to pay
(A) all overdue installments of interest on the Securities of
such series,
(B) the principal of (and premium, if any, on) any Securities
of such series which have become due otherwise than by such
declaration of acceleration, and interest thereon at the rate or
rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities of such
series, to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful,
(C) interest upon overdue installments of interest at the rate
or rates prescribed therefor by the terms of the Securities of such
series to the extent that payment of such interest is lawful, and
(D) all sums paid or advanced by the Trustee hereunder and the
reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the
Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other amounts due the
Trustee under Section 607;
and
(2) all Events of Default with respect to such series of Securities,
other than the nonpayment of the principal of the Securities of such
series which have become due solely by such acceleration, have been cured
or waived as provided in Section 513.
No such rescission shall affect any subsequent default or impair any right
consequent thereon.
Section 503. COLLECTION OF INDEBTEDNESS AND SUITS FOR ENFORCEMENT BY
TRUSTEE. The Company and the Guarantor
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each covenants that if
(1) default is made in the payment of any installment of interest on
any Security of any series when such interest becomes due and payable, or
(2) default is made in the payment of the principal of (or premium,
if any, on) any Security at the Maturity thereof, or
(3) default is made in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund
or analogous obligation when the same becomes due by the terms of the
Securities of any series,
and any such default continues for any period of grace provided with respect to
the Securities of such series, the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be,
will, upon demand of the Trustee, pay to it, for the benefit of the Holder of
any such Security (or the Holders of any such series in the case of Clause (3)
above), the whole amount then due and payable on any such Security (or on the
Securities of any such series in the case of Clause (3) above) for principal
(and premium, if any) and interest, with interest, to the extent that payment of
such interest shall be legally enforceable, upon the overdue principal (and
premium, if any) and upon overdue installments of interest, at such rate or
rates as may be prescribed therefor by the terms of any such Security (or of
Securities of any such series in the case of Clause (3) above); and, in addition
thereto, such further amount as shall be sufficient to cover the costs and
expenses of collection, including the reasonable compensation, expenses,
disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other
amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
If the Company or the Guarantor fails to pay such amounts forthwith
upon such demand, the Trustee, in its own name and as trustee of an express
trust, may institute a judicial proceeding for the collection of the sums so due
and unpaid, and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and
may enforce the same against the Company or the Guarantor or any other obligor
upon the Securities of such series and collect the money adjudged or decreed to
be payable in the manner provided by law out of the property of
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the Company or the Guarantor or any other obligor upon such Securities, wherever
situated.
If an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities
occurs and is continuing, the Trustee may in its discretion proceed to protect
and enforce its rights and the rights of the Holders of Securities of such
series by such appropriate judicial proceedings as the Trustee shall deem most
effectual to protect and enforce any such rights, whether for the specific
enforcement of any covenant or agreement in this Indenture or in aid of the
exercise of any power granted herein, or to enforce any other proper remedy.
Section 504. TRUSTEE MAY FILE PROOFS OF CLAIM. In case of the
pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial
proceeding relative to the Company, the Guarantor or any other obligor upon the
Securities or the property of the Company, the Guarantor or of such other
obligor or their creditors, 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 on the Company or the Guarantor for the payment of overdue principal
or interest) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such
proceedings or otherwise,
(i) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of principal (and
premium, if any) and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the
Securities and to file such other papers or documents as may be necessary
and advisable in order to have the claims of the Trustee (including any
claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and
advances of the Trustee, its agents and counsel and all other amounts due
the Trustee under Section 607) and of the Securityholders allowed in such
judicial proceeding, and
(ii) to collect and receive any moneys or other property payable or
deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
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and any receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator (or other similar
official) in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each
Securityholder to make such payment 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 any amount due to it for the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agents
and counsel, and any other amounts due the Trustee under Section 607.
Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to authorize the Trustee to
authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Securityholder any
plan or 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.
Section 505. TRUSTEE MAY ENFORCE CLAIMS WITHOUT POSSESSION OF
SECURITIES. All rights of action and claims under this Indenture or the
Securities of any series may be prosecuted and enforced by the Trustee without
the possession of any of the Securities of such series or the production thereof
in any proceeding relating thereto, and any such proceeding instituted by the
Trustee shall be brought in its own name as trustee of an express trust, and any
recovery of judgment shall, after provision for the payment of the reasonable
compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Trustee, its agent and
counsel, be for the ratable benefit of the Holders of the Securities of the
series in respect of which such judgment has been recovered.
Section 506. APPLICATION OF MONEY COLLECTED. Any money collected by
the Trustee with respect to a series of Securities pursuant to this Article
shall be applied in the following order, at the date or dates fixed by the
Trustee and, in case of the distribution of such money on account of principal
(or premium, if any) or interest, upon presentation of the Securities of such
series and the notation thereon of the payment if only partially paid and upon
surrender thereof if fully paid:
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FIRST: To the payment of all amounts due the Trustee under Section
607.
SECOND: To the payment of the amounts then due and unpaid upon the
Securities of that series for principal (and premium, if any) and
interest, in respect of which or for the benefit of which such money has
been collected, ratably, without preference or priority of any kind,
according to the amounts due and payable on such Securities for principal
(and premium, if any) and interest, respectively.
THIRD: To the Company or the Guarantor or both, as they are
entitled.
Section 507. LIMITATION ON SUITS. No Holder of any Security of any
series shall have any right to institute any proceeding, judicial or otherwise,
with respect to this Indenture, or for the appointment of a receiver or trustee,
or for any other remedy hereunder, unless
(1) such Holder has previously given written notice to the Trustee
of a continuing Event of Default with respect to Securities of such
series;
(2) the Holders of not less than 25% in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series shall have made written request to
the Trustee to institute proceedings in respect of such Event of Default
in its own name as Trustee hereunder;
(3) such Holder or Holders have offered to the Trustee reasonable
indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities to be incurred in
compliance with such request;
(4) the Trustee for 60 days after its receipt of such notice,
request and offer of indemnity has failed to institute any such
proceeding; and
(5) no direction inconsistent with such written request has been
given to the Trustee during such 60-
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day period by the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of such series (subject to, in the case of any
series of Securities held as trust assets of a Fund American Trust and
with respect to which a Security Exchange has not theretofore occurred,
such consent of the holders of the Preferred Securities and the Common
Securities of such Fund American Trust as may be required under the
Declaration of Trust of such Fund American Trust);
it being understood and intended that no one or more Holders of Securities of
such series 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 Holders of Securities of such series, or to obtain or to
seek to obtain priority or preference over any other such Holders or to enforce
any right under this Indenture, except in the manner herein provided and for the
equal and proportionate benefit of all the Holders of all Securities of such
series.
The Company expressly acknowledges that if, prior to a Security
Exchange with respect to the Securities of any series, a Default with respect to
the Securities of such series shall have occurred, under the circumstances set
forth in the applicable Declaration of Trust, any holder of Preferred Securities
of the applicable Fund American Trust may, to the extent permitted by applicable
law, enforce directly against the Company the applicable Property Trustee's
rights hereunder. In furtherance of the foregoing and for the avoidance of any
doubt, the Company acknowledges that, under the circumstances described in the
applicable Declaration of Trust, any such holder of Preferred Securities, in its
own name, in the name of the applicable Fund American Trust or in the name of
the holders of the Preferred Securities issued by such Fund American Trust, may
institute or cause to be instituted a proceeding, including, without limitation,
any suit in equity, an action at law or other judicial or administrative
proceeding, to enforce the applicable Property Trustee's rights hereunder
directly against the Company as issuer of the applicable series of Securities,
and may prosecute such proceeding to judgment or final decree, and enforce the
same against the Company.
Section 508. UNCONDITIONAL RIGHT OF
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SECURITYHOLDERS TO RECEIVE PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST. Notwithstanding any
other provisions in this Indenture, the Holder of any Security shall have the
right, which is absolute and unconditional, to receive payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) and (subject to Section 307) interest on such Security
on the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case
of redemption or repayment, on the Redemption Date or Repayment Date, as the
case may be) and to institute suit for the enforcement of any such payment, and
such right shall not be impaired without the consent of such Holder.
Section 509. RESTORATION OF RIGHTS AND REMEDIES. If the Trustee or
any Securityholder has instituted any proceeding to enforce any right or remedy
under this Indenture and such proceeding has been discontinued or abandoned for
any reason, then and in every such case the Company, the Trustee, the Guarantor
and the Securityholders shall, subject to any determination in such proceeding,
be restored severally and respectively to their former positions hereunder, and
thereafter all rights and remedies of the Trustee and the Securityholders shall
continue as though no such proceeding had been instituted.
Section 510. RIGHTS AND REMEDIES CUMULATIVE. No right or remedy
herein conferred upon or reserved to the Trustee or to the Securityholders is
intended to be exclusive of any other right or remedy, and every right and
remedy shall, to the extent permitted by law, be cumulative and in addition to
every other right and remedy given hereunder or now or hereafter existing at law
or in equity or otherwise. The assertion or employment of any right or remedy
hereunder, or otherwise, shall not prevent the concurrent assertion or
employment of any other appropriate right or remedy.
Section 511. DELAY OR OMISSION NOT WAIVER. No delay or omission of
the Trustee or of any Holder of any Security to exercise any right or remedy
accruing upon any Event of Default shall impair any such right or remedy or
constitute a waiver of any such Event of Default or an acquiescence therein.
Every right and remedy given by this
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Article or by law to the Trustee or to the Securityholders may be exercised from
time to time, and as often as may be deemed expedient, by the Trustee or by the
Securityholders, as the case may be.
Section 512. CONTROL BY SECURITYHOLDERS. The Holders of a majority
in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series (subject to, in
the case of any series of Securities held as trust assets of a Fund American
Trust and with respect to which a Security Exchange has not theretofore
occurred, such consent of the holders of the Preferred Securities and the Common
Securities of such Fund American Trust as may be required under the Declaration
of Trust of such Fund American Trust) shall have the right to direct the time,
method and place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee or exercising any trust or power conferred on the Trustee with respect
to the Securities of such series, provided that
(1) the Trustee shall have the right to decline to follow any such
direction if the Trustee, being advised by counsel, determines that the
action so directed may not lawfully be taken or would conflict with this
Indenture or if the Trustee in good faith shall, by a Responsible Officer,
determine that the proceedings so directed would involve it in personal
liability or be unjustly prejudicial to the Holders not taking part in
such direction, and
(2) the Trustee may take any other action deemed proper by the
Trustee which is not inconsistent with such direction.
Section 513. WAIVER OF PAST DEFAULTS. The Holders of not less than a
majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series
(subject to, in the case of any series of Securities held as trust assets of a
Fund American Trust and with respect to which a Security Exchange has not
theretofore occurred, such consent of the holders of the Preferred Securities
and the Common Securities of such Fund American Trust as may be required under
the Declaration of Trust of such Fund American Trust) may on behalf of the
Holders of all the Securities of such series waive any past default hereunder
with respect to such series and its consequences, except a default not
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theretofore cured
(1) in the payment of the principal of (or premium, if any) or
interest on any Security of such series, or in the payment of any sinking
or purchase fund or analogous obligation with respect to the Securities of
such series, or
(2) in respect of a covenant or provision hereof which under Article
Nine cannot be modified or amended without the consent of the Holder of
each Outstanding Security of such series.
Upon any such waiver, such default shall cease to exist, and any
Event of Default arising therefrom shall be deemed to have been cured, for every
purpose of this Indenture; but no such waiver shall extend to any subsequent or
other default or impair any right consequent thereon.
Section 514. UNDERTAKING FOR COSTS. All parties to this Indenture
agree, and each Holder of any Security by his acceptance thereof shall be deemed
to have agreed, that any court may in its discretion require, in any suit for
the enforcement of any right or remedy under this Indenture, or in any suit
against the Trustee for any action taken or omitted by it as Trustee, the filing
by any party litigant in such suit of an undertaking to pay the costs of such
suit, and that such court may in its discretion assess reasonable costs,
including reasonable attorneys' fees, against any party litigant in such suit,
having due regard to the merits and good faith of the claims or defenses made by
such party litigant; but the provisions of this Section shall not apply to any
suit instituted by the Trustee, to any suit instituted by any Securityholder, or
group of Securityholders, holding in the aggregate more than 10% in principal
amount of the Outstanding Securities of any series to which the suit relates, 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 on or after
the respective Stated Maturities expressed in such Security (or, in the case of
redemption or repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or Repayment
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Date).
Section 515. WAIVER OF STAY OR EXTENSION LAWS. The Company and the
Guarantor each covenants (to the extent that it may lawfully do so) that it will
not at any time insist upon, or plead, or in any manner whatsoever claim or take
the benefit or advantage of, any stay or extension law wherever enacted, now or
at any time hereafter in force, which may affect the covenants or the
performance of this Indenture; and the Company and the Guarantor each (to the
extent that it may lawfully do so) hereby expressly waives all benefit or
advantage of any such law, and covenants that it will not hinder, delay or
impede the execution of any power herein granted to the Trustee, but will suffer
and permit the execution of every such power as though no such law had been
enacted.
ARTICLE SIX
THE TRUSTEE
Section 601. CERTAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. (a) Except during
the continuance of an Event of Default with respect to any series of Securities,
(1) the Trustee undertakes to perform such duties and only such
duties as are specifically set forth in this Indenture with respect to the
Securities of such series, and no implied covenants or obligations shall
be read into this Indenture against the Trustee; and
(2) in the absence of bad faith on its part, the Trustee may, with
respect to Securities of such series, conclusively rely, as to the truth
of the statements and the correctness of the opinions expressed therein,
upon certificates or opinions furnished to the Trustee and conforming to
the requirements of this Indenture; but in the case of any such
certificates or opinions which by any 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
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or not they conform to the requirements of this Indenture.
(b) In case an Event of Default with respect to any series of
Securities has occurred and is continuing, the Trustee shall exercise with
respect to the Securities of such series such of the rights and powers vested in
it by this Indenture, and use the same degree of care and skill in their
exercise, as a prudent person would exercise or use under the circumstances in
the conduct of such person's own affairs.
(c) No provision of this Indenture shall be construed to relieve the
Trustee from liability for its own negligent action, its own negligent failure
to act, or its own willful misconduct, except that
(1) this Subsection shall not be construed to limit the effect of
Subsection (a) of this Section;
(2) the Trustee shall not be liable for any error of judgment made
in good faith by a Responsible Officer, unless it shall be proved that the
Trustee was negligent in ascertaining the pertinent facts;
(3) the Trustee shall not be liable with respect to any action taken
or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in accordance with the
direction of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the
Outstanding Securities of any series relating to the time, method and
place of conducting any proceeding for any remedy available to the
Trustee, or exercising any trust or power conferred upon the Trustee,
under this Indenture with respect to the Securities of such series; and
(4) no provision of this Indenture shall require the Trustee to
expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in
the performance of any of its duties hereunder, or in the exercise of any
of its rights or powers, if it shall have reasonable grounds for believing
that repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against such risk or
liability is not reasonably assured to it.
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(d) Whether or not therein expressly so provided, every provision of
this Indenture relating to the conduct or affecting the liability of or
affording protection to the Trustee shall be subject to the provisions of this
Section.
Section 602. NOTICE OF DEFAULTS. Within 90 days after the occurrence
of any default hereunder with respect to Securities of any series, the Trustee
shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders of such series, as their names and
addresses appear in the Security Register, notice of such default hereunder
known to the Trustee, unless such default shall have been cured or waived;
provided, however, that, except in the case of a default in the payment of the
principal of (or premium, if any) or interest on any Security of such series or
in the payment of any sinking or purchase fund installment or analogous
obligation with respect to Securities of such series, 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 determine that the withholding of such
notice is in the interests of the Securityholders of such series; and provided,
further, that in the case of any default of the character specified in Section
501(4) or (5) with respect to Securities of such series no such notice to
Securityholders of such series shall be given until at least 90 days after the
occurrence thereof. For the purpose of this Section, the term "default", with
respect to Securities of any series, means any event which is, or after notice
or lapse of time or both would become, an Event of Default with respect to
Securities of such series.
Section 603. CERTAIN RIGHTS OF TRUSTEE. Except as otherwise provided
in Section 601:
(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, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture other paper or document believed by it to be genuine and
to have been signed or presented by the proper party or parties;
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(b) any request or direction of the Company or the Guarantor
mentioned herein shall be sufficiently evidenced by a Company Request or
Company Order, or a Guarantor Request or Guarantor Order, as applicable,
and any resolution of the Board of Directors or the Guarantor Board of
Directors may be sufficiently evidenced by a Board Resolution or a
Guarantor's Board Resolution, applicable;
(c) whenever in the administration of this Indenture the Trustee
shall deem it desirable that a matter be proved or established prior to
taking, suffering or omitting any action hereunder, the Trustee (unless
other evidence be herein specifically prescribed) may, in the absence of
bad faith on its part, rely upon an Officers' Certificate;
(d) the Trustee may consult with counsel of its selection and the
written advice of such counsel or any Opinion of Counsel shall be full and
complete authorization and protection in respect of any action taken,
suffered or omitted by it hereunder in good faith and in reliance thereon;
(e) the Trustee shall be under no obligation to exercise any of the
rights or powers vested in it by this Indenture at the request or
direction of any of the Securityholders pursuant to this Indenture, unless
such Securityholders shall have offered to the Trustee reasonable security
or indemnity against the costs, expenses and liabilities which might be
incurred by it in compliance with such request or direction;
(f) the Trustee shall not be bound to make any investigation into
the facts or matters stated in any resolution, certificate, statement,
instrument, opinion, report, notice, request, direction, consent, order,
bond, debenture other paper or document, but the Trustee, in its
discretion, may make such further inquiry or investigation into such facts
or matters as it may see fit, and, if the Trustee shall determine to make
such further inquiry or investigation, it shall be entitled to examine the
books, records and premises of the Company and the Guarantor, personally
or by agent
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or attorney; 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 or
attorneys and the Trustee shall not be responsible for any misconduct or
negligence on the part of any agent or attorney appointed with due care by
it hereunder.
Section 604. NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR RECITALS OR ISSUANCE OF SECURITIES.
The recitals contained herein and in the Securities, except the certificates of
authentication, shall be taken as the statements of the Company or the
Guarantor, as applicable, and the Trustee assumes no responsibility for their
correctness. The Trustee makes no representations as to the validity or
sufficiency of this Indenture or of the Securities. The Trustee shall not be
accountable for the use or application by the Company or the Guarantor of
Securities or the proceeds thereof.
Section 605. MAY HOLD SECURITIES. The Trustee, any Paying Agent, the
Security Registrar or any other agent of the Company or the Guarantor, in its
individual or any other capacity, may become the owner or pledgee of Securities
and, subject to Sections 608 and 613, may otherwise deal with the Company or the
Guarantor with the same rights it would have if it were not Trustee, Paying
Agent, Security Registrar or such other agent.
Section 606. MONEY HELD IN TRUST. Money held by the Trustee in trust
hereunder need not be segregated from other funds except to the extent required
by law. The Trustee shall be under no liability for interest on any money
received by it hereunder except as otherwise agreed with the Company or the
Guarantor.
Section 607. COMPENSATION AND REIMBURSEMENT. The Company and the
Guarantor each (without duplication) agrees
(1) to pay to the Trustee from time to time such compensation for
all services rendered by it hereunder
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as the parties shall agree from time to time (which compensation shall not
be limited by any provision of law in regard to the compensation of a
trustee of an express trust);
(2) except as otherwise expressly provided herein, to reimburse the
Trustee upon its request for all reasonable expenses, disbursements and
advances incurred or made by the Trustee in accordance with any provision
of this Indenture (including the reasonable compensation and the expenses
and disbursements of its agents and counsel), except any such expense,
disbursement or advance as may be attributable to its negligence or bad
faith; and
(3) to indemnify the Trustee for, and to hold it harmless against,
any loss, liability or expense incurred without negligence or bad faith on
its part, arising out of or in connection with the acceptance or
administration of this trust, including the costs and expenses of
defending itself against any claim or liability in connection with the
exercise or performance of any of its powers or duties hereunder.
As security for the performance of the obligations of the Company
and the Guarantor under this Section the Trustee shall have a lien prior to the
Securities upon all property and funds held or collected by the Trustee as such,
except funds held in trust for the payment of principal of (and premium, if any)
or interest on particular Securities.
Section 608. DISQUALIFICATION; CONFLICTING INTERESTS. The Trustee
for the Securities of any series issued hereunder shall be subject to the
provisions of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act during the period of
time provided for therein. In determining whether the Trustee has a conflicting
interest as defined in Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act with respect to
the Securities of any series, there shall be excluded for purposes of the
conflicting interest provisions of such Section 310(b) the Securities of every
other series issued under this Indenture and every series of securities issued
under any other indentures if the requirements for such exclusion set forth in
Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act are met. Nothing herein shall prevent
the Trustee from
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filing with the Commission the application referred to in the second to last
paragraph of Section 310(b) of the Trust Indenture Act.
Section 609. CORPORATE TRUSTEE REQUIRED; ELIGIBILITY. There shall at
all times be a Trustee hereunder with respect to each series of Securities,
which shall be a corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the
United States of America or of any State, authorized under such laws to exercise
corporate trust powers, having a combined capital and surplus of at least
$50,000,000, and subject to supervision or examination by Federal or State
authority. If such corporation publishes reports of condition at least annually,
pursuant to law or to the requirements of the aforesaid supervising or examining
authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the combined capital and
surplus of such corporation shall be deemed to be its combined capital and
surplus as set forth in its most recent report of condition so published. If at
any time the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, it shall resign
immediately in the manner and with the effect hereinafter specified in this
Article.
Section 610. RESIGNATION AND REMOVAL; APPOINTMENT OF SUCCESSOR. (a)
No resignation or removal of the Trustee and no appointment of a successor
Trustee pursuant to this Article shall become effective until the acceptance of
appointment by the successor Trustee under Section 611.
(b) The Trustee may resign with respect to any series of Securities
at any time by giving written notice thereof to the Company and the Guarantor.
If an instrument of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been
delivered to the Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of
resignation, the resigning Trustee may petition any court of competent
jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor Trustee.
(c) The Trustee may be removed with respect to any series of
Securities at any time by Act of the Holders
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of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of that series,
delivered to the Trustee and to the Company and the Guarantor. If an instrument
of acceptance by a successor Trustee shall not have been delivered to the
Trustee within 30 days after the giving of such notice of removal, the removed
Trustee may petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of
a successor Trustee.
(d) If at any time:
(1) the Trustee shall fail to comply with Section 310(b) of the
Trust Indenture Act pursuant to Section 608(a) with respect to any series
of Securities after written request therefor by the Company, by the
Guarantor or by any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security of that series for at least 6 months, or
(2) the Trustee shall cease to be eligible under Section 609 with
respect to any series of Securities and shall fail to resign after written
request therefor by the Company, the Guarantor or by any such
Securityholder, or
(3) the Trustee shall become incapable of acting with respect to any
series of Securities, or
(4) the Trustee shall be adjudged a bankrupt or insolvent or a
receiver of the Trustee or of its property shall be appointed or any
public officer shall take charge or control of the Trustee or of its
property or affairs for the purpose of rehabilitation, conservation or
liquidation,
then, in any such case, (i) the Company by a Board Resolution, or the Guarantor
by a Guarantor's Board Resolution, may remove the Trustee, with respect to the
series, or in the case of Clause (4), with respect to all series, or (ii)
subject to Section 514, any Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a
Security of such series for at least 6 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 with respect
to the
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series, or, in the case of Clause (4), with respect to all series.
(e) If the Trustee shall resign, be removed or become incapable of
acting with respect to any series of Securities, or if a vacancy shall occur in
the office of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities for any
cause, the Company, by a Board Resolution, shall promptly appoint a successor
Trustee for that series of Securities. If, within one year after such
resignation, removal or incapacity, or the occurrence of such vacancy, a
successor Trustee with respect to such series of Securities shall be appointed
by Act of the Holders of a majority in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of such series delivered to the Company, the Guarantor and the
retiring Trustee, the successor Trustee so appointed shall, forthwith upon its
acceptance of such appointment, become the successor Trustee with respect to
such series and supersede the successor Trustee appointed by the Company with
respect to such series. If no successor Trustee with respect to such series
shall have been so appointed by the Company or the Securityholders of such
series and accepted appointment in the manner hereinafter provided, any
Securityholder who has been a bona fide Holder of a Security of that series for
at least 6 months may, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated,
petition any court of competent jurisdiction for the appointment of a successor
Trustee with respect to such series.
(f) The Company shall give notice of each resignation and each
removal of the Trustee with respect to any series and each appointment of a
successor Trustee with respect to any series by mailing written notice of such
event by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to the Holders of Securities of that
series as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Each notice
shall include the name of the successor Trustee and the address of its principal
Corporate Trust Office.
Section 611. ACCEPTANCE OF APPOINTMENT BY SUCCESSOR. Every successor
Trustee appointed hereunder shall execute, acknowledge and deliver to the
Company, the
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Guarantor and to the predecessor Trustee an instrument accepting such
appointment, and thereupon the resignation or removal of the predecessor Trustee
shall become effective with respect to any series as to which it is resigning or
being removed as Trustee, and such successor Trustee, without any further act,
deed or conveyance, shall become vested with all the rights, powers, trusts and
duties of the predecessor Trustee with respect to any such series; but, on
request of the Company, the Guarantor or the successor Trustee, such predecessor
Trustee shall, upon payment of its reasonable charges, if any, execute and
deliver an instrument transferring to such successor Trustee all the rights,
powers and trusts of the predecessor Trustee, and shall duly assign, transfer
and deliver to such successor Trustee all property and money held by such
predecessor Trustee hereunder with respect to all or any such series, subject
nevertheless to its lien, if any, provided for in Section 607. Upon request of
any such successor Trustee, the Company and the Guarantor shall execute any and
all instruments for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to such
successor Trustee all such rights, powers and trusts.
In case of the appointment hereunder of a successor Trustee with
respect to the Securities of one or more (but not all) series, the Company, the
Guarantor, the predecessor Trustee and each successor Trustee with respect to
the Securities of any applicable series shall execute and deliver an indenture
supplemental hereto which shall contain such provisions as shall be deemed
necessary or desirable to confirm that all the rights, powers, trusts and duties
of the predecessor Trustee with respect to the Securities of any series as to
which the predecessor Trustee is not being succeeded shall continue to be vested
in the predecessor Trustee, and shall add to or change any of the provisions of
this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, it being
understood that nothing herein or in such supplemental indenture shall
constitute such Trustees co-trustees of the same trust and that each such
Trustee shall be Trustee of a trust or trusts hereunder separate and apart from
any trust or trusts hereunder
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administered by any other such Trustee.
No successor Trustee with respect to any series of Securities shall
accept its appointment unless at the time of such acceptance such successor
Trustee shall be qualified and eligible with respect to that series under this
Article.
Section 612. MERGER, CONVERSION, CONSOLIDATION OR SUCCESSION TO
BUSINESS. Any corporation into which the Trustee may be merged or converted or
with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting from any merger,
conversion or consolidation to which the Trustee shall be a party, or any
corporation succeeding to all or substantially all of the corporate trust
business of the Trustee, shall be the successor of the Trustee hereunder,
provided such corporation shall be otherwise qualified and eligible under this
Article, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the
part of any of the parties hereto. In case any Securities shall have been
authenticated, but not delivered, by the Trustee then in office, any successor
by merger, conversion or consolidation to such authenticating Trustee may adopt
such authentication and deliver the Securities so authenticated with the same
effect as if such successor Trustee had itself authenticated such Securities.
Section 613. PREFERENTIAL COLLECTION OF CLAIMS AGAINST COMPANY. (a)
Subject to Subsection (b) of this Section, if the Trustee shall be or shall
become a creditor, directly or indirectly, secured or unsecured, of the Company
within 3 months prior to a default, as defined in Subsection (c) of this
Section, or subsequent to such a default, then, unless and until such default
shall be cured, the Trustee shall set apart and hold in a special account for
the benefit of the Trustee individually, the Holders of the Securities and the
holders of other indenture securities (as defined in Subsection (c) of this
Section):
(1) an amount equal to any and all reductions in the amount due and
owing upon any claim as such creditor in respect of principal or interest,
effected after the beginning of such 3-month period and valid as against
the Company and its other creditors, except any such reduction resulting
from the receipt or disposition of any property described in paragraph (2)
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of this Subsection, or from the exercise of any right of set-off which the
Trustee could have exercised if a petition in bankruptcy had been filed by
or against the Company upon the date of such default; and
(2) all property received by the Trustee in respect of any claim as
such creditor, either as security therefor, or in satisfaction or
composition thereof, or otherwise, after the beginning of such 3-month
period, or an amount equal to the proceeds of any such property, if
disposed of, subject, however, to the rights, if any, of the Company and
its other creditors in such property or such proceeds.
Nothing herein contained, however, shall affect the right of the
Trustee
(A) to retain for its own account (i) payments made on account of
any such claim by any Person (other than the Company) who is liable
thereon, and (ii) the proceeds of the bona fide sale of any such claim by
the Trustee to a third person, and (iii) distributions made in cash,
securities or other property in respect of claims filed against the
Company in bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization
pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law;
(B) to realize, for its own account, upon any property held by it as
security for any such claim, if such property was so held prior to the
beginning of such 3-month period;
(C) to realize, for its own account, but only to the extent of the
claim hereinafter mentioned, upon any property held by it as Security for
any such claim, if such claim was created after the beginning of such
3-month period and such property was received as security therefor
simultaneously with the creation thereof, and if the Trustee shall sustain
the burden of proving that at the time such property was so received the
Trustee had no reasonable cause to believe that a default as
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defined in Subsection (c) of this Section would occur within 3 months; or
(D) to receive payment on any claim referred to in paragraph (B) or
(C), against the release of any property held as security for such claim
as provided in paragraph (B) or (C), as the case may be, to the extent of
the fair value of such property.
For the purposes of paragraphs (B), (C) and (D), property
substituted after the beginning of such 3-month period for property held as
security at the time of such substitution shall, to the extent of the fair value
of the property released, have the same status as the property released, and, to
the extent that any claim referred to in any of such paragraphs is created in
renewal of or in substitution for or for the purpose of repaying or refunding
any pre-existing claim of the Trustee as such creditor, such claim shall have
the same status as such pre-existing claim.
If the Trustee shall be required to account, the funds and property
held in such special account and the proceeds thereof shall be apportioned
between the Trustee, the Securityholders and the holders of other indenture
securities in such manner that the Trustee, the Securityholders and the holders
of other indenture securities realize, as a result of payments from such special
account and payments of dividends on claims filed against the Company in
bankruptcy or receivership or in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the
Federal Bankruptcy Act or applicable State law, the same percentage of their
respective claims, figured before crediting to the claim of the Trustee anything
on account of the receipt by it from the Company of the funds and property in
such special account and before crediting to the respective claims of the
Trustee and the Securityholders and the holders of other indenture securities
dividends on claims filed against the Company in bankruptcy or receivership or
in proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or
applicable State law, but after crediting thereon receipts on account of the
indebtedness represented by their respective claims from all sources other than
from such dividends and from the funds and property so held in such special
account. As used in this paragraph, with respect to any claim, the term
"dividends" shall include any
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distribution with respect to such claim, in bankruptcy or receivership or
proceedings for reorganization pursuant to the Federal Bankruptcy Act or
applicable State law, whether such distribution is made in cash, securities, or
other property, but shall not include any such distribution with respect to the
secured portion, if any, of such claim. The court in which such bankruptcy,
receivership or proceedings for reorganization is pending shall have
jurisdiction (i) to apportion between the Trustee and the Securityholders and
the holders of other indenture Securities in accordance with the provisions of
this paragraph, the funds and property held in such special account and proceeds
thereof, or (ii) in lieu of such apportionment, in whole or in part, to give to
the provisions of this paragraph due consideration in determining the fairness
of the distributions to be made to the Trustee and the Securityholders and the
holders of other indenture Securities with respect to their respective claims,
in which event it shall not be necessary to liquidate or to appraise the value
of any Securities or other property held in such special account or as Security
for any such claim, or to make a specific allocation of such distributions as
between the secured and unsecured portions of such claims, or otherwise to apply
the provisions of this paragraph as a mathematical formula.
Any Trustee which has resigned or been removed after the beginning
of such 3-month period shall be subject to the provisions of this Subsection as
though such resignation or removal had not occurred. If any Trustee has resigned
or been removed prior to the beginning of such 3-month period, it shall be
subject to the provisions of this Subsection if and only if the following
conditions exist:
(i) the receipt of property or reduction of claim, which would have
given rise to the obligation to account, if such Trustee had continued as
Trustee, occurred after the beginning of such 3-month period; and
(ii) such receipt of property or reduction of claim occurred within
3 months after such resignation or removal.
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(b) There shall be excluded from the operation of Subsection (a) of
this Section a creditor relationship arising from
(1) the ownership or acquisition of securities issued under any
indenture, or any security or securities having a maturity of one year or
more at the time of acquisition by the Trustee;
(2) advances authorized by a receivership or bankruptcy court of
competent jurisdiction, or by this Indenture, for the purpose of
preserving any property which shall at any time be subject to the lien of
this Indenture or of discharging tax liens or other prior liens or
encumbrances thereon, if notice of such advances and of the circumstances
surrounding the making thereof is given to the Securityholders at the time
and in the manner provided in this Indenture;
(3) disbursements made in the ordinary course of business in the
capacity of trustee under an indenture, transfer agent, registrar,
custodian, paying agent, fiscal agent or depositary, or other similar
capacity;
(4) an indebtedness created as a result of services rendered or
premises rented; or an indebtedness created as a result of goods or
securities sold in a cash transaction as defined in Subsection (c) of this
Section;
(5) the ownership of stock or of other securities of a corporation
organized under the provisions of Section 25(a) of the Federal Reserve
Act, as amended, which is directly or indirectly a creditor of the
Company; or
(6) the acquisition, ownership, acceptance or negotiation of any
drafts, bills of exchange, acceptances or obligations which fall within
the classification of self liquidating paper as defined in Subsection (c)
of this Section.
(c) For the purposes of this Section only:
(1) The term "default" means any failure to make
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payment in full of the principal of or interest on any of the securities
or upon the other indenture securities when and as such principal or
interest becomes due and payable.
(2) The term "other indenture securities" means securities upon
which the Company is an obligor outstanding under any other indenture (i)
under which the Trustee is also trustee, (ii) which contains provisions
substantially similar to the provisions of this Section, and (iii) under
which a default exists at the time of the apportionment of the funds and
property held in such special account.
(3) The term "cash transaction" means any transaction in which full
payment for goods or securities sold is made within 7 days after delivery
of the goods or securities in currency or in checks or other orders drawn
upon banks or bankers and payable upon demand.
(4) The term "self-liquidating paper" means any draft, ▇▇▇▇ of
exchange, acceptance or obligation which is made, drawn, negotiated or
incurred by the Company for the purpose of financing the purchase,
processing, manufacturing, shipment, storage or sale of goods, wares or
merchandise and which is secured by documents evidencing title to,
possession of, or a lien upon, the goods, wares or merchandise or the
receivables or proceeds arising from the sale of the goods, wares or
merchandise previously constituting the security, provided the security is
received by the Trustee simultaneously with the creation of the creditor
relationship with the Company arising from the making, drawing,
negotiating or incurring of the draft, ▇▇▇▇ of exchange, acceptance or
obligation.
(5) The term "Company" means any obligor upon the Securities.
Section 614. APPOINTMENT OF AUTHENTICATING AGENT. At any time when
any of the Securities remain Outstanding the Trustee, with the approval of the
Company, may appoint
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an Authenticating Agent or Agents with respect to one or more series of
Securities which shall be authorized to act on behalf of the Trustee to
authenticate Securities of such series issued upon exchange, registration of
transfer or partial redemption thereof or pursuant to Section 306, and
Securities so authenticated shall be entitled to the benefits of this Indenture
and shall be valid and obligatory for all purposes as if authenticated by the
Trustee hereunder. Wherever reference is made in this Indenture to the
authentication and delivery of Securities by the Trustee or the Trustee's
certificate of authentication, such reference shall be deemed to include
authentication and delivery on behalf of the Trustee by an Authenticating Agent
and a certificate of authentication executed on behalf of the Trustee by an
Authenticating Agent. Each Authenticating Agent shall be acceptable to the
Company and shall at all times be a corporation organized and doing business
under the laws of the United States of America, any State thereof or the
District of Columbia, authorized under such laws to act as an Authenticating
Agent, having a combined capital and surplus of not less than $50,000,000 and,
if other than the Company itself, subject to supervision or examination by
Federal or State authority. If such Authenticating Agent publishes reports of
condition at least annually, pursuant to law or to the requirements of said
supervising or examining authority, then for the purposes of this Section, the
combined capital and surplus of such Authenticating Agent shall be deemed to be
its combined capital and surplus as set forth in its most recent report of
condition so published. If at any time an Authenticating Agent shall cease to be
eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, such Authenticating
Agent shall resign immediately in the manner and with the effect specified in
this Section.
Any corporation into which an Authenticating Agent may be merged or
converted or with which it may be consolidated, or any corporation resulting
from any merger, conversion or consolidation to which such Authenticating Agent
shall be a party, or any corporation succeeding to the corporate agency or
corporate trust business of an Authenticating Agent, shall continue to be an
Authenticating Agent, provided such corporation shall be otherwise eligible
under this Section, without the execution or filing of any paper or any further
act on the part of the Trustee or the
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Authenticating Agent.
An Authenticating Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Trustee and, if other than the Company, to the Company.
The Trustee may at any time terminate the agency of an Authenticating Agent by
giving written notice thereof to such Authenticating Agent and, if other than
the Company, to the Company. Upon receiving such a notice of resignation or upon
such a termination, or in case at any time such Authenticating Agent shall cease
to be eligible in accordance with the provisions of this Section, the Trustee,
with the approval of the Company, may appoint a successor Authenticating Agent
which shall be acceptable to the Company and shall mail written notice of such
appointment by first-class mail, postage prepaid, to all Holders of Securities
of the series with respect to which such Authenticating Agent will serve, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register. Any successor
Authenticating Agent upon acceptance of its appointment hereunder shall become
vested with all the rights, powers and duties of its predecessor hereunder, with
like effect as if originally named as an Authenticating Agent. No successor
Authenticating Agent shall be appointed unless eligible under the provisions of
this Section.
The Trustee agrees to pay to each Authenticating Agent (other than
an Authenticating Agent appointed at the request of the Company from time to
time) reasonable compensation for its services under this Section, and the
Trustee shall be entitled to be reimbursed for such payments, subject to the
provisions of Section 607.
If an appointment with respect to one or more series is made
pursuant to this Section, the Securities of such series may have endorsed
thereon, in addition to the Trustee's certificate of authentication, an
alternate certificate of authentication in the following form:
This is one of the Securities of the series designated therein
referred to in the within-mentioned Indenture.
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[ ], as
Trustee
By:
As Authenticating Agent
Dated: By:
Authorized Signatory
ARTICLE SEVEN
SECURITYHOLDERS' LISTS AND REPORTS BY
TRUSTEE, GUARANTOR AND COMPANY
Section 701. COMPANY TO FURNISH TRUSTEE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF
SECURITYHOLDERS. The Company will furnish or cause to be furnished to the
Trustee
(a) semi-annually, not more than 30 days after each Regular Record
Date, in each year in such form as the Trustee may reasonably require, a
list of the names and addresses of the Holders of Securities of such
series as of such 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 30 days prior
to the time such list is furnished,
excluding from any such list names and addresses received by the Trustee in its
capacity as Security Registrar.
Section 702. PRESERVATION OF INFORMATION; COMMUNICATIONS TO
SECURITYHOLDERS. (a) The Trustee shall preserve, in as current a form as is
reasonably practicable, the names and addresses of Holders of Securities
contained in the most recent list furnished to the Trustee as provided in
Section 701 and the names and addresses of Holders of Securities received by the
Trustee in its capacity as Security Registrar. The Trustee may destroy any list
furnished to it as provided in Section 701 upon receipt of a
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new list so furnished.
(b) If 3 or more Holders of Securities of any series (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 of such
series for a period of at least 6 months preceding the date of such application,
and such application states that the applicants desire to communicate with other
Holders of Securities of such series or with the Holders of all Securities with
respect to their rights under this Indenture or under such Securities and is
accompanied by a copy of the form of proxy or other communication which such
applicants propose to transmit, then the Trustee shall, within 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 Section 702(a), or
(ii) inform such applicants as to the approximate number of Holders
of Securities of such series or all Securities, as the case may be, whose
names and addresses appear in the information preserved at the time by the
Trustee in accordance with Section 702(a), and as to the approximate cost
of mailing to such Securityholders the form of proxy or other
communication, if any, specified in such application.
If the Trustee shall elect not to afford such applicants access to
such information, the Trustee shall, upon the written request of such
applicants, mail to each Holder of a Security of such series or to all
Securityholders, as the case may be, whose names and addresses appear in the
information preserved at the time by the Trustee in accordance with Section
702(a), 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 5 days after such tender, the
Trustee shall mail to such applicants and file with the
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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 of such series or
all Securityholders, as the case may be, 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 Securityholders
of such series or all Securityholders, as the case may be, 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) Every Holder of Securities, by receiving and holding the same,
agrees with the Company and the Trustee that neither the Company nor the Trustee
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
Section 702(b), regardless of the source from which such information was
derived, and that the Trustee shall not be held accountable by reason of mailing
any material pursuant to a request made under Section 702(b).
Section 703. REPORTS BY TRUSTEE. (a) The term "reporting date" as
used in this Section means [ ] of each year. Within 60 days after the reporting
date in each year, beginning in 200 , the Trustee shall transmit by mail to all
Securityholders, as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a
brief report dated as of such reporting date with respect to any of the
following events which may have occurred during the 12 months preceding the date
of such report (but if no such event has occurred within such period no report
need be transmitted):
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(1) any change to its eligibility under Section 609 and its
qualifications under Section 608;
(2) the creation of or any material change to a relationship
specified in Section 310(b)(1) through Section 310(b)(10) of the Trust
Indenture Act;
(3) the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee
elects so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made
by the Trustee (as such) which remain unpaid on the date of such report,
and for the reimbursement of which it claims or may claim a lien or
charge, prior to that of Securities of any series, on any property or
funds held or collected by it as Trustee, except that the Trustee shall
not be required (but may elect) to report such advances if such advances
so remaining unpaid aggregate not more than 1/2 of 1% of the principal
amount of the Securities of such series outstanding on the date of such
report;
(4) any change to the amount, interest rate and maturity date of all
other indebtedness owing by the Company (or by any other obligor on the
Securities) to the Trustee in its individual capacity, on the date of such
report, with a brief description of any property held as collateral
security therefor, except an indebtedness based upon a creditor
relationship arising in a manner described in Section 613(b)(2), (3), (4)
or (6);
(5) any change to the property and funds, if any, physically in the
possession of the Trustee as such on the date of such report;
(6) any additional issue of Securities which the Trustee has not
previously reported; and
(7) any action taken by the Trustee in the performance of its duties
hereunder which it has not previously reported and which in its opinion
materially affects the Securities, except action in respect of a default,
notice of which has been or is to be withheld by the Trustee in accordance
with Section 602.
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(b) The Trustee shall transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as
their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a brief report with
respect to the character and amount of any advances (and if the Trustee elects
so to state, the circumstances surrounding the making thereof) made by the
Trustee (as such) since the date of the last report transmitted pursuant to
Subsection (a) of this Section(or if no such report has yet been so transmitted,
since the date of execution of this instrument) for the reimbursement of which
it claims or may claim a lien or charge, prior to that of the Securities of any
series, on property or funds held or collected by it as Trustee, and which it
has not previously reported pursuant to this Subsection, except that the Trustee
shall not be required (but may elect) to report such advances if such advances
remaining unpaid at any time aggregate [ ] or less of the principal amount of
the Securities Outstanding of such series at such time, such report to be
transmitted within 90 days after such time.
(c) A copy of each such report shall, at the time of such
transmission to Securityholders, be filed by the Trustee with each stock
exchange upon which the Securities are listed, and also with the Commission. The
Company will notify the Trustee when the Securities are listed on any stock
exchange.
Section 704. REPORTS BY COMPANY AND GUARANTOR. The Company and the
Guarantor each will
(1) file with the Trustee, within 30 days after the Company or the
Guarantor is required to file the same with the Commission, copies of the
annual reports and of the information, documents and other reports (or
copies of such portions of any of the foregoing as the Commission may from
time to time by rules and regulations prescribe) which the Company or the
Guarantor may be required to file with the Commission pursuant to Section
13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; or, if neither
the Company nor the Guarantor is required to file
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information, documents or reports pursuant to either of said Sections,
then the Guarantor will file with the Trustee and the Commission, in
accordance with rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the
Commission, such of the supplementary and periodic information, documents
and reports which may be required pursuant to Section 13 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 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;
(2) file with the Trustee and the Commission, in accordance with
rules and regulations prescribed from time to time by the Commission, such
additional information, documents and reports with respect to compliance
by the Company or the Guarantor with the conditions and covenants of this
Indenture as may be required from time to time by such rules and
regulations; and
(3) transmit by mail to all Securityholders, as their names and
addresses appear in 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 paragraphs (1) and
(2) of this Section as may be required by rules and regulations prescribed
from time to time by the Commission.
ARTICLE EIGHT
CONSOLIDATION, AMALGAMATION, MERGER, CONVEYANCE OR TRANSFER
Section 801. COMPANY MAY CONSOLIDATE, ETC., ONLY ON CERTAIN TERMS.
The Company shall not consolidate or amalgamate with or merge into any other
Person or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an
entirety to any Person, unless:
(1) the Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation or into
which the Company is merged or the
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Person which acquires by conveyance or transfer the properties and assets
of the Company substantially as an entirety shall be a corporation or
limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the
United States of America, any State thereof, the District of Columbia or
Bermuda, and shall expressly assume, by an indenture supplemental hereto,
executed by the successor Person and the Guarantor and delivered to the
Trustee, in form satisfactory to the Trustee, the due and punctual payment
of the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on all the
Securities and the performance of every covenant of this Indenture on the
part of the Company to be performed or observed;
(2) immediately after giving effect to such transaction, no Event of
Default, and no event which, after notice or lapse of time, or both, would
become an Event of Default, shall have happened and be continuing; and
(3) either the Company or the successor Person has delivered to the
Trustee an Officers' Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating
that such consolidation, amalgamation, merger, conveyance or transfer and
such supplemental indenture comply with this Article and that all
conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have
been complied with.
Section 802. SUCCESSOR PERSON SUBSTITUTED FOR COMPANY. Upon any
consolidation, amalgamation or merger, or any conveyance or transfer of the
properties and assets of the Company substantially as an entirety in accordance
with Section 801, the successor Person formed by such consolida tion or
amalgamation or into which the Company is merged or to which such conveyance or
transfer is made shall succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise
every right and power of, the Company under this Indenture with the same effect
as if such successor Person had been named as the Company herein. In the event
of any such conveyance or transfer, the Company as the predecessor corporation
may be dissolved, wound up or liquidated at any time thereafter.
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Section 803. SUCCESSOR PERSON SUBSTITUTED FOR GUARANTOR. Upon any
consolidation, amalgamation or merger, or any conveyance or transfer of the
properties and assets of the Guarantor substantially as an entirety, whether
or not such event gives rise to an Event of Default under Section 501(5), the
successor Person formed by such consolidation or amalgamation or into which
the Guarantor is merged or to which such conveyance or transfer is made shall
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succeed to, and be substituted for, and may exercise every right and power of,
the Guarantor under this Indenture with the same effect as if such successor
Person had been named as the Guarantor herein. In the event of any such
conveyance or transfer, the Guarantor as the predecessor corporation may be
dissolved, wound up or liquidated at any time thereafter.
ARTICLE NINE
SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES
Section 901. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITHOUT CONSENT OF
SECURITYHOLDERS. Without the consent of the Holders of any Securities, the
Company, when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor, when authorized
by a Guarantor's Board Resolution, and the Trustee, at any time and from time to
time, may enter into one or more indentures supplemental hereto, in form
satisfactory to the Trustee, for any of the following purposes:
(1) to evidence the succession of another Person to the Company or
the Guarantor, and the assumption by any such successor of the covenants
of the Company herein and in the Securities contained; or
(2) to add to the covenants of the Company or the Guarantor, or to
surrender any right or power herein conferred upon the Company or the
Guarantor, for the benefit of the Holders of the Securities of any or all
series (and if such covenants or the surrender of such right or power are
to be for the benefit of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such covenants are expressly being included or such surrenders are
expressly being made solely for the benefit of one or more specified
series); or
(3) to cure any ambiguity, to correct or supplement any provision
herein which may be inconsistent with any other provision herein, or to
make any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising
under this Indenture; or
(4) to add to this Indenture such provisions as may be expressly
permitted by the TIA, excluding,
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however, the provisions referred to in Section 316(a)(2) of the TIA as in
effect at the date as of which this instrument was executed or any
corresponding provision in any similar federal statute hereafter enacted;
or
(5) to establish any form of Security, as provided in Article Two,
and to provide for the issuance of any series of Securities as provided in
Article Three and to set forth the terms thereof, and/or to add to the
rights of the Holders of the Securities of any series; or
(6) to evidence and provide for the acceptance of appointment by
another corporation as a successor Trustee hereunder with respect to one
or more series of Securities and to add to or change any of the provisions
of this Indenture as shall be necessary to provide for or facilitate the
administration of the trusts hereunder by more than one Trustee, pursuant
to Section 611; or
(7) to add any additional Events of Default in respect of the
Securities of any or all series (and if such additional Events of Default
are to be in respect of less than all series of Securities, stating that
such Events of Default are expressly being included solely for the benefit
of one or more specified series); or
(8) to provide for the issuance of Securities in coupon as well as
fully registered form.
No supplemental indenture for the purposes identified in Clauses
(2), (3), (5) or (7) above may be entered into if to do so would adversely
affect the interest of the Holders of Securities of any series.
Section 902. SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES WITH CONSENT OF
SECURITYHOLDERS. With the consent of the Holders of not less than a majority in
principal amount of the Outstanding Securities of each series affected by such
supplemental
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indenture or indentures (and, in the case of any series of Securities held as
trust assets of a Fund American Trust and with respect to which a Security
Exchange has not theretofore occurred, such consent of holders of the Preferred
Securities and the Common Securities of such Fund American Trust as may be
required under the Declaration of Trust of such Fund American Trust), by Act of
said Holders delivered to the Company, the Company and the Trustee, the Company,
when authorized by a Board Resolution, the Guarantor, when authorized by a
Guarantor's Board Resolution, and the Trustee may enter into an indenture or
indentures supplemental hereto for the purpose of adding any provisions to or
changing in any manner or eliminating any of the provisions of this Indenture or
of modifying in any manner the rights of the Holders of the Securities of each
such series under this Indenture; provided, however, that no such supplemental
indenture shall, without the consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security
affected thereby (and, in the case of any series of Securities held as trust
assets of a Fund American Trust and with respect to which a Security Exchange
has not theretofore occurred, such consent of holders of the Preferred
Securities and the Common Securities of such Fund American Trust as may be
required under the Declaration of Trust of such Fund American Trust),
(1) change the Maturity of the principal of, or the Stated Maturity
of any premium on, or any installment of interest on, any Security, or
reduce the principal amount thereof or the interest or any premium
thereon, or change the method of computing the amount of principal thereof
or interest thereon on any date or change any Place of Payment where, or
the coin or currency in which, any Security or any premium or interest
thereon is payable, or impair the right to institute suit for the
enforcement of any such payment on or after the Maturity or the Stated
Maturity, as the case may be, thereof (or, in the case of redemption or
repayment, on or after the Redemption Date or the Repayment Date, as the
case may be); or
(2) reduce the percentage in principal amount of the Outstanding
Securities of any series, the consent of whose Holders is required for any
such supplemental indenture, or the consent of whose Holders is required
for any waiver of compliance with certain provisions of
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this Indenture or certain defaults hereunder and their consequences,
provided for in this Indenture; or
(3) modify any of the provisions of this Section or Section 513,
except to increase any such percentage or to provide that certain other
provisions of this Indenture cannot be modified or waived without the
consent of the Holder of each Outstanding Security affected thereby.
A supplemental indenture which changes or eliminates any covenant or
other provision of this Indenture which has expressly been included solely for
the benefit of one or more particular series of Securities, or which modifies
the rights of the Holders of Securities of such series with respect to such
covenant or other provision, shall be deemed not to affect the rights under this
Indenture of the Holders of Securities of any other series.
It shall not be necessary for any Act of Securityholders under this
Section to approve the particular form of any proposed supplemental indenture,
but it shall be sufficient if such Act shall approve the substance thereof.
Section 903. EXECUTION OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. In executing, or
accepting the additional trusts created by, any supplemental indenture permitted
by this Article or the modifications thereby of the trusts created by this
Indenture, the Trustee shall be entitled to receive, and (subject to Section
601) shall be fully protected in relying upon, an Opinion of Counsel stating
that the execution of such supplemental indenture is authorized or permitted by
this Indenture. The Trustee may, but shall not (except to the extent required in
the case of a supplemental indenture entered into under Section 901(4) or
901(6)) be obligated to, enter into any such supplemental indenture which
affects the Trustee's own rights, duties or immunities under this Indenture or
otherwise.
Section 904. EFFECT OF SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES. Upon the execution
of any supplemental indenture under this Article, this Indenture shall be
modified in accordance
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therewith, and such supplemental indenture shall form a part of this Indenture
for all purposes; and every Holder of Securities theretofore or thereafter
authenticated and delivered hereunder shall be bound thereby to the extent
provided therein.
Section 905. CONFORMITY WITH TRUST INDENTURE ACT. Every supplemental
indenture executed pursuant to this Article shall conform to the requirements of
the TIA as then in effect.
Section 906. REFERENCE IN SECURITIES TO SUPPLEMENTAL INDENTURES.
Securities authenticated and delivered after the execution of any supplemental
indenture pursuant to this Article may, and shall if required by the Trustee,
bear a notation in form approved by the Trustee as to any matter provided for in
such supplemental indenture. If the Company shall so determine, new Securities
so modified as to conform, in the opinion of the Trustee and the Board of
Directors, to any such supplemental indenture may be prepared and executed by
the Company and authenticated and delivered by the Trustee in exchange for
Outstanding Securities.
ARTICLE TEN
COVENANTS
Section 1001. PAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL, PREMIUM AND INTEREST. With
respect to each series of Securities, the Company will duly and punctually pay
the principal of (and premium, if any) and interest on such Securities in
accordance with their terms and this Indenture, and will duly comply with all
the other terms, agreements and conditions contained in, or made in the
Indenture for the benefit of, the Securities of such series.
Section 1002. MAINTENANCE OF OFFICE OR AGENCY. The Company will
maintain an office or agency in each Place of Payment where Securities may be
presented or surrendered for payment, where Securities may be surrendered for
transfer or exchange and where notices and demands to or upon the Company in
respect of the Securities and this Indenture may be served. The Company will
give prompt
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written notice to the Trustee of the location, and of any change in the
location, of such office or agency. If at any time the Company shall fail to
maintain such office or agency or shall fail to furnish the Trustee with the
address thereof, such presentations, surrenders, notices and demands may be made
or served at the principal Corporate Trust Office of the Trustee, and the
Company hereby appoints the Trustee its agent to receive all such presentations,
surrenders, notices and demands.
The Guarantor will maintain an office or agency in each Place of
Payment where Securities to which the Guarantee applies may be presented or
surrendered for payment pursuant to the Guarantee and where notices and demands
to or upon the Guarantor in respect of the Guarantee and this Indenture may be
served. The Guarantor will give prompt written notice to the Trustee of the
location, and any change in the location, of such office or agency. If at any
time the Guarantor shall fail to maintain any such office or agency or shall
fail to furnish the Trustee with the address thereof, such presentations,
surrenders and demands may be made or served at the Principal Corporate Trust
Office of the Trustee, and the Guarantor hereby appoints the Trustee as its
agent to receive all such presentations, surrenders and demands.
Section 1003. MONEY FOR SECURITY PAYMENTS TO BE HELD IN TRUST. If
the Company shall at any time act as its own Paying Agent for any series of
Securities, it will, on or before each due date of the principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on, any of the Securities of such series, segregate
and hold in trust for the benefit of the Persons entitled thereto a sum
sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or interest so becoming
due until such sums shall be paid to such Persons or otherwise disposed of as
herein provided, and will promptly notify the Trustee of its action or failure
to act.
Whenever the Company shall have one or more Paying Agents for any
series of Securities, it will, on or prior to each due date of the principal of
(and premium, if any) or interest on, any Securities of such series, deposit
with a
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Paying Agent a sum sufficient to pay the principal (and premium, if any) or
interest so becoming due, such sum to be held in trust for the benefit of the
Persons entitled to such principal (and premium, if any) or interest, and
(unless such Paying Agent is the Trustee) the Company will promptly notify the
Trustee of its action or failure so to act.
The Company will cause each Paying Agent other than the Trustee for
any series of Securities to execute and deliver to the Trustee an instrument in
which such Paying Agent shall agree with the Trustee, subject to the provisions
of this Section, that such Paying Agent will
(1) hold all sums held by it for the payment of principal of (and
premium, if any) or interest on Securities of such series in trust for the
benefit of the Persons entitled thereto until such sums shall be paid to
such Persons or otherwise disposed of as herein provided;
(2) give the Trustee notice of any default by the Company (or any
other obligor upon the Securities of such series) in the making of any
such payment of principal (and premium, if any) or interest on the
Securities of such series; and
(3) at any time during the continuance of any such default, upon the
written request of the Trustee, forthwith pay to the Trustee all sums so
held in trust by such Paying Agent.
The Company or the Guarantor may at any time, for the purpose of
obtaining the satisfaction and discharge of this Indenture with respect to any
series of Securities or for any other purpose, pay, or by Company Order or
Guarantor Order direct any Paying Agent to pay, to the Trustee all sums held in
trust by the Company, the Guarantor or such Paying Agent in respect of each and
every series of Securities as to which it seeks to discharge this Indenture or,
if for any other purpose, all sums so held in trust by the Company or the
Guarantor in respect of all Securities, such sums to be held by the Trustee upon
the same trusts as those upon which such sums were held by the Company, the
Guarantor or such Paying Agent; and, upon such payment by
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any Paying Agent to the Trustee, such Paying Agent shall be released from all
further liability with respect to such money.
Any money deposited with the Trustee or any Paying Agent, or then
held by the Company or the Guarantor, in trust for the payment of the principal
of (and premium, if any) or interest on any Security of any series and remaining
unclaimed for two years after such principal (and premium, if any) or interest
has become due and payable shall be paid to the Company on Company Request (or
if deposited by the Guarantor, paid to the Guarantor upon Guarantor Request), or
(if then held by the Company or the Guarantor) shall be discharged from such
trust; and the Holder of such Security shall thereafter, as an unsecured general
creditor, look only to the Company and the Guarantor for payment thereof, and
all liability of the Trustee or such Paying Agent with respect to such trust
money, and all liability of the Company as trustee thereof, shall thereupon
cease. The Trustee or such Paying Agent, before being required to make any such
repayment, may at the expense of the Company and the Guarantor mail to the
Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be repaid was held in trust,
as their names and addresses appear in the Security Register, a notice that such
moneys remain unclaimed and that, after a date specified in the notice, which
shall not be less than 30 days from the date on which the notice was first
mailed to the Holders of the Securities as to which the money to be repaid was
held in trust, any unclaimed balance of such moneys then remaining will be paid
to the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, free of the trust formerly
impressed upon it.
The Company initially authorizes the Trustee to act as Paying Agent
for the Securities on its behalf. The Company may at any time and from time to
time authorize one or more Persons to act as Paying Agent in addition to or in
place of the Trustee with respect to any series of Securities issued under this
Indenture.
Section 1004. STATEMENT AS TO COMPLIANCE. The Company and the
Guarantor each will deliver to the Trustee,
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within 120 days after the end of each fiscal year, a written statement signed by
the principal executive officer, principal financial officer or principal
accounting officer of the Company or the Guarantor, as the case may be, stating
that
(1) a review of the activities of the Company or the Guarantor, as
the case may be, during such year and of its performance under this
Indenture and under the terms of the Securities has been made under his
supervision; and
(2) to the best of his knowledge, based on such review, the Company
or the Guarantor, as the case may be, has complied with all conditions and
covenants under this Indenture through such year, or, if there has been a
default in the fulfillment of any such obligation, specifying each such
default known to him and the nature and status thereof.
For purposes of this Section 1004, compliance shall be determined
without regard to any grace period (other than an Extension Period) or
requirement of notice provided pursuant to the terms of this Indenture.
Section 1005. CORPORATE EXISTENCE. Subject to Article Eight each of
the Company and the Guarantor will do or cause to be done all things necessary
to preserve and keep in full force and effect its corporate existence.
Section 1006. ADDITIONAL COVENANTS. The Company and the Guarantor
each covenants and agrees with each Holder of Securities of a series issued to a
Fund American Trust that it will not declare or pay any dividends or
distributions on, or redeem, purchase, acquire or make a liquidation payment
with respect to, any shares of its capital stock (other than (a) dividends,
distributions, redemptions, purchases, acquisitions or payments made with its
capital stock, (b) any declaration or payment of a dividend in connection with
the implementation of a stockholders' 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 of accrued dividends on preferred stock
upon the redemption, exchange or conversion of any preferred stock as may be
outstanding
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from time to time, (d) the purchase of fractional interests in shares of
preferred stock upon the redemption, exchange or conversion of such preferred
stock, (e) purchases or acquisitions of shares of common stock in connection
with the satisfaction of obligations under any employee benefit plan or other
contractual obligation or (f) as a result of a reclassification of capital stock
or the exchange or conversion of one class or series capital stock for another
class or series of capital stock), if at such time (i) there shall have occurred
an Event of Default, (ii) the Guarantor shall be in default with respect to its
payment of any obligations under the related Fund American Trust Guarantee or
(iii) the Company shall have given notice of its election to begin an Extension
Period as provided herein and shall not have rescinded such notice, or such
Extension Period, or any extension thereof, shall be continuing.
The Company also covenants with each Holder of Securities of a
series issued to a Fund American Trust (i) to maintain directly, or indirectly
through a wholly owned Subsidiary, 100% ownership of the Common Securities of
such Fund American Trust; provided, however, that any permitted successor of the
Company hereunder may succeed to the Company's ownership of such Common
Securities, (ii) not to voluntarily terminate, windup or liquidate such Fund
American Trust, except (a) in connection with a distribution of the Securities
of such series to the holders of Preferred Securities in liquidation of such
Fund American Trust or (b) in connection with certain mergers, consolidations or
amalgamations permitted by the related Declaration of Trust and (iii) to use its
reasonable best efforts, consistent with the terms and provisions of such
Declaration of Trust, to cause such Fund American Trust to remain classified as
a grantor trust and not as an association taxable as a corporation for United
States Federal income tax purposes.
ARTICLE ELEVEN
REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES
Section 1101. APPLICABILITY OF ARTICLE. The
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Company may reserve the right to redeem and pay before Stated Maturity all or
any part of the Securities of any series, either by optional redemption, sinking
or purchase fund or analogous obligation or otherwise, by provision therefor in
the form of Security for such series established and approved pursuant to
Section 202 and on such terms as are specified in such form or in the Board
Resolution or indenture supplemental hereto with respect to Securities of such
series as provided in Section 301. Redemption of Securities of any series shall
be made in accordance with the terms of such Securities and, to the extent that
this Article does not conflict with such terms, the succeeding Sections of this
Article.
Section 1102. ELECTION TO REDEEM; NOTICE TO TRUSTEE. The election of
the Company to redeem any Securities redeemable at the election of the Company
shall be evidenced by, or made pursuant to authority granted by, a Board
Resolution. In case of any redemption at the election of the Company of any
Securities of any series, the Company shall, at least 60 days prior to the
Redemption Date fixed by the Company (unless a shorter notice shall be
satisfactory to the Trustee), notify the Trustee of such Redemption Date and of
the principal amount of Securities of such series to be redeemed.
In the case of any redemption of Securities (i) prior to the
expiration of any restriction on such redemption provided in the terms of such
Securities or elsewhere in this Indenture, or (ii) pursuant to an election of
the Company which is subject to a condition specified in the terms of such
Securities, the Company shall furnish the Trustee with an Officers' Certificate
evidencing compliance with such restriction or condition.
Section 1103. SELECTION BY TRUSTEE OF SECURITIES TO BE REDEEMED. If
less than all the Securities of like tenor and terms of any series are to be
redeemed, the particular Securities to be redeemed shall be selected not more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date by the Trustee, from the Outstanding
Securities of such series not previously called for redemption, by such method
as the Trustee shall deem fair and appropriate and which may include provision
for the selection for redemption of portions of the principal of Securities of
such series of a
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denomination larger than the minimum authorized denomination for Securities of
that series. Unless otherwise provided in the terms of a particular series of
Securities, the portions of the principal of Securities so selected for partial
redemption shall be equal to the minimum authorized denomination of the
Securities of such series, or an integral multiple thereof, and the principal
amount which remains outstanding shall not be less than the minimum authorized
denomination for Securities of such series. If less than all the Securities of
unlike tenor and terms of a series are to be redeemed, the particular Securities
to be redeemed shall be selected by the Company.
The Trustee shall promptly notify the Company in writing of the
Securities selected for redemption and, in the case of any Security selected for
partial redemption, the principal amount thereof to be redeemed.
For all purposes of this Indenture, unless the context otherwise
requires, all provisions relating to the redemption of Securities shall relate,
in the case of any Security redeemed or to be redeemed only in part, to the
portion of the principal of such Security which has been or is to be redeemed.
Section 1104. NOTICE OF REDEMPTION. Notice of redemption shall be
given by first-class mail, postage prepaid, mailed not less than 30 nor more
than 60 days prior to the Redemption Date, to each holder of Securities to be
redeemed, at his address appearing in the Security Register.
All notices of redemption shall state:
(1) the Redemption Date;
(2) the Redemption Price;
(3) if less than all Outstanding Securities of any series are to be
redeemed, the identification, including CUSIP numbers (and, in the case of
partial redemption, the respective principal amounts) of the Securities to
be redeemed, from the Holder to whom the
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notice is given;
(4) that on the Redemption Date the Redemption Price will become due
and payable upon each such Security, and that interest, if any, thereon
shall cease to accrue from and after said date;
(5) the place where such Securities are to be surrendered for
payment of the Redemption Price, which shall be the office or agency of
the Company in the Place of Payment; and
(6) that the redemption is on account of a sinking or purchase fund,
or other analogous obligation, if that be the case.
Notice of redemption of Securities to be redeemed at the election of
the Company shall be given by the Company or, at the Company's request, by the
Trustee in the name and at the expense of the Company. Such notice shall be
deemed to have been given to each Holder if sent in accordance with Section 105
hereof.
Section 1105. DEPOSIT OF REDEMPTION PRICE. On or prior to 10:00 a.m.
on any Redemption Date, the Company shall deposit with the Trustee or with a
Paying Agent (or, if the Company is acting as its own Paying Agent, segregate
and hold in trust as provided in Section 1003) an amount of money sufficient to
pay the Redemption Price of all the Securities which are to be redeemed on that
date.
Section 1106. SECURITIES PAYABLE ON REDEMPTION DATE. Notice of
Redemption having been given as aforesaid, the Securities so to be redeemed
shall, on the Redemption Date, become due and payable at the Redemption Price
therein specified and from and after such date (unless the Company shall default
in the payment of the Redemption Price) such Securities shall cease to bear
interest. Upon surrender of such Securities for redemption in accordance with
the notice, such Securities shall be paid by the Company at the Redemption
Price. Installments of interest the Stated Maturity of which is on or prior to
the Redemption Date
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shall be payable to the Holders of such Securities registered as such on the
relevant Regular Record Dates according to their terms and the provisions of
Section 307.
If any Security called for redemption shall not be so paid upon
surrender thereof for redemption, the principal shall, until paid, bear interest
from the Redemption Date at the rate borne by the Security, or as otherwise
provided in such Security.
Section 1107. SECURITIES REDEEMED IN PART. Any Security which is to
be redeemed only in part shall be surrendered at the office or agency of the
Company in the Place of Payment with respect to that series (with, if the
Company or the Trustee so requires, due endorsement by, or a written instrument
of transfer in form satisfactory to the Company and the Trustee duly executed
by, the Holder thereof or his attorney duly authorized in writing) and the
Company shall execute and the Trustee shall authenticate and deliver to the
Holder of such Security without service charge, a new Security or Securities of
the same series and Stated Maturity and of like tenor and terms, of any
authorized denomination as requested by such Holder in aggregate principal
amount equal to and in exchange for the unredeemed portion of the principal of
the Security so surrendered.
Section 1108. PROVISIONS WITH RESPECT TO ANY SINKING FUNDS. Unless
the form or terms of any series of Securities shall provide otherwise, in lieu
of making all or any part of any mandatory sinking fund payment with respect to
such series of Securities in cash, the Company may at its option (1) deliver to
the Trustee for cancellation any Securities of such series theretofore acquired
by the Company, or (2) receive credit for any Securities of such series (not
previously so credited) acquired by the Company and theretofore delivered to the
Trustee for cancellation or redeemed by the Company other than through the
mandatory sinking fund, and if it does so then (i) Securities so delivered or
credited shall be credited at the applicable sinking fund Redemption Price with
respect to Securities of such series, and (ii) on or before the 60th day next
preceding each sinking fund Redemption Date with respect to such series of
Securities, the Company will deliver to the Trustee (A) an Officers' Certificate
specifying the portions of such sinking fund payment to be satisfied by payment
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cash and by delivery or credit of Securities of such series acquired by the
Company or so redeemed, and (B) such Securities so acquired, to the extent not
previously surrendered. Such Officers' Certificate shall also state the basis
for such credit and that the Securities for which the Company elects to receive
credit have not been previously so credited and were not redeemed by the Company
through operation of the mandatory sinking fund, if any, provided with respect
to such Securities and shall also state that no Event of Default with respect to
Securities of such series has occurred and is continuing. All Securities so
delivered to the Trustee shall be canceled by the Trustee and no Securities
shall be authenticated in lieu thereof.
If the sinking fund payment or payments (mandatory or optional) with
respect to any series of Securities made in cash plus any unused balance of any
preceding sinking fund payments with respect to Securities of such series made
in cash shall exceed $50,000 (or a lesser sum if the Company shall so request),
unless otherwise provided by the terms of such series of Securities, that cash
shall be applied by the Trustee on the sinking fund Redemption Date with respect
to Securities of such series next following the date of such payment to the
redemption of Securities of such series at the applicable sinking fund
Redemption Price with respect to Securities of such series, together with
accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption, with the effect
provided in Section 1106. The Trustee shall select, in the manner provided in
Section 1103, for redemption on such sinking fund Redemption Date a sufficient
principal amount of Securities of such series to utilize that cash and shall
thereupon cause notice of redemption of the Securities of such series for the
sinking fund to be given in the manner provided in Section 1104 (and with the
effect provided in Section 1106) for the redemption of Securities in part at the
option of the Company. Any sinking fund moneys not so applied or allocated by
the Trustee to the redemption of Securities of such series shall be added to the
next cash sinking fund payment with respect to Securities of such series
received by the Trustee and, together with such payment, shall be applied in
accordance with the provisions of this Section 1108. Any and all sinking fund
moneys with
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respect to Securities of any series held by the Trustee at the Maturity of
Securities of such series, and not held for the payment or redemption of
particular Securities of such series, shall be applied by the Trustee, together
with other moneys, if necessary, to be deposited sufficient for the purpose, to
the payment of the principal of the Securities of such series at Maturity.
On or before each sinking fund Redemption Date provided with respect
to Securities of any series, the Company shall pay to the Trustee in cash a sum
equal to all accrued interest, if any, to the date fixed for redemption on
Securities to be redeemed on such sinking fund Redemption Date pursuant to this
Section 1108.
ARTICLE TWELVE
SUBORDINATION
Section 1201. AGREEMENT OF SECURITYHOLDERS THAT SECURITIES
SUBORDINATED TO EXTENT PROVIDED. The Company, for itself, its successors and
assigns, covenants and agrees and each Holder of the Securities by his or her
acceptance thereof likewise covenants and agrees that the payment of the
principal of, premium, if any, and interest on each and all of the Securities is
hereby expressly subordinated, to the extent and in the manner hereinafter set
forth, to the prior payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness. The provisions
of this Article shall constitute a continuing offer to all persons who, in
reliance upon such provisions, become holders of, or continue to hold, Senior
Indebtedness, and such provisions are made for the benefit of the holders of
Senior Indebtedness, and such holders are hereby made obligees hereunder the
same as if their names were written herein as such, and the and/or each of them
may proceed to enforce such provisions.
Section 1202. COMPANY NOT TO MAKE PAYMENTS WITH RESPECT TO
SECURITIES IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES. (a) Upon the maturity of any Senior
Indebtedness by lapse of time, acceleration or otherwise, all principal thereof
and premium, if any, and interest thereon shall first be paid in full, or such
payment duly provided for in cash or in a manner satisfactory to the holder or
holders of such Senior
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Indebtedness, before any payment is made on account of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or to acquire any of the
Securities or on account of any sinking fund (except sinking fund payments made
in Securities acquired by the Company before the maturity of such Senior
Indebtedness).
(b) Upon the happening of (i) an event of default with respect to
any Senior Indebtedness, as such event of default is defined therein or in the
instrument under which it is outstanding, permitting the holders to accelerate
the maturity thereof, or (ii) an event which, with the giving of notice, or
lapse of time, or both, would constitute such an event of default, then, unless
and until such event shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased to
exist, no payment shall be made by the Company with respect to the principal of
or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities or to acquire any of the
Securities or on account of any sinking fund for the Securities (except sinking
fund payments made in Securities acquired by the Company before such default and
notice thereof).
(c) In the event that notwithstanding the provisions of this Section
1202 the Company shall make any payment to the Trustee on account of the
principal of or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities, or on account of
any sinking fund, or the Holders of the Securities shall receive any such
payment, after the happening of a default in payment of the principal of or
premium, if any, or interest on Senior Indebtedness, then, unless and until such
default or event of default shall have been cured or waived or shall have ceased
to exist, such payment (subject to the provisions of Section 1206) shall be held
by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities, as the case may be, in trust
for the benefit of, and shall be paid forthwith over and delivered to, the
holders of Senior Indebtedness (pro rata as to each of such holders on the basis
of the respective amounts of Senior Indebtedness held by them) or their
representatives or the trustee under the indenture or other agreement (if any)
pursuant to which any instruments evidencing any Senior Indebtedness may have
been issued, as their respective interests may appear, for
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application to the payment of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid to the
extent necessary to pay all Senior Indebtedness in full in accordance with the
terms of such Senior Indebtedness, after giving effect to any concurrent payment
or distribution to or for the holders of Senior Indebtedness. The Company shall
give prompt written notice to the Trustee of any default under any Senior
Indebtedness or under any agreement pursuant to which Senior Indebtedness may
have been issued.
Section 1203. SECURITIES SUBORDINATED TO PRIOR PAYMENTS OF ALL
SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS ON DISSOLUTION, LIQUIDATION OR REORGANIZATION OF THE
COMPANY. Upon any distribution of assets of the Company upon any dissolution,
winding up, liquidation or reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy,
insolvency or receivership proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of
creditors or otherwise):
(a) the holders of all Senior Indebtedness shall first be entitled
to receive payment in full of the principal thereof, premium, if any, and
interest due thereon before the Holders of the Securities are entitled to
receive any payment on account of the principal of, premium, if any, or
interest on the Securities;
(b) any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of any kind
or character, whether in cash, property or securities, to which the
Holders of the Securities or the Trustees would be entitled except for the
provisions of this Article Twelve, shall be paid by the liquidating
trustee or agent or other person making such payment or distribution,
whether a trustee in bankruptcy, a receiver or liquidating trustee or
other trustee or agent, directly to the holders of Senior Indebtedness or
their representative or representatives, or to the trustee or trustees
under any indenture under which any instruments evidencing any of such
Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, to the extent necessary to make
payment in full of all Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid, after giving
effect to any concurrent payment or distribution or provision therefor to
the holders of such Senior Indebtedness;
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(c) in the event that notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of
this Section 1203, any payment or distribution of assets of the Company of
any kind or character, whether in cash, property or securities, shall be
received by the Trustee or the Holders of the Securities on account of
principal, or premium, if any, or interest on the Securities before all
Senior Indebtedness is paid in full, or effective provisions made for its
payment, such payment or distribution (subject to the provisions of
Sections 1206 and 1207) shall be received and held in trust for and shall
be paid over to the holders of the Senior Indebtedness remaining unpaid or
unprovided for or their representative or representatives, or to the
trustee or trustees under any indenture under which any instruments
evidencing any of such Senior Indebtedness may have been issued, for
application to the payment of such Senior Indebtedness until all such
Senior Indebtedness shall have been paid in full, after giving effect to
any concurrent payment or distribution or provision therefor to the
holders of such Senior Indebtedness.
Section 1204. SECURITYHOLDERS TO BE SUBROGATED TO RIGHT OF HOLDERS
OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. Subject to the payment in full of all Senior
Indebtedness, the Holders of the Securities shall be subrogated to the rights of
the holders of Senior Indebtedness to receive payments or distributions of
assets of the Company applicable to the Senior Indebtedness until all amounts
owing on the Securities shall be paid in full, and for the purpose of such
subrogation no payments or distributions to the holders of the Senior
Indebtedness by or on behalf of the Company or by or on behalf of the Holders of
the Securities by virtue of this Article which otherwise would have been made to
the Holders of the Securities, be deemed to be payment by the Company to or on
account of the Senior Indebtedness, it being understood that the provisions of
this Article Twelve are and are intended solely for the purpose of defining the
relative rights of the Holders of the Securities, on the one hand, and the
holders of the Senior Indebtedness, on the
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other hand.
Section 1205. OBLIGATION OF THE COMPANY UNCONDITIONAL. Nothing
contained in this Article Twelve or elsewhere in this Indenture or in the
Securities is intended to or shall impair as between the Company and the Holders
of the Securities, the obligations of the Company, which is absolute and
unconditional, to pay to the Holders of the Securities the principal of,
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 other than the holders of the Senior Indebtedness, 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 this Indenture, subject to the rights, if any, under this Article Twelve
of the holders of Senior Indebtedness in respect of cash, property or securities
of the Company received upon the exercise of any such remedy. Upon any
distribution of assets of the Company referred to in this Article Twelve, the
Trustee, subject to the provisions of Section 601, and the Holders of the
Securities shall be entitled to rely upon any order or decree made by any court
of competent jurisdiction in which such dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization proceedings are pending, or a certificate of the liquidating
trustee or agent or other person making any distribution to the Trustee or to
the Holders of the Securities, for the purpose of ascertaining the persons
entitled to participate in such distribution, the holders of the 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 Twelve.
Section 1206. TRUSTEE ENTITLED TO ASSUME PAYMENTS NOT PROHIBITED IN
ABSENCE OF NOTICE. The Trustee shall not at any time be charged with knowledge
of the existence of any facts which would prohibit the making of any payment of
monies to or by the Trustee, unless and until a Responsible Officer of the
Trustee shall have received written notice thereof from the Company or from one
or more holders of Senior Indebtedness or from any trustee therefor; and, prior
to the receipt of any such written notice, the Trustee,
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subject to the provisions of Section 601, shall be entitled to assume
conclusively that no such facts exist.
Section 1207. APPLICATION BY TRUSTEE OF MONIES DEPOSITED WITH IT.
Anything in this Indenture to the contrary notwithstanding, any deposit of
monies by the Company with the Trustee or any paying agent (whether or not in
trust) for the payment of the principal of or premium, if any, or interest on
any Securities shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 1201, 1202, 1203
and 1204 except that, if prior to the date on which by the terms of this
Indenture any such monies may become payable for any purpose (including, without
limitation, the payment of either the principal of or interest or premium, if
any, on any Security) a Responsible Officer of the Trustee shall not have
received with respect to such monies the notice provided for in Section 1206,
then, anything herein contained to the contrary notwithstanding, the Trustee
shall have full power and authority to receive such monies and to apply the same
to the purpose for which they were received, and shall not be affected by any
notice to the contrary which may be received by it on or after such date.
Section 1208. SUBORDINATION RIGHTS NOT IMPAIRED BY ACTS OR OMISSIONS
OF COMPANY OR HOLDERS OF SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. No right of any present or future
holders 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
which any such holder may have or be otherwise charged with.
Section 1209. SECURITYHOLDERS AUTHORIZE TRUSTEE TO EFFECTUATE
SUBORDINATION OF SECURITIES. Each Holder of the Securities by his or her
acceptance thereof authorizes and expressly directs the Trustee on his or her
behalf to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the
subordination provided in this Article Twelve and appoints the Trustee his/her
attorney-in-fact for such
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purpose, including, in the event of any dissolution, winding up, liquidation or
reorganization of the Company (whether in bankruptcy, insolvency or receivership
proceedings or upon an assignment for the benefit of creditors or otherwise)
tending towards liquidation of the business and assets of the Company, the
immediate filing of a claim for the unpaid balance of its or his or her
Securities in the form required in said proceedings and cause said claim to be
approved. If the trustee does not file a proper claim or proof of debt in the
form required in such proceeding prior to 30 days before the expiration of the
time to file such claim or claims, then the holder or holders of the Senior
Indebtedness are hereby authorized to and have the right to file an appropriate
claim for and on behalf of the holders of said Securities.
Section 1210. RIGHT OF TRUSTEE TO HOLD SENIOR INDEBTEDNESS. The
Trustee shall be entitled to all of the rights set forth in this Article Twelve
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 Section 613 or
elsewhere in this Indenture shall be construed to deprive the Trustee of any of
its rights as such holder.
Section 1211. ARTICLE TWELVE NOT TO PREVENT EVENTS OF DEFAULT. The
failure to make a payment on account of principal, interest or sinking fund by
reason of any provision of this Article Twelve shall not be construed as
preventing the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 501.
ARTICLE THIRTEEN
GUARANTEE OF SECURITIES
SECTION 1301. GUARANTEE. The Guarantor hereby fully and
unconditionally guarantees to each Holder of a Security of each series issued by
the Company, authenticated and delivered by the Trustee, the due and punctual
payment of the principal (including any amount due in respect of any Original
Issue Discount Security) of and any premium and interest on such Security, and
the due and punctual payment of any sinking fund payments provided for pursuant
to the
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terms of such Security, when and as the same shall become due and payable,
whether at the Stated Maturity, by declaration of acceleration, call for
redemption, early repayment or otherwise, in accordance with the terms of such
Security and this Indenture. The Guarantor hereby agrees that in the event of an
Event of Default its obligations hereunder shall be as if it were a principal
debtor and not merely a surety, and shall be absolute and unconditional,
irrespective of, and shall be unaffected by, any invalidity, irregularity or
unenforceability of any Security of any series or this Indenture, any failure to
enforce the provisions of any Security of any series or this Indenture, any
waiver, modification or indulgence granted to the Company with respect thereto
by the Holder of any Security of any series or the Trustee, or any other
circumstances which may otherwise constitute a legal or equitable discharge of a
surety or guarantor; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, no
such waiver, modification or indulgence shall, without the consent of the
Guarantor, increase the principal amount of any Security or the interest rate
thereon or increase any premium payable upon redemption thereof. The Guarantor
hereby waives diligence, presentment, demand of payment, filing of claims with a
court in the event of merger or bankruptcy of the Company, any right to require
a proceeding first against the Company, the benefit of discussion, protest or
notice with respect to any Security or the indebtedness evidenced thereby or
with respect to any sinking fund payment required pursuant to the terms of such
Security issued under this Indenture and all demands whatsoever, and covenants
that this Guarantee will not be discharged with respect to such Security except
by payment in full of the principal thereof and any premium and interest thereon
or as provided in Article Four or Section 802. If any Holder or the Trustee is
required by any court or otherwise to return to the Company, the Guarantor, or
any custodian, trustee, liquidator or other similar official acting in relation
to the Company or the Guarantor any amount paid by the Company or the Guarantor
to the Trustee or such Holder, this Guarantee to the extent theretofore
discharged, shall be reinstated in full force and effect. The Guarantor further
agrees that, as between the Guarantor, on the one hand, and the Holders and the
Trustee, on the
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other hand, the Maturity of the obligations guaranteed hereby may be accelerated
as provided in Article Five hereof for the purposes of this Guarantee,
notwithstanding any stay, injunction or other prohibition preventing such
acceleration in respect of the obligations guaranteed hereby.
The Guarantor also agrees, to pay any and all reasonable costs and
expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses) incurred by the
Trustee or any Holders in enforcing any rights under this Guarantee.
The Guarantor hereby waives any right of set off which the Guarantor
may have against the Holder of any Security in respect of any amounts which are
or may become payable by such Holder to the Company.
The Guarantor shall be subrogated to all rights of the Holders of
any series of Securities and the Trustee against the Company in respect of any
amounts paid to such Holders and the Trustee by the Guarantor pursuant to the
provisions of the Guarantee; provided, however, that the Guarantor shall not be
entitled to enforce or to receive any payments arising out of or based upon,
such right of subrogation until the principal of, premium, if any, and interest,
if any, on all of the Securities of such series shall have been paid in full.
No past, present or future stockholder, officer, director, employee
or incorporator of the Guarantor shall have any personal liability under the
Guarantees set forth in this Section 1301 by reason of his, her or its status as
such stockholder, officer, director, employee or incorporator.
The Guarantee set forth in this Section 1301 shall not be valid or
become obligatory for any purpose with respect to any Security until the
certificate of authentication on such Security shall have been signed by or on
behalf of the Trustee.
SECTION 1302. SUBORDINATION OF GUARANTEE. The
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obligation of the Guarantor under the Guarantee pursuant to this Article 13
shall be junior and subordinated to Senior Indebtedness of the Guarantor on the
same basis as the Securities are junior and subordinated to Senior Indebtedness
of the Company. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the Trustee and the
Holders shall have the right to receive and/or retain payments by the Guarantor
only at such times as them may receive and/or retain payments in respect of the
Securities pursuant to this Indenture, including Article 12 hereof. The
Guarantee made by the Guarantor hereunder and evidenced by any notation of
Guarantee endorsed on any Security is subject to the provisions of Article 12
hereof.
SECTION 1303. EXECUTION OF NOTATIONS OF GUARANTEE. To evidence its
Guarantee to the Holders specified in Section 1301, the Guarantor hereby agrees
to execute the notation of the Guarantee in substantially the form set forth in
Section 205 to be endorsed on each Security authenticated and delivered by the
Trustee. The Guarantor hereby agrees that its Guarantee set forth in Section
1301 shall remain in full force and effect notwithstanding any failure to
endorse on any Security a notation of such Guarantee. Each such notation of
Guarantee shall be signed on behalf of the Guarantor by any proper officer of
the Guarantor prior to the authentication of the Security on which it is
endorsed, and the delivery of such Security by the Trustee, after the due
authentication thereof by the Trustee hereunder, shall constitute due delivery
of the Guarantee on behalf of the Guarantor. Such signatures upon the notation
of the Guarantee may be manual or facsimile signatures of any present, past or
future proper officer of the Guarantor and may be imprinted or otherwise
reproduced below the notation of the Guarantee, and in case any such proper
officer of the Guarantor who shall have signed the notation of the Guarantee
shall cease to be such officer before the Security on which such notation is
endorsed shall have been authenticated and delivered by the Trustee or disposed
of by the Company, such Security nevertheless may be authenticated and delivered
or disposed of as though the person who signed the notation of the Guarantee had
not ceased to be such officer of the Guarantor.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Indenture to
be duly executed, all as of the day and year first above written.
WHITE MOUNTAINS INSURANCE
GROUP, LTD.
by
Name:
Title:
FUND AMERICAN COMPANIES, INC.,
by
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Title:
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